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I disagree that people suck.

I think that enshittification on any SM platform, whether free and open, or built for commerce, happens when companies try to exploit it for commercial gain.

Take Usenet for example: At the beginning it was great, then spammers found they could post unlimited spam across the newsgroups for free, and it became shit, barring a few groups where mods had to work very hard to weed out the spam to keep them readable, but eventually collapsed, and people moved on to the new platforms.

Reddit, was built for ads and tracking its users to start with, so the gradual creep of enshittification was no surprise there.

And now we have nation-state backed disinformation campaigns to deal with in addition to commercial spam.

I could see Lemmy and the Fediverse in general taking a similar path to Usenet, if the devs, admins, and mods aren't vigilant about keeping bad actors out.

I like the Fediverse's guarantor feature for adding new instances, but we'll have to see how well it holds up under assault from spammers.

Someone just gave me a workaround for this:

Before saving the edits, select a language, other than "Undetermined".

After doing that, my edits to the posts saved normally

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"

Hero Has Returned, ch 115

It's like a giant robot trying to stamp out cockroaches for the last 5 or 6 chapters: Wrong tool for the job...

Bad bot

I'm trying to say report a bug and the steps to re-create the bug.

It's weird that this /c !anime@lemmy.ml doesn't show up on neither Feddit's Community Browser https://browse.feddit.de/ or Lemmy Explorer https://lemmyverse.net/communities when searching for "anime"

Instead anime@(the-instance-that-shall-not-be-named).social shows up first on Community Browser, and

I'm not sure what to make of that.

Is someone trying to shadow deprecate this /c/ ?

I'd forgotten all about C/FO because it had been such a long time since I'd heard of them.

It was really local groups who organized anime showings on college campuses who kindled me to take a more serious interest in anime.

Tape trading is where those groups from the 70s and 80s got their imported show from, but tape trading happened in all kinds of media, e.g. rock concerts.

Often we'd wind up watching 3rd or 4th gen VHS copies, i.e. grainy, washed out with bad sound, because we were so far down the chain.

...Aaaand the entries from the modlog concerning deleting my thread and post have been deleted.

Wonderful transparency there....

Fortunately, the bookwormstory.social entries are still there, so I could recover my scribblings.

Hahaha, the writer's joke was on us the viewers!

It starts out as a boring isekai "quiet life" scenario, then things get complicated...

The amount of twists that were thrown in to ratchet up the tension...

This is the best first episode I've watched in the new season so far.

Actually according to the modlog, some "mod" removed for "Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete • Gushing over Magical Girls - Episode 1 discussion" citing Rule 3 "No Porn"

I mean the show is risque, but we're starting to see nipples on Hollywood red carpets these days...

"mod" being in quotes because of the uncertainty elsewhere in this post...