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chickenwing ,

Kojima got away with his product placement in mgs3 because nobody in the west knew calorie mate was a real product lol.

chickenwing ,

People have been saying this game is exciting because of the lack of mtx, but it seems to me that any big rpg gets a lot of attention. Eldan Ring got similar praise last year. Bioware was making these kinds of games fairly consistently about a decade ago and then stopped to make shit like Anthem. It’s a design decision not a budget problem.

Spider-Man: No Way Home Director Confirms What We All Suspected About the Ending (thedirect.com)

The Spider-Man: No Way Home - The Art of the Movie book just landed on shelves worldwide, and in it, the film’s director, Jon Watts, confirmed what audiences always suspected about the ending of the movie: it ends at the beginning.

chickenwing ,

Took them 5 movies with Tom Holland Spider-Man but they finally have the origin done lol.

chickenwing ,

I don’t think you should be downvoted for posting the comedy event of the year.

chickenwing ,

Well from my perspective it’s not that people hate California it’s that they hate the influx of Californians in their state. Tons of tech people moved from San Francisco to Austin and now it’s near unrecognizable. Austin a long time ago used to be a small city with a lot of charm now it’s the tenth largest city in the US. It’s not just Californians moving their but they are the biggest group and they are pretty loud about where they come from.

Everything gets more expensive, they bring some of their failed policies with them, and there are a lot of weird ideas that come out of California. I don’t mean your generic lefty policies that may upset some old timers in Texas but like the weird transhumanism shit that tech people are obsessed with. It feels like a cult, another thing California is known for, and it’s basically the opposite vibe of what Austin used to be. I personally have met a lot of Californians I really like but it’s not hard to see the culture clash. Also when I say California I really mean San Francisco and LA, not like Sacramento or the other parts of California. It’s the tech people, the Hollywood people, and the groupies they aquire. They leave California due to costs and it’s somewhat chaotic nature but then start to transform their new home into California.

If you’ve ever met old timers in Texas you know great don’t like change. They talk about building an overpass as a sign of the apocalypse. So that’s where I assume most of the hate comes from.

chickenwing ,

True. Dallas and Houston have a lot of tech too, but Austin has become San Francisco 2 fairly recently. Dell was the big home grown tech company a lot of these other companies and start ups are from California. Nobody would accuse Dallas of being like San Francisco because it’s more traditional corporate tech. I think sxsw attracted a lot of people from California.

chickenwing ,

Yes, DeSantis schtick is getting old. It’s not a real policy. Most people don’t even have a clear view of what woke is even supposed to mean.

Even Trump doesn’t care for it.

“I don’t like the term ‘woke’ because I hear ‘woke woke woke.’ It’s just a term they use, half the people can’t even define it, they don’t know what it is,” Donald Trump

chickenwing ,

Lemmy feels like the first real alternative to reddit. Everything else was a ghost town or had no moderation so only banned subs would move. This recent exodus won’t kill reddit but it created a viable reddit alternative for when they inevitably do something worse. Reddit ran as a number 2 to digg for years before digg screwed up. I can see the same happening here.

chickenwing ,

Speaking of which whatever happened to FuchsiaOS? Did they kill it? It would be a shame if they did. I was interested in it because it was an open source OS that wasn’t Linux or bsd based.

chickenwing ,

I know there is some controversy with the ads and that it’s closed source but wow this app is really nice. I never used it for reddit I used rif so I didn’t understand the hype but I get it now. I’m holding out for an app with multireddit though. That’s the one feature I really want.

chickenwing ,

2.9 miles isn’t even far. You could just walk.

chickenwing ,

I live in Houston. Probably the least pedestrian friendly city on earth. I would still walk over paying that.

chickenwing ,

Are you seriously upset that they are allowing people to watch for free rather than putting it on Netflix? That makes no sense lol. Anyone interested just has to go to a website. Remember when the internet wasn’t completely corporate controlled and the best way to share content was on your own site? NASA isn’t going to get defunded because people can’t see it on Disney+.

