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Blackmist ,

I remember buying C&C Red Alert many years ago, and being completely unable to play it due to CPU speed. Moving the mouse to the edge of the screen would instantly zip to the edges of the game world.

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Last time I tried HDR on Windows, that sucked too.

My Android TV and consoles are about the only devices where it works properly.

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Quality of HDR is very much dependent on the TV you have I think.

I’m still rocking a 2017 LG OLED which are considered pretty good, but as you go down into LCDs and the cheaper brands, you’ll probably take a hit on image quality. Some TVs used to have a yellow pixel as well as red blue and green, so could even be that.

HDR is less about the brightness (although they are brighter than older TVs) and more about colour and brightness accuracy.

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Did you try just staring at the screen and jiggling the mouse? This appears to be their only way of measuring productivity.

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The shareholders will be furious.

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Does it sound like he wants you in his club?

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I’ve seen people who make money from YouTube, and I’ve no interest in seeing them continue to get paid. If somebody actually makes something worth paying for, they can take their shit to Netflix or whoever. They aren’t going to pay some manchild to yell at videogames all day.

Blackmist ,

Why would they do that when Google and Apple already do all the work for them?

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Much higher floor limit, and no need to enter your PIN every X transactions.

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I wouldn’t mind so much if they all just used the same bundle of stuff, and you could install that once, and then the apps were all like 2MB each.

But no, big fucking bundle of shit, every single time.

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Given the state of modern parenting, it’s almost mandatory…

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Don’t they make a shitload of weapons though? They could probably never make another commercial airliner again and still do just fine.

Blackmist ,

Mezzanine is a fucking banger of an album.

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I was getting more of a Jesse Ventura vibe.

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Yeah, I’d imagine it’s fine down gridlocked Tokyo streets where you might be doing 20mph.

Probably not so good in a 70mph highway collision though.

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Yeah, but they’ve got better lobbyists.

Blackmist ,

Seeing these systems just making shit up when they’re not sure on the answer is probably the closest they’ll ever come to human behaviour.

We’ve invented the virtual politician.

Blackmist ,

Spoiler: That is absolutely going against your account.

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I hear you can make it safe by mixing it with 1 part bleach to 4 parts milk.

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This just in: Employees now engaging in Quiet Capitalism.

What can be done about this profit sapping new trend!

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And what the fuck is $25 going to buy you? I’ve seen their bills. You wouldn’t even get a Hello Kitty sticky plaster for that.

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I wonder how many crazy people they’ve had that also claimed to be a member of the Four Tops for this to happen.

“I used to be one of the Four Tops!”

“Sure you did Peter, now let’s get these sleeves tied nice and tight…”

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Fuck that. Take all the managers at the time, everyone who knew about this deal, and throw them all in jail for 8 counts of murder.

Blackmist ,

Oh yes, you can regularly hear The Internationale being belted out around the City of London on a Friday night…

Blackmist ,

7 is pretty damn good for that engine. Were you doing a speedrun?

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I remember remarking at the time that they likely didn’t have much more than a terrain object and a title card.

Probably still don’t.

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That’s pretty god. Our fired employee just logged into the wifi from outside and changed the status on every helpdesk ticket to “Paul is a nob”.

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In fairness to him, Paul was indeed a nob. And you don’t really want to do anything that might bring legal action against you, like I dunno, deleting a load of servers and losing your company close to a million. Just as a random example.

And the wifi password is now a long complicated string of characters that only gets given to a few people, rather than just being the company name with 123 at the end.

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He’s very similar.

The first couple of books are quite heavy going, but it settles into a rhythm soon enough.

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I think it’s more that it costs money to use the Twitter API now.

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Yeah, they’re nearly twice the price.

Far more capable though, and typically specced with 16GB RAM and a 500GB SSD.

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N100 is a standard Intel x86 family chip, so no. Plenty of power though, so you’d be able to install any Linux distro or even Windows if you wanted to disgust Lemmy.

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Well anyone not joining is going to be in big trouble.

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Next to their real name and face as well.

It’s why I know the stats of 99% literacy rates are bullshit. I’ve been on Facebook. Half the people in my town seem to communicate online through the text equivalent of caveman grunts.

Blackmist ,

You catch on fast young Padawan.

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“It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see…"

“You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?”

“No,” said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, “nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.”

“Odd,” said Arthur, “I thought you said it was a democracy.”

“I did,” said Ford. “It is.”

“So,” said Arthur, hoping he wasn’t sounding ridiculously obtuse, “why don’t people get rid of the lizards?”

“It honestly doesn’t occur to them,” said Ford. “They’ve all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they’ve voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.”

“You mean they actually vote for the lizards?”

“Oh yes,” said Ford with a shrug, “of course.”

“But,” said Arthur, going for the big one again, “why?”

“Because if they didn’t vote for a lizard,” said Ford, “the wrong lizard might get in.”

Blackmist ,

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, specifically.

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And not just the US. The whole western world effectively runs on Chinese coal.

And when China get around to outsourcing it all to Africa which is already on the way to being China’s China, we’ll still be running it all on fossil fuels.

You can try taxing everything based on its ecological footprint, sanctions on non-complying countries, etc, but all that will mean in the long term is prices will go up, people will feel poorer, and you’ll be voted out in favour of somebody who doesn’t give a shit.

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If only they’d have said something. Repeatedly. For the last 50 years or so.

Oh well, too late now. Better burn a bit more so oil execs can finish the game with a high score.

Blackmist ,

Is that the case though. You can buy a copy of Kaspersky anti virus right now if you live in the US. They have a US office. You can legally send them money.

Blackmist ,

You’d definitely have to pay up for that though. There’s no way you’d just get it in a normal lootbox.

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I really liked the first reboot, but felt Eternal overcomplicated it and made it like a memory game of working out which gun was best for each enemy, which isn’t really what I wanted from it. Too much finicky precision (like shooting the goddamn turrets off things), and not enough wanton carnage.

It took the story way too seriously as well, and the most enjoyable thing from the first game’s story was somebody starting some exposition, followed by Doomguy smashing the radio.

Just wasn’t feeling it as much as I was with the first. It was only the soundtrack that got me through it tbh, and with Mick Gordon very much not on speaking terms with id Software, I’ll keep my expectations lowered for this.

Blackmist ,

There’s an old expression: Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands.

If a car has a warranty of 10 years, it will last 11 years.

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The battery doesn’t have to fail for the car to be useless. One of those circuit boards that holds it all together goes and it’s “whoops, we don’t make that any more”.

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Indeed just like a regular car.

If cars lasted forever, they’d all go out of business within 20 years.

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