halcyoncmdr
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- Comment on Maryland Senator Meets With Wrongly Deported Man in El Salvador 8 hours ago:
Same. The random comment from the administration that he was alive brought that general assumption, and combined with not allowing anyone to see him, it really started to look like he died in custody and they were trying to hide it as long as possible or cover it up.
- Comment on WTF is the teacher doing 1 week ago:
“You can’t put your hands on the students”
“Okay”
- Comment on What do you think are some strategies trumps Russian handlers use to get that bafoon to do what they want? 1 week ago:
They just tell him what Putin would like to happen. No leverage necessary. Trump admires dictators, it’s clear he wants their approval.
- Comment on James Cameron Says Blockbuster Movies Can Only Survive If We ‘Cut the Cost in Half’; He’s Exploring How AI Can Help Without ‘Laying Off the Staff’ 1 week ago:
That’s exactly most likely an example of my last point. CG can look perfectly real. If you have the tools and references needed, or the time to do everything manually frame by frame, which adds up extremely fast.
Based on the result in The Thing, CGI team almost certainly had no references from actual shooting apart from the bare footage, and even composited shots were inconsistent from each other.
- Comment on James Cameron Says Blockbuster Movies Can Only Survive If We ‘Cut the Cost in Half’; He’s Exploring How AI Can Help Without ‘Laying Off the Staff’ 1 week ago:
This 100%. CGI should be used to enhance traditional special effects, not replace them entirely.
Also, planning properly for CGI can dramatically reduce both the cost and quality of CG. For instance, recording reference lighting to provide the CG team so they can more accurately make any fully-rendered elements. Don’t just say “they’ll fix it in post”. That’s where CG cost skyrockets.
- Comment on Wall Street Bursts With Anger as Trump Tariffs Cause Wild Stock Market Swings 1 week ago:
But, I thought they were so happy with their businessman Messiah. It was gonna be the greatest economic boon.
- Comment on Chipotle offering a discount, while warning they may also inflate prices and delivery fees simultaneously 2 weeks ago:
I don’t understand how it’s so popular in border specifically. Like Taco Bell I understand, that’s not Mexican food, they don’t claim to be Mexican food, it’s gringo food, half the people I see at Taco Bell are Hispanic because that’s a specific type of food different from everything else… But there’s a Mexican place of some kind on nearly every corner in AZ. There’s no reason to ever even consider Chipotle.
- Comment on Chipotle offering a discount, while warning they may also inflate prices and delivery fees simultaneously 2 weeks ago:
I don’t understand how it’s so popular in border specifically. Like Taco Bell I understand, that’s not Mexican food, they don’t claim to be Mexican food, it’s gringo food, half the people I see at Taco Bell are Hispanic because that’s a specific type of food different from everything else… But there’s a Mexican place of some kind on nearly every corner in AZ. There’s no reason to ever even consider Chipotle.
- Comment on Stardew Valley Baldur's Gate 3 mod back online after D&D owners "mistakenly" send a copyright strike 2 weeks ago:
This is the type of thing that law firms will send without consulting their client first as soon as they were made aware as a default response, without considering any context to verify proper action. Which in most cases would be fine, but in this particular genre, because of shitty companies like Nintendo, can cause direct reputational harm.
It is Wizards of the Coast though, historically they’re not much better, so this would be 100% believable coming from them on purpose.
- Comment on GeoGuessr is making its way to Steam next month after almost 12 years of sticking it out as a browser game 3 weeks ago:
They already added a subscription.
Up front cost cannot cover the ongoing API costs they must be paying for Google Maps. So either this has to be free and just a front end for the same shit, or they’ll still end up net negative.
- Comment on GeoGuessr is making its way to Steam next month after almost 12 years of sticking it out as a browser game 3 weeks ago:
Why?
- Comment on Fable delayed to 2026 3 weeks ago:
Mumblings originally in 2017, job openings at the studio in 2018, officially announced in 2020. October 2022 Andrew Walsh, a senior writer from the Horizon Forbidden West team joined the Fable team. June of 2023 had an in-game trailer.
To be honest, that seems to be a reasonable timeframe, especially given the pandemic in the middle, if you aren’t following the “rush it out the door ASAP, fix it after release, if you ever do” approach.
- Comment on Harbor Freight 5 weeks ago:
Harbor Freight is awesome, but as with everything else, you should know what you’re buying, and know what you actually need.
Most people don’t need to pay a premium for something they’ll use just once, or maybe a handful of times, and never touch again.
