supersquirrel

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Who the hell in their right mind would want to buy a switch after seeing this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't sleep on Cataclismo, building up fortresses like LEGO to defend against hordes is great⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This does look like a blast

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Duolingo the face of an AI jobs crisis?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A woodchipper can approximate a tree almost perfectly up to a certain token limit so long as you have a real tree to feed into it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The hills are alive with the sound of music! 🎶🎵⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, still WAY better than listening to traffic and incessant car noise?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix's CEO says movie theaters are old news. Director Rian Johnson says his next movie belongs there anyway.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The tickets don’t need to be that expensive, movie theaters are the cheapest group human experience possible since all you are doing is providing a room and electricity and a movie.

  Every other type of entertainment including serving alcohol or food to people is actually much much more complicated and costly.

  A lot of people, especially introverts desire being around humans and experiencing genuine human group interaction even if it isn’t direct. People often describe it as people watching or going out to dinner alone, don’t make the mistake of people only desiring one kind of direct connection with socialization.

  A movie provides a context for people to come together and it is a very open and inviting context, that hasn’t changed.

  The major thing that has changed is again, people are falling apart and so have cut out going to the movies.

  How can I enjoy company with my friends more than seeing a movie we were both hyped for in theaters and hollering or gasping along with the rest of the crowd? If I am into movies, that is like the prime movie experience, and newsflash a WHOLE LOT of people are into movies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix's CEO says movie theaters are old news. Director Rian Johnson says his next movie belongs there anyway.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, sure, it makes sense that you have convinced yourself you are a fundamentally anti-social person, but I don’t buy it.

  The reason movie theater ticket sales are going down is people are falling apart, it is pretty simple.

  If you are burned out, watching a movie on your tv and not stressing out about driving to a movie theater and buying tickets and finding parking etc… is going to be much more attractive. That doesn’t mean that you wouldn’t much prefer to go out to the movie theater instead if you felt up for it.

  I think you may be confusing your own joy at introversion with a wider process of the social fabric of society being torn apart here, most people do not just want to sit at home and be lonely, to such an extreme degree that if the process of going to the movies was easy and affordable and they had the energy just the idea of being in a room with other people excited about something is enough to tip the scales in favor of going out to the movies instead of watching it by yourself on your subpar setup.

  If people by and large do not desire that experience, and I can’t stress this enough, it isn’t because movie theaters are obsolete or people didn’t fundamentally desire to watch movies in big groups on awesome screens and sound systems, it is simply what the social fabric of society tearing apart looks like in the medium of cinema.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix's CEO says movie theaters are old news. Director Rian Johnson says his next movie belongs there anyway.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That has nothing to do with people not wanting to make an evening of going out with their spouse to see a movie and maybe get dinner or icecream… and everything to do with people being too busy, poor, overworked and friendless to go out to the movies.

  If that spells the end of movie theaters, well I don’t know if I call the end of functional recreation activities outside the context of your home because you are too exhausted, lonely and broke quite the damning evidence that people don’t want to go to movie theaters that maybe it seems like it is.

  I am not someone that is a big movie buff, especially because I find superhero movies suffocatingly boring and narrow in vision, but I went to the theater to see a Miyazaki film not too long ago and then saw Blue Heron in theaters too.

  I don’t uncommonly here people, especially younger people talk about being hyped to see their favorite movie in the theaters, it is a cultural statememt of “I LOVE THIS SHIT” that people like to do as a way of engaging more enthusiastically with a movie or series they like. People are desperately looking for ways to do this, that has never changed.

  People are just worn down, and of course the Netflix CEO doesn’t get that lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix's CEO says movie theaters are old news. Director Rian Johnson says his next movie belongs there anyway.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My point is the minds of business execs like this are so rotten that they can’t understand the difference between the two, this isn’t cynical hyperbole, I am dead serious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix's CEO says movie theaters are old news. Director Rian Johnson says his next movie belongs there anyway.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Alcohol is even older news and yet people still love alcohol?

