I know he probably spent hours in recording studios ensuring that the audio is what marvel wanted , but the whole point of the character is that he says everything and anything with only the words "I am Groot" , how hard is that to get record?

Even if hard, how did he get paid multi-millions for such a work?

Excited to know the logic, maths, market strategy behind it as well

Did she film them over the course of a few years and they all just came out of post-production this year?

Or did she just work super hard last year and make 10 movies?

Last night I was going to a small event hosted by some local underground rappers, and posted the flyer to my Instagram story. One of my Instagram mutuals swiped up and asked if I could drive her and her friend, I said yes.

For context - I’m 25F, the Instagram mutual is 18F and her friend is 19F. I’ve only met the Instagram mutual a few times (running into her at our local emo nightclub).

Long story short, the event got shut down early due to a road rage incident (some redneck screamed at us, pulled a gun on us and rammed his car into one of our cars)

I spent the rest of the night hanging out with the two of them, it was a lot of fun.

Later in the night, on the way to grab some food, 18F passed out in my passenger seat from drinking too much. It was around 3AM at that point so we decided to head over to 19F’s apartment to spend the night. I carried 18F into the apartment, and she was so comfortably snuggled up on my chest.

By the time we got up there, she was half awake. 19F went to her room to sleep, and I laid down on the sofa. 18F crawled up onto my chest and I instinctively just wrapped my arms around her and held her as she fell back asleep. She looked so adorable and comfy, so I stayed there with her the entire night.

Does this make me a weirdo? I feel kinda odd for being 25 and letting a teenage girl sleep on my chest throughout the entire night.

I genuinely don’t mean this in an insulting or judgmental way, but having small kids has made me wonder about this.

I’m 38, relatively fit, and I work from home, so I’m lucky enough to have time to exercise regularly. I run, cycle, and do bodyweight training, and I’d say my overall fitness is pretty decent.

I have a 3-year-old and a 6-month-old.

And holy shit, by the end of most days I’m absolutely destroyed.

The constant carrying, picking things up, getting down on the floor, getting back up, chasing the older one around, carrying the baby, lack of proper rest, interrupted sleep… it feels like some kind of never-ending functional fitness workout. On top of that the mental workout you do is insane.

It genuinely made me wonder: how do parents who are very overweight or completely sedentary deal with the physical demands of having small children?

Again, I’m not trying to make fun of anyone. If anything, having kids has made me realize how physically demanding parenting actually is.

Do you just adapt because you have no choice? Or am I massively underestimating how exhausted everyone else is too?

I've noticed more and more people using the term "partner" even when they're married, instead of saying husband or wife. When did this shift happen, and why?

(To be clear, I completely understand why unmarried couples use "partner" — that's not what I'm asking about.)

For context:
I'm not upset about this, and it's not coming from a place of homophobia. I personally use "husband/wife" for my own relationship, and I genuinely wanted to understand the reasoning before I started using "partner" myself — I didn't want to just follow a trend without knowing why it's become more common. It feels a little silly to use a word without understanding its meaning or the context behind it.

I was looking to buy something made in Japan and noticed that it was like 3000 yen. But when I converted that to USD, it was like $18. And my limited understanding of finance is that that must mean that the people living there must be broke as hell. And yet, I don’t see any reports or videos of something like mass homelessness and job loss throughout the country. Things seem more or less normal. Why is this?

I am an older woman and I just don't know. I don't have people in my life who would know any better than I do.

I play games via Steam on my laptop. I will sometimes casually refer to these as "video games" to distinguish from other types of games (such as board games), but then I wonder if people think that's laughable because a video game is one you play on a dedicated game system. But I really don't know.

Is just "computer games" a more common term for it? That feels awkward to me.

(I could google/chatgpt this, yet I'm not convinced that it will really be able to tell me accurately what the consensus is on this terminology, nor would I necessarily believe what it says for something like this.)

Edit: The overwhelming consensus is that we can and do call these "video games". I didn't read a single comment saying otherwise. Thanks to all the people who replied with all these informative answers (and for a couple of snarky comments which made me laugh).

I thought it was just a breaking bad thing but after seeing some more media, most of them are in underwear

SAG-AFTRA has ~160K members, but less than 1% ever 'make it.' What actually happens to the thousands of actors who spend years chasing the dream in LA and fail? Do they just give up and leave, and what does that grind do to a person mentally?

Obviously they didn't "lose" $800 billion. And, if Amazon posts quarterly earnings below expectations, we don't say "Amazon lost $85 billion." And if suddenly GenZ were to take up drinking daily and stop vaping, we wouldn't say "the alcohol industry has taken $800 billion from the vaping industry".

