ryathal
@ryathal@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Anon makes money 1 day ago:
Criminals can’t call the cops…
- Comment on Rules for Life 3 days ago:
Fair fights are for sports.
- Comment on Are we still posting beans? 6 days ago:
The best pet names are puns of regular people names.
- Comment on Biden must remember the reason Jordan, Egypt, and the rest of the Middle East don’t accept Palestinian refugees 1 week ago:
The author can cite actual problems that refugees caused. It’s more than just the strain of supporting people with basically nothing.
- Comment on They lied to us 1 week ago:
More of a juice than a soup really.
- Comment on I diagnose you with dystopia 1 week ago:
This looks like a low end concierge medicine program more than insurance.
- Comment on high energy 1 week ago:
Ot said talent, not effort.
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 1 week ago:
If you want an inflation beating raise, you need to get a new job. Companies have long since stopped caring about employee retention.
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 1 week ago:
Somewhat related, advice about being irreplaceable is bad for this exact reason. The more replaceable you are, the easier to promote you and take longer vacations. Sure you might be able to get fired more easily, but most managers won’t put forth the effort.
- Comment on I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. 1 week ago:
I’d say it depends on the trajectory, closing a month or two before bankruptcy isn’t really a success.
- Comment on U.S. bans noncompete agreements for nearly all jobs 2 weeks ago:
They’ve tried several times with mixed results. Countries that allow cheap labor are generally difficult to deal with and quality is a real problem. Countries with better quality tend to have better labor protection that results in more problems for the company than US employees.
- Comment on U.S. bans noncompete agreements for nearly all jobs 2 weeks ago:
A challenge to the FTC rule would ultimately lead to a potential Supreme Court case. The court is currently deciding on a case that could render render this decision moot before it ever gets that far.
- Comment on How Greed Ruined Gaming 2 weeks ago:
You’re listing games over a year old. Steam had over 14k new releases in 23. There’s maybe 10 good games in any given year, and generally less than 3 great games. They are absolutely swimming in a pool od shit games.
- Comment on All are different movies. 2 weeks ago:
Counting the Robin Williams one, but I think a third is planned for the new series.
- Comment on All are different movies. 2 weeks ago:
The third jumanji movie is only 5 years old.
- Comment on HOAs suck 2 weeks ago:
The ability to foreclose is part of holding a lein, it’s not some special power an HOA has.
- Comment on 70 percent of devs unsure of live-service games sustainability 3 weeks ago:
Everyone wants WoW levels of income without WoW levels of effort.
I also don’t think companies realized how competitive live services are, very few people will buy in to more than one live service at a time.
- Comment on What a steal! 3 weeks ago:
It’s practically free for shipping explosives.
- Comment on San Francisco bill would let people sue grocery stores for closing too quickly 3 weeks ago:
Creating a food desert where they live I guess.
- Comment on The vasectomy was a good idea. 4 weeks ago:
How long does it take to get that evenly black? A full day?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I’d give a pass for a roadster or model s, but after that you really just ignored the signs.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 4 weeks ago:
I think it comes down to the fact that cooking is active. You constantly season, add heat, remove heat, and check if it’s done. Baking is more passive, you mix things and hope for the best, you can’t just add more sugar or flour at the 10 minute mark.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 4 weeks ago:
Precision in baking is massively overstated. The earliest recipes are in parts if you’re lucky. More likely they are mix in these ingredients until it looks right.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 4 weeks ago:
Measuring by weight has only been a thing for cooking since digital scales became cheap.
- Comment on Anon watches LOTR 4 weeks ago:
RotS is the best Prequel movie, but calling it classic is a bit of a stretch. Spidervese is probably the best thing recently.
- Comment on Anon watches LOTR 4 weeks ago:
That’s true, but it was a single scene, not the majority of the movie. Almost every scene with hobbits involved forced perspective.
- Comment on Anon watches LOTR 4 weeks ago:
Id say it has a chance, I’m not sure it stands up to peak Pixar levels, but it does a great job telling a story while honoring comics in general.
- Comment on Anon watches LOTR 4 weeks ago:
I think the biggest reason is that the actors were allowed to act together. Modern movies use so many digital effects that actors aren’t even on set together sometimes. It’s hard to have the same emotions looking at a green screen and a guy in a morph suit.
- Comment on Anon watches LOTR 4 weeks ago:
While it’s definitely a partial survivors bias, I can’t really name any recent movies that stand out as timeless classics. Avengers Onfinity War/Endgame was a massive point in time, but hardly something to watch endlessly even now. Star Wars is still clinging to movies made nearly 50 years ago. Spider man had a moment being the first post covid movie, but the film isn’t memorable. Kingsman has been a great revival of the spy movie genre, but it’s not masterpiece level. You could make a case for The Dark Knight, but it’s easily just as memorable due to Ledger’s death than the film’s quality.
- Comment on Anon watches LOTR 4 weeks ago:
Part of this is the phone addicted culture. A lot of people listen at best to movies and TV, so they make everything accessible to that audience.
Another related problem is the over reliance on focus groups. The thoughts and opinions of people in LA/NYC/Chicago that are free at 10am on a random Tuesday aren’t representative samples of the current American. It’s even worse as movies move to target the global audience.