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Anna and the Apocalypse has become one of my family’s traditions. Coming-of-age teen comedy set in the days before Christmas break, but also a zombie horror movie, and also a musical.

Kind of low-budget and some of the cast is shaky, but it’s incredibly ambitious and very fun.

I just watched Anna and the Apocalypse last night. Christmas/zombie/musical. Very fun little film.

I mean, the guy who perfected drone strikes on American citizens was never going to suggest that.

There was a game a few years ago called ScreenCheat. Four-player splitscreen shooter, and everyone is invisible. So you find your target by looking at their screen to figure out where they are in the level.

Schenectady is “the place beyond the pines” because there was a big old pine barren between it and the next settlement over.

The big jumps in spending on that graph started in 2012. Occupy Wallstreet protests were in the autumn of 2011.

Mamdani won the mayoral election. Kathy Hochul is the governor.

I’ve never had a 9-to-5 that was actually 9 to 5. It always starts at 7:30 or 8.

But you guys not buying new phones is reducing productivity by a third of a percent! Think of the potential losses!

Bullshit. We all eat Ted’s Fish Fry up here.

It’s blatant price-gouging. Any stock in the store has already been sold to them at an agreed price. They can set a number and make their set margin.

Updating prices after each delivery might make sense (if their procurement department is absolute dogshit at negotiating contracts), but updating prices throughout the day is just someone trying to see how hard they can push their margins to drain every cent out of their customers.

A Blu-ray release would still be giving money to Amazon, since it’s their production, though…?

bad school districts often pay more per kid than good districts

Do you have a source on that?

Property taxes paying for schools is a remnant of redlining. More affluent districts with nicer houses end up with more funding per student, and “bad” areas where minorities live because of literal centuries of economic disadvantage continue to get shafted.

I think we should ditch property taxes and replace them with much higher state-level progressive taxes that are distributed so that every public school student gets the a good education.

Yeah, I saw that $30k for a car and immediately dismissed everything this person said. I’ve never in my life paid more than $8k for a vehicle.

gameplay didn’t evolve

Massive understatement. The PS5’s biggest titles were remakes and direct sequels. Coupling it with the “upgraded” versions of PS4 games like Ghost of Tsushima, Last of Us Part 2, and GTA5, even the marketing seemed to boil down to “This is just a really nice PS4.”

How would you even do that? Marketing is tied up into every single purchasing decision we make. The colors and fonts on the packaging; the perceived value or luxury of the store you’re buying it from; the placement of the products within that store; the price of the product itself. All of these signal things about the perceived value of the product and influence what people purchase.

If he can pull off half of what he’s promised, it might be enough to get me to move back.

Yeah, my wife has historically loathed JRPGs in part because the turn-based combat was too dull. She tried Expedition 33, fell in love immediately, and tried to show me the combat system like, “Look! It’s so new and innovative! This is how all those old games should’ve been!”

…So I’m putting Barkley Shut Up & Jam Gaiden on her computer next time she leaves it unattended.

I’m paying for the insurance, but the nearest in-network provider taking new patients is a 90 minute drive. Is that a cousin to “You can’t afford healthcare”?