ProstheticBrain

@ProstheticBrain@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨under the ice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a reference to a film called The Thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To take a poke at your lovely strawman - ingredients to a recipe may well be subject to copyright, which is why food writers make sure their recipes are “unique” in some small way. Enough to make them different enough to avoid accusations of direct plagiarism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Team Fortress 2 players report that Valve have carried out a ban-wave against aimbots⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you, I came here to snark about this being a once every odd year activity for valve. But you’re absolutely right, it is a gaming landmark and it has an active and devoted community. And it’s one of the few games of that kind that still exist from that time that allows the community to add new content and play in and around it.

  I also really hope they continue to support that too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recognize the mother of Wifi⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here you go :)

  Image

  And the links:

  OG Twitter(x)

  Insta with pic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Autotune is just a "beauty mode" camera for your voice.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the beauty filters were directly inspired by autotune, given that the first (I think?) app was called facetune.

  That sounds an awful lot like a portmanteau of facetime and autotune.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who's the MVP of the MPV's?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ackshually, the quote is

  Alas poor Vorik… I didn’t know him very Horatio.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in my day⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Me too buddy, me too… and that is the optimism of Star Wars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in my day⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And that’s Everything!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in my day⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What I’m getting at is that the way you’re talking about the sequels is exactly the way people spoke about the prequels when they came out.

  I hated the prequels when they came out, I still think they’re basically unwatchable. But they weren’t aimed at me, and a whole new generation of SW fans grew up with a deep fondness for them.

  I expect we’ll see the same thing with the sequels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in my day⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One swing, ahead of the sword

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in my day⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone in 20 years: Say what you will about the sequels, at least they’re not the threquels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Okay, okay, on second thought... make my potatoes a salad.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Somebody’s not getting their catch of the day I guess?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you tried sunning you perineum?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is from The Never Ending Story, Op’s pic is from the Dark Crystal isn’t it?

  Or are you just adding this to the trauma pile?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now that we've had SF for a bit, what do you think? Good, flawed, bad?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely agree with all of this. The thing I really can’t get my head around is why they even bothered to have starships in the game.

  It’s like at some point, they had this vision of a space exploration game where you could fly about, explore the galaxy, land on planets and walk around etc and you’d have this super cool, fully customisable ship.

  Then as they went along, they decided all of that was unachievable but the instead of completely ditching the idea of spaceflight and, I dunno, replacing it with stargates or portals between worlds - something that would lend itself better to picking a destination from a list and fast travelling - they just scrubbed away all the fun stuff about spaceflight and left in a system where the player can almost completely bypass the ship. They can fast travel to the cockpit from anywhere, open a menu, fast travel to a location, open the menu again, then fast travel to a landing point.

  Having a ship is just a disappointing reminder of all the fun stuff you can’t do.