The Artifice Girl.
Accomplished debut feature from writer/actor/director Franklin Ritch - uses a bunch of filmmaking tricks to produce an engrossing sci-fi film, even though there's zero VFX, and I didn't even realise it's just a few people talking in rooms until it was over.
I always took the term 'bullshit jobs' to refer to jobs that produce something that society doesn't really require, and typically only exists because they need someone to deal with the output of someone else's bullshit job.
I don't have a problem with email verification, 'cos I just don't use my main email account for it. I've signed up to 3 instances previously, and 2 of required it fwiw.
But you'll need something to deter bots, if only because other instances will defederate you if too much spam/trolling is coming from your site.
I registered and logged in, but it didn't make it easy
After registering, it didn't say anything about verifying the email. When I went to the Login screen, it just did nothing after pressing the 'login' button. After I went to my email and clicked the verification, it came up with a message 'saying Email Verified', and then it let me log in, to a screen that said 'Verify Email'. Obviously, I just had to click on something like 'Communities' to see the main page, but it was a bit odd.
I'm using the Brave browser on an ancient MacBook Air, if that helps.
I think I use 'pretty good' to pretend I have an opinion about something, rather than it being a moral judgement:
How was the film? Pretty good vs.
How was the film? Good.
This is great news. I got suckering into clicking a link about 'England's semi-final heartbreak' earlier (they were talking about last time, the fiends)
Came across [email protected] recently, which was all that was needed to convince to replay Mass Effect (although the first one already a rare 100% trophy thingy for me)
Oh, now I feel bad for not considering that. Good to know, though.
I asked Bing to make sure, and it responded like it was fed up of being asked the question:
I imagine some of the 'new subscribers' to piracy communities are actually 'old subscribers' who changed instance, and who are effectively being counted twice. It'd be nice if blocked users got removed from subscriber totals, but I don't suppose they're any different from any other inactive subscriber.
My new sub is [email protected], just 'cos some of the stuff there looks gnarly.
I also bought Andromeda on PC after finishing my second LE playthrough. Haven’t finished it…
To be fair, neither did the devs, ha ha. (I can laugh about it now, the years have softened the pain)
I think the creators of Korean dramas are aware of the issue - the last one I watched was The Glory, which seemed to go out of its way to make its characters visually distinctive.
For me, I have to stop myself blanking it when I hear a name from unfamiliar language, and instead of thinking "Well I'll never remember that", force myself to take note, that's she's "Lee Sa-ra" and he's "Jeon Jae-joon", etc. I find it useful to pause the screen once in a while, to actually make sure I know who's who, and what their motivations are.