u/MarcatoCastevet

This question comes up every now and then and I have never been able to find an answer. I'm aware that the Belgian King's name, Boudewijn/Baudouin, is the same name in Dutch and French. But what I'm curious about is what the official spelling was. Like, how did the (mostly) bilingual royal family write his name in non official letters? I'm not sure if the King had a passport back in the day, but if that was the case, would it have both names?

This is very unimportant, but I'm still hoping to find out!

I watched Eli Roth's Thanksgiving in which the killer murders one of the characters by cooking her inside an oven. This scene hasn't left me since. When I tried to look it up I read some horrifying stories about work place accidents involving hot ovens and people who got stuck inside them. I can't imagine the pain and fear they had to deal with before they lost their lives in this devastating manner.

This also made me wonder, did they suffer for hours or did they pass out within minutes? And what does that pain compare to? I know it's highly unlikely any of you went through something like this and made it out alive, but perhaps there's someone here who knows how that would be? From the moment you realise you're in an oven with no way to escape until the moment you die, what would it be like?

Hi guys! I'm looking for the full movie script of Muppets Most Wanted. There are complete transcripts available online, which is nice, but I am looking for the screenplay specifically. Some scripts are obtainable online for a fee, on ScriptFly, for example.

Unfortunately, Muppets Most Wanted isn't one of them. I figured someone here would either have a PDF or if it's for sale somewhere else? It's my favourite film of the bunch and I've been wanting to read it for so long.

Hi guys! I'm looking for the full movie script of Muppets Most Wanted. There are complete transcripts available online, which is nice, but I am looking for the screenplay specifically. Some scripts are obtainable online for a fee, like these ones on ScriptFly:

https://preview.redd.it/cuk2ckot519h1.png?width=1226&format=png&auto=webp&s=8a50414f111f6866d3301586cdb3e7dc7949f2a3

Unfortunately, Muppets Most Wanted isn't one of them. I figured someone here would either have a PDF or if it's for sale somewhere else? It's my favourite film of the bunch and I've been wanting to read it for so long.

This is a dumb beginner's question. I used to make CC for The Sims 4 with Blender and always used a Sims 4 item from S4S as a reference regarding the size of my own object.
I don't know how people do this for Paralives. I've been watching a couple of tutorials but most people seem to just know what they're doing in that regard. Is it as simple as I think? Does anybody have advice for me?

I can't be the only one who's slightly worried about this (see screenshot ⬇️). I don't question the developer's intentions, but the passwords and credit cards mention did make me question if it was a good idea to keep using this for browsing on Safari. Can anyone advise me on whether or not this is a good idea.

https://preview.redd.it/165oigf9kt7h1.png?width=1150&format=png&auto=webp&s=6592a5e7a6352829d7ea06ca2014454ce38172da

Edit: uBlock gives me the same warning...

https://preview.redd.it/m9y57rs4jx7h1.png?width=574&format=png&auto=webp&s=33c8423c49feb7639e383ba741bf6b1733c73472

Wim T. Schippers, the Sesamstraat's legendary voice actor (and puppeteer on certain occasions) passed away on June 10th. The news came out yesterday evening and since he still voiced the dubbed version of Sesame Street up until the latest ones published on Netflix.

Wim mainly voiced Jim Henson's characters (such as Kermit The Frog and Ernie) while Paul Haenen did most of Frank Oz's. Most of the time they were dubbed shorts from Sesame Street, but for several performances they performed with the puppets themselves, like this special event that celebrated Sesamstraat's 30th anniversary.

https://preview.redd.it/4lmw9b529m7h1.jpg?width=531&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3b19efd7677d60a8a4d1cc55756f9baaa08c0085

From the first episode in 1976 up until 2019 The Netherlands had its own co production with our own human cast and Muppets, even though they were still built by Jim Henson's Creature Shop. Most episodes were unique to The Netherlands, but those with Ernie, Kermit and many many others were voiced by Wim T. Schippers. In recent years we've only had the American Sesame Street on Netflix. Still with Wim and Paul's voices as the iconic characters we've known and loved for the past 50 years.

