It’s not “surprise polling” when it’s been literally happening everywhere for the last two or three years…

That’s what my ex-wife said too…

You mean that hussy is cheating on me???

Did Putin order it while winking?

I’ve always just used the same ones that I use for performers because I’m poor.

If possible, make sure there’s no recognizable voices or anything like that because the tone will be repeated through the scene, so any voices are going to repeat as well. So when you’re doing it, tell your actors/crew to be quiet.

One of the biggest things that most amateur filmmakers or video makers make is not getting sufficient tone.

Before shooting, record a fairly long stretch of just the ambient sound in the area where you’re filming so that when you are editing, it can be laid under the audio tracks and help to smooth out the jumps in audio from different clips.

Apple will keep charging whatever their marketing department can convince idiots to pay.

Their profit margin has zero basis in the reality of how much it costs to design, build, and market a particular product and is instead a function of how high they can push it until their customer says no.

That’s why they have the spare cash to produce goddamn television shows… That they THEN make you pay to watch!

IPhone users have already paid for appleTV a thousand times over. But hey, gotta look cool in front of your coworkers I guess.

Because Ford has a personality. And he used it to make a big show about (pretending) to counter Trump, which gave him a boost.

For the most part, not even Conservatives in Canada like Trump. It’s a mistake to think that Canadian Conservatives are just “Northern Republicans”. Some are. But for the most part, Conservatives here (especially Ontario provincial Conservatives) are still human beings.

Poppinfresh, on the other hand, made his entire schtick about basically copying Trump style tactics. He and his cronies are to federal conservatives what MAGA is to old-school republicans; a hard-right political fringe that is attempting to wrest control of the Conservative narrative by appealing to the same demographics as Trump, clamping down on what Con MPs are and are not allowed to say to the media, personal attacks and three word slogans instead of actual policy, etc…

And it almost worked. For a while it looked like he would succeed. And it’s why he was absolutely desperate to get an election before Trump took office; before the idea of a Trump presidency became the reality of a Trump presidency. Because even among Conservatives, Trump’s chaos craters the popularity of any politician that seeks to emulate him, which Doug Ford certainly did not do.

“Let’s get out of here before one of those things kills Guy” is still low-key one of my favourite lines.

What’s the line between being self aware and a parody?

How many lines of blow does it take before you stop writing a self-aware script and devolve into parody?

Same. It was ultimately pretty forgettable except for the bathroom fight scene, which is literally all I remember of it.

Thanks to Trump, the Liberals have been gifted the best possible campaign season. Poppinfresh has spent his entire time as leader doing only three things:

• Basing their entire campaign on Trudeau

• Coming up with stupid three word slogans.

• Outwardly and openly styling himself after Trump in order to court our own version of MAGA.

They’d be stupid not to take advantage of it earlier rather than later. It’s primed for all this shit to blow up in the Cons faces in an exceptionally hilarious fashion.

In Trump’s brain, soft power isn’t properly deferential to him personally. That’s what it amounts to.

It all comes down to his raging narcissism; soft power is done with tact and diplomacy in whispers. For Trump, that’s weakness. It’s not true power unless people/countries/organizations proclaim his power with effusive thank-yous and obsequious shows of capitulation.

It’s not enough to lead the free world; the rest of the world needs to be properly thankful for it in a way that he himself finds acceptable. (namely by making a big show of bending the knee)

an unfortunately not insignificant percent of the population in the central provinces who would probably side with the US

As someone from the prairies (Saskatchewan), I can assure you that while, yes, we do have our fair share of pretty hard-right leaning individuals, most of even THEM are anti-trump because of the sovereignty issue. Even the ones who agree with what he is doing and would like to see Poppinfresh in power to do similar up here, would never side them militarily in an annexation attempt for the same reason that American MAGA flies the US flag…sovereignty is their identity; CANADIAN sovereignty.

There is a TINY number (some dipshits in Alberta) who actually want Alberta to join the US. But they are fractionally insignificant.

Lovely drawing style. My compliments.

Depends on the hobby. I tend to collect hobbies and then grow bored of them, then return to them a while later.

I’ll become absolutely obsessed with learning about “hobby x”, and spend two months basically getting as close to an expert on it as I can with self-teaching. (Video Editing, filmmaking, screenwriting, 3D modelling for flight simulators, Graphic Design, etc…)

Then I’ll grow bored and move onto a new obsession from the above list, focus on that long enough that at least 25% of my knowledge of the previous obsession vanishes and I have to relearn a bunch the next time that obsession rolls around.

I’ve been told that’s possibly ADHD, but since I suffer from depression I’ll take my bursts of obsessiveness over lack of any motivation any day.

I’ve solved that problem by buying two bags. One to eat all at once. And one to spread out over the rest of the day.

it feels very weird to call them “egg producers”

Chicken pimps?

Dave’s not here, man.

50 years of cuts to the education system and the demonization of the Liberal Arts (history, sociology, etc…)

A country that would rather keep a football program than an arts program is always going to suffer.