jqubed
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- Comment on Editing Video The Good Ol' Way 1 week ago:
Not in a position to watch this, but I have done some very basic insert edits in my time and it was certainly the faster way to accomplish the task in those cases. I did appreciate the speed and relative ease of the task.
- Comment on Cars, money, guns? Son, its all about the.. 1 week ago:
Got mine at Costco
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 1 week ago:
The money you’re paying DoorDash isn’t going to the drivers, so I don’t know how driverless cars will reduce the costs. Having driven for DoorDash off and on over the past couple years, they typically only pay $2 per delivery, plus whatever tip the customer gives. I’ve read they additionally charge the restaurants around a 30% commission on all orders, which is why the prices are so much higher than in the restaurant; the restaurants raise the prices so that they still get roughly the same money after the commission is deducted.
I’m not really sure where all that money goes with DoorDash. They clearly try to keep support costs as low as possible. I’m guessing they lose a lot to refunds, legitimate or not. But I still don’t understand how the prices can be so high yet they always seem tight on cash.
- Comment on Why do we put our hands on our heads when something makes us also want to yell "NO!" 1 week ago:
I don’t know, but I like having the name for this be surrender cobra:
- Comment on Anon is about to be found out 2 weeks ago:
I’d definitely be pressing for criminal charges in that situation!
- Comment on Anon is 33 2 weeks ago:
When I was in college I got a part time job at an investment firm and they’d given a job to one of their larger client’s kid, largely simple data entry. He, however, spent most of the day playing online poker and they eventually fired him.
- Comment on Anon is 33 2 weeks ago:
I’m assuming that would still take some time to get to that point, with training and apprenticeship
- Comment on Anon is 33 2 weeks ago:
How hard are 6 figure jobs to get?
High School dropout NEET directly to 6-figure would probably need to involve selling drugs or something, right?
- Comment on What are your favorite board games? I'm looking for games that are satisfying and lead to a sense of accomplishment or fulfillment or connection. 3 weeks ago:
One I haven’t seen mentioned is Puerto Rico. One thing I like is there is essentially no random chance to this game; everything that happens is a result of choices you or your opponents make.
- Comment on Sadge 3 weeks ago:
You die in the war then we become electronegative to pay our respects
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- Comment on Would it be more beneficial to move to Brazil and be an English teacher there or be a Portuguese teacher in the United States? 4 weeks ago:
The market for Portuguese language teachers in the US would depend heavily on where OP lives, and they might have better prospects moving to a different city. I would think a large city like Chicago would have some demand, but perhaps not as high as Miami given the population of Brazilian expats and tourists in Miami. And either of those would probably be higher than, say, Crosby, North Dakota unless Crosby quietly has a large immigrant community. Still, moving within the US for work is probably much easier than moving from the US to Brazil.
- Comment on It's Anon's birthday 4 weeks ago:
So was he saying he didn’t need to be paid anymore to be his friend or the friendship money was past due and the account needed to be settled for the friendship to continue?
- Comment on Anon gets corrected 5 weeks ago:
Chicken and waffles are about as authentically southern as General Tso’s chicken is authentically Chinese.
- Comment on Anon gets corrected 5 weeks ago:
Y’all gives modern English the second person plural it would otherwise be missing
- Comment on Did anyone here ever actually play the Mousetrap board game or use the cards in Operation? 1 month ago:
We did, for both games, although we didn’t play Operation much. It kind of lost its novelty fast, especially with the buzzer the TV commercials conveniently left out.
We played a lot of Mouse Trap, though. Everyone complaining about the trap not working half the time seems to have missed that that was the point. You might land in the trap zone and have one of your siblings get the chance to trap, but it wasn’t a guarantee that you’d be trapped. If it was going to work every time what was the need to even do all the building? At that point it’s just a game with an instant lose square. If the trap worked or failed you needed to reset it for the next attempt, and as part of that reset you could adjust or fix any parts that had failed. Or maybe try to subtly sabotage it again if you’re worried you might be next…
- Comment on Of course Atari’s new handheld includes a trackball, spinner, and numpad 1 month ago:
Despite including a numpad like the Intellivision controller, the GameStation Go doesn’t currently include any games from Atari’s recently purchased Intellivision library. But [YouTube reviewer who was hands-on at CES] GenXGrownUp says including those titles—alongside Atari Lynx and Jaguar games—is not “off the table yet” for the final release.
I only know of the Atari Lynx from reading about the history of Chip’s Challenge but I’d be interested in seeing that.
- Comment on Checking in 1 month ago:
I only know of Kat; there are others?
- Comment on The future of Blu-ray is looking bleak (and that's a bad thing for everyone) 1 month ago:
It has been interesting that in the music realm selling digital files without DRM has become fairly common with some significant, respected storefronts, but I have not seen that with video files. I don’t know if it’s because of file size or less-convenient options for watching those files on your TV (if you’re not running a Plex or Jellyfin server it’s not exactly easy to play them on a Roku/Chromecast/whatever). Maybe it’s just that consumers are becoming more accustomed to streaming all their media, music and video. Maybe we’ll see the digital music stores disappear as sales decline because of streaming.
