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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happend with the the new and old Borg after Picard season 2 and 3?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  hard to say for now other than they both coexisted for a bit, but out of fiction i have a feeling they're just going to ignore the last two seasons of Picard altogether until a hypothetical Lower Decks spiritual successor where they'll somehow fix it with a throwaway line. speaking of Lower Decks, that's probably how they'll handle it's finale too considering the multiverse wormhole thing is conspiciously absent from the 32nd century

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man uses 99 phones to trick Google Maps into thinking there’s a traffic jam to prove a big point⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i think what artyom is getting at is that showing google maps works the way we already knew it worked isn't much of a point, let alone a big one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you feel on Kirby games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i just rolled credits on Forgotten World (the one where you can become a car) last night and i was blown away. Forgotten World is largely a 1:1 conversion of the 2D games into 3D with the notable exception that you can't float higher than your jump height, so that does raise the skill floor noticably. still, just getting to the end of any given level is easy-peasy, but some of the challenges and collectables are definitely tricky. the 3-star portal stages in particular can be a real challenge, and there's also a post-game world i haven't tried yet. i think the switch 2 version even has a post-post-game. ultimately, though, if challenge is an important factor for you, you'll probably be better served by another game

  kirby and the amazing mirror deserves a shout-out for being difficult in it's own unique way. it's a metroidvania but many of the doors are one-way just like in regular kirby, so it's easy to fuck up and go the wrong way and have to restart. the platforming and combat are both still very easy but that does you a fat lot of good when you hit a dead end!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Food JPEGs” in Super Smash Bros & Kirby Air Riders — Seth Larson⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  this is the kind of hard-hitting research i like to see! now i want to try a mont blanc...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  there's definitely a non-zero number of people who self-diagnose as something to feel "special," but for every one of them there are five people who are autistic or ADHD and need accomidations but won't get them because the people around them think they're doing them a favor by insisting they're not "broken." you don't want your kid to be the first thing, sure, but also make sure you aren't causing the second thing- if you're in doubt, the right person to ask is a psychologist or a psychiatrist. however, that can be very expensive, hence the whole self diagnosis to begin with

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you feel about the removal of tokens from arcades ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  shout out to the galloping ghost in chicago. massive, massive arcade full of vintage cabs, some of them super rare. they charge a door fee so no cards or coins, but if you make a day out of it you're plaging hundreds of dollars of games for like 20 bucks or something. they even have an R360 G-Loc cabinet, although you need to call ahead to make sure they have an extra hand on site to run it. i didn't know you needed to call and when they told me i could come back tomorrow and i mentioned i drove in from out of town, they gave me a free admission card for next time, so very nice people working there too!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What an unprocessed photo looks like⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  wild how far technology has marched on and yet we're still essentially using the same basic idea behind technicolor. but hey, if it works!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ooh duly noted thank you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the only integration i want between my phone and my car is a 3.5mm audio jack. i'm driving a 2016 right now and am dreading replacing it because i doubt i'll be able to find anything without this "infotainment" crap. i thought i had read that those were being phased out because consumers unilaterally hated them, so reading the opposite here is a huge bummer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Browser and Wario are Mario's mortal ennemies, why did he invited them for a kart race?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  this is especially appropriate considering Donkey Kong was almost a licensed Popeye game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  east and eastn't

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it's fascinating, the game gear itself actually has a "TV Mode" that's activated by holding down a certain signal on the cartridge bus which bypasses the z80 and VDP and chucks a
  digital RGB signal and some kind of custom timing information straight to the screen

  https://www.smspower.org/Development/TVTunerAdaptor

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  pwnedcles

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The hope is to have a fresh 'Star Trek' movie, though [Paramount] has moved on from the idea of bringing back Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and the rest of the ensemble from the J.J. Abrams reboot."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  that's a shame, i always really liked Pine's Kirk in particular. but i guess it was also inevitable as soon as Spock showed up in Disco with a new actor

  the rest of the article is... harrowing, to say the least. Trek feels like the elephant in the room at Paramount right now- you'd think Ellison would think that "un-woke-ifying" Trek would be an easy way to score points with the White House right now, but so far it's been business as usual

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TrekMovie.com - Rick Berman And Brannon Braga Defend The Controversial ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ Series Finale⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rick Berman described the producers’ view that providing an organic-feeling final episode to properly wrap things up would be impossible

  honestly i think Terra Firma Part II would have gotten the job done fine, and if they had kept everything as is but called it the finale and left These Are The Voyages as a DVD extra or a TV "movie" people would have been happier. or at least they'd have an easier time detaching their distate for TATV from the rest of Enterprise

  that bit about Trinner saying "ok, kill me!" is funny as hell

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TrekMovie.com - Rick Berman And Brannon Braga Defend The Controversial ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ Series Finale⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  iirc the series finale was originally filmed to be the S4 finale, which is how they get ivanova even though she left the show in S5. the S4 finale we got was a rush job when they found out they were getting a final season and wanted to keep the finale they filmed as the series finale

  i agree with your sentiment though, if it was the series finale i think it would've worked well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do each gaming fraction (pc, consoles, mobile) hating each other?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  this guy hates

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨K&T Host, a hosting provider for many Fediverse software including Lemmy has announced they're shutting down⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  aw hell! K&T are great, that's a real shame

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  to think all the money and effort we've wasted trying to create fusion in a lab when what we really needed was a really, really, really good pitcher

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Built to last⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sources to purchase mp3s?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  thank you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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