In 2014, Mellencamp revealed that the song was originally about an interracial couple, where Jack was African American and not a football star, but the record company persuaded him to change it.
Sergio
joined 6 months ago
It’s been painful for them to watch Google’s AI Overviews parrot travel tips they once offered — especially when the chatbot borrows their Canadian slang.
“I do feel betrayed by Google,” Bouskill said, as Corbeil interjected: “Betrayed, that’s the word.”
To rebuild their livelihood, the couple has pivoted their efforts to YouTube, another Google-owned property.
Yowza sounds great. Here are some promising links I haven't checked them out yet tho, cc @[email protected] :
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKLs8MOWfkk
- extended cut, Japanese subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jWuhgIxkKg
- VHS rip: https://archive.org/details/movie-radioactive-dreams-1985-vhsrip
- German dub: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8x6uw2
- Italian dub: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x93zlpi
- adding the one @[email protected] found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHlP8fZL3J0
Nah, we just rebooted [email protected] and have several daily posters now, I'd rather build on that than move and start all over again. Besides, there's a lot of "alt" stuff that doesn't really speak to me, so if everyone moved I'd just stay behind and wait for it to come to life again. (In fact, being alone on a dead community is kinda goth, lel.)
Hey, if you're looking for communities to merge, [email protected] and [email protected] are both mildly alive, and their mods have been absent for a year or two.
You mean [email protected] ? Yeah that's there, I think when it was announced a lot of people disparaged it bc the community is on a pro-MAGA server, looks like the announcements were even removed (details).
One problem with an "alternative" general community is that, say, punk plays a big part of some people's identity and life philosophy but they may not identify as "alternative".
oooh, looks interesting, I haven't heard of most of those artists, I'll have to make an account and check them out.
Yeah, it really helps a lot to have a "gym buddy" to work out with, or else it's just too easy to never get started.
Obviously they were laughing about the horrible crime they had just committed! /s
Interesting sound... not really familiar with this band, will have to look more into it.
Critters 2: The Main Course is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
- Just start watching that movie this Sunday, March 23, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
- and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
- I usually open two web browser windows on a computer side-by-side. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.
How to watch the movie:
- tubi (US, England, Canada, Australia, NZ?; uBlock Origin adblocker on firefox works): https://tubitv.com/movies/100001410/critters-2-the-main-course
- someone plans to stream it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
- if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/critters-2
The plot takes place two years after the first film, as a batch of planted Critter eggs begin to hatch and resume their carnivorous appetite upon the town once again.
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Rotten Tomatoes reports that 38% of 13 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating is 4.7/10.[9] Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film 1 out of 4 stars: "It lacks all of the style and sense of fun of the original Critters (1986) and has no reason for existence".[10]
Discussing the film several years after its release, writer David Twohy said in an interview with Starlog that "Critters 2 is something I'm still not terribly pleased is on my résumé".
A lot of us are in tech and we come across these problems and just troubleshoot our way around them and don't really think about them, so I figured a "case study" might be helpful. ~~Image unrelated.~~
Anyway, yesterday I tried making an alt account on lemmy.world. When last we left the situation, I had been notified that my registration application had been denied, but I'd been asked to confirm my email and https://lemmy.world/u/sergio had been created. A couple helpful commenters suggested my account might still be under review.
- Today I tried logging in again. But when I entered my username and password, I got a popup that said "incorrect login credentials". Maybe I needed to verify my email again? I went to my email, clicked the "verify your email" link, and just got a page with text that said "verify email" and nothing else. Maybe it didn't like me using my username to log in? So I tried logging in with my EMAIL and my password, and still got that "incorrect login credentials".
- Maybe something's wrong with my password? I'm using a password manager but OK, let's just try changing my password. I clicked on the "forgot email" link on the login page. I entered my email address and clicked "reset password"... and nothing happens. No feedback, and I don't get an email. (10 minutes so far).
- maybe I should check https://lemmy.world/u/sergio ? Hey, that's no longer there, I just get an error! I check the user page of another lemmy.world user and it works, so it's not a server problem. Maybe my application really was denied? Was it really reviewed? What do I do now?
(my intuition is to try again with a different username, email address, computer, and browser from a different location at a different time of day...)
Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
- Just start watching that movie this Sunday, March 16, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT
- and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
- I usually open two web browser windows on a computer side-by-side. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.
How to watch the movie:
- tubi (US, England, Canada, Australia, NZ?): https://tubitv.com/movies/585867/yeti-giant-of-the-20th-century
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgn2Uc6sL6I
- youtube (with Portuguese subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywr1316LeME
- youtube (with Romanian subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=311lhBXmTeg
- youtube (WARNING low-res / clipped, only watch if nothing else available): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh7rKslDbb4
- ADBLOCK NOTICE: uBlock Origin on firefox works on the youtube and tubi versions above
- someone plans to stream it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
- if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/yeti-the-giant-of-the-20th-century
an industrialist's orphaned grandchildren and their collie befriend an awakened Yeti.
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While RKO and Universal Pictures battled over King Kong's rights, Dino De Laurentiis—the producer of the 1976 King Kong remake—announced another giant monster film which would be filmed in the Himalayas, entitled Yeti. Although his version ended up not being made, this film was a low-budget cash in on De Laurentiis' project, which aimed to beat it to theaters....
In a contemporary review, Maurizio Porro of the Corriere della sera was most negative, writing that "[t]he film was shot on such a low budget (the rudimentary effects are accomplished through obvious image superimpositions) that in comparison, the Taviani brothers look like Cecil B. DeMille. But it is not the only issue: [...] the story and screenplay are completely missing. Mystery and suspense are absent, whereas ridiculousness is in full effect, dominating the proceedings."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeti:_Giant_of_the_20th_Century
Reposting bc the original post didn't federate for some reason?!
So Al ~~Jourgeson~~ Jourgensen started out Ministry as a New Wave band (and sometimes claims that he was forced to do less heavy sounds by his managers tho this is disputed) and this is one of their last songs with a New Wave sound. Then Al started developing a heavier more metal-influenced industrial sound inna late 80s early 90s. Last year he started redoing some of his older songs in the heavier style. A couple weeks ago he released a video for the remake of this song, I think someone posted it on [email protected].