I assume it made the music from Zelda when held up like that?

Yeah, they don’t really seem overly concerned with maintaining electoral majorites. Or the vote. Or the rule of law. Or the Constitution, etc…

We destroy capitalism or capitalism (finishes) destroying us. Appear to be the only two options available.

Boring, slow incremental progress is great. Not ideal, but great.

However, a two-party system where one party is ALWAYS a single lost election from the advent or fascism is a democracy too brittle to survive.

Won in 2012

Won in 2018

Won in 2020

Won in 2022

And this is where it got us.

So… They are just going to pretend he’s mentally sound, and for as long as they do, this shit just gets worse and worse until we all die from it.

Salient points, all.

Yeah… Finally got around to reading Hamlet and “it’s just a bunch of cliches”

But my main reservation with this adaptation is not which artistic choices are being made or the direction they decide to take things or even the difficulties in adapting the story (actually argued the other side of all this in FAVOR of the latest Dune) - and more that the source material was (likely) chosen simply for being a rich vein of dork-culture ore, one intended to be quickly and easily processed into a homogenized block of monetized consumer content…

The end result, once stripped of all pedigree and drained of any residial artistic expression, left as little more than a thumbnail to be scrolled past and forgotten alongside other milquetoast sci-fi projects like Travelers, or Continuum, Solo, etc…

An adaptation with nothing to say; “art” as a meaningless multimedia content experience

Yes, but will they have enough jump jets to make it over that shark?

Assuming the other half is where they plan to install the oil derricks…

Neuromancer without devolving into self-parody…

What was that bit about trying to read Hamlet and deciding it was just people sitting around in castles speaking in cliches?

I mean, if they can make a 3rd adaptation of Dune: The Consumable Content Experience then I’m sure someone can find a way to make a Neuromancer that would be me than just a generic block of media - greenlit while pointing to the mere existence of The Peripheral as financial onus.

Maybe next time then.

Looks like she’s walking out of an Apple store

Do the lenses. They, aside from the razor blade nails, were the defining characteristic.

Do them right.

Rather than set up a lazy shot-reverse-shot ala Attack of the Clones, every scene Molly is in gives us a background that can be flipped and displayed in the lenses in order to showcase what the character is feeling.

And then cast her with someone who can do a Carl Urban-as-Dredd performance without ever showing us her actual eyes.

Experimental? Edgy? Overly difficult? Artistically pretentious even?

Maybe.

But these stills are shot at day and without neon? So, much better than whatever paint-by-numbers checklist they are using to produce this abomination…

No… Hell no.

She had her tear ducts reversed so she spit out her tears.

Yeah this adaptation is fucked.

… Now?

The Devil’s Eyebrow

They don’t seem overly concerned with public opinion or the possibility they might be removed from power by the vote.

likely, they are banking on us to revolt so they can deploy the military domestically.

If the whole thing seems like unchecked expectations - so did the dissolution of NATO prior to 2016.

There are no checks. There are no balances. There is nothing stopping them…

This isn’t Trump’s vanity - this is the oligarchs, who do not care about nation states, carving up the globe as a resource grab.

The US will annex Greenland. The US will invade Canada. The US will kill protesters, starting with the students.

Concentration camps. Gulags. The disappearing of opponents and mass killings of the undesirables.

Europe will try to unify, but their democracies are already beset by oligarchs, from Putin to Musk, who are financing newly emboldened far-right fringe groups and political candidates.

Europe may rally and pull together.

Or, they may fracture from external pressure and splinter from internal dissention; that is the plan.

Does this moron even know what a tariff is?

Is this part of a pump-and-dump - or is it just the one button he’s managed to figure out how to push and so he keeps mashing it, over and over, like a hyperactive toddler with a plastic Fisher-Price Resolute Desk playset?

I’m not even looking for windscreen washer fluid and I’ll buy European SUPERPISS

Works fine as long as you don’t mind being late. Limiting your travel times. Tripling the length of your commute. And braving a mobile-psychiatric dayroom environment in order to go anywhere…