It’s so frustrating that they will spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a series, but they end up basing it on a moronic script so all that money is essentially wasted. And I’m not even blaming the scriptwriters because I’m sure it’s ultimately the fault of the businessmen who have no conception of what constitutes good and meaningful art, but insist on meddling with the creative process anyway.
All of the streaming services (and national broadcasts) do that crap. I hate the on field interviews. And then when the player makes an error while trying to do an interview in the middle of the fucking game… So dumb
Local broadcasts are always far superior. Yankees booth is usually great with Cone, O’Neill, and Kay. And they’ve been bringing in Girardi more lately, he’s really insightful too.
Well, I heard your scream into the void anyway. Baseball is really hard because people mostly just follow their own team and there’s so many games, but I feel like we could at least have a community on the fediverse to talk about the major events/plays/games through the season and hopefully it might grow in activity from there. I just don’t think this is the best server to set that up for various reasons, but there aren’t any great alternatives either. I’m brainstorming 😵💫
True. He did make some good defensive plays though.
I feel like baseball fans on Lemmy need to consolidate and make a concerted effort to sustain some regular discussion this season. Idt this community is the answer but honestly I haven’t been active in a long time so I’m still trying to get my bearings back. I’ll message you if I come up with a good plan
Judge with the golden sombrero. Even gods can bleed
In more relevant news, that’s my Ace! (until Gerrit comes back 😎)
I just cancelled my Netflix last month without realizing they somehow bought MLB games for this season. But I ain’t even mad, I’ve been sailing the high seas forever so it’s nbd. For the record, Netflix should have absolutely nothing to do with live sports, and they’re overpriced as fuck. And Stranger Things 5 was complete dogshit 😤
He passed across the great sea into Valinor. He eventually dies there, but he’s presumably still alive at the time when the movie is set, 14 years after he left Middle-Earth.
Yeah Colbert is definitely a card carrying Tolkien nerd. As am I, and although it’s never ideal for IPs to be milked in this fashion, in the case of LOTR I can’t honestly say it bothers me. Star Wars, Harry Potter, Asoiaf? Those over milked franchises can fuck all the way off.
But LOTR has such tremendous depth and cultural value that I think it’s still got milk to spare. Obviously these won’t stand up to the original trilogy, but if they’re at least decent, they can easily be justified because they will continue to maintain the cultural relevance of LOTR as a whole and hopefully renew the interest of younger fans. After all, a good chunk of zoomers and beyond have probably never seen the original films, given their prohibitive length and release dates.
The Hobbit films were pretty bad but I’m still happy they exist, and after watching the appendices it’s more understandable why they didn’t turn out so great. So if they can at least make something better and more faithful than those, I’ll be delighted. It’s also a good decision to keep the stories rooted to the original trilogy. It seems pretty hard to fuck these up too badly, as long as the writers stay humble. Just fill in the gaps that existed in the original trilogy and don’t try to do too much. It’d be cool to get some flashbacks to the scouring of the Shire.
P.S. Rings of Power is absolute trash, I noped out after the first season. So there definitely is a way to fuck it up, but I’ve already explained why there’s reason to hope for the best in this case.
Yeah I never minded the dingy MSG Penn Station too much personally. I’m usually transferring to or from the subway system anyway, which is obviously even more grimy and cramped.
I really enjoy Moynihan from an architectural and urban design perspective, but on a practical level I barely pay attention to my surroundings anyway when I’m travelling by train. The main thing I’m thinking about is when is the next train and what stop I should get off/transfer.
Everything we think we know about the goddess Ériu (and Irish mythology in general) was written down within the past 1000 years by Christian monks. They purported to be recording the oral mythology of the Irish people, but it’s hard to say how much of it was a faithful transcription and how much was invented/reworked by the monks to fit into a Christian/Greco-Roman worldview.
The etymological root of Ireland as a place name ultimately derives from ancient Greek sources, which obviously predate such mythology by over 1000 years.
The name Ériu has been derived from reconstructed Archaic Irish *Īweriū, which is related to the ethnic name Iverni. The University of Wales derives this from Proto-Celtic *Φīwerjon- (nominative singular Φīwerjō). This is further derived from Proto-Indo-European *piHwerjon- (“fertile land” or “land of abundance”), from the adjective *piHwer- “fat” (cognate with Ancient Greek píeira and Sanskrit pīvara, “fat, full, abounding”).
The Archaic Irish form was borrowed into Ancient Greek as Ἰέρνη Iernē and Ἰουερνία Iouernia, and into Latin Hibernia.
So, even ignoring the fact that a mythical goddess is not equivalent to a human woman, Ireland wasn’t named after a goddess either.
The demolition of Old Penn Station was an absolute travesty. Probably the most beautiful building to ever be demolished in NYC.
Fortunately the recent redevelopment of New Penn station by relocating the main hall across the street to the James A Farley Building has partially made up for that tremendous blunder. It’s not quite the same, but it’s a hell of a lot better than Madison Square Garden, to say the least. Also echoes the glass-roofed design, as you can see in the Wikipedia article below.
Do you ever let the kids play games with butt scooters like these? If not I would highly recommend adding them to your curriculum. Those things were the bomb
They do have a history of removing threads and posts that get too popular though. I remember several incidents where highly upvoted comments and posts about Lemmy got removed for seemingly no reason.
It’s probably impossible for them to entirely prevent discussion about Lemmy so they instead astroturf and try to manipulate the discussion to portray the platform in a bad light. It seems to be an extremely effective tactic, unfortunately for us.
Reddit’s obfuscation of upvotes and downvotes is problematic, and makes it trivial for them to manipulate any discussion if they feel like it. Not to mention their ability to just nuke anything they don’t like with no repercussions.
Wow. That’s a fucking wild story. Rwandan genocide leader > Hamptons beekeeper
Man of many talents. But honestly they should have seen this coming
falsely denying in the applications under penalty of perjury that he ever engaged in genocide
I wonder how many immigration applicants actually answered yes to that question 😅
You have my blessing, go forth and drain the machine. Godspeed
Trying to outlast a machine in a battle of stamina? You’re gonna have a tough time with that
Analog masturbation just hits different. Or so I’ve been told
There’s not a lot of content creators or journalists that are actually trustworthy and professional nowadays. GN definitely produces high quality content and I trust their integrity. Always a good idea to support these kinds of reliable media sources, given how few of them are actually left.
I’ve watched a bunch of their YouTube videos but I’ll have to check out the blog also, thanks for the link.
If you have only been here for a month it’s not enough time to judge if the culture is changing, no?
Also you’re saying two different things, that people are negative and rude and that they aren’t expressing any passion. I think some users are negative and rude, but they definitely still express passion even though it isn’t always positive. Lemmy users have always held strong and passionate beliefs, it’s part of why we decided to leave mainstream social media and use Lemmy instead.
Sometimes those beliefs clash, but I don’t think it’s gotten any more negative lately. Plus it varies so much from server to server and community to community. It’s pretty foolish to paint all of Lemmy with the same brush because really it’s a bunch of independent communities with different attitudes and behaviors that are also able to interact with each other.
The deification of Luigi really pisses me off because he didn’t do shit to help anyone. Robin Hood wasn’t a deranged murderer, he stole from the rich to help the poor. What the fuck did Luigi actually accomplish with his idiotic “plan”? It just shows how dire the current situation is that people are desperately latching onto that assclown as some kind of revolutionary, when in reality he is nothing of the sort.