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- Comment on can we talk about how derivative the new aquaman was? 14 hours ago:
Ah damn yeah, I thought I was still in the thread from above, talking about how awful the first one was.
- Comment on STEM Students Refuse to Work at Google and Amazon Over Project Nimbus 15 hours ago:
They are, but I’m still disheartened. Googlers tried to take a stand last year and they immediately paid them all off
- Comment on can we talk about how derivative the new aquaman was? 1 day ago:
Premier was in 2018, so they don’t get to pull that card
- Comment on can we talk about how derivative the new aquaman was? 1 day ago:
I watched the first on a plane, and even then I felt like it was a waste of time.
- Comment on Pioneering a New Robotic System to Displace a $280B industry - S3 (10:19) 1 day ago:
“displace”. Techbro talk for “save investors money and cut jobs while providing a worse service”
- Comment on STEM Students Refuse to Work at Google and Amazon Over Project Nimbus 1 day ago:
That’s gr at! Unfortunately for every one of them there’s 4x more who gladly would
- Comment on I fucking hate the job search 4 days ago:
I love that you reversed it, when it should be “how terrible do Americans have it where we have to commute so far just to get to work”
- Comment on Don’t expect Fallout 1 and 2 remakes from Bethesda any time soon - Todd wouldn’t want to “paste over” their charm 5 days ago:
Yeah really the biggest selling point of a remaster wouldn’t be graphics, but “it’s one click to run on your machine, no patches, no fixes, no widescreen bugs”.
Mass Effect legendary was less of a remaster for me and more of a “you don’t need to do 4 hours of mods before each game anymore” buy.
- Comment on Gladiator II will have some of the biggest action sequences ever put on film, as claimed by Paramount Exec 5 days ago:
It’s all done by committee now, with marketers and lawyers in there cutting back anything that might remotely shy away the most tamest of movie goer.
Can’t have that plot! You might upset them! Can’t go that route, that’s untested, we don’t know how audiences might take it.
So we get these boring bland flat characters and storylines because there was zero risk taken in making the film. Nothing risked, nothing gained, movie industry. Then they wonder why no one cares about going to the movies anymore.
- Comment on BioWare's Mark Darrah thinks Veilguard is the first Dragon Age where "the combat's actually fun" 5 days ago:
That’s the hard thing there bud, fun is an extremely subjective term
- Comment on Potential spam communities 6 days ago:
The all feed. They knew mods in communities were removing their spam posts, so they created communities they could post constantly to and all viewers would see them
- Comment on Apple Decides to Block Open-Source Emulator App for iOS 6 days ago:
Big companies will constantly work against open standards.
- Comment on Well, it's officially over. Tom Hardy says George Miller’s "MAD MAX: FURY ROAD" prequel "THE WASTELAND" is no longer happening. 6 days ago:
Bingo. And now that they bought Alamo drafthouse even the good theaters are slipping away.
Fully agree, I have an OLED at home, a good sound system, a giant couch, and I can make a lot more popcorn for pennies compared to them. I’m very happy waiting for something and watching it later.
- Comment on Well, it's officially over. Tom Hardy says George Miller’s "MAD MAX: FURY ROAD" prequel "THE WASTELAND" is no longer happening. 6 days ago:
The story you can’t miss with a huge twist at the end
Oh great! I love twists when I know they’re coming! It wouldn’t be fun if I didn’t know it was coming!
Then they are shocked when I don’t see the point in spending my money on it
- Comment on Well, it's officially over. Tom Hardy says George Miller’s "MAD MAX: FURY ROAD" prequel "THE WASTELAND" is no longer happening. 6 days ago:
I agree with this. I pass by a theater regularly and my spouse and I just haven’t seen any need to go. Personally, I blame their marketing teams. All the trailers are the same, they either give away the whole story or they don’t tell us anything about the story. It’s all action scenes, they all blend together, and just blech. So I don’t go to the theater anymore.
Then the theaters are gross now, people are rude, staff have just given up, it’s not a fun experience for me anymore. Even Dune 2 I just waited until it was out and watched it at home, and had a much better experience.
