entropicdrift
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- Comment on Crush 40 singer sues Sega over Sonic Adventure 2's 'Live and Learn' theme song 3 days 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
About time somebody tried it
- Comment on "TRON: Ares" Director Talks Post-Production - Dark Horizons 3 weeks ago:
Huh, maybe I read that back then and only remembered subconsciously?
- Comment on "TRON: Ares" Director Talks Post-Production - Dark Horizons 3 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t call that a “meh” movie, no.
- Comment on Whomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productive 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
I loved the Walking Dead series
- Comment on Blue 5 weeks ago:
Weirdly it’s much more clearly BLUE when read in reverse, whereas forwards it looked more like BULB
- Comment on Hidden razor blades 5 weeks ago:
Neither, just wild speculation for the hell of it
- Comment on Hidden razor blades 5 weeks ago:
How is the consumer meant to know if they’ve rusted in their packaging?
- Comment on How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it) 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think they’d do much better besides being safer, eventually. Just saying that’s the only place where they’d make sense to go.
- Comment on How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it) 5 weeks ago:
Inner cities are better served by trolleys/buses anyhow. Self-driving taxis would work best at the edges of a city, or to fill gaps between train stations in suburbs
- Comment on ‘Star Wars’: Simon Kinberg to Write, Produce New Trilogy for Lucasfilm 1 month ago:
At least it’s grassy plains instead of a desert
- Comment on Robert Zemeckis wants to make another Back to the Future movie (with a twist) 1 month ago:
Joker 2 was also pretty much explicitly a “fuck you, we don’t need a sequel” of a movie
- Comment on New Godzilla Movie in the Works from 'Godzilla Minus One' Director 1 month ago:
Shin Godzilla. Go in blind.
- Comment on New Godzilla Movie in the Works from 'Godzilla Minus One' Director 1 month ago:
The American Godzilla movies are hit and miss, but the last two Japanese Godzilla movies fucking slapped.
- Comment on Where can I find the highest quality Star Trek: The Original Series? 1 month ago:
I’m sorry, I misread your previous comment. For some reason I was thinking you didn’t like the blu-rays because of the remastered effects.
Sorry for the awkwardness, 100% my bad
- Comment on Where can I find the highest quality Star Trek: The Original Series? 1 month ago:
Doesn’t the blu-ray set include both the remastered effects and the original effects? Last I looked it did.
- Comment on The original Facebook was something we’ll never get back 1 month ago:
Hey, don’t be sexist. There’s plenty of otherwise-tech-illiterate ditsy dudes in the same work pool.
- Comment on The original Facebook was something we’ll never get back 1 month ago:
My feed is aware of my politics and throws everyone I’m friends with or follow (and some who I’ve unfollowed) who wrote something objectively wrong or stupid that’s biased the other way politically.
It’s literally all rage bait unless I go in and manually block it from showing me those people at all.
- Comment on What do you call your first cousin's child? 1 month ago:
Ah, you’re completely right.
If that person had a kid it’d be your third cousin, but since that person is OP’s parents’ second cousin, they are OP’s second cousin once removed.
- Comment on What do you call your first cousin's child? 2 months ago:
For example, my great grandfather’s sister’s grandson was on the USS Thresher when it imploded. What would his relation be to me?
So your first common ancestors are your great great grandparents, so that’s third cousin, and they’re a generation older than you, so once removed. Third cousin once removed.
On that note, what do you call your grandparent’s sibling, vs your great grandparent’s sibling, and so on? Again, Google isn’t being very helpful here.
Grandparents’ siblings are you great aunts/great uncles, additional generations back you add more greats, so great grandparents’ siblings are your great great aunt/uncle. After a while people say “twice great” etc
- Comment on Live-Action ‘View-Master’ Movie, Based on 3D Image Toy From Mattel, in the Works 2 months ago:
Yes, but Rubber was excellent. It’s really a problem of creatively bankrupt giant studios pumping out formulaic dreck.
- Comment on Live-Action ‘View-Master’ Movie, Based on 3D Image Toy From Mattel, in the Works 2 months ago:
Just because Barbie and Transformers worked doesn’t mean every old toy needs a movie
- Comment on How Optimizations made Mario 64 SLOWER 2 months ago:
This dude’s videos impress me to no end