LemmySoloHer: Across the Fediverse

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Thanks for bringing the comic to my attention in the first place! I agree that the concept sounds so wild that I have to have it. That bat-family-detective inspired itch got me scratching until I dug into the credits. I vaguely remembered a buddy had a Batman Noir edition of something but didn’t confirm until today that I didn’t imagine it and it was the Noir edition of The Dark Knight Returns (which I guess is right at home for Frank Miller).

    The TDKR Noir was pretty cool too! I think color does a lot to sell the scope of the world, stories, uniforms, etc., but seeing just the pencils and ink makes the art really stand out in a different way.




  • I think the most memorable is probably The Wolf of Wall Street but it was nowhere near as awkward as it could have been. My sister and her husband wanted to see a movie with the family in theaters. Luckily the uproarious constant laughter from the packed theater was far more manageable than the awkward silence that would have happened with an at-home watch.

    What really got me was that a whole group of my friends had planned on seeing it the week before, but one very difficult guy insisted that he would not go see a “boring movie about financial crime” and made such a huge fuss that we finally agreed to see American Hustle instead, which was a very tame movie “about financial crime” funny enough.

    After, that guy said he was bored for the entire movie (despite the fact that American Hustle was actually pretty good). If it wasn’t for the fact that The Wolf of Wall Street is exactly the kind of movie you want to see with your friends and not your parents, and that American Hustle would have been a perfect movie to see with the family, I’m not sure it would stick out in my mind so much.



  • Cassidy is arguably one of the best companions you can travel with in Fallout 2 for combat, especially if you give him a Gauss rifle. The hardened wasteland veteran that got old and settled down as a bartender in Vault City unless you go there and ask him to join you. The con is his prejudice against Lenny the ghoul, another companion you can travel with, and will insult Lenny if you travel with both at once. The pro is he also hates Myron, the sadistic drug supplier/slaver/sex predator, and Cass will endlessly insult him if you end up recruiting Myron to travel with both of you.















  • According to Schipper, the first attempt was dull because the actors were too cautious, being afraid to make mistakes; the second attempt was the opposite, as the actors went “crazy”. Schipper says he became “angry” and “terrified” after seeing the second take and realizing he had only one chance left; in a subsequent meeting, he gave the cast a “hairdryer speech … [it] was not a meeting that ended in hugs and ‘good talk.’ It was crazy. But the tension was built on knowing we wanted the same thing”. Schipper believes the final attempt was successful because there was an element of “aggression” missing from the other versions.[7]

    Added to my watch list, I’m super intrigued to see how the final cut turned out.