MimicJar
@MimicJar@lemmy.world
- Comment on The FF family could be Fantastic Four or Fast and Furious 1 day ago:
I’d pay to see that crossover episode.
The “Reed Family” versus the “Toretto Family”.
- Comment on AI country singer Breaking Rust tops Billboard with ‘Walk My Walk’ 5 days ago:
The little info (i) box on Billboards website actually cites their data, “The week’s most popular downloaded songs, ranked by sales data as compiled by Luminate.” Which I assume refers to luminatedata.com
Sadly their data (the numbers specifically) aren’t publicly available.
- Comment on AI country singer Breaking Rust tops Billboard with ‘Walk My Walk’ 5 days ago:
I think it’s worth clarifying that it’s #1 on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales. That’s a specific category.
According to tasteofcountry.com/breaking-rust-explained-ai-cou… in order to reach number one would only take ~3,000 purchases.
That’s a shockingly low number, so if anyone can confirm that or has better numbers, I’d love to know.
But last time I brought a digital song, they cost $1. So for a couple thousand dollars any song could be number one in this category.
If I were an AI company swimming in money, that’s a drop in the bucket for some free publicity.
- Comment on TrekMovie.com - Rick Berman And Brannon Braga Defend The Controversial ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ Series Finale 1 week ago:
I mean it is a cool idea. It’s not a cool idea for a last minute series finale, but it’s a cool idea.
- Comment on "Fans"who don’t want Bruce Wayne to have "normal" friends or see Peter Parker financially stable don't want to see these character grow 2 weeks ago:
For Batman specifically I think it starts as a way to clean up Gotham. He’ll quit just as soon as Gotham is cleaned up. But of course it’s a neverending task. Plus even if he cleaned up Gotham, how can he stop there? How can he stop when there is so much left to do.
But! That’s why I like Batman working with the Justice League and Superman specifically. He can never go back to being Bruce Wayne, he’ll always be Batman, but at least with Superman he gets his moments of comfort, however brief they may be.
Batman is cursed to be Batman and not Bruce Wayne. That’s his character.
I’m not against changing some aspects of his character. And as you noted other characters strike a balance. But those are other characters. If we’re changing too much of a character, maybe we just tell that different character’s story instead.
As for Spider-Man, that is a character who, depending on the story and timeline of that story, does try to strike a balance. In terms of being poor I think it’s a matter of being independent. Whenever he works for someone, they tend to want to do things their way. Even if he agrees or he’s doing what he wanted to do, there is still that layer of dependence.
- Comment on Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world? 3 weeks ago:
The psychological scarring is an interesting point, but that only works if you know why the snap happened.
By the end of Infinity War most of Thanos’s army and underlings have been defeated. Thanos then (within a few days/weeks) goes into retirement. So he’s not spreading word of his accomplishments or reasoning.
Carol mentions at the start of Endgame that a lot of other worlds need her help. So she could spread some information on what happened, but I’m not sure it’s going to really stick. You need the trauma of Thanos actually showing up (or his underlings and then the Avengers filling in the gaps).
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Yes, but that was lazy remake, this one they put effort into, probably.
FWIW I did enjoy this remake, but it did have some janky looking cutscenes.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 3 weeks ago:
It’s not “real cheese” it’s “Real Cheese™”, it really tastes like cheese.
- Comment on American public transit 3 weeks ago:
Define “walkable”. The side of the road is considered “walkable”.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Paul took the clips in stride, initially putting on a grave voice and decrying that “this AI is getting out of hand,” only to buy into the trend by acting camp in a response video posted to TikTok on Monday.
Proof? That video response sounds like AI.
But his girlfriend, Dutch professional speed skater Jutta Leerdam, wasn’t impressed. “I don’t like it, it’s not funny!” she told him in a video. “People believe it.”
Proof? That video sounds fake. Maybe this is all a ruse by the girlfriend to slander Jake Paul.
I don’t actually believe that, but this article is written based on videos uploaded to TikTok, there is no proof any of the events described took place.
Things are about to get much worse.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025) 5 weeks ago:
True. And Holly Hunter will probably be a great captain. But Picardo is who brings me to the table.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025) 5 weeks ago:
I’m just here for Robert Picardo.
The show dies look that great based on the trailer. However of our characters start of terrible and grow, this could work out well. I’m just not sure that’s the show we’re getting.
- Comment on The Web is Going to Die 5 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t that depend on what you’re watching?
You can watch reality TV on YouTube, or traditional television.
You can watch educational content and documentaries on YouTube, or traditional television.
Hell you can watch some traditional TV shows on YouTube or traditional television.
YouTube is just a platform for hosting content. Now they may have a “better” algorithm compared to traditional television, but that doesn’t really change much.
- Comment on Mary Wiseman’s Tilly Will Be In ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy,’ But Not As Much As Expected 5 weeks ago:
Weird. I assumed this was going to be her spinoff show. I thought it was a weird choice, but I was willing to see what they wanted to put together.
I hope whatever this is now is something good.
- Comment on I suppose it's better to find this out 35 years later than never at all. 5 weeks ago:
Although it’s a move that is useful only when you are crossing through the final Goalposts.
Photo shows Mario about to go through a keyhole.
