In case any of you had the idea of testing out the new Witcher animated movie: it's Netflix all right.

It has all the formulaic hallmarks of a Netflix production. While the over-all percentage of DEI characters was kept to a bare minimum, the king was mid-way through revealed to have married a woman of 'swarthy skin' (African) and his son is of mixed race. (He immediately looked suspicious in a Netflix way.) The rest all appear to be Caucasian, although they did flirt with a white looking 'princess' with an Arab wardrobe and retinue.

Story: The fighting and the story arc are, of course, dominated and moved forward by women. How can it not be? It's basically 'The Little Mermaid', but ran through a Witcher universe meat grinder. And for some inexplicable reason (Netflix) they gave the underwater witch a musical number when she tells of the potion that can give the mermaid princess legs, just like in 'The Little Mermaid', rofl.

Voice acting: The voice acting is hysterically bad for one of the female characters, but is over all passable. (Obligatory DEI voice actors in the list.)

Action: The action is actually well-choreographed (they make use of digital models), but you care little for the outcome due to the Netflix curse of who really gives a shit what happens.

Animation quality: somewhat superior than a DC animated movie (bigger budget, no doubt) but still has the same anemic and lifeless feel of a DC animated movie.

Verdict: stylish looking trash.

Bought my niece a book ('The Hobbit') for her birthday and figured that I'd pair some Lego with it, considering her age class, but couldn't find a single (affordable) Lego tie-in. So I tried 'Lord of the Rings' instead, same story. Then I tried 'Rings of Power' as a last resort, and the only results were 'Lord of the Rings' tie-ins, rofl.

You can buy a shitty plastic Gandalf pipe to smoke some Shire weed (left over garbage from The Hobbit era), but not a single 'Rings of Power' piece of merchandise.

The Harry Potter franchise on the other hand is still going strong. They're even releasing new Lego kits each year, although each of them is paired with a little Harry Potter Lego figure, resulting in a Harry Potter clone army if you are foolish enough to buy them all as gifts.

Where do you guys get your stock market info and/or tips from? Wallstreetbets? Any decent twitter accounts (that do not call themselves guru or are constantly droning on about 'to the moon'?)

Where do you guys get your stock market info and/or tips from? Wallstreetbets?

Been rewatching Deep Space Nine here and there.

SPOILERS

If you want to see just how bad some of the actors truly are on Deep Space Nine, you should definitely check this one out. Not only is it an absolutely horrible Sisko episode about civil rights (what else) but everyone goes without make-up and they do (laughable) New York accents.

Another one is S06E23 'Profit and lace'. It's where they turn Quark into a tranny in order to salvage what's left of the Grand Nagus' authority after he gave females the right to wear clothes. Yes, that's right. Trannies & feminism. :')

(Not to mention parroting all the talking points about getting females into the workforce and doubling the economy, but for some reason they omitted the part where the birth rates would plummet as a consequence. rofl)

S06E24 is also hilariously bad. It's where they decide to send an eighteen-year-old Molly back into the time where she was left stranded for ten years and grew up all alone on an abandoned planet 300 years ago. Apparently, she would be better off there, instead of a Federation clinic, specifically designed to rehabilitate cases like hers. :') :')

Edit:

Season 6 was also the season where they decided to turn Dukat into a cartoon villain and make him the 'nemesis' of Sisko. It resulted in that ridiculous episode where Sisko and Dukat were stranded on a planet and Dukat was talking to himself the whole time. It ended with Sisko ignoring Dukat's mental status and declaring him an 'evil man', after his pride got wounded (once again).

This theme was further explored in S06E17. Where Dukat called up Kira out of nowhere and revealed that he was banging her mother during the occupation, rofl. And then to make it even more preposterous, Kira used the Orb of Time to travel back in time to confirm that her mother was really banging Dukat.