moopet
@moopet@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Ah, gotcha.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Marketing -> looks inside -> scam -> looks inside -> marketing -> looks inside -> scam
- Comment on 4 days ago:
The italics show up for me fine, so they’re getting through!
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Wireless router looks inside wires
- Comment on EA VP Urges Companies To Think About In-Game Ads During Development: ‘That’s A Huge Opportunity’ 1 week ago:
Kind of. Like racing games where they have banners all round the track? I get that it’s “realistic”, but why should we settle for that, when games are supposed to be escapism, better than life? Having ads in games just because they’re in real life is normalising in a bad way.
The only ads I like in games are the pets-by-mail type.
- Comment on EA VP Urges Companies To Think About In-Game Ads During Development: ‘That’s A Huge Opportunity’ 1 week ago:
I understood this reference.
- Comment on 📡📡📡 4 weeks ago:
She wouldn’t care about the cold, she can survive without discomfort in the vacuum of space or in a house fire.
I mean, realistically her and Superman’s clothes should rip off within milliseconds of them doing 99% of the things they end up doing.
- Comment on British Charlie Kirk wannabe beaten up debating people in Manchester 5 weeks ago:
The Metro isn’t a newspaper, it’s a comic.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 1 month ago:
I thought it was awful. The graphics and the 2d textures looked weird and the movement was absurd. It was unplayable. UT, on the other hand, was fantastic.
- Comment on Anon reads horror 2 months ago:
Good points, actually. I’ve seen Shawshank, Shining and Misery and they were all good.
- Comment on Anon reads horror 2 months ago:
His books are variable, but they usually have like 300 pages of genuinely good character development and scene setting, an inciting horrible incident and then another 100 pages of suspension-of-disbelief. All of the film adaptations I’ve seen are pretty bad though.
- Comment on bring 👏 him 👏 back 2 months ago:
Analysing titanium for weaknesses.
- Comment on baby blues 2 months ago:
Was that when she trash talked the actors?
- Comment on baby blues 2 months ago:
Like, say, this here stick. We’ll call it a “metre”.
- Comment on Met gala 2 months ago:
I assume this is something in the news, but I don’t even know what the met gala is.
- Comment on Anon gets scammed 3 months ago:
Payment doesn’t mean money. You can pay in labour, or in gold, or in your time.
- Comment on Anon gets scammed 3 months ago:
It was LAME to ENCODE music.
- Comment on What the Hell is this Bull shit ? 3 months ago:
I don’t know what it is you’re trying to show. Is it that this drink is 500ml while all the others are 20 in whatever medieval unit is in use? I’m confused because the bepis says it’s 16.9 floz, but if I type that into a converter it’s not 500ml, and the other drinks are in oz, not in floz. I don’t know if they’re different. Is that the problem? One’s by weight and one by volume? 500ml is standard for a large can in 90% of the world, fwiw.
- Comment on "Science isn't political!" 3 months ago:
And this isn’t science!
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 3 months ago:
Ko’Zeine,
None of that episode hinges on Darem being gay, though? What would have changed if he was straight? It’s not the plot. The plot is that he has responsibilities to his home world and has new found family with Star Fleet.
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 3 months ago:
Trek expresses gay people being normal. It’s explicitly not the plot. There’s no plot point about it. The plot is about kids (for a certain Steve McQueen value of “teenager”) being in school and battling Space Foes. I’m picking on “being gay” as a point because I imagine it’s what the people who cancelled the show had an issue with, but I could well be wrong.
There was no exploration of the things the right-wing hate in Academy. They just exist. There’s no ongoing plot about anyone’s sexuality, or if you think there is then it’s dwarfed by the same plot with other straight characters.
It sounds so much like saying you can’t have a gay character unless there’s an interesting moral plot point about why they’re gay. That’s not what Academy did.
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 3 months ago:
I agree completely with your point about the Orville. It was really well done.
I don’t agree with your assessment of New Trek, however. I know it’s all very variable and I don’t want to generalise, but even if we accept this:
Everything is presented in the first 10 seconds as “this is good, this is bad. Accept the message we are feeding you are you are a bad person.”
Then, I have to point out the obvious: if it’s so lacking in nuance, then yes, if you don’t accept it you are a bad person. For example, if it’s saying, “gay people are ok and normal”, there’s no subtlety to that because it’s not something anyone in the future will hopefully give a shit about. And if someone in their society did, then yes, they would be in the wrong. 100%.
- Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead 3 months ago:
I’m going to add a little context for completeness.
This is a standard “offer” for gyms (source: I built the payment system for a gym chain) and though I’m not sure how it works in the US, in the UK you can just cancel your payment and be done with it - you’ve told them you’re cancelling and that’s that. They expect this and won’t even be annoyed.
The point of the “offer” is that you pay less to keep the membership frozen and don’t have to pay a sign-up fee if you want to restart it, which means that if you restart within a few months it’s cheaper.
It’s a trick, of course. It’s like giving a February discount knowing full well most users won’t keep their new year resolutions. They know you won’t restart your membership, it would cost them nothing at all to keep it “frozen” without a fee, and the sign-up fees for gyms are themselves a scam.
Fuck 'em. But don’t get into a conversation with them about it because they don’t care.
- Comment on Anon disrespects their elders 5 months ago:
Probably more like Nintendo Game&Watches and their clones.
- Comment on Advertisements 5 months ago:
This is why I have concerns about AR cybernetic eye replacement technology in science fiction (and maybe in real life sometime). You’d install adblockers for real life… and then get some virus that makes the adblocker hide the bus as you’re about to cross the street.
- Comment on Advertisements 5 months ago:
My kid had assumed that the hideous intrusive ads were some form of malware attack.
She was spot on.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
The stupidest thing about this that I always go on about is that they’re saying the better scale is the one that goes from 0 to 100. i.e. metric. So why not use that for other measurements?
- Comment on 5 months ago:
Repurposing words like that is underrated.
- Comment on Annon was an oracle 6 months ago:
Nono, it’s old. We’ve had 359 more versions since then.
- Comment on The Library of Useless 6 months ago:
One of those is wrong. The rest are things I’m fairly sure nobody really believed even as a child.