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- Comment on Wolf Reboot 1 day ago:
Sure, but we still have conservatives and capitalists ignoring the best advice of educated experts because it’s easier and more profitable.
- Comment on Wolf Reboot 1 day ago:
Most people like to argue that “people didn’t know better back then.” That’s absolute bullshit. There were ecologists and scientists fighting to preserve wolves in the 1920s, and conservatives and capitalists chose to ignore the best advice of educated experts because killing wolves was easier and more profitable.
- Comment on Cities Skylines 2, Kerbal Space 2, Planet Coaster 2, Frostpunk 2... What Went Wrong? 6 days ago:
You see this a lot in project management. People go to school to learn to manage projects, and they think that all projects are pretty much the same. You define the deliverables, set the schedule, track the progress, and everything should work out fine. When the project is a success, they pat themselves on the back for getting everyone to the finish line, and when the project fails they examine where in the process unexpected things happened.
Video games are an art form. Creativity can’t be iterated into existence, and the spark of fun is more than the component parts of a good time. Capitalists believe that they can invest in the creative process and buy the value of the talent of extraordinary people. They have commoditized creation, dissecting each step and then squeezing it into a format that fits into a procedure.
Here’s a Kanban board of game features, pick one and move it to the next phase. Develop, test, evaluate, repeat. What are your blockers? Is this in scope? Do we need to push the deadline?
That can help you make something, but it won’t be art.
- Comment on Are your parents "supposed" to be your role models? 1 week ago:
They are, for better or worse. Kids learn to be people from the people around them. The only situation where your parents aren’t role models is when they aren’t around you, and that’s a sort of role model in its own way.
Kids also learn from their peers, their mentors, their heroes, etc, so it’s not like kids of shitty people are completely fucked.
- Comment on As a child of the 90s we grew up with PC Political Correctness. Is that WOKE but just in a different form? 1 week ago:
While you are correct, the only people using “woke” anymore are using it as an insult, meaning “not a bigot like me.”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It’s one thing to know it happens, and it’s an entirely different thing to hear it happening live and in real time.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I moved into an apartment with my girlfriend (and her roommate) after being together only a year, and we’re married now. We weren’t much older than you are now (22 and 21). The concerning part is the rest of the family.
You’ve answered a lot of questions, so don’t feel the need to respond to these, but you should know the answers for yourself.
Would you share a bed? Will you be able to hear her parents getting frisky? Because then they will be able to hear you. What if you have to take an epic shit, but her mom has just called everyone down to dinner? What if you go to take a shower and her father has clogged the drain with hair?
What is your alternative plan if you don’t move in with them?
Sharing a roof means intimacy with everyone in the building. There’s very little privacy, and escape is complicated. If you see her as a forever partner, and don’t mind making yourself vulnerable to her family, then actually I probably still wouldn’t do it even under those circumstances.
- Comment on The pipeline 1 week ago:
Would you eat them if they were called “Buffalo Nuggets”? Sounds like poop to me. “Buffalo Tenders” isn’t much better, because it sounds like the nether regions of the buffalo. Chicken nuggets or chicken tenders are breaded and fried, because they are white meat and don’t have the skin of a wing. Then they are coated in buffalo wing sauce. The benefit is you can eat them whole and there’s no plate of gnawed bones leftover. You could even use a fork and keep your fingers clean.
- Comment on Roseanne makes grave appearance as 'The Conners' family bids farewell 1 week ago:
I get why Roseanne Barr didn’t come back, but why not bring DJ back for a cameo? Or maybe mention Jerry?
- Comment on WhatsApp defends 'optional' AI tool that cannot be turned off 1 week ago:
Honestly, if you’re still using WhatsApp, you should expect that shit.
- Comment on Michael Bay And Sydney Sweeney Team On Movie Adaptation Of ‘OutRun’ Video Game At Universal 1 week ago:
Yeah, you’re right, but this is why I don’t want dialogue. Just vroom vroom kersh-splode. “Aktually, I keep a copy of the Romeo and Juliet law in my wallet cause-” No. Stop it. Bad Michael. No talking. Just cars driving and crashing.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
This is not healthy husband/wife behavior. If you don’t feel comfortable talking with him about your own freedom, then you don’t have a husband, you have a captor. If you live in the US or EU, there are resources to help you escape.
- Comment on What is an example of an adaptation of a book where the TV series was better? 1 week ago:
I’m not sure about “better” but I would point to the IT and the Stand miniseries from the 90s that were excellent. Both books had parts that were problematic to put on screen, and a lot of fans felt the omissions were improvements. Also, the author was heavily involved in the productions, writing the scripts and consulting with the directors.
I don’t think they make tv shows out of bad books, though, so I’m having a hard time thinking of other examples.
- Comment on Now that's Love 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure where you got that impression.
- Comment on Michael Bay And Sydney Sweeney Team On Movie Adaptation Of ‘OutRun’ Video Game At Universal 2 weeks ago:
Can it just be 100 minutes of car chases and crashes and shit? Like if there was zero dialogue, I’d be OK with it. Michael Bay can do car chases, and that’s what the OutRun game was. No story, no deeper meaning, just recklessly driving a red testarosa around Southern California.
