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  • toynbee@piefed.socialtome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    5 hours ago

    I used to work a job that alternated between 3x12 and 4x12 work weeks. They also prorated your first paycheck to accommodate that.

    That works out to 84 hours every two weeks. I don’t recall how that was addressed.

    That job turned out to kinda suck and the company no longer exists, but I always appreciated consistently having either three or four days off in a row.









  • Once when I was a kid, I was an avid, if not particularly talented or intelligent, bike rider. During that timeframe, I saw some professional bike riders; I think they were racing, but I might be misremembering. The point is, I observed that many or all of them had their elbows on the handlebars. I did not notice that their bikes were designed to support this.

    As such, the next time I went riding, I figured “hey, the pros probably know stuff I don’t. I’ll try their methods!” then placed my elbows on the handles.

    I had just about long enough to think "now, how do I steer … " before I crashed.







  • Like I mentioned, I honestly kind of enjoyed it as I was able to explain away the lack of reality. What really bothered me was, I think right before it, Whistler comes out with some sort of big firearm, then just stands there while a ninja knocks it out of his hands and slaps him in the face.

    Again, I explained it away to myself (vampire ninja has superspeed, standing still was just meant to demonstrate that) but, even if that was what was intended, it just wasn’t very well done.




  • The Death Battle I know of is a YouTube channel wherein two hosts provide statistics about two characters from all sorts of franchises (some including anime; for example, an early one pitted Goku against Superman), then show an animation of how they postulate a fight between the two of them would go, then defend their assessment at the end.

    The two hosts do kind of present in an anime fashion. I’m not sure how they make their animations, but they’re generally unique visual styles per episode, so depending which episode you see you might think different things about their genre.

    I don’t know anything about the subreddit.


  • toynbee@piefed.socialtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldthe trojan fan
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    2 days ago

    I actually quite liked all of them to some degree. I even enjoyed the awful CGI rubber ninjas fight scene; I know the movement was unrealistic but I was young enough that I figured it was superhuman vampire flexibility. However, I agree that the first one was the best.

    Trinity was my second introduction to Ryan Reynolds, so that helped some. (I’m pretty sure I first saw him in Van Wilder.) Also Wesley Snipes saying “gootchie goo” to a baby was pretty hilarious, though reflecting on that I’m not sure they ever explained how he got that child back to its mother.

    Also, I think Natasha Lyonne was in that. I knew I recognized her when my wife started watching OitNB, but it took me forever to figure out why.