@bpodgursky There's a treatment to reverse the allergy right?
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Harrison Casper
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alpha gal confirmed. kill all ticks.
Ben Podgursky@bpodgursky
(just figured out I am probably not getting food poisoning from cheeseburgers every two weeks...)
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@NobodyIsOurGuy Cad Bane basically already got his own spinoff series though
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Oh you want Cad Bane? Sorry bud, we can't have him anymore because he got his shit blown smoove off in a show nobody watched. You're gonna watch Embo and like it.
Star Wars Holocron@sw_holocron
Dave Filoni teases another Embo story that would reveal the fate of his loyal companion Marrok. “I did come up with a story about what happened to Marrok so maybe one day we can share that somehow.” (Source: starwars.com/news/who-is-em…)
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Movie set in the Cambrian period where nothing happens because it’s set on land. No animals, no plants, no trees, no sound but the lonely wind wandering over endless gravel. Occasionally the words “Ten million years later” appear on screen, but nothing changes.
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@signulll What other desires does it repress, I've heard the divorce thing was simply due to the weight loss itself and not the drug
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it's unclear if most ppl realize that ozempic’s real effects on culture haven’t even started.
cuz what you’re seeing now is the first order effects & some glimpses of second order where ppl get thinner & some products experiencing a resurgence.
but the second & third order effects are where things might get gnarly due to the fact that these drugs seem to dampen desire itself across a surprisingly wide range of behaviors (it's not universal or obvious yet). food is simply the first & most obvious target.
liek what happens when millions of people suddenly spend less time thinking about consumption? what happens to industries built around cravings, indulgence, impulse purchases, addiction loops, or even certain forms of entertainment?
entire sections of the economy assume humans will remain governed by the same reward circuitry we’ve had for thousands of years. if these drugs meaningfully alter those circuits, we’re talking about a tool that edits human motivation.
we are gonna see thinness but in a lot of diff ways it seems like.
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@alfredjviii How does Andor depart from George Lucas' vision aside from the obvious tone differences
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Fans of Andor are not fans of George Lucas' Star Wars and they need to accept that fact. It departs far too much from the creator's vision for his universe.
Pred@predator467
Andor fans operate under the false equivalence that anybody who doesn't like their shitty show is a fan of Filoni slop and get very emotional if you voice even the slightest criticism
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@richard_normal They hadn't figured out that Leia was a Skywalker, but they did hint in the same movie that she was force-sensitive.
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i hate the “there is another” line yoda gives in empire. he’s now canonically supposed to referring to be leia, but at the time of release, leia was canonically not luke’s sister, despite the explicit reference to this line in ROTJ. so who is he supposed to be referring to?
Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs)@agraybee
Give me your best Star Wars nitpicks. No reasonable criticisms or analysis, I'm talking real pedantic here.
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@ComicGirlAshley Everyone's saying Civil War, I thought he meant Across the Spider-Verse, if you take Spider-Man to mean specifically Peter Parker
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It's kinda crazy that there's a Spider-Man film where Spider-Man doesn't even show up until an hour and 40 mintues in.
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@hotdogwater69_ @uncledoomer This will be a whole new dimension, they've never had to sell to supernaturally unhungry Americans. No one can even imagine what they will cook up
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@uncledoomer Are we really acting as if the food industry hasn’t already been doing exactly that for the past 40 years?
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nature really abhors a vacuum. if GLP drugs make americans less hungry for treatslop, treatmakers will funnel billions into frontier treatlabs to compete for dwindling american treatler dollars. we are entering a golden era of american treatslop innovation and youre blackpilling?
Zach Holder@ZachHolderWx
Honey Pepper Pimento Chicken Sandwich and peach milkshakes are back at Chick-fil-a on June 8th. Single-handedly responsible for making me like pimento cheese.
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@CalebMPowers This isn't nostalgia, it's just feels more true to how the original Star Wars movie described the Clone Wars. The prequels are beautifully strange, but that doesn't mean George Lucas' vision for them was approached perfectly
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@animerobin0 @fred_beretta I mean yeah, no one called Tangled or the first Frozen a brand movie. Recognizable story yeah, but far from a franchise film.
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@HarrisonC2392 @fred_beretta so is like Peter Pan and Cinderella
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Hilarious that these “box office analysts” can’t get it through their skulls that The Backrooms is, in effect, an “established brand.” You just weren’t aware of it because you’re over 40.
