starman2112
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- Comment on hmmm 2 days ago:
Back in my day, finding a corpse by the spillway made for a good Tuesday afternoon
- Comment on I can't believe it let me do that 2 days ago:
Google forced my assistant to change to Gemini. The only thing that cursed machine has ever heard me say is “how do I switch back to the old Google Assistant?”
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 5 days ago:
That’s 70 miles a day, for anyone who doesn’t want to do the math. I don’t know where Hinton lives, but that’s almost two laps around all of the highways surrounding the city I live in. That’s 2 hours of driving on surface roads, not including stop lights and stop signs.
I wonder how much money Tesla has saved by breaking the law this way?
- Comment on Do it 1 week ago:
Money for Dope in my ass
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 1 week ago:
These are exactly the same people who say that sex is binary and that gender = sex
- Comment on Dont worry about your retirement plan... 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, Vance is a lot smarter, but he does not have the sauce. He could do a lot of damage in the next couple years, but the GOP would get roasted in 2026
I mean, they’re gonna get roasted anyway, but at least the MAGA cultists are gonna show up to vote for daddy Trump. If he dies, the cultists stay home.
- Comment on Time to rewatch. Gurren Lagan 2 weeks ago:
New anime is largely garbage, much like old anime. The difference is that time has filtered most of the garbage out of old anime so it’s easy to find the good shit
Plus it’s always a good time to rewatch Gurren Lagann
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
I’m not Tyler Bourbon, but it’s Fusion 360 for me. I sound like a broken record at this point, but it’s the only piece of software that keeps a windows install in my house
Hey Autodesk you should put F360 on Linux
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
In fairness, after October that security system will still be in place. The difference is that as soon as attackers finds a bypass, the security system will be worthless against future threats
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 2 weeks ago:
An expanding market and competition don’t change the fact that prices go up when prices go up. I suppose I can grant that it’s cheaper to sell ones and zeros over the internet than it is to ship a bunch of discs to every GameStop. But still, physical manufacturing and distribution make up a small percentage of the price of a game
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 2 weeks ago:
Gary was modifying hardware that people owned. That the modifications he was doing allowed for the play of pirated games is not in itself piracy. Besides, there is no fucking way he personally cost them enough money to justify having to pay them 30% of every dollar he makes for the rest of his life.
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 2 weeks ago:
People really don’t seem to understand that video game prices have not kept up with inflation. It’s why I didn’t bat an eye at spending $80 on Baldur’s Gate 3 despite the original costing like $50. When you account for inflation, it’s actually cheaper.
That said, I avoid Nintendo on principle. Refusing to sell old games so that they can use people who pirate them is ghoulish and inhuman. As long as Gary Bowser is forced to pay them, I never will.
- Comment on In your opinion, which anime has the most badass villains? 2 weeks ago:
Gurren Lagann by a country mile. Both of the main antagonists of the show are great
- Comment on Rocky rock rocking 3 weeks ago:
Ce n’est pas un rocher
- Comment on What are your Top 10 anime? 3 weeks ago:
I hesitated to put Orb very high on my own list due to worries about recency bias, but it really was one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. I started it because, I mean, look at my username. A show about astronomers studying heliocentrism in 15th century Poland sounds like it’s tailor made for me. But it’s even better, because it’s not actually about astronomy. It’s about the anonymous contributors to history, whose names and faces were never recorded, and yet were instrumental to building their era, and by extension every era afterward.
Near the end of the show, a certain character makes reference to the fact that “when the people of the past or future gaze across the span of time, they’ll merely see us all as people from the fifteenth century.” Indeed, he feels that “we, who happened to live in this day and age, even if we hated one another enough to kill, are comrades who built an era together.” Even if your name won’t survive over the next five centuries, you still have laid a brick in the foundation of history.
Idunno, I can write a three page essay about this show, and it still wouldn’t capture all of my thoughts and feelings. It’s the easiest 10/10 I’ve given a show since Standalone Complex. Truly the only valid criticism of it is that it is physically difficult to watch if your room isn’t pitch black. They gotta go back and turn the brightness up on some scenes.
- Comment on What are your Top 10 anime? 3 weeks ago:
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Haibane Renmei, Gurren Lagann, and GitS: SAC share first place. Ghost in the Shell changed how I rate shows, because I can’t rate a show 10/10 if it doesn’t stand up to Ghost in the Shell. Haibane Renmei and Gurren Lagann may lack the technical perfection that earned GitS its place, but they affected me on an emotional level more than any others. The quiet melancholy and ultimately positive resolution of Haibane Renmei puts it in first place for me, and Gurren Lagann’s unabashed bombastic glorification of Humanity and complete denial of despair is irresistible to me.
