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Hey, he’s like, just this guy, you know?

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+1 for the Dark Tower books.

But I’d note, there’s a dramatic tonal shift between the first half and the last half.

After book 4, you lose the flashbacks to Roland’s youth and it’s a straight through narrative for books 5, 6 and 7.

I think the accident that almost killed him put the fear of god in him.

jordanlund,
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Sounds like someone wasn’t able to ship product and had their licensing pulled…

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It’s a little bit more than that, but we won’t know what until the trial on Monday.

Possible outcomes:

Trump org is dissolved.
Assets are seized.
Trump, Jr., and Eric are banned from ever being corporate officers in NY.
5 year ban on obtaining loans.

jordanlund,
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I was part of the hardcore build it yourself crew for years and years, but I find now that for the last 10 years or so now, and especially with the death of places like Fry’s and all the bullshit Newegg pulled, it’s way easier and cheaper to buy a pre-built box that’s maybe 90-95% there, then tweak what you need to tweak.

Get that manufacturers warranty and forget trying to part it out yourself.

$3,500 here.

www.magicmicro.com/14443-13/?gclid=CjwKCAjwgsqoBh…

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You better have your operations in order!

Missed opportunity

This annoyed me. You can boost pack all the way from your New Atlantis penthouse balcony to the New Atlantis star port. Off a skyscraper, travel for miles. It’s fantastic - everyone should do it. Really gives a sense of the scale and capability of the world and game. It does that better than any actual quest or cutscene… bit...

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Open the scanner and quicktravel everywhere…

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I recognize that Christie isn’t exactly Shakespeare, but why adapt a book and change literally everything about it?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallowe'en_Party

It’s not in Venice, the house is not haunted, there’s no seance… I guess some of the names are the same?

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He’s forgetting movie history…

Back when television got big, cinema had to evolve to survive. The aspect ratio went wide.

This Is Cinerama was more of a tech demo than anything else in 1952, but it was followed by widescreen movie, movies in 1953 with “The Robe” being shot and shown in Cinemascope.

Technicolor too gave a more vibrant color scheme even than previous color film processing that actually came a generation prior, in 1932.

But the widescreen/Technicolor combination provided a must see experience that were the event films of the era and they couldn’t be duplicated at home.

Roll forward 50 years… home theater technology has evolved to a point where theater has to compete with 65" 4K television displays and 7.1 Dolby Atmos surround sound. People need a reason to leave their homes and deal with noisy, disease infected, crowds, high concession prices, expensive tickets, and annoyances like having to pre-pick your own seats instead of just walking in and sitting down.

Streaming is keeping people at home, being able to binge long form content, pausing when necessary. Cinema can’t provide that experirnce.

So it’s going the other way, the “theme park ride experience”. It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that the first Pirates of the Carribean movie hit in 2003, pre-dating the wave of comic book movies by, what? 5 or 6 years? 50 years after the first Cinerama movies?

But even that has roots going back to Jurassic Park (1993), Star Wars (1977), and Jaws (1975).

Now, don’t get me wrong, I dearly love “small” films like Scorsese’s After Hours, or even modern stuff like Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, but there is ZERO compelling reason to see them in a theater. I can get the same experience viewing them on my home theater setup without, you know, blowing $50 to sit in a noisy, uncomfortable theater.

To do THAT, I NEED a spectacle. I need to see something that demands I see it right away, in a theatrical environment. It needs to be a theme park ride.

If your end goal is to make a tight knit drama full of people in rooms talking to each other, well, Downton Abbey and Bridgerton are over there ->

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Now, when it comes to “Marvel regurgitation”, yeah, they could, and should, be doing better. They essentially re-use the same basic plot over and over again and will keep doing it until they hit one that doesn’t make a billion dollars.

I’m a lifelong comic book fan and I love that nerd culture is finally taking over, but I swear to god, I don’t need another superhero movie where the hero and villain have a joined origin story and the villain is just a bigger, badder version of the hero.

Seriously.

