It's a Mexican standoff, and the civilian leaders have been in trouble since the beginning.

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considering they make damn near everything else, I don't see why I'd have reason to be that concerned.

I think for someone like that, it isn't about the money, it's about making your artistic vision happen, using the clout you built elsewhere to push through a project that was never financially viable but it's your dream as a filmmaker.

Sometimes those stories end up becoming some of the biggest movies of all time, but often they just end up being a big waste of money except for the guy who gots to make his dream movie.

I feel like our focus on the 20th century really limits our understanding of the depths of human depravity.

This is an image of two Assyrian soldiers forcing a captured Babylonian to grind the bones of his family.

And you might say "Wow, that's a really mean thing to say about the Assyrians!" No, this is them bragging about doing it in immortal stone form.

This wasn't printed out on a laser printer, it wasn't etched using a laser engraver. It probably took weeks or months to lovingly create this work. They were really proud of their depravity and wanted to share it with the world.

The Thief and the Cobbler is one, it was massively expensive and destroyed the studio, but it was the animator's magnum opus he worked on for 30 years.

Showgirls was one of the movies Paul Verhoven pushed for as a personal project, and it literally destroyed the careers of some of the people who were part of the project (and gave many of us a chance to see tits on basic cable at 15, so your sacrifice will not be forgotten)

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within was a first of its kind, a photorealistic movie, but the cost and the fact that the movie just wasn't very good basically destroyed the studio after one picture.

Disney's Treasure Planet was intended to be the magnum opus of its creators, but ended up being a nail in the coffin of disney animated movies.

Cameron's Avatar is an example in the other direction, where it was this weird movie about blue aliens he really wanted to make that ended up making all of the money. His movie Titanic is another weird one, where you have a 3 and a half hour historical romance that became the top movie on earth.

Christopher Nolan's Inception was also mind bendingly popular, and one of the films he used his clout to create.

I also heard about a movie from 1980 called Heaven's Gate which destroyed the director, the studio, and essentially ended the era of director-led movies because studios were too gun-shy after that bomb to let that happen again.

So as you can see, these sort of risky auteur films can either be the biggest flops or the biggest home runs, it really depends on the film and the world around it in that moment.

It's going to be rougher even earlier than that. In a "mere" 250 million years we'll get another supercontinent, which sounds amazing but it's the sort of geological situation that lead to the destruction of most terrestrial life because all the land becomes a giant desert.

I got on a geology kick one day, I came out wiser and much sadder.

I'm glad we got some heavy rains up north, those wildfires were really something. I know people who lost everything. :(

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That's marriage material right there.

@Alice @randomshit I can't imagine having that much time and energy for micromanagement.

I hope that daughter grows up knowing she's that loved.

Pretty sure Nolan is the hype.

When people say getting onto mastodon is hard I assume they must mean setting up an instance because even if soapbox and rebased are easier to use, it's still just signing up for a website.

@realcaseyrollins Yes, it surprised me both times, I figured Trudeau was going to drag the party into a third place loss, but someone finally convinced him to step down.

After 10 years of every news outlet being pretending the world ended because a couple elections went the wrong way, it probably looks like that to people who just feel like that was normal.

Honestly, I'm happy to see a bit of balance returning. I don't want the pendulum to swing the other way in the same way, I think it'd be exhausting.

@Lovstuhagen @news I don't suspect that most people would think "Hey, I want to keep going to war"

Even people who think the war is a good idea don't actually want it. If it can end today, good!

The idea of watching something like pain on a hot summer day is totally counter to the way my brain works.

Give me something like "reincarnated as a hairstylist with god-tier cheat skills" that's just people messing with the MC and regretting it for 72 episodes.

I found Jellyfin clearly superior to plex for the one purpose it has, playing media, right from hour 1. Maybe it was just too late that I started with self-hosting, but I always felt like with jellyfin, my media was front and center, and with plex they were always trying to get me to go do their media.

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