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

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Guardians of the Galaxy 3 is a fractured mess and easily the worst of the series

Finally got round to seeing Guardians 3… What a waste of 2 1/2 hours that was. I enjoyed the first 2, but 3 was just terrible. The “story” is awful. Numerous, cheesy, cliché bits thrown together here and there. Nothing interesting or very cohesive. Nothing ever had a sense of consequence....

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The High Evolutionary wants Rocket because of all the beings he has created and destroyed, Rocket was the only one capable of independent thought and creativity.

He wants to create a race built on that model, because none of the other civilizations he created ever reached that level.

Backwards compatibility is the best feature of Xbox, and I don't understand why Sony is so far behind on this

When I got the XSX recently, it was so I can play Starfield when it comes out. That was basically the only reason. I did not realize the extensive backwards compatibility that this thing has. But since getting it, I’ve been playing FF13 trilogy, Fable games, Dragon Age series, Lost Odyssey, etc. Basically all games of note...

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The hardware architecture on the PS2 and PS3 was so radically different, it effectively makes emulation impossible.

The change made in the PS4 and PS5 makes the transfer of those games relatively trivial, but attempting the replicate the now abandoned Core processor of the PS3 is the hold up there, as is the PS2 Emotion Engine.

The reason the PS3 was so expensive was including PS2 hardware to handle the backwards compatibility. They weren’t going to repeat that mistake with the 4 and 5.

Meanwhile, on the Xbox side, Microsoft never had that problem.

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A first party solution can’t work “well enough”, it just has to work.

PS1 emulation at this point should be trivial, 2 and 3 is not. The first time someone puts a disc in and it doesn’t work would be worse for them than not having it at all.

I think the thing holding back PS1 emulation is that once they open that door, everyone will go “What about 2 and 3?”

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Lorelei agrees!

lemmy.one/post/922103

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Does Trump’s “Will be wild!” tweet count? He got impeached and now has 4 felony counts in relation to that one… I’m sure he’d LOVE to stick someone else with the bill for it…

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Cat has had Kenough.

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FTA:

“the two factions are at odds over access to the proceeds of Mr. Blum’s life insurance, which Senator Feinstein says she needs to pay for her growing medical expenses.”

Can we just take a moment to say how BROKEN the system is that a multi millionaire 30 year Senator can’t pay for their heavily subsidized healthcare without access to a deceased spouses life insurance?

Senators have the best health care in the country, she has a net worth of $87 million and she can’t pay for her health care?

www.opensecrets.org/…/net-worth?cid=N00007364&amp…

[Request/Discussion] Recommended resources for absolute basics

Hello, bees! I like playing around in the kitchen, but I feel like I really have no idea what I’m doing with the fundamentals. I’m enjoying the learn-from-experience process, but am looking for something to supplement. I recently started reading / listening to Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat (by Samin Nosrat). I’m liking it so far,...

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I think it depends mostly on what you’re struggling with. For me, as a kid growing up in the 1970s, they never taught us cups, ounces, teaspoons, tablespoons… “Oh, these kids will all be on the metric system by the time they grow up…”

Um, yeah, about that. I still use apps to convert things.

What are you finding confusing?

What games have you played in the last 365 days that stand out to you as the most memorable experiences?

I think the most common answer is going to be Tears of the Kingdom, and that is one for me that stands out for sure, but I will try to add some more unique inputs as well. Many are games that came out longer than a year ago, but i didnt get around to playing until more recently....

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HiFi Rush
Hogwart’s Legacy

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It’s a neat idea, but seems limited. Returns the same results each search.

For example: funny sci-fi fails to return Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, but does include “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” which is the polar opposite of funny.

…wikipedia.org/…/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Scre…

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Please don’t feed bullshit designs like this oxygen. It’s bad enough seeing all the “PS5 Pro” and “Switch 2” articles.

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No, it wasn’t.

polygon.com/…/nintendo-switch-2-release-date-2024…

“Nintendo has not formally announced its next console, and has effectively ruled out releasing one anytime prior to April 1, 2024. The company said earlier this year that it wants to bolster Switch sales with new games and add-on content.”

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It’s all a lot of “my uncle works at Nintendo and…” Even the stuff about dev kits going out is all sillyness and nonsense.

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Waiting on the PS5 version. Sept. 6.

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Indy 5 has literal Nazis. What more do you want?

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Fortunately, I have a Win11 boot drive for my Steam Deck.

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The other 800 cases means we might not get a trial as fast as we’d like. :(

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Freedom of speech does not constitute an obligation to listen.

Good for you!

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“We all float down here… {wheeze!}”

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This seemed to be popular information when I posted it (ahem) “elsewhere”. Thought it might be welcome to have here.

