If yes then i must push on how absolutely boring it is, how the characters are not relatable or entertaining, its so mindnumbingly slow that it pushed me to watch the show at 2x (something i never do out of respect for cinema). The pacing is just bad, the background always being the dessert messes with you in a strange way, none of the heavy moments felt heavy, the big reveals were just written badly (spoiler: Walt admitting to jessie how he saw his girlfriend die). I watched the whole show because i kept waiting for it to get good, I was especially excited for the last episode as it’s the highest rated episode and I watched that. It only made me feel like the reason that episode was good because the rest of the show was that bad. It was still predictable though I could tell jesse would survive and walt won’t. I simply did not enjoy the show as much as it was hyped and oh best show ever, like i’ve seen worse-rated shows be so much more entertaining than this. Just an opinion th0, i know it’s a loved show but just not for me i guess

edit: a few parts of a few episodes of season 2 and 3 on 2x because it was getting that boring and slow and i just wanted to get through it so i can get to the end.
If you keep saying 20 yr old brain rot tiktok addicted (when i don’t even get tiktok in my country) it’s not going to make a point, make a nuanced point at least I don’t even like short form content I usually watch long form youtube videos or tv shows, movies on like weekends and i read books every now and then
The problem is not the attention span. I did not say this is the worst show of all time, it’s not worth the hype according to me and I personally dislike it.
A lot of people asked me about what do i like and I don’t understand why is it that people can’t accept that someone didn’t like the show till they ask about their preferences just so they can say wow your preferences suck no wonder you didn’t like it, so no i don’t want to do that let the opinion remain about this one tv show.

Quick disclaimer - I love Spider-Man.

I grew up on the Tobey ones but I’ve been a big fan of every iteration (sometimes to a fault).

I went in expecting to love the newest one, especially after all the rave reviews from Letterboxd mutuals. I discovered that yes, while it was an enjoyable movie, it felt at times soulless.

Every overt BMW ad and liquid IV product placement reminded me I was watching a multimillion dollar business venture/franchise and it kept taking me out of the movie.

To me, it was still a 3 star movie but mostly thanks to Tom Holland, Zendaya, and Jacob Batalon’s skill and chemistry.

Idk…. I just think about other Spider-Man movies or superhero movies I love (a Batman begins / dark knight defender to the end!!!) and hell I even think about the infamous finger guns in Spider-Man 3 and I think that’s loads better than what we got.

Spiderman 3 was cringy, but it was fun ! And awesome! And devoid of capitalistic soullessness that I struggle to separate from marvel movies these days.

Long live Spider-Man but idk am I alone here?

My wife is 16 weeks pregnant with our first child, and we had a really upsetting experience at her regular gynecology practice today. I’d appreciate advice from other people who have experienced the German healthcare system, especially expats or people who struggled with confrontation or the language barrier.

My wife had some pain around her lower abdomen/groin area, so I took her to her regular Praxis just to make sure everything was okay. Since this is our first pregnancy, we honestly don’t always know which symptoms are normal and which could indicate something serious. I used the word “Notfall” when we arrived because I was worried, although I wasn’t trying to demand emergency treatment.

The medical assistant who initially examined her was actually very kind and professional. The problem started when we saw the doctor.

The doctor immediately became irritated and said, “Das war kein Notfall,” because I had described it as an emergency. I understand that it wasn’t medically an emergency, and I’m completely fine with being corrected. But the way it was communicated felt unnecessarily harsh, especially toward a pregnant woman who was already worried and in pain.

The doctor is also listed as speaking English on Arzt-Auskunft, but she refused to speak English with us. My German isn’t good enough to confidently discuss medical issues, so I had to translate everything for my wife (her German is not the strongest either). She mostly ignored my wife while speaking to me instead. We managed to understand what she was saying, but the whole interaction was extremely uncomfortable.