  What do movie theaters being a new concept or not have to do with people liking them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dark mode comes to Rock Paper Shotgun⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  RPS has let go of too many of the people that made it what it was, now it is just a business webpage with dark mode and the name of something I used to love… yeah!..

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're still on Lemmy...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ahaha, I cant even correct that, it feels wrong

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're still on Lemmy...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally dangerous for targeted groups to do that…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're still on Lemmy...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean even if they are, the software is open source and lemmy is made to work with ActivityPup, an open protocol. That is what matters at the end of the day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, all I do is win, so the floor of my car is covered in medals…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck Discord, I hope they go pedal to the medal and destroy the company in record time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Concentrating Solar Power Plant Makes Fuel From Sunlight⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  …all jet fuel is made from the sun?

  What do people think all the fossils were doing back then? Harnessing energy from magic?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky is adding blue checks for ‘authentic and notable’ accounts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yawn

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brib Cuddles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree it is just a bad verb, to “prey” should mean to sneak around in people’s yards munching on plants and sketching out whenever anybody else gets close.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brib Cuddles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see you there, being a badass and directly linking to scientific papers in the comments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uncovered emails showed how Meta struggled to keep Facebook culturally relevant⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “One potentially crazy idea is to consider wiping everyone’s graphs and having them start again.

  Pleasse try this in a panic without testing it first Mark and also btw the reason people hate facebook has nothing to do with you and your rich friends I promise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There’s a Feeling We’re Not in Hollywood Anymore⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No they are leaving because this is a trash country to live in, and a hellish place to try to make any kind of art.

  Of course NYT would focus on labor being too expensive in their headline lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was ChatGPT the Worst Thing to Happen to OpenAI?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Post-based social networks feel like such an aged-out technology. I’d almost respect it more if they said, We’re building a TikTok competitor and we have engineered the savviest content algorithm of all time.

  This kind of thinking is why I still think U.S. tech companies and Silicon Valley in general has still not found the bottom. How pathetic do you have to be to look at Social Media and decide that after For Profit Businesses tried to monetize the idea of digital community spaces and it failed spectarlularly to the point that kids don’t even think it is cool anymore… that there must be no other way and “post-based social networks” are on there way out?

  Literally the only thing we have tried is structuring social networks so that they must make a massive profit for investors and are all universally owned by insane billionaires.

  You know how you know someone is full of shit? They point to things other people are doing and say “why are they doing that, that isn’t the trend?” when the question at its heart wasn’t about following a trend or not it was about a vision for the future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Typical mice nonsense, did they even thank us for all the cheese?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All Elon Musk has ever done to earn a living is charge people rent and own valuable things and you and are telling me I should believe Elon is against the idea of charging people rent for digital things?

  lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  where is your proof? If Slartibartfast did it you would be able to find his signature somewhere in the work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The platforms cash in their chips with Trump: From Meta to Nvidia, tech CEOs are paying the president to get the outcomes they want — and it's working.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine being one of the richest people in the world and still being a coward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is exactly why I also buy things on Good Old Games and I also play open source games like Beyond All Reason, Xonotic, Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead, Luanti and other games like Vintage Story that I can purchase from itch or directly from the developer and install directly to my Steam Deck.

  Do you understand the Steam Deck is a just a linux computer?

  Yeah, do I like Valve better than other companies? Yes. but I NEVER would have bought a steam deck if I couldn’t just install games and other software and use it as I wish.

  Because I can do that, I am totally fine with buying some of my games on steam shrugs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe Creative Curse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Look you aren’t going to stop this bad thing going on, so why not just support the bad thing going on and stop complaining? Personally I have made a lot of money off this bad thing so I am struggling to see what is bad about it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe Creative Curse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t keep getting this whiplash where I lose all faith in humanity and then humanity goes and does something awesome and hilarious like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sportsbooks and betting on random shit like this doesn’t indicate anything other than that society is eroding at such a rapid rate that the rise of sports betting and the incredible destruction it is has brought upon places like the U.S. has gone relatively unnoticed amid all the other dumpster fires.

  There is no intelligence to this, it is just another casino.