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- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted the seemingly made-up article 1 day ago:
His point is the only really rich people are the fantastical ones in his mind and are cartoonishly rich instead of just real life rich cause it’s easier to draw a dividing line and come to an answer.
- Comment on [Outer Wilds] Nomai lore in a nutshell (SPOILER!!!!) 3 days ago:
Yeah that was a kick in the gut to all the joy of discovering aliens.
- Comment on Piss off! 3 days ago:
Cicadas have nothing on the spotted lantern fly.
You want something disgusting and pisser of the animal kingdom pick the one that makes it look like it’s pouring only under trees, and it attracts wasps. - Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 6 days ago:
Ah yeah we are all pedants here and such while I understand and mostly agree with your comment I now must include.
Uhh, actually we don’t have a justice system, we have a legal system.
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 6 days ago:
If I was a real fan.
Nah na na na na na na na naThank you Gwen Stefani for saying all the na’s for me.
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 6 days ago:
Not OP but Tales from the Borderlands 1 us my favorite of the telltale game collection and has some of my favorite music videos ever and wears its emotions on its sleeve for you to empathize with its characters in clever real ways.
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 6 days ago:
So the logic is…
The laws only apply to the poor except for exceptions where rich are on their way to poor and can be used as examples of the exception .
- Comment on Severance’s Skin-Deep Critique of Capitalism 1 week ago:
He solved a puzzle the writers gave him and concluded his purpose and then Burt’s character was made to be different and then ignored the new character description anyways to conveniently send the character away.
Its already been contrived enough to point it out as such and will be legitimate as an overarching issue if it continues yes.
Rest of the season was pretty great but you can feel easy answer writing, so I am calling out the early symptoms of it. It’s as legitimate as my opinion as far as you are willing to listen to it.
- Comment on Severance’s Skin-Deep Critique of Capitalism 1 week ago:
Oh sure. But for now he’s just on a round trip out and back in so that we don’t have to ask where he is for the finale.
I had no doubts from the fact that they put the character on a train to nowhere. It’s not a decision when faced with the question of what to do with a character next. It’s “exit stage left” so that you can write yourself out of a hole with them later.
Its a good show but the writing is lazy insofar as they don’t have a plan and are giving themselves easy ways forward or out of jams.
- Comment on Severance’s Skin-Deep Critique of Capitalism 1 week ago:
This is definitely a show about emotional feelings of the situations. It’s not really what I would call an exploration of any topic other than what they think humans would be like on an emotional level being put through a world with the setup it has.
It mostly nails it to through execution but man it’s a show of vibes and triggering your empathetic response far more than it is any good for commentary.
- Comment on Severance’s Skin-Deep Critique of Capitalism 1 week ago:
Honestly it’s all skin deep and not as smart of a show as the praise makes it.
Literally the show performs one of my least favorite tropes for lazy writers that want to write off a character but don’t want them dead or have to figure out a good character arc and then even has the gall to act like it was poignant with a literal:Train To Nowhere
- Comment on Android updates: thanks I hate it. 2 weeks ago:
“Alert when phone picked up”
Was the name of the setting turned on. In the motion settings.
Still not sure how they could have named that harder to find without writing it in Korean. - Comment on Android updates: thanks I hate it. 2 weeks ago:
I hate that my music player is now relegated to a tiny nub at the bottom of the lock screen that defaults now to google ads for sports betting unless you turn it off.
Also my phone now randomly vibrates every so often, just gently enough to think it was imagined and I think it’s to drain the battery faster to push people to buy a new phone. But that’s just conspiracy from how garbage the rest of this update has been.
- Comment on [XKCD] 3085 About 20 Pounds 3 weeks ago:
I mean as someone that studied theoretical physics… Yeah basically.
We set up a bunch of math we expect to happen given the circumstances and then observe an incident that matches the conditions to see if it matched. It’s fun when it does and concerns people when it doesn’t but we have just reverse engineered the parts we can see and guess on the parts we can’t.
- Comment on [XKCD] 3085 About 20 Pounds 3 weeks ago:
I’m leaning in more to this is all a simulation and we have discovered the physics engine by trial and error but the hard coded rules behind it are as understandable to us as it would be to Mario
- Comment on Anon blames millennials 3 weeks ago:
The interesting answer by the way is that there is a glut of them as Roblox, is actually a game mostly about making other games.
Its a more realized version of VR chat essentially for kids and alpha and Z is full of game devs who though are unfortunately in a single engine but with skill can actually transition to others and often do.
Some real talent is being cultivated but they are mostly unseen by looking at the places they aren’t.
- Comment on Anon blames millennials 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, oh no a bunch of people got into an industry that they loved so much they got underpaid and lowered the value of their labour to be treated worse.