I think the DRM-free music stores were pushed into existence by independent artists selling their own music and eventually the big labels didn’t want to miss out on that market. Maybe we need independent video productions doing the same. Instead of asking for support on your Patreon, let me buy an episode of your YouTube show without DRM, or a “season” for a discounted price. The only DRM-free video I’ve bought that I can recall was a standup special sold by the comedian on his own website. Maybe we need more of that.
- Comment on Childhood in the 80s 1 month ago:
I rode in an older luxury one (I’m not sure how luxury a Chrysler New Yorker was seen at the time, but it had clearly been a premium model) years later as an adult and it was plush and comfy. Kind of annoying to get in and out of because it really grabbed at your clothes, but I can understand why it was once seen as a luxury feature, especially compared to the vinyl in my dad’s pickup truck!
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- Comment on What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game? 1 month ago:
Portal and Portal 2 are some of my all-time favorite games. They’re about the only games I enjoy watching other people play, primarily when they’re playing for the first time—it kind of lets me relive that wonder of the first play through. Going through those with my stepdaughter (only 10 at the time) not long after I married her mom was a highlight of my life and really helped us form our own bond. As we progressed through I realized that chamber 17 was going to be rather traumatic for her because she was going to absolutely love the weighted companion cube, so we stopped playing for a few days while I ordered a stuffed weighted companion cube and gave it to her right after the level. As we neared the end of the game I explained to my wife about the Cake. She owned a bakery at the time and we presented kiddo with a cake like the one seen at the end of the game when she won. We did Portal 2 as well, me watching as she played the solo campaign and then we did the co-op together. I’d highly recommend it for any parent who likes gaming to share these with your kids.
- Comment on how do I show a coworker that I care about her after her mother died? 1 month ago:
Depending on the culture in your country, a sympathy card could be a good thing to give. You might find a card that says something compassionate, then add a personal note expressing your condolences and offering to be a listening ear at work or outside work, or if they’re looking for a distraction you can be that as well. Something along those lines might be appreciated. It of course depends largely about the kind of relationship you already had with the coworker, and what kind of time you’re willing to offer her outside of work (if her mother had been living with her, for example, she might need someone she can call in the evening to talk when facing that loss).
- Comment on NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’ 1 month ago:
I guess it depends which version you watch; I think the U.S. and Canada versions are 44 minutes without commercials, but yeah, it does have some filler. When someone’s actually good at the strategy it can be interesting hearing them talk through their plans.
- Comment on NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’ 1 month ago:
The biggest difference of the TV show versus the home game is the home game just ends whenever all the killers are found. The TV show has to reach a set number of episodes, so there are mechanisms built-in to make sure there’s always at least one traitor up to the final episode.
- Comment on NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’ 2 months ago:
If you enjoy the game you should check out The Traitors with its many international variants. I was surprised to read that the productions provide psychologists to help the contestants as it gets traumatic, but when I watched the first UK season there were a lot of people getting into emotional distress.
There have been a lot of people cast who really shouldn’t be on the show; it’s just a game!
- Comment on Wallace & Gromit fans appalled by the AI upscaling on new 4K UHD release 2 months ago:
I suspect if something was shot on film for distribution in theaters any special effects will look just fine in the scan. If it was shot on film for SD TV the effects probably won’t hold up, but hopefully it’s nothing critical enough to be a big deal!
- Comment on Wallace & Gromit fans appalled by the AI upscaling on new 4K UHD release 2 months ago:
If I’m getting 4K content I want that to be a 4K scan of original 35mm (or better) film. I’m not paying for an AI upscale that I can probably do myself for similar quality. If there is no 35mm source (such as it originating on 16mm or electronic television cameras) just give it to me at the best original resolution; 2K/HD or even SD are perfectly fine if that’s the original version.
I’m fine with the HD/4K conversions some older shows like Seinfeld or Friends got because those were originally shot on film (thank you Lucille Ball) so there’s an original source that’s relatively easy to go back to and just apply the edits, although sometimes I would prefer if they kept the original 4:3 aspect ratio instead of changing to 16:9. Sometimes the framing is a little off or they lose a subtle joke.
The one area I’d be okay with a little AI upscale (if it’s done well) mixed in is if there are effects shots mixed in that were only ever intended for SD viewing. I first saw this with Family Matters of all shows, showing it to my kid. They’ve scanned the film up to HD but some of Steve’s “experiments” look pretty jarring mixed in.
- Comment on NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’ 2 months ago:
Not too much earlier; Wikipedia says the game was invented in 1986 by psychology student Dimitry Davidoff, a psychology student at Moscow State University.
- Comment on NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’ 2 months ago:
I started working in local TV news 17 years ago. I figured out pretty quickly there’s enough actual news happening to fill the 24-hour cable channels, but sending out reporters and photographers (maybe even producers) is expensive. It’s much cheaper to just have somebody in the studio blabbering on about a few things and trying to stoke reactions from the audience. It can even build a bigger audience than actual news.
Sports radio and TV is an even bigger (though less damaging) example of this. They have a lot of time to fill when games aren’t on, and a lot of times they just put someone on who will give the dumbest take possible just to get the audience mad and have an argument with someone else in the studio or even let the audience call in to argue.
