I was on one of their megathreads, and it had 900 comments to a 100 up voted post. 95 percent was text. They comment always. The pig stuff are probably a fraction of what they post.
They are being genocided despite his reference to you. The goal of the occupier is the destruction of a group of people, either by having them interned indefinitely, by forcing them to leave (again) or simply butchering them.
https://twitter.com/democracynow/status/1713900853818523840
Genocide historian Segal says the intent is there.
Canada had paedophile and state-run genocide camps masquerading as schools for Indiginous children well into the 70s!!! This is clearly an extension of that mindset. The Canadian government is sick.
This looks good, I just found an old (3 year old post - I didn't even know Lemmy was around back then!) and commented on it. There were also funnily two other recent comments (one from 2 months ago and another 3 months old).
The holiday chapters with the Italians, Blaise's 'lore' and everything was basically bloat for me. It was interesting, and I'm sure it will impact the main story later but I'd rather hear more about the more important characters. Which is the aspect of the story that keeps me hooked still.
Wow, this is an old post that I only found through search-lemmy.com.
It's only got better for the core story. Though I feel like the author has written far too much filler, and given many characters far too much 'screen-time' like in GoT for instance.
I'm excited for the rest of the series.
Also a great hack to lower your personal rate of inflation.
That's most of the establishment. Even new money people are mostly crooks. And then you get people like Rowling who make money honestly and join the far right cult of the wealthy.
That's cool. My peice had to said, because the rightwing types were benefitting from the silence or disagreement of people like myself who want no more intervention.
Wall Street funded them bro.
You use text-based social media and deride reading?
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They are liberals with paper thin corporate-friendly politics.
That user who suggested we 'help' is either malicious or ignorant. Because help doesn't mean we release the reserves of money we've stolen from the Afghans. It means invade them again, whether she means it or not.
The best thing we can do now is let the Afghans be sovereign and no longer interfere (which won't happen). You can expect nothing good socially from there, as the Americans helped the Taliban defeat local progressive and secular forces in the 70s. All we can hope for is for them to eventually stand up on their own two feet.
Anyone who whines about the plight of Afghan women is either doing propaganda or is misled. Afghan women have children too btw - children that are starving - have Biden release the reserves.
Feels like a geopolitical issue more than a religious issue.
The downvotes are probably because you seem to 'ignore' the US role in arming the Taliban.
The soviets didn't even like them iirc. Very sad situation all round.
They weren't good because they were reds. They weren't even really RU/SU-aligned. They were good because they were progressive and also happened to be neutral in terms of foreign affairs. But they learnt that the US funded the taliban and that's why the reds were invited in. The US got word. And disaster ensued.
Rebuilding translates to funding the lavish lifestyles of our puppets. Very colonial.
A Malignant Ruse | Frickles
The character development is to be loved. The twists are to be looked forward to. The pairing is an indulgent read.
The Lord of the Rings: A Musical Tale review – the greatest show on Middle-earth | (The Guardian) archive.ph
> A formidable cast journey through folk via Bollywood to pop – not to mention mountain treks and orc attacks – in a compressed revival of the 2007 musical
> First seen in the UK in 2007 at London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane – a 1996-seat theatre – the show is revived at the 220-capacity Watermill. This means that Simon Kenny’s design and Anjali Mehra’s choreography are a theatrical equivalent of stunts designed to find how many people can fit in a Mini.
> ...During the long sections inside the tiny theatre, they cram in battles, orc attacks, treks across land, over mountains or through caves and lavish production numbers involving 20 actors or musicians (several performers also play instruments).
> ...speech and score sometimes feel more competitive than complementary.
> The songs, though, move with enjoyable eclecticism through folk via Bollywood to pop, echoing the musical backgrounds of the Indian/Finnish/Anglo-American compositional team of AR Rahman, Värttinä, and Christopher Nightingale.
> But the cast is a blast.
> The original London run is more known for losing money than winning friends. On a stage about 30 times smaller – with budget presumably reduced proportionately – this spectacle of compression, by aiming small, brings big rewards.
Science Fiction and Fantasy: Tolkien Forever | (WSJ) Archive.is
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> “The Battle of Maldon, together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth,” edited by Peter Grybauskas. “The Battle” is a fragment of poetry from the end of the first millennium that Tolkien translated from Old English. > > ...the history of Middle-Earth that Tolkien was working on at the same time, “The History of the Hobbit” includes five different “phases” of the book’s creation, many, many plot notes, and a scheme that shows original word choices along with Tolkien’s final text—which was sometimes penned in on top of rubbed-out pencil. > > “Tolkien in the Twenty-First Century: The Meaning of Middle-Earth Today” by Nick Groom. This fascinating book explores “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” from their genesis through all the different major adaptations of the Tolkien “legendarium.” > > The reader will learn a great deal about the licensing of Middle-Earth, a realm I thought I already knew fairly well. There were plans for a “Lord of the Rings” film starring the Beatles, for instance, directed by Stanley Kubrick. Another fever dream of a movie would have had Galadriel seduce Frodo, and a 12-minute animated monstrosity released in 1966 has a princess named Mika and a dragon named Slag. > > Each of these very different books offers a brilliant peek or deep dive into very different aspects of the man who changed speculative fiction forever. Choose your own adventure into the world of J.R.R. Tolkien.
