Good old fashioned hard work, just someone else’s a century or two ago.

So they’ve spent $120M (or thereabouts) and might get a Tomb Raider film out of it? Not sure they are getting value for money there.

It’s the one where Sit Patrick Stewart plays the poo emoji.

I don’t really remember any of the scary movie franchise except for 1 & 2, but I assume they get progressively worse.

Yes they did, although 5 isn’t hugely worse than 4 if only because they are pretty equally bad.

Asking for a friend?

Anyway, yes it did.

Dumb and Dumberer was pretty bad too.

10. ‘Scary Movie V’ (2013)

Even in the world of horror parody, I’d say Vampires Suck (2010) was worse, as was A Haunted House 2 (2014). Not that SCM5 is any good - it and SCM4 are the worst of the bunch. I see SCM6 is in development. Why?

It’s just lucky Disaster Movie was from 2008 as that is the nadir of the “X Movie” films, worse even than 2007’s Epic Movie (which managed to be worse than Meet the Spartans from 2008).

Yeah, that’s tricky - I have Italian DNA matches (although they go back to the late Bronze Age) and my cousin married an Italian woman, so have had a nose around some Italian family trees and they seem to have solid records. I don’t know about Spanish or South American records.

Going by this discussion (warning: it’s on The Bad Place) (see also this discussion), there are good Spanish records but you’d need to talk to someone with expertise on where to look for the specific records you need. It may be worth tracking down Spanish language genealogy sites or try general ones and see who you can find - I have great luck with RootsChat who have a Europe board on their forum (although I was mainly after British help).

It depends on where they were from. If the big repositories don’t have the data (and you have clearly tried them) then:

• The data may have been destroyed or never written down. I am ¾ Irish but landing any of my ancestors in Ireland has been hard. The records burned in 1916 and, in some areas, there are gaps during the Potato Famine when no-one was around to write things down. One of my best DNA matches on my Mum’s side falls foul of the latter as we have matching surnames and know pretty much when and where our connection would be but the parish records just stopped in that period.
• It’s not in English. They are doing their best to fill such gaps but adding translation in can be hard. There are often regional family record offices but they may be in a language you don’t speak (I’m having trouble tracing my sister-in-law’s grandmother who was born in Estonia. I am also helping a friend whose grandfather was born in Malaysia and it is tricky even working out where to look). Scandinavian genealogy tends to be excellent, but you may need access to the “farm books” where the records are kept.
• It’s paywalled elsewhere - Scottish records need you to subscribe to a specific site.
• The names are badly transcribed - the British record keepers clearly struggled with some Irish names especially when being told them by illiterate peasants (possibly not helped by some being in Gaelic). I have one family whose name is written over a dozen different ways and it can be hard piecing it together. The names settle down after a bit (there was a big push for literacy in the late 19th Century) but there are two branches of the family that ended up with two different spellings of their surname.

Or any other issues. Without details it is tricky to point you in any specific direction.

If you hit a wall, try DNA.

You’re a saint, SatansMaggotyCumFart.

Pathetic, I know.

Gotta ask why it seems to slowly decline after each influx, tho, rather than slowly rise or stay stable.

Because there is a big influx of people looking for a new home and some of them don’t feel this is it and move on.

What is Interesting about the graph is that the drop-off after Rexxit was much steeper and, despite the drops, the numbers don’t go below the level they were before.

Lemmy seems to have that spirit of the Internet of the 90s, which I thought was long gone.

That’s what I like about the Fediverse too. After Big Tech started hoovering up eyeballs, I got disenchanted but this has put fire back in my belly.

Fucking Belgium is probably paying some troll to post on Lemmy.

I’m open to offers from the Belgian secret services.

Yeah, I’m suspicious of people with high post counts too.

No.

Accident it is then.

Intriguing unintended consequences.

Seems unwise to ask a liar if he’s a liar because he’ll just lie. The interesting thing is that he"s so bad at it considering the practice he gets.

Yeah, I was pondering if it’d be possible to make it less of an issue. I presume the metal of the discs and chain is pretty thin, so you could get to work with tin snips, a file and some needle-nose pliers. Take them off, rework some and hang them back up. However, a) I’m not sure it could be done satisfactorily and b) that sounds like a lot of hassle for some, hopefully, cheap knickknack, so I’d probably just make it have an accident.

Turn them round.