If you’re trying to keep track of where we’re at in the Trump prosecutions:

Updated 8/1/2023

Washington, D.C. - 4 felonies, January 6th Election Interference
Investigation
Indictment <- You Are Here
Arrest
Trial
Conviction
Sentencing

Georgia - Election Interference
Investigation <- You Are Here
2 new grand juries impaneled 7/11/2023.
Indictment - July 11th to September 1st.
(Grand Jury work expected July 31 to Aug. 18)
Arrest
Trial
Conviction
Sentencing

New York State - 34 felonies, Stormy Daniels Payoff
Investigation
Indictment
Arrest <- You Are Here
Trial - March 25th, 2024
Conviction
Sentencing

Florida - 40 felonies, Federal documents charges
Investigation
Indictment
Original indictment was for 37 felonies.
3 new felonies were added on July 27, 2023.
Arrest <- You Are Here
Trial - May 20, 2024
Conviction
Sentencing

Other grand juries, such as for the documents at Bedminster, have not been announced.

The E. Jean Carroll trial for sexual assault and defamation where Trump was found liable and ordered to pay $5 million before immediately defaming her again resulting in a demand for $10 million is not listed as it’s a civil case and not a crimimal one.

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Charge 1 goes on for most of the pages of the indictment and includes the fake elector plot.

It also has un-named co-conspirators, but reading the descriptions, it’s obvious who they are.

Charges 2, 3, 4 hardly take up any space at all.

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I hit the “Politics” communities first, didn’t occur to me to hit the “News” communities. Still trying to unlearn lessons from that other place. :)

jordanlund,
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This seemed to be popular information when I posted it (ahem) “elsewhere”. Thought it might be welcome to have here.

If you’re trying to keep track of where we’re at in the Trump prosecutions:

Updated 8/1/2023

Washington, D.C. - 4 felonies, January 6th Election Interference
Investigation
Indictment <- You Are Here
Arrest
Trial
Conviction
Sentencing

Georgia - Election Interference
Investigation <- You Are Here
2 new grand juries impaneled 7/11/2023.
Indictment - July 11th to September 1st.
(Grand Jury work expected July 31 to Aug. 18)
Arrest
Trial
Conviction
Sentencing

New York State - 34 felonies, Stormy Daniels Payoff
Investigation
Indictment
Arrest <- You Are Here
Trial - March 25th, 2024
Conviction
Sentencing

Florida - 40 felonies, Federal documents charges
Investigation
Indictment
Original indictment was for 37 felonies.
3 new felonies were added on July 27, 2023.
Arrest <- You Are Here
Trial - May 20, 2024
Conviction
Sentencing

Other grand juries, such as for the documents at Bedminster, have not been announced.

The E. Jean Carroll trial for sexual assault and defamation where Trump was found liable and ordered to pay $5 million before immediately defaming her again resulting in a demand for $10 million is not listed as it’s a civil case and not a crimimal one.

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Marvels wasn’t filmed for Imax, Dune was. That should end the debate right there.

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Not the NW passage, but Shackleton definitely scratches that itch.

There’s both fictionalized and documentary styled versions of the story.

The real dude:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Shackleton

TV Mini series: m.imdb.com/title/tt0272839/

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And he still wants to argue that what he said was protected speech…

www.cnn.com/2023/07/26/politics/…/index.html

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Sounds like someone just watched Unbreakable for the first time.

Super heroes are red and blue, super villains are green and purple.

So:

Hero: upload.wikimedia.org/…/Supermanflying.png

Villain:
…wordpress.com/…/149-luthor-new-costume.jpg

Hero:
…wikimedia.org/…/Web_of_Spider-Man_Vol_1_129-1.pn…

Villain:
…wikimedia.org/…/279px-Green_Goblin_Comic_Art_by_…

So I know what you’re thinking… “What about Hulk? Green skin, purple pants, why is he a hero?”

superbromovies.com/…/the-hulk-and-the-incredible-…

“Simple: he wasn’t originally the hero. In the early issues of the character, the Hulk was more of a villain, destroying everything in his path and Dr. Bruce Banner was the hero of the story.”

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Wasn’t that the plot of “The Day After Tomorrow.”?

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I mean, technically $30,000 / 8 = $3,750 an episode, but I doubt each episode represents, say, 80 hours of work for an actor. $3,750 @ 80 hours = $46.875 per hour.

But, figure more it’s like 160 hours… $23.4375 an hour? So… the same as whatever side job an actor has to support themselves?

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Of course, they didn’t have another Assassin’s Creed to re-skin for it… ;)

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I mean, if the choice comes down to a digital cover vs. not releasing the movie? Fine. Think of it as an early release of the TV version.

