I don’t know anything about DBZ, but I watch the ‘Pitch Meeting’ for movies way more than I watch the actual movies. The one for Joker 2 is quite fun.

I think that’s the fault of whatever app / frontend you are using. On OP’s instance (which is just rendering HTML), and on the community’s instance (using lemmy-ui), this file plays. In both cases, it’s a bog-standard MP4 inside a VIDEO tag with a video/mp4 type. If - for example - you’re using Sync, then that app also can’t play MP4s hosted by Mastodon either.

I know all the cool kids hate on AI, but as someone out of the loop, that ‘podcast’ is really impressive. I guess it speaks to how a influential certain style of podcasting is (from the likes of NPR) that a machine can copy it the same as other humans do.

As for the embedded link, this works for me (and others on the same site as me), but it might not for others:

Fuckin’ hell, is it Monday again already? Suppose it is, technically. Anyway, still listening to In Waves by Jamie XX. I’ve tried listening to other stuff, but I’m finding them all fatally flawed by not being In Waves by Jamie XX. The last track, a distinctly Irish reversioning of Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot, continues to amuse me.

Jamie XX, In Waves - only just started listening, so haven’t formed a proper opinion yet. It was playing while I was doing something else, and then it was over before I knew it, which is usually the kind of thing I like (interesting, but not too intrusive).

The album I’m listening to on repeat is Brian Eno, Another Day on Earth. Link to the song ‘Just Another Day’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oxNGbP0HFI

Oh, well, that’s put me off Alien: Romulus a bit, to be honest. I kind of hate these call-backs, especially when there’s no sophistication to them (I can forgive the “I’ve got a bad feeling …” in Rogue One, but am utterly bored of hearing it in other Star Wars output).

The ominous side to all this, is that when films become entirely about referencing themselves, they stop being about anything else. Sci-fi works best when there’s an analogy for something that exists in our lives, and offers an opinion on that matter. For example, Lucas has argued that the Ewoks in RotJ represented the Viet Cong, which is a bit clumsy, but it’s better than the sequels, that only seek to represent earlier iterations of Star Wars.

Man, imagine if you were one of the ‘Bright Ones’, and you were trekking up to see the ‘New Castle’, and you’d heard it was in the land ‘north of the Humber’, and thought “can’t be much further now” when you got the The Humber.

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This is like when supermarkets put the short-dated food in the ‘reduced’ section: I kinda always expect it to be ‘was £3, now 30p’, but it’s usually ‘was £3, now £2.89’

£390 is so close to the retail price for new, that if was going to get one, I’d probably just do that.

In what sounded like them making it up to the stars, Apple announced that they’d also greenlit a sequel (‘wolfses’) when they reduced the original theatrical release to one week. Apparently, now they’ve mixed even the 1 week run, they’ve also felt compelled to greenlight a prequel (‘teen wolfs’)

I’ll admit to assuming he must be kind of a cool nerd for naming some of his SpaceX things after Culture ships (from Iain M. Banks’ novels), but now I feel sullied by association from having enjoyed the same books.

It probably is. I’d tried Mastodon but found myself not going back. Phanpy re-invigorated my interest in it.