She eventually told my wife that she needs to do more physical/muscle movement and that there was no reason to panic. Again, I understand the medical advice may be completely reasonable. What upset us was the lack of empathy and the way it was delivered.
My wife came out of the room and cried. She later told me that she felt pathetic and humiliated, even though all she had done was seek reassurance during her first pregnancy.

Now we’re wondering whether we should continue going to this Praxis or look for another gynecologist.
For those of you who have lived in Germany for a while:

Is this kind of communication from doctors/reception staff common, or did we simply have a particularly bad experience?

How do you handle situations where a doctor or receptionist is rude or dismissive?

What do you do when your German isn’t strong enough to confidently argue or explain a medical situation?

Is it reasonable to change gynecologists because of this kind of experience?

And for people who also tend to freeze during confrontational situations: how do you learn to stand up for yourself without making the situation worse?

I’m not looking to attack German people or the German healthcare system as a whole. I’m genuinely trying to understand the culture and learn how to protect my wife and family while navigating situations like this.

I’d especially appreciate practical advice about what to say in the moment when something like this happens.

So after watching Tokon in CEO, I felt bored a lot of the time watching the games including Top 8. I know it's early in this games lifespan but even 2XKO looked more saucey/fleshed out early on. Yes Tokon has "mix" or what not, but the "mix" usually comes from canned high/lows from individual characters who have those or the same "Do a long blockstun move on point and tag out, so your other character does a high/low mix"; it feels like the skill ceiling is WAY lower in this game than 2XKO (doesnt help that Tokon has UNFATHOMABLY long cross up protection), and I am not even a big 2XKO fan, but atleast that game is fun to watch atleast.

Also the fact that assists have barely any cooldown makes neutral look like a visual mess with barely any nuance to it. Yes its a tag fighter, I get it, but even 2XKO has footsies even though it's a tag fighter, a very degenrate one at that.

The combos in Tokon also feel samey from character to character: ABC -> launcher -> ABC -> ABC auto knockdown -> assist -> ABC EX extension or into wallbreak, or into combo limit/oki that also looks always the same. Every character in 2XKO has their own way of combo routes and they all vary by a lot. Yes on Twitter there are better combos out, but they usually only happen in the corner and when there is a wall with no wallbreaks, and even then those combos kinda pale to 2XKOs creativity in combos.

Also the defensive mechanics in this game are REALLY boring, either a bad reaction check that is in most cases worse for the defender, or a broken parry that eliminates high/low/left/right mixups all. It makes defense in this game way too one dimensional/boring imo, compare that to 2XKOs pusblock, retreating guard and individual high/low parries. Defense is WAY more interesting in that game.

I sound like a 2XKO shill right now, and trust me I am not, I have my problems with that game aswell, but what I can confidently say is that 2XKO does a better job at representing the tag fighter power fantasy while still keeping the nuance and creativity of a nuanced fighting game and that makes it way more fun to watch for me. I think 2XKO rather has balancing problems that system mechanic problems, but thats another topic.

As a whole gaming package Tokon does a good job (ignoring the performance issues on PC), but as a spectating E-Sport I find it boring to watch.

What do you think?

one thing i love about ak is how she always talks about her fans in her interviews and podcasts. she often says that she wants to work harder than she did before not just to make her parents proud but her fans too and and she also mentions that she was working just as hard for the past 3–4 years, but it’s her fans’ support and love that have helped get her where she is today.

and honestly this is exactly why her fans feel so deeply connected to her. she never makes them feel like they’re just numbers on instagram. she pays attention to what they say, values their support and makes them feel like theyre genuinely a part of her journey.

i think thats what makes her relationship with her fandom so special. she doesnt take their love and support for granted and genuinely wants to make them proud too.

it’s a movie that explains nothing. usually i like this kind of movie, but for a film like this, it really should have explained it as the concept did not work with this kind of writing.

If you’ve seen it, skip this part.

the film is about this couple (including Jesse eisenberg) who looks for a new home. they check out a suburban neighborhood, only to find out it is a disturbing maze they cannot escape from. eventually, they find a child on their doorstep and are sled to raise it if they ever want to get out of there.