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A Certain Scientific Railgun got me into anime, so it has to be up there. Since I started the show nearly four years ago, I’ve maintained a streak of watching anime every single day. The Sisters Arc remains my favorite individual portion of anime I’ve ever seen.
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Mushishi is one of a very few series I would call a flawless masterpiece.
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Shinsekai Yori led to a great many discussions with both myself and others about what constitutes a “human,” which is maybe my favorite philosophical topic
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Last Exile perfectly captures my favorite world building technique of just plopping the viewer in the world and not explaining anything, plus Range Murata’s character design is peak
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Orb: On the Movements of the Earth is a series focusing on astronomers studying heliocentrism in 14th century Poland. The basic concept was tailor made for me specifically. The actual show is less about astronomy, and more about the anonymous figures throughout history who never had their names or particular contributions recorded, but were nevertheless instrumental to building both the time they lived in and the future that came after it. It has the longest review I’ve ever written for a show—usually I struggle to come up with more words to say. Talking about Orb, I struggle to stop writing.
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ACCA: 13 Territory Inspection Department because I really like the deliberate denial of action. A show about a federal government auditor investigating a potential coup, and there isn’t a single action sequence
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Read or Die (OVA and The TV), because
Yomiko Readman is my wifeI like the story and all the characters. I’ve never missed characters after finishing a show like I missed the Paper Sisters -
Ergo Proxy, because it too raises questions about what is “human,” it too sparked a lot of writing from me, and it raises interesting discussions about theology. I struggle to think of any other shows with a decidedly antitheist vibe.
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Megalo Box, because the whiplash between the first and second seasons was incredible. Never seen a show go from shounen to seinen like that. I found both seasons compelling, but the second season shot it up to 10/10 for me
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- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 3 weeks ago:
Can, and opt not to. Big difference. Like, I’m sure it’s very convenient having your phone control your washing machine and your thermostat and your lightbulbs, but when somebody else’s computer turns off, I’d like to keep control over my things
Same with AI. I’m sure I could ask chat GPT to write a better comment than this, but I value the human interaction involved with it, and the ability to perform these tasks on my own
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 3 weeks ago:
This is a salient point that’s well worth discussing. We should not be training large language models on any supposedly factual information that people put out. It’s super easy to call out a bad research study and have it retracted. But you can’t just explain to an AI that that study was wrong, you have to completely retrain it every time. Exacerbating this issue is the way that people tend to view large language models as somehow objective describers of reality, because they’re synthetic and emotionless. In truth, an AI holds exactly the same biases as the people who put together the data it was trained on.
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 3 weeks ago:
I am so happy God made me a Luddite
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 4 weeks ago:
Anyone saying anything but #7 is delulu. There’s a reason Bic won pens
- Comment on Israel publicly announces genocidal intent 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t make it about US politics, the post did when it brought up the US president
- Comment on Israel publicly announces genocidal intent 4 weeks ago:
I like how you saw me refer to “the thing you just posted,” which is about a genocide that Trump is helping to perpetrate, and you still can’t let go of the idea that this is all Genocide Joe’s fault
And no, I don’t condone it. I just understand that the lesser of two evils is, in fact, preferable to the greater.
- Comment on Israel publicly announces genocidal intent 4 weeks ago:
We show up in every Palestine post because we got constant verbal abuse from you people throughout the election cycle because we wanted to avoid the thing you just posted
- Comment on Is it possible to eat a toxic amount of culinary herbs/spices? 1 month ago:
I mean yeah that’s their point, the dose needed to OD on THC is bonkers, so it’s pretty much perfectly safe
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Every few months, “Nicole” mass spams a bunch of PMs inviting people to click on various suspicious links
- Comment on Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices. 1 month ago:
From what I understand, the only way to mitigate the risks relating to IME or AMD PSP is to simply not have a computer in the first place. Like I’ve said elsewhere twice now, it’s worth mitigating some risks even if we can’t mitigate all of them, and given the fact that the entire internet hasn’t collapsed, I’m going to assume IME isn’t as big of a security vulnerability as it looks.
- Comment on Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices. 1 month ago:
Like I said 6 hours ago, just because I can’t mitigate all of the risk doesn’t mean that I shouldn’t mitigate as much as I reasonably can.
My 3d printer is a fire hazard, but that’s no reason to leave a bunch of candles unattended.
- Comment on Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices. 1 month ago:
You are correct, and it doesn’t change my stance at all. It’s still worth it to mitigate risk even if you can’t mitigate all risk.
Like, the fact that my 3d printer is already a fire hazard does not justify leaving a bunch of candles unattended
- Comment on Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices. 1 month ago:
Obviously not, but I trust my laptop a hell of a lot better than my aunt’s XIPPLG branded wifi cat feeder that she bought off Amazon
- Comment on Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices. 1 month ago:
None of them, that’s why the only things in my house that connect to the internet are my computers, game consoles, and cell phone