Not saying I feel one way or the other, but complaining someone doesn't dislike one group enough because they dislike another group more is sort of a weird argument. "I bet you'd feel differently if we were talking about something else entirely, you hypocrit." doesn't really hold up.

I wish I could find the specific article about it, but it's like a decade+ old and google isn't cooperating. If I recall right though, Brave was the first film idea that Pixar put out which had entirely been conceived without the original core team at Pixar's input. All the other stuff, even if it hadn't come out when those people left yet, had been brainstormed by that group and their lack of involvement is why from that point on it all feels so much lesser than Pixar's golden age.

The fact this is still a thing in some places is such a weird archaic throwback. After this it'll just be New Jersey left, so at least it's slowly getting more normal.

Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz kind of play with that by inverting their approaches. SotD is a very mellow comedic take on a normally action packed American zombie movie, while HF is a over the top action take on a very British retire to the country/murder mystery genre.

That's a whole other set of problems, I know I've read articles about that too but a 15 second google didn't find it.

If I remember right, the main issue isn't the building shape like with skyscrapers, it has to do with power and plumbing. They're only set up for a certain amount of usage of both, and residential is massively higher so you'd basically need to ripe it all out and do it from scratch. And considering malls are predomenantly just in the middle of empty land anyway, at that point you might as well just get the next bit over of empty land and do it from the get go with the appropriate infrastructure.

I swear, Sony wants to make me rue the day I said there's no idea so bad you can't make a good movie with it if you honestly try and put creative quality into it. I feel like they're taking entirely the wrong idea away from the fact Spider-man has a great rogues gallery.

The Great on Hulu is shockingly entertaining. My wife started watching it because she enjoys that mildly anachronistic and gorgeous/well produced trend lately and it sucked me in way more than I'd have expected.

If you're enjoying this, I might recommend The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow. Guns, Germs, and Steel was one of the first books in that genre of "where do we come from" style books I (and a ton of people) read and loved, but it gets a fair bit of flack for skipping over stuff to support their theory.

Dawn of Everything is sort of the next step from that, it doesn't explicitly refute GGS outside of a time or two they were directly wrong so much as just be much more comprehensive and point out how insanely varied our history is and that there isn't really a one size fits all story. It's weirdly conversational, I've described it as sitting in on a lecture from a really ecentric professor, and I think it's a great fit for anyone who loved how GGS opened their eyes to common threads in our history and what that might say about the world now.

I think that was close to inevitable when they got bought out, though it is a huge shame. Even with an incredibly strong internal cutlure, they are under Disney's corporate leadership and the fact they aren't completely independent in terms of leadership, picking projects, and internal promotions means they'd tend to converge and be absorbed for all intents and purposes.

I think this is the standard recommendation, but you actually need to make sure it's designed and installed right. You need a proper air exchange, and to make sure it's sized properly to the intake you need and so on. A lot of the hoods you see are so poorly installed that you might as well wave your hands at the stove for all the good it does.

Unless it's a bargain basement brand and quality control is absolutely horrible I'd be shocked if there was much variation at all within the exact same model of shoe. If a particular style and year model of shoe works for you, any off the rack version of that shoe (barring major defects) is going to work for you.

If nothing else I'd expect whatever miniscule material differences there might be are going to get completely overriden by differences in wear from your specific running and terrain pretty quickly.

Clank Legacy has been an absolute blast for my wife and I (we each play two characters). I've been a big Penny Arcade fan for ages so the humor hits my sweet spot, and the legacy aspect of keeping the gameplay light and steadily adding a bit more complexity each round as you "earn" it was perfect for my wife who's a much more casual gamer.

I backed the 2nd season on kickstarter just recently and it looks like they're leaning even more into the story aspect of legacy gameplay so I'm hoping it still hits the right balance for us.

There is a fair bit of quality that can go into making a GOOD purely fun thing, and even when it's pure schlock there's no shame in that. Some times you want a steak, sometimes you want a burger. Both can be good or bad in their own ways, and neither is better than the other.

I'm currently working on Children of Ash and Elm by Neil Price, an indepth dive on Vikings covering history, archeology, mythology, and so on. It's decently well reviewed and at least seems really comprehensive but I have to admit I'm having trouble getting into it and I'm mostly just grinding out 10-20 page chunks at a time before I end up dropping it to do something else.

That was the last book I finished, and it was solid. The "getting the gang back together" part was fun, and the latter half just picked up from there. Without getting too spoilery I think the last character from her past showing up, and the more fantastical shift from there on, really added a lot to the enjoyment factor.

The OP link seems to be down, but here's a link to the red band trailer

There's nothing formal and you'd need to check anything you really care directly, I don't really check reddit any more but when I did a quick pass I saw several had the new destinations in the sidebar.

I swear I saw another one recently and grabbed some instances here on lemmy I didn't already have but I can't seem to find that one again, though this unofficial list seems pretty good. I know it's missing at least so I'd seen on the other list, but it seems pretty comprehensive.

I think the point was more that Brave was the first move the original brain trust hadn't been involved in developing the concept for. There's still continuity, so it still had that Pixar "feel" (though even that is kind of fading as we get more removed from that group) but the lightning in a bottle spark of their early stuff wasn't there any more.

It's nice to see some follow up just to confirm how bad it was and that just like everyone thought nothing did or was ever going to change. All big international events like the World Cup and the Olympics are cripplingly expensive boondoggles if you don't already have the right infrastructure in place (and even then it makes 0 sense as anything other than a "prestige" thing), and Qatar is just an especially agreggiosu example of that.

I love hunting for 2nd hand everything, but especially books, so the somewhat lower hit rate for quality stuff in most places never really bugged me. If you're doing it just because you happen to be where used books are and you like poking through things the hunt is it's own reward, and so on.

Besides the standard classics like dedicated used book stores and the nicer Goodwills and so on, the main place I have a lot of success with good finds is bigger donated book sales thrown by libraries. I got lucky that I grew up by one of the biggest in the US that had a huge sale twice a year I could regularly hit up, but most everywhere has at least a few and you can always check book sale finder (which looks like a refuge from 90s era geocities, but is actually good) to check out what's coming up in your area.