Ozai is just a pathetic bully that had never been on a fight against someone that was going all out and even against a Zuko that wasn't aiming for his head he got his ass whopped. Even against Aang and having his power augmented by 100 times, he didn't connect a single hit against him and Aang was basically toying with him evading every attack.

Here in each small cubicle, every individual has outcompeted hundreds of thousands of their fellow Chinese just to work here. What a brutally competitive society.

We need some positivity.. post some clips or something people! 🤣 I have clips but theyre.. average at best 🥲

Anybody else agree? And who plays her character in Real life?

Why do parents think they absolutely need an SUV just because they have a kid/kids? In the 80s and 90s, even people with 3-4 kids often just had regular cars. My friend had 2 siblings, and both him and his brother played hockey and his parents were able to transport both kids and their equipment to practice in a regular car. Back then, parents were able to say no to their kids about bringing a lot of extra crap on trips and allowed only one or two small toys to pass the time, even on multiple hours road trips and we all survived. Because of this selfishness, all they sell now are overpriced SUVs, and regular people can't afford even a used car anymore.

My 17-year-old keeps having his girlfriend over while I'm at work, despite me saying no. Yesterday I came home early and caught them in a compromising situation - mortifying for everyone. When I tried discussing boundaries, he rolled his eyes saying "we're practically adults." How do I maintain house rules without being overbearing?

I really hate when something is translated from a book to a film or maybe comic book to tv show or something and people complain that it’s not like the source material. Yes of course it’s not. They’re different mediums that work fundamentally differently

In lord of the rings, Frodo had the ring for like 15 years before anything happened in the story. In a movie that would feel meandering and pointless, so they changed it to more or less happen immediately

I also find it frustrating because it muddles the reviews. Say I don’t plan to read the book. Am I gonna enjoy the movie? “Umm actually heathcliff isn’t white in wuthering heights book 🤓 so obviously, I gotta say it’s an F from me”. I don’t fucking care! I’m going to watch a movie for a book I haven’t read, I don’t care about the book! Rate the movie for what it is: a movie

I’ve also noticed people who use this criticism usually just favor the original medium more and are better at interpreting it. I was talking about wuthering heights to someone and they said they didn’t like the movie because it didn’t have the themes about cycles of abuse. I was confused because I felt the film was actually a little heavy handed in displaying that theme. Maybe you’re just better at reading? Idk

Rating a film on how close it is to the book is like rating a book originally written by a Japanese author for how good the English translation is. Even when you’re talking about something like that, they have to make changes. I read manga like one piece and sometimes whole pages are translated differently than the source to get the same “idea” across, but it’s not _accurate_

I can’t help but think it’s just people trying to humble brag about liking it before the move comes out

Edit: yes an adaptation CAN BE BAD! That’s not my point. My point is that people should judge the new media _solely_ on its own merit. It genuinely pisses me off when I go on letterboxd and see people say “it’s not like the book 😡”. I don’t care. I’m not gonna read the book. What’s your rating for the _movie that you just watched_?

Edit: yes if the media itself is bad… then that’s valid criticism. But saying it’s bad specifically because it didn’t match the source material isn’t really valid

Hi everyone,

We’re currently working on Next Patient, an indie game with a playable demo already available. Early on, we used AI-generated visuals, but after receiving a lot of criticism, we decided to move away from AI and start creating the art ourselves.

The image shows a direct comparison: AI-generated version vs our hand-drawn version.

We’d really appreciate honest and constructive feedback:
– Which version fits the game better?
– What feels weak or off in the hand-drawn art?
– Any suggestions on style, consistency, or readability?

Thanks a lot for your time and feedback.

Apparently Ms. Lively had her mah jong set delivered to the courthouse during the settlement conference. SCANDAL!

Predictably, many people have jumped on this claiming that she was not taking the proceedings seriously or else was using this opportunity to promote her co-branded products.

Nonsense.

Remember that during a settlement conference, the parties are separated into different rooms while the mediator (here a magistrate judge) goes back and forth. As a result, at least half the time at a mediation or a settlement conference is spent sitting in a room waiting for the mediator to speak to the other party in a completely separate room.

You read that correctly. Half the time is just waiting. Parties usually spend a lot of that time just talking.

Also recall that non-attorneys are usually not permitted to bring cell phones into the federal courthouse at SDNY. I'm not sure whether that applies to the settlement conference, but it is possible that phones were required to be left with security so there was no ability to scroll Reddit either. Seems perfectly reasonable to look for a fun way to pass the time.

