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  • Wolf314159toClassicFilms@lemmy.worldNorth (1994)
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    “I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it.”

    — Roger Ebert’s review of North.

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  • Very Lovecraftian vibes. Reminds me of the Great Race of Yith.

    From “The Shadow Out of Time”: “The Great Race’s members were immense rugose cones ten feet high, and with head and other organs attached to foot-thick, distensible limbs spreading from the apexes. They spoke by the clicking or scraping of huge paws or claws attached to the end of two of their four limbs, and walked by the expansion and contraction of a viscous layer attached to their vast, ten-foot bases.”


  • Wolf314159toGarfield@lemmy.world1981-09-09
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    I don’t usually need Garfield comics explained. But this one has that kind of Far Side comic baffling context vibes about it.

    Apteryx seems to be a genus of flightless birds endemic to New Zealand, basically a Kiwi bird. Is that the whole joke? “Surprise Garfield! You’re in New Zealand.” I don’t usually expect big laughs from Garfield, but this one is bizarre.






  • I’m not the person you asked, but I do have answers.

    I have a French press, so I often use that. The preparation is exactly the same as a hot press except for the time and temperature; same grind, same proportions of water to coffee. Just mix the coffee and cool water and wait to plunge for several hours. It would usually be something I’d prepare the night before, leave on the counter, then plunge and pour in the morning.

    You can do the same thing with larger volumes/masses of coffee and water using a mesh bag and a pitcher. Same process just more. Also avoid squeezing the bag too much, but do let the coffee run out as you remove the bag containing the coffee from the pitcher.






  • With the multiverse all things are possible. The “mirror” universe could just be whatever multiverse happens to be the antipode of the current zeitgeist. Like a sociological dipole. Therefore appearing to be “recreated” as a psycho-re-active kind of place, but also a physical reality that always existed. This could be happening often enough through various combinations that the “mirror” universe would even have a memory of previous encounters with a “prime” universe similar to, but not necessarily identical to, the prime universe we are currently watching.