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    4 months ago

    There is some way to get things going on startup on Steamdeck, even in Steam-mode (Big Picture mode? Not-desktop mode?). I had to do it for Syncthing, I just don’t remember exactly what I did. I probably made a service file if I had to take a guess, but I think an “@reboot” cron job might work too


  • I’ll be honest, I thought She-Hulk was alright. Was it Marvel’s best work? Not really. I think the ending was pretty… Different? Not good? A cop-out? Unsure.

    It kinda feels like they just slapped together something for the sake of slapping together something, for money. If it felt like it was a bit more planned out in terms of story line, flow, and if the ending was an actual ending, then I think it’d be better rated.

    Of course, the female-lead movies will have the misogynists that tank the ratings, and that’s unfortunately unavoidable. But I think some of She-Hulk’s ratings was that people were expecting a fully-fleshed-out season like their other streamables, like Daredevil, The Punisher, Wandavision. Those felt like complete, planned stories, even if meant to be supplemental to the movies. This felt different. In fact, most of the recent episodic stories feel different. Because I think they feel episodic: divided up while also trying to be a story.

    I’m not sure if the portayal of She-Hulk is true to her comics. I honestly have only read a small handful of comics, so I go into the movies and shows just taking it in as it’s shown.

    She-Hulk felt like they tried to slap some laughs, fourth-wall-breaking, and a variety of cameos into a sort of “what whacky adventures will Jen the Hulk Lawyer get into today?”, followed by a botched ending to wrap it all up.

    Now all of that said, I did enjoy it. Except the ending, if I haven’t made that clear enough. It was nice pieces of a story. I have nothing against She-Hulk as a character, or any of the female characters. I think its great to bring a wider variety of people (sex/genders, religions, sexual orientations, etc) into the multiverse. I just think this story was not great, and I hope that botching the story and causing bad ratings as a result wasn’t an intentional act in order to say “See, people don’t want this Marvel hero.”


  • I mean it’s not great, but at least we did get Hulk in some capacity almost right away in the MCU.

    It’s unfortunate that all Marvel had their characters licensed out to various film studios (Universal, Sony, 21C Fox), but all that happened before Marvel had the means to produce the films themselves, and I think in hindsight they wouldn’t have done so. At least they’re seemingly recollecting the film rights, one way or another.


  • Iirc from back when I worked at Universal Studios 5-ish years ago, the reason we never really got an MCU Hulk movie is because Universal holds/held the rights to the Hulk in film. I think they permitted MCU Marvel to use the Hulk, but he couldn’t be the main character of the film/series. So he’s been limited to the Avengers, and appearances in things like Thor Ragnarok, She-Hulk (technically not The Hulk), etc. I think there was one additional stipulation, and that it was they couldn’t retcon Universal’s The Incredible Hulk’s story. Hence your point where Ruffalo’s Bruce Banner references events done in the Norton film.

    Additional sidenote, Universal own/owned the rights to comic representation of the Marvel characters (unsure if it was all or just some) for theme park attractions, or something like that (it’s been a while, exact details hazy). So when Disney acquired Marvel, I think Disney is/was limited to the Disney+Marvel movie versions of those until the usage contract expires for Universal (if it hasn’t already).

    Someone please correct me if I’m wrong on these details. I tried to use present/past tenses because I don’t know if anything still applies or not.



  • Essentially, there is a massive pixel-divided canvas. It starts out pure-white.

    You are allowed to place one single pixel of a certain subset of colors every x minutes (I don’t remember how often, somewhere between 5 minutes to an hour).

    Your pixel(s) can be overridden by any other user who places their pixel on your space after you place yours.

    Some people come together to form collaborative art, messages, etc. (As seen here).

    In the past, there have been countries’ flags, a giant spreading black void, hidden Among Us beans, and many fandom-specific and subreddit-specific images.