StrandedInTimeFall

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

To be fair, Linkin Park had plenty of popularity into the 2010s. Stuff is moving so fast that Gen Z or A are going hear Post Malone or Billy Eilish as a classic in about 4 to 5 years. Hell, they'll say Billy Eilish is out of gas by the time she's 30. Get ready for the AI avalanche, here's a throwback remake of Harry Styles and Bruno Mars singing "Easy Lover" in the exact same style and audio quality that it was originally recorded in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Dude was eating moldy or rotten food. There's no way that he couldn't taste something wrong with it. Probably thought, "This tastes bad but whatever." Remember people, do not go "whatever" when it comes to food.

If it tastes bad, is slimy, was left out for a long time (dairy or egg more than 2 hours, moist food more than 4 hours, dry baked goods more than 12 hours), then throw it out. We have coolers and fridges for a reason. To slow down bacterial growth to preserve food for some short term future. Freezers for a lot longer. Use the freaking tools you've been given.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Most them have protections in place preventing use of their likeness. Directors and other high level professionals will probably have enough money to sue anything that comes out of Runway. It's the artists, vfx, wardrobe, etc (i.e. low level people) that are going to get fucked. None of the savings will be passed to consumers and we will get derivative or rehashed works as a result. Only hope is that the money propping these AI replacements dries up because the studios can't attract movie goers with the even more unoriginal shit they will try to push.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Counterpoint: The Green Party hasn't done much to keep people engaged. They killed themselves.

At least the Tea Party had a decent run and engaged with the people who would vote for them. Though, it let MAGA convert or overtake it, but the point still stands. The Tea Party did more in the 10ish years it existed than the Green Party has done in 20 years.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

The man will work 12 hour days at some menial job and the wife will spend all day trapped with kids. Probably get divorced at some point because they find out the stress of everything has sucked the romance out of their marriage. The oldest won't talk to one of the parents and the youngest will think it's their fault.

This worked back in the old times because at least 2 or so of those kids would die from disease or war. There was cheapish land to go around to be on a farm or have some business. You probably had at least a three bedroom house and it allowed for some privacy. Also, families might help out each other so there could be some support.

It's a load of shit to think this will happen the way you want. If this did happen, it would probably be some commune that is labelled as a capitalistic paradise and where every one should be. In reality, it would be forced communism with extra steps and new branding. Think company towns mixed with Handmaid's Tale-type woman subjugation. Oh, the freedom is so bright that it burns.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)
  • Dude isn't even efficient at his own jobs. Supposedly works 100 hour weeks. Can't delegate.
  • Dude accepts government handouts for his companies. Can't finance his own ideas or ventures.
  • Dude purchased a company as a joke and lost money/revenue streams/users/entire countries. Can't even reduce costs while maintaining the things that make him money.
  • Dude used his most profitable venture as leverage for the joke purchase. Can't even make a joke purchase without endangering his best known and most profitable company.

At what point has this guy been efficient at anything but conning the government out of money and grifting genuinely smart people into working at his companies.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I mean we could have had most of that or a close version of it. Still not sure flying cars are a good idea without a large amount of regulation.

But, we decided computers talking to each other was way more important. And, here we are. Computers talking to each other faster and better than ever. Celebrate the achievement of communication that has been turned into stream of revenue and almost unending growth. See how well we now communicate with each other. Much better than we ever did before. What a grand human achievement we have made.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

They don't own Everquest or Planetside. That was Sony Online Entertainment (SOE for short and separate from Sony Playstation) and then it got sold to become Daybreak Game Company. And, Daybreak hasn't been doing that great last I looked.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I just don't think Bethesda has it in them anymore. Except for Id and formerly Tango Gameworks, Bethesda proper and a lot of the other studios it had, have just been missing the mark. Like a lot of big studios, they get big, start to regurgitate what they've already done, and then fail to capture people's attention after a while.

Why do you think Valve's employees haven't pushed for many new games? Anticipation got too high and they didn't want to compete with the legacy of Half-life or Portal. Half-life Alyx came out and it was decent, but it didn't move the story forward that much. It was mostly about doing a good VR game. Now, they have Deadlock coming out and it has nothing to do with any of it's previous games.

At a certain point, it's like reading a book from an author that's run out of ideas or hearing a song from an artist that doesn't have anything relevant to say anymore. It's time to move on and make room for someone wants to do something new. Only problem, these big ass companies are now mostly about making money and not about making games. They will ride whatever wave they can until they crash and burn.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

It looks silly and I don't have to hear or see crisp rat in it. People getting worked up over it not being serious or looking odd. It's Minecraft, it was never going to be serious.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nah, ain't no one woke up to anything. Every decade proves that human beings are capable of bad shit. Even those you would consider good, are going to have dark thoughts about someone or something. I guarantee you that there's some hidden darkness in Mr. Rogers, Levar Burton, and Bob Ross that never got revealed. Probably stuff they never even told another person. There exist people who know they are capable of really bad shit and have enough forethought to keep it inside them.

I take it as a wild ride to know that while I may not be the smartest or any kind of -est, that I have enough awareness to know that blind anger will never lead any place good. It may get results and even last centuries, but it's a hollow victory. Along a long enough time line, the victims are likely to become the oppressors. The watchers become the watched. And, the powerful become weak.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Magic The Gathering cards, pretty sure it's some part of the lamination process. Under the house smell, earthy aroma that has stagnated for a few years. Moss covered valleys and crevices, basically where moss is so concentrated that it just jumps into the nose.

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