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- Comment on Does the 2 hour refund limit on Steam affect game design? 5 hours ago:
I haven’t heard of the game but see that it’s going for $27. For me at least, buying a $27 game, I’d expect 10 hours minimum of enjoyable gameplay, which throws the free refund out the window if it would deliver.
It could be possible that they wanted to increase their game length to justify the price and stretched things if the first 80 minutes were tedious and slow. I’m sure there’s some consideration to front load the enjoyment into the first few hours, with or without the refund, but I would assume lesser priced games would focus on that and not one going for this price.
- Comment on ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ Has the Most Words Per Minute of Any TV Show, Study Finds 2 days ago:
Did they forget Gilmore Girls or The West Wing?
This seems to be a link with all the results, but doesn’t list every TV shows that was checked.
- Comment on ‘White Lotus’ Creator Mike White Defends Season 3 After Viewers Call It Too Slow: ‘I’m Edging You! If You Don’t Want to Be Edged… Get the F— Out of My Bed’ 1 week ago:
It’s like poetry, it rhymes.
- Comment on ‘White Lotus’ Creator Mike White Defends Season 3 After Viewers Call It Too Slow: ‘I’m Edging You! If You Don’t Want to Be Edged… Get the F— Out of My Bed’ 1 week ago:
White revealed one of the most “disappointing” parts of the finale that he had to cut out. It’s a scene where Piper loses her virginity to none other than Belinda’s son, Zion.
Did these two characters even meet before the finale? Glad that was cut because it would have felt super rushed and not make a whole lot of sense.
- Comment on Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2? 1 week ago:
You can even get every achievement in a game, and return it for a full refund, granted you can beat the game in under two hours. Someone did it with resident evil 3 remake: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp8a5EjAcGs
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Fantastic vid
- Comment on When did movie credits move from the beginning to the end? 1 week ago:
Did they change the rules after the first Star Wars, or does Disney still still go against the union rules?
- Comment on What's the best "good-bad" TV series you've seen? 1 week ago:
I had very low expectations with Mr. Robot when it first started and imagined a lot of eye-rolling. Most of this was based on it being on the USA network.
- Comment on GhibliGuesser ? 2 weeks ago:
wow this is hard, although I got 150km away on one which made my day (I have nothing else going for me)
- Comment on oops 2 weeks ago:
It’s a shame J. Walter Weatherman was killed when Michael left the door open with the air conditioner running.
- Comment on TV April Release Roundup, 2025 2 weeks ago:
Woah, there’s a second season of The Rehearsal coming out?? Amazing
- Comment on Never trust coworkers 3 weeks ago:
What about the part where they have newspapers on the floor everywhere?
- Comment on Was a TV show you like ever ruined by the addition of a particular character to the point that you had to quit, or nearly quit? 3 weeks ago:
Wasn’t the cool cop named Homer Simpson in the pilot, who then became an idiot laughing stock, causing people also named Homer Simpson to change their name to Max Power, after a hairdryer?
And that’s the end of that case.
- Comment on Was a TV show you like ever ruined by the addition of a particular character to the point that you had to quit, or nearly quit? 3 weeks ago:
this, Dexter season 3 in a nutshell
- Comment on Is dns a good application for the blockchain? 3 weeks ago:
What? No. What problem will will this solve?
- Comment on What TV series have the best intros? What TV series have the worst intros? 3 weeks ago:
Sealab 2021. It’s been 20 years and it’s still stuck in my head
- Comment on Top 50 TV Shows Of All Time Ranked by the most known sources of ratings like IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic etc. Agree? 3 weeks ago:
The Wire is in the top 10 though?
- Comment on The gentrified forest near me removed the bins. .. From their café/picnic area 4 weeks ago:
A corndog with a twizzler for the stick
- Comment on If I use winrar to compress 80gb of tv and movies. Then can I compress it further by making it an iso? 4 weeks ago:
If you can sacrifice quality, you can encode the videos at a lower bitrate, but that is lossy compression, not lossless. Also, if your videos are in h.264 codec, then transcoding them to h.265 and preserving the quality may be a way to get the files smaller. You would use a tool meant for video, like Handbrake for this, and not winrar or other generic compression tool.
- Comment on What's your favourite classic movie you think everyone should have seen once in their life? 5 weeks ago:
Here’s some good movies in each decade which are classics:
1930s: Modern Times
1940s: Double Indemnity
1950s: Vertigo
1960s: Bonnie and Clyde
1970s: Alien
1980s: Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
1990s: Edward Sissorhands
- Comment on Did sites end up making money from API restrictions? 5 weeks ago:
Basically, each of these sites used open standards and APIs as a way to grow their service. Eventually once they got to the user base they wanted and beat out the competition, they could tighten the screws, lock things down, since the users didn’t have any place to go, they were locked in.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
en.wikipedia.org/…/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis…
In terms of specifics, it’s unclear if they were ever profitable before locking things down, since the main goal at that phase wasn’t making money, it was growing active users and killing competitors. I would have to imagine that with the locked down APIs, they are more profitable, and they never really cared about the community and good will, only when it was beneficial to grow their user base.
- Comment on does anyone know the american dad episode where deputy director bullock scrapes his leg? 5 weeks ago:
Haven’t seen it but a Google search with this posts title shows it’s this episode:
…fandom.com/…/The_Full_Cognitive_Redaction_of_Ave…
Not sure if that’s true or not.
- Comment on Which movie do you feel has the most wasted potential? 1 month ago:
Parallels (2015)was a pretty good movie, but was originally going to be a TV series. There was a lot of setup that was never paid off because of this, but it’s still a pretty good Sci Fi movie, just ends on a cliff hanger. Wish they made the series.
- Comment on Tipping: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver [24:54] 1 month ago:
“I don’t tip. I don’t tip because society says I have to. All right, if someone deserves a tip, if they really put forth an effort, I’ll give them something a little something extra. But this tipping automatically, it’s for the birds.”
- Comment on Let's discuss: Pokémon 1 month ago:
I’ve played Pokemon on and off since it’s release in the 90s, but one of the best Pokemon experiences was that two week period in the summer of 2016 when Pokemon Go came out and everyone was playing it. It was the perfect thing at the right time, and something I don’t think can ever be replicated again.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Pokémon 1 month ago:
I went searching for Pokemon Red/Blue on the Nintendo Switch Online Gameboy app and all they had was the trading card version of the game. I played it for a few minutes but couldn’t really get into it. Is it nostalgia or was there something Im missing?
- Comment on HELP! How do I help educate my son about his body when I know nothing about boys?? 1 month ago:
Ahh, thought it would have been Crimson Tide
- Comment on HELP! How do I help educate my son about his body when I know nothing about boys?? 1 month ago:
So what movie taught you about periods?
- Comment on If a mysterious force secretly changed EVERY clock worldwide one minute forward, how long would it take until people notice, and how would people/governments react? 1 month ago:
Do leap minutes really exist? I’ve never heard of that before? I don’t think we’ve ever had 60 leap seconds since the inception of the idea.
- Comment on The Google Interview Question Everyone Gets Wrong [Veritasium} 1 month ago:
How’s that working out for you?