entropicdrift
@entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on With 5,700 Movie Screens Shut Down and the Box Office in a Slump, Theaters Are Still Waiting for a Post-Pandemic Comeback 1 day ago:
A whole generation of kids missed out on learning movie theater etiquette
- Comment on An extremely biased review of The Beekeeper (2024) 1 week ago:
I liked this movie a lot. Yeah, it’s kinda silly in its concept, but the execution of it was deeply satisfying.
- Comment on Google is replacing Google Assistant with Gemini | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
I just tried those questions with Gemini on my phone. It got them all right. For the directions one it gave me a Google Maps link with the route dialed in in public transit mode
- Comment on Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak says Tesla ‘is the worst in the world’ at improving its technology for drivers 2 weeks ago:
Nah, he’s set for life. Doesn’t care much about money.
- Comment on Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak says Tesla ‘is the worst in the world’ at improving its technology for drivers 2 weeks ago:
Woz is one of the first people who would tell you not to buy apple. He loves to tinker
- Comment on Having a vowel movement 2 weeks ago:
Good point!
- Comment on Having a vowel movement 2 weeks ago:
Aloe, even
- Comment on Having a vowel movement 2 weeks ago:
Alternatively you could “xu”
- Comment on Mutant Reviewers article: Six of the worst cult sequels out of the ’90s 3 weeks ago:
I’m gonna be that guy:
inciteful
insightful is the right word here. As in “full of insight”.
Incite is pronounced the same but it refers to instigating or provoking, e.g. “incite a riot”, so something that’s insightful could also be inciteful if you’re inferring something embarrassing about someone to try to start a fight
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 3 weeks ago:
Ladybird and Servo are both in Alpha, but worth keeping an eye on.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I quite agree, but it doesn’t reduce the irony even an iota
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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] 1 month 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? 2 months ago:
Trent Reznor is doing the soundtrack, so it’s gonna sound awesome at least
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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? 2 months ago:
Bicentennial Man. What a great film
- Comment on IMDb's Top 10 Most Anticipated Movies of 2025 2 months 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 2 months 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. 2 months 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? 2 months 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 2 months 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 3 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? 3 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? 3 months ago:
Megalopolis was a waste of time and money