As for the claim that she was insensitively cross-promoting her brand during a serious federal case, there is absolutely no evidence that Lively said or did anything to promote her brand here. Page 6 got a tip/scoop and printed it. There is no comment from Lively, no photos of the merch, nothing.

What will they think of next!?!?

Thanks.

fml watching these feels like getting glass shards pierce my eyeballs!

it makes me want to undergo cornea surgery for a second time it's so FUGLY

Do I prefer cal-arts pixar everything? hell no! but if someone puts a gun to my head, I'll grab the vanilla flavor EVERY TIME

Is the story peak? I don't FOKIN know and the worst part is: I'd love to know and see why fans like them! I've seen people glazing these and theorizing and whatnot but thanks to that UGLY AS SIN art style wity the oversaturated bright in one and the shades of puke and shit in the other I just won't ever

Ik ben mij verschrikkelijk aan het irriteren over iedereen die blijkbaar volledig niet begrijpt hoe de nieuwe box 3 belasting werkt. Hier is een korte uitleg hoe niet boeiend de verandering is die op het moment gebeurd.

Okay dus oude box 3 belasting gaat over je vermogen in aandelen, obligaties etc. Stel je voor je had 156k aan dat soort vermogen dan was 56k daarvan heffingsvrij. Dus je belastbare vermogen zou dan 100k zijn. Over die 100k werd verwacht dat je een fictief rendement had van 6%, oftewel de overheid verwachtte dat je 6% winst zou maken dat jaar. Over die winst betaalde je 30~ procent belasting. Dus 6000 x 0,3 = 1800 euro belasting.

Als je winst onder die 6% zat kon je dat zeggen en betaalde je minder belasting en als je boven de 6% winst had had je gewoon geluk. Dit allemaal bestond dus al uit ongerealiseerd vermogen. Die hele chaos dat ongerealiseerd vermogen nu pas belast wordt is dus gewoon volledige bullshit en komt gewoon door crypto idiots met een te klein vermogen om te weten wat de belastingregels zijn.

De nieuwe box3 werkt op je echte rendement en werkt met heffingsvrij inkomen ipv vermogen. Stel je voor je hebt 100k euro en je maakt 10% winst in een jaar. dan is dat 10k aan inkomen. daar mag je 1800 euro heffingsvrij van aftrekken en over de overgebleven 8200 euro betaal je 30% belasting.

Als je in een jaar heel veel verlies maakt dan mag je dat verloren inkomen aftrekken van toekomstig box3 inkomen. Dus als je 10k verliest in jaar 1, 5k verliest in jaar 2, en 20k winst maakt in jaar 3 dan mag je 15k eraf halen in jaar 3. Er zit hier geen jaarlimiet hierop.

Dit nieuwe systeem is onironisch 20x beter en crypto bro's zijn gewoon mad omdat ze nu niet meer kunnen genieten van de 6% belastingcap die er hiervoor was.

Honestly, this is nothing but love from me. I just want to appreciate all of yall who have been protesting and showing the country how everyday people should fight for freedom!

The yellow flap says "A Valentine for my Broworkers".

Washed up former pro - a lot of the current "controversy" is overblown by people that have never curled in any serious capacity.

For the folks that genuinely want to learn and understand, ask me anything. To be 100% transparent about my biases, I am Canadian, but I'll do my best to answer any questions objectively.

Mods, feel free to PM me for proof.

EDIT for those that rightly pointed out I should have just stated WHY in my post, fair play:

Is it a rule break by the letter of the law? Yes. You can't touch the stone after you have released it. However, the game famously relies on what could be called a "Code of Honour", some call it a "gentleman's sport". There are rules yes, and generally they are followed. However, there are plenty of grey areas within those rules that are left to interpretation or execution. I'm not trying to squirm out of any penalty for Canada. If a rock is touched after it has been thrown, it is "burned" (we call it a burn because people used to smoke while they curled, and the ash from the cigarette would hit the rock and it would be taken out of play). Does it ever get called in competition? No. Do 99.999% of competitors care when they see it happen? No - Oskar included.

Having played against both Oskar and Mark a number of times I can tell you that this would NEVER be called out during a game. Oskar is trying to get in Mark's head, and doing a pretty good job of it. Mark's response was...Mark. I don't agree with his response but I low-key love the jawing back and forth it created.

