Mothra

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The problem with Disney live action remakes is they're trying to appeal to a younger audience. If Cameron Dias can't be Cinderella, what's the point?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait why would I hate Cameron Diaz? What are you, like an internet troll or something?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The problem with Disney live action remakes is they're trying to appeal to a younger audience. If Cameron Dias can't be Cinderella, what's the point?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe you need to watch more Cameron Diaz, I don’t know

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The problem with Disney live action remakes is they're trying to appeal to a younger audience. If Cameron Dias can't be Cinderella, what's the point?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure but certainly not a showerthought

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The problem with Disney live action remakes is they're trying to appeal to a younger audience. If Cameron Dias can't be Cinderella, what's the point?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  More fitting of Unpopular Opinions I’d say

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could I render the computer-generated graphics from Toy Story (1995) in real time using a single modern home computer?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hello, I’ve worked in 3D animation productions. Short answer: You can get close.

  Unreal Engine has the capacity to deliver something of similar quality in real time providing you have a powerful enough rig. You would need not only the hardware but also the technical know how to optimize several aspects of your scenes. Basically the knowledge of a mid to senior unreal TD and a mid to senior generalist combined to say the least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh okay well I don’t think I’ve seen anything in any TES unofficial patch that did anything beyond the scope of what’s expected in vanilla gameplay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not even sure I understand your question in the first place. What’s your problem with bug fixing mods?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What accent would I even have?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if we knew exactly how you are pronouncing what you wrote, we still don’t know your intonation, which is massive when it comes to accents.

  Mine is a mess. My native language is Spanish but nobody ever guesses it right. I work in a customer service role and people often ask me where is my accent from. When they dare risk a guess, they usually ask if it’s French, Russian or Irish. Yes- Irish! Conversely, I deal with lots of tourists as well and the French, Russian and Irish accents couldn’t sound any more different from each other so I don’t know what that means about mine. Spanish accent is typically very easy to recognize so whatever mine is, it sounds nothing like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have experience with Blender and its counterparts, in a professional setting. Blender sure is powerful and solid on its own, for many things you can make the case that is better than Maya- it’s absolutely better value - however I wouldn’t say it’s better on all fronts. But yes it’s absolutely worthy of a mention here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instead of "alpha" and "beta" we should be saying "frog" and "scorpion."⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  wot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RFK JR just told us Elon Musk can't use the toilet unassisted⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I see. So he said Aspergers can’t use the toilet unassisted, not that Elon needs assistance

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RFK JR just told us Elon Musk can't use the toilet unassisted⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m obviously OOTL here- I’ve known people with Asperger’s and they used the bathroom by themselves just fine. What’s going on? I don’t live in US

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump admin proposes redefining 'harm' to endangered animals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes because if someone demolishes your house or sets it on fire they cause no harm to you, right? I mean you don’t really need a place like to sleep and be safe right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Belgian teens among four charged in Kenya over trafficking of rare ants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. I would have thought that since the species is so in demand according to the article, that the collectors keeping them alive would periodically have batches of new queens they could sell. Never occurred to me that it would be easier to capture live ones in the wild

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's with "*checks notes*" everywhere?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just a fad. Speech mannerisms also come and go with the times. Right now it’s popular to use it, and people use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long does it take for someone to reach a high level of drawing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This depends on the amount of time and dedication you put into it plus your natural ability to understand and represent the world visually. Which isn’t the same for everyone. Nature and nurture both make a difference.

  In short I’ve seen most people make significant progress in the first year or two of their art journey, but after that you sort of hit a plateau. Here’s where the difficult stuff begins and it’s a life journey. Whether or not that is good enough for you and what you want to draw is only for you to decide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan orders Google to cease alleged antitrust violation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Very interesting, a step in the right direction at least.

  Now, I don’t understand things in fine detail but wouldn’t this “force with package upon purchase” that google does with the play store and chrome the same gimmick Windows does with its Microsoft suite trash (and other apps)? If you manage to uninstall some of them they’ll be reinstalled the next update without your consent.

  So my question is, why is only Google getting in trouble when there are others doing similar things?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I should wash my hair.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who would win in a fight, a Gorilla or a Bear of equal weight?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bear primarily because of the claws. It means it can deliver a deadly slashing attack without getting its mouth, head and neck (its most vulnerable spots) within the gorilla’s grasp.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the person who winks the Winkor and the person who receives the wink the Winkee ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say Winker nor Winkor but English isn’t my first language so let’s see what the consensus is for this matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wet and wonderful ...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a beautiful image but you’re in the wrong community for it. Try any of the nsfw ones

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What efforts would it take to strip the name Americans from the folks inhabiting the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Similarly in Spanish OP, we say estadounidense as the demonym for something from USA. We often use americano interchangeably though, but that gives room for confusion sometimes.

  I think you should have posted this in Unpopular Opinions hah. I don’t give much weight to it and, as long as everyone knows what you mean by American when you say it is fine, so I don’t necessarily agree with your opinion that it hurts the rest of the continent. But as far as semantics go we both know the question is about as old as the country itself.

  We’re gonna get downvoted to hell. See you there :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What efforts would it take to strip the name Americans from the folks inhabiting the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agree, I also don’t know of any USA residents doing so. But outside it’s a very different story especially in places where the language isn’t English.

  What is the demonym for something that can be found or belongs to “The Americas”, comprising both North and South America (and potentially Central if you go by the Three Americas way of splitting the continent)?

  Why is it that you have terms such as “North American” to describe something related to USA+anything north in the continent, then you have another term such as “South American” for anything Mexico and south of it in the continent, but when you say American , that’s right, the generic one that doesn’t specify and encompasses it all then it is presumed to be exclusively USA? I understand the history that explains that, but as far as semantics go, it’s still a legitimate question. Languages other than English have different answers for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What efforts would it take to strip the name Americans from the folks inhabiting the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  True but it has no other countries in it. Which is the whole point OP is making.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What efforts would it take to strip the name Americans from the folks inhabiting the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mexicans call themselves mexicans in Spanish, and refer to their country as just Mexico even if it is formally " united mexican states". Also note is “mexican” and doesn’t say “american” anywhere, so I still don’t see where the confusion would be, at least not in Spanish language ( which mexicans also speak). The only country in the world that refers to itself as a continent both formally and colloquially is USA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What efforts would it take to strip the name Americans from the folks inhabiting the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not OP. As someone whose native language isn’t English, I agree with OP that something like “united statesians” would be more specific than just “american” to refer to someone belonging to the US. A united statesian would be only from US, whereas someone just american could be referring to anyone in the American continent - both North and South.

  And that’s exactly how Spanish language deals with the issue. Native Spanish speakers understand that colloquially, american means someone from US and wouldn’t call a Canadian or a Brazilian an American. However it does lend itself to confusion, it is a question often raised by children when learning adjectives, and as far as adjectives go, things other than people (animals for example) usually follow the regular rules of language. Finally, Spanish speakers also say “united statesians” ( * estadounidense* ) instead of “american” when referring to people living in US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this picture idea immature?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Many would find it stupid, but those people don’t share your sense of humor and you would never get along with them in the first place.

  So go and put the picture, it will help weed out people you don’t want to waste your time with. You’ll only get those who either don’t mind or who actually think it’s funny too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder how many male, middle aged US filmmakers regularly call it a "director's cut" when carving up the thanksgiving turkey for their family.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Try a community for questions. There’s even a few for " no stupid questions".

  This is showerthoughts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder how many male, middle aged US filmmakers regularly call it a "director's cut" when carving up the thanksgiving turkey for their family.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t even need to be male or live in the US or even work in film. Anyone with a job title that says “director” would qualify.