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- Comment on Anon blames millennials 4 days ago:
AAA gaming shows the effects of late term capitalism on gaming.
- Comment on John Lithgow Says He Was Surprised by Backlash Over Joining ‘Harry Potter’ Series 1 week ago:
Huh, weird, not sure where you read that, maybe you meant to reply to someone else?
- Comment on John Lithgow Says He Was Surprised by Backlash Over Joining ‘Harry Potter’ Series 1 week ago:
I love John Lithgow as an actor but his reasoning here is horse shit.
First of all, the article’s justification for Roald Dahl being an anti-Semite is his family apologizing for his anti-Semitic statements 30 years after he died. Meaning that money from any of Dahl’s work would go to Dahl’s estate / family, the people who apologized for his anti-Semitism, not the man who is claimed to be anti-Semitic.
Secondly, the play that he was in wasn’t even written by Roald Dahl and didn’t benefit his estate, it was in fact, a play written by a Jewish playwright.
Thirdly, that play was written explicitly to address his anti-semitism. It would be like acting in a play about JK Rowling’s anti-trans crusade that in no way financially benefits her, this is clearly not the same thing.
And finally, on top of all that, from everything I can find, the accusation of Roald Dahl being anti-Semitic originally surfaced because of anti-Israel statements that he made in a book review after Israel’s invasion of Lebanon. There was one follow up interview where he made some comments that do seem, quite frankly mildly anti-Jewish, but again, this is in the context of a 67 year old world war 2 vet expressing his anger about Israel turning from victims into aggressors. And that was it.
He didn’t campaign against Jews, he didn’t get any anti-Jewish laws passed, he didn’t spread anti-Jewish hysteria, and it was never something he dedicated any actual time to writing about.
The situation between appearing in that Dahl play and appearing in Harry Potter is not remotely comparable.
- Comment on Does anyone else hate knowing stuff and looking "smart"? 1 week ago:
Sort of, when you hang out with people who are less informed, it’s going to get awkward if you’re constantly just explaining stuff. Eventually everyone will pick up on the vibe that you know way more than everyone else.
But I don’t hate it. That stuff can be overcome by working on your self and social ability, often the wittiest people can slyly point out the folly of something someone said with a quick wry joke, and more importantly you can learn to just let stuff go and not always explain everything and instead focus on being a conversationalist that will just keep things flowing in a fun way.
Plus, then when you do hang out with other people who are well informed, you can have interesting deep conversations. And the world is a lot less scary and hard to navigate if you understand how it all works.
- Comment on succession 2 weeks ago:
Order a bunch of plants that are native to your region, plant the medium and shade loving varieties under the trees, see what sticks
- Comment on PSA: I want a law for PC games to be offered in physical versions again 2 weeks ago:
I would rather a law that extends many of the properties of physical ownership to digital sales.
- Comment on Why Do Sites Keep Shoving Features We Don’t Want Down Our Throats? 4 weeks ago:
Copilot web is honestly better than Google these days.
- Comment on ‘House of the Dragon’ Boss Says George R.R. Martin Criticizing the Show Was ‘Disappointing’: ‘I Made Every Effort to Include Him… He Was Unwilling to Acknowledge the Practical Issues’ of Adaptations 5 weeks ago:
My point is that there’s no way forward without abruptly pruning several storylines. Thus, the story is basically impossible to finish in a satisfying way, and this is all we’re gonna get from him.
I generally agree, but Dan and Dave fucked it up beyond all recognition. They were not the editor it needed.
- Comment on ‘House of the Dragon’ Boss Says George R.R. Martin Criticizing the Show Was ‘Disappointing’: ‘I Made Every Effort to Include Him… He Was Unwilling to Acknowledge the Practical Issues’ of Adaptations 5 weeks ago:
I mean, that’s entirely possible, based on the one account we have from the showrunner, it could be interpreted as the show runner is being greedy and George just wants art made right, or it could be read as George obsesses over these boring little details that no one else actually cares about and needs a better editor.
My point was just that either way, this is how it was always going to go after Dan and Dave ruined the original series by rushing it. They’re lack of care and attention to detail may have been the final nail in the coffin for George ever letting people substantively edit him again.
- Comment on ‘House of the Dragon’ Boss Says George R.R. Martin Criticizing the Show Was ‘Disappointing’: ‘I Made Every Effort to Include Him… He Was Unwilling to Acknowledge the Practical Issues’ of Adaptations 5 weeks ago:
The full quote:
“I will simply say, I made every effort to include George in the adaptation process. I really did. Over years and years. And we really enjoyed a mutually fruitful, I thought, really strong collaboration for a long time. But at some point, as we got deeper down the road, he just became unwilling to acknowledge the practical issues at hand in a reasonable way. And I think as a showrunner, I have to keep my practical producer hat on and my creative writer, lover-of-the-material hat on at the same time.”
Quite frankly after what Dan and Dave to ruin Game of Thrones reputation, this honestly isn’t surprising whatsoever.
They cut out a character to save money and air time, and George thinks that will make the plot fall apart later.
Regardless of who’s right, he’s probably not going to trust a showrunner who’s trying to rush things.
- Comment on Rashida Jones thinks it 'made sense' she was let go from 'The Office,' because 'people did not like me' 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, but the writing and acting was well done enough, that even if at the time you could separate it and make a pros cons list and tally it out, it still wouldn’t have felt right because Jim was so obviously in love with Pam and not her.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Completely and utterly wrong.
He was convicted by a jury in New York court of Falsifying Business Records, a felony crime, that carries up to four years in prison as potential punishment.
