SpiceDealer

@SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Because AI is going to fuck us in the ass with no protection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I immediately thought of this tune for some reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 GameCube controller will only be offered to those who pre-order the console⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, Nintendo! Please paywall my nostalgia of the very first game console I ever played! Charge me an exorbitant price during a economic crisis to satisfy my childlike need to regress to a time before I understood what money was!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At this point I think I would⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  • Big ol’ Yurt. 2 or 3 if you have or want to start a family

  • Solar-powered electric generator

  • Vegetable garden

  • Located near Lake Superior

  I can definitely see myself living that kind of life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At this point I think I would⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that buying and living in a yurt would be a better option than trying to buy a house.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Doctor Who' Star Varada Sethu Fires Back at 'Woke' Critics: 'It Means We’re Doing the Right Thing'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel that the whole “Woke/DEI” era will be remembered as a poorly timed inflection point. On one hand, you had the media conglomerates, who, instead of investing in original content decided to put stock in continuations of established franchises which often had poor writing and were poorly executed. These works also just happened to have a “diversity” angel to them. At the same time, we saw the increase in right wing voices online that started to infiltrate the fandoms of those already established franchises.

  Social media algorithms also began to push this kind of content to a wider audience. How many times have you seen a random Youtube video with titles like " X is WOKE PROPAGANDA TRASH! Hollywoke is in DECLINE! " appear in your feed or homepage? If the work in question was a critical flop (i.e. terrible), it was not a flop because of creative deficiencies. No, it was a flop because it had a non-binary black character!

  You never heard legitimate criticisms like “Hollywood is putting profits before good entertainment” or “[Show or movie] had poor writing, bad acting, terrible direction and didn’t contribute anything to already established canon.”

  Take Deep Space 9 as an example. A great show with a very diverse cast but that diversity would be useless if the characters weren’t as fleshed out as they were. Now imagine what the discourse around DS9 would look like if it were made today:

  “A New BLACK Protagonist? Star Trek Has Gone WOKE!”

  “Jadzia Dax and Odo: Trans Ideology PROPAGANDA?!”

  When a new piece of media comes out and there is a massive stir attached to it, ask yourself this: is the criticism warranted or is it ideology driven?

• Just finished watching the Danish series The Chetnut Man (Kastanjemanden). Any other Scandanavian series that you can recommend?
  Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨Television@lemm.ee⁩ | ⁨2⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨90s band alignment chart⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some those did get their start in the 80s but all of them hit their peak in the 90s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨90s band alignment chart⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Title: 90s bands

  My brain: Morbid Angel, Obituary, Sepultura, Corrosion of Conformity, Eyehategod, Dissection, among others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ONE OF US⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They arrested this century’s Oppenheimer but they won’t arrest the CEOs of oil companies? The hypocrisy on display!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the duality of beetle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Look at you, in-in-insect!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enshittification⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Enshittification is the end result of putting profits above everything. There’s a reason why XJ Cherokees are still running today despite being over 40 years old. Their internals were so simple that even the most mechanically illiterate could work on it with basic tools from the hardware store. Something like that wouldn’t be make it past the pitch meeting today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Late 1900s⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If this was a CS major, 1994 might as well be Antiquity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which game is it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Outer Worlds. Not exactly a bad game but fell just a tad short of being F:NV spiritual successor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thinkpad for the win⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple: The Gucci of the tech world.