lordnikon
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- Comment on Cyan (Myst, Riven) to lay off 12 people, "roughly half the team" 27 minutes ago:
I saw this it’s very sad but if you have to lay off people this is the classy way to do it. Loved the call out to other studios to hire their people and tried to give them a soft landing with severence.
This is not the same as the other studios it’s not some dumbass trying to make live service games that no one wants. It’s a shame more people are wasting their time and money on live service vs rich story telling and beautiful worlds.
- Comment on Three original movies are being released in theaters today 14 hours ago:
I go out of my way to watch as many original movies at the theater as i can so they make and release more. This is a great post to keep tabs on new ones to see. Thanks
- Comment on how do they decide where to put bus stops? 3 days ago:
What I mean a business that is not a store. Think investment bank or importer B2B business or a highend appointment only boutiques
- Comment on how do they decide where to put bus stops? 3 days ago:
And homelessness the US are the ones tgat gave spikes on park benches it’s awful.
- Comment on how do they decide where to put bus stops? 3 days ago:
Yeah that is why I said business not store and yes this is very uniquely American.
- Comment on how do they decide where to put bus stops? 3 days ago:
Do they change the placement because a business “bribed” (i mean lobbied) for them to not to put a bus stop near them as they don’t want to see the poors near them? Yes!
- Comment on The struggle is real 3 days ago:
Yep i also ran my own server with a the sniper war mod. If you wanted to play that mod my server was only a handful servers setup to play it. We had a good group Randos would come in and the ones that stuck around became mods and any changes to the server. We held a vote with the regulars and the mods and myself. There were times I was even out voted and we implemented stuff I didn’t agree with.
- Comment on In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies 3 days ago:
Yeah I agree there are some diamonds in the rough i also feel some of the TV shows should be movies the extreme serialization and the cliffhanger endings are very annoying. Especially with the long lag times between seasons it trains people say forget it I will wait till they just release the whole series then binge. But that kills the ratings and then kills the show early and so it’s left on a cliffhanger so why bother watching it at all.
Severence is a good example. I know Apple will do a season 3 but we won’t see it till 2027. But not to spoil anything but if the series stopped on that scene in episode 10. I would have been so disappointed.
It also drives me nutts how series get to be 10 episodes now. Just because game of thrones did it becase it was adapted on a book it can work well in that medium. But a regular show where each season is broken down by the writers for that season really limits any character growth and makes all the series so plot heavy.
Which is fine when you want to tell a story that is plotted out but TV Execs want to keep a show going even after that story has been told. Shows just run out of steam since there is no characters to hang on to. You look at shows like the office usa or old school star trek they told all kinds of different stories in different genres with the same characters and it kept it fresh. One bad episode didn’t ruin the whole storyline they could just try again.
- Comment on In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies 3 days ago:
Yeah I’m the same im not saying people in their 40s are all watching the garbage they put out what I’m saying is hollywood thinks only people in their 40s are watching movies and TV and we only want shit from our childhoods I guess and thus driving even more people from that medium.
- Comment on The struggle is real 3 days ago:
Yeah I still remember team fortress classic servers I would go back to all the time. It was nice to go into a server where everyone knew your name. It was like being a regular at a restaurant or bar.
- Comment on In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies 3 days ago:
Yeah, why would they? Hollywood is only catering to people born in the 70s and 80s with remakes or geriatric sequels of 40 year old movies. Im right in that demographic and im sick of it. I can’t imagine how boring it would be for people that don’t have that nostalgia. Same goes for TV.
- Comment on Which is the cheapest way to manage my body after death ... 6 days ago:
Direct Cremation but if you don’t mind your body going out of your family’s control donating your body to science or a body farm for forensic anthropologist. It can be free.
- Comment on What mythologies have poor representation in media, in your opinion? 1 week ago:
Any of the “barbarians” cultures like the Goths or Angles
- Comment on 1 week ago:
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- Comment on What movie was this for you? 1 week ago:
Yep I forgot them good call out
- Comment on What movie was this for you? 1 week ago:
Ghostbusters afterlife and frozen empire, every star trek show since enterprise, every star wars since return of the Jedi.
- Comment on Why STUPID People Are a Greater Threat to Society Than Criminals. 1 week ago:
Yeah because stupid people are weapons used by criminals against the rest of us and and themselves.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You don’t want a relationship. You want a fuck buddy and there is nothing wrong with that if you can find someone that shares the same values. Don’t lead someone on when they do want a relationship and you just want a fuck buddy. Just be up front with what you want and put yourself out there and someone will find you.
- Comment on Soderbergh's Starry 'Black Bag' Dismal $7.5 Million Opening Is Hollywood's IP Dilemma | Analysis 1 week ago:
I watched all three and they are all good films. Not blow your socks off but good. Problem is most people don’t know they exist and studios don’t keep them in the theater long enough for them to get buzz from word of mouth. The problem is the studios learn the wrong lessons and thing people don’t want originals back to the remake or sequel. Instead of retaining audiences that they can go to movies on Friday nights and expect to find a good mid range budget movie that they will have a good time at.
- Comment on How would "banning encryption" even work in practise? 1 week ago:
They can’t but also by banning it having the banned software makes it a crime. So if they stop you and see you have the banned software installed they can add charges. It’s like a seat belt law most are not going to catch you wearing a seat belt or not but if they pull you over they will add that charge to your ticket. Also making something illegal that everyone will keep doing. Allows the government to charge people it doesn’t like. Speak out in ways powerful people don’t like jail. Help the homeless jail. Be homeless jail. Try and run against me in an election jail.
- Comment on Sony, which is making a Helldivers 2 movie, is also making a new Starship Troopers movie, but it's not based on the Starship Troopers movie we already have 1 week ago:
Does that mean we will get helldivers2: the movie: the game?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Urgent care was made for this it’s walk-in like the er and cheaper like the Dr vist.
- Comment on What is the point of the Nicole spam? 2 weeks ago:
Honestly people that do recognize it for what it is should respond. Keep them talking to waste their time so they can’t hurt someone else.
- Comment on Anon is smarter than a genius 2 weeks ago:
I will give him credit he turned computers and phones into fashion accessories. He is closer to Coco Chanel than any tech visionary. If you think about it his methods were closer to QAnon or flat earth people. You can sell some people anything if you can convince them they are better than other people if they follow you. I am still salty about him overshadowed Dennis Richie passing whole was a real tech visionary.
- Comment on Anon is smarter than a genius 2 weeks ago:
And by good at one thing you mean exploiting people and gaslighting the media.
- Comment on What's your favourite classic movie you think everyone should have seen once in their life? 2 weeks ago:
Brazil Nausicaa valley of the wind Requiem for a Dream Grave of the fireflies
- Comment on Do spiders poop ? 3 weeks ago:
Its why they call it a vain not what it really is a poop tube in shrimp
- Comment on can European intelligence substitute the American one? 3 weeks ago:
It’s important to remember when they say US intelligence is also the combined intelligence of US allies with intelligence sharing agreements. Whenever things were working before it was all blown up the intelligence worked so well because NATO+ block worked as a unit. That’s why it was so important for Putin to deploy his operative to blowing up that alliance.
- Comment on How do you feel about someone taking the coins people tossed into a fountain or other public waterworks display for "wishes?" 3 weeks ago:
I kind of think of it like big give a penny take a penny tray.
- Comment on Is Severance the new Lost? 3 weeks ago:
Agreed