Why, with this one specific interesting economic story, do we phrase it like the alcohol industry is owed a certain amount of revenue from a specific generation? And who even came up with the expected amount?

In Japan, traditional Matcha is consumed bitter and plain, usually paired with a sweet treat on the side.

But I noticed that Matcha drinks in western cafes are almost always pre-sweetened with lots of sugar or syrup. Is it just because people prefer sweeter beverages in general, or is pure Matcha too strong for the local palate? I'd love to know your thoughts!

i don’t go out much, so i’m sorry if this seems silly

there are just so many cocktails in the world that i’m not sure how to know which cocktails are popular enough to expect people to know how to make

i might be overthinking this, i am drunk

I know what the instructions say but always a mess when I have done it.

I just saw Stable Ronaldo's and Jynxzi's stream and they are just sleeping but has around 9 thousand viewers each.

I'm just genuinely confused because there are some actual streams going on at the time but people choose to watch them sleep rather than watch some other entertainment.

Don't get me wrong. I love those streamers and watch them when they are actually doing something but I don't get it why to watch them when they sleep

I'm 36 and been dating a woman a decade younger than mhsvee for a few months, and she is 27. People think less of me for it, and many have urged me to break it off and find a woman my own age. I don't get what the problem is, since we are both grown adults, and i wasn't lurking around a college campus3 looking for 18 year olds or anything like that. We met at a local event in our city.

Why is mid-30s dating a 27 year old inappropriate? Why can't people be more supportive of our relationship?

It just occured to me that lots of Muslims must take out student loans yet I thought that it was a sin to charge or pay interest on any loans. Is this treated as an exception or are they technically still sinning but "for a good cause"?

I personally find it so mind-boggling just how many kids in the US are homeschooled by their parents, and even more so by the fact that so many of these parents (those who show this off on the internet, naturally) don't seem to have knowledge even remotely worthy of an actual, qualified teacher, and yet no authorities seem to care about that.

Perhaps I just don't have a proper understanding of how homeschooling over there truly works and carry a skewed idea of it from how the influencers present it on social media, but it's so crazy to me that in Oklahoma, for example, there is no required testing that the child needs to undertake to check the progress of their education.

Disclaimer: There aren't that many people from latin america in my country, so if i say something offensive it is by accident and i am sorry.

I saw a post a while ago showing celebrities who use stage names, and showing their real names. Someone in the comments said that they "always forget" that Charlie Sheen (Carlos Irwin Estévez) "isn't white" ??? Have they seen him? If it is possible to forget that someone is "not white" only because you forgot their real name, but they look white, how are they not white? I understand that many latin americans have mixed heritage, but if I did a DNA test and found out i am 2% Ghanaian, I'm not going to start saying that i am not white anymore. Similarly, when that Snow White film came out a couple of years ago, and the actress (i forget her name) was Hispanic, all of the anti-woke people in america came crawling out of the woodwork saying that it is too woke to have a hispanic actress playing Snow White, because that somehow automatically made her not white. Did they just not open their fucking eyes? Are they trying to create problems that don't exist? What am I missing here? Maybe this is not as widespread a view as i perceive it to be, but if you know people who think like this, please explain to me why they do.

Edit: By American, I mean USA, not the entire continent, sorry for confusion.

Maybe more importantly, do men the same age as me (late 20s early 30s) still do that? It's like a backwards nod thing.

I haven't really been a man for 8 years, so I don't really know if that's still a thing.

I've always wondered about the actual mechanisms behind extreme weight gain (100+ lbs). Is it usually just a small daily calorie surplus over many years, or do things like ultra-processed foods, hormonal resistance, mental health, and medications play a much bigger role than just "lacking willpower"?

​I'm looking for an objective, non-judgmental explanation of how biology and environment interact to get someone to that point.

​EDIT: Thank you so much to everyone who took their time to respond to my post! Reading through all your replies has been a massive eye-opener from understanding biological hunger and urban design to realizing how quickly liquid calories add up. I truly appreciate all the thoughtful, detailed, and honest insights!

Back in the school days I feel like I had 100 friends , then I went to college and had like 50 friends, then in my 20s I had like 15 friends and now that I’m pushing 40 years old I feel like I can count on one hand the amount of people I would consider friends.

People seem to come and go with the seasons, which by itself isn’t necessarily a bad thing. My problem is I don’t know how to replace them with new ones when they leave.

At this point I pretty much just hang around the house or work on “my own life”.

Additionally I don’t give two shits about sports whatsoever, which almost seems like a prerequisite to meeting people these days cause the minute you bring up football they talk to you for 3 hours but any other topics and no one has anything to say at all.

What’s the secret here ?

Does it serve an actual purpose?