Maybe try googling what you think you know since whatever method you use to inform yourself of things has evidently led you to be confident of multiple objective falsehoods.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Yes, Trump was convicted of multiple felon charges, making him a felon.
He recieved a conditional discharge for his sentence, meaning he didn’t spend time in jail, but he is 100% a convicted felon.
You also ignored the part where he’s treasonous traitor to his country.
You’re not a moderate, you’re just blind to how extreme the American right wing is.
- Comment on Google will develop the Android OS fully in private, and here's why 1 month ago:
This is the first step in moving to fully closed source.
Agreed. At the very least to a point where Android isn’t usable by anyone else.
I guess degooled versions are getting too popular thus a threat to google’s business.
Lol that I doubt.
- Comment on Fable delayed to 2026 1 month ago:
Fair point, but in that case it means they’re not just pivoting, but building a whole new studio from the ground up for this game.
- Comment on Fable delayed to 2026 1 month ago:
Sounds like the author has a skill issue with Stealth.
Mobs are leashed? Cool, that doesn’t matter cause I play the game like a high fantasy battle mage, and don’t run from fights.
Also, mobs are leashed in most games to some extent or another. Avowed is well written, well voice acted, tells an interesting story, and is fun to play through.
Really just feels like people were expecting Skyrim and are upset they got something more focused.
- Comment on Fable delayed to 2026 1 month ago:
Lmao. Bruh, wtf are you talking about. I’ve basically used nothing but melee or stealth / dialogue the whole time.
It’s a tight, well written game, that doesn’t waste your time with endless auto-generated quests.
- Comment on Fable delayed to 2026 1 month ago:
The studio is pivoting from making Forza, to making Fable, this feels like a perfectly normal development timeline.
- Comment on Fable delayed to 2026 1 month ago:
Bruh avowed is great, I’ve been loving it.
This sounds like a you problem.
- Comment on Fable delayed to 2026 1 month ago:
The Master Chief Collection is the single reason that I will never ever preorder another game no matter what bonuses it comes with or how confident I am with the developer.
In general though, Microsoft Games is pretty good about not pushing bugs out the door.
I honestly don’t understand the middle reception to Avowed, it’s been truly fantastic so far, and completely rock solid.
- Comment on Anon is waiting for Japan 1 month ago:
No, we just don’t mislabel foreign brain drain as American exceptionalism.
- Comment on Anon is waiting for Japan 1 month ago:
The US isn’t innovating jack shit.
The US just created a massively polarized and unequal society so that when a country creates a new brilliant researcher, an American company can poach them.
Basically, the insane poverty and lack of government services that the average American experiences gives them enough cash to buy up innovative people, companies, and competitors.
- Comment on Why is a two-party system considered democratic? 1 month ago:
That’s not what democracy is.
Democracy is simply a system of government where leaders are voted on instead of inheriting their title or gaining it through physical force and coercion.
The original form of democracy had slavery, and excluded women and non-land owners, the word simply distinguishes which mechanism brings someone to power, it doesn’t inherently imply fairness or free choice.
- Comment on Why do people hold tobacco cigarettes and cannabis joints differently when smoking them? 1 month ago:
Haha, I’m guessing you didn’t look at what instance I’m from.
- Comment on Why do people hold tobacco cigarettes and cannabis joints differently when smoking them? 1 month ago:
- Hiding it.
- If you’re somewhere you can’t smell it (through a cop car or nosy neighbour window, for instance).
- Sharing it.
- It’s easier to pass a joint from person to person pinched from the bottom
- Structural Integrity.
- Hand rolled joints with inconsistently ground weed tend to be more fragile, holding by their filter is often safer.
- Smoking all of it
- Weed smokers are more likely to smoke right to the bottom, sometimes you might not even have a filter and literally go til it burns the finger tips, in this scenario you can grip much more finely with a thumb-index pinch.
- Comment on Gaming has a polarization problem 1 month ago:
Skyrim’s varied gameplay systems?
It has stealth, it has magic, it has melee combat, it has ranged combat, it has dialogue options for talking your way through stuff, it has multiple ways of solving quest lines…
It’s basically Skyrim, if it was smaller and more focused, with better combat, voice acting, and heads and tails better writing.
- Comment on Gaming has a polarization problem 1 month ago:
Also, from a mechanistic standpoint I think that mostly has to do with the high cost of entry for games.
At $80-$100 for a full priced game these days, it’s hard to just buy on a whim. The only time you would is when they’re on sale, which happens well after initial release. So initial sales of games are basically entirely driven by reviews and online discourse (which itself has an effect on reviews), and you basically just have a bunch of people all waiting for the signal to buy or not.
I do think that services like Gamepass are a genuinely good way of reducing that effect, because now anyone can try anything on a lark.
- Comment on Gaming has a polarization problem 1 month ago:
People are complaining about Avowed? What the fuck is wrong with them?
I’ve been too busy loving it to be online reading anything, honestly cannot fathom what their complaints are tho. Avowed has repeatedly impressed me by being more clever and nuanced than I was expecting a game to be.
- Comment on How Trump’s ‘51st State’ Canada Talk Came to Be Seen as Deadly Serious 1 month ago:
Let me be 100% clear. If America ever annexes, Canada, by military force, by economic force, or through normal American CIA style manipulation, they will have a violent terrorist situation on their hands the likes of which they could never conceive.
Ask England how easy it was to handle the IRA.
- Comment on no ragrets 2 months ago:
I mean possibly, the article describes him trying to train standard poodles as guide dogs for years without success, and then he crossed one of them with his boss’ lab.
So maybe? But also, isn’t that what unscrupulous breeders are going to do anyways? Like I don’t see how this breed makes puppy mills better or worse, it seems like it would just change the breeds they target.