I love animation and I love short films, so I want to root for this, but I wish the trailer didn't give away every plot beat. :(

It's a soap opera with super heroes. Just imagine all the reveals getting the cheesy 1950s organ stings in the background and everything will click into place.

That's an interesting dilemma.

I do want to keep game trailers in-scope for this community's content, but I don't imagine that we'll see a whole lot of them. Mostly triple-A titles that stand a fair chance of breaking containment from the gaming world and into wider cultural consciousness (Skyrim, the GTA series, Fallout, Elden Ring, Baulder's Gate, etc), and perhaps some select intriguing or thought-provoking entries.

If !movies@lemm.ee is aiming to be a general purpose community for movie fans, it seems a bit odd to ask folks not to post trailers there. I feel like people are going to naturally do it, especially for the big blockbuster and award-seeking titles. Why not go with the flow? It wouldn't hurt my feelings any. :)

My goal for this community is to cast a wide net, as wide as possible, to cover trailers applicable to an English language audience. That covers all the big Hollywood stuff, small indie works as well as international titles (with English subtitles as needed). That's almost certainly more than a casual movie fan is interested in, but I'm partially doing this to help surface hidden treasures that people wouldn't have otherwise known about (and hassle my local venues to book neat-looking stuff).

It would be great if you dropped a link into the !movies sidebar to this community for anybody interested in taking a sip from the firehose! :D

"Skydance executives, assisted by consulting firm Bain & Co., have identified $2 billion in potential cost cuts at Paramount."

"Details remain scarce in terms of how exactly Skydance will operate Paramount, but those familiar with the conversations about the takeover have told Deadline that job losses and cost reductions will still be priorities."

Alternate title: MA B2W GM 86'd by Cl2, not OK.

Hi and welcome!

Yeah, games are still in-scope for community content. I'm the one doing most of the content creation/curation here, so I'm the one deciding what specific trailers (games, tv, and movies) make the cut.

I'll freely admit that I hold a game trailer to a pretty high standard. Pure gameplay with quick cuts to show different levels and mechanics doesn't make compelling entertainment on its own in my opinion, and so many game trailers are just that. On the other hand, game trailers that are pure cinematic and feature no gameplay, just vibes and rendered cut scenes might look snazzy, well... Tycho of Penny Arcade coined a term for that nearly 20 years ago.

Also, honestly, there are so many games out there, it's really hard to keep up. When Microsoft had its big game showcase back in June, there was so much content that it would have blown up people's feeds. I think there were some really nice ones in there (Fable was one), but I'd need to work on a delayed posting system to meter them out at a consumable pace as to not drive folks away.

So yeah, that's the short version. I'll probably go into more detail in a future community posting. But please, keep the feedback and questions coming!

This is crossposted, carried over from one of the generic humor communities.

Your incredulity over this content not truly delivering on the Stick Enthusiast’s mission of featuring and celebrating truly exceptional sticks is giving me all that I desire. Thank you greatly, kind Lemmite.

Can there be a community rule that any list-icle must include the complete ordered list in the post description?

• Starship Troopers (1997)
• Skinamarink (2022)
• Fight Club (1999)
• The Shining (1980)
• Barbie (2023)
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
• American Psycho (2000)
• The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
• Taxi Driver (1976)
• Child’s Play 3 (1991)
• Land of the Dead (2005)
• A Serbian Film (2010)
• Jennifer’s Body (2009)
• (500) Days of Summer (2009)
• Inception (2010)
• Juno (2007)
• It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• Into the Wild (2007)
• Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985)
• Spencer (2021)
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
• Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
• The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Just a reminder: yesterday (June 4 2024) marked the 35 year anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.

Some relevant links:

• Associated Press: Silence and heavy security in China and Hong Kong mark 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown
• Hong Kong Free Press: In Pictures: Hong Kong’s US, EU consulates mark Tiananmen crackdown anniversary with candles
• Al Jazeera: Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te says Tiananmen ‘will not disappear in torrent of history’

I have no earthly clue what world economists are living in where the labor market is great.

I've been looking for a job for over a year (in tech, over a dozen years as an SDE, a dozen more as a TPM, lead role in both titles). Whenever I can get an employer to actually respond to the hundreds of applications I send, their salary offerings are a joke.

Are people just out there taking 20% - 30% haircuts on what they make?

A high quality version of the map can be found at the bottom of this PDF: https://railroads.dot.gov/sites/fra.dot.gov/files/2023-12/FY22%20CID%20Project%20Summaries-Map.pdf

And here's a screenshot of the high-res map: https://imgur.com/dHbLmXL

But the slaves' emancipation was right around the corner in 1865, approximately 124 years prior to the release of Belgian techno anthem Pump Up the Jam.