The remastered 'Lego Harry Potter Collection' came to last-gen consoles in 2018
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> Reportedly, there is a new Lego Harry Potter game in the works as an image promoting it was spotted on the Warner Bros. South Africa Instagram account.
> Per Video Games Chronicle, this now-deleted post showed a Lego Minifigure of Harry Potter with the logo for TT Games and a date of August 25. TT Games is the British developer and publisher behind the Lego games and this date overlaps with Gamescom, one of the industry’s largest trade fairs, which will be hosted over August 23 to August 27 in Cologne, Germany.
> Rumours that there is a Lego Harry Potter game that would mimic the structure of 2022’s Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga popped up in March of this year. Nintendo Life‘s source said that the game was “sucking up the studio’s resources” and that a Lego Guardians of the Galaxy game was cancelled at the same time.
Voldemort's Victory: Harry Potter - comic page | Nesskain HKS
Just wanted to post a beautiful peice of art that I saw some time ago that needed sharing. I love the style, textures and emotion too.
There are about seven more images that you can go and see at the link above.
Steelbadger appreciation and reminiscing post | The Shadow of Angmar
His writing is layered, exciting and detailed. I remember reading his story Shadow of Angmar back in 2015 on a Blackberry with a keyboard of all devices (though I know an author who's written chapters on there 👀). The time periods, various characters and settings had a real and obviously intentional, 'Fellowship of the Ring' feel to them.
It sits at more than two hundred thousand words, and I await an update. His crack-fic HP and the Elves Most Fabulous was pretty funny when I read it years ago now.
Account migration when one is a Mod?
So, what happens if you're modding a few communities and you want to change instances?
Do you add mod roles to the new account on that instance? Would people keep the old account, and would they keep the mod status on the old account too?
Just wondering, since I'm considering moving to keep Lemmy sustainable as well as because of preemptive concerns at my own instance's implementation of implicit, untransparent policies.
By now, many Hogwarts Legacy players have figured out that no, there is not all that much difference between picking any of the four houses, outside of the color of your robes and some stray bits of dialogue.
TLDR: It's a fun bit of exploration with some new environments but don't expect wholly new action or interesting gameplay.
> If you’re expecting some sort of live battle with dementors and an exploration of the prison that…is not at all what it’s like.
Entwives
> Title text: No, we actually do have a woman who's basically part of our fellowship. She lives in Rivendell, you wouldn't know her.
Daniel Radcliffe also recently gave his thoughts on the forthcoming TV series
The actor – now 35-years-old – said via LadBible: “I was told in no uncertain terms by Alan Rickman, ‘don’t step on my fucking cloak’. I sort of giggled, the Death Eaters and I looked at each other [like] ‘is he joking?’ It quickly became apparent that he was definitely not joking.
> “The next take, the director was very keen for me to walk as close as I can to Alan, and we got about half way down the Great Hall before [mimes getting choked around the neck]. You have to bear in mind that his cloak was attached around his neck. [I] nearly killed the poor man. Then he turned around again and gave me a look that you never ever want to see.”
> “Very luckily, the next take someone else stepped on his cloak, so that kind of took the heat away from me. ***
The upcoming television reboot of the fantasy franchise was confirmed by HBO earlier this year, and will be the first-ever series based on the iconic books.
Harry Potter: Fans celebrate wizard's birthday with movie marathons, outfits and 'butterbeer'. | BBC News
Superfans are spending the day watching their favourite movies and dressing up.
Link: archive.org/...
Are you guys doing the same?
I tend to rewatch the movies around Christmas personally tbh.
:)
Do you enjoy music or those Harry Potter themed atmospheric background tones on Youtube when reading? | Harry Potter Music and Ambience | Rainy Night at Hogwarts
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/1462625
> Very curious to know about it 😎 > Do not be shy, just share it (no judgement).
(reposted because I got brigaded earlier by new athiest neckbeards.)
Ambient World does more of those atmospheric music and ambience videos if you like these.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
A pretty cool fanfic sequel that I greatly enjoyed.
Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined (Twilight #5) - Stephenie Meyer
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1769363
Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined is a young adult vampire-romance novel by Stephenie Meyer. The story is a gender-swapped retelling of the first book in the Twilight series, and introduces Beau Swan and Edythe Cullen in place of Bella and Edward.
Torrent link is in base64.
Reading "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" - Immersive Soundscape Experience
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1876634
This is a fan made audiobook and is as described. The immersive soundscape experience involves background sounds, chatter, music and more. It's genuinely a great peice of work especially for an enthusiast's effort. It may be removed by youtube soon, so here is an alternative link: https://castbox.fm/channel/Harry-Potter-|-Immersive-Soundscape-id5488497
>Dive into Harry’s second year at Hogwarts with an immersive soundscape audio experience of the story by J.K Rowling - for those who like the movies, games and books, and want a little of both! > > Narration, voices and edit by me. Music by John Williams, Jeremy Soule, J Scott Rakozy, Chuck E. Myers, Peter Murray and special thanks to Brigid Kaelin for her amazing musical saw orchestra! You can find her channel here - / @brigidkaelin