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This trailer feels an awful lot like this:

No, El getting bullied over her country bumpkin presentation.

Stranger Things 4, Episode 1: Had to pause in the middle for a bit. Stuff hits a little too close to home there.

Blocked for copyright reasons. Oh, wait, that is probably just me.

A pity I'm going to watch this eventually anyway. *sigh*

Maybe, I barely paid attention to little Picard's little family drama scene. In that case I'll take the comments back and apply them to something else that was pretty stupid in the show, there's plenty of it.

I don't remember it mentioned at all in the second season, so that's either fans making excuses for a dumb show being dumb, or the dumb producers and writers are making dumb excuses for their dumbness. I'm fine with both explanations, really. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, episode 4. The entire episode was an exercise in rehashing old plot points. Anyway, show continues to be okay enough for me to not hate it. It's the best it can do anyway, so... guess job well done so far.

No, you're not. MI2 is one of these things that an avid film connaisseur simply must have watched. It must be experienced to be believed. Or in other words, I have no idae how this became a film series after the second film. That was so bad it should have ended the series and derailed Tom Cruise's career, but curiously enough neither did happen.

Fixed that for you.

No, I don't. Guess that was still too difficult. Okay let's try this some other way. This is a Mars bar. A Mars bar will last you for roughly half an hour worth of cardio exercise. Now, on to something our McDonald's sells here in Austria. Yeah, so this is a bowl of, well, lettuce and carrots. This actually weighs more than the Mars bar (70g vs. 51g), but will last you for... oh, well, walking to the toilet and back, basically. Now keep in mind that we're not talking about McDonald's Big Ceasar's Salad here, because that one will last you for an hour of cardio and you're better off eating a burger. Yes, they do, and they exercise upwards 30 hours a week, and are amongst the fittest and strongest athletes in the world. So, apparently, it can be your job to exercise and participate in competitions, and still have a good deal of body fat through eating habits alone. Hence, now, one very simple question: Why? Should that not be impossible by this magical exercise = weight loss formula that's been spouted here? The answer: Because consuming energy is much easier than exercising it off. You cannot fix obesity by making someone excercise, because in order to become obese in the first place, your kaloric intake per day must exceed your energy requirements by such an amount that you cannot realisticaly expect someone to exercise it off, let alone lose weight by exercise alone. Hence: Exercise helps, but not without fixing the underlying issue. Eating properly is how you prevent becoming obese. Changing your nutritional habits and going hungry is how you lose weight when you already are obese. Exercise can help with both, but it's not going to fix any ongoing issues without changing your eating habits. It will, however, improve your health and wellbeing in the long run, and as such is a good idea, regardless of anything else. Exercise will only help you burn off excess body weight if you're in the process of gaining a little and it's enough to whack your energy balance back to normal, or a little under your daily energy requirements. That's a very narrow corridor, and even that is better fixed by fixing what you eat, not how you burn it off. Can't change physics. That's the thing with math and numbers, you know.

Well since the last discussion used words, and words on their own are apparently too difficult for some people here, let's use pictures. Look at these two: How much do you think these two lardasses here exercise per week, and would you argue it's intensive or rather relaxed? Assuming they exercise at all, that is. And yes, that's pretty much a trick question.

The Flying Spaghetti Monster is the creator of Heaven and Earth, you heathen. Its noodly appendages are not seen by mere mortals.

So this is the point in my life where I'm starting to think that Steins;Gate wasn't the bottom of the barrel for terrible ideas...

Tall bet. I wonder if however designed that product does, though.

Assuming you have a supported Windows version that still gets critical updates and you have no other reason to use it (if you can't think of any off-handedly, you don't have any*), just don't use anti-virus software, especially not if it comes from Norton or McAfee, but generally... just don't. Waste of money, waste of system resources and if you get unlucky, a gaping gateway into your system - or it just might kill the OS. Turn on Windows Defender, throw out the AV, buy yourself a nice steak for dinner with the money saved. *E.g. you need it to prevent USB attacks by users who don't know what they're doing when they just randomly plug in freebie USB devices, or worse, stuff they picked up from the floor. Arguably still can use intrusion detections systems without their AV parts, but they're often just part of the same suite anyway.

majestic can't Komminicate, episode... yeah, whatever. 16, it's 16. This one was okayish. The first episode since the first one that was, well, okayish, even though it didn't have any moments for Tadano and Komi to spend some time alone. One of the things this show does at the moment is keeping Komi at a standstill for everything to work. I don't know if that is specific to the manga, but Komi began talking at some point, at least to Tadano, and now we're no longer doing even that. She should at least be able to talk to Najimi now. Eh.