NASA is a critical part of the US government it’s not going to get defunded ever. Even the most hard conservatives who want to kill a ton of government agencies see the value of NASA and don’t touch it.

chickenwing ,

Flatpacks give me the least trouble so I guess those. All though appimages seem alright too. Snaps however seem to never want to install. I like the idea of easy one click installs for every distro but I think we are a few years away from that.

chickenwing ,

If you are not using Firefox now is a good time to start.

chickenwing ,

If google gets their way websites will be able to block OS’s and browsers. But if enough people switch to Firefox they won’t be able to push this change as easily. Google Chrome has about an 80% marketshare in the browser market and most of the alternatives are forks of Chromium which google controls. If this doesn’t change Google will be able to do anything they want.

chickenwing ,

Got to hand it to Sony for not falling for the create your own streaming app trap. Everyone else tried to battle Netflix and they are all losing even Disney. I think there will be at least 3 dead apps by the end of next year. MGM+ being an obvious one. I can see Disney+/Hulu, Max, Netflix, and maybe one other one coming out of this alive.

chickenwing ,

That’s why I use matrix. No phone number.

chickenwing ,

More tech to change things in post. I feel like Hollywood is relying too much of this kind of technology to fix poor planning and writing. Look at all reports about marvel films being radically changed in post. You can tell when a film is a patch job.

chickenwing ,

Yeah your a mean fascist if you don’t like Instagram. Lmao.

Ukraine aims to sap Russia’s defenses, as U.S. urges a decisive breakthrough (archive.li)

Ukraine is making limited advances in its counteroffensive against Russian forces but has yet to employ the kind of larger-scale operations that American officials believe could enable a breakthrough, officials and analysts say, deepening questions among some of Ukraine’s chief backers about whether Kyiv can move fast enough...

chickenwing ,

denazify Russia

Before or after we win the war on terror?

chickenwing ,

FDR got us into WW2 you want this to escalte into WW3? Be careful what you wish for. What exactly does your “denazify” Russia entail? Removing Putin? Because that could require invasion and if you think Iraq had blowback try that shit with Russia.

chickenwing ,

WW3 will involve nuclear bombs and weapons beyond that. Why the fuck would you want to risk that? There are better outcomes to this.

chickenwing ,

What you don’t want to escalate a war and get millions of people killed? YIKESARINO.

chickenwing ,

You can prevent WW3 by de-escalating right now. It would help if we worked on diplomacy rather than sending a bunch of bombs to Ukraine and hoping it all works out. You realize that it’s not the 40’s anymore and WW3 could mean nuclear armageddon right?

chickenwing ,

Well you can start by not threatening Russia with invasion. Russia is propagandizing this as a fight for their survival don’t add fuel to the flame by saying your going to invade them. The US has invade and left a few countries over the years and it didn’t take threats to make us leave. We left after the public turned on it and it became politically unpopular. The same will happen in Russia but not if you threaten them.

chickenwing ,

Doesn’t matter what is fair. Russia has nukes and will use them if they feel threatened. If Russia ends up getting hit by a Ukrainian bomb then they might retaliate by hitting the ones who gave it to them. Best way forward is to make a truce that pleases no one but keeps the peace.

chickenwing ,

Yeah well great as long as the nuke hits you and not me I think I’m fine with it.

chickenwing ,

I agree. I don’t really consider social media “technology” anymore. I mean yeah it uses technology but so does everything else. I don’t think technology is the right community for this kind of post. There should be an enshittification community where we can see all the Twitter, reddit, and meta stuff.

In fact a lot of “technology” companies are just regular companies with an app. Netflix is a media company, Uber is a taxi company that somehow skirted regulators, and Airbnb is a hotel company that also skirted regulators.

chickenwing ,

Ghoulish lol. What exactly is wrong with adoption?

Should I use Matrix for Messaging?

I use an iPhone and my fiancé uses Android. He is not very tech savvy. He does not like to text for privacy reasons. I was going to recommend we get Signal but see others in Lemmy talking about Matrix. Is that better? If so, what app is best that works on both our phones? Thanks Lemmy friends!

chickenwing ,

I think element is pretty easy to use honestly.

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