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- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 16 hours ago:
You aren’t wrong but I also think people tend to forget just how much of what we grew up on were remakes and rehashes of stuff even from the radio era. Especially the cartoons that we watched as kids, so much of that was just recycled jokes and such with some jokes for the adults of the day thrown in too. Even Star Wars was an homage to the serials of the 30s-50s like Flash Gordon, which itself got an 80s remake (with an excellent soundtrack by Queen). The remakes aren’t new they are just more obvious.
- Comment on The Undiscovered Country: Why is the galley set so worn out? 1 day ago:
Several of the scenes in 6 were obviously shot on TNG sets. The Engineering scenes are the most painfully obvious as, in some cases, they literally just have a bunch of extras standing in the way of the panels they didn’t change.
- Comment on The Undiscovered Country: Why is the galley set so worn out? 2 days ago:
There has always been an incongruence around the A where the original point, when it was revealed at the end of four, seems to have been that it was a recommissioned and renamed constitution class that had been recently refitted like the Enterprise was in TMP. But then Shatner came in with five and insisted that it was a brand new ship for some dumbass reason that most people seem to have retconned from the cannon.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
They day they killed off Windows Phone is they day I knew that there were no more devs left in the c-suite and that they were on a slow path to spinning off what’s left of their profitability.
- Comment on Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia? 6 days ago:
Thanks for the warning. Any show that continues Discovery’s bullshit isn’t going to be worth a watch in my opinion.
- Comment on Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia? 6 days ago:
Picard didn’t leave him to die, he expected the ringleader to let him go back for the dude but she didn’t. The point of the scene was to show that she was an asshole not that Picard was heartless.
- Comment on Just like Drax in that Guardians of the Galaxy scene 1 week ago:
I am pretty sure MacOS does this and that there is a Gnome extension for it as well.
- Comment on Come on, I left Napster running and my mom got Choco Tacos. 2 weeks ago:
How young do you think boomers are?
- Comment on Come on, I left Napster running and my mom got Choco Tacos. 2 weeks ago:
That already happened.
- Comment on Truth hurts! 2 weeks ago:
The book came out in 1990.
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- Comment on conditional soap 5 weeks ago:
When I was in high school the trend was baggy pants and lots of women did wear men’s pants.
- Comment on On Venus. 5 weeks ago:
We absolutely saw those photos in school in the US… maybe this person just didn’t pay attention?
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 5 weeks ago:
Precedent for an exception would go to Ceres not Pluto.
- Comment on The shrinkflation 5 weeks ago:
You can reuse it several times by running it through a cheese cloth. Otherwise just put it in a jar/pitcher/empty oil bottle.
- Comment on Beer is for GIRLS 1 month ago:
That could easily be hot chocolate as well. Like how Strawberries aren’t berries, they are still called coffee cherries even those they aren’t.
- Comment on Beer is for GIRLS 1 month ago:
Seems quite a few people really like hot ground up roasted cherry pit water.
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 1 month ago:
On the contrary, lots of people were radicalized by hearing people like new age healers given the same airtime as medical doctors.
It’s taken 20 years to fail at making the publicly funded internet a utility. The purpose of the doctrine was to govern publicly owned airwaves. I strongly believe it would have been and is impossible to expand the FCCs jurisdiction to include privately owned networks. I also strongly believe that the current administration would abuse the fuck out of these regulations.
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 1 month ago:
People give the fairness doctrine too much credit; First it’s partially responsible for the current mentality of all opinions matter no matter how stupid. But more importantly it only ever applied to broadcast TV and Radio, not cable or satellite, or the Internet. So it never would have applied to Fox News, for instance.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 1 month ago:
You are correct. What they can’t do though is only allow you to buy the car with one method of payment, which is what is being described here.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 1 month ago:
I think you would be surprised how many states already have laws like that on the books. Mine does.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 1 month ago:
That isn’t how holding a business license works.
Sure everybody has the right to refuse service, but they can’t offer service only through one means of pay.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 1 month ago:
I think you just got a shitty dealership. “Legal tender for all debts public and private” means just that, they aren’t allowed legally to refuse dollars. My cousin also successfully did what you are describing.
- Comment on Niche species 1 month ago:
It’s originally a French word so I would guess that nitch is likely the more recent mutation.
- Comment on Niche species 1 month ago:
I’ve never heard anybody pronounce it that way, and since we regularly tell children to “sound it out” to spell things I am going to go ahead and say no to adding letters personally.
- Comment on Niche species 1 month ago:
I am confused, do you think niche rhymes with bitch?
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 1 month ago:
Time to ruin your day…
The words naughties and aughties are interchangeable and we have been calling them that since 2000.
- Comment on Sea Level 1 month ago:
The tides are also likely responsible for advanced life on this planet. So there is that.
- Comment on Lying motherfuckers 1 month ago:
You only need to do that if you are using an eink screen.
- Comment on Lying motherfuckers 1 month ago:
Click and drag the image. If the background goes with it, it isn’t transparent.