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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Built to last⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  the artist, keith stack, uses to do daily comics leading up to major releases, hiding a countdown in each comic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i think about this every time i open outlook on my phone and have to wait a full minute for it to load and hopefully not crash, versus how it worked more or less instantly on my phone ten years ago. gajillions of dollars spent on improved hardware and improved network speed and capacity, ans for what? machines that do the same thing in twice the amount of time if you're lucky

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Star Trek Discovery that bad?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i would watch all of the above. with discovery at the very least the first four seasons, because S2 is a backdoor season 0 of strange new worlds and S4 rocks but needs the context of the first 3. it can be very uneven but i don't think it gets bad as often as Picard did and doesn't stay bad for as long as Picard does. Enterprise is similar, a rough-at-times ride that does really pay off in S3

  you're only gonna watch one, though, i'd do strange new worlds. it's essentially a return to the TOS/TNG format and has a stellar cast. and frankly you don't need to watch disco S2 to fully know what's going on, they explain everything- i only watched disco after snw S1 left me hungry for more. SNW is seemingly unique among trek shows in that every season has been less well recieved than the last, partly because the short seasons are increasingly dedicated to gag episodes, but i'd say with the exception of one particular stinker in S3, a weaker SNW episode is still gonna be better than most shows at their best

  but also- you're your own person and may walk away from all of these series feeling someghing different! no harm on trying and if you hate something hey, it only cost you 40 minutes of your life

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT joins human league, now solves CAPTCHAs for the right prompt: Could this bot-prevention technique now be obsolete?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  appropriate given they've been screaming "DON'T YOU WANT ME" at disinterested parties all this time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sources to purchase mp3s?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  +1 for Bandcamp. they often run a "bandcamp friday" event where they waive their cut of all music sold that day, so almost everything (payment processors still take a cut) goes to the artist. there are also self-hosted alternatives to bandcamp like faircamp

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek: Scouts ☄️🖖🪐 | Official Trailer | Nick Jr.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  i can hear it in Dorn's voice so clearly: "Bubbles is not a traditional name for a targ."

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  something that i think gets lost in the sauce in thrse discussions is whether fun is derived from playing or winning. people are comparing Silksong- and to get ahead of it right now i haven't played and am not criticizing either of the Hollow Knights- to old arcade and early console games and their legendary difficulty, but a lot of those games were meant to be complete and fun experiences even if you game over very early on. they also didn't have levels full of bespoke Stuff in them, it was the same few tiles and entities in different configurations., so being stuck on level 1 didn't mean you were missing out on a narrative and worldbuilding. with how the lines have blurred between games and narrative art forms in the last few decades, there are different incentives at play and someone stuck on world 1 of SMB isn't missing out nearly as much as someone stuck on whatever the first stage of Silksong is. it's all ultimately apples and oranges

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  thank you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  can anyone recommend a good read into the actual developments happening with ATproto as of late? i've seen a lot of insisting lately that things are changing/have changed but no one's saying what exactly is or has changed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  what confuses me the most about these videos is the call to action. go back? that's not how time works!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite Star Trek books?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i mean you're totally right, the entire premise is a huge stretch. that's part of what makes it so fic-y, which is certainly not for everyone's pallette

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite Star Trek books?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  there's a series of in-universe biographies that ranges from good to great. The Autobiography of Mr. Spock and The Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko are my favorites, they're very good looks into those character's minds and also give you a lot of cool background info on the federation inside and outside of starfleet. i definitely recommend those two and the rest of you're hungry for more after

  if you're salty about how Enterprise ended, espwcially for one character in particular, The Good That Men Do is worth checking out. it reads like a fixfic because it essentially is but hey. it leads into a few other books but i haven't had a chance to read them yet