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My phone is getting old.

Sometimes it's perfectly fine. Other times it's slow and constantly freezing.

"System UI has stopped responding". "Keyboard has stopped responding". "The page is unresponsive. Load or Wait".

I'm also seeing the battery get worse. It takes longer to charge (sometimes a full night) and it dies quicker.

It was a good phone and served me well. I can tell that it's nearly time to finally retire it.
 
I kinda wish people determined who won presidential elections (and elections in general) based on who won in a competitive reality TV show (like Big Brother for example). Imagine how interesting it'll be to see political candidates competing against each other on a reality TV show to win an election lol.
 
chocovelvetcake said:
I kinda wish people determined who won presidential elections (and elections in general) based on who won in a competitive reality TV show (like Big Brother for example). Imagine how interesting it'll be to see political candidates competing against each other on a reality TV show to win an election lol.
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Are we talking like Family Feud or Wipeout?
 
My family would go the theater growing up and we would usually watch some random religious B grade movie.

It wasn't a until we had access to a streaming service (when I was around 17 years old) in which I started to branch out and develop my own preferences.

Sitting through so many of those middle budget poorly acted films sure did make me appreciate movies outside of that bubble.
 
SkyKnight03 said:
My family would go the theater growing up and we would usually watch some random religious B grade movie.

It wasn't a until we had access to a streaming service (when I was around 17 years old) in which I started to branch out and develop my own preferences.

Sitting through so many of those middle budget poorly acted films sure did make me appreciate movies outside of that bubble.
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I remember my old church had a sermon series on the movie Facing the Giants. I remember being bored by the fact it was about football lol. More recently, I heard a couple say they wished there were more "faith-based" movies in the theaters. Umm...you can just watch those on streaming, right? Idk. Watch what you want, but don't force it on others.
 
QueenCobra said:
I remember my old church had a sermon series on the movie Facing the Giants. I remember being bored by the fact it was about football lol. More recently, I heard a couple say they wished there were more "faith-based" movies in the theaters. Umm...you can just watch those on streaming, right? Idk. Watch what you want, but don't force it on others.
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How is releasing a faith-based movie in theaters “forcing religion upon others”?
 
QueenCobra said:
I remember my old church had a sermon series on the movie Facing the Giants. I remember being bored by the fact it was about football lol. More recently, I heard a couple say they wished there were more "faith-based" movies in the theaters. Umm...you can just watch those on streaming, right? Idk. Watch what you want, but don't force it on others.
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There's no shortage of them. Five of these films were in theaters during 2024. They usually sit below the big annual blockbusters.

These movies are easy to produce and will always attract a target audience. When you've seen a couple of them they start to feel dry. (often a family drama with very, very basic characterization plus a religious testimony dropped in).

It's not to say there haven't been good movies produced in the genre. You can find it. The stuff dropping in theaters isn't it. It's how I feel about Marvel currently. I'd rather dig through previous superhero content (maybe from the 60's through the 90's) and avoid the formula being regurgitated.

Some of the older DC cartoons are very fun watches. They can be found searching through HBO.
 
Alolan_Apples said:
How is releasing a faith-based movie in theaters “forcing religion upon others”?
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I didn't mean that. I just mean, as in, saying "I wish there were more faith-based movies in theaters". I mean, it's not really the place for that. Most popular movies are secular because of the international market, where not everyone is Christian. I'm Christian myself, and religion has been a positive force in my life, but I also realize not everyone has that same experience, or is of a different religion. It's fine is there are some religious movies, and they can be successful in their markets, but people have to realize, they're not going to be mainstream blockbusters like Disney or superhero movies.
 
QueenCobra said:
I didn't mean that. I just mean, as in, saying "I wish there were more faith-based movies in theaters". I mean, it's not really the place for that. Most popular movies are secular because of the international market, where not everyone is Christian. I'm Christian myself, and religion has been a positive force in my life, but I also realize not everyone has that same experience, or is of a different religion. It's fine is there are some religious movies, and they can be successful in their markets, but people have to realize, they're not going to be mainstream blockbusters like Disney or superhero movies.
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And that, I agree. In an age when we’re more religiously diverse, they aren’t going to be considered the best movies ever or best movies in a long time, even if they did something new. The only time a movie based on the Bible became a huge blockbuster was The Ten Commandments (1956), and back then, there was very little competition in the film industry. Nowadays, it’s difficult to make this achievement, especially since religion focuses more on peace and good movies focus more on conflict. Also, if franchising is a ticket to success, it would be a huge insult to turn any Bible story into a franchise since they don’t come with sequels like that.
 
I’m so glad I saved the halloween furniture that I got from halloween event (in game) since it saved me a lot of pumpkins; I went through most of my storage of pumpkins to make more, so I’d probably not have enough pumpkins if I didn’t save all that furniture. I got rid of the big pumpkin patch I had to design an area for unreal estate too.
 
Sometimes, when I'm bored, I just go on YouTube and listen to US Presidents' tapes. Idk why, but just hearing presidents talk about stuff on tape is kinda soothing in a way.
 
Somebody on social media wrote me three different incredibly over the top angry messages. Full of expletives and even calling me mentally disabled. Then he blocked me immediately.

He was upset because I wrote posts that were off topic to the group we were in. (that was the initial reason, then it just goes into a weird rant).

people can definitely be unhinged.
 
So my brother was thinking about it, and in Zelda 1, you have to enter Second Quest (basically masochist mode) by naming Link Zelda at the beginning of the game. So what if some random kid in the 80s happened to be named Zelda and wanted to name Link after themself, and they saw their friends play the game and thought it was hard, but it was even worse for them. And guides probably wouldn’t help since they’re for the main game, and their friends would also be playing the normal game so no one would be able to help and they would have no idea why. That would have to suck.
 
Alolan_Apples said:
And that, I agree. In an age when we’re more religiously diverse, they aren’t going to be considered the best movies ever or best movies in a long time, even if they did something new. The only time a movie based on the Bible became a huge blockbuster was The Ten Commandments (1956), and back then, there was very little competition in the film industry. Nowadays, it’s difficult to make this achievement, especially since religion focuses more on peace and good movies focus more on conflict. Also, if franchising is a ticket to success, it would be a huge insult to turn any Bible story into a franchise since they don’t come with sequels like that.
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What’s also interesting is that some Christians were offended by movies like The Last Temptation of Christ and one evangelist wanted it destroyed. I’ve never seen that movie, but apparently it added a lot of fictional scenes that were considered inappropriate. But some of the actors were nominated for awards.

So— some religious movies can still be critically acclaimed, but not necessarily popular with their target audience.
 
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