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Pickles. They were too strong and sour for me. Now I love 'em.

That's so neat; I'd never noticed that before. And the walls closing in on the stage adaptation is really clever

"12 Angry Men" (1957) is a personal favorite that I recommend to pretty much everyone. Great messages about questioning assumptions, challenging biases, understanding the limitations of evidence, acknowledging imperfections in the justice system, and the consequences thereof.

The movie is also cinematically interesting to me because it feels "small". The entire movie just about takes place in one room, and the events of the film transpire over the course of one afternoon.

You may be entitled to compensation! (although the deadline to submit claims passed in 2018)

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/06/if-you-used-to-run-linux-on-your-ps3-you-could-get-55-from-sony/

I loved the storms in BOTW. The rainy atmosphere and the mechanical effects were really well done.

In a similar vein, Majora's Mask has a fantastic thunderstorm on day 2 of the cycle.

I found almond milk to be a great substitute a couple of years ago when I was dieting. Particularly the 'unsweetened, vanilla' variety from Almond Breeze.

As an added bonus, it also has a much longer shelf life than regular milk.

In terms of design, I find Lemmy to be basically a 1:1 replacement for Reddit. It's a link aggregator with communities, comments, and voting.

I like it a lot, even though the communities are smaller and there's less content. It's just a nicer communal experience for me compared to Reddit. I feel more pressure to actually comment since the communities are smaller and every little bit helps, lol.

As others have pointed out, there's a lot to hate about ads since the industry is routinely dishonest, insulting, obnoxious, deceptive, intrusive, and all manner of unpleasant. I've been adblocking religiously for most of my life for these reasons.

So I think a more interesting question might be the other way around: "What do you like about commercials?"

The only commercials I've ever liked are the ones for local small businesses. The ones with a nonexistent production budget that aren't beating the viewer over the head with blatant lies or dishonest sales tactics.

Adult Swim used to have faux-ad bumpers for the fictional business "Strickland Propane" from King of the Hill, featuring the honest-to-a-fault character Hank Hill as the spokesman, which I felt captured that vibe well.

Rhett and Link also made a funny homage to these kinds of commercials in this classic skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnOyMSEWNTs

Overall I think this is well written. I agree with @poVoq@slrpnk.net that the section on picking an instance could be improved, since which instance one picks can be rather important, since federation/defederation is dictated by individual instances.

And a minor typo I noticed:

leaving Mastodon out to try

I assume that should be "out to dry".

and connect to it with an iPad that has a Jellyfin client installed?

In my experience, you don't even need the dedicated Jellyfin client. Just opening it up in a web browser works out of the box, so that's potentially one less thing to download/install/manage for the clients.

That said, I've never tried to access Jellyfin from an iPad/iPhone/Mac so it might not be as seamless as my experiences on Android/Linux based devices. But I imagine they'd be fine; just test it out before you hit the road.

I don't watch a lot of creepy/spooky stuff, so my recommendations come from a fairly limited breadth. That said, I recommend a few things that many might lump under "kid movies" (I prefer the more accurate label "family entertainment") since they tend to be perilous and unsettling without being outright violent, gory, or generally miserable.

Coraline (2009) - A young girl, dissatisfied with her home life after moving to a new town, stumbles upon a dark, parallel world. Therein, she finds solace in a parallel version of her mother who is not what she seems.

Paranorman (2012) - A young boy who can speak with the dead learns that a witch who was executed by the townspeople hundreds of years ago will soon return to seek vengeance upon them.

Over the Garden Wall (2014) - A mini-series focusing on two brothers who find themselves inexplicably lost in a forest teeming with fell beasts, witches, undead, and unlikely allies. I watch this one every year around this time. Cozy yet spooky at the same time.