Ben Fritz@benfritz
I've covered box office results literally hundreds of times in my career. The mind-blowing success of "Backrooms" and "Obsession" this weekend easily ranks in the top 1% as far as long-term significance for the movie business. My story w/ @johnjurg: wsj.com/business/media…
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@soncharm This is why the original Star Wars is my favorite in the series, you can imagine so much about the world and what it was like, it's fun to forget about prequels and just get absorbed in the world. And this is coming from a prequel defender
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-Narrative should pick up with Anakin at 18 or 19, not 8 or 9.
-He’s really Owen’s brother
-he’s not a ‘slave’ they’re just a simple moisture farm family
-No ‘immaculate conception’ nonsense
-No ‘chosen one’ ‘prophecy’
-he’s just a hotshot boonie pilot kid who dreams of making it, joins up as a Republic pilot, then when he gets to Coruscant or whatever more central planet starts to learn the Force/Jedi stuff, rises quickly
-The Jedi are shown as functional, noble, and martial. They don’t just do ambassador stuff about trade disputes. They’re knights. They don’t all wear desert robes!
-Darth Vader is a different guy, same age. A Jedi. Obi-Wan’s trainee. ‘Darth’ isn’t a title that’s his name. (I know, I’m fixing Eps 5/6 now)
-The whole reason Anakin (“Kin” for short, they call him, not “Ani”) leaves Tattooine is he’s an idealist (like we were told!), who wants to fight the
-clone threat! The clones/cloners are the bad guys of course (not cartoon proto-stormtroopers fighting alongside Jedi). The ‘clone wars’ were something like a Butlerian Jihad against cloning tech, which the Big Baddie was leveraging to take over planets.
Ok sorry now I’m changing stuff about Episode II. Well I could keep going, I got a lotta changes
Star Wars Daily@StarWarsDaily_
If you could change one thing about The Phantom Menace what would it be?
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@AndrewJ626 Mandoverse will probably end after Ahsoka S2, I will be shocked if season 4 happens
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I think this puts the final nail in the coffin on any more SW characters from Disney+ making it to the big screen.
• That "Mandoverse" crossover movie Filoni is directing? Not going to theaters (if it's still happening).
• Ahsoka and others will stay on streaming.
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
‘THE MANDALORIAN & GROGU’ has earned $25M in its second weekend, a 69.4% drop. The film is now #3 behind ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’.
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@BloodNose391646 @MattWalshBlog What are you talking about, it's a pretty reasonable expectation
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@HarrisonC2392 @MattWalshBlog That makes no sense you sound dumb as fuck
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I haven’t seen Obsession or Backrooms yet but I think it’s absolutely great that original films by new young filmmakers are dominating right now while Star Wars slop bombs. I’m guessing the next soulless Marvel bullshit will underperform too. People are tired of the slop. They want interesting original stories.
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@bloodoftheland Probably because the most widely reported budget was $165M, so 165 x 2.5 = 412.5M as an approximate break even point. Though I can believe the marketing was expensive considering that Superbowl ad
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When I posted that the Baby Yoda movie needed roughly $600 million to break even, some people argued with the number. Budget plus advertising were roughly $300 million (low estimate) and theaters keep 40-50% of their ticket sales, so the break even point is roughly when the box office doubles the movie's cost. $300 million doubled is $600 million. Some Disney Adults have trouble multiplying a number by two
Star Wars News@_starwarsnews
According to the New York Times The Mandalorian and Grogu’s budget was around $300M for both production and marketing! Source: @nytimes
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@tapuyaps @jammedjanna There wasn't really much left to make Kylo Ren look like a threat after he got whipped by Luke in this same movie
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@jammedjanna wholeheartedly disagree. i really don't see why so many people think there needed to be a bigger bad than kylo when the whole point of this is that he was taking that power into his own hands. he WAS the big bad. the third movie could have focused solely on him being the villain-
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there is not a single legitimate reason to hate this scene/narrative choice. absolutely fucking inspired scene. kylo ren i am so sorry you're trapped in that trilogy
QG Jenna 🖤@QuiGonJenna
Chills. Every time. 👏
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@tapuyaps If Kylo Ren locked in after this then it would have been cool, but instead he got humiliated by Luke, so it just made the First Order look lame going into the next movie
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My son is watching Toy Story 4 on the plane next to me. I just glanced over and thought "huh, cool they shot this with anamorphic lenses."
But... it's animated. They INTENTIONALLY simulated the look of anamorphic lenses. Unbelievable attention to detail.
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@YoussefElbatal_ @grizzlikesfilm I'm trying to figure out why it looked so much better for the Tobey Maguire posters
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@grizzlikesfilm It could possibly be the forced yellow lighting, but I think it fits well
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There’s something about the posters for this movie I don’t like and I can’t put my finger on what it is
The Beyond Reporter@Beyondreporter1
New Official Posters for Spider-Man: Brand New Day
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