[-] TVA@thebrainbin.org 2 points 12 hours ago

I rewatched it a year or so ago. Still loved it!

Just, everything about it was fantastic!

[-] TVA@thebrainbin.org 68 points 1 day ago

Super Mario Bros (1993) is this movie for me ... it's weird as hell and it's adherence to the source material is ... iffy at best ... but god damn if it wasn't a fun ride!

Then you read about how everyone hated the directors so much they literally got drunk on set and openly wore custom made shirts with slogans about how bad the directors were AND Bob Haskins was in a cast for most of it for an injury on set and it gets even more fascinating! The Directors poured hot coffee on people and just openly belittled everyone. It's insane!

[-] TVA@thebrainbin.org 14 points 2 days ago

My grandma quit using a program that basically attempted to break your habits.

She did things like:

-if you normally have a smoke break at noon, wait til 12:30. Tomorrow do it at 11:30 instead

-If you normally use a lighter, switch to matches, tomorrow use a lighter.

-On Monday, Wednesday,Friday switch to a different brand of cigarettes ... next week go the opposite days.

-Smoke, but every other drag put a pen in your mouth instead.

-Only allow yourself to smoke half a cigarette and then chew a stick of gum for the rest of the time you would normally smoke

-Alternate smoke breaks between smoking and chewing nicotine gum or using the patch (I don't think she used the patch so I'm guessing on that one).

And just a lot of things like that that didn't specifically stop you from smoking, but attempted to stop it being a mindless thing that you just do on reflex without much thought and made it so before lighting up she'd have to think about what the current rules are ... at a certain point, the habit has been broken and you don't seek it... it worked great for her. Was a 6 month or so process and then she never went back once she finished her last pack.

There was a whole program around it with those types of rules and things you'd do and time restrictions on certain days and stuff ... sorry, she passed a few years back and I can't ask her the name of the program.

Good luck! Just remember that even if you lapse, any length of time that you're able to smoke less or stop smoking all improve your overall health! Even if you have a setback, any time that you stop is still a win!

[-] TVA@thebrainbin.org 2 points 6 days ago

Absolutely loved that one!

[-] TVA@thebrainbin.org 9 points 3 weeks ago

They have an ad plan and an ad-free plan for different costs. I personally couldn't ever imagine myself paying for the privilege of watching ads (and I do pay for D+), but, ¯_(ツ)_/¯

D+ works fine for me on my old cheap Android box, my Nvidia SHIELD and our AppleTV, so I think the 'slow and clunky' part might be a Roku specific issue.
The app design choices though are a mess in other ways. There isn't a 'mark as watched' option, so when it doesn't mark that you watched something (which happens semi-frequently), it attempts to start you on an episode you've already watched and you've got to fast forward through it. It doesn't have 'continue watching' so unless your show is brand new, you've gotta go through the menus to re-find the thing you're watching. It's "pretty" enough at first glance and looks good, but actual usability is not great at all.

Plex & Jellyfin definitely have the better experience, for sure.

[-] TVA@thebrainbin.org 38 points 1 month ago

I quit going after their CFO was bitching about quiet quitting keeping him up at night.

QDoba is better anyways, they're just not in nearly as many locations (around me anyways).

[-] TVA@thebrainbin.org 9 points 1 month ago

hahahahaha, in my case, I've been lucky that the places I've worked we actually have always bought the accidental damage coverage!

I also practically start the conversation with this info so I don't get lied to initially.

[-] TVA@thebrainbin.org 27 points 1 month ago

if I suspect something was spilled, I always let them know that we have accidental damage coverage and things like spills are covered and that makes the truth come out a bit smoother.

[-] TVA@thebrainbin.org 35 points 1 month ago

I mean, if they want a ready to go excuse for why the movie made no money, sure, this makes sense.

[-] TVA@thebrainbin.org 20 points 2 months ago

Let me guess: "iT wAs a J0kE bRo!"?

EABOD25: You're 0 for 2 now.

hahahahahahaha, sure I am

[-] TVA@thebrainbin.org 21 points 2 months ago

They each have their place imo, but I'd agree that A2A can definitely require more creativity and two people being on the same wavelength rather than CAH where the cards do almost all of the heavy lifting.

[-] TVA@thebrainbin.org 15 points 2 months ago

Well yeah, now 500M will get allocated to go directly to the business only, but another 400M that previously would have gone to the business now gets to go directly to the shareholders instead since it's unallocated! WIN-WIN!

Requiring any closer bookkeeping than that is SOCIALISM!

/s -- kinda, but, I expect that's the reality

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