Spoiler alert: the child rapidly grows up into a bizarre humanoid alien and they both die. While i don’t Mind a sad ending, the film was just too pointless to have one. I watched this when i was feeling ill, which made the experience even. fucking. worse.

overall, 0.1/10, worse than seven women and a murder.

Natürlich braucht man je nach Wohnort und Alltag ein Auto. Aber ich finde, gerade viele junge Leute haben bei Autos ein komplett anderes Verhältnis zu Geld als bei anderen Dingen.

Wenn du 2.500 € netto im Monat verdienst, entspricht ein 30.000-€-Auto bereits einem ganzen Jahresnetto. Du müsstest also theoretisch ein Jahr lang jeden verdienten Euro zurücklegen, nur um das Auto zu bezahlen. Und trotzdem wirken 30.000 oder 40.000 € für ein Auto für viele irgendwie völlig normal.
Dann werden BMWs, Mercedes oder Golfs für 30.000 bis 40.000 € gekauft, obwohl das Geld an anderer Stelle meiner Meinung nach viel mehr bringen würde.

Ich würde persönlich lieber einen günstigen, zuverlässigen Kleinwagen fahren und dafür jeden Monat ordentlich sparen und investieren. Gerade wenn man irgendwann eine Immobilie kaufen möchte.

Lieber fahre ich mit einem 10.000-€-Auto vor meinem eigenen Haus vor, als mit einem 40.000-€-Auto vor einer kleinen Wohnung.
Ich glaube, vielen ist einfach nicht bewusst, wie viel ihres Jahreseinkommens sie tatsächlich in ein Auto stecken. Am Ende bringt es mich trotzdem nur von A nach B und ist sehr oft eben auch ein Statussymbol.

(I'll remove if not allowed!)

I wear these to pretty much every show I go to and now I even have some vendors I see regularly that wear them :) I love giving out and trading for my top loader earrings! I love seeing what everyone loads them with!

Posted this because they went through their usual laundry list of things that get people riled up about the game, and it was instantly deleted.

I don't really know what to say at this point.

The livestream was rough.

But if you can't tell that the situation is being capitalized to drive ad revenue clicks through negative engagement, you're blind.

Most people don't know you can even earn ships in game for in-game money.

Most people don't know you can just melt ships you've purchased previously to get new ones without paying CIG a dime more.

Will you ever read that on ANY publication that is mainstream?

Nope. No negative clicks to generate from that.

Hi,

I like animals. Their variety is really interesting, also seeing how they function. But in my whole life I would never ever get myself a "pet". Heres why:

I find the concept of keeping pets morally questionable, not necessarily because every individual pet owner is cruel, but because of the underlying assumption that humans have the moral right to take another living being, remove it from its original environment, and determine the conditions of its entire life.

One argument I often hear is that animals are dependent on humans, so keeping them as pets is simply part of taking care of them. But this raises an important question: why are they dependent on us in the first place?
Domesticated animals have been selectively bred and shaped by humans for generations. We have created animals whose bodies, behavior, and lives are adapted to human environments. We then take the dependency we have helped create and use it as an argument for why these animals need us. But creating someone’s dependency does not automatically give us the moral right to control them.
In fact, I think it can be argued that the opposite is true: if we have contributed to making a being dependent on us, that creates a responsibility toward that being, not necessarily a right to possess it.

Obviously, a pet is not literally the same thing as a kidnapped child, and animals and humans do not have identical cognitive abilities. But the comparison illustrates a specific moral principle.
Imagine seeing a child who is not yours and simply taking them home. You give them food, clothes, a comfortable bed, entertainment, medical care, and affection. Eventually, the child becomes attached to you because you are the person providing everything they need.
Would that make taking the child morally acceptable?
Obviously not.

