Why not just get a pet turkey?
You know what? yes it is. Barely. There are two and a half moments in the movie that make it a musical.
First, let me talk about Crossroads, the one with The Karate Kid in it, not the one with Britney Spears. The plot is kind of the Devil Went Down To Georgia, it culminates in a guitar battle with the devil (or his minion) to get out of a deal once signed. There are several musical performances in the movie, but all make sense in context because it's a movie about musicians. There aren't any spontaneous street fulls of people suddenly performing an impromptu rehearsed song and dance numbers. The musical scenes in Crossroads are all perfectly plausible, like busking in a parking lot or performing on stage at a bar. Even the supernatural scene at the end is musicians performing for an audience in a venue. I love the moment where this rowdy crowd warmed up on blues and rock and roll clap politely when he busts out some classical.
Most of the runtime of the Blues Brothers has normal movie non-diegetic music; the Blues Brothers themselves don't hear She Caught The Katy or the Peter Gunn Theme. Three major and one minor performance are perfectly realistic: There's a short shot of John Lee Hooker performing Boom Boom busking in the street, then there's the performance at the Redneck Bottle Throwing Bar where they play some of Gimme Some Lovin, Theme From Rawhide and Stand By Your Man, the Blues Review concert at the big hall where they play Minnie The Moocher, Everybody Needs Somebody To Love and Sweet Home Chicago, and the epilogue in prison where they play Jailhouse Rock. So far, this isn't a capital M Musical. It's a lowercase m music movie same as Crossroads.
What makes it a Musical is Aretha Franklin belting out Think and Ray Charles's Shake A Tail Feather, during which reality slams to a halt and everyone everywhere become backup dancers, including out in the street where they have no chance of hearing the music. And the second one might even make sense if they didn't cut outside to dancers in the street. I'll buy these blues musicians knowing the song and playing along with instruments they pulled off the shelves at this music store.
No, the products. World War 2 ended in 1945, and then EVERYBODY FUCKED and 80 years later we're still cleaning up the mess.
Same reason we started with X, millennials actually got a name, and then went back to Z. Somebody with a head full of lead came up with it.
The absolute best Europe could do would be to get machines running a RISC-V architecture running Linux in production and distribution. RISC-V was developed at UC Berkley, GNU at Harvard based on UNIX from Bell Labs and the Linux kernel by a Finnish-American named Torvalds. ARM is probably closer to production ready than RISC-V but you'll have to pay licenses to England and Japan for it.
Oh, and that's all desktop and server stuff. You've got an even deeper ditch to dig to get anything mobile that isn't based on Apple or Google tech. Not even Microsoft managed that.
Even if you did get that one, which you won't, you will have built "European digital sovereignty" upon the crumbs that fell off of America's dinner table. The 21st century was invented in Britain and built by the United States out of parts manufactured in Southeast Asia while Europe masturbated. And this was perfectly acceptable until this year, with the election of Tariff McBlusterCuck. Now you're gonna do it on your own.
Sure.
I had hamsters and gerbils, my hamsters weren't bitey. I guess we socialized them better, they just liked walking from hand to hand.
Also found in great abundance around the red grass plateaus especially near wrecks.
You'll get radio messages from Lifepod 17, 6 and 7.
Lifepod 17 will give you a HUD marker that takes you straight to it, depending on where your lifepod spawned you'll likely pass a small wreck and a scatter, and there is a large wreck within sight of it. I would actually be surprised if you couldn't complete the Seamoth, scanner room and bioreactor right there.
Lifepod 6 and 7 are both "coordinates corrupted" quests; it won't give you a HUD marker but a picture and a hint as to their location (lifepod 4 is similar). 6 is similarly within sight of a large wreck and a scatter, going to Lifepod 7 will take you past a large scatter and a small wreck.
All three of these are fully explorable with a seaglide, high capacity air tank, and repair tool. I recommend a rebreather and an air bladder. You can find scanner room, bioreactor and seaglide parts in addition to scrap titanium outside the wrecks, and laser cutter, propulsion cannon, mobile vehicle bay, modification station, battery chargers, plus several useful databoxes including the vehicle upgrade console, and a strong chance of +30 bottles of water in supply crates.
It can be a bit of a bother for new players telling scannable fragments from the background scenery of the wrecks; act a bit like a bloodhound, drag your nose around looking for the scanner icon to pop up in the corner of the screen.
I'll give an oblique hint for further in the game: there may come a point where you say to yourself, "Well now what?" And the game doesn't seem to give you somewhere to go like it has been. go deeper.
This brings up a point I've been meaning to make for awhile: I don't think Europe has it in them.
The UK actually did some innovating, I mean Alan Turing himself was a Limey, and back in the day they had the likes of Sinclair and Acorn, and they invented the ARM processor, they're one of very few nations to have a processor architecture to their name. Basically the rest of computing innovation happened in the United States, like the industrial revolution before, we took what Britain invented and ran with it. Meanwhile Western Europe has had fuck all influence in the last 50 years of computing. The World Wide Web was invented at CERN, sure...by an Englishman. 35 years later, let's take a look at the top 50 visited websites worldwide and see just what Europe has done with their groundbreaking tech.
Of the 50, 30 are American. The top nine: Google, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, ChatGPT, X/Twitter, WhatsApp, Reddit and Wikipedia, are American. Tenth is Yahoo Japan followed by Yahoo!. The UK does not place on the list, and only four websites are from the EU: Xvideos and XNXX are French, Xhamster and Stripchat are...What's the adjective for 'from Cyprus?" Cyprian? Cyprese? Cypriot, apparently. "Honorable" mentions to Canada and India for their only entries, Pornhub and Eporner respectively.
