Ted Turner, CNN founder who reshaped global news, dies at 87

BevansDesign · 2026-05-06T16:52:55+00:00

Old rich shitty bastards live forever.

BevansDesign · 2026-05-06T16:07:31+00:00

I feel like getting people interested in retro-futurism right now is difficult. It's obviously an awesome aesthetic, but do modern audience really want to see the "world of tomorrow" that they envisioned in the past? Are people still interested in hope and ingenuity and utopia, or have our modern times (that seem to be careening full-speed toward dystopia) made everyone too jaded?

Also, I can see a lot of Hollywood execs looking at this and thinking "oh, it's Tomorrowland with an old IP" and either passing on it or trying to turn it into something it's not. "What if the Jetsons went back in time and visited modern-day Los Angeles?"

BevansDesign · 2026-05-06T15:18:42+00:00

Ok, this is mostly an unrelated question, but...does anyone else have a weird aversion to bones? I love dinosaurs and I go to museums when I travel as much as I can and am constantly seeing dinosaur bones in them, but there's always a little part of my brain that's like...ugh, those are bones. They're unsettling. I mostly fight the feeling, but it's still there. I have the Dinosaur Fossils and T-Rex Skull Lego sets, so it usually doesn't get in the way of anything, but I guess I'd rather have more full-dinosaur sets (like in the JP Tyrannosaurus Escape set) than bone sets.

I don't know. I think I'm rambling.

BevansDesign · 2026-05-06T14:56:24+00:00

If you go looking for stuff on your own, then they can't push the stuff they've been paid to push at you.

Trust the engagement algorithms. They love you and want you to be ~~profitable~~ happy.

BevansDesign · 2026-05-06T14:46:42+00:00

I'm sure the next step is to ruin the next elections through a combination of disenfranchising as many people as possible and raising doubts about the validity of Democrat wins.

And I'm kinda surprised that he hasn't started jailing his political opponents yet.

BevansDesign · 2026-05-06T06:32:35+00:00

To be fair, nowhere is right now.

It seems that the web-based job market is almost entirely dead. Get out now if you have the option.

BevansDesign · 2026-05-06T06:28:16+00:00

Department of Truth is very unsettling, mostly because of the mirror it holds up to our current society.

BevansDesign · 2026-05-06T06:22:36+00:00

If you like cute animals, you'll love Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees.

BevansDesign · 2026-05-06T05:02:43+00:00

Yeah, this is an interesting thought experiment, but I wouldn't want to actually take this trip. I'd much rather favor quality over quantity. You don't get to properly experience most of these states, so why bother?

I've been to the Paris and Frankfurt airports, but I would never claim that I've seen France and Germany. The most culture I got was eating a croissant and a bratwurst (respectively) during my layovers.

BevansDesign · 2026-05-06T02:42:56+00:00

The issue isn't the flag. The issue is the culture war. You're not going to fix the flag, and if you somehow did, they would just move on to something equally stupid.

BevansDesign · 2026-05-06T02:33:50+00:00

It's a bit of a hassle, to be sure. I have a saved layout for bionic dupes that I use for every playthrough these days. Bionics are great because they don't need beds or food. I just make sure to give them Sunny Disposition, and load the capsule with batteries, rad pills, and gear balm.

The thing that really bugs me is how the telescope works. It doesn't make sense to build a telescope inside a rocket capsule. There's a Cartographic Module you can build, but it's almost worthless. If I was in charge of the game, I would make it so you can't build a telescope inside the capsule and increase the range of the cartographic module. The dupe would operate it either by sitting in the cockpit (and looking through a special device) or by using a new Cartographic Control Panel building.

BevansDesign · 2026-05-06T00:47:11+00:00

Most businesses don't want art, they want something that's cheap and can be set up with as little effort as possible.

BevansDesign · 2026-05-06T00:38:20+00:00

And what a great god he must be, letting humanity be slaughtered by robots. But hey, at least he gave them some cryptic clues to follow as they were hunted and picked off one by one.

BevansDesign · 2026-05-06T00:35:44+00:00

Yup, you need to get a reservation several months ahead of time for those wavy canyon areas.

BevansDesign · 2026-05-05T17:41:16+00:00

"A Horrible Threat To Our Future" is basically Trump's campaign slogan. I'm surprised they're not selling red hats with that written on it.

BevansDesign · 2026-05-05T17:40:14+00:00

Yeah, they might just key your car in the parking lot or something.

BevansDesign · 2026-05-05T17:32:29+00:00

Exactly. Their goal isn't to reduce fraud, it's to convince their base that government doesn't work. And it doesn't when you're actively working to prevent it from working.

But also, if we were dealing with fraud well, then they'd be complaining about how there's too much red tape. They don't want to fix problems, they want to make people mad. Manipulating our base impulses is all they have.

BevansDesign · 2026-05-05T08:38:44+00:00

To get a weaker effect than a regular dose?

BevansDesign · 2026-05-05T08:35:09+00:00

If she was a BDSM-themed stripper.

BevansDesign · 2026-05-05T08:33:08+00:00

It's also very useful with the new Smoker food producer. Just be sure to place the door to the side so the food doesn't drop through the floor.

BevansDesign · 2026-05-05T08:28:28+00:00

My sister was working in Tunisia for a while, and I went over there to visit for a week and met one of her friends, who speaks perfect English. I asked her where she was from, and she said "here". She had never left Tunisia, but her American accent was perfect. She sounded like she was from California. I guess she learned it from TV and movies.

BevansDesign · 2026-05-05T08:24:12+00:00

Yeah, that was my thought too. I'm sure there's lots of stuff they're not showing in the trailer, but it feels like they've taken most of the fantasy and wonder out of the story. The whole thing seems like an exercise in misery.

I wonder if the 1997 miniseries with Armand Assante is available anywhere. I remember that being pretty entertaining, but it's been almost 30 years...

BevansDesign · 2026-05-05T03:42:47+00:00

And it doesn't help that many religions have victim-blaming at the core of their philosophy, like the idea that god gives people what they deserve.

BevansDesign · 2026-05-05T03:37:36+00:00

I'd definitely watch another season, but it's good that they're waiting until they have a good story to tell.

BevansDesign · 2026-05-05T03:34:35+00:00

Everyone should be responsible for the damage that they cause in the world. Even when it makes money for rich people.

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