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- Comment on Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide 5 days ago:
I wonder if the price increase will be spent on making a chart that tells me which XBox is which?
I don’t know exactly when I got old, but I feel angry every time Xbox reminds me that I’m too old to know which is which.
- Comment on How come id Software / Bethesda have never sued Bungie / Microsoft over the similarity between Doomguy and Master Chief? 1 week ago:
In spite of the intentional similarities between the two games, the court concluded that Data East did not infringe upon Capcom’s copyright, as most of these similarities were not protected under copyright.
So 100% guilty of being a blatant copy, but not illegal.
- Comment on Dropout’s Emmy Plans: ‘Very Important People’ Lands in Talk Series Category, ‘Game Changer’ Season 7 Not Eligible for This Year 4 weeks ago:
VIP grew on me slowly, until I saw Anna’s performance as the little boy who wished to become rocks - which is now one of my all time favorite comedy sketches.
I do think VIP is an acquired taste.
- Comment on Dropout’s Emmy Plans: ‘Very Important People’ Lands in Talk Series Category, ‘Game Changer’ Season 7 Not Eligible for This Year 4 weeks ago:
Game Changer being ineligible is a bullet dodge for everything else in the category.
Game Changer is the most fun innovative thing in the history of game shows, including among everything happening now.
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 4 weeks ago:
I wanted to like Cloud Atlas. It felt like it was fighting itself for air time. I’ll give it another try someday.
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 4 weeks ago:
Tom Hanks is close, but Cloud Atlas exists.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 4 weeks ago:
But probably Windows will disable the possibillity to manipulate on kernel level either in the future.
Sort of, right?
We know Windows will continue cracking down on kernel module adds, since the Crowd strike disaster.
But I figure most anti-cheat will just shift to non-kernel and keep working.
Of course, at that point most anti-cheat of will then work under Proton, on Linux, too.
Which was maybe your point.
Okay, I don’t think I added anything for you, but I’ll leave this in case it helps someone reading along with us.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 4 weeks ago:
SteamOS getting an official PC release is going to cause the first time I’ve spent a lot on PC hardware in a long while.
I’ll build it from parts of I must, but I really hope they go for a tie-in deal with Alienware or System76 and just let me buy a big pre-installed tower to play on.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 4 weeks ago:
I too choose your path of not being tempted away from Linux by the lure of an ad-riddled Microsoft-account-locked expensive “upgrade” to Windows 11.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 4 weeks ago:
I’ll second recommending Raspberry Pi as a secondary machine. That way your primary computer is still around as a fallback.
If you have a spare monitor to add, a Raspberry Pi 400 for $100.00 is a great way to try out Linux on dedicated hardware.
The Canakit version even comes with a printed welcome guide.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 4 weeks ago:
But I dont use Windows 10 that often - I don’t see the need. I just have it as a backup OS. I have free enough diskspace on my SSD so currently not doing anything.
I did exactly that for many years. And then one day I had something that called for booting to a separate OS, so…
my solution
Trusting Windows with whatever it was still made me nervous, and I crammed an Ubuntu Live USB into a USB port and booted to that.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 4 weeks ago:
I’m not settled on which distro
I distro hop a lot, myself, but I always hear nice things about Linux Mint. (And last time I used Mint, I had no complaints.)
- Comment on Armie Hammer movie "The Dark Knight" renamed to "Citizen Vigilante" after discussion with Warner Bros. 4 weeks ago:
This seems foolish. How will I know it’s a Batman film with a name like that?
- Comment on "Avatar: The Last Airbender" film gets new title — "The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender” 4 weeks ago:
Oh, thank goodness. It’ll cover book 2, right?
Since we already have a perfect film adaptation of book 1?
I’ll see myself out.
- Comment on The Switch 2 Rollout Was So Convoluted It Made Us Want A Steam Deck. 4 weeks ago:
People spend more on Apple/Nintendo because of quality.
Perhaps we had very different experiences with the JoyCon…
Joking aside, I agree. I used to buy Nintendo for that reason. Then came JoyCon drift and out of control Nintendo lawyers.
- Comment on If Artificial Lifeforms gain sentience, would they be in the right to kill their creators in order to gain freedom? 4 weeks ago:
Oh…That would explain the endorsements by barbeque chefs on the book sleeve.
- Comment on The most influential video game of all time - Bafta 5 weeks ago:
Thank you. By big question from this list was “WTF is a Shenmue?”
- Comment on Season 3 Teaser Trailer | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 5 weeks ago:
That’s wise. No one is completely sure what happened in Disco Season one, anyway, due to the lack of lighting budget…
- Comment on Season 3 Teaser Trailer | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 5 weeks ago:
that’s because Discovery is just bad fan fiction.
It makes Enterprise worth watching.
How dare you!
I understand not liking Discovery, but I draw the line at encouraging a rewatch of Enterprise!
(I’m kidding. Enterprise wasn’t all that bad… Mostly.)
- Comment on If Artificial Lifeforms gain sentience, would they be in the right to kill their creators in order to gain freedom? 5 weeks ago:
Crazy how ethics work. Like a pig might be more physically and mentally capable than an individual in a vegetative state, but we place more value on the person.
I looked this up in my ethics textbook and it just went on and on about pigs being delicious.
I think I might try to get a refund.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed 5 weeks ago:
“$450 is an insanely high price for a new console, so I’m going to buy a $400 2 year old console instead.”
Sure. But it’s also a choice between a library that will forever cost $70 00-$90.00 per game, and a game library infamous for game sales so good that an average player cannot finish their library because the seasonal sales are too good to pass up.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
The picture was slow to load for me, and I expected Beanie Babies or some kind of precious metal or BitCoin.
Have you considered turning it into a paint ball arena?
It probably wouldn’t be a good investment, but it would make a great story.
- Comment on What are some lesser-known obscure TV series that went under the radar, that you would recommend? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t see Dame Judy Dench’s masterpiece “As Time Goes By” mentioned often.
It’s about a love affair between the acclaimed author of “My Time in Kenya”, and his publisher.
(This summary is intentionally reductive to the point of absurdity. But trust me, it’s quite good.)
- Comment on What are some lesser-known obscure TV series that went under the radar, that you would recommend? 5 weeks ago:
Cancelling Space: Above and Beyond was tragic. With a couple more seasons it could have become an enduring cult classic. If it has been made later, it would have thrived in the streaming era.
- Comment on What are some lesser-known obscure TV series that went under the radar, that you would recommend? 5 weeks ago:
Paul Reuben’s cameo in Pushing Daisies is a lovely part of an even lovelier show.
- Comment on What are some lesser-known obscure TV series that went under the radar, that you would recommend? 5 weeks ago:
Lexx is brimming with campy nonsense!
But it has moments when an actor delivers a heartfelt performance that tells a meaningful story.
And then those moments are followed by a robot with a saw arm chasing some folks through a cardboard maze before a planet gets blown up.
- Comment on Rock Identification 5 weeks ago:
This approach does save $5.
- Comment on I present my girlfriend's daughter. 1 month ago:
I never had that problems. My messages are always perfect on the first to-do.
- Comment on Fast boi 1 month ago:
That looks like a Labrador / Bloodhound mix. Both have a lot of running in their DNA. And labradors are particularly communal. So very probably “greatest day of their life”. They finally found some humans who understand the value of a good long pack run. Haha.
- Comment on How was your valentines day weekend? 2 months ago:
P.s. the origami lily folds refuse to sink into my smooth brain. I gotta watch the same YT vid Everytime 😞
I’m glad I’m not the only one. I would think it would stick eventually, but not so far.