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#21

Off Topic Discussion / Re: Happy Thanksgiving

Last post by claws - November 29, 2025, 10:04:36 AM

Happy Thanksgiving



Germans do not celebrate Thanksgiving like Americans because their history and cultural traditions are different.
The American Thanksgiving holiday is rooted in the harvest celebrations and the historical narrative of the Pilgrims and Native Americans.

Germans celebrate "Erntedankfest" (Harvest Thanksgiving Festival) which is a traditional Christian harvest festival that predates the American Thanksgiving.
It is typically celebrated on the first Sunday of October.

#22

Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...

Last post by zombie no.one - November 29, 2025, 08:44:01 AM

cool, will actually give FRIGTENERS another try then!

#23

Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...

Last post by M.10rda - November 29, 2025, 08:42:36 AM

I am developing that same "disorder"... I used to have the opposite of ADHD - I would force myself to watch the entirety of any film, no matter how intolerable, once I started it. I can't do that anymore... life's too short. Unfortunately for both of us, some movies only get good towards the end. FROM HELL finally cleaves towards its source material in the final quarter and Ian Holm is pretty good at that point (as he always was). And once Jeffrey Combs takes over THE FRIGHTENERS it's a whole 'nother movie.

#24

Off Topic Discussion / Re: Happy Thanksgiving

Last post by bob - November 29, 2025, 08:37:54 AM

Happy Thanksgiving   

#25

Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...

Last post by chainsaw midget - November 29, 2025, 08:35:29 AM

#26

Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...

Last post by claws - November 29, 2025, 08:33:20 AM

The thing is, I asked Copilot to come up with a text description of the poster first, then make the poster. So it came up with a poster description its own policies wouldn't allow it to create. Very strange.

Not strange but logical according to copilot.

Direct request difference: If you skip the "describe first" step and just ask for the poster, the system interprets the title in a more open, theatrical way. It doesn't generate a problematic description before the image, so the request can pass safely.

So the second person's request worked because the system never had to commit to a text description that violated its own rules.

#27

Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...

Last post by zombie no.one - November 29, 2025, 01:07:52 AM

think I probaby did eject before then yes.... my staying power with movies I'm not grabbed by in the early stages is at an all time low... I did hang around for an hour or so with FROM HELL though

I don't have ADHD or anything, just low tolerance for stuff that isn't blowing my mind in some respect (even if subtly)

#28

Off Topic Discussion / Re: How's the weather?

Last post by claws - November 29, 2025, 12:15:35 AM

We had our first snow last weekend. By the looks of it, no more snow until January.

#29

Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...

Last post by claws - November 28, 2025, 11:06:15 PM

#30

Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...

Last post by M.10rda - November 28, 2025, 10:47:45 PM

I love Robbie Coltrane, in everything (especially CRACKER). I assume you turned off THE FRIGHTENERS before Jeffrey Combs' Oscar-worthy performance as Agent Milton Dammers. This is Combs we're talking about so I can't claim his work in FRIGHTENERS is better than his work as Herbert West but it's better than any other performance ever given by any other actor who appears in that film, by a long walk, including most of Combs' other (fine) work.