Emperor

Emperor, 1 year ago

I’m not sure even they do a 2 litre mug.

Emperor, 2 years ago

Yes, I can see it through the web interface.

Emperor, 2 years ago

It’s more complicated than that.

I can see it on the infosec.pub instance but clicking through to the community’s home instance, at !linux, doesn’t show your post.

This suggests there is a federation issue at work. It may be it was removed on the lemmy.ml or it never propagated there in the first place

Emperor, 2 years ago (edited 1 year ago)

In the web interface, hit the bell to go here:

sh.itjust.works/inbox

Then “messages” and “all”

https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/b7ac53cc-c995-40a4-bcbd-15a39e0020c6.jpeg

Emperor, 2 years ago

There’s no such thing as a stupid question.

Emperor, 2 years ago

That’s good to hear.

Emperor, 2 years ago

I stopped going out of my way to watch trailers after Deadpool where it felt like they’d jammed all the best bits into the trailer and everything else was padding.

Emperor, 2 years ago (edited 2 years ago)

The Engineer is not a villain though

It might be a mistake by Deadline or they are casting The Authority as the villains of the film which suggests they are taking the place of The Elite, probably drawing from “What’s So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way?” The Engineer would then be replacing Menagerie.

and isn’t The Authority another property on the film list?

It is indeed. With the wealth of characters in this film it looks like it will be laying a lot of the foundations for the Gunnverse.

What I was unsure about was how they’d make The Authority work. Gunn knows his comics, so he presumably understands that having the team as part of the main DC Universe just doesn’t work (they are a commentary on the Justice League and have too many analogues). So he either needs to have them in their own universe but using The Bleed to bring them over as needed, possibly in an antagonistic way (at least initially as they are anti-heroes) or he first introduces them as The Elite or a version of it which leaves the door open for a (semi?) self-contained Authority film.

As he knows his comics, and is clearly taking inspiration from the best of them, it shouldn’t be any surprise that he’s eyeing “What’s So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way?”

I’m assuming the movie will have to have Jenny Quantum instead of Jenny Sparks since they represent the turn of each century.

It may have Manchester Black instead.

https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/0a3d0a1b-2a53-4b6d-81e6-a36abf27152f.jpeg

Left-right: The Hat, Menagerie, Manchester Black and Coldcast

Emperor, 2 years ago

Why? I thought it was a fitting name given the source material that inspired it (although, granted it was more Gothic novels but still…).

Emperor, 2 years ago

!ObscureMusic

Emperor, 2 years ago

Pretty much. There’s currently no mechanism to stop the creator of a community from deleting it and no way to get it or the posts back.

It has come up on GitHub where concern was raised.

Emperor, 2 years ago

Yes they can, I’ve done it a few times. It’s also possible for the creator of a community to transfer it to another Mod and leave the community (I’ve done it that way a couple of times too).

Emperor, 2 years ago

!television

Emperor, 2 years ago

!comicbooks

Emperor, 2 years ago

We went for a full survey, the guy is RICS-registered

Yeah, they’re chartered surveyors, you’d be wise to get a structural engineer to look it over if you were thinking of having underpinning and they might spot other things. I stopped getting chartered surveyors and asked a structural engineer I know to do the surveys - they a lot harsher.

Someone else said that a reduction of 15k is almost unheard of.

Percentage wise it’s a big chunk of change but, depending on the amount of underpinning required, it might not be enough.

even then it’s going to be a shitload of hassle

If the underpinning is not accessible from outside the floors will have to come up. Cracks in the walls may have to be dealt with by removing the plaster and tying the bricks back together then replastering. Depending on where the damp is coming from you might need a new roof - did they get up there or use a drone?

I don’t mind roughing it a bit, but managing a project like this I would think isn’t really in my wheelhouse and will be very stressful.

And money aside, this should be your deciding factor.

Emperor, 2 years ago

I bought my current place a year and a half ago - it was the fourth one I’d had an offer in on and the previous three had major structural issues (turns out 100+ year old houses built on same are a nightmare), at least two had subsidence. I have friends and family in the building trade and they reckon they’d be wary - houses like a that reach a point where, to continue for another century, they either need to get snapped up by a builder who can get the work done and flip it or someone highly motivated who can take on a project like this.

Your mileage might differ but I’d just spent 6 months and 50 grand putting the previous house on a raft of concrete that would outlast the next I’ve Age which was then used as a stick to beat us down on the price. So I was not in the right frame of mind to undertake another building project. And that’s what you should ask yourself - are you the kind of person that thrives on camping in their new house for months getting work done (and getting builders is trickier after the pandemic and more expensive)? What’s your budget like because this is the stuff the survey found but tearing into the place could reveal more? It has clearly not been well-maintained for a long time and there’s likely to be all sorts of other issues.

What level of survey did you have done? Have you had a structural engineer look it over?

I certainly feel like if they’re not prepared to negotiate re repairs then I have to walk away as I could buy a well-maintained property round here for the total cost of around £100k!

You’re clearly up north! If they aren’t prepared to negotiate then everyone should walk, if they weren’t prepared to come down closer to £50-60k then I’d definitely consider walking, as the modest savings don’t outweigh the stress. To be honest, if it were me, I’d be long gone already. Just reading this is giving me flashbacks.

Emperor, 2 years ago

That’s good news - no need to pull any punches.

Emperor, 2 years ago

Wouldn’t chocolate-flavoured poop just be like a chocolate mousse with some sweetcorn sprinkled in? I’d definitely eat that rather than the thing that tastes like actual shit.

Emperor, 2 years ago

This question comes about as my really enjoying The Thing, finding out it had an earlier version, and then finding i enjoyed that version more and for different reasons.

Heresy!

Now I have that off my chest…

I’d love to branch out and watch more monochrome movies with modem ties.

The Fly - I have a boxset of all the various Fly films.

I Am Legend adaptations - The Last Man on Earth (B&W), Omega Man, and I Am Legend (as well as it’s mockbuster I Am Omega). The novel inspiring:

Night of the Living Dead - as it’s public domain anyone can remake it and they have (few of which are worth watching). A more interesting remake is the Dawn of the Dead one, although the original is in colour.

Nosferatu and Nosferatu the Vampyre but I’d also throw in Shadow of the Vampire about the making of Nosferatu.

The Blob - although the original was in colour.

And any number of Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolfman films.

Emperor, 2 years ago

So, for right now, we have to keep our fingers crossed and hope the developers take up the call for a change

Indeed - we need better moderating tools asap. I believe there’s a Lemmy fork working on that.

Emperor, 1 year ago

It’s High Speed 2, the second phase of the UK’s high-speed train network.

Emperor, 2 years ago

I’m on Matrix because I want to be, I’m on Discord because I have to for certain communities. I’d never pay for Nitro.

Emperor, 2 years ago

Not as good as Boba Fett’s Spaceship Leia.

Emperor, 2 years ago

Like a champ.