mindbleach
@mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on I predict that this post will get approximately 01000011100101100000000000000000 13 hours ago:
// what the fuck? - Comment on I predict that this post will get approximately 01000011100101100000000000000000 1 day ago:
The weirdest part of learning about floating point was suddenly knowing how to use a slide rule.
- Comment on Which were the worst movies of 2024? 4 days ago:
They didn’t even fuck it up in a fun way. Super Mario Bros (the first one) was batshit crazy, but still invoked a shocking variety of details from the games, back when there really was not much to those games. All of the Uwe Boll dreck is at least camp as hell. Resident Evil knows it’s stupid, and refuses to break eye contact.
Borderlands arrives years late, pleases nobody, and takes no risks. It is of low quality. It’s not even fun to talk about.
- Comment on Which were the worst movies of 2024? 4 days ago:
Bear in mind half of that is real-money charges inside “free” games. An abusive business model that should be illegal.
- Comment on Balatro Dev Calls Out PEGI For "Real Gambling" Rating Hypocrisy Vs. EA Sports FC 4 days ago:
The only apolitical game is Tetris.
… not counting the story of developing and distributing Tetris.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like spears 6 days ago:
Arena and Daggerfall made you drag your mouse for each attack.
Which would be really cool and tactical if the enemy hitboxes had one iota of complexity.
- Comment on oh man 1 week ago:
AKA generic I-am-very-smart libertarian, AKA just another smug Republican. People who think ideologies are like accents - they’re what other people have. Them? Nooo. They’re the default!
- Comment on oh man 1 week ago:
Let’s say that this is the guy, and that he’s a CHUD.
A guy like that still shot a CEO over social ills. Only when it became personal, apparently, but still.
That should leave healthcare executives fucking terrified. A guy like this acted the way y’all think communist revolutionaries like *checks notes* Chuck Schumer will act.
Denying half of all claims makes medical agony personal for a metric shitload of people.
- Comment on One Diffusion to Generate Them All 1 week ago:
Orientation
Oh wow, it made him a gay cowboy.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like Batman Beyond 1 week ago:
Late-90s cartoons worldwide had some killer music, because the budget had to go somewhere. Frames are expensive and last a fraction of a second. Picture quality was small and soft. But even the dinkiest TV/VCR could blast stereo in broadcast quality.
- Comment on Todd Haynes finally comments on his scrapped film with Joaquin Phoenix 1 week ago:
And you can’t imagine any relation between a movie being good and who’s in it.
- Comment on what is dead can never die 1 week ago:
Dread Cthulu looks upon an anglerfish and burbles - “Dude, you good?”
- Comment on what is dead can never die 1 week ago:
Overlay the video of this with the audio of that bear opening a car door.
“What the fuck?! What the fuuuck?!”
- Comment on feral naming 1 week ago:
… on consideration, it is the same joke.
- Comment on feral naming 1 week ago:
Ladybugs are even cuter, but do not fare as well.
- Comment on feral naming 1 week ago:
Mold oxen
Because of the antennae! That’s adorable.
- Comment on Toasty Igloo 2 weeks ago:
“That just raises further questions!”
- Comment on The casual moviegoer is a thing of the past. That's a big problem for Hollywood 2 weeks ago:
Well. “HD.”
- Comment on The casual moviegoer is a thing of the past. That's a big problem for Hollywood 2 weeks ago:
Disruption always works this way.
VHS let people watch a movie at home, whenever they wanted, but they had to buy that specific movie and put up with their dinky 20" TV. If you wanted serious sound or scale, you either paid five whole bucks at the local theater, or left your whole wallet at Circuit City. And even the best home experiences were standard-def. Film was not threatened by mere video.
DVDs made buying movies a lot cheaper, largely because they cost a penny to make, so studios could print a million copies just in case and shrug off any losses. If you wanted to see this year’s releases, this year, you went to the big theater at the mall. It still beat your enormous 32" plasma in glorious 720p. Theaters got to be fancy and focus on the popular hits.
Streaming was like-- you want me to buy a subscription to watch an old movie? If I’m gonna use the internet, Kazaa is right there. Okay fine, adapting VGA to component video sucks, and this 40" set finally has more pixels than my monitor. Oh wow, that cartoon’s on here? I haven’t seen this in a decade. And movies wait like three months. I can watch The Office again until that’s available. Driving outside town to pay thirty bucks a head at the megagigadodecaplex is only worthwhile for hot new things, like superhero movies. Theaters better step up their game to beat my couch and a stiff drink.