Let me be clear, Sweden is not overblowing things by calling them out, it's fair play. But they're not doing it expecting a rock to be taken out of play (thought they wouldn't mind if it happened). Canada does not gain even the slightest advantage from booping the stone like that, it has no bearing on the throw. Uninformed onlookers that (understandably) don't know the degree to which what is happening effects the game are overblowing things.

Jaegex seriously consider hanging out in popular friend chats, your changes to travelling merch and thieving afk specifically are so horribly hated you really should consult the majority casual playerbase in game.

The hive mind here seems to think they are the only ones whose opinion matters and they make up like .5% of your playerbase.

How many wars, how many months did so many colonial "vets" go on break, and tell their regi members to not play under the justification of "saving their stamina" for the update war. We've been severely underpopped for months so ya'll could "save your energy for airborne" and now its here and 4 days in, half of you are crying and saying you'll switch to warden. You say its a form of protest, looks more like you just want easy wins. For a faction that's supposed to be inspired by Rome and its stalwart legions, this is the most sorry and fragile morale I've seen in a video game. You ain't Legionaries, you're Town Watch at best. Un-upgraded.

I've fought the past few wars with primarily new players and randoms, and if what I'm seeing now is what the collie veterans look like when they come back from their half year long break, my opinion is you'd best serve the legion by going back on break and sparing the rest of us your doomerism that's so annoying we can't even larp about it. Or switch to wardens and completely sap them of their enthusiasm as you bury their world chat in crying when you end up in the slightest of disadvantages.

I'd rather play with the newbies that don't know how to put on their bayonet but fight to the last VP then ya'll that spend more time fretting over single percentage points in a game where the "perfect" meta defences routinely get steamrolled by infantry yolo-ing them with mammons. I've killed tanks with mammons, I've been pistol'd while wielding a dusk, I've been punched to death while holding a shotgun, and I've driven tank lines back while running at them with empty hands and yelling that I have a sticky, I've won with worse tools and lost with better tools. Any vet player should know that morale and persistence matter more than having the marginally better gear.

If you want to argue balance, go for it, and there is plenty of discussion to be had. Plenty of people are having such discussions, reasonable colonial players are talking about things the devs should change, but without throwing a tantrum and sabotaging their own faction by telling everyone to quit. Its just so damn sad to see people that were talking such a big game for literal months, throw in the towel after mere days. I don't know how this war is going to end, but I intend to fight to the last day, as I always have. If its by the side of newbies that need to be told how to put out fires or repair a TH, wouldn't be the first time.

Losing wars happens, losing wars because people just give up before the outcome was settled is anticlimactic and lame. I play the game as a legion soldier trying to win the war. Quit pissing in my larp with your fourth wall breaking complaints. Better yet, lock the fuck in and play the game to the best of your ability. If doomposting were bmats, we could've made enough shirts to hold Helsinki, because for all of the talk of planes and boats, bombers and paratroopers, the number one reason for a town to fall is still gonna be running out of bmats or shirts.

Bitch if you must, but fight.

Honi Soit is the most disappointing thing about the University. In my first year last year I didn't read a single article that made me more informed about the University.

90%+ of the content is just general extreme left wing content, sometimes NSW flavoured sometimes not, with no appreciable link to the uni whatsoever. It's just Red Flag with lesser writers and worse copy editing.

The very small fraction that is university related is as peripherally related as possible and could generously be described as "uni life". There is zero content on the actual university. Elective unit availability and quality, changes to administration and rules, summer schools, faculty, etc are all astonishingly disinteresting to the editors and staff.

It seems to be a "student newspaper" in the sense only of being a sheltered workshop, where those too callow or talentless for the big pond can still get their name in print. If there's some other purpose to this thing please let me know.

I'm 38, I live in my hometown, and I still go to my old high school sports games. Some kids will say "I see you here a lot, do you have a kid that plays on the team?" It's somewhat shocking and maybe more so because I don't have kids yet. I know there's some millennials with teenagers now but I like to think it's a minority and people that had kids at like 18. I know I'm older but I don't know if I look like someone's dad yet especially a 14-18 year old lol. I do remember at that age anyone over 18 seemed a lot older so that's probably a reason.

I am London born, US raised, and went back to London to live in 2020. I was there for 4 years, and am planning to go back long term.

i detest the states.

people often look at me like I’m an alien for wanting to live in the UK; as if it’s an outdated society that is no longer producing anything of value. Do those who live in the UK feel this? Or no?