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Blackmist,

Bumblebee is the only good Transformers movie.

You can ignore all the others, but this one is worth it.

Blackmist,

Sound’s like it’s just not sending the data back to Daddy Google. The OK Google/Alexa bit is done on a custom chip on the device. Clearly that bit isn’t being turned off, but anything after that isn’t being sent anywhere.

Probably just saves support calls this way from idiots who turn it off and forget.

Blackmist,

But Facebook can’t spy on me, I repost the “I DO NOT GIVE FACEBOOK PERMISSION” spam every 3 months without fail!

Blackmist,

And if they were found to be sending it all the time, holy fuck the fines would end the company.

Blackmist,

Yeah, trackers are what we had on the Amiga, and it was mostly just sound samples played at varying pitches. It’s definitely got an old school sound to it, but it’s only a low track limit that makes it different to what we have now.

Real chip tunes are where you torture an AY-3-8912 chip until it sings for its master.

Blackmist,

It’s annoying that you can either choose between having a weedy shit burger that’s mostly lettuce and has to be held together with a stick, or eating a really expensive one and have to look at a load of wanker tat on the walls.

Also, you can stick your brioche buns up your arse. A brioche bun is not a load bearing bun. It dissolves in contact with moisture.

Blackmist,

I do.

I still have subs on.

Blackmist,

No, there’s definitely an element of not speaking clearly.

Matthew McConaughey and Tom Hardy as examples. Chris Nolan gets shit on for his terrible sound mixing, but him picking actors who mumble is the main issue.

Put on a movie from 1980 vs one from 2020. The voice clarity is night and day.

Blackmist,

I genuinely think he’s suffered hearing damage at some point during The Dark Knight Rises, and can no longer tell.

Blackmist,

Or just sites that don’t need a consent popup because they don’t sell your shit.

Marketing Company Claims That It Actually Is Listening to Your Phone and Smart Speakers to Target Ads (www.404media.co)

A marketing team within media giant Cox Media Group (CMG) claims it has the capability to listen to ambient conversations of consumers through embedded microphones in smartphones, smart TVs, and other devices to gather data and use it to target ads, according to a review of CMG marketing materials by 404 Media and details from a...

Blackmist,

I’d guess they’re planning on making their own stuff that does. I’ve already seen a “free” TV with an extra screen that just shows ads, has a camera, etc.

People are suckers, and there’s plenty of unscrupulous companies willing to monetise that.

Blackmist,

ToS and EULAs do not override local laws.

Blackmist,

One of the nice things about GDPR is that the consent must be given freely, with no detriment for refusal.

You can’t say “agree to this or you can’t use our product”.

Blackmist,

The Empire Strikes Back is the only one that I would say is a great movie.

Blackmist,

It still looks better than The Hobbit though.

The CGI is still a bit dated (although somehow The Flash topped that), but there’s far less compositing of solo actors in green rooms, due to forced perspective.

Blackmist,

Does it have a Funbucks store?

Blackmist,

I’m sure Gabe has a lot of wonderful traits, but pro-consumer ain’t one of them.

Blackmist,

Killed physical ownership of PC games. (Half Life 2 required Steam to work, locking your key to a single account)

Pioneered lootboxes. (Team Fortress 2)

Has price parity rules. (Prevent keys being sold cheaper elsewhere so gamers can’t avoid giving 30% of their money to Valve)

Those aren’t particularly pro-consumer.

Blackmist,

That fact that it can’t even play direct from the PS+ cloud gaming service shows what a half-baked device this is.

In order for me to be interested it would have to be able to stream games in from my PS5, PS+ cloud gaming, and my PC. Maybe add Xbox GamePass streaming as well.

Realistically it’s going to have to come from a third party if it wants all that, at which point you might as well just have a controller grip for your phone.

Blackmist,

Well you heard them. American numbers only from now on.

Get learning, kids.

https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/8705a69a-b511-46ea-8564-6882720ca854.png

Blackmist,

Called Greenland.

Clearly goes to Iceland.

Blackmist,

Maybe you’ve heard of a little indie gem by the name of Baldur’s Gate 3?

Although personally I’d take more umbrage with the writing, dialogue, voice acting, and lack of mocap performance over the actual gameplay mechanics.

