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Rob T Firefly

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  • What piece of media thoroughly disappointed you?

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  • For some of us outside his fandom, that was the most interesting thing he ever did.

  • What piece of media thoroughly disappointed you?

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  • If that cast and production crew had made an original show about a dark funky future and bounty hunters and whatever, clearly inspired by Bebop but not trying to be it, they could have knocked it out of the park so hard.

    They would, of course, have had to get some decent writers instead of just feeding the original anime scripts to crack-smoking monkeys and then smearing their poops onto script paper.

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  • Phantom Menace was great for lore expansion of Star Wars, but it was weird to see it get more infantile than the previous trilogy, seeing as original fans were actually getting older.

    I find this a fascinating thing to think about.

    I'm the same age as the original Star Wars film and grew up on the Original Trilogy. Those three were some of the best stuff ever to my kiddie brain. The older I get, the more I feel like the OT was pretty much just as childish as the prequels when it comes down to it, just without access to 1990s cartoony CGI. I'm not saying this as a bad thing, I still enjoy the OT, but it's clear to me now as an old fart that the prequels felt more kiddie than the OT when I watched them in the theaters because I was watching the prequels for the first time with a grownup's brain.

    I still enjoy the OT, they poke those childhood brain cells that have been hooked on them all this time. I can enjoy the prequels a bit, but it's mostly in the form of memes and cracked-out fan remixes. The sequel movies, though, always struck me as a goddamned mess and I still haven't figured out who they were meant to be for.

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  • I'm a lifelong Stephen King fan and have read just about everything else he ever released, but I could never motivate myself to get started on the Dark Tower stuff. There's just SO MUCH and I kind of dread committing to it.

    (And yet somehow I reread a bunch of his stuff including the extended The Stand every couple years. I claim no rationality about it.)

  • Mayor Zohran Mamdani is going live on Twitch in new streaming series 'Talk with the People'

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  • OnlyZohrans.

  • Valve removes free horror game from Steam after players discover it contains malware that steals your data

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  • This appears to have originally been published as a totally different non-malware game. Either the original dev got their account taken over or turned heel, because the entire game was replaced with the malware game as an update to an existing game rather than a new published game.

    I'm only speculating as I don't know much about the Steam publishing process, but I wonder if that helped the malware sneak past more rigorous checks which would happen on a totally-new upload.

  • why are there no active casual conversation communities?

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  • Folks interested in casual conversation rather than the mostly topic-focused discussions of something like Lemmy might like to try IRC.

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    Anthropic now has more business customers than OpenAI according to Ramp data

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  • This is as interesting as learning that in 1885, Dr. Scammington's Patented Snake Oil Remedy was more popular than its closest competitor Professor Placebo's Distilled Tincture of Snake.

  • Plex increasing Lifetime Plex Pass cost to whopping $750

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  • It's still hilarious to me that Plex, a project forked from the XBMC (now Kodi) free open-source app for organizing and playing one's own entirely legally obtained video files, is a big streaming business thing that charges people money.

    It's like finding a tree in the forest that gives out infinite free apples, and then setting up an apple-selling table right next to it stocked with apples you obviously got from that tree.

  • Can someone post a pic of what they think the average lemming looks like?

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  • What is the creepiest thing you've seen occur in a WalMart?

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  • It's intentional. They muscle out all the other, better options.

  • You're immortal and sent back to Dec 1945. How do you survive until modern day?

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    China says 'world's first' offshore wind-powered underwater data center has entered full operation, houses 2,000 servers — 24 megawatt subsea AI facility uses ocean water for passive cooling and offs…

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  • Computers can't get wet from the rain if they're underwater in the ocean.

    👉😏

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    Elon Musk Explains Why the SpaceX Board Must Be Powerless to Fire Him

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  • What's something interesting (to you) you'd like to share about your current hyperfixation/obsession? (Infodump safespace for both neurotypicals and neurodivergents)

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  • The phase inversion trick can't be used with mono tracks, nor can other tricks that use the stereo field.

  • What is the creepiest thing you've seen occur in a WalMart?

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  • What is the creepiest thing you've seen occur in a WalMart?

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  • I worked in a suburban shopping mall back at the turn of the millennium. One of the big anchor stores shut down, and the space was taken by a Walmart. Over the coming months and years, one by one, the smaller shops in the mall began disappearing as they couldn't compete; whatever that store sold, the Walmart had a cheaper and crappier version of it. Bigger and bigger stores began suffering and shutting down, and within a handful of years even the huge corporate department stores were flagging.

    The mall itself died completely within the next twenty years. However much of the responsibility Walmart itself bears for that is uncertain, but it's certainly some.

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    Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents have one year to find new power as their utility pivots to data centers

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  • Louis Rossmann taunts Bambu Lab by hosting banned 3D Printer firmware fork, dares $1 billion company to sue him — more creators pledge support and boycotts, Snapmaker donates equipment to embattled de

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  • These particular files are hosted on GitHub, which is owned by Microsoft, which currently enjoys the ability to do business in China. There are probably things China can do in this case.