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- Comment on Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year 3 days ago:
Hm, I may need to rewatch it myself. That also doesn’t match what the link above suggests about interpreting the ending.
- Comment on Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year 4 days ago:
What did he save?
- Comment on Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year 4 days ago:
It is implied that Tom Cruise dies at the end. I think the confusion comes from a voice over, but you never see the character on screen again.
He also does not “become a samurai”. He fights alongside them, but at no point do they call him a samurai.
- Comment on Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year 4 days ago:
The fun thing about The Last Samurai is that the title doesn’t refer to Tom Cruise. He does not play a samurai in the film. He plays an American officer.
He hangs with a group of samurai, who are collectively the last of their kind.
That said, plenty of people complained about it in its day.
- Comment on I hate the modern web 4 days ago:
Happens to me all the time on a VPN.
It isn’t every IP. I just change tunnels.
- Comment on Civilization 7 Outlines Crucial 1.1.1 Update as It Struggles to Compete on Steam Against Civ 6 and Even the 15-Year-Old Civ 5 5 days ago:
It’s more expensive for a worse game than V or VI, both of which can be had for the price of dirt.
Not surprising.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 5 days ago:
I would suggest that the Dixon Ticonderoga is the most reliable, most cost-efficient, and easiest-to-use writing utinsil in the history of humanity.*
Each other option has more points of potential failure and additional complexities over the Ticonderoga. While more complicated tools may net you some improvement in writing style or sharpness, they are massive trade-offs in more basic areas.
This would be much the same question if it were “what car would you drive for the rest of your life” between fancy ones like Ferraris and Lambos to cheaper, more reliable ones like Corollas and Civics. Everyone likes the look of the Ferrari – but the only car for the rest of your life? It’s got to be reliable, or you’re going nowhere. You want to be able to keep driving.
The Ticonderoga guarantees you can keep writing.
*intentionally overselling it for humor. But it is a nice, simple, good-quality pencil.
- Comment on The late 70s Trek series we never got to see 🥹 1 week ago:
I’m still in the hate camp. To me, it looks like a Star Trek ship design made by a primary school student on a cafeteria napkin.
- Comment on What Can We Do to Get Youth into Ham Radio? 1 week ago:
Present it as an alternative to social media – one without the kinds of mental health issues and corporate controls.
Present things like electronics tinkering as a life skill instead of a hobby.
It’s a long shot, sure.
- Comment on Anon is waiting for Japan 1 week ago:
I’m implying nothing. Some things are meant to be tongue-in-cheek.
- Comment on Anon is waiting for Japan 1 week ago:
They will and are changing it, to be sure. Whether those changes are positive remains to be seen.
- Comment on Anon is waiting for Japan 1 week ago:
If AI is the chief innovation in the US, then the US is massively fucked.
I’d much rather have a fancy shinkansen.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 1 week ago:
Ah, got it. Thanks.
I took the sentence “From a Republican…” as OP saying they were a Republican who had changed their view.
Wishful thinking, I guess.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 1 week ago:
You said you thought she was the lesser of two evils. I’m not sure how that is believing Trump’s words, as you said in the original post.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 1 week ago:
What period?
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 1 week ago:
Then how was it that you “believed Trump’s words”?
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 1 week ago:
I appreciate you taking the time to write this post, and I appreciate you noticing this trend.
But I’ve got to be honest: the writing was on the wall the whole time. Being in the Republican bubble doesn’t really change the fact that you only get here from a lack of critical thinking and a general susceptibility to propaganda. These are things that many people spend time and resources getting educated about. It’s hard to have sympathy when the whole country is now suffering because so many were so sure they knew better.
If I sound angry, I am. I do hope you take it constructively, but you also need to understand: most of the damage has already been done. It doesn’t really matter how you feel from here on out, because the deed (from voters) is done.
- Comment on Favourite 90s platformer? 1 week ago:
Sonic 2. It came bundled with a lot of Sega Genesis consoles.
A fantastic game that you can technically complete in a sitting.
- Comment on "Mickey 17" releases digitally on March 25 — only 18 days after its theatrical debut 2 weeks ago:
Cool, now I can watch it.
Movie theaters are such a joke now. To see a movie with just one other person is easily $50+, possibly slightly higher. All that to possibly end up in a theater with someone loud af anyway and a theater staff that doesn’t give the slightest fuck since they’re also criminally underpaid.
- Comment on What’s a movie nobody can convince you is good? 2 weeks ago:
Titanic is better if you interpret it differently:
Jack never existed. He was a coping mechanism for Rose to get away from crippling depression and self harm.
The whole movie can be interpreted that way, and it makes it much more interesting. There is no direct evidence for Jack’s existence, and everything we hear about him interacting with others is from interviews with Old Rose.
- Comment on Justice Dept. Official Says She Was Fired After Opposing Restoring Mel Gibson’s Gun Rights 2 weeks ago:
Send this Aussie back home.
Love, an actually empathetic USian who is just really tired of the constant hypocrisy. Love you, Aussies.
- Comment on Tiny Face Vance 3 weeks ago:
This is what Charlie Kirk’s daddy looks like
- Comment on Is anyone else playing Avowed? What are your thoughts so far? 4 weeks ago:
Refunded. Would have been a mediocre game 10-15 years ago. What a dead world.
- Comment on Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device? 5 weeks ago:
This. There is no practical reason to separate privacy and security in this way.
If bad actors can access your data without your consent, it doesn’t matter if you call it a breach of privacy or security. It’s still a breach. At best, playing semantics like this allows a corp to claim a system filled with backdoors is “secure”. Utter marketing nonsense.
- Comment on Dragunov sniper rifle 5 weeks ago:
More so than the commonly called “artificial intelligence”, in fact.
People can be really, really dumb, but they’re always sentient.
- Comment on Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations 1 month ago:
IfWhen - Comment on DNC Chair Live Updates: Democrats Elect Ken Martin 1 month ago:
Welp. I guess that’s what we should expect from the “opposition” party.
- Comment on Good luck, applicants. 2 months ago:
My original comment was about the PhD specifically, which is necessarily research focused.
But even so, I’d argue that it is prudent as a blanket statement about grad school generally. Wages across entire classes of roles can stagnate relatively quickly – more quickly than you can get a graduate degree – and if it happens, you’re still stuck with the grad school bill.
Entering a program which costs you directly means minimally taking significantly extra risk, and it should be presented as such.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 Has Finally Hit Overwhelmingly Positive On Steam 2 months ago:
Way back when, people were wondering if Cyberpunk could pull off a No Man’s Sky-type of reversal of opinion.
Now people will wonder if the next game released way too early can pull off a Cyberpunk 2077.
- Comment on Good luck, applicants. 2 months ago:
And, though these times may be dark, never, ever go into a PhD program that costs you tuition directly or does not provide a stipend.