CaptPretentious

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[–] CaptPretentious 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The series that I really liked and wish it would have completed but ended up being canceled due to a writer strike was 'Pushing Up Daisy's' https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0925266/

Something I wish I'd bring back is the '90s style. Honestly so much was more interesting back then. All the colored gadgets, and the really cool ones where you could see sort of through the plastic see the components. Commercials were absolutely unhinged and wild. Things were just more fun and less formulaic. So many things today seem to have no real personality.

[–] CaptPretentious 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How? The 7 and 10 are among the better received versions of Windows, for stability, performance, hardware compatibility, etc. What was your experience with Vista that was so good and 7 and 10 being so bad?

[–] CaptPretentious 2 points 2 weeks ago

I know some of those people that never stop talking or always on their phone.

I've asked them to stop. I've told them to stop. I've pointed out that if it was somebody else doing it, they'd be pissed off because someone else is ruining their time. They have zero fucks to give.

[–] CaptPretentious 6 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I hate Windows 11, for a multitude of reasons. But it is still a better experience than Vista. An unbelievably better than Windows ME. Windows ME for me was the worst desktop OS I think I've ever used. If we open it up to just any old OS, then I want to say Novell was the worst I ever used.

[–] CaptPretentious 1 points 2 weeks ago

I've repeatedly heard that they could operate at a loss for decades and be fine... But I've never actually seen real numbers to back that up.

[–] CaptPretentious 11 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Nintendo has increasingly become a problem over there last decade. From taking down tournaments, going after YouTubers, the predatory partner program that they ran for a bit, them suing everybody in sight. Them being anti-emulation but then being found to use emulation that was created by a third party and profiting off of it.

I've already decided I'm not buying the next console. I'm done with that company. I look forward, genuinely, to innate file for bankruptcy. To me they're a lot like Bizzard. Both of these companies are not the same company they were 20 years ago.

[–] CaptPretentious 19 points 2 weeks ago

No one forgot rural areas exist.

It is 100% a narcissism thing. The entire rest of the world does just fine with regular sized vehicles. Sensors are never going to replace actually just seeing. Really all you end up with is a vehicle with way more blind areas (because a vehicle like that doesn't have blind spots, it' now likes blind regions).

[–] CaptPretentious 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] CaptPretentious 9 points 2 weeks ago

You have to tell the computer to disengage safety protocols.

[–] CaptPretentious 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Completely agree.

I mean there so many videos like this https://youtube.com/shorts/FgzbCJYCBr8 that dude is devastated. Or this 'classic' https://youtube.com/shorts/qj0zsL68Ka8 or this or guy https://youtube.com/shorts/j3PWef89kPw

I could keep going, it's not that hard videos like that's and I wish it was.

Just for a pallet cleanser, look how happy this do is to find out that he is the father. https://youtube.com/shorts/PfRR5iKE70Q

[–] CaptPretentious 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Honestly, Blizzard died off a long time ago. That's not even a joke. Activision Blizzard is shown as being founded in 2008. The company name and its IP is basically just got sold off in used.

[–] CaptPretentious 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's a washing machine... Who the hell thought it needed an operating system!

We've been using washing machines for decades, successfully, that just used mechanical timers. Every so often you'd have to change out the timer or some belt sure to wear. It was cheap and easy to do.

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