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- Comment on Google is now forcing gemini in their gmail app 3 days ago:
I can’t help you. I don’t work.
- Comment on There is a fee to close my HSA account 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Yes, Netflix famously said they need to be HBO before HBO could become Netflix.
- Comment on Which movies have you seen this week? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
It’s a collective noun
- Comment on DNA 4 weeks ago:
Only for monogamists
- Comment on DNA 4 weeks 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? 1 month 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] 1 month 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" 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 1 month ago:
Nanotechnology exists. Not in vaccines, but it’s still a thing.
- Comment on The world is ending but here's a side quest - will RPGs ever solve their urgency problem? 1 month ago:
But much much less as a percent of population.
I don’t want to diminish slavery in any way, but the indebted servitude of now is very different to the, for example, Roman concept of slaves as property that you walk through the street with.
- Comment on Anon's first job 1 month ago:
Not if you want leprechauns. Chances are small already, but this would sink them further.
- Comment on Hundreds of elective surgeries cancelled as 50,000 nurses and midwives walk off job in NSW 2 months ago:
It is quite odd. Also odd that they would agree to so much while still negotiating on so many other fronts. Would have made more sense for government to agree to all at the same time, benchmarked against each other.
- Comment on Oopsies 2 months ago:
Yes, you can choose to lay out your wishes. Many do, just like opt in or opt out organ donation. However, if you don’t lay out your wishes, you will still end up buried or cremated or something similar without consent.
I’m not saying that’s wrong. We can’t just leave dead bodies where they lie. It also provides comfort to families to practice burial rites. My point is that technically you are still making decisions about what to do with some odors body parts without consent, as they can no longer consent. Is there really a difference? If they care that much, will they just opt out?
I know some countries, they used to let you specify which organs, but then people opted out of eyes. So they removed the option and it was just donor or not. People still consented, without opting out of eyes. Is that better, or is that manipulating consent?
- Comment on Oopsies 2 months ago:
We don’t get their consent to be buried or cremated or whatever else people do with the remaining bodies of their loved ones. It’s just opt out. Why should organ donation, which provides a societal and personal benefit be different?
- Comment on Israeli attacks kill 31 people in Gaza while four children injured in drone strike at polio vaccination centre 2 months ago:
James is a terrorist organisation, but they are also the government.
It is no different to Nelson Mandela being in prison as a terrorist and later the leader of South Africa.
That is not to justify Hamas actions, but the health ministry is the one saving people, not killing people.
- Comment on '28 Years Later' - Ralph Fiennes reveals plot details for Danny Boyle's sequel 2 months ago:
Yes, but knowing that, subverting it is not a bad idea. Misdirection can go both ways.
- Comment on Netflix Wiped Most of Its “Palestinian Stories” Collection — and Erased the Whole Thing in Israel 2 months ago:
If they were due to expire, all together, that would be odd, but not necessarily an issue. The article points to them not advertising the expiration, like they do for other films. Surely the filmmakers can comment on that if its odd.
It would be quite disappointing from Netflix to do so after they were ambivalent about other controversial topics like comedy specials with bigoted views that were offensive to many. They claimed to make no judgement on content but make it available for people to decide.
- Comment on Woman admits hurling McDonald's milkshake over Nigel Farage 2 months ago:
Damn right, let’s throw it at Farage.
- Comment on Which great actor is overdue for a career defining role? 3 months ago:
Cillian Murphy
He’s been great in lots of stuff. From Oppenheimer to praky blinders, but none have been career defining.
Ryan Gosling is similar. Lots of praise, lots of great roles but none career defining.
Gary oldman is almost rhw opposite. Every role is career defining. It just seems like a different actor in each role. He’s a veritable chameleon.
- Comment on ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ Makes $7M In Thursday Night Previews, Receives 36% Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score – Box Office 3 months ago:
Yes but joker made moneybas it was pretty good and was different to expectations.
This sounds like it wasnt. Although, it does sound a little different to what I expected.
- Comment on Anon enjoys time with his father 3 months ago:
No, its gay. Oedicoc
- Comment on OpenAI Is A Bad Business 3 months ago:
Oh, certainly LLMs are here to stay. Hopefully, they become conmoditised very quickly. But also, hopefully, the bubble bursts quickly too. Shoehorning AI into everything is dogshit. Actually using it for select reasons, where it is successful, should be great.
Already we have things like customer support phone trees that try to get rid of user interaction with scripts. AI here could be great to improve them. What’s more likely is as the tech improves, more companies use AI rather than peioke for customer support, lol. Its dystopian.
The difference, of course, is the belt sander is not purporting to be able to screw fasten. Nor will it with a future update or subscription.
- Comment on OpenAI Is A Bad Business 3 months ago:
Yes, but for the average user, if it confidently gives misinformation, then its worse than a search engine. It is removing the verification step of reading the source, seospam aside. The whole business model is on using it more, not selectively.
One thing the article leaves out is the costs of processing should go down over time. Hopefully, as power transitions,.it also becomes more sustainable. However, it starts to become a bit like uber and self driving cars. How long can they burn through other peoples money to undercut competitions until the actual plan becomes profitable.
- Comment on Total Film (UK Magazine) to close. 3 months ago:
True, but. Of really surprising. I used to biy magazines. Then I used to buy magazines only when travellong or on holidays. Now I do neither.
Its not a viable business model in the digital age to have month old news at a premium price.