ReallyActuallyFrankenstein

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, I just mean, look how long BOTW has been sold - it will be a fraction of that length of time before Switches cease being sold. Mostly I was pointing to the system refresh as not only a chance to reissue BOTW, but to reset pricing expectations.

  There will be a future where BOTW S2-edition is still being sold and the Switch is not. From them on, BOTW will be a $90 game, since it will be the only way to get it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty soon you won’t be able to buy a Switch, once manufacturing ceases.

  Nintendo famously never discounts. But this is actually Nintendo’s way of not only never discounting, but increasing the price over time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollywood Is Cranking Out Original Movies. Audiences Aren’t Showing Up.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a good list, and to add:

  • Consumer sentiment in general is terrible. A large part of the population are stressed and exhausted, and that’s not a “let’s go see something fun” mindset for many, it’s “let’s get through the day and watch comfort content.”

  • This is a bad time of the year I’m general for movie releases.

  • Because of that, studios tend to bury their “whatever” slate projects, and except Mickey 17 it seems like these all are pretty mediocre movies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's everybody using for AI art and video generation nowadays?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have the same issue.

  I was running Automatic 1111 a year ago and than stopped using it regularly. I just picked back up having some fun with Krita’s AI plugin since I’m-painting integrated into an image editor is really nice, but of course that isn’t a serious single tool replacement.

  I’ll probably move to Comfy so I can start playing with video generation, but I’m just putting off learning it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav’s 2024 Pay Rises 4% to Nearly $52 Million⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unrelatedly in two months: We’re excited to announce mass layoffs and a brilliant plan to replace all the necessary workers with AI that can do 10% of the work at 50% of the cost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix’s Sci-Fi Series '3 Body Problem' to Film Seasons 2 & 3 Back-To-Back⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I responded to a similar comment above, but just thanking you for the response - I actually am taking what you say to reach the opposite conclusion (that I personally would probably hate the show because of the re-focus on the characters), but that’s why it’s so helpful that you explained why you liked it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix’s Sci-Fi Series '3 Body Problem' to Film Seasons 2 & 3 Back-To-Back⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you, this is very aligned with how I have been thinking of the books. It’s really interesting to me, because the “Cixin Liu can’t write characters” critique is legitimate, but I honestly didn’t notice it that much while reading and more heard about it from others after.

  I think the reason why is that I am very sensitive to “lazy” plot and character conflict - e.g., a character makes a stupid irrational decision and we spend 200 pages resolving it. That is not a trope that Cixin Liu ever engages in - his characters may make decisions I disagree with (like the misanthropic decision to respond to the alien signal that underlies the entire trilogy), but they are always coherent and not “cheap” plot devices.

  So in fact, the Cixin Liu style of “character” creation, where characters are basically stand-ins for different pluralistic archetypal motives and “model” humans rather than believable humans with their own dramatic arcs, I actually strongly prefer, because it not only doesn’t impede the sci-fi ideas, but elevates them.

  So yeah…It actually sounds like I’d hate the show! The characters are the part I care about the least, and are spent more time/attention on, whereas the ideas sound like they’re deemphasized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix’s Sci-Fi Series '3 Body Problem' to Film Seasons 2 & 3 Back-To-Back⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I liked the books too much to watch season 1. Should I reconsider?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Panic! on the trade floor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also 2016, that was a big one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Off to earn less then I need to exist yet again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To be honest, I want to do a calculation how much it would take to live without a job but baking/cooking everything from scratch.

  I feel like most retirement calculators assume you’re going to be living exactly as you were, but food, transportation, many living costs are higher to save time that a job takes up. So it’s partially a self-reinforcing cycle.

  Instead, I think in retirement my costs would go away down, and I’d at the same time be doing things that feel meaningful, like baking my own bread. But maybe I’m delusional.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two big Final Fantasy remakes are reportedly still in ‘active development’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Final Fantasy 8 still getting no love, I see…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this time it'll be different⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Weird, opening the image in a new tab is still the low-res version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this time it'll be different⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmmm, interesting. I’m just using the default Lemmy interface (lemmynsfw.com instance) and Firefox on a Windows 10 PC, at the moment. Definitely no larger version appears when expanding or clicking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this time it'll be different⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What is this, a meme for ants? (image size is very small and no larger version available)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Video Game History Foundation Library opens in early access⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The articles have been confusing - it’s a digital archive you can access on a website.

  Don’t know why they have a landing page that doesn’t clearly link to it: library.gamehistory.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Reeve Musk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s 2025, misinformation is rampant. And here you’re all acting like we can just trust that this is Windows 3.11 and not XP running a VM. Wake up sheeple!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't give up.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can thank Rupert Murdoch, but yes, it is.

