What is your most "Fuck you, this is actually awesome?" take?
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Gun Control lol
Charlie Kirk would approve... Well, he would now I mean. SCNR
Too soon?
someone shot charlie kirk?
goddamn the trump admin will do ANYTHING to distract from the epstein horrors
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Nickelback. I don't know why they get so much hate, their music is actually decent
Nickelback had a VERY distinctive style, to the point you could mix their songs together "This is how you remind me to wish you'd unclench your fists" style and people wouldn't notice. They're relative lack of range caused them to wear out their welcome a LOT faster than average.
They deserve every last dollop of shit they got for No Fixed Address though.
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Gun Control lol
Charlie Kirk would approve... Well, he would now I mean. SCNR
Too soon?
The shooter did demonstrate excellent control of that gun. Put a bullet through a carotid artery from beyond "saw it coming" distance.
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There's simply no reason why a GPU should have proprietary drivers, when that is a core, basically inseparable part of a computer. You literally NEED one to see what you're doing with your computer (yes, integrated graphics also count).
I mean, imagine if your sound card had proprietary drivers. The world would go nuts.
Printers should not need drivers anymore. There should have been a standard protocol for them by now.
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Gun Control lol
Charlie Kirk would approve... Well, he would now I mean. SCNR
Too soon?
You would be surprised with how many old timers would agree with you if they weren't in a self enforced social isolation bubble. I've heard farmers at two separate gun counters completely dumb founded when they find out they don't need to fill out any paperwork to sell a gun to a friend. And that's just meandering around in my day to day. I can't imagine how regularly often Atwood's has to deal with them.
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The ends of a loaf of bread are the best slices
Crust is the best part of any food intended to have a crust!
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Printers should not need drivers anymore. There should have been a standard protocol for them by now.
Exactly, like, I don't wanna have to uninstall and reinstall these drivers just with a printer upgrade.
Not only that, but printer ink is still absurdly expensive.
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Printers should not need drivers anymore. There should have been a standard protocol for them by now.
You can USUALLY get by with HP universal PCL drivers for most any printers, regardless of brand.
Yes, I know HP is parasitic in the ink/toner department, but PCL is pretty universal itself.
Supposedly Microsoft will be dumping printer drives here soon anyway for IPP connectors.
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For me it was the radio and that a lot of their popular songs sound the same-ish (not hard to do with that voice). The radio has ruined a lot of bands for me simply by having a 40 minute playlist on repeat. Like The Killers.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I think it's worth it now to give the back catalog of the killers a listen. I felt the same way for a long time.
That being said I've got a list of bands I enjoy a lot more than I could when they were being played every 40 minutes
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For sure. Texture is definitely important in context.
If you care, and I think you might, the size of the holes inside bread is called the crumb. At least, in some places I've seen(entirely too many bread baking videos at one point)
Useless information is still fun to share sometimes
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If you care, and I think you might, the size of the holes inside bread is called the crumb. At least, in some places I've seen(entirely too many bread baking videos at one point)
Useless information is still fun to share sometimes
Yeah, crumb was definitely the right word to use there. My brain gets a bit fuzzy with words sometimes.
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That is probably because Batman doesn't pay taxes, Bruce Wayne does.
And Bruce Wayne is known for spending tons of the Wayne foundation on helping the poor and criminalized. Tons of charities, schools, orphanages, homeless shelters, ... are funded by them.
And if Bruce gets tax breaks because of that, it is because that is how the law works, not because he wants them.
Bruce is far from the average Billionaire you get in our dimension.
By your reasoning, is also because Superman probably doesn't pay taxes, Clark Kent dies
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Exactly, like, I don't wanna have to uninstall and reinstall these drivers just with a printer upgrade.
Not only that, but printer ink is still absurdly expensive.
I actually bought a little Pentium tablet so I could have something in the shop running FreeCAD instead of printing my drawings on paper because HORSE FUCK ALL OF THE PRINTERS.
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Nah, like they said... It's not that it happened, it's how it happened. She had never before turned on "her" people. She hadn't even really ever turned on civillians so openly, either. It was definitely, unquestionably, rushed character development.
It's not that she went nuts, or even the specific, individual events. It's how quickly she's just suddenly cool with wasting people she wanted to rule. She was a relatively sane, motivated leader for years, maybe even decades, and suddenly, so close to victory, she drops any and all well established moral boundaries she's clearly defined?
