I held my phone upside down to make the joke work. 🤝

If you haven’t seen “Digger” I really do recommend it.

It’s frustrating to see so many comments about films having people begging for something new and original, and then when that happens everyone just shits on Hollywood and actors.

The film may be a box office flop because it took a risk. The budget is too big and it’s not a “Top Gun” type film is that going to rake in millions of dollars. I like those type of films, and if you expected “Digger” to be one… Fair enough, you might not enjoy the film.

But if you give the film a little freedom and a chance, you’ll get an interesting story. Also it’s hilarious and the film knows it.

I saw it yesterday and it’s a great film. Everyone I know who’s seen it has enjoyed it.

I had seen the articles about it not making money, which is a problem, but not necessarily a reflection of the film itself.

I was surprised reviewers were treating it so harshly. I absolutely have issues with the film but it’s still a solid movie. I definitely left the theater with interesting things to think about.

I’m reminded of the recent film “The Drama”. The summary of that film is “A happily-engaged couple is put to the test when an unexpected turn sends their wedding week off the rails.” If you’ve seen the film, sure… Technically that’s true. But the film is about A LOT of other things that are much more interesting. (I don’t want to spoil more, but it’s an excellent film but as fair warning it deals with heavy issues.)

I think “Digger” is like that. The trailer and summary pitch a simple plot, “The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity’s savior before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everything.” Again, technically that’s true. You will see that story in the film. But you’re also going to see something else and that something else is interesting and entertaining.

I really enjoyed this film. For someone who only saw the trailer or only read the summary, there is more to this film. The film has a shift or a twist about 20 minutes in that really has you start to question and wonder what story the film is trying to tell.

It’s also hilarious. I found myself laughing throughout the film, the cat in the opening is just ridiculous, the President and his cabinet are ridiculous, and of course Digger himself is an over the top ridiculous character.

I just saw the film and you’re right that the marketing for this film is difficult. The trailer sets up one story, but that is just the start.

I thought the trailer did a good job setting things up because I could tell it was dancing around “something” but didn’t want to reveal it. I was intrigued to learn more and figured I’d give it a shot.

I didn’t expect what I got, but I really enjoyed it.

Which is surprising when you look at Europe. Europe made text messaging too costly early on and everyone switched to WhatsApp. You’d think Europe would try to win people back with RCS but instead… Nothing?

Simpsons Futurama did it.

(Long ago, you lost almost everything almost instantly on death. It completely sucked and really should’ve been changed sooner.)

I used to play in the long ago and let me tell you it created a whole new type of player, vultures.

The biggest quest at the time ended with you fighting a big green dragon (Elvarg). The dragon was behind a door and as long as you hadn’t beaten the dragon you could open the door to the dragons lair.

Outside the door were a bunch of skeletons and demons meant to make the area a challenge to get to, however many high level players camped in the area for XP and loot. So the skeletons and demons were constantly under attack and the area outside was actually pretty safe. In fact whenever someone went in to fight the dragon most high level players cheered them on.

Well more often then not, those players died. When they died, as the article mentions, they lost almost all their gear. Usually keeping their weapon, body armor and leg armor, but dropping their helmet and food. The loot would fall to the ground and sadly the high level players on the outside were unable to open the door and retrieve it (since they completed the quest already and the door was locked for them). So they had to watch the loot despawn.

Enter the vultures. Run into the battle area after someone failed to kill the dragon, dodge the drag itself, and try to scoop up as much loot as you could. I forget if you could use the door to exit or if we teleported out.

Was it the most efficient way to make money? Probably not. Was it fun to run around a dragons lair? Absolutely. Did it suck when you were the one to die and have your loot picked by other vultures? Such was the nature of the game.

In the long run the modern death mechanics are probably better for the game as a whole, but sometimes chaos is just more fun.

Ok but what if you’re American and the meme still applies?

“Nobody stops to fuel their vehicle taking gasoline, gets out, rushes as fast as possible, puts as much fuel in the car as possible, and gets back in the car and drives away,”

Emphasis mine. I think the “gets out” is the big difference between a daily trip which I think includes the “splash n dash” and the road trip.

