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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 13h

it's also how i feel about gig workers emerging as an effective third category of laborers but with regulations lagging behind on defining what kind of rights this third category gets. the mismatch often acts without doing

some jurisdictions lag so far behind, there isn't even a legal distinction

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 13h

clitic accusative/dative -m

kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 4d

this imbalance all but ensured that tier 5 loot became the new "wait until you unlock 5 patterns":
- in its presence, it grants you drops with 3x3 traits rather than "pick the traits you want"
- in its absence, it pushes you to treat everything below it as a waiting game

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 4d

another huge L in this experiment. i like the idea of flattening player generational wealth, but unstable cores have a strong "the middle class gets poorer" phenomenon. each hop into the next 100 power band jacks up the infusion cost without any real increase in legendary gear drop

Destiny 2 Team @destiny2team.bungie.net · 4d

We have landed on a plan to fully deprecate this currency. Once deprecated, infusion will cost an amount of Enhancement Cores and Glimmer.

kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 4d

as a way to flatten player generational wealth, unstable cores are conceptually great. but the lack of any counterweight to infusion cost inflation was really dogshit. it's not like hitting the next 100 power band suddenly quadrupled my legendary gear drop rate

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 4d

i like it when a tv show tries to change it up; very excited to see how these seasons unfold for me

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robyn 🎃 @haykebyr.bsky.social · 4d

comm done for @moon-cheese.bsky.social 🌙💚

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 4d

i’ve been working backwards from Alien: Earth but i suspect i too, will get into Fargo. after all, it’s the show that got jean smart to say yes to Legion without even knowing what it’s about

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 4d

i'm only halfway through Legion season 2 and i'm already stunned by how big of a difference it makes to cast Navid Negahban to play amahl farouk / the shadow king

in S1 he is david's torment, constantly wearing difference faces, but in S2 he shows a dangerously charming side with his own face

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 4d

mark of an auteur to go “oh i’m gonna ship my beautiful wife’s character with the character played by john cena, you know, just one of the most talented actors in our generation” while still maintaining the firm line that the main cast still works for ARGUS, a horrible arm of the government

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 4d

agreed, chris smith is too interesting of a character to have no more stories in DCU. pretty much everyone at checkmate is, at this point. think about how people felt apprehensive about vigilante getting recasted, but now they can’t imagine that role without freddy stroma

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 4d

personally i’d be completely fine with the 11th street kids playing pivotal roles in other shows or movies. peacemaker’s focus has been the sort of trauma that ARGUS keeps throwing their employees into, but once you move past that, it’s our love for these characters that lingers

kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 4d

started Legion season 1 last week and i’m halfway through season 2. this tv show was so ahead of its time that you can hardly compare them to other breeds of marvel tv shows (e.g. wandavision, or jessica jones)

it operates on a completely different plane and i’m glad the show ended on its own terms

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 4d

i’ve decided that i don’t care. between superman, peacemaker, and creature commandos, it’s pretty clear to me that there is focus and vigor in character development in james gunn’s DCU. i’m seated.

this sort of uncertainty is what prevented me from watching Legion about 7 years ago

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 5d

indian too. when it hits it hits good

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 5d

correction: it is tron ares that falls flat on the family. tron legacy does all five correctly

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 7d

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 7d

tron is about lasers, motorcycles, music, cyber, and family. tron legacy competently does the first four and then falls flat on its face. i can’t even name a third program character name besides ares and athena, both of which showed the beginnings of character development as the film ends

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 7d

tron is about lasers, motorcycles, music, cyber, and family. tron legacy competently does the first four and then falls flat on its face. i can’t even name a third program character name besides ares and athena, both of which showed the beginnings of character development as the film ends

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 7d

meanwhile, it also soft retires both sam flynn and quorra as characters and then needs to make up tess kim and eve kim as new characters. when we see greta lee play eve kim, her connection to encom’s legacy thins to a wisp. her role as the emotional anchor is justified by an intellectual reason

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 7d

tron legacy dared to talk about genocide. tron ares fully accepts the idea of autonomy of a program, the capability of reverse derezzing them into the real world, and then proceeds to do a Crank style action montage with it, with idiocracy-type stupidity to propel the plot forward

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 7d

you know how the hollywood GitS adaptation stripped the series’ aesthetic for parts and tried to update its core theme to modern anxieties about not owning your digital life because corporations own it?

tron ares did worse. it poorly reconciles the retrofuturism and the reality of tech

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 7d

the red lasers are cool, the deep bass is good, and greta lee served enough for her character to be more than a cardboard and hold practically the sole emotional anchor in the entire film

whereas jeff bridges holds gravitas in tron legacy, in tron ares he is a plot device with 80s graphics

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 7d

after finishing tron ares, my homie and i struggled to think of good things we could say about it beyond:
- music
- visuals
- greta lee’s character arc

worse, afterwards we booted up tron legacy and then just watched it to the end because that’s how well it holds up

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 8d

open source is when people don't make money (unless it's me or someone i like)

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 10d

most typescriptists support this trinity; the rest opposing it is running on dogma

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