The Prisoner’s Dilemma and its real life applications

I almost didn't watch Spellbound on Netflix, because it got such bad ratings on imdb (5.5) and Rotten Tomatoes (48%, 47%). But I did and I have to say: It's actually pretty good! It's very funny and imaginative and has something to say.

Sure, it's not perfect. It didn't have me on the edge of my seat the whole time and the songs didn't stay with me much after, but it honestly doesn't deserve these ratings! I mean it's a kids movie and it fully engaged the kid and had me and my girlfriend not only laughing out loud, but we all shed some tears in the final act end. It's a fine movie, definitely worth a watch with the family.

I'm really struggling to understand why it is rated so badly. I wouldn't say it is as good as K-Pop Demon Hunters (7.7 on imdb, 97% + 91% on Rotten Tomatoes) but I'd still give it a solid 7 or 80%. I mean we watched the feature-length episode 1 of Unicorn Academy and that was actually dreadful and still got 6.6 on imdb! I guess that's a bad comparison, though, because I expect it was just seen by way less people who rate movies.

Is it the embracing of non-traditional family structures that it caught the ire of the anti-woke folks? Is it just the unfavorably comparisons with simply way better similar movies by Pixar and Disney?

Has anyone seen it and can tell me their thoughts on it? I can't be the only one!

Edit: Going by the many 1 star ratings on imdb, the issue seems to be the message that sometimes divorce is okay 🙄

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/42561795

A bunch of rich people and cops knew it would make kids more likely to do drugs and did it anyways

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33139730

Fascinating look at the history of cheating in chess by Sarah Z

A fascinating deep-dive into the hellscape that is for-profit creative software

Ignore the title, it's actually an interesting video.

Ignore the title, it's actually an interesting video.

Interesting analysis of the depictions of various fictional women and the writers behind them

Hey guys, I told one of my mates this story, they mentioned you might like to hear it here.

Before this pandemic, I was running a home brew adventure with some friends, and a couple of strangers and we were having a a blast. It was me, 5 adventurers and our Rogue's Gf (who we'll call Silent) who wanted to watch and learn but didn't feel she could play.

Now Silent had a really bad stutter, and I don't mean bad like she stuttered on every few words but you could understand her, I mean it took her 3 minutes to say 2 words. Because of this, she felt she couldn't really play which is a shame. She would normally watch and then text her boyfriends or me some questions.

But hey we gotta make sure she is involved, so I gave her a character sheet and some spare paper and Silent ended up designing a bard name Baroness Hammer lute with a +10 to Performance (You'll never guess what her instrument was). Now as our sessions continue, I found out that while Silent cannot speak clearly, when she sings, she is essentially clear as day. She could sing entire songs with maybe a slight falter if she has to say 'Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious' and she can 'sing speak' (if that's the right term)

The group are more than happy to have her join in the game so myself and her bf suggest that she plays as the Baroness, but that her character has a curse that makes it she can only sing, she cannot speak normally also we had to nerf that +10 bonus). We ended up calling it 'The Divorce Curse' after her character divorced her husband.

She's happy as a clam and two sessions later, she's literally playing a drum solo on the BBEG with a pair of dragon bones while singing the opening verse from 'Psycho Killer' (which was a little scary).

To see this quite, reserved person turn into a Bardic maniac singing 'C'mere you little goblin bastards! I haven't eaten all day...' was amazing, and it's why I love this game.