Bethesda struck gold with Skyrim, but I don’t think they’ve moved past it.

Blackmist,

Worse is when it’s on fucking Spotify as well.

Get that shit the fuck out of my playlists, if you’ve got the original then play it ffs. And not just the second half either.

I’m already bracing for Love Is a Long Road, but just the first 90 seconds of it because that’s what was in the GTA6 advert and that’s all these people have the attention span for.

Blackmist,

You dirty bird.

Blackmist,

Shoes.

I’m the sort of person that has to try on 10 pairs or more to find some that fit comfortably.

Blackmist,

Misleading headline.

It also applies to electric vehicles over 2000kg, which is pretty much most of them.

London’s ULEZ scheme is better than this.

Blackmist,

We’re were getting a 20 mph limit for most roads in our UK town (until it was scrapped yesterday) and the local Facebook groups are acting like they’re turning us into an open air prison.

Apparently having shops in walking distance is a Chinese conspiracy, and we must reject the climate emergency, and other such frothing at the mouth…

Blackmist,

Similarly, there’s patterns of circles on banknotes that prevent you scanning them or loading them into Photoshop.

Blackmist,

Yeah, it’s mostly this.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation

Although I think there are a couple of other methods in play.

Blackmist,

Episode 7 is better than episode 6.

Blackmist,

It’s always great to see Star Wars stretch its legs and get away from fucking Jedi and the whole extended Skywalker family, and frustrating when they keep circling back to them.

Blackmist,

George Lucas had already turned it into a glorified toy advert by then. Ewoks were shit.

Blackmist,

It never worked on Reddit either.

“What’s a little known movie I should watch?”

Top answer, Shawshank Redemption.

Every fucking time.

Blackmist,

Well yeah, it didn’t look that amazing. It’s hardly photorealistic.

It looked pretty much exactly what I’d expect a modern PS5 GTA game to look like.

Blackmist,

Right, and we’re a generation of hardware on from that.

Blackmist,

They’ve normally been pretty good about keeping that shit away from the single player side of things.

Couldn’t give a fuck about multiplayer, they can sign people up for medical experiments in exchange for funbucks for all I care. That side of it just doesn’t interest me at all. If I wanted to be called a homosexual slur by an eight year old I’d go to the park.

Blackmist,

Pretty much all Star Trek aliens are just human from the mouth downwards.

Blackmist,

Unironically so.

Logistics has always been the US military’s best weapon.

Blackmist,

When you’ve got nukes, all wars are punching down.

The knowing that even if you fight really well against them, they could just say “fuck it” and flatten you anyway.

Blackmist,

But only one can crush a toddler without you even feeling it.

Buy the new Ford Infanticide 5000. You’re American. You deserve it.

Blackmist,

Which is why my toaster is now under a cupboard, making an entirely new fire hazard.

Blackmist,

Yes, and it’s not just creative types.

There’s a whole lot of people building their businesses on top of other people’s businesses, and being super surprised when the rug gets pulled because the line went down.

We need a way for people to discover things based on other things they like, without money getting in the way and fucking everything up.

Blackmist,

Disney plus in the UK has that Pam and Tommy show featuring a talking erect penis.

Have fun with that, kiddywinks.

Blackmist,

What, so they can lock it behind the Star Trek Plus channel, just 4.99 a month on top of Amazon Prime.

Now with extra targeted adverts!

Blackmist,

I’m still waiting for the Birds Aren’t Real people to reach through the generations to become a liberal conspiracy.

Blackmist,

I’ve no doubt that Steam, PSN, etc can avoid complying with the spirit of the law on this, but the writing is on the wall as far as subscription services go.

Since I got my PS5 just over a year ago, I own 2 games for it. GoW Ragnarok that came with it, and BG3 that was only available digitally. PS+ has provided all the rest. I’ve spent the last week playing Teardown which is great. If this law actually happens, then all devs, not just indie ones, will be relying on game subscription service revenue.

Blackmist,

Who doesn’t love a good old “stock market correction”, where rich people lose money that never existed, and claw back real money from the poor.

Blackmist,

But government likes to starve the stuff they run to make it look bad so they can carve it up and sell it to their mates. See literally anything Britain privatised.

Anything with no competition trends towards being shit over time.

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