Wim T. Schippers with Dutch Muppets Tommie (dog), Ienieminie (mouse) and Big Bird's cousin Pino

When The Muppet Show aired in The Netherlands in the 1970s/80s they were subtitled, but Wim T. Schippers was still responsible for the Dutch voice dub of Kermit The Frog for the full length films and specials.

Yes, the first thing you probably noticed is how different the voices are compared to what most of us are familiar with. These were deliberate choices. He specifically didn't want to mimic Jim (or Steve, Peter, Matt and others), but created a whole other vibe. Kermit's voice sounds like the voiceover from those old fashioned newsreels from between, roughly, the 30s and 60s. This was a perfect fit for his News Flash segments.

I understand that for many of yours this is a completely unknown figure, but for us in The Netherlands we consider him a cultural icon and it was his voice we grew up on watching Ernie and Kermit The Frog. They were on my Sesamstraat cassettes in the car back in the 90s and unbeknownst to me a lot of those songs were made for Sesamstraat specifically and were never used for the original American production. An example is this banger Maak Er Wat Van (loosely translates to: make the most of it). But obviously the classics known around the world like Disco Frog (or in Dutch: The Disco Dance).

But the song I put on top of my playlist to commemorate him was the Dutch version of I Don't Want To Live On The Moon.
I'm most familiar with the original by Jim Henson's Ernie that always makes me emotional, but for today I want to celebrate Wim T. Schippers by listening to the Dutch dub.

I hope Jim's excited to meet him up there 🩵

FYI: I'm talking about the artist formerly known as Kanye West, who legally changed his name to Ye. Even though this guy is a racist antisemitic dick, I still think that bad people are still worthy of respect and being called the name they chose.

That being said, this man called himself a nazi, brought out a song titled 'H*il H*tler', did a nazi salute on a livestream, sold swastika t-shirts (that he advertised in a Superbowl ad) and had the audacity to tweet the following: "Some of my best friends are Jewish and I don’t trust any of them". And despite all this people here in my country still decided to go to his concert.
We all know people generally don't care about Jews and our feelings so I'm not surprised that he gets away with this. I completely understand there are a lot of people who aren't aware of these things he said and there are also people who genuinely couldn't care less, but the people who SHOULD care seem to suddenly have lost their moral compasses and I'm so disappointed.

There are people who are normally very serious about justice, who openly fight against hate speech/antisemitism and still went to see Ye?! I know Jewish people who are aware of the things he said and suddenly stopped caring and went to his show. I'm so confused and so disappointed. I never thought to see so many people who normally call out everything that even slightly touches antisemitism forget about everything they care about or fight against.

On the one hand I want to tell everyone who's been to see Ye that it's insane to spend money on an artist who openly said HE HATES YOU. And not in a subtle way. He sold swastika shirts! And praised H*tler in his music!
On the other hand, I do know it isn't that deep. Celebrity culture is so toxic and we should stop thinking celebrities are good people until proven otherwise. Most of them are far removed from our "normal" society and we have nothing with in common with any of them, even the ones we like. But how Jewish people and allies or activists feel okay with supporting this neo nazi artist is inexplainable in my mind. Makes you think how many people throw ethics out of the window when they can have a fun night out. I'm so disappointed...

I've been playing this game for years and only recently did he start setting up traps to see if I'd fall for the bait of choosing the obscure character presented. At first these happened once every couple of weeks, but lately I've been getting more traps than right guesses? I just had THREE traps for one character before he finally got to the character he was trying to guess. Am I doing something suspicious or anything? Or is this just something new?