You guys really need to give episode titles when talking about Love, Death and Robots, that show has user-specific episode orders on Netflix based on your watching history and ratings. In my opinion*, no, but I'm also the only one here who actually enjoyed watching the film. It's basically a retelling of The Little Mermaid (the fairy tale, not the Disney film) in a post-apocalyptic hellscape where gravity no longer works the way it should, and kids do the obvious with that, weird parkour running. I guess that can stretch credulity a little, but it's just the backdrop. The film really hits you over the head with the fact that it is a retelling of The Little Mermaid, which I thought was distracting, but your mileage may vary. Gen Urobuchi seems to really like heavy handed exposition. That's two for two of the things he wrote that I've watched where an instance of exposition proved distracting, but not completely dealbreaking. Yeah, I gave the 3D animation parts in it a slight nod insofar as that it didn't feel completely uncanny all the time and thought it was a case where the otherwise highly distracing and uncanny attempts to generate depth with CGI kind of worked better than usual. *Disclaimer: We also watched a film in the anime thread where the protagonist turns into a car (literally) near the end and drives off into the sunset with the deuteragonist while a medieval castle is chasing them on the highway and though it made perfect sense. So, take that with a grain of salt.

Strange New Worlds, episode three. If I put this to the usual test I have for other nuTrek material, and that is asking myself "Is watching this better than driving rusty nails through my scrotum?", then this episode managed to get a yes as as an answer, a distinction so far only extended to the ludicrous and over the top mirror universe episodes of Discovery and perhaps Picard's second season opener, although my impression of the latter is marred by how that broke into a raging dumpster fire immediately afterward. That wasn't half bad, even if it feels like a rehash of a whole lot of elements we've seen before. Some of the dialogue was more in line with older Trek shows, some of it wasn't (please stop using the "Any suggestions? Run!" 'joke'), much like the crew behaviour - no way the doctor wouldn't tell someone else about his little transporter issue. Not all was good, the handwavium was strong in this one, a lot stronger than in others, and I am tired of evryone having a tragic backstory. I also hate this Nurse Chapel and the fact that they had the brilliant idea to put a (very) distant relative of Khan Noonien Singh on the ship who still carries his name, but what can you do. The acting got a little less wooden too, or maybe that was because I set the playback to double speed again. Not the worst way to waste twenty minutes a week, I guess. Many a lot better ones too, though. I await the turning point with bated breath. And a handful of rusty nails.

I have honestly no idea what to make of Spy x Family. That looks both adorable and horrifying.

Yeah. We have an ISO 27001 certification, which the upcoming audit is for, an ISO 9001 certification, for which there are of course separate audits, and our branch has a TAPA certification too. Can't even go to the crapper without your (personalized) access badge. Internet filter, highly restrictive firewall rules, can only run executables that are on the whitelist (although that's pretty good protection from silly users clicking on WATCH.BIG.TIDDIES.WMV.CRYTO.TROJAN.EXE). If I want to install something on my computer that isn't part of our approved list I need to request a time-limited local administrator password that expires faster than the setup usually is. Need a reboot for something? Yeah, back to requesting a new one. Not that I disapprove. A little headache for us power users beats having major headaches because the regular users kill everything twice a week, or the entire company, right, Maersk?

Well, we got an audit incoming, and received a guideline for our behaviour in case of questioning. Reads a little like "What to do when the Gestapo walks into your office and starts asking questions", particularily the part about no talking back to the auditors.

So, I had like half an hour today to watch something, and I spent it on continuing Texhnolyze watched a bit of Raō Den: Jun'ai no Shō, because of course I did. It's quite interesting - not the film, I mean - to see that while I enjoyed the occassional martial arts Eastern and martial arts trash films (think Kickboxer) in general, this is just, neither. Being animated makes the martial arts feats unimpressive, but to be fair, as does modern wire-fu shenanigans, and the film so far is by far and large just not very appealing to me in anything it does. On the bright side, there's only like thirty seconds of fanservice so far, not counting buff dudes with exposed chests. If those count, then it's nothing but fanservice from start to where I stopped, maybe even to finish, who knows. It's origin as an 80ies anime can't be denied either, some characters are rocking utterly awesome mullets. Imagine, for a bit, if Conan the Barbarian and Mad Max: Road Warrior had an animated lovechild that got adopted by an ancient Japanese martial arts master who didn't quite understand that the shlock these films had is part of the appeal*. The one thing it doesn't do is having that 80ies style, and it really could have used some of it. I don't know how the series is, and I never will, but this really is lacking a certain amount of fun. I wouldn't call it dour yet, but it's not far away. Other than it being about growing stronger, conquest, death, some more conquest and it beginning with one of the characters offering his eyesight in exchange for the life of a hopeful martial arts youth it's, so far, at least not totaly offensive, but between this and re-watching the Visions of Escaflowne movie, I'd rather do the latter. I wonder if I'll learn a lesson or two from this. Probably not. *In terms of visuals, you could also say it's a less colorful version of early JoJo's, and by less colorful I mean it's grey, with some shades of grey and a bit of grey, with the occasional brown tones added to the mix. In terms of entertainment value, it's aso like JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, if JoJo's Bizarre Adventure was deadly serious. That is to say, it's... yeah. Almost dour. Yep.

Well, let them eat cake, and all that.

I'm lucky that this is from a gaiden movie series, so not a whole lot of time wasted in case it goes sideways. Touching the movie proper or the series? Yeah, hell no.