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I watched this Saturday.

There was so much good stuff artistically in this movie!

The changes to the story worked really well, IMO, towards updating it for modern cynical sensibilities:

I loved Zendaya’s portrayal of Chani and her girl friend calling out Paul and Jessica’s colonialist bullshit.

Jessica’s “strange” behavior as a pregnant woman. I agree with others that having Jessica speak for Alia worked better than having a child actor like Lynch’s version.

Stilgar’s parody of religious fanaticism was hilarious!

Visually, making the worm riding look like some kind of extreme sport worked well

The Giedi Prime black and white/infrared sequences were brilliant, although seeing the Baron and Feyd in regular flesh tones afterwards felt strange.

The Atreides nuke missiles flying across the sky felt apocalyptic

The Sardukar ranks were notably not as rigidly disciplined as we saw in the first film.

Unlike others, I thought that Christopher Walken’s emperor was good. Age decrepit on the verge of doddering, but with dark intelligent thoughts behind his sullen face. The only problem with casting Walken was that he’s too recognizable.

The one part I didn’t like was the climactic dagger fight. I would have liked to see the action better choreographed and coordinated with camera angles to make the sequence of thrusts and parries clearer. I also would have liked to see contrasting fighting styles between whatever Feyd does, and Paul’s classical Atreides training mixed with Fremen savagery. I’m still not sure how Paul’s knife wound up in Feyd at the end.

I also noticed unlike other adaptations, they didn’t do the weirding modules, the Atreides-developed sonic weapons that give the Fremen some kind of combat advantage. But I didn’t miss them.

Overall I was very happy with the movie.

US: “No ceasefire”

Also US (Trumpublicans): “No arms for Ukraine either”

Ukraine: “Hey, we’re dying over here, we need ammunition”

The prisoner, Dotson, was “found dead” so who knows how many hours the body was lying there.

That pretty much precludes any use of the heart for transplant.

His relatives said they received the body in a decomposed state, but that could have been poor storage by the coroner before or after the autopsy, or the body might have been well hidden inside the prison so it was a long time before someone found it.

The article isn’t very clear on the condition of the body at each stage of handling.

What’s in the article is probably all the information that the reporter could get out of the prison authority, the state Department of Forensic Sciences, and the University.

I love how mommy worm has big hair and cat eye glasses, not to mention how they’re sitting on chairs at a table.

Republicans allegedly want to give those funds to the Border Patrol and to build the Great Wall, not to feed your theoretical homeless woman.

Actually they don’t really care about that either, which is why an additional $14 billion for border security isn’t enough for them.

And, the aid packages promptly failed in both the House and Senate…

Harley is a British de-mining volunteer in Ukraine, organizing, training and equipping others to find, disarm and remove mines and other UXO (unexploded ordinance)

And jeez, there are so many mines to clear.

Ukraine will need about 757 years to be de-mined using conventional techniques.

The dude has XL-sized balls of Ukrainium.

I’m glad he made it to safety alive.

JOY TO THE FISHES IN THE DEEP BLUE SEA

And cryptocurrency mining. That drove a lot of GPU prices through the roof before the pandemic.

Also, most young kids play games on phones and tablets, because parents don’t need to buy an expensive console or PC.

Check this out this short by a game developer if you want to feel old…

https://youtube.com/shorts/h8ElOpITBjQ

It would be a shame if a few dozen explosive drones were to suddenly show up and blow it to pieces…

I find the boss battles in Pixel Dingeon too difficult when I am forced into them before my character is ready.

Pathos Nethack is a better mobile dungeon crawler with no time pressure for the fixed encounters.

Oh good, then twatter can now become as successful as Truth social…

According to a quick Google, the only thing that detonates the plastic explosive in TM-62s is a shockwave, which is how the primer detonates the mine.

So something that generates shockwaves violent enough to get through their casing over a wide area might work on all the exposed mines.

It might not be as effective on mines that are buried.

The Humpty Dumpty name pre-dates the image of an egg character that was created by Lewis Carroll’s Through The Looking Glass.

A popular theory says the rhyme may have originated by the story of a large cannon used by the Royalists in the English Civil War.

Humpty Dumpty was a term, probably with derogatory inferences, that was applied to large or oversized persons or objects.

The Humpty cannon allegedly fell off the wall that it was stationed upon, thanks to Parliamentary forces undermining it, and was severely damaged.

The falling cannon story became a metaphor for the Royalist leader, King Charles I, who was believed to be large sized himself. He lost the Civil war, and his head, therefore he proverbially “had a great fall”

https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/humpty-dumpty/

Joe’s Classic Videogames is great and fun nostalgia about the insides of the classic arcade cabinets and pinball machines of yore.

Lots of insider information on how these things worked and what goes wrong with them, and satisfying play on the machines after they’ve been fixed!

If they haven’t been brushing their teeth and there’s visible calculus on them, you could use a metal pick and scrape it off like a dentist doing teeth cleaning, to show them how thick it is.

Forum.Rojadirecta.es has nodes dedicated to pretty much any major sporting events: Soccer, NFL, MLB, F1, NBA, Rugby Union, et al.

Mostly they’re direct downloads from sites with way too much advertising, too many popups and misleading links, so they’re best handled with JDownloader2

Actual torrent links are available sometimes.

Why not both?