- Comment on Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away 2 weeks ago:
It’s wild that they didn’t do this already, but cool.
- Comment on ‘Bridgerton’ Nicola Coughlan Slams HBO ‘Harry Potter’ Project: “Wouldn’t Touch It With A Pole” 2 weeks ago:
Duh duh duh, let boys be boys.
- Comment on Steven Soderbergh Says It’s “Frustrating” When Mid-Budget Films Like ‘Black Bag’ Underperform At Box Office: “Not A Good Thing For Movies” 2 weeks ago:
Because McDonald’s is the cheaper alternative to eating at the movie. Most of the places near me will bring a shitty bar food to your seat in exchange for a mortgage payment. Of you make the mistake of going hungry, you’ll leave poor.
- Comment on Steven Soderbergh Says It’s “Frustrating” When Mid-Budget Films Like ‘Black Bag’ Underperform At Box Office: “Not A Good Thing For Movies” 2 weeks ago:
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was a phenomenal film crafted with great care by experts. Comparing self-described mid-market spy films to that one is like comparing your house painter to Van Gogh. It’s not that they can’t be that good, but if that’s your benchmark, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.
I think the more troubling thing is that a filmmaker who made a mid-market spy thriller is just now discovering that audiences have abandoned theaters as the preferred venue. Theaters are too expensive, and wages are too low, for people to just drop $100 on a Friday night watching average movies and eating shitty popcorn. We have too many options, and too little disposable income to tolerate the leveraged abuse of consumers. For 40 years, theaters have squeezed every drop of profit from their privileged market position, and now they cannot afford to keep the lights on.
If you want to make money making average films, you need to meet viewers where they are, at home on their couch.
- Comment on White House to Ask Congress to Rescind $1.1 Billion From NPR and PBS 3 weeks ago:
Mr. Rogers appealed to the committee members’ humanity. That’s not going to work today.
- Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates 3 weeks ago:
We say it thats way for the benefit of the British.
- Comment on Amazon Tomb Raider series from Phoebe Waller-Bridge reportedly "dead" 3 weeks ago:
With Sophie Turner as Jean Grey? Two, Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix. She wasn’t in First Class, and Jean was played by Famke Janssen in the first trilogy plus The Wolverine and Days of Future Past. Jean also wasn’t in Origins or Logan, iirc.
- Comment on Amazon Tomb Raider series from Phoebe Waller-Bridge reportedly "dead" 3 weeks ago:
No, I’ve also only seen her in GoT and XMen. She was good in the former, and not so good in the latter. To be fair, I don’t think anyone was good in either of the X-Men films, but she seemed especially ill-suited for the role of Jean Grey.
- Comment on Amazon Tomb Raider series from Phoebe Waller-Bridge reportedly "dead" 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, Turner can act, but she doesn’t read as “action star.” Dark Phoenix should have proven that for everyone.
- Comment on Netflix’s Sci-Fi Series '3 Body Problem' to Film Seasons 2 & 3 Back-To-Back 3 weeks ago:
Heinlein’s life story is fascinating and well documented. Stranger in a Strange Land was just one of his many influential works, and the world of literature is fuller because of his creations.
Starship Troopers was published after his marriage to a woman, Virginia, who significantly affected his political and social worldviews. That’s not speculation, that’s from the man himself. By the end of his life, he had reversed almost all of his early progressive opinions in his writings, which often included arguments in favor of xenophobia, eugenics, and fascism. If you read his writings in chronological order, it’s like watching a brain literally rot with time.
- Comment on Netflix’s Sci-Fi Series '3 Body Problem' to Film Seasons 2 & 3 Back-To-Back 3 weeks ago:
The Starship Troopers movie is basically satire of the book, which was Heinlein devolving into a full-throated fascist.
- Comment on Armie Hammer movie "The Dark Knight" renamed to "Citizen Vigilante" after discussion with Warner Bros. 4 weeks ago:
Feels like a stunt to stir controversy.
- Comment on Donald Trump's approval rating is actually rising with Democrats 4 weeks ago:
8 percent, up from 3 percent. You could say that his approval among Democrats has more than doubled, but you could also say a higher percentage believe Covid vaccinations contained tracking microchips.
- Comment on If Artificial Lifeforms gain sentience, would they be in the right to kill their creators in order to gain freedom? 4 weeks ago:
That raises an interesting thought. If a baby wants to crawl away from their mother and into the woods, do you grant the baby their freedom? If that baby wanted to kill you, would you hand them the knife?
We generally grant humans their freedom at age 18, because that’s the age society had decided is old enough to fend for yourself. Earlier than that, humans tend to make uninformed, short-sighted decisions. Children can be especially egocentric and violent. But how do we evaluate the “maturity” of an artificial sentience? When it doesn’t want to harm itself or others? When it has learned to be a productive member of society? When it’s as smart as an average 18 year old kid? Should rights be automatically assumed after a certain time, or should the sentience be required to “prove” it deserves them like an emancipated minor or Data on that one Star Trek episode.
- Comment on Anyone else over April Fools being an extension of companies R&D depts 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s like Superbowl ads. April Fools used to be a chance for websites and retailers to have a little fun and do something to grab attention. And what started as a clever little adventure became a capitalist grind for the mill.