R-rated action movies don't really get made anymore. The home video market that sustained them has significantly shrunk. Casual movie going where people would just come to the theater and see something actiony doesn't happen as much. The stars that made them got too old. So yeah, anything that would have been in that space usually gets pushed down to PG-13, or just is really bad.

So yeah, people finding an actually likable dumb movie for adults, in this mix of repetitive kiddie franchises, with a cool star in the center was like ice water in hell. It hearkens back to a previous mode of consumption that had a little more magic to it.

Of course, they immediately turned it into a franchise that removed the mystery from the world building and makes the tone more generic. OH WELL. The movies are still pretty good.

There's thousands of dollars worth of things that people used to buy that got replaced by cell phones: personal cameras and camcorders, portable game machines, PDAs, car GPS systems, mp3 players, etc. Bluetooth speakers have replaced non-networked hi-fi except for niche stuff, I feel like complete replacements happen all the time in audio equipment. I bet if I went back to a 60s kitchen I'd find so much stuff we never use anymore. Go back even further and life looks totally different.

Consumption habits keep changing all the time, and we're gonna see a lot of things die as resources dry up.

extremely seconded

croutoned

If someone posts actual spam there they will get banned so we'll see Lol

~BEST VIBES 4 U~

also damn everyone getting sick

no I don't think so lol

just follow the label and yeah it helps a bit

you can be so lonely (or sad etc) that it's painful. the literal same thing as physical pain!

yeah they're definitely the same thing, when I was Going Through It (TM) I took acetaminophen every few hours and it helped. big part of why painkillers get abused is for emotional pain.

you can't tell people "i'm in pain." it sounds like someone "just wants attention"

having people in your life that you can talk about shit with is like the most important thing. and like it can't just be one person. like yeah you can't just tell anyone that you're pain but you need people you really can do that with

Banned the account and changed the link to crouton.net

This is why you can't see when you pee (eyeballs too busy peeing)

polar seltzer is what I drink

No I wouldn't

I could also update the css to handle it better but I'm lazi

You've undone my work but like Sisyphos I will keep on keeping on

oh no reddit just post is leaking

People would make more

I like to think of two different twitters, the upper case Twitter the company that runs twitter and the lower case twitter that is the actual product.

Uppercase T Twitter is fucked. It's not really about the firings or advertisers leaving, it's that musk bought the company with billions in debt then transferred that debt to Twitter. There's no world where musk cuts costs and increases revenue enough to keep this house of cards up.

Lowercase t twitter has shown itself to be remarkably consistent even as uppercase T Twitter flails. There's a lot of things uppercase T is going to do that will make lowercase t worse: it's going to go down more, it's going to deprioritize accessibility, there's going to be more high profile hacking, there's going to be more spam. I don't think any of that is going to be deadly, though! People still use email even though it has all those problems and more. There's something about the core product that is useful and, more importantly, addictive.

I could be wrong, Musk could truly run it into the ground instead of selling it off. The changes he makes might have more of an effect that I think! But I have a sense that less is going to change, even if blue checks are gone or whatever.

Edit: On verification, I believe it does much less that people think it does. The real problem is less moderation to actually enforce rules against impersonation. It may mean big accounts Post less. But yeah, what keeps people on twitter is less the big accounts and more the general rumbling and gossip so that might be less of a problem that it appears.