There was a moment.
There was a moment, where they might’ve turned this around. As Netflix was being cannibalized by assholes splintering off their little fiefdoms, the major competing theater companies could have seen the pattern. Disruption always works this way. Your low end slips away, letting you focus on better quality with higher margins. Then your midrange slips away, and you’re a luxury! Then your whole industry dies. What might’ve saved it was pushing back toward small local theaters. You only have to beat 70" screens and decent stereo. People still don’t bother with surround sound, and even a modest projection screen beats the most obscenely large television.
The global respiratory plague put a hard cutoff on how late that might’ve worked. It was probably screwed, long beforehand. Theaters are over. Move on.
- Comment on YEET 2 weeks ago:
It is of course well known that careless talk costs lives, but the full scale of the problem is not always appreciated.
For instance, at the very moment that Arthur said ”I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle,” a freak wormhole opened up in the fabric of the space-time continuum and carried his words far far back in time across almost infinite reaches of space to a distant Galaxy where strange and warlike beings were poised on the brink of frightful interstellar battle.
The two opposing leaders were meeting for the last time.
A dreadful silence fell across the conference table as the commander of the Vl’hurgs, resplendent in his black jewelled battle shorts, gazed levelly at the G’Gugvuntt leader squatting opposite him in a cloud of green sweet-smelling steam, and, with a million sleek and horribly beweaponed star cruisers poised to unleash electric death at his single word of command, challenged the vile creature to take back what it had said about his mother.
The creature stirred in his sickly broiling vapour, and at that very moment the words I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle drifted across the conference table.
Unfortunately, in the Vl’hurg tongue this was the most dreadful insult imaginable, and there was nothing for it but to wage terrible war for centuries.
Eventually of course, after their Galaxy had been decimated over a few thousand years, it was realized that the whole thing had been a ghastly mistake, and so the two opposing battle fleets settled their few remaining differences in order to launch a joint attack on our own Galaxy – now positively identified as the source of the offending remark.
For thousands more years the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across – which happened to be the Earth – where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog.
– Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
- Comment on 'Stop talking s*** about us' - Half-Life 2 mod blacklists a handful of YouTubers as 'anticitizens' and blocks them from playing 2 weeks ago:
Demand and petition are opposite, genius.
Don’t treat customers as if anything short groveling for crumbs is acting above their station. People who adore this product got together on their own time to hash out why, specifically, they feel dissatisfied. They collaboratively presented a single document explaining what could go better and why it’s important. And you’re treating that like it’s some 90s edgelord with an I HATE BG3 page on GeoCities because they didn’t add any of the cool story ideas he e-mailed them.
What exactly is negative about people saying, ‘We’re excited to sink a shitload of time into adding stuff to this game for free, please do more technical communication?’
- Comment on 'Stop talking s*** about us' - Half-Life 2 mod blacklists a handful of YouTubers as 'anticitizens' and blocks them from playing 2 weeks ago:
… Jesus, is that what you think whining looks like? That’s the most polite request for information possible, after a bunch of people got together and discussed it amongst themselves.
- Comment on 'Stop talking s*** about us' - Half-Life 2 mod blacklists a handful of YouTubers as 'anticitizens' and blocks them from playing 2 weeks ago:
Damn involved community, trying to make all their improvements count! The freeloaders!
- Comment on Pterosaurs 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on explosions 2 weeks ago:
Sphere looks like circle. Chop sphere in half, lay flat, looks like two circles. BOOM, Banach-Tarski!
- Comment on Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up! 2 weeks ago:
The ska jokes were one of the highlights of Renfield.
- Comment on Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up! 2 weeks ago:
Drag the image over a different color.
- Comment on The prime minister's 'oh shit' moment when Fatima Payman helped sink key [environment] law 3 weeks ago:
‘You made me change labels so I’m abandoning my principles’ is not sane behavior.
- Comment on wtf Cambrian 3 weeks ago:
“Why did I make the undo button a flood? They’re underwater!”
- Comment on wtf Cambrian 3 weeks ago:
Everyone was doing weird shit in peaceful mode, just vibing and experimenting, and then that FUCKER on the bottom right turned on PvP. Being festooned with knives is how they said “I’m tryna get these nutrients, don’t @ me.”