That's... not how crazy works. At all.
I believe that her arc is a conqueror's journey disguised as a hero's journey, and it was done so well that everyone felt betrayed. This thread is for hot takes, so there's mine.
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A space exploration video game. It had a famously bad launch, because the director had over-promised on basically every single feature. It was massively anticipated because the director had hyped it up so much. And when it launched, players quickly discovered that many of the promised features were only half finished, or were missing entirely. The backlash was swift, but the company said they planned to keep working on the game.
And now many years later, the game is actually fairly solid, and basically meets the original promises. But at launch, it definitely didn’t.
I'll forever be mad about it because I thought I was buying a planetary physics/ecology simulator and I got "we have Spore at home." I don't care that it has Minecraft in it now, it still doesn't do the thing I cared about from the early hype.
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It definitely wasn't one of DC's best adaptions. They really tried to squeeze too much in for the run time. They totally could have dropped the whole Atlas and Samson thing and concentrated more on the main story.
Honestly, if they fixed a few things it would just be an extremely mediocre and bad movie so it's better off that it's an unbelievable cavalcade of nonsense
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Someone said interstellar was bad? Who said that?!!! Hold my beer.
me, I said it
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Gender variance. Cosmetics can be fun, and sometimes women's clothes are just so damn comfy.
I'm a feminine woman, but damn do I love how I look and feel in a slightly butch pantsuit
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Superman
A lot of people dismiss Superman as being "too powerful" or "unrelatable." They’ll say Batman is more relatable because he doesn’t have superpowers. But seriously, how many of us can actually relate to being a billionaire playboy with unlimited resources? In contrast, Superman grew up in small-town, working-class America. He is as much Clark Kent as he is Superman.
People call him a "boy scout," as if that’s a flaw. But that misses the point. The fact that he has the power to rule the world and chooses not to, is what makes him extraordinary. He sets an ideal for people to strive for.
Yes, in the hands of a bad writer he can become a walking deus ex machina. But in the hands of a good writer, Superman becomes the core of some of the most powerful and iconic stories in comics. His greatness doesn’t come from what he can do, it comes from the choices he makes.
He's a power fantasy for those who if they had all the power in the world just want to use it to help
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It took me a while, but I ended up really enjoying Death Stranding. One of the things that made it click for me was that I watched a video essay on a different game that used the playwright Bertholt Brecht's V-effect as an analytical frame.
My rough understanding of it is that Brecht wanted to break the fourth wall and prevent audiences from identifying too heavily with characters, enabling them to better engage with the themes of the play; for example, if audiences end up identifying with a character who is a relatable asshole, then they might be less inclined to critically understand this character and the systems that facilitate their assholery.
Death Stranding invokes this with its absurd characters and setting. I never stopped finding it jarring when you have such silly character names and plots. This meant that for my first few hours of playing, I felt like I didn't "get it", and it seems like this is a fairly common reaction. However, this sense of "I don't get it" is interesting because of how it primes you to search for something to get — some larger point that Kojima is trying to make with the game. If nothing else, I appreciate games and other media that have something to say, even if I struggle to grasp that message.
If I had to distill things down, I think the most prominent theme I understood was "Play is an essential component of human wellness, and it has tremendous capacity to facilitate building human connection". I enjoyed how this was explored narratively through Sam's interactions with various characters, but also through ludic means via the player interacting with other player build structures (I really enjoyed getting so many thumbs up for all the roads I built). Death Stranding sometimes feels pretentious, but I remember thinking "what's more pretentious: the game that's trying (and possibly failing, depending on perspective) hard to say something larger, or the player who regards the game with disdain". Ultimately, I feel that the potential pretentiousness is neutralised by how earnest it is. Yes, it's a very silly game, but that's sort of the point.
Regarding Rings of Power, I absolutely hated the show, which sounds like a stronger opinion than what you hold. However, I completely agree that the discourse around the show is a trash fire of bad faith criticism that makes it impossible to express legitimate dislike of the show that's based in honesty.
Hell I like when I'm struggling to get exactly what media is telling me. I remember reading When Women Were Dragons and spending so much of the book trying to figure out what the dragons were a metaphor for as the book dripped with social commentary before
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler
Coming to the conclusion that the dragons weren't a direct metaphor, just another axis of oppression struggled with in mid century Wisconsin.
:::And I love the book for that. It challenged me to think in metaphor and meaning and to analyze history.
