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- Comment on ‘The Wheel Of Time’ Canceled By Prime Video After 3 Seasons 2 days ago:
I agree. But comics are weird.
If they had to replace it, I think they still should have picked a replacement that actually still somehow implied ::: spoiler spoiler an extra terrestrial threat to humanity. :::
- Comment on Sesame St is great 3 days ago:
Also,Snuffy’s original design was kinda creepy.
That’s the most load-bearing use of the word “kinda” that I have seen in a sentence. That “kinda”, while valid, is undet so much stretch strain, it could shatter at any moment.
- Comment on Sesame St is great 3 days ago:
Wait…Is “Yellow Submarine” not about an ex-Chinese ex-war machine full of utopian communists rescuing diverse survivors of nuclear war into a floating mobile commune (presumably full of recreational drug use)?
- Comment on ‘The Wheel Of Time’ Canceled By Prime Video After 3 Seasons 3 days ago:
This is the best summary of the issues I have with the Wheel of Time later books. Well put.
- Comment on ‘The Wheel Of Time’ Canceled By Prime Video After 3 Seasons 3 days ago:
They took out what makes WoT special and produced some extremely generic, bland fantasy.
That’s a great point. The show didn’t even capture the “vibe” of the books…at least in the first episode, which was unpleasant and boring at the same time…and is all I could get through.
- Comment on ‘The Wheel Of Time’ Canceled By Prime Video After 3 Seasons 3 days ago:
I agree with your point, but the lack of ::: spoiler spoiler dead fake space squid ::: was still a silly, unnecessary and confusing change. It completely lost the critical “look out, they are coming for you from space” aspect, which is the only way his plan might have worked.
- Comment on ‘The Wheel Of Time’ Canceled By Prime Video After 3 Seasons 3 days ago:
Good point.
I thinknwe could say those creative teams still clearly love their source material, even as they deviated from it.
A great adaptation feels like a valid alternate take on the original story, rather than expressing complete disdain for the original story.
- Comment on ‘The Wheel Of Time’ Canceled By Prime Video After 3 Seasons 3 days ago:
benefit of a dead Faile.
Made me laugh!
There’s lots of ways the books could be improved, and that is definitely one. That was an exhausting character to read, in her later arcs.
- Comment on ‘The Wheel Of Time’ Canceled By Prime Video After 3 Seasons 3 days ago:
I guess he suggested that Perrin kill Haral Luhan, but it was ultimately rejected by the writers.
Wow. I assume their amendment was stated “let’s just fridge some random woman, instead!”
- Comment on ‘Doctor Who’ Ratings Dive, Supercharging Uncertainty About Future Of Sci-Fi Series 4 days ago:
Agreed. I love the new Doctor Who episodes, but Disney can still fuck off. I’ll buy it on DVD, later.
- Comment on how did you and your partner change after having a baby? 4 days ago:
My guess is that some powerful hormones must be released or something after having a child to make people think that they are enjoying their life even though an outside observer can view their immense suffering.
It’s partly that, and partly that the brain needs sleep too form memories and to think things through to conclusion, so we’re all a little delusional and don’t really remember how hard the early part was.
(I adore my kids!)
Pro tip: smell their heads as often as possible. There’s all kinds of healthy chemical bonding that comes from that delightful fresh baby head smell.
- Comment on Zach Braff Joins ‘Scrubs’ Reboot in Development at ABC 5 days ago:
When has one of these reboots worked?
An example that comes to mind is the “reboot as new show but with blatant fan service cameos” formula used by “The Big Bag Theory”, “Young Sheldon”, and “Georgie’s First Marriage”.
Another “Mission Impossible” - the first movie was a weak adaptation of the original show, but the series has gone on to become a completely worthy extension of the original show.
And…well…That’s two. So I night just be sharing the exceptions that prove the rule.
- Comment on Besides money/capitalism, why are tech companies trying to push AI text generators over search engines? 1 week ago:
AI hype is also Collusion among the ultra wealthy to artificially prop up their investments.
- Comment on Is it weird to sometimes wonder wether everything you know is wrong? 1 week ago:
For sure. Each “truth” we hold dear might be the next one we drop as we learn a new more accurate truth to replace it.
We can only hold so much knowledge, so there will always be room to improve.
And I’m even still thankful for all of the half-truths that served me well along my journey.
- Comment on Is it weird to sometimes wonder wether everything you know is wrong? 1 week ago:
The mile markers along the road to truth are ideas we used to believe were true.
Further truth can only be obtained by holding currently accepted truth to the highest standards of scrutiny.
- Comment on Shower thought: Valve could do the ultimate boss-move this year 2 weeks ago:
They should go for it.
The Commodore 64 was the highest selling computer model of all time, until around 2020, because of it’s game library.
SteamOS probably has the best easily accessible game library of all time.
The Commodore 64 taught us that games will carry a personal computer to massive popularity and sales, even if the computer has trade-offs.
I agree with who have commented that there’s better versions of Linux for the average user. But I don’t think it matters. A Steam machine with a cheap keyboard and mouse would be hugely popular this Fall, and would make it’s users fall in love with Linux, in spite of issues - because we all love video games.
- Comment on Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth” 2 weeks ago:
I really liked the addition to canon that the Kligon Empire is experiencing the tail and of a very long fall from grace. It explains a lot about how such a violent fuedal society could have science on par with the Federation.
I didn’t like just about everything else Discovery Klingon’s screen time. They were just so wearying to watch. They felt like some exhausting loud neighbors I have had.
- Comment on Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide 3 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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. 1 month ago:
This seems foolish. How will I know it’s a Batman film with a name like that?