entropicdrift
@entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
I quite agree, but it doesn’t reduce the irony even an iota
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Dude is so thick that he used an example of a time when he was a minority within his department and discriminated against as a way to argue that businesses should be allowed to discriminate against minorities.
Like bro. Do you not understand that this scenario is insanely more common for racial and ethnic minorities to encounter in our society at large and that’s why we have DEI programs to begin with?
- Comment on Mozilla's New AI Detector Add-On for Firefox 2 weeks ago:
Doubly so now that students are beginning to authentically write like ChatGPT since they spend so much time chatting it up.
- Comment on Quentin Tarantino in ‘No Hurry’ to Direct Final Movie 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, and I say this as a fan of the majority of his films, it can wait.
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood literally bored me to sleep both times I tried to watch it in one sitting with no distractions. Hateful Eight was long but at least it was engaging the whole time because of the powderkeg situation. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, even though it was obvious they were leading up to the Manson family stuff, it just didn’t have any underlying tension to sustain it, so with its 2 hour 41 minute runtime it just dragged and felt self-indulgent compared to his other works.
- Comment on Tech Execs Plead for Great Firewall of America to Protect Them Against Scary Chinese AI 2 weeks ago:
Well yeah, but the US authoritarian are right wing instead of left wing in their justifications of absurdly state violence. They’ve been extremely prominent since at least the whole “freedom fries” era.
- Comment on Spreading my curse 3 weeks ago:
ChatGPT couldn’t find the original punchline but Gemini is claiming it’s the following:
“Because they have big balls!”
Anyways even if that’s made up, it’s way funnier than ChatGPT’s made up punchlines, and about par for a Laffy Taffy joke.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
That’s on the low side of “Normal weight” per the BMI chart.
I’m 33, 5’7" and 175 lbs. Technically overweight, but I still look fine. It really really depends on your build.
Anyway I’d take that screencap as proof of verbal/emotional abuse.
- Comment on Is there any movie you are looking forward to? 4 weeks ago:
Trent Reznor is doing the soundtrack, so it’s gonna sound awesome at least
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
You think the social media propaganda machines all grinding into gear to pump out pro-trump propaganda isn’t going to help his popularity?
I envy your positivity
- Comment on The cost of college in USA makes no sense anymore 5 weeks ago:
I would say that in most cases a person’s commitment to continuous education is more important than what they went to school a decade+ ago. There have been plenty of SWEs that I’ve run into with relevant degrees that never bothered to study since getting their degree and most of them were mediocre at best.
- Comment on The cost of college in USA makes no sense anymore 5 weeks ago:
Meanwhile I’ve been a professional software engineer for 9 years now with no college degree.
In tech, it pretty much is a scam, or at best a classist gatekeeping requirement that anybody interested in getting real work done will ignore or handwave away. At least till you get up to the level of having “publish x number of papers per year” as part of the job requirements.
- Comment on What is your favorite Robin Williams role? 1 month ago:
Bicentennial Man. What a great film
- Comment on IMDb's Top 10 Most Anticipated Movies of 2025 1 month ago:
Didn’t hear about it, not shocked though. I’m just a fan of that actor
- Comment on IMDb's Top 10 Most Anticipated Movies of 2025 1 month ago:
Yeah, 7 8 9 and 10 all look like almost certain trash lmao
- Comment on If you begin the Voyager episode "Spirit Folk" at exactly 11:49:35 on New Year's eve, Ensign Harry Kim will kiss a cow as the clock strikes midnight. 1 month ago:
Or at xx:49:35 and see if it’s right on the hour when it happens at any hour of the day
- Comment on Should you bother with... mini PCs? 1 month ago:
I use one as a Jellyfin server and to stream my main gaming PC to my home theater setup via Moonlight. Works great and since it’s all wired LAN the latency added is under 10ms end to end
- Comment on Amazon: The same 31 products you don't want, again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again 1 month ago:
UBlock Origin works on Firefox Mobile for Android the same as on Desktop. It’s only Apple users who eat shit.
- Comment on Crush 40 singer sues Sega over Sonic Adventure 2's 'Live and Learn' theme song 2 months ago:
Poor guy. I mean he’s ridiculously lucky to be as famous as he is and to have been compensated fairly for the rest of his Sonic/SEGA music but it sucks that one of his most famous works has effectively been stolen by a corporation’s sense of entitlement.
- Comment on Is there any (single player playable) game under $10 or equivalent which has made you point any go "ha" or given you an equivalent feeling because it was that enjoyable for every moment you played it? 2 months ago:
A number of the best games of all time are quite cheap:
Tetris (pretty much any version)
Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 (use OpenRCT2 to run it well on a modern PC)
Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic 2 (use The Sith Lords Restored Content Mod to add back in the stuff the devs had to cut for time, otherwise the ending is disappointing)
Balatro ($9.99 on mobile or $19.99 when bundled with Slay The Spire on Steam)
Slay The Spire
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (free and open source)
DOOM (the original, not the 2016 game, very cheap and there are literally millions of mods and community made maps)
- Comment on Which were the worst movies of 2024? 2 months ago:
Megalopolis was a waste of time and money
- Comment on As an American we are taught to believe the the Oscar is the pinnacle of achievement in acting or whatever. What Award is on the level of the Oscar in different countries like the Palm De Or? 2 months ago:
I mean in Japan they have their own Academy Awards
- Comment on Tech companies put on notice as Australia passes world-first social media ban for under-16s | CNN 2 months ago:
About time somebody tried it
- Comment on "TRON: Ares" Director Talks Post-Production - Dark Horizons 2 months ago:
Huh, maybe I read that back then and only remembered subconsciously?
- Comment on "TRON: Ares" Director Talks Post-Production - Dark Horizons 2 months ago:
Agreed. And if we’re not getting a heavy hitter on the level of, say, Trent Reznor it’ll probably be a disappointment
- Comment on A re-edit of M Night Shyamalan's 'Trap' becomes a film about a frustrated dad at a Taylor Swift concert. 2 months ago:
No, sorry, what I mean is it’s terrible. “Meh”, at least in my mind, means middling. Not terrible, but not actively good either.
- Comment on A re-edit of M Night Shyamalan's 'Trap' becomes a film about a frustrated dad at a Taylor Swift concert. 2 months ago:
I wouldn’t call that a “meh” movie, no.
- Comment on Whomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productive 2 months ago:
It truly is bizarre to me how smartphone aesthetics have somehow outweighed practical usage and ergonomic comfort.
It’s kind of like the main “screen rectangle” smartphone evolutionary tree has largely gone down the road of the “Red Delicious” apple, which is bitter, mealy, mushy, has a leathery skin and is a terrible snack overall, but keeps being bred and bought in large numbers simply because it’s the iconic “pretty” red apple.
- Comment on A re-edit of M Night Shyamalan's 'Trap' becomes a film about a frustrated dad at a Taylor Swift concert. 2 months ago:
Feels like a good summary of most of the “meh” Shyamalan movies
- Comment on The Walking Dead, The Expanse and more in the Telltale Collection Humble Bundle 2 months ago:
I loved the Walking Dead series
- Comment on Blue 3 months ago:
Weirdly it’s much more clearly BLUE when read in reverse, whereas forwards it looked more like BULB