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I would consider downloading it if only for testing since I work in SaaS, but a browser, Apple only, subscription based?

That’s an edge case I don’t need to consider.

“Unsupported Browser” is the only effort I need to put into it.

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So Elon's a "visionary" who wants to turn X into a single website where you can do everything — kinda like Yahoo!

He wants his new MySpaceX portal to be a website...

Where you can message people: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Messenger

Where you can stream audio: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast.com

Where you can stream videos: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Screen

Where you can create social media posts: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_360%C2%B0

Where you can manage your finances: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Finance

Where you can share photos: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Photos

Where you can earn money publishing content: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Publisher_Network

Where you can find a job: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_HotJobs

Where you can buy and sell stuff: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Auctions

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this truly is a vision for the future — if by "the future" you mean 1997.

#tech #technology #twitter #X #musk #ElonMusk @technology #yahoo

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Meanwhile, TikTok has added text posts. For 1 billion monthly active users.

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Pretty much the entire Pacific rim, so it makes sense… but here’s one analysis on bots:

www.fraud0.com/…/tiktok-bots-fake-accounts-scam/

“Initial analysis from us shows a clear picture: up to 97% of all traffic coming through TikTok could be detected as automated bot requests by our software. These are frightening figures that cost many advertising companies a lot of money and waste their ad spend.”

Also:

“In 2022 alone, TikTok removed:

Over 256 million accounts (including accounts suspected to be under the age of 13 and fake accounts – 282% increase vs. 2021)

Almost 160 million fake accounts (increase of over 1,200% (!) compared to 2021)

These numbers are only a fraction compared to Facebook’s total of over 6.5 billion fake accounts removed in 2021.”

Stanford researchers find Mastodon has a massive child abuse material problem (www.theverge.com)

Mastodon, an alternative social network to Twitter, has a serious problem with child sexual abuse material according to researchers from Stanford University. In just two days, researchers found over 100 instances of known CSAM across over 325,000 posts on Mastodon. The researchers found hundreds of posts containing CSAM related...

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“massive child abuse material problem”

“112 instances of known CSAM across 325,000 posts”

While any instance is unacceptable, does 112/325,000 constitute a “massive problem”?

0.0000034462% of posts are unacceptable! Massive problem!

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+1 - As advertised. The only weak one is the one where you collect dollars and then use them to build platforms to climb over obstacles.

I can’t say I’ve seen a fake ad like that. Probably should have been one where you go left or right through math gates.

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Reminds me of Work Time Fun on the PSP:

youtu.be/MWus778tkzM

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That’s a pretty low bar:

1991 -
Winner - DANCES WITH WOLVES
AWAKENINGS
GHOST
THE GODFATHER, PART III
GOOD FELLAS

Godfather III was largely disliked at the time, nominated because it’s a Godfather film. Even now it’s 66% on RottenTomatoes.

Ghost and Dances with Wolves were pretty trash.

Better movies in the last decade? Don’t even have to really think too hard about it, Everything Everwhere All At Once. Both Spider-Verse movies.

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John Wick. The first one.

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Period piece bio pic. It’s its own category.

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Fast X - 57% Momoa is a DELIGHT.
Quantumania - 46% Shame about the Kang problem.
Bullet Train - 54% - You shut your whore mouth!
Uncharted - 40% - Better than it has any right being.
The King’s Man - 41% digging the spy comedy but not spy parody genre.

I would have put Shazam and Black Adam, they were enjoyable enough, but the Skittles product placement in Shazam killed it for me, and Black Adam has that whole final act that’s completely un-necessary.

Sorted by rotten and newest, some of these justapositions are just hilarious to me. “Into the Deep” and “Out of the Blue” side by side? That’s intentional, right?

WTF is with this movie poster? I kind of want to see it now. Description reminds me of Dead Calm with Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman and Billy Zane.

m.imdb.com/title/tt15208692/…/rm1511980289/?ref_=…

Holy crap, there’s a live action Asterix and Obelisk? And what appears to be the worst iteration of Marmaduke ever invented.

Sad to see so many crappy movies with Bruce Willis. I know they were trying to pad the bank account while they could, but it still seems borderline abusive. :(

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“Ninjas? More like ‘Non-jas’. Shame what passes for a ninja these days…”

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If you love dinosaurs, you’ll hate Dominion. That’s all I’m going to say about that…

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I’d pay to see a spin off with just Orange and Lemon.

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Not a bad choice… I missed out on the month by month.

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What does the department of energy know about biological laboratories?

Now, if we’re talking about tracing the uranium from a dirty bomb? Yeah, I’d listen to the expertise of the DoE.

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