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A big complaint I saw about the live-action Cowboy Bebop adaptation for Netflix was that the acting was too cartoony/over-the-top.

Personally, I thought the acting was spot-on for what they were trying to accomplish. It was meant to be a live-action anime, so it was never intended to be 100% tethered to reality to begin with. The characters are meant to be characters, and I thought they did a great job with it. Spike, Faye, and Jet were all perfectly-cast, IMO, and they all felt like their original characters felt from the animated series. There are so many times where you can just close your eyes and listen to them talk to each other, and it feels exactly like it felt watching the anime on Adult Swim back in the early 2000s as a kid.

I honestly loved the live-action adaptation and thought it was amazing. I’m still immensely disappointed that the reception was so poor that Netflix decided to cancel it halfway through the story. There are so many characters I wanted to see that didn’t appear until later in the original series. I would’ve loved to see a live-action Toys In The Attic or Heavy Metal Queen.

At the last apartment I lived in, I thought the people in the unit below me were constantly running an unbalanced washing machine, as I would frequently hear this loud, rhythmic THUNKA THUNKA THUNKA THUNKA coming from underneath my floor, usually for hours at a time. At least, I assumed it was a washing machine, since nobody has that much stamina for it to have been anything else, I thought.

After a few weeks, I put in a noise complaint because it was starting to get irritating. When the management followed up a few days later, they told me that the tenant below me just had their ceiling fan at full speed and two of the bolts unthreaded themselves, causing it to knock around wildly. And the tenant was deaf, so she had no clue her ceiling fan was only a few days from loosening itself completely and falling apart.

It’s honestly a little insane that after over a hundred years, we haven’t come up with a better way to move air around a room without dangling 50 pounds of spinning death above your head.

Wake up babe, new prime number just dropped.

When I ran out of storage space.

I think it would largely depend on whether or not there are any moons causing tidal forces.

I believe it’s also the same type of glass that’s used on a lot of electric stoves, so it can definitely withstand extreme heat shock.

Though, even knowing that, I’d still be (irrationally) afraid to use these, only because of some bad experiences with some “shatter-proof” Pyrex glassware in the past.

Yeah, an SD card is already kind of a magic library.

How did you get a .law TLD for this? I thought ICANN had this one restricted to verified law firms?

I’ve not handled meth, myself, but I know that coke usually clumps up into flakes that have a “fishscale” like appearance to them with the way light reflects off of it. That slightly pearlescent appearance is the first thing a buyer would be looking for, because there’s not a whole lot of other white powdery materials that look like that. It also clumps up with a consistency slightly similar to something like Comet cleaner, so it wouldn’t be as fine-grain as sugar or flour would be.

I dunno why I’m helping you disguise your fake drugs lmao, just be careful.

Yes. Selling something advertised as a prohibited product, whether or not it’s true, is technically a crime. Assuming we’re talking about the US, in most jurisdictions this would be treated just about the same as if you were actually selling the same volume of the advertised product. I believe the reasoning behind it is that even if it’s fake, you’re creating a market for the real product to be traded, or something like that.

So if you sell a 1 lb bag of flour calling it cocaine, you’d get charged as if you sold 1 lb of coke. The final judgement may not be as severe as actually selling a pound of coke, but the initial charges typically will be.

Also, flour and sugar do not look like coke or meth up close. It would be immediately obvious a user/seller the moment it’s in their hands, so this is also a really good way to get your ass kicked.

I had a 2006 Ford Taurus that would’ve been stronger if it was built with Legos. Water pump fell off one day - like… just… fell off. The brackets weren’t broken or misshapen or anything like that, it just fell. None of the bolts were loose or unthreaded or anything. I know that doesn’t make sense. I KNOW. It makes even less sense that it happened twice.

There was also some kind of electrical issue that I could never isolate, but it was causing fuses to blow out every couple months, and would burn out the starter about once a year. I had to replace that starter so many times that I stopped needing to refer to my Chilton book for the steps. Sometimes the power steering would just stop working and then start working again with no warning.

Bruh. You said you wanted to shoot him. Do you know how triggering that is to people who have suffered actual gun violence? Or does triggering PTSD victims only matter when it’s convenient to your own narrative?

You’re 100% in the wrong here.

Weird that you would link to a thread where you tell somebody “I hope you die soon” as if it somehow defends your position. Not only are you trivializing actual rape with this smoothbrained take, but you’re being a bully to OP for absolutely no reason. You’re not the good guy here.

I don’t think Twitter lets you view posts without being logged in anymore. Or at least, it’ll show you old posts, only.

I loved Control so much, I’m glad to see that Remedy’s still expanding on that universe.

Good meme

RIP to Coolio

Damn, had no idea he died. Looks like it was an OD, too. That sucks. :(

I haven’t actually played any of the Far Cry games, so I couldn’t speak to that. But if they play anything like Cyberpunk, I might have to give them a shot!

no junk mail sign

That’s interesting, I don’t believe that’s something we have in the US. Postal carriers here are not permitted to refuse to deliver junk mail. Doing so ends up falling under mail fraud here, and some postal workers have gotten into major trouble for doing things like removing junk mail or political fliers from people’s deliveries.

I love Celeste so much, the writing was way better than I anticipated a platformer game to have.

I also love some of the easter eggs they put in, like the white block in one of the earlier stages, where you will fall “behind” the block if you crouch on it for a few seconds; a nod to hidden mechanic in Super Mario Bros 3.