This 2022 film- the most awarded movie of all time, if you include its non-Oscars-- frequently gets called "groundbreaking." Those comments reference the success of an American film-which features a predominantly Asian main cast. Those same commentators often overlook how rare it is for (1) a comedy and (2) an SFF film to win best picture. Okay, sure, the publicity people don't call it Science Fiction or Fantasy. Most critics have defaulted to "absurdist." That's a perfectly cromulent designation in this case, but it carries a whiff of snobbery, as it has become the default term for works that could legitimately be categorized as Science Fiction and/or Fantasy, but which have literary and mainstream (although a lot of "mainstream" in the 2020s is SFF) and artistic aspirations beyond, I guess, what some people think SFF should have. Or, perhaps, they still think "SF" and "Fanta
…Our fiction is more entertaining than Wikipedia's.
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- Chaos - Patron Apostle Hung Mung
- Discord - Patron Apostle Dr. Van Van Mojo
- Confusion - Patron Apostle Sri Syadasti
- Bureaucracy - Patron Apostle Zarathud
- The Aftermath - Patron Apostle The Elder Malaclypse
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…Sadly, Ubuntu seems to be so much the default Linux distro these days that any search for a Linux "how-to" leads to an Ubuntu-centric solution. Not saying that it isn't a good distro, but I would like to clarify a couple of the points raised by Yakushin in the w-u above as well as add my 2ยข on the desktop distribution and how it works.
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