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- Comment on What is an underrated romantic comedy TV show? 4 days ago:
Most of Sharon Horgans stuff is good. She has an acerbic wit.
- Comment on Issues 23/3/25 5 days ago:
I noticed something was up. I’d seen some meta posts about other instances updating so I wondered if it was a bug or federation issue but obviously not.
- Comment on I'm So Proud To Be Deported From The USA - Dorset Eye 1 week ago:
Gosh, who hasn’t made disparaging comments about Trump online. No way of book a flight to the USA if I might be stopped at the border.
It’s getting pretty crazy, pretty quickly, as expected.
- Comment on why was 1995 video games console very pixel art graphics but music was high quality and images were great??, 3 weeks ago:
With old games, it was a case of the quality of processing and speed of processing on consumer grade devices. Look at Toy Story, released in the 90s. It looks dated and less well animated than a current video game. Each frame took hours to process and a current video game does it on the fly.
Analogue sound can and has been recorded for many decades. The mp3 codec existed in the 90s as did other formats. Recording high quality video and sound was very doable. Mixing was less easy than now, but still possible. Images could also be stored lossless. Video was broadcast at low definition. Many of the recording were only made in that low definition format. That’s why old video looks dated. Some were recorded in better quality for the dvd or bluray market. They appear better.
- Comment on Why isn't the Albanese government boasting about falling inflation? 3 weeks ago:
Yes, but the expectation that prices go down when inflation is controlled is not correct. Inflation under control is just rises that are small. We also don’t want inflation, or the economy is pretty screwed.
- Comment on Google continues pulling the plug on Manifest v2 • The Register 4 weeks ago:
The point is that under offering users the ability to have all network requests altered is not secure. The user needs to authorize it and there are valid reasons to do so, but there are also bad actors, that will misuse that. I am pretty security conscious, but I can’t tell you which extensions have which permissions on which devices I use, between Firefox, chrome, safari on windows 10,11, android, iOS and opensuse. Placing all the responsibility on the user just removes it from where it should be, which is privacy focused code.
- Comment on Google continues pulling the plug on Manifest v2 • The Register 4 weeks ago:
Yes, but other extensions are not and can access the same permissions. They can even steal the unlock origin source code to do so.
- Comment on Australian super funds to make direct pitch to Trump administration in US showcase 4 weeks ago:
Wow, if my super fund was involved in political machinations, I’d want to move funds. Trump doesn’t want investment in America. He wants bribes.
- Comment on Erasure 1 month ago:
It’s also now. Now is the time. The best time was before. The next best time is now.
- Comment on Two NSW Health nurses have been stood down after video emerged showing them allegedly bragging about killing and refusing to treat Israeli patients. 1 month ago:
Being stupid is the least bad of their qualities. Bigotry and racism are a tad higher up the list.
- Comment on PlayStation Network Currently Suffering Major Outage 1 month ago:
It’s back up for me in Australia.
- Comment on what are “female jocks” called? 1 month ago:
Cheerleaders if you mean like a subculture clique?
- Comment on moove on 1 month ago:
Cattle grid in ireland
- Comment on Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League Devs Just Removed DRM From Their Failed Game 1 month ago:
It was free on ps+ and I haven’t played it.
- Comment on Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them? 1 month ago:
You can burn to death, though.
- Comment on Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin blames 'dinner party classes' for pubs crisis 2 months ago:
Certain foods and drinks considered essentials don’t attract vat. Hence Jaffa cakes arguing they were not in fact a cake. Any prepared food is considered a luxury item, which would include drinks that are served.
I think alcohol should attract vat in supermarkets, not reduce vat in a pub.
- Comment on Google is now forcing gemini in their gmail app 2 months ago:
I can’t help you. I don’t work.
- Comment on There is a fee to close my HSA account 2 months ago:
Yep,
I don’t consent to that charge.
Oh, it’s one of our rules.
Too bad so sad, no contract.
- Comment on Total Fire Ban Statewide today 26/12 2 months ago:
Either do indoors safely or don’t do it today. Religious exemptions for fire use don’t exist when the risk to everyone else is so high.
- Comment on Anon gives a piracy history lesson 2 months ago:
Yes, Netflix famously said they need to be HBO before HBO could become Netflix.
- Comment on Which movies have you seen this week? 2 months ago:
It’s good and entertaining but not amazing like the first. The spectacle the first one created was new for modern cinema, which the second still does but it’s lost the novelty, even by introducing novelty. Worth seeing, but not a classic, like the first. Most of the plot is a bit predictable and follows the plot beats of the first.
What we do in this life echoes in eternity, taken to its extreme.
- Comment on Anon disrupts the gaming industry 2 months ago:
I just use btrfs duplication so it’s easy and doesn’t waste additional space. Pirates of old used caves near an X, but risk of must. I don’t use X because of musk.
- Comment on DNA 3 months ago:
It’s a collective noun
- Comment on DNA 3 months ago:
Only for monogamists
- Comment on DNA 3 months ago:
Dicks n ass, for anyone wondering. It’s the male version of tna.
- Comment on [META] Participation by non-Australians? Should we change this comm's display name? 3 months ago:
Maybe call it “non-Australian news”. Those searching for Australia based topics would find it, but it’s for news that’s not about Australia.
- Comment on Ex-PlayStation boss says games should be shorter because development costs are ‘not sustainable’ [VGC] 3 months ago:
Most games that are long are artificially so, with padded out content and grinding to advance. Short excellent games sell well. Huge expensive messes don’t.
Just like movies, large blockbuster, high budget content can sell well but does risk sacrificing its soul and purpose. Occasionally one is both excellent technically, artistically and fun too.
Or you can have smaller games with a more specific purpose which won’t sell as well. Some low budget games are bad. Some high budget games are bad. Neither is a mark of quality, they are just different ways of making games with different outcomes and purposes.
Games need to turn a profit to be visible, so they should be looking at what’s the optimum way to spend their budget and make sales.
As gamers, we should be rewarding good games, and avoiding microtransactions and all the upsells. I don’t buy any cosmetics or additional content (unless it’s a continuation of the game that makes sense as another chapter). I want to avoid that side of gaming as it doesn’t lead to good games. I pay full price at launch for my favourite game series, but not extra content. Other games I purchase later on sale.
- Comment on Long time Ridley Scott collaborator slams the Gladiator 2 director for being "lazy" and "impatient" with his filmmaking: "Having lots of cameras I don’t think has made the films any better" 3 months ago:
It’s not him. The other characters are still in it and it’s based around the Colosseum with the politics and training and slavery etc if the first.
- Comment on Why doesn't Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather own a home yet? 3 months ago:
Subsidised by tax breaks, no less. Yes, it’s a bad system.
- Comment on Why doesn't Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather own a home yet? 3 months ago:
No, because, and I say this as a landlord myself, landlords care about paying the mortgage more than the principle of being allowed to own property to rent. Most landlords can’t afford for it not to be rented out. Turning down a good tenant due to their political beliefs would be foolish. And mean.