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There’s a reason 300 still looks so unique 🔥 They used a special color grading to give it that gritty, bronze finish. It’s shot almost entirely on green screens to make it feel more like a painting than a standard film. When you add that signature speed-ramping in the fights, it turns every battle into a masterpiece. It’s easily one of the most stylish films ever made. 🙌💯

No one stood a chance

A viral Japanese post compares positive media coverage about the arrival of a single American oil tanker to the WW2 propaganda announcements of the Imperial General Headquarters (大本営発表), which infamously lied to the public and depicted defeats as victories. The tanker was carrying less than a day's supply of oil for Japan, yet its arrival was national news. When described that way it sounds dire, yet it's unlikely Japan will run out of oil any time soon. Japan has been heavily reliant on oil from the Middle East, which now cannot pass through the Strait of Hormuz, but the government has months of oil reserves and time to arrange for the purchase of oil from alternative sources. The oil tanker that arrived yesterday is one of over 20 tankers that were already on their way to Japan. However, it's likely that alternative sources won't be as cheap as the oil Japan was buying from the Middle East. For now, the Takaichi Administration is using government funds to subsidize the price of gasoline, but some fiscally conservative politicians within her party are reportedly critical of this policy.

يا غث لمن تكون بين يهال بس يشتكون وبس يطلبون وكل شيء على راسك غصبن عليك وبعدين الناس تستغرب ليش الناس الهادية تنفجر مثل البركان لمن يوصلونهم حدودهم والمفروض ناس متعلمة الدين عدل ويعرفون ان الظلم محرم علينا وحسن الخلق من أساسيات الدين حسبي الله ونعم الوكيل

how it feels finishing a 10/10 game that was part of your daily routine

Literally Satan.

Proton CEO Andy Yen warns that mandatory online age verification could mean the death of anonymity online. He criticizes systems that force users to upload government IDs, passports, facial scans, or biometrics. These rules, Yen argues, would turn the internet into an ID checkpoint, they create massive databases vulnerable to breaches and enable government surveillance, censorship, and the erosion of free speech. Instead, he calls for privacy-first solutions: on-device age checks that verify without storing data, plus stronger parental controls at the device level.

What Quantum Physics does to a man.

@EndymionYT @IGN History books will remember this as the "dark comedy" era

@IGN What? The game you guys gave a 6 out of 10? How could this be!

Crimson Desert is a smash hit for developer Pearl Abyss, which has now won praise from the Prime Minister of South Korea. bit.ly/4u7AUAy

He paddled the shit out of me for this btw

🇺🇸 : very expensive 🇱🇧 : كتير غالي 🇰🇼 : لي الساعه چم فاتحين ؟

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@fjmd1 @Colin_P_A_Jones The Arabic tufan طوفان comes from the root tawf طوف which means to "circle around something by walking" or "spread across and fill up everything on a grand scale" So it seems difficult for it to originate from the far east

@Colin_P_A_Jones It's a question of who got what from where. It is very likely the recent English word comes from the Portuguese and similarly likely from Arabic, but whether the Arabic comes from Chinese, Greek or is essentially Semitic is debatable as are all those "likelys".

Etymology nerds/experts: I am reading a book by a highly respected scholar (not of linguistics) which asserts the English word “typhoon” comes not from the Chinese/Japanese character combination 台風(dafeng/taifu) but the Arabic “tufan” (storm), via Portuguese… What say you?

@HAmorata You hear people say "freedom of expression is a mistake" which you completely reject without even entertaining it But then you see people like this, telling us the history we all collectively experienced and clearly remember is a lie Makes you reconsider "freedom" again

I love when the kids stop by to attempt to invalidate my lived experiences. Amusingly, not only was I bullied in school for being a weird gamer, 90% of it came from the other girls in high school. But hey, the young adults of today say it never happened, so I'm sure I hallucinated all that.