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- Comment on Disc market share for week ending in 2024-05-04: Madame Web was in the #1 spot with Obi-Wan Kenobi when he was researching spiders right before he died. 3 days ago:
Is this what Kevin Costner meant when he said dvd wasn’t dead? I didn’t realize it was still over half the physical market. 😯
- Comment on Kevin Costner on physical media: "DVD is not dead" 4 days ago:
He’s right about making movies for their life. If more movies tried to stand the test of time that would counter some of the problems in movies right now.
Physical media? I’m not so sure. He should pivot to saying “physical media.”
- Comment on Xbox Has Had More Studio Closures Than First Party Game Releases So Far In 2024 1 week ago:
I guess you can do that when you own Windows.
- Comment on Xbox Has Had More Studio Closures Than First Party Game Releases So Far In 2024 1 week ago:
It seems weird for a platform holder to do this.
- Comment on Google employees questioned leadership about cost cuts, layoffs and “morale” issues following the company’s better-than-expected first-quarter earnings report. 1 week ago:
What a great way to neuter sharp and exacting questions.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
I guess I’m lucky I’ve never personally known anyone to preach about their diet.
For someone like myself, this all sounds overblown and just a meme/trope you see in movies and TV.
- Comment on Michael Caine sends fans into hysterics after posting an impressive stack of DVDs & Blu-rays of his film career 2 weeks ago:
Maybe they have a relative in the clickbait space, and they feel obliged.
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3 does what Elden Ring couldn’t, sweeps BAFTAs to become first game to win every big GOTY award 5 weeks ago:
lol. I just remembered starfield.
- Comment on Paramount's slate of upcoming films includes Star Trek, Transformers, Ninja Turtles, Smurfs, Bee Gees & more 5 weeks ago:
I’m comforted that I recognize everything in the headline. I feel safe and taken care of by our entertainment.
- Comment on The upcoming "Godzilla/Kong" 5-disc box set allegedly used generative AI to create the cover art. 5 weeks ago:
The art in question: Image
- Comment on meow📈irl 1 month ago:
Well, they couldn’t have been fed already today. Just listen to how much they are meowing!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
So you’re saying you were purposefully shown a set of images that featured mustaches and were told these are what predators look like?
That sounds similar to being taught to fear ethnicities or other ways people present themselves.
Seems like an oversimplification of the world done by narrow minded people who were very misguided.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’ve always found jokes like that to be distasteful and weird.
- Comment on Inadvisable Eggsperiment 1 month ago:
I assume this is what TikTok is like
- Comment on Windows 10 is the last version of Windows 1 month ago:
Why is windows still bloated after all these decades?
- Comment on Film preservationist Robert Harris defends controversial James Cameron 4K restorations of Aliens, The Abyss and True Lies 1 month ago:
I watched (a rip of) the DVHS HD release of True Lies with some friends about a year ago. I think it’s a US release. It looked ok.
Your point still stands. An obscure format release that few ever owned hardly counts. And the DVHS definitely looks like an older style master.
- Comment on “You don’t grab power, you accumulate it quietly, without anyone noticing.” – Grand Nagus Zek 1 month ago:
It almost looks like an upscale using the laserdiscs instead of the DVDs might yield a nicer image.
- Comment on Biomimicry 2 months ago:
Irony poisoning
- Comment on They Want to Make Palm Oil in a Lab. Without Palm Trees. 2 months ago:
“Food safe” is a weird word to use. It’s almost like it’s not food, but it’s ok to mix with food so the texture is better?
That sounds like a nightmare. That sounds like how plastic is said to be food safe. But turns out…
- Comment on how to use space between a split keyboard 2 months ago:
I don’t think this is ergonomically correct.
- Comment on ‘Rick and Morty’ Season 8 Coming in 2025, Anime Series Reveals New Footage 3 months ago:
And season 7 is pretty good.
- Comment on Gen Z is prioritizing living over working because they've seen 'the legacy of broken promises' in corporate America, a future-of-work expert says 3 months ago:
It’s a gradient.
- Comment on Gen Z is prioritizing living over working because they've seen 'the legacy of broken promises' in corporate America, a future-of-work expert says 3 months ago:
The internet is the reason they get to grow up with tons of details about how and why these promises are bullshit and vapor.
- Comment on 8 Years later my Steam Link is still getting regular updates 4 months ago:
Neat. This would be a way to run SponsorBlock too.
- Comment on UFO believer Ashton Forbes falls for $3k scam with fake evidence 4 months ago:
Well, there may be that. But to the point about comfort. A lot of the UAP community is focused on the metaphysical these days. The whole thing is considered a phenomenon and not just flying space ships. So they leave room for a wide range of reasons for it all apart from aliens from distant galaxies.
So it’s basically an answer/ key to understanding existence and the afterlife for them.
But yeah. Then there are the people who think it’s some secret collusion plot with 8 races of aliens and ruling earth or something.
The variety of personalities actually lead to strife too.
I find the scene interesting because there are laws being passed about UAPs. And I can’t help but be curious about the scene now that I’ve observed so much of it.
- Comment on UFO believer Ashton Forbes falls for $3k scam with fake evidence 4 months ago:
It’s frustrating that the UAP scene is infested with grifters.
- Comment on If you know, you know. 4 months ago:
Because my brain is broken mom. I think in this constant stream of memetic trash! You know when people talk about parents needing to take responsibility for their kids internet usage? They’re talking about you mom!
- Comment on Bethesda confirms they are working on releasing new features you asked for, from city maps, to mod support, to all new ways of traveling next year for Starfield 5 months ago:
Enhanced loading screens?
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann common sense rants] Piracy is COMPLETELY justified: Louis tries NetFlix & remembers why [19:29 | Nov 15 2023] 5 months ago:
Oh just the thumbnail.
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann common sense rants] Piracy is COMPLETELY justified: Louis tries NetFlix & remembers why [19:29 | Nov 15 2023] 5 months ago:
Wow he figured out how to light his face.