Mark Jaquith

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@WeissHockeyTalk Me, charting his P/GP in Jan, Feb, Mar… “hmm, his points per game dropped from 2.38 to ONLY 2.00 in March so far… should we be concerned?” 🤭

Nikita Kucherov has the most points over a 45 game stretch (93) since prime **Mario Lemieux** But if you say he deserves MVP or suggest he could be the best in the world, you get shot 17 times by every member of the Canadian media and then spit on by Edmonton/Colorado fans

@thdxr @opencode Can you speak to the Anthropic prompt removal in that PR, like for people who use OpenCode to access Anthropic models via Bedrock?

opencode 1.3.0 will no longer autoload the claude max plugin we did our best to convince anthropic to support developer choice but they sent lawyers it's your right to access services however you wish but it is also their right to block whoever they want we can't maintain an official plugin so it's been removed from github and marked deprecated on npm appreciate our partners at openai, github and gitlab who are going the other direction and supporting developer freedom

@jonathan_dejong @richardmz13 Nice! It’s a really faithful adaptation, and if you’ve read the book you’ll pick up on a lot of small details that they put in the movie but didn’t have time to explain.

@markjaquith @richardmz13 Well shit .. i was gonna watch the movie but now i need to read the book first so I just ordered a copy.

come to think of it, there are probably three ways to experience #ProjectHailMary: • haven't read the book - overstimulating but FUN • read it- your background will guide you • read only half - that third act may surprise you all very different, all very enriching

@aarondfrancis it’s happening

@LizzyStarrrdust We do it to men and dogs too. We are like meerkats. We need to have a status map of all the radar blips in the vicinity. Men are 2–3× more likely than women to be victims of random street violence. The “monitoring the situation” instinct is deeply ingrained.

Women need to get the fuck over men "looking at them." It's embarrassing.

@goblinodds “I hate transitioning between activities” “I don’t like socks” “These shoes fit weird” “Some food textures are intolerable”

i love showers and i love lazing around after showers so why do i have to drag myself into the shower kicking and screaming. im like one of those little kids that splays out so you cant force them through the door at bathtime

@LizzyStarrrdust @ATw5f 3 5 and 6 effectively don’t exist. It’s just not a probable distribution of fat. I co-sign your list!

@ATw5f I say 1,2,4 & 7. The man says 1-8. 😂

ماهو نوع الجسم الذي تعتبره مثالياً؟

@aarondfrancis @1stevengrant If we’re quibbling about Greek it’s “a root” not “THE root” 😏

@1stevengrant Strict adherence to the text!

you know @aarondfrancis might be the first person I've heard say money is the root of all _kinds_ of evil! Just about everyone says _all evil_ One of my misquote peeves

@MirandaPar77877 “Excuse me where is the catheter blood? I paid full price for this ticket!” 😤 (I do think he said “muscles!?” At some point though. There were lots of small tidbits like this for book readers.)

my singular complaint about the phm film is ryland didn’t wake up naked and ripped

@aarondfrancis I’m glad they found the words to plainly say what is and isn’t allowed. What a concept!

Gemini is going to start cracking down on using your oAuth token outside of the CLI. It's just not worth the risk to try to reuse your token in some weird way!

@SigmaGosling 43. Cried during. Cried after. Cried the next day. Made me feel things without my consent. Magical, improbable, emotional warfare.

I'm a grown ass 23 year old man and Project Hail Mary made me sob multiple times. A beautiful narrative about friendship and hope and what we do for others in times of need. I'm in a very difficult time of my life and it reminds me that not all hope is lost. AMAZE AMAZE AMAZE🎶

@ripfish Aww thanks so much Greg!

.@markjaquith EXCELLENT newsletter today. I love the sentiment, and this message came at the perfect time. If anyone is reading this and haven't subscribed, you should: onlygoodtakes.com

@icytruce It was silent as death during the part where the audio stops. I couldn’t believe it. No one coughed. Legit think everyone held their breath at the same time.

something i won't get over is how silent the theater was during certain scenes of project hail mary. full theater but you could hear a pin drop, it was so quiet

@CoyJandreau It’s really great in Dolby Cinema. The contrast for the space contrast. And it was mixed for Atmos so it sounds amazing.

Might fuck around & see Project Hail Mary for a 3rd time this weekend! 2 IMAX so far - 1st at Grauman’s 2nd at Universal Citywalk … and 40mins previewing at HQ … and Hall H … and Cinemacon Think I’m going DOLBY this #ProjectHailMary go round Stoked to hang with Rocky again.

@punkeybrewstir OP is talking about people who lean forward for the entire game. Obviously during big moments people will lean or jump up. Thats fine. But if you’re blocking the view of everyone behind you for three hours, that’s rude.

hockey is not a theatre sorry i will be talking and i will be reacting to the play

@FreyaHolmer As a starter mechanic, I love it! Needs a forcing function.

been feeling kinda stressed lately so I made a little prototype is this anything

@TelepathicBunny @bored383_375 @SandyofCthulhu It’s very faithful, the changes all make sense for the adaptation to film, and the humor and Reddit-ness of A.W. are replaced with S-tier comedic timing from Gosling and physical humor that wouldn’t work in a book.

@bored383_375 @SandyofCthulhu All indications by people who have watched it and have read the book is that it's very faithful and maybe improves certain things.

One of the worst crimes in modern cinema is that Everything Must Be Personal. We can all see retarded movie plots in which the hero is reluctant to save hundreds, even millions, of people because he promised his wife or his daughter he'd stay with her. For instance, in World War Z (among other crimes) they had to prod the hero into action by saying his family couldn't keep their safe berth while he sat on his butt and did nothing. Because otherwise they couldn't SAVE THE WORLD. That cost Brad Pitt's character 100% of my respect. By contract, look at Casablanca (1942). Bogart tells Ingrid Bergman that their romance doesn't amount to "a hill of beans in this crazy world". It happens in WW2 and of course he is perfectly correct. Bogart gives up his great eternal love to fight the Axis. He even sends her to another man, because then that man will be better-able to fight the Axis. I would LOVE to see a modern hero who's willing to make that kind of sacrifice. Or any sacrifice. I'm perfectly fine with a hero who's driven by saving his family (Commando). But I do NOT want some guy who is willing to let the world die because if he has to go save it he'll be sad.

@MacReadyIsHot @shadowknightdk The humor is WAY better than in the book, and in ways that embrace the medium. The book’s humor kinda read like Reddit mod humor. But in the movie it relies on timing, top-tier acting, charm, visual gags. It really works.

@shadowknightdk If it lives up to the book, then it'll at least be a 4 for me. The only issue I had with the book is the humor, and if the movie doesn't fix that though, then I might actually be more annoyed watching the humor than just reading it.

it can't be THAT good holy shit

Interstellar is about about love and duty Arrival is about understanding and loss Project Hail Mary is about friendship and yearning