David Harbour always looks like he’s having fun playing The Red Guardian, so I’m looking forward to that episode. Maybe he’ll save the world and be a hero.

A loss for Marvel but it sounds like after 14 years he wants to do something new, which is understandable.

I assume they will reboot/revive it in a few years, this talk of “finale” is just to build hype.

Plus I assume The Watcher will learn something this finale and the reboot will feature a different Watcher or other type of character.

The production for this film has been so strange. It was originally aiming for a release earlier this year, now it’s undergoing rewrites and director changes.

The first two were amazing, so I’ll wait assuming a fantastic finale, just a hell of a production.

I should have clarified, originally supposed to DEBUT in Black Widow.

In Black Panther she is Everett Ross’s ex wife.

I think the story here is obvious, but I wish Val had been handled better.

Originally supposed to appear at the end of Black Widow, instead appeared in Falcon and the Winter soldier, which was actually fine. But recruiting made sense, going after Barton didn’t (unless she’s teamed up with Kingpin).

Black Panther 2 appearance gave her more backstory, but ultimately I’m not sure it worked.

I hope this movie can clarify/fix whatever she’s been planning.

If by prolonged break you mean 3 month summer, that’s less than the average of 4 months we get now.

Also as a subscriber, yes I want new things. I’m paying for new things. It doesn’t need to be new Star Wars and Disney (in this case) has plenty of brands that they can offer me a wide variety of content, new content, every month (ish).

Now in terms of quality, you can produce multiple things. Mando/Ahsoka, that’s Dave Filoni & Jon Favreau. Acolyte, that’s Leslye Headland. Skeleton Crew, that’s by Jon Watts & Christopher Ford. They’re not putting all this work on one person. It’s spread out. These people are given the time to produce good work.

To be clear I have plenty to criticize about the content we’re getting. But I don’t feel fatigue. I think we’re getting the content people intended and I think we’re getting it at a good pace.

TV shows traditionally run from fall to spring with a short break for the holidays. They used to be 23 episodes. That’s a third more content in total and running over at least twice as much time. I don’t recall anyone thinking the regular TV schedule was oversaturating.

oversaturating

8 episodes every six months is oversaturation?

• Skeleton Crew, December 2024
• The Acolyte, June 2024
• Ahsoka, August 2023
• The Mandalorian Season 3, March 2023

Re random IPs,

Sure, but my point is there is no such thing as a “truly random” IP address. You receive an IP from your ISP or VPN provider, that provider has a pool of IP addresses. Dynamic means you get one from the pool. Static means you get the one reserved for you, from a similar pool. The security/privacy benefits are nearly zero and not worth highlighting as an advantage.

Re static IP,

https://nordvpn.com/blog/static-ip-vs-dynamic-ip-address/ says,

Costly. Static addresses usually cost more for ISPs and consumers than dynamic IP addresses.

I really appreciate this post since I think many discussions about VPNs are misleading or treat them as a magic solution to all problems.

I think you’ve given a fair outline of what a VPN.

But, being the Internet, I have a few thoughts,

Hiding your IP address: VPNs will replace your IP address with a random IP address assigned by the VPN provider.

I don’t think the word “random” is needed. The IP address a VPN assigns is no more random than the IP address your ISP assigns. I think someone could see random and assume more security, which would be incorrect.

IP addresses are usually static, meaning it never changes, but sometimes your ISP may assign you a dynamic IP address, which will change every few months or so.

Last I knew ISPs still charged for static IP address, so most would be dynamic. Although often times a dynamic IP address is de facto static, since an ISP will never change it.

If you open up ports on your router (for various purposes), it can leave your network vulnerable to certain attacks as long as the attackers know your public IP address.

I think this should be a separate bullet point, since this is clearly security and not privacy. I think as a security point it needs further discussion. Really I imagine this only comes up in peer to peer connection scenarios. I don’t know if the denial of service attacks of old are still relevant.

Encrypting your traffic: VPNs can allow your traffic to be encrypted, so that your ISP or other people connected to the same network can’t see which sites you visit or (in some cases) what data is sent. The reasons why this is important are too long to list, but you can work it out on your own.

I think it’s important to clarify who you are encrypting your traffic from. Generally your traffic is already encrypted. DNS is often not encrypted.

A few others,

Which, funnily, are probably the bots you’d be fine seeing.

Re turning off bot accounts, keep in mind labeled bots probably serve a specific purpose. So turning off bots can result in a poorer user experience.

For example I have bot accounts that post weekly discussion threads for TV shows or discussion threads for films.

If you turn off all bots then you’ll never see these discussion threads. (I’ve seen this happen, users starting a duplicate discussion thread because they hid all bot accounts.)

I would recommend blocking bot accounts you find annoying vs blocking all bots.

In the original “Deadpool & Wolverine” ending, the two superheroes save the world by destroying the Time Ripper but their fate is never in question.

The change to make it seem like they died is much better. I’m always surprised how seemingly obvious changes are missed and only put in late minute by luck.

Yoda is also ~300 years older than Yaddle, depending on the canon. We also know Yoda is a teacher, so he may be more used to speaking in riddles and as a result developed different speaking habits.

Basically there is a lot of time for things to set in and change.

As a user this is content I would expect to see in this community and if the rules need clarification they should include posts like this.

Reading the notes in https://lemmy.world/post/2536430 (linked in the sidebar),

This community is focused on games, of all kinds. Any news item or discussion should be related to gaming in some way.

This post certainly relates to gaming, which to me means as currently worded fits rule #1.

and Captain America is Danny DeVito?

We celebrate.

Algorithms are fine when an algorithm is open, clear and optional. The default sort for many apps/UI is “Active”, that’s an algorithm. It may be a simple one, but it’s an algorithm.

Honestly it’s not just artists. Most people aren’t working their dream job. I’m doesn’t mean you don’t like your job, but if your dream job paid more, or had more availability, or more security, or whatever it is you’d probably be doing that. Luckily actors typically only have a given job for a few months a year, so they have more flexibility (which is also a risk if you don’t have steady work.)