Iron Man - Iron Monger
Incredible Hulk - Abomination
Iron Man 2 - Whiplash
Thor - Loki (both sons of Odin)
Captain America - Red Skull
Avengers - Loki + Alien Invasion

Iron Man 3 - Extremis
Thor: Dark World - Dark Elf invasion
Captain America: Winter Soldier - Bucky
Guardians of the Galaxy - Ronan - First one to break formula.
Avengers: Age of Ultron - Ultron joined origin with Vision.
Ant-Man - Yellow Jacket

Captain America: Civil War - Avengers vs. Avengers
Doctor Strange - Kaecilius
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 - Pete’s Dad
Spider-Man: Homecoming - Vulture, Pete’s girlfriend’s dad.
Thor: Ragnarok - Hela, evil firstborn sister.
Black Panther - Killmonger
Avengers: Infinity War - Tying it all together.
Ant-Man and the Wasp - Ghost, a victim of Pym tech.
Captain Marvel - Yon-Rogg
Avengers: Endgame - Tying it all together.
Spider-Man: Far From Home - Mysterio (Stark Tech villain vs. Stark Tech hero)

jordanlund,
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Hilarious that it even embedded the tweet so you can see it’s not an accurate quote.

Bad enough when humans do it, adding nothing.

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“Characters: Fixed an issue that could cause some characters to not be in their proper location.”

Ooh, I wonder if I can finally pick up that guy in the medbay…

Edit No, no they did not. :(

jordanlund,
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Calm Rick sounds spot on, angry Rick not so much.

Morty sounds pretty good generally but there was one line that sounded off…

Still, given the circumstances, I don’t know what else they were supposed to do…

“Hey, it’s us, Rick and Morty! From a dimension where our voice actor wasn’t caught grooming children!”

jordanlund,
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I’ve been playing it back and forth with Baldur’s Gate 3 (Baldur’s Field!) and I have to say, I’m enjoying it more than BG.

Things like combat are just so much easier than in a turn based game controlling multiple characters. I get EXHAUSTED playing BG3. Starfield I can plug in for hours and not really think about it.

If I could tune the other characters in my party in BG so they could run autonomously and all I had to worry about was my character, it would be a lot less tiring.

jordanlund,
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I would not describe any movement in the US as “leftist”. :(

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“Gaming”

“Sub $1,000”

My gut reaction is “choose one”.

You might be able to get a gaming laptop under $1K but get ready to replace it in 2 years.

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We’re getting our first “atmospheric river” tomorrow and I could not be more excited.

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I’m somewhat ashamed to admit that it took me ENTIRELY too long to figure out that pushing the left stick up and down accelerates/decelerates the ship. :( I had been using the boost to go anywhere and didn’t know how to slow down.

Remember when instruction manuals were a thing?

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For quick turns, reduce the speed. I know, I know, counter intuitive.

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Hard disagree. The first season was just awful.

Every fucking episode:

(Something weird happens)
“Walter! Could this be related to your research?”
(Walter acts twitchy)
“WE HAVE TO GET THIS BACK TO MY LAB!!!”
(More weirdness)
Walter: “This is just like when x in the y in 19-dickety.”
“Oh Walter! You so crazy!”
(Walter was right)
(Alien eating hot sauce)

jordanlund,
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I really didn’t like how they disrespected Walter most of the time. If you weren’t interested in his opinions, why do you ask him?

It just got super tiresome super quickly. I never finished the first season.

jordanlund,
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Extended Mag Coachman. ;)

jordanlund,
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& is how & is represented in HTML.

hammockforums.net/…/105012-What-does-amp-amp-mean…

If you need a literal &, then preceed it with an escape character like “\”.

jordanlund,
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OP noted: “Don’t get me started on how this messes up linux commands and scripts”

If you’re running linux commands and scripts, you’re not a normal user and should know this already. :) It’s only been the standard for 30 years or so.

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Not in HTML. Never has worked that way.

Special reserved characters have always been handled this way because you don’t want to accidentally interpret something the wrong way.

Same for URL encoding. You upload “Clever Name.PDF” to a website and it generates a URL of “Clever%20Name.PDF” because spaces aren’t valid in URLs. %20 is the code for a space.

jordanlund,
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Text encoding is SUPER basic and anyone looking to get involved in Linux or scripting absolutely should know that stuff FIRST.

Source: I was teaching Linux 23 years ago before it was cool.

Here’s a good primer:

ASCII:
techtarget.com/…/ASCII-American-Standard-Code-for…

URL encoding:
www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.ASP

Entity encoding:
www.w3schools.com/html/html_entities.asp

Really, ALL of the W3Schools stuff is just fantastic. Anyone remotely interested in this stuff should start at the beginning there and work up.

jordanlund,
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As a cat owner, this doesn’t even look like a real print. It’s too deep. Most likely a manufactured print done as a gag by whoever made the bricks.

jordanlund,
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I’m doing my part with a Little Free Library:

littlefreelibrary.org/map/

Charter

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if you voted for Trump, you go out of your way to prove what an ignorant asshole you are, all day long, every day

jordanlund,
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“He doesn’t know anything! He’s just like me!”

