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John Carpenter's The Thing. I wouldn't go down to the basement by myself for like three months.

Still one of my favorite movies.

Like any creative ever. Gamers will disagree but I find Macs desktop UI much nicer than Windows. I worked in Hollywood editorial for a while and it's ALL Macs there until you get into really high end VFX stations.

The Wacom drivers are also MUCH better on Mac. It's hard to explain, but the stylus just doesn't feel as smooth on Windows. The response curve/time is just better, even with the same settings.

A bunch of small UX things like native column view in finder turn into annoyances on other systems.

Having a UNIX terminal is nice if you're a developer but aren't fond of any of the Linux desktop environments. WSL for windows it's getting better, but getting IDEs to play nicely with it was still touch and go last time I gave it a whirl.

I game on PC and deploy to Linux servers, but Mac is my daily driver for coding and video editing. It just gets out of my way and let's me be productive. I have to do way too much fiddling on Windows and PC for a desktop experience I still like less.

Also -- disregarding the OS, which I do think Apple should be forced to sell as a standalone -- the build quality is leaps and bounds above any other laptop I've had. I've been using a laptop with the M1 Apple Silicone, and it's legitimately the happiest I've ever been with a work computer.

You have to start somewhere. Most people are too scared of corporate retaliation, so it's a situation where no-one wants to jump first and be left out in the cold if everyone else chickens out.

In that sort of scenario, it takes one group deciding to take the risk that can help tip the next domino.

That's what I meant. The GUI is all that 95% of end users interact with.

Sure.

Lol. Brain fart. Fixed

Folders. At least to the end-user. Under the hood it's Unix, so it wouldn't be wrong to call them directories either.

I feel like he fits the like... platonic ideal of Kirk, but he's not doing a William Shatner impression the same way that Peck is doing a Leonard Nimoy impression.

He's doing his own interpretation of the same character on the page.

I legit thought it was Cara Gee for the first few scenes she was in.

That's still the male gaze. Most women I know don't care about bicep size. It's one of those things men do to look more like other men they think have good bodies.

The scene with Tony Stark chopping wood is much closer to the female gaze, according to my friends at least. For them it's all about the forearms and in general the type of body you get from real physical labor, not the kind of body you get from the gym

I think they are linked, though. Objectified male bodies tend to be the type of body that men in charge think is the ideal, the same way that objectified female bodies tend to be the type of body that men in charge think is the ideal.

Most of the women I talk to don't really care for the ultra-built body type we tend to see in blockbusters. If they're attracted to the leads it tends to be for other reasons that are orthogonal to them being jacked.

One of the goals behind breaking down the patriarchy is removing the singular vision that our culture tends to have on a lot of issues, since our culture is run predominantly by a single demographic. I don't think sexualized imagery would ever go away, but a higher variety of that imagery that caters to a wider variety of tastes might help with body image issues.

Men feeling shitty for not being jacked, women feeling shitty for not being slim and large-breasted, black women feeling shitty about their hair, black and asian men feeling shitty about their features because so much of our beauty standards are set on white individuals... It's all particular flavors of the same underlying issue. There's no harm in adding women have been talking about this for decades. Let's team up and stop this bullshit.