For most people, they don’t really know what they need, so buy Harbor Freight the first time, if you use so much it breaks, then buy a quality replacement, because you proved you actually need it.
- Comment on 'Mickey 17' Sinks at Box Office to $18.5 Million Opening Weekend 5 weeks ago:
Getting really of these shit titles and takes.
Of course a new IP like Mickey 17 isn’t going to bring in the numbers of an existing well known franchise with an established fanbase AND a previous installment with a cliffhanger ending like fucking Dune.
- Comment on How do you think smartphone manufacturers will comply with EU's replaceable battery regulation? 5 weeks ago:
Having worked in retail phone repair for 15 years, both for a major US carrier and privately… A lot.
I saw water damaged phones every single day, and I’m hundreds of miles from an ocean, sea, lake, or any major body of water. That’s just from mistakes near things like backyard pools.
- Comment on Whose bright idea was it to give the morning people enough power to set the "business hours" anyways‽ 5 weeks ago:
Rise! We protected the group from wild animals for centuries as they slept! We allowed them to sleep peacefully, without fear.
- Comment on How do you think smartphone manufacturers will comply with EU's replaceable battery regulation? 5 weeks ago:
I never said it was impossible. I said it was harder to both make them replaceable and water resistant. And they won’t bother to do both for 99% of models, they’ll just drop the water resistance to comply with replaceable battery requirements. There might be a few that they bother and then sell at inflated prices.
- Comment on How do you think smartphone manufacturers will comply with EU's replaceable battery regulation? 5 weeks ago:
They’ll make them replaceable and ignore waterproofing them for 99% of models citing the added difficulty in making a good seal without being able to glue it shut. Which is arguably true. It’s possible, but more difficult to design and much more likely to fail.
- Comment on Like Trump says that the cartels have invaded Canada wouldn't they have to pass through the US, avoid checkpoint, border control on both sides and many other things? So Canada can only blame the US? 1 month ago:
Avoid populated areas, and fly low. The exact same techniques that they’ve been using for decades. Radar is dumb, it sends back a return when it bounces off objects, but you can’t tell what it is returning, that’s why planes have transponders to supplement more info. If you just don’t do that and fly low it will get filtered out with the terrain most of the time.
- Comment on REI Union asks active coop members to vote "Withhold" for all of board's nominees 1 month ago:
REI is a consumer co-operative, not a worker co-operative.
- Comment on the definitive proof that you weren't your parent's favorite 2 months ago:
Probably someone trying to use the meme in a Halloween-specific context.
- Comment on What Refutes Science... 2 months ago:
This is why you never trust a single source. For anything. Reputable news organizations have never trusted single sources, they always use multiple sources to verify information they are told. Science is not immune from this, and never has been. And even for those that you’ve followed in the past, times change, especially in a capitalist society with a massive oligarchy that owns the news companies, like modern western civilizations. Trust, but verify.
- Comment on Chatgpt refusing to believe Trump won lol. 2 months ago:
Ah that’s true. Hadn’t considered that it would be pulling from before the latest election cycle entirely.
- Comment on Chatgpt refusing to believe Trump won lol. 2 months ago:
This is true. But it also is stating that it knows Trump did not win a second term, insinuating it has data past the election.
There needs to be a lot more transparency in what the models are actually based on and what is being artificially filtered or limited.
- Comment on I don't need no app 2 months ago:
And their app is just a wrapper for a webpage anyway.
- Comment on Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny Remastered - Trailer 2 months ago:
Onimusha was such a good series. Happy to see it being remastered.
Capcom is always a toss up with whether they care about any given IP anymore.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Probably, but the internet is forever. Definitely for stuff like this. There will be tens of thousands of copies of this in a few hours and it will not disappear anytime soon.
- Comment on Friendship is survival in Citizen Sleeper 2 2 months ago:
Same here. Not the type of game I would normally have jumped on, but something about it was just captivating.
- Comment on Gemini wont talk about Bernie Sanders 2 months ago:
To be honest, that seems like it should be the one thing they are reliably good at. It requires just looking up info on their database, with no manipulation.
Obviously that’s not the case, but that’s just because currently LLMs are a grift to milk billions from corporations by using the buzzwords that corporate middle management relies on to make it seem like they are doing any work. Relying on modern corporate FOMO to get them to buy a terrible product that they absolutely don’t need at exorbitant contract prices just to say they’re using the “latest and greatest” technology.
- Comment on ADL defends Nazi salute 2 months ago:
Never trust someone with two first names. Been following that advice my entire life and I’ve yet to find an exception, they’re always a piece of shit.