-puts on tinfoil hat- Is this why we’re suddenly getting so many remasters/remakes?

-takes off hat- No, it’s probably because the corporate gaming industry is creatively bankrupt and want to cash in on nostalgia with minimal risk. But remakes/remasters probably strengthen the “market harm” portion of their argument.

In June 2022, a federal appeals court affirmed Donziger’s criminal contempt conviction. In March 2023, the Supreme Court declined to hear further appeals.

I’m shocked.

My history teacher said that the greatest curse you can give someone is telling them “May you live in interesting times” and boy do I feel that now.

Time and a place, bro.

Flippant humor on an advice post about a deteriorating relationship due to serious health issues probably isn’t it.

Where are you that therapists can prescribe? I thought only doctors of medicine/some pharmacists could.

They’re all cute to someone.

(Not me, I have crippling arachnophobia)

The human urge to domesticate anything that is slightly cute

STOOOOOPP THIS IS CURSED KNOWLEDGE 😭😭

DO NOT BRING OMEGAVERSE TO LEMMY PLEASE THIS IS MY SAFE SPACE 😭

Even Haru’s billionaire ass can’t afford all these subscriptions 😭

Nothing, that’s what I’m trying to say. All the “sports” I listed have some sort of skill expression that can be judged. Why is break dancing less worthy? Should skateboarding also not have been included? Why is making a horse hop around to music considered a “real sport”?

It’s all arbitrary.

Eh, painting and chess used to be Olympic sports. Shooting/air rifle still is. Break dancing requires more physicality than all of those.

I don’t particularly care about gatekeeping what activities are added/subtracted to the Olympics, as long as it’s competitive and entertaining to watch.

Mm, you’re not wrong about the originality, especially considering it’s given equal weight with the other four categories (the scoring is another issue here I could go on about). I guess in the judges eyes her “original” moves didn’t have anything to do with breaking (like the T-rex thing? That was odd…), so it was irrelevant to the judgement.

I can only speak for my own interpretations though.

No, I think the score of 0 is fair, because imo her Olympics performance was straight up trolling. If you watch any of her previous performances (like her Olympic qualifiers) she’s actually pretty decent. Comparing those to what she did at the Olympics honestly felt like BM to the entire artform.

My take was that she pushed breakdancing into the human consciousness significantly more than anyone in history ever has

Interesting thought exercise, but a WILD take. Notoriety shouldn’t be considered the same as actual accomplishment. Otherwise, John Wayne Gacy should be considered the best clown of all time.

Phil Kim/Phil Wizard (the gold medalist) is a pretty accomplished breaker/bboy.

Not pointed at you OP, but it kind of pisses me off how this lady got more attention than the actual breakers and medalists the Olympics.

I can hear this.

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you’re*

(I’m sorry T_T)

During undergrad I had to schedule my microbiology and pathology classes during lunch hour. Worst two semesters of my life.

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Prescriptivists: 🤬NO🤬SLANG🤬IN🤬DICTIONARY🤬

Prescriptivists from the 1800s: 🤬NO🤬USING🤬"ZEITGEIST"🤬OUTSIDE🤬PHILOSOPHY🤬