I’m quite certain

Aww, that context gives this whole meme a lot more depth to me. I can’t entirely articulate why, but I guess it’s just nice to know that he was actually wholesome and loved.

The urban-rural border

Who uses it to mean “somewhat”? I’ve only heard it used to mean very/indeed/enough/completely, consistently between both the US and UK.

Might get some success with the upcoming series “IGNORE PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS AND SUBSCRIBE TO PRIME”

They do, in the first 2 minutes or so. It’s meant to be something of a gag, when they show him holding a sword and the epic-sounding Game of Thrones theme music begins to swell, only to then cut away to him taking a shit.

I think it could have been handled better, but the takeaway meaning that they appear to be trying to convey is that this is not the same kind of show as Game of Thrones. It’s literally taking a shit on the overly grand stories that preceded it.

I do think the rest of the episode redeems it, at least. It’s a break from the aristocratic backstabbing and scheming, providing a much-needed look into this world from a commoner’s perspective.

Whether the rest of the short season will remain worth watching is another question, though.

Chiitan loves all transgender people but not necessarily all transgender persons

Not that Haiti was necessarily at fault for that, though. It was either brace for further conquest, or submit to incredibly harsh terms of peace that would still see the country stripped of all its wealth.

I’m not the previous poster, but the French Revolution > Reign of Terror > Napoleonic Era > etc. comes to mind. A cycle of despots one after another.

She may have single-handedly precipitated the slide into fascism in the US.

If she had simply resigned from her position when she began experiencing health issues, it would have allowed her successor to be nominated and approved under a democratic administration.

Instead, she wanted to retain her position of authority as long as possible, and so her greatest legacy to the US became Amy Coney Barret appointed by Trump and the subsequent series of 5-4 votes in favor of furthering his agenda.

I thought True Colors was decent enough, but by all accounts Double Exposure was nothing special.

I really liked the anthology thing the series was going with, where every game was telling a different story with a different cast. Maybe eventually getting to the core of answering why these random kids have strange abilities.

But the last thing I wanted was them to try to continue from (what I thought was) a perfect ending. Just seems like they’ve lost the point.

I think it was considered normal for couples to argue pretty much daily.

How many people grew up thinking that marriage is supposed to look like that ? My gawd. People must have been miserable.

Probably likely for a lot of folks. It took so. damn. long. for divorce to be made legal across the western world, and even longer than that to get to the point where the burden of an unhappy marriage was no longer outweighed by the scandal of divorce.

Before no-fault divorces became common, unhappy couples would sometimes even voluntarily fake an affair just to act as “proof” of adultery for a divorce.

This was my experience. There was a local video rental place we used to go to that later sold out to Blockbuster, and everything just got far worse when they did.

You gotta throw me a bone here Mickey, what am I even looking at?

Thanks, count me as a new happy subscriber!

To be honest, Elden Ring is the only Souls game I’ve played and so it’s the only one of any real interest to me for now, but I am appreciative of the tags used in the post titles that allow me to filter out the content from other games I’m not interested in seeing. Glad to see content is alive somewhere!

For the more specific example, for any curious, the character Switch from the first movie was originally meant to be trans.

Switch was intended to be biologically male outside of the Matrix but then be female inside the Matrix, based on the way the system represents people by their self-image.

The production studio axed that idea, and the actress who was originally intended to only play 1/2 of the character ended up playing them outside the Matrix as well. The best they could do was keep the name and make Switch look androgynous.

I think people just miss their niche interest communities.

For example, I love Elden Ring, but !eldenring@lemmy.world hasn’t had any new posts in almost a year. Meanwhile the Elden Ring subreddit has a bunch of posts just from the last few minutes.

Still not enough to make me go back to Reddit, but I admit it’s something I miss and something that just can’t be recreated without more people.

I wanted to build a computer a couple years ago, but the prices they were charging for individual components even then just didn’t make sense compared to buying a more affordable, comparably strong pre-built.

I can’t imagine trying to build one now with these RAM prices, it’s insane.

Did the GPU shortages ever really end, though? We just have more shortages on top of it.

I don’t believe the default Lemmy interface supports it, yeah. I sometimes use Alexandrite and I don’t think it does, but not 100% certain. Haven’t tried Photon or any of the other options that may be out there.

If you’re on Lemmy.world, try:

Aledandrite - https://a.lemmy.world/

Voyager - https://m.lemmy.world/

Old Reddit - https://old.lemmy.world/

Photon - https://p.lemmy.world/

Tesseract - https://t.lemmy.world/

Not sure what others may be out there, but maybe one of them has the setting you’re looking for.

Edit: Alexandrite does seem to have a “system default” option, so if your system automatically updates theme based on time of day, that may work.

Edit 2: Seeing similar on each of the others, though how well each works, I’m not certain.