  Workers who are heavily exploited, underpaid, and lose their job to this type of political nonsense are usually at best suspicious and at worst hostile to unions. They bathe in right-wing propaganda about “right to work” and greedy/corrupt unions just being another layer of bureaucracy that siphons off their wages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are dating apps a fraud since the beginning?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, they worked for me between 15-10 years ago, but I get it - by all accounts now they’re so enshittified that it’s just Match.com parasitically turning loneliness into profit at ever greater efficiency. They would have failed immediately if they didn’t work long enough to capture enough market and attention.

  As others mentioned OK Cupid, and it’s a great example. It was originally very good at matching people, and they took pride in it. I remember when Match.com bought it, as I had recently (just in time) found my person. I was able to see it go from “No, we’re leaving it alone, just tweaking a few things” to ending the interesting data-exploration articles, dumbing down the experience, adding micro-pay-gating, and fully gutting the experience and staff. Nobody should have trusted Match.com to not destroy what it was, and if they hadn’t sold and remained a useable app, maybe the market would have abandoned Match.com. Instead, here we are.

  I don’t envy those people still looking, I assume best case is still using apps but you just have to waste a lot more time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good afternoon I choose well groomed.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It looks like a tiny watermark that’s been lost to compression.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the odds of getting salmonella when eating raw poultry products?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It lasted three days if that’s any indication…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the odds of getting salmonella when eating raw poultry products?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We went to Japan and on the advice of the locals, tried the raw chicken dish. Everyone got crippling explosive diarrhea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It shows you love them⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems like a good place to start:

  github.com/antifa-n/pihole

  … In Minecraft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD announces FSR, will only be available in RX 9070 Series cards⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  *FSR4

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're Emulating Retro Games Wrong (you need CRT Shaders)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was a crisp pixel diehard for like 20 years even despite growing up with CRT, because I remember in the 80s-00s trying hard to get the clearest picture (RF->SRGB->S-video->Composite) and it felt like, “what’s clearer than exact pixels?”

  And then I tried a good CRT filter that emulates not just scanlines and noise, but subpixel effects, and it really changed my mind. The graphics really were designed to be displayed with those analog “imperfections,” and if you lived in that era, you kind of took for granted the things that worked well with the natural CRT blur while pursuing image clarity. Bringing back the CRT effects was a revelation.

  Like, even handheld emulation filters that mimic how those particular LCD screens functioned often give a better experience since game designers took that into account.

  I don’t know if someone growing up with only emulated square LCD memories would feel the same, and I’ll always take pixely LCD over bad CRT emulation, but I’d suggest to give it a try with good filters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Would You Rank Quentin Tarantino's Films?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably an unpopular opinion, but I’d swap Inglorious Basterds, Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight and Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown as blocks.

  Pulp Fiction at the time was perfectly calibrated and groundbreaking, but I don’t think it holds up as well as actual film-making and feels gimmicky re-watching it - lots of needledrop moments but not a ton of character development. Jackie Brown is better but the pacing and script aren’t very tight. Reservoir Dogs was a few setpieces and filler. On the other hand, Inglorious Basterds and Django Unchained are I think much more mature, tightly written and directed, and re-watchable. The Hateful Eight I think gets a bad rap because it seems like a small scope, but it’s again tightly written and reveals/develops characters in constantly interesting ways.

  Agree on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood being at the bottom, though. That’s my reaction to most Hollywood-focused movies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1 in 3 people⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m having a particularly braindead morning. Mario and Luigi are two people. 1 in 3 leaves the possibility of a third person being ugly and both Mario and Luigi being not ugly. Why does Mario conclude Luigi is ugly based on the 1 in 3 comment?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bloomberg: Sony Interactive Entertainment working on portable PS5⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, if so, then nevermind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bloomberg: Sony Interactive Entertainment working on portable PS5⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume it’s going to be a cloud connected screen that streams games. There’s no current way to get thermal and power requirements met for PS5 on a handheld. They’re just trying to remove the in-home PS5 requirement from the Portal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is that real?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t you dare speak that into existence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Republicans bring up Kamala's "lies"/shortcomings as a way to claim Trump is better?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are three practical reasons Trump does this:

  1. Deflection: Trump doesn’t have an affirmative platform. As a populist strongman, Trump’s platform is situational and entirely based on what his supporters want to hear in any given moment. If health care is in the news, Trump will say his plan is coming in two weeks (it won’t ever come). If immigration is in the news, Trump will say he will build a wall and get Mexico to pay for it (he won’t).
  2. Deflection: Manipulating the media works. Trump knows that the more ludicrous things he says about Kamala, even if the media then starts to talk about how he’s wrong or fact-check him, the focus is still on the thing he said rather than Kamala’s platform. It’s subtle, but it really does focus the media effectively on whatever he says, and use his frame of that issue as the media’s frame.
  3. Filling the echo chambers and other spaces. We’re in our own echo chambers like never before. Trump says these things so that the people in the right-wing echo chambers have a plausible response to Kamala’s policies, or even just need filler for their broadcast/websites/Facebook groups. Ultimately there is only so much media people can consume every day. If Trump has filled all relevant supporter spaces with his own opinions & framing, there is no time or energy left to explore other opinions and framing.