[-] Omnificer@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago

It's called Morgan's Wonderland. The father's company has also built a community center next to the park.

[-] Omnificer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I wouldn't recommend this if you fly very frequently, but you can take some ibuprofen or acetaminophen at the start of the flight / part way though and it should be active around the time you start getting sore.

[-] Omnificer@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

I'm usually fine giving the benefit of the doubt, but this comment was in direct response to a scene from the show that was absolutely blatant, so they had to wilfully ignore that.

[-] Omnificer@lemmy.world 33 points 6 months ago

I saw someone complaining that the old X-men show was at least subtle and not in your face about how it approached social issues.

This was in response to a clip from the old X-men show of a bunch of anti-mutant brownshirts in armbands getting mad that a filthy mutant was touching a human woman.

I think it's safe to say that person was not arguing in good faith.

[-] Omnificer@lemmy.world 33 points 7 months ago

It's kind of similar to numerology and cargo cults. They understand there is a cause and effect, but think that ritualistic actions are the cause to achieve their effect, instead of understanding that actual law is only superficially similar to ritual.

[-] Omnificer@lemmy.world 62 points 8 months ago

I'm still stuck on him suggesting a submachine gun for police use, especially having also criticized submachine guns as promoting inaccuracy.

[-] Omnificer@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They reported 9.9 billion in profit for their third quarter last year, so I think 458 minutes of profit from that quarter.

I assumed 90 days in the quarter, or 129,600 minutes.

So dollar or minute wise, that comes out to a 00.35% penalty to that quarter.

Edit: Which isn't even close to the 36 minutes in that article, so I'd err on me being the wrong one.

Edit 2: I think I see the difference, I was looking at their profit, not their revenue.

[-] Omnificer@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Sometimes I put stuff somewhere "safe". Which means I'll find it 2 years later.

[-] Omnificer@lemmy.world 89 points 8 months ago

Nomads from Cyberpunk 2020/2077 were not on my bingo card for this year.

[-] Omnificer@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

I like Vesper (2022) as one of the few I know of that focuses on biological technology, and it is part of the story as opposed to a backdrop.

There's a lot of body horrror/Cronenburg stuff I like that gets close. Stuff like The Fly, Testuo the Iron Man, Videodrome, etc. But that's focused more on the "wouldn't this be fucked up?" than the exploration of biotech.

Repo Men (2010) and Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008) have a strong focus on the commoditization of the human body and organs especially. Gattaca (1997) is a little similar in that genetic therapy is important to society. And The Island (2005) is centered on cloning. Of these four, I like Repo! the most, but for other reasons than its take on Biopunk.

eXistenZ (1999) is probably Cronenburg's most straight forward take of biology as technology, as opposed to just a source of horror, but I haven't actually watched this one yet.

District 9 (2009) and Akira (1988) have situations that cause massive biological change, but not centered on Biopunk in my opinion.

The Blade Runner films, despite being the posterboys of Cyberpunk film, have a lot of potential considering that at the end of the day Replicants are biological. Splice (2009) at least focuses on the actual development of new biological technology, but winds up being more of a Frankenstein tale than anything.

The Alien universe has hints of this with the Space Jockeys, xenomorphs, and androids. But it's not ubiquitous.

[-] Omnificer@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

My guess would be narration by Murderbot's actor for the inner monologue.

The systems communication might partially be handled like how most things handle text messages, with the word bubbles.

I wonder if they'll commit to hiding the actor's face most of the time.

[-] Omnificer@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

I'm not against algae as a food source, but the similarity of this research to Soylent Green's cover source in the movie being plankton is hilariously on the nose.

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