Meanwhile, South Korea makes the list twice for Samsung.com and Naver.com, which is apparently their Google; they do everything from search and email to online payments and ISP. I'm pretty sure that if the US is descendant, the future is Asian, not European.
Microsoft, Google, Apple, IBM, Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Europe has got nothing that even sort of competes with any of them, so for the last few months they've been publishing headlines about another township switching their computers from Windows to Linux. At one point there was announcement that EurOS or whatever they were going to call it was going to be a fork of Fedora...because they forgot SuSe Linux exists. They boldly announced they were switching from getting software directly from Microsoft, to getting it indirectly from IBM. For their x86 computers.
I simply don't think Europeans have it in them; the ones that did moved to the US over the last century and a half.
I'm gonna go in a different direction than everyone else here.
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl
is a big budget movie that had absolutely no business getting made, because:
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Pirate movies have always been box office poison. Less than a decade earlier, Cutthroat Island made the Guinness Book of Records as the biggest box office bomb of all time, the latest in a series of pirate-themed failures. The only vaguely pirate-themed movies that had ever had anything you'd call success was Muppet Treasure Island and Goonies, and you could argue that Goonies wasn't really a pirate movie, it had some pirate theming in it. In 2002, Disney's Treasure Planet, basically Treasure Island IN SPAAACE had proven a box office flop. Treasure Planet is a well-written, well-made, well-advertised, well-reviewed pirate movie that failed at the box office. What idiot would bankroll another pirate film?
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It was a movie based on an old ride at Disney World. It was their fourth attempt at this, they made a TV movie based on Tower of Terror in 1997 that they're apparently not proud of, 2000s Mission To Mars was a "commercial disappointment" and 2002's The Country Bears was a critical and commercial flop. Yeah the year before they made Pirates of the Caribbean, Disney made a G-rated pastiche of the Blues Brothers out of The Country Bear Jamboree. They decided to do that and nobody stopped them. No movie based on a theme park attraction had ever made its money back.
The public's reaction to the announcement was "They're making a movie based on WHAT?" This wasn't going to work. This movie had no business being made.
The film achieved massive critical and commercial success as the 141st highest grossing movie of all time taking $654.3 million against it's $140 million budget and spawning four sequels.
hamsters are cooler than mice. it's fun to hand them seeds and watch them stuff their pouches. Face luggage.
I always wonder if this kind of thing would work alongside seawater desalination plants for drinking water. Like, say you're operating a reverse osmosis plant for making potable water, could you then pump the bypass water off to this lithium extraction process?
Possibly the wrong community for this, it was either here or casual_conversation which also feels like possibly the wrong community for this, but I haven't found anywhere better.
It is allegedly Men's Health Awareness Month, so instead of doing something lazy like post an image macro telling you it's okay to cry or other bullshit platitude, why don't we all hit the trails and talk about what we see along the way?
I went out to a trail around a lake local to me. Was almost tough getting any pictures at all without getting people in the shot. Used to be you could have the whole place to yourself, I'm not sure I was ever out of sneezing distance of someone the entire 2 miles. Used to be people would say hi as they passed, everyone's got earbuds in these days.
A deer! First of two I saw on this walk. Used to be you'd never see any deer or anything like that around this trail, too many people. But they've been clearcutting the forests around here left and right to slap in those godawful HOA housing developments or apartment complexes that we're running out of woods for the deer to live in. Used to be you'd never see them in town, but now there seems to be one living in the back of my yard. Not sure it's a great sign for the future that all the wildlife is being displaced.
The crik. Hope it don't rise.
I've always liked this spot, the path forks a little here and the lower path gives you this peek at the lake. About 20 years ago now I took the best picture I've ever taken at this spot, I was walking this trail shortly after sunrise, happened to look over, said "That's pretty" and snapped a shot with my LG EnV2.
Desire path? I don't fully understand this one, though I remember decades ago it was a lot narrower, like only bikes ever went to the right.
I don't know what this invasive species is but it's apparently not too healthy for the local trees.
So, now it's your turn. Go on a walk, talk about what you see out there.
I foreshadowed this one pretty good. I'm still working on the countertop but the cabinetry is done.
And here are some of those infernal hinges that are way harder to buy than they should be.
It's a little scratch and dent given it's made out of offcuts, scraps and extras from other projects but I think it came out okay. Three coats of fake "tung oil" finish and it came up to a nice warm semi-gloss, and ambered up the pine enough to take the edge off the grain.
Detail shot of the side hung, center guided drawer and its rabbeted dovetail front and shop made handle.
Yeah I'm going on a bit of a victory lap here, I'm pretty happy with how this one turned out.
I'm slapping together a night stand for my cousin out of crap I have lying around the shop, and I'm using the project as an excuse to try out some stuff.
Carcass is "hardwood" mystery meat 7-ply from Lowe's. Joinery is all dovetails; lower shelf and mid frame are sliding dovetails, upper frame is half-blinds. I did that to see if I could. Answer: Barely. The sliding dovetails were fine but the half-blinds wanted to blow the plywood apart.
Face frame is rift sawn traumatized pine. That's what I managed to salvage from a damaged section of 8:4, and judging by the growth rings that tree had been through at least one divorce. The curve on the bottom I laid out with a bowed spline. First time I've actually done that. It's attached to the carcass Norm style, with Tite-bond and #10 biscuits.
Tomorrow I'll build the drawer.
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Yeah, that's what the line about could vs. should was about.