So I agree, theaters aren’t dead, but they have fallen into a rut of corporate complacency and aren’t trying hard enough to get out of it.
- Comment on US sues Adobe for “deceiving” subscriptions that are too hard to cancel 1 week ago:
I’m sure they will be slightly inconvenienced for the duration of a single meeting
- Comment on Russell Crowe on Actors Complaining About Starring in Superhero Films: You’re ‘Here for the Wrong Reasons’ If You Expect It to Be ‘Life-Changing’ 1 week ago:
Thank you. You’re not there because you’re winning an Oscar, you’re there to make a quick buck and have a bit of fun while you do it. Cate Blanchett I guarantee didn’t go into Thor because she thought it was going to be some revolutionary experience.
- Comment on Daniel Radcliffe is now a Tony Award Winner 1 week ago:
I saw his show! Absolutely deserved, the whole cast did an amazing job. I don’t know how much longer it’s on, but if you can make it to new York it’s worth seeing!
- Comment on Hunt for Gollum: are Ian McKellen and Viggo Mortensen being quietly dropped? 1 week ago:
I read two paragraphs and stopped. Annoying writing.
- Comment on Elon Musk bets Tesla on Optimus, says over 1,000 robots working in factories next year 1 week ago:
This is the same guy who said full auto driving out of beta in 2 years 10 years ago and that we’re going to be living in Mars in 2. Skeptical is an understatement
- Comment on As Anyone Ever? 1 week ago:
Disables
30 ads all over the page start to appear, moving and shifting the article I was trying to read, flashing in my face and covering content. An auto playing video starts to play, and follows me down the page.
Why won’t anyone disable their ad blocker, we need ad revenue!
- Comment on [Updated: Epic Statement] Major Epic Leak Hints at Unannounced Games Coming to Epic Games Store 1 week ago:
Shocking: Game company is making games. More at 11
- Comment on Microsoft Chose Profit Over Security and Left U.S. Government Vulnerable to Russian Hack, Whistleblower Says 1 week ago:
I am shocked.
- Comment on He has cancer — so he made an AI version of himself for his wife after he dies 1 week ago:
I tried things like character AI to play with talking to “celebrities”. It was novel, it was fun. For about 15 minutes. Then… Eh. It’s not the person, and your brain knows it’s not them. It’s always an imitation. I got bored talking with people I’ve always wanted to talk to.
I can’t imagine it being a lived one who has passed. It would feel hollow, empty, and wouldn’t make the pain leave. Idk, it just wouldn’t be good at all
- Comment on For free for 11.99$ 1 week ago:
As everything, a big “it depends”. Each viewer will eat more bandwidth, but you control the compression and qualities. For me, I have an unlimited fiber uplink, so it’s quite easy for me to self host. If someone were more bandwidth constrained, then hosting it on a cloud that then has much more egress may help - at a cost of course, but then your own personal internet would only have the one outgoing stream. Finding a provider that has super cheap egress traffic would probably help
If you have a data cap… well… not a lot you can do.
- Comment on For free for 11.99$ 1 week ago:
Thanks, I knew I was skirting the rule, but I’m on a constant strive to convince people to move to fediverse alternatives. Appreciate the exception, and won’t make a habit of it.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Official Gameplay Reveal 1 week ago:
Oh for sure, I’m going in with - minimal expectations. But I’ve seen enough trailers in my time to not trust them at all, positive or negative. I’ll wait it comes out
- Comment on For free for 11.99$ 1 week ago:
That’s so weird, the markdown processor got confused. I changed the link
- Comment on For free for 11.99$ 1 week ago:
Shameless plug, if anyone here streams check out https://owncast.online/. If you feel comfortable setting up a docker container you can stream on the fediverse, and people on mastodon/other services can sub to you. (You can follow me if you like at https://owncast.scrubbles.tech/ )
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Official Gameplay Reveal 1 week ago:
Based on this trailer. If you’re right then yes I’d be upset too, but it not making it into the trailer doesn’t mean it’s not there. This is obviously the first mission, some of those mechanics may not be explained yet.