Fits Trump and all the candidates since the Tea Party.

jordanlund,
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“you can finally find the elevator to the Well without a quest arrow.”

Land at the Spaceport.

Go to the mercantile:

polygon.com/…/jemison-mercantile-location-new-atl…

Around the corner to the right is an elevator to the Well.

jordanlund,
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It would be interesting measuring field of view.

I have a 65" 8K television in my living room with 7.1 Dolby Atmos/DTS:X and in general, I prefer that to the movie going experience.

Beans Are a Vegetable: an Overanalysis (lemmy.ca)

“Of course beans count as a vegetable!” I said to my wife. We have this house rule that it’s okay to eat mac and cheese for dinner so long as you add a vegetable. If I may ‘spill the beans’, I’m obsessed with them. Each one is tastier than the last: garbanzo bean, black bean, kidney. The butter bean, which is just...

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Legumes are a type of vegetable.

The hill I WILL die on is that mushrooms, as a fungus, are not.

jordanlund,
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26th? I thought it was the 21st?

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Aha! Makes sense!

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I blame the dumbass little kid for getting himself killed, but you’re right, she set it up.

But here’s the thing… she’s REALLY hateable in the sequel. Not sure what they were going for there.

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If you knew the waterfall was safe, why not deliver the baby behind the waterfall?

Really easy questions that the script fails to answer.

jordanlund,
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I get the pacing. I’ve been skipping the show until there were a decent number of episodes out, but after watching 1-3, I just jumped straight to 6. Does not look like I missed anything important other than Gandalf Ahsoka the White.

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If you’re doing this in a business environment, I wouldn’t fool around with a home rolled option and would just go straight with a Websense subscription:

www.websense.com/content/support/…/dic_wcg.aspx

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I don’t get the surprise… Apple has ALWAYS been like this. They don’t want “normies” screwing around with “their” gear.

Heck, you needed a case cracker tool to open the OG Macintosh machines, they were specifically engineered to keep people out.

archive.org/…/mac_Mac_case_cracker_instructions_b…

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My work software kept seeing weird bugs in Chrome, so I switched permanently.

jordanlund,
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Looking at it, it looks like just busywork for Lin and Heller. Looks like Andromeda has an outpost specialty too.

polygon.com/…/companion-crew-member-hire-recruit

jordanlund,
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I’m probably 20 hours in and haven’t noticed any problem with pronouns to speak of.

jordanlund,
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Note to self: To avoid hurricanes, move to the equator.

jordanlund,
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Makes sense:

Xbox - 2001
Xbox 360 - 2005
Xbox One - 2013
Xbox One S - 2016
Xbox One X - 2017
Xbox Series S|X - 2020

4 years, 8 years, 3 years, 1 year, 3 years.

2028 would be on the long side but not unheard of. The reason for the big gap between 2005 and 2013 was the 2008 economic crisis.

2020 was the covid/supply chain crisis.

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Historic generations were about 5 years…

The big problem with the Xbox One was that it was underpowered because of the Kinect requirement, so they ditched Kinect then rebranded as the Xbox One S, throwing in a 4K Blu Ray player.

Still wasn’t enough, so the One X had full 4K capabilities.

If they had launched with the One X things would have looked a lot different.

jordanlund,
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I just thought it was bad, probably AI generated, concept art.

jordanlund,
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Because the 360 refresh was functionally the same, both the One S and One X added new functionality (4K Blu Ray, 4K Gaming).

jordanlund,
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Microsoft required 10% of system resources be reserved for Kinect support, even in games that didn’t support Kinect features.

eurogamer.net/how-the-xbox-one-gpu-reserve-unlock…

That reduction in horsepower for the actual games showed up in reduced resolution and framerate.

Lifting that restriction allowed the Xbox One to reach parity with the PS4.

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Catching up now before Ep. 7 drops… So happy to see Last Jedi get another kick in the head.

One of the worst scenes was Leia giving a little tracking stone to Rey and explaining that she’ll be able to find them wherever they go.

Then, in the exact same scene, with no cutaway, we’re told the First Order tracked them through hyperspace and “THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE!”

Even though they LITERALLY just explained, in the same scene how it was possible, and in fact Tarkin and Vader used a tracker on the Falcon in Ep. IV to follow it back to Yavin.

Here we have Chopper tossing one on about the size of a DVD.

Keep on burying Last Jedi! I don’t think it’s dead yet!

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