But then a bunch of them realized they could just use their passion to make something themself and get paid for it and now we are having a hard time justifying why the big industry’s “shovels” are special.It is a shame this happening to lots of industries right now for lots of other reasons too. With the big industry now trying to justify it as being cheaper to make because they automated all the people that make the product especially better.
- Comment on The Biggest Box Office Bombs of 2024 3 weeks ago:
LOL I loved the “on the point” robin hood stealing the life from the rich and giving to the poor.
Its so full of symbols and agreed that it’s gonna be a where’s Waldo hunt for the cult classic fans for years.
- Comment on The games industry is screwed. [26:11] 3 weeks ago:
The top 10% of the population now accounts for over 50% of all economic activity. They have a level of income and reserved cash that is hard to comprehend and that just starts at $250,000 US salary and goes up from there.
Those people are spending so freely and so completely it’s practically the entire economy and we are forced to compare ourselves to them.The extra annoying part is that in a population of 350million people in the US, 10% is still about 35 million people. So there is more than enough of them to compare to and for companies to aim at.
The 90% of us are the working poor and it’s not that others are stretching their money more they either just don’t notice or care to look or have decided they have enough to spend freely without any consideration of whether they can afford it.
- Comment on The games industry is screwed. [26:11] 3 weeks ago:
Ahh starting out with your parents money.
The greatest cheat code of the real world. - Comment on The Biggest Box Office Bombs of 2024 3 weeks ago:
Its also the power of a cheap production that was more an excuse for a bunch of rich people to skip out in covid restrictions so they could take a vacation in Hungary. If it’s a “fix it in post” production and you never bother with the post production it actually ends up pretty cheap.
It feels their entire budget was spent up front and then when it was obvious it was garbage they stopped spending.
- Comment on The Biggest Box Office Bombs of 2024 3 weeks ago:
I really appreciate that he got a literal America’s Got Talent star from the age of 12 to play the purity virgin.
I’m sure she felt that one in her bones and it’s such a sharp blade I don’t think a lot of people got it stabbing them
- Comment on Adam Driver Praises Francis Ford Coppola For “Not Letting The Money Dictate” ‘Megalopolis’ At AFI Life Achievement Tribute 4 weeks ago:
It sure was something. I didn’t even hate it just didn’t really find it grounbreaking either and in a time where most movies are just remakes, reboots and resurrected dead franchises that still sell merch…
I’m actually kinda fine with the crazy old man making a passion project about how stupid and vapid people with money are.
It least it kept some jobs alive and supported his industry.
- Comment on Enshittification of ChatGPT 4 weeks ago:
Ah so it turns on autism mode.
- Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules 4 weeks ago:
Well the cereal was invented cause he thought bland foods would stop you masturbating but that was clearly not working so he leaned back into foreskin hoarding.
I am not kidding as much as that sentence would make it seem.
- Comment on Sydney Sweeney to Star in ‘Split Fiction’ Film Adaptation From Director Jon M. Chu, ‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ Writers (EXCLUSIVE) 4 weeks ago:
The problem is that there is only 3 actual characters in the whole story and then set decorations. And their characters are basically, white girl, brown girl, and bad dude.
She could be the big baddy just because gender swapping Hollywood
- Comment on Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos Says Movie Theater Model Is ‘Outdated’: ‘Most of the Country’ Cannot ‘Walk to a Multiplex’ 4 weeks ago:
Everyone in here with personal large TVs and surround systems throwing the curve.
Honestly when I was in walking distance to a theater I liked (they served like pizza fries and other meal items for a good price) I went all the time. I was willing to go for movies I was less excited about rather than waiting it out cause giving up 4 hours of my time for an ok movie after driving, trailers and everything else plus cost is definitely less appealing.
I definitely think cost and spare money to spend on nice things other than food is a huge component of this all but I also would just like ease of participating.
Both time and money have felt like very precious resources in these new terrifying gilded ages.
- Comment on Bride Hard (2025, dir Simon West) 4 weeks ago:
This is the dumbest combination I have heard of and I’m so tired of people doing Die Hards.
It wasn’t funny when Rick and Morty did it or Kevin Hart.
Steal a script that is less overused. - Comment on 'Madame Web' Outstreamed 'Deadpool & Wolverine' in First Weeks (Despite Flopping in Theaters) 5 weeks ago:
We see the same movie where they ADRed like every other scene and the only thing to get any kind of story payoff is CPR because its solution to a firework to the face?
We have different definitions of bad. That much more ey and effort and that result is bad to me.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 13th 1 month ago:
Same.
I’m now 15 hours in, my runs look nothing at all like my first ones, and are rapidly changing each new run but also still haven’t “beaten” it once.
Feels like I built a skyscraper and yet still have to get across the grand canyon to actually win and it has nothing to do with the skyscraper.
Except now I have foundation.