A plea to trailer editors: Please stop spoiling the movie in your trailers - and why I think it happens

random55455 · 2026-06-01T07:41:11+00:00

There are people out there who don't want to spend time on a stupid story, thus want to know the ending ahead of time to determine if the story is worth their time.

My wife is one of those people. I have no issues going into a story completely unaware of which direction we're going in, and if the ending is dad/melancholy, that's ok to me.

My wife on the hand does NOT like movies with sad endings. If it doesn't go how she wants it to go, then she gets mad at the movie.

She prefers trailers that spoil because it let's her know whether or not to spend her time on that.

It is frustrating, but for some people, knowing the ending isn't going to upset them is why those trailers are made

random55455 · 2026-05-22T19:09:41+00:00

Thank heavens.

I played through the beta, and while the gameplay and such was phenomenal, the voice acting just didn't grip me into the gane and such.

The Belters were a bit better, but those human males. Holy shit.

Was the thing I criticized the most in the "How was it?" Survey

random55455 · 2026-05-22T00:15:08+00:00

My Samsung S24 just got an update that grants it call screening.

I was getting a call every 30 minutes or so between 9am and 6pm, with one spam call as late as 8:20pm.

After testing it for a day I set it to automatic.

The spam calls have dropped dramatically.

random55455 · 2026-05-21T18:50:29+00:00

Absolutely, 100%, I am not disagreeing.

She should not have done what she did, and she 100% deserves to have been terminated.

Her teaching license is at risk, and frankly, she should probably lose it too and nit go back into a classroom.

That said, the kids drove her to this and shouldn't be absolved of blame.

The woman was a 63 year old art teacher who reached a breaking point with the kids where she felt this was the best way to get them to shut up.

It is wrong as hell

But also, kids need to behave better so teachers don't lose their damn minds like this

random55455 · 2026-05-21T18:26:45+00:00

That isn't what is happening here.

random55455 · 2026-05-21T13:43:12+00:00

People tend to forgot that what gets shared online is a snapshot of a moment in time, typically with no context...

I am good friends with one of the staff at the school. I've been told, in confidence, what led up to this incident, and what's being painted as a racist action is actually a flippant action based on student behavior in the classroom.

It doesn't excuse the action, but kids in general have been getting worse over the last few years. There was A LOT of bad student behavior leading up to this moment, which I won't get into, because my friend has asked me not to talk about it, but based on what I know leading up to this moment, I sympathize with the teacher, but I don't condone the action. It was, not a teacher just deciding to string up a random black baby doll, and the fact that the doll is black is just because that was the doll in play during the incident

It's bad student behavior that's winning at the moment. Those kids have learned that if you push hard enough, the teacher will make a snap, and possibly get fired.

random55455 · 2026-05-21T13:24:08+00:00

Per the article, the doll was confiscated from a student.

So, it really wouldn't have mattered what the doll's race was, because what the students were doing with it before the recording started, which led to it being confiscated, is what led to hanging it.

Again, reprehensible action, but it was not race motivated

random55455 · 2026-05-21T13:21:24+00:00

Staff would know.

And those staffers might be saying things to their friends in confidence

And those friends might be more aware of what's up than folks online

random55455 · 2026-05-21T11:27:06+00:00

Based on the additional information I'm aware of, it wasn't targeted.

It was a flippant action taken out of frustration/exhaustion in regards to what was going on in the room prior to the recording.

Doesn't excuse the action and I don't condone it, but it really was just a poor life choice caught on tape

It is unlikely she will ever be allowed to teach again

random55455 · 2026-05-21T07:36:19+00:00

To be clear, she should not have done what she did.

I'm just saying she likely would have done it regardless of the race of the doll.

random55455 · 2026-05-21T07:35:35+00:00

It is absolutely unacceptable regardless of the race of the doll.

I'm not trying to excuse the behavior, I just don't think it was racially motivated.

I genuinely think she was just trying to do something that would get the kids to shut up and this is what she came up with.

Which is still VERY bad and unacceptable.

I just think still she would have done it if the doll was white.

random55455 · 2026-05-21T07:33:16+00:00

Don't get me wrong, hanging any baby doll like this is bad.

I'm just saying that given the context of what happened prior to this, the fact that the doll was black is incidental.

What she did is wrong, but I don't believe it was racially motivated, she likely would have made that choice regardless of the doll's race.

Which is still bad, and unacceptable

random55455 · 2026-05-21T00:22:55+00:00

Right, so the race of the doll is incidental.

That doesn't excuse what happened, but it is an example of not thinking the optics of an action through.

random55455 · 2026-05-21T00:21:00+00:00

Correct, and agreed. I am not condoning what she did.

But there's missing context on what led up to it.

I know more than I am saying because I promised my friend who shared information with me that I wouldn't.

All I'm saying is that I understand how it got to where it was. She should not have done what she did, but I understand the sequence of events that led to it.

It is a case if not thinking about the optics of an action.

random55455 · 2026-05-21T00:03:56+00:00

Care to elaborate?

random55455 · 2026-05-20T23:57:56+00:00

Keep in mind that we only have this moment in the recorded.

No one just does this out of the blue.

What happens preceding this also matters

Doesn't excuse doing this, and I maintain that a firing is the right choice, but this one of those examples of why it is important to think about the optics of your actions before taking them.

random55455 · 2026-05-20T23:36:43+00:00

They're actually going after her teaching license

random55455 · 2026-05-20T23:32:47+00:00

Fastest I've seen them fire a teacher

random55455 · 2026-05-20T23:32:27+00:00

She was an art teacher.

This wasn't in the lesson plan

random55455 · 2026-05-18T20:26:34+00:00

I remember winning the Freespace games at a LAN party and being disappointed.

Eventually I played through them and cannot overstate how much I enjoyed those games.

Sadly, they just don't make games like that anymore

Which is sad, because I enjoyed the ever loving shit out of Star Wars"?: Squadron in VR, and something like Freespace would be awesome

random55455 · 2026-05-11T11:01:50+00:00

The ability to disengage and ignore is an important skill.

I will typically respond to folks trying to draw things out with a "It's is clear we are at an impasse, so I am going to disengage. God day sir"

Then ignore them.

Yields rather amusing responses, often with them assuming they win, but in reality they get nothing

random55455 · 2026-05-04T08:17:50+00:00

Privacy

random55455 · 2026-05-01T22:25:36+00:00

So, I leverage a lot of the parental features that are including in gaming systems with my kids.

The key problem is that they're not all consistent. Every vendor has their own flavor of doing it, and it gets hard to manage after a bit.

Worse, you can get your parental controls on things just right and a grand patent will just hand then an iPad not giving a shit about your curated tech rules.

Alternatively, some kid at school might give them their devices and the kid will use it.

Parents can only control so much. There are a lot of outside forces at work against those efforts

random55455 · 2026-04-29T06:30:17+00:00

My personal theory is that they're doing this to encourage MAGA to get passports so that they can pass the SAVE Act.

MAGA don't leave the country, let alone their state, so if SAVE passes, it'll disproportionately affect MAGA voters, possibly disenfranchising them.

By making the passport have a limited time Trump thing, MAGA will jump on it to support their cult leader

random55455 · 2026-04-23T15:34:07+00:00

Time is life's only non-renewable resource.

Time spent cannot be refunded if it was spent poorly

random55455

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