I've been trying to boot up 'The Sims 2: Super Collection' on my M2 MacBook Pro. It used to work fine a while ago but I remember I had this same problem when I went from Intel to M1 back in the day. I think it ran without any problems on this M2 mac, but right now it doesn't go past the Aspyr startup window:

https://preview.redd.it/hdhgxansjv3h1.jpg?width=1798&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a489bf6ef2affd36da996a763ad7215dadefd761

When I press play for a second or two it seems like it's going to open as you'd normally expect. And then it doesn't. Nothing happens. Not even an error popup or anything similar. Usually that's the moment when I decide to give up, but I just want to be able to play the game.

I've gone through this sub and the wiki and the solution usually mentioned is changing the refresh rate from ProMotion to 60 Hz. Unfortunately, this hasn't done anything for me. I feel like there has to be someone who's had the same thing and got it solved. Let's hope...

More details about the computer I'm using:
MacBook Pro 14-inch (2023), Apple M2 Pro, 16 GB RAM, MacOS Tahoe 26.3.1 (a)

I've been going through hell from November until a couple of weeks ago. My days are still pretty rough, but it's limited to one to three intense outbursts a day. This compared to full days of agony when it was colder. I've heard some people's symptoms are manageable when the temperature goes up, so I'm wondering if some people have noticed it going away (or partially) in the warmer months of the year? And when did it come back?

I'm probably not the only one here who gets upset about social media comment sections filled with dogwhistles (we all know this one: 🧃 for example), overt antisemitic takes, conspiracy theories about "the Jews controlling everything" and I could go on for hours if I went over all the hate speech that gets thrown in our faces on a daily basis. It's hurtful and frustrating to see how many people are hateful and/or misinformed.

Part of why I called it frustrating is because I always feel a push to respond. When someone posts the juice emoji about a crime that was not committed by Jews I want to tell them Jews had nothing to do with it, when someone says we use the word goy as a slur I want to explain that means nothing but non-Jew. The worst one is when they question the holocaust or the extent to which it happened. All I want to do is just educate them on what really happened. And I catch myself writing whole paragraphs to respond to a comment by a random anonymous person on TikTok.

I told somebody about this frustration, and she gave me great advice I want to share with you.

She reminded me of the fact that, whatever you want to do or say, those people want you to be angry or upset. Even if they end up agreeing with you when you explain something, they're never going to admit that. We're not going to change the world by trying to make people understand that what they're doing or saying is not okay.

A lot of people are just hard core antisemites who are very excited to have a free pass to spew hate now that they can cover that up by saying "this was about Israel, not Jews". Another part of them are just ragebaiting bullies, who love to "trigger" people. A lot of them are kids, giggling about how people fell for the bait. Conspiracy theorists are going to tell you you were brainwashed anyway. They're probably convinced they're right. In all these cases (and all the others that exist) there is no way whatever we try to tell them is going to change anything. How social media polarised the world is devastating, but I don't think this is going to get better.

So in short: whenever you feel like typing a comment, think to yourself if it's going to be useful. If it's not, I think it's worth to protect your mental health by realising that whatever you do is going to end up in them hurting you even worse. None of this to silence ourselves, but to protect ourselves from antisemitic hate.

I hope this can be beneficial to some of you who feel the same kind of need to defend yourself in a social media comment section. If not, I don't intend this to be THE way to deal with this. But it made me a lot happier.

Shabbat Shalom ✡️

https://preview.redd.it/ux2ue97me41h1.png?width=1368&format=png&auto=webp&s=5ce2b8644358cd44bf59bc749b3850a159629dd2

https://preview.redd.it/oqylq97me41h1.png?width=1548&format=png&auto=webp&s=b835ad8734a663a9eb531946da4c545c0a3707fa

Hi everyone,

I've been waiting for a package that I initially thought would arrive within days. Processing and everything went fine and was very swift, but it's apparently still being assessed by customs now 16 days later. It's a very insignificant thing I bought that shouldn't require a lot of inspection and I've ordered from the UK before (to The Netherlands) without any issues. So I'm starting to think there's something wrong. The delivery partner (PostNL) does not know my package exists and I don't know if Royal Mail is still "in charge" of the process. I don't know who to call or contact about this. I'm starting to worry it may not arrive at all...