brillotti
@brillotti@lemmy.world
- Comment on Someone out there in front of his screen after watching his mom's VHS tape titled "My little adventures" 3 days ago:
It is customary to consume the marriage after the celebrations are done. My question is who filmed it.
- Comment on Someone out there in front of his screen after watching his mom's VHS tape titled "My little adventures" 4 days ago:
Happened to me at the end of my parents’ wedding tape. Guess I got to know where I come from 🥲
- Comment on What's the deal with people liking old devices? 5 days ago:
Last year I bought 20 old iPod gen 5s marked as trash on eBay and kitbashed together 12 of them in perfect working condition. Slapped a new battery in 11 of them and sold them for a nice profit. I saved one for myself which I then modded with a large battery, a little 256GB M.2 SSD, replaced the tweeter with a taptic engine from an old iPhone, and installed Rockbox on it. Now it’s connecting to my PC like a flash disk and I can copy-paste music to it without syncing with iTunes, and it supports FLAC. It changed my relationship with music, and it’s a purpose-made device that takes no calls and has no interruptions. Unlike my phone, which I can pick up to change a song and check a notification, then dwelve into doomscrolling on IG.
I also bought a fully mechanical (no batteries) film camera made in '75 that really got me into photography. Yes, film is expensive, and I have to pay a lab to develop and print my photos, but they feel real. Before this, I would take photos with my phone that got lost in a sea of thousands of other images in my phone gallery and I wouldn’t really appreciate them. My friends hate waiting sometimes up to a month to get the prints, but once they have them they really treasure those photos and memories.
Old tech was slow and clunky compared to today’s smartphones which are able to do everything, but smartphones lack the physical and emotional connections that came with the old ways of doing things.
- Comment on Might as well bring it full circle 5 days ago:
You can pay for prostitutes, which means the situation is dire. Doctors can probably be bargained with in this scenario if you have the beans to pay.
- Comment on Break privacy to make privacy? Age verification isn’t the answer 1 week ago:
I heard Facebook has been lobbying for age verification in order to solve the problem of serving ads to real people, as there’s too many bot traffic online to make good profits from ads nowadays.
- Comment on Sony Pulls Back From PlayStation Games on PC 3 weeks ago:
They would make so much money if they ported Bloodborne.
- Comment on Wide Open Acre 1 month ago:
The gradient banding of the sky kills this image for me.
- Comment on New Tomb Raider Games Recast Lara Croft With A Gaming Veteran 3 months ago:
She’s great, I’m happy for her!
On a similar note, I find it strange that nowadays (voice) actors are cast as videogame characters in their own likeness. This practice was all over the trailers announced at the video game awards.
What happened to designing cool characters for the art of it like back in the day? Is using photorealistic graphics and celebrities the way forward for the big game development studios?
- Comment on Biased source 5 months ago:
Is this a Jojo part 7 meme?
- Comment on this level is amazing 5 months ago:
I thought that was a hunter from Destiny for a minute. Took me a while to see Batman.
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 5 months ago:
White Monsterus
- Comment on Blue Archive from NEXON arrives on Steam and works on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck 8 months ago:
Too bad it’s region locked and inaccessible in parts of Europe on Steam as well.
- Comment on Google is now forcing gemini in their gmail app 1 year ago:
No, it’s for free bro. Google promised!
- Comment on The Binding of Isaac Rebith is getting online multiplayer in 2 weeks! 1 year ago:
Wonderful news! I’ve been fiending for more Isaac multiplayer since trying it out in the January beta
- Comment on jealousy 1 year ago:
Our food is way softer so we don’t chew enough to maximise the growth of our maxillas and jaws.
- Comment on New discoveries regarding tomato hormones can increase total yield 1 year ago:
But what happens when humans ingest said hormone?
- Comment on Hope yall enjoy your weekend. 1 year ago:
Why does this guy look like Jerma?
- Comment on Dwarf Fortress hits 800,000 sales and no sign of it stopping 1 year ago:
Well deserved, it’s a truly wonderful game. For readers unfamiliar with the game, here’s a short funny showcase by Sseth.