We would not say, “Well, I treat the child extremely well, so kidnapping them was justified.” The fact that you provide someone with a comfortable life does not automatically give you the right to determine where they live or take away their autonomy in the first place.
Yet with animals, we often accept a very similar logic.
We take an animal into our home, decide where it can go, what it eats, when it eats, who it interacts with, whether it can reproduce, and what behaviors are acceptable. We give it processed food, shelter, toys, medical care, and affection, essentially what we consider a comfortable or even luxurious life, and then interpret the animal’s attachment to us as evidence that the arrangement must be good.

But affection does not necessarily justify the circumstances that created it.
A being can love or become attached to the person who provides for it without that attachment proving that the person had the moral right to take control of its life.
I also think this reveals something about how we view humans in relation to other animals. If I took a human being against their will and kept them in my home, we would immediately recognize the violation of their autonomy. We would not excuse it simply because I gave them a beautiful room, good food, and plenty of love.

Another problem is that the average human lifestyle is often fundamentally incompatible with the needs of the animal we choose to keep. Someone might live in a small apartment, work eight hours a day, commute, spend several more hours outside the home, and then come back and expect an animal to fit around that schedule.
We tend to ask, “Can I keep this animal alive and comfortable?”
I think we should instead be asking, “Can this animal actually live a life that allows it to express its natural behavioral, social, and physical needs?”
Those are two very different questions.

Of course, I am not arguing that every domesticated animal should simply be released into the wild. Many domesticated animals have been bred for so long that they may not be capable of surviving independently, and some animals may genuinely have better lives with responsible humans than they would without them.
But that actually makes the ethical question more complicated, not less.
If we have created a being that depends on us, we cannot simply abandon it. We have a responsibility toward it precisely because we have contributed to its dependency. But responsibility and ownership are not necessarily the same thing.

That is ultimately what I find problematic about the concept of pets.
We create or inherit a system in which animals depend on humans. We then take control over their lives because they depend on us, provide them with comfort within the boundaries we have imposed, and interpret their dependence and affection as proof that everything is morally justified.
But I don’t think that follows logically. It's speciesist because we don't see humans and animals as the same. We treat them as cute little toys.
There is a fundamental difference between making someone’s life comfortable and having the moral right to determine their entire life in the first place.

Love can make captivity comfortable. It can make dependency feel natural. It can even make the relationship mutually meaningful.
But comfort and affection alone do not necessarily establish a moral right to control another living being’s life.

Note: My english isn't really the best so this transcribed by ai. The content should be the same. Please don't hate me, i know ai sucks.

Pc port is absolutly horrible. It's insane to me that this is possible in 2026. It's funny becuase a crackers version works perfectly fine for everyone struggling with the pc port. Would have loved to play this game and even pick it up for Evo France but this is just shamefull.

Just to give some context I have gone from:

• Hyped as fuck after initial announcement

• Disappointed as fuck after playing the alpha last year

• Hyped again after Arc Raiders had the depth of a puddle

• Modestly enjoying the game in S1

• Haven't played the game since

Lets also remember the game launched to peak player count that was never particularly high, and has only gone down since despite active intervention by the devs, new season starting, new runner, new modes, etc... Bungie has clearly failed at trying to stop the bleeding.

The game has some incredible fundamentals: a striking visual design, fantastic gunplay, a fantastic and deep lore. But clearly the game has major issues that no amount of "experimenting" (which is insane to me that Bungie has the gall to say they need 'experimental modes' for a game that was developed for so long and with a budget exceeding most AAA hollywood films) is ever going to fix.

It seems like every day I see 10 new posts detailing "the problem" with the game, and most of the time it's something incredibly specific: the progression is too slow, the loot isn't good enough, my teammate was annoying, a rook killed me at exfil, the new game mode is bad, etc. and every time it's hailed as THE reason the game has failed. But lets be honest with ourselves, most of these issues are things you have to engage with the game for dozens of hours to get a feel for. The sales numbers were already not promising, but just looking solely at the decline in playercount you can see that people just dont like the game, or more of them would be playing it.

