Godort
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- Comment on Corporate astroturfing is the norm 1 day ago:
Its especially bad these days to the point where im not even sure how to find good results anymore, but 5 years ago things were much better (or at least astroturfing was way less common).
- Comment on Corporate astroturfing is the norm 2 days ago:
The only use reviews have is to make sure that the app youre downloading is most likely the original and not a malicious lookalike.
Artificial content has poisoned the web to the point that adding “reddit” to the end of google searches so that you could get real human content was commonplace.
I miss the days where you had to learn HTML if you wanted to share your opinions online.
- Comment on Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk 2 days ago:
To be fair, the alcoholic menu us typically like this too. 95% of the menu is beer, wine, or vodka and and some kind of syrup.
- Comment on Square Enix Will 'Aggressively' Pursue Multiplatform Strategy In Company Reboot 6 days ago:
PV gaming is bigger now than it has ever been. The idea of a console exclusive these days just feels like youre leaving a fortune on the table.
This isnt the 90s anymore, people dont really need to compare libraries anymore when choosing a gaming platform(outside of Nintendo, anyway)
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 12th 1 week ago:
I started Ori specifically because I didnt want to endlessly throw myself at Soul Master and the Watcher Knights again.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 12th 1 week ago:
I’m about 60% through Ori and the Blind forest. Its curently scratching an itch I have for metroidvania games.
However, I learned that instead of patching the original game or releasing a DLC, they just made a re-release and im not buying the game a second time just for a new area and some improved QoL with fast travel.
- Comment on joyous skittering of the least-bird 1 week ago:
I had the same thought. I thought kiwis were smaller than pigeons.
- Comment on I love Juicero 2 weeks ago:
You mean the juice packets that cpuld just be squeezed by a person to get the liquid out without requiring a countertop hydraulic press?
- Comment on figs 1 & 2 3 weeks ago:
Figga please
- Comment on Smothsinian 3 weeks ago:
Those are Mini DVDs. Totally different technology.
You’re right though, Mini CDs also exist, but were much rarer.
- Comment on Passwords and 2FA at a small business 4 weeks ago:
I also recommend this. EntraID is pretty handy and it was a fairly painless experience to get everyone using the Microsoft authenticator app on their phone for MFA. SSO via a registered app in Azure is just an added bonus.
Our typical user reaction is something like “Oh, like my banking app?” when we enroll them in MFA
- Comment on Smothsinian 4 weeks ago:
There is, actually.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI? 5 weeks ago:
So far, the only thing AI has shown to be pretty good at is summerizing a large amount of data, and even then it cant be fully trusted to not make mistakes.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I have only one question.
Can you move and swing your sword at the same time?
In most 2D Zelda games you can’t, and it helps with positioning so you don’t run into the enemy when you try to hit it.
Most of the 2d Zelda clones I’ve played let you move and swing at the same time and it takes some time to get used to.
- Comment on This grocery store charges a hefty handling fee and asks for a tip when using online ordering. 1 month ago:
T&T is a Loblaws chain. It’s wholly unsurprising that they’d be this scummy
- Comment on It’s time for a hard reset on notifications 1 month ago:
Apps get a one strike rule. The minute I get a notification I don’t want, that app doesn’t get to send me notifications anymore
- Comment on if the bird flu started spreading between humans, how long would you need to stay quarantined before it was safe to come out?? 1 month ago:
I mean, it wasn’t that long ago that we had an epidemic and a huge amount of people just straight up refused to believe it was real.
People wouldn’t quarantine and it would never actually go away.
- Comment on I heard we're doing collections 1 month ago:
Someone watched Porky’s and thought “Yeah, I can probably make a movie like that.”
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- Comment on My collection, 7 years in the making 1 month ago:
I’m super jealous of that Samurai Jack box set
- Comment on brilliant as silver 2 months ago:
Exactly that. Elemental mercury (ie: the liquid metal form) doesn’t readily absorb through the skin. It gives off vapors which are harmful with extended or repeated contact, but generally it’s not super dangerous to be around.(Not totally safe though)
Organic mercury compounds (eg: methylmercury) are extremely toxic because they can be absorbed through the skin, and can traverse the blood brain barrier
- Comment on What would happen if you drank bleach, and then drank ammonia? 4 months ago:
Short answer is you would probably die.
Bleach and ammonia make chloramine gas which is incredibly poisonous, readily dissolves in water and is a fairly caustic acid.
- Comment on Ignorance is only really appreciated in retrospect. But the damage happens in the present. So how do we avoid the damage? 5 months ago:
Saying “I don’t know enough about this to comment” is an answer when asked to comment on something. Also be willing to change your mind when presented with new information. Tangentially, don’t hold it against someone when their opinions change.
- Comment on Duo out here teaching me the essentials 5 months ago:
I believe these are put in place to actually test your knowledge of the vocabulary and grammar, vs just being good at memorizing the handful of simple conversational samples.
- Comment on gatekeeping 5 months ago:
i isn’t a real number, you imagined it
- Comment on GameStop’s definition of “New” 6 months ago:
Watching that all was a bit like watching a sped up version of the crypto boom.
It started off with a bunch of well-meaning weirdos that were sticking it to the man. Then a few people made a whole bunch of money and from there it got super popular and turned into a weird libertarian cult.
- Comment on Dibbs 6 months ago:
I like to flip it upside down to make it into a battle-bot
- Comment on Just Stop Oil protestors interrupt UK’s biggest games event EGX 7 months ago:
The most cynical view is that she funds them specifically because it makes climate protestors look bad. They are radical in their methods and their targets seem to just be random spaces where there is a larger(but not too large) public density.
However the reality is probably more complicated. She might disagree with her grandfather and agree with their message, she might think that pulling funding would be worse PR than the few headlines that JSO generates, or she might not care one way or the other.
- Comment on Let's play a game. How would you reboot The Jetsons if you were tasked with doing so. 8 months ago:
So I am an avid watcher of Tubi, the last remaining ethical streaming service.
Do you know something about Dropout that I don’t?
Flintstones doesn’t really need to be updated
If you haven’t read the 2016 Flintstones DC comic I highly recommend it.
how would you make a new movie or TV show about the Jetsons?
This is a difficult question. The Jetsons was very much a highly optimistic view of the future through the lens of the standard sitcom formula; spawned off of their success with the Flintstones which itself was basically just an animated version of The Honeymooners.
Today, an inherent understanding of the sitcom formula is not something you could expect from the general public, as the sitcom has essentially died as a concept in favor of series with a storyline that spans multiple seasons.
To make the Jetsons work today, you would need to adapt it to modern sensibilities in more ways than one. The general vision of the future is much more bleak than in the 60s, so I would start there.
The speed at which new technology is releasing is staggering compared to what it was 60 years ago, so the idea of some brand new technology that permeates every facet of life to make things easier could hold a much more sinister tone to modern audiences.
If you were going to keep the same essential premise, you would need to address that somehow. Perhaps a focus on sustainability and ethics like the solarpunk movement or you could lean into the opposite and go full dystopian cyberpunk.
The work culture of the Jetsons is also something that would need to be addressed. George is fired and subsequently re-hired every episode that features Mr. Spacely, and a Google search tells me that George has a 9 hour workweek. George is either irreplaceable, has very strong union protections or both.
Actually, now that I’m this deep into the weeds, I think a Lower Decks style parody, highlighting all the dirt behind the scenes that makes this world so idyllic would be a great place to start with a reboot.
- Comment on water nozzlé 8 months ago:
Need one in a toque labeld “Hoser”