Because I think you’re right, it’s extremely common to pull into a gas station, fill up in 5 minutes, and then drive away. But I would bet the majority of those stops come immediately after leaving or on your way home (or work). So in an EV world we could eliminate those stops completely.

I think for trips where you’re traveling beyond one tank of gas or beyond one full charge, then I think the quote is closer to being correct. At that point most people probably take a break and a 15-20 minute charge is fine.

Unsurprisingly it’s a heavy film, but also lots of funny moments. I think it’s good but probably tried to tell too many stories.

The best story, is looking at “To Catch A Predator” as entertainment versus justice. The film leans heavily into the “for entertainment” view and leaves it largely up to the audience to figure out the perverse incentives, the character of Del being the only real moral compass.

The film has a lot of focus on Chris Hansen as a person and it acts as a bit of a biography. I think it works in part, but we also have subplots about things like his affair which while perhaps true don’t really add much to the film.

Overall 7/10, maybe bump up to 8/10 for superb acting across the board, but probably just 7/10.

Yes, and then Avatar did a rerelease and took it back. Someday it’ll probably happen again.

Finding communities can be confusing: There can be multiple communities about the same topic on different servers: For example: Linux@lemmy.ml and Linux@lemmy.world

I agree that finding communities can be confusing, but I don’t think the problem is the naming.

For example on Reddit if you wanted to talk about video games you’d look at /r/gaming. However over time, since that was a “default sub”, it became a bit of a mess and instead /r/Games was the community to have real discussion about video games. But of course over time that too became a bit of a mess and /r/TrueGaming was the best place to talk about video games. In fact for a long time /r/True<topic> was a common way to find the better community.

Of course the name of a community might be confusing to an outsider. On Reddit if I’m a fan of Game of Thrones there is /r/GameOfThrones, but what if I’m looking for something a bit more meme worthy, well that’s /r/freefolk.

And that’s true even on Lemmy. What if I want Star Trek memes? Well that’s !tenforward@lemmy.world

I think discoverability is something that can be improved. Of course at the moment so many communities are so small, so looking at all of them isn’t really much of a problem. You can usually find what you’re looking for.

Exactly! I’d be curious to see the reverse poll, asking Lemmy users “Why does nobody use Mastodon?” (and include Bluesky and Twitter in the poll.)

I use Lemmy (and in the past Reddit) because topic based conversation is what makes sense to me. Anytime I try to use Mastodon or Bluesky I lurk for a bit and then just come back here.

Because when Reddit fucks up those users will look for alternatives, like Lemmy.

In this case it’s important to highlight that Lemmy has many different front ends and apps available. Lemmy can look however you’d like it to look.

Technically $foo also delimits at both ends, the second character is just a newline or whitespace character. However with %foo% it is unambiguous where the variable begins and ends.

Also I said newline or whitespace, what about special characters?

Look at $foo+$bar am I adding two variables together? Is the first variable $foo or $foo+?

I counted, 49 bars in the picture. Hopefully that saves someone else the trouble.

Can’t pick a game, but here are the series (and then I try to pick a game),

• Super Mario series (Super Mario World)
• Legend of Zelda series (Link to the Past/Link’s Awakening)
• Baldur’s Gate series (Baldur’s Gate II)
• Metroid series (Super Metroid)
• Pokemon series (Pokemon FireRed)

So mostly Nintendo games.

Why?

I don’t think we get the “Whills” in Clone Wars but we do get the Brother, Sister and Father, which do expand the larger Force mythos. Then in Rebels we get the Bendu and World Between Worlds which expand it further.

And honestly I ultimately completely agree. Lucas noticed and ultimately picked up Filoni as someone to carry on the Star Wars legacy. Filoni is far from perfect but he was an excellent choice to carry on Star Wars when Lucas first found him. I think he’s also an excellent choice now, but I think in a world where Lucas doesn’t sell Star Wars I think working with Filoni they create an interesting future.

You look at how Filoni ultimately created an excellent Clone Wars, filling in the gaps between Episode 2 and Episode 3, greatly improving that story. If Lucas creates a sequel trilogy on par with the prequel trilogy, I bet Filoni can fill in the gaps.