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  • Cabeza2000@lemmy.worldtoMovies and TV Shows@lemmy.film•My Review of Fortress (1992)English
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    1 year ago

    This was one or my favorite scifi flicks of the nineties.

    I was a fan of Lambert (thanks to the Highlander movies) and big into scifi by then. That help me ignoring all the multiple reasons there are to bash this movie.

    I never saw it again but I am sure it didn’t age well. I prefer to keep my memories about this movie intact.

    The sequel (Fortress 2) was also bashed by the critics and it was not “good” as the first one, but I still saw it and enjoyed it.

  • Cabeza2000@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 year ago

    Non-American here.

    I have lived in three different countries and solicitors are extremely rare. And in the few cases one ringed my door it was for charity or school kids collecting donations for some summer trip (not sure if this is called soliciting or not).

    Is that bad in America that you need to put a sign at your door? How frequent they visit?

  • Cabeza2000@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.ml•Spanish FA president criticised for Hermoso kiss
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    1 year ago

    Without relation to what Hermoso (or the RFEF PR team) says, it was not appropriate. Even if they are friends, Rubiales is there as La Liga president, not as a friend.

    What would have been the public reaction if Infantino would have kissed Hermoso?

    What would have been the public reaction if Rubiales would have kissed Queen Letizia?

    This guy is a shame to Spanish soccer, I am surprised the backslash is mainly in social media and the mainstream media is just banking with clickbait low level articles. A shame.

  • Cabeza2000@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?
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    1 year ago

    Look for the movie Zeitgeist (free on YouTube) to understand how banks are able to lend money even if they don’t have it.

    In a nutshell, they are able to lend multiple times the money they hold from depositing clients.

    So for example. If a bank has $100m (clients deposits) they may be allowed, by law, to lend 10 times that amount… Even if they don’t have the money anywhere, the central bank in their country will facilitate that money to the bank. There is much more to this mechanic but this is the core of how the banks work all around the world.

  • Cabeza2000@lemmy.worldtoGames@lemmy.world•I am LOVING Baldurs Gate 3English
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    1 year ago

    I’m just a little bit late to the Baldurs Gate 3 party,

    Late? As a patient gamer I would say you got in early. :)

    I played most of the mainstream CRPG, including multiple Larian Studios titles and I have no doubt that I will play BG3 as well… But probably in a year or two after the game gets some polish and, hopefully, a discount.

    BTW, thanks for posting and generating content in Lemmy.