Boy I sure hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
- Comment on I've been alive for the entire narrative of the internet and it's crazy to think any of the newer generations will be able to sort it all out for themselves. 1 month ago:
So I’ve always felt this way about video games.
Can you imagine a kids first Mario game being Mario Wonder? That’s a twist on Mario games, it’s not the base Mario!? They won’t understand what makes it an interesting new game!
But the thing is, it’s fine. Everything new is old. Plus it’s the Internet, it’s impossible to actually sort out everything.
Like, what is Roblox? I know it’s some online game. Then I saw John Green play Roblox with his daughter. It was a dress up simulator. That’s Roblox?
Or how about the song Gangnam Style? I remember when that reached 1 billion views on YouTube. That was a moment. But then remember Despacito? When I first heard that song it was already at 1.2 billion views. How could I clearly remember the first billion views video, but completely miss it happening again?
Think about the entirety of history that happened before you. How did you sort that out?
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 1 month ago:
I think if you’re looking for a recommendation, both Strange New Worlds and Enterprise are better than Discovery.
If you were ok with Picard season 1, at worst you’ll be ok with Discovery.
I will say that Strange New Worlds is technically a spinoff of Discovery, so a watching Discovery first makes more sense if you’re planning on watching them all eventually anyway.
Discovery has good episodes, but probably more bad episodes than good episodes. If you’re binge watching, which you can do now that it’s all been released, it won’t be so bad. If you watch a bad episode, you’ll come across a good episode soon enough. When we had to watch week to week, it was rough going bad after bad, week to week.
- Comment on Simpsons fans are the Star Wars fans of animation 1 month ago:
I’ve watched every episode of The Simpsons and every Star Wars film and TV show.
Which kind of fan am I?
- Comment on The Purpose of Difficulty | GMTK Mini 1 month ago:
I think the run back is fun for some people and I think the game should deliver the best version they can for those people. For me, it’s just not fun. The reward is smaller than the frustration it causes.
- Comment on The Purpose of Difficulty | GMTK Mini 1 month ago:
It took Silksong coming out for me to identify why I wasn’t a fan of Hollow Knight, and it’s touched on in this video.
It’s the runback.
The Dark Souls series of games have the same “problem”, and it’s why I don’t enjoy them either.
I’m a huge fan of Celeste, Super Meat Boy, the Ori series. When I fail at these games, I’m right back in the action.
I’m not against having to learn boss patterns, I really enjoyed Cuphead because after I’ve failed I’m right back in the action.
And while it’s an easier game by comparison, Shovel Knight was a fun game. The checkpoints were plentifully and I could increase the difficulty by destroying them.
But when I played Hollow Knight I reached a point where I was just running to the boss and dying. Then again. And again. And again. I wasn’t getting better. And the time it took to get back just took too long and wasn’t fun. It wasn’t a rage quit. I was having fun at one point… But then the game wore me down and eventually it wasn’t.
I don’t think the game needs to change. Although I think adding difficultly modifiers would be a good idea. I played through Metroid Dread on normal difficulty and after beating it was having so much fun I immediately played it again on Hard difficulty. If there were a mode with more checkpoints in Hollow Knight and Silksong I might give them a shot.
- Comment on DC Cinematic Community 2 months ago:
Not that I’m against new communities, any reason you made a new community instead of joining !dc_studios@lemmy.world ?
- Comment on Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? 2 months ago:
True, but this book is the best thing Microsoft has made.
- Comment on If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web? 2 months ago:
who needs the web?
Generative AI that’s who. For it to spit out information, it needs information. The argument may be that it is better at collecting all that information in one place and returning an answer, although we know it hallucinates responses. But to even begin a response it needs data, it needs the web.
- Comment on Jonathan Frakes Surprised ‘Strange New Worlds’ Star Trek Spoof Was Controversial; Talks Directing ‘Academy’ And More 2 months ago:
Lol, you’re right, season 3, fixed
- Comment on Jonathan Frakes Surprised ‘Strange New Worlds’ Star Trek Spoof Was Controversial; Talks Directing ‘Academy’ And More 2 months ago:
I haven’t seen the most recent episode yet, but so far the best episodes this season have been the silly episodes.
Strange New Worlds season 2 spoilers
- Episode 1, the second part of two parter. Neat trick to make the Gorn sleep but otherwise boring. - Episode 2, a fun Trelane/Q wedding episode. (Silly) - Episode 3, zombies I think. - Episode 4, hologram episode, the best parts of which were the over the top parts. (Half silly) - Episode 5, the best serious episode exploring the ruins and solving puzzles.
- Comment on About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash 2 months ago:
Section 31 was perfectly passable as a non Star Trek thing. If it were a random sci-fi movie it had fun moments. As Star Trek? Good lord it was garbage.
- Comment on [OC] Hank Hill Catches Up on Pokémon 3 months ago:
Meanwhile, Bobby’s outside playing in the tall grass pretending to be a Rattata.
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 3 months ago:
Assuming a single game, Minecraft. It should be a kids museum style where you can build things. You can make each room a different biome or structure.
- Comment on I ain't got no time to maintain some stupid little plastic bread clip. I got a landlord to feed. 3 months ago:
Pfft, I just eat the entire loaf in one sitting.
- Comment on Security vulnerability for Nvidia drivers on Linux/Windows 3 months ago:
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