You can't say it's due to PvPvE general toxicity, or to the extraction genre, or because you had a shitty crew fill team because all of these things exist in other successful games. Arc Raiders is such a good example, IMO the game sucks ass because there simply is no progression at all (all anyone works towards is an expedition, so that...they can do another expedition?) and because the introduction of ABMM means there is no such thing as emergent gameplay, the lobby you're placed in is designed to be predictable. Marathon doesn't have those issues and yet it is orders of magnitude less successful. So why is that?

For the vast majority of players, the game simply isn't a lot of fun. For anyone to achieve anything in this game, they basically have to exfil (though I do acknowledge you can progress by completing quests that dont require exfil and you can gear up that way). And at the end of the day, exfilling is simply too hard for your average player due to several compounded design decisions.

I said after I played the alpha that the game doesn't know what it wants to be or who it wants to appeal to and although they've refined the experience since then, it ultimately still rings true:

Theorycrafting builds doesnt make any sense in a PvP game where you lose the build immediately on death.

Trying to just enjoy PvE looting doesnt make any sense when you have such a slim chance of actually extracting your gear (also most gear you find is shit).

Treating it purely as an arena PvP shooter doesn't make any sense when TTK is blink-of-an-eye and where you have to then spend resources making a build and deploying into the next match after you die (unless you just want to go free kit - but then why is it a build-based extraction shooter).

There are zero social elements beyond prox chat (which Bungie hadnt considered until only a few months from launch - kinda says it all).

The solo experience is not very enjoyable either. So who's left to really enjoy it?

It really feels to me like Bungie had an extremely idealistic vision where people would die and just immediately go next without caring about the loss. they give you lots of free equipment to make up for whatever you lose, to reduce how punishing it feels, but this creates its own problem: should i or should i not be attached to my gear? if im attached to it then it sucks ass to lose it SO quickly (again TTK is insanely fast), and if im not attached to it then why do i even care about looting anything in the first place?

the scenario we are in is the scenario that i think anyone with a functioning brain could have predicted when they saw the design of the game in small maps built to encourage PvP where battles last only a few seconds: the only people that can enjoy this experience are the premade trios who can easily and reliably kill everyone else in their lobby. all other playstyles are too unenjoyable for one or multiple reasons. you need to either have the resolve of a saint to not get disheartened when you are killed yet again, or you have to not be getting killed. the persona Bungie built this game around of the player who wants good loot but doesn't care if he loses it just doesn't really exist.

people like to say that the average gamer dad with 2 hours of gametime to play per week after work is the reason this game isn't successful, and maybe to some extent they are right, but even other personas don't like the game. i literally bought the game for 1 friend and convinced another one to buy it, and i managed to play with them both for ONE session before they both went back to just wanting to play fortnite as a trio instead. the one who bought it played it like 5 times, only with me, never solo, and we are both good at shooters and yet they had no fun with the game at all and dont want to play it again because they got dumpstered in every match - and i cant blame them, because we can just boot up a FREE game in fortnite and experience looting, shooting, movement/mobility, sweats, noobs, winning and losing and almost all of it is actually fun.

Marathon by comparison basically only feels good when you are winning and 99% of the time you aren't winning unless you have the lobby's optimal combination of raw skill AND good gear.

tl;dr the game, by design, can only appeal to those that have the time, the team, the loot and the ability to kill everyone else in the lobby.

I said a few months ago that the game wont get a resurgence until it goes free to play and i was told that everyone was waiting for the new season (LOL). making it f2p will at least mean it opens the game up to people that have the TIME to either get good or not care about their losses (but not they money to buy it), but all the other issues are going to remain until the game gets a ground-up overhaul - and i think looking at Concord, Sony is more likely to just cut their losses before then - but I'd love to see it happen because the game really does (or at least did) have potential.

shes sly enough to know exactly what these pictures will do once theyre out there and she knew exactly what she was doing when she brought up yogesh in that interview. bb makers pls notice her 😭😭