Adderbox76

@Adderbox76@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of the most realistic fictional movies ever made?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  • Children of Men

  • Gattaca

  Both feel like extremely realistic portrayals of possible near futures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you pronounce "centaur" and why?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I pronounce it “Phil”. And he would appreciate it if you would stop staring at his missing eye.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no such thing as a “non-harmful” pedofile.

  Either you’re actively molesting children (yes…even teens), or you’re consuming the CP that is the result of OTHER people abusing children by forcing them to participate and worse.

  You don’t get to say “its not repulsive to consume the product as long as youre not a creator of it”. Consuming the end result is still participating in it.

  I can’t believe that even has to be pointed out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would make one hell of an ugly woman…

  I was an archaeology major, hence the history thing. And I’m fascinated by the psychology of crime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m far far far from a younger consumer, and I find that I too have moved almost entirely to online content, mostly in the form of True Crime podcasts and YT channels, History Documentaries, etc…

  Especially in non-fiction content, there’s pretty much nothing that paid TV can offer that Social Platforms cannot. It’s the only place where I think this whole internet experiment is actually working as intended; the democratization of knowledge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X88B88 is the word "voodoo" with a reflection.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking it would make a great book title for a novel about an underground cult of Voodoo practicing Nazis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal's Meredith Whittaker says AI agents doing tasks on users' behalf pose security and privacy risks and refers to their use as “putting your brain in a jar”.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a “block party”! </dadjoke>

  I’ll show myself out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is indeed dangerous to rely on any one country for too much

  Cries in Canadian

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was your favorite shareware game?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Spending every lunch hour on the library computer with three friends in 1994 playing this is probably why I didn’t have a girlfriend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The PS2 turns 25 years old today. Crazy, right? Perfect day for revisiting some classics. What are some of your favourite PS2 games?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  After setting up emulators for both the PS2 and PS1, I’m amazed at how little I actually turn on my xbox one S anymore.

  Games from that generation just hit differently for me. Especially my favourites like Final Fantasy X and XII. It took me a while to get why I felt that way, but it’s the combat systems in modern games have become to frenetic and button-mashy. How am I supposed to strategize what my team mates are doing at the speed that the combat now wants to take place at.

  And that’s not just with the Final Fantasy series. God of War both went down that “let’s make combat as fast and frenetic as possible” route after the PS2 generation.

  I’m also going to give an honourable mention on PS2 to the last Stalwart alternative to the EA NHL series; that being NHL 2K10. I really enjoyed the things that it did differently to EA Sports, like the ability to set two of your team-mates to hassle an opposing player. I wish 2K had kept it up. But it seems they gave up the NHL and EA gave up the NBA. Fair trade I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it seem like many Americans have an arrogant personality trait?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The U.S. is like any other country; it has its share of assholes. But I generally avoid painting everyone of however many million people with the same broad brush.

  There is a somewhat obnoxious level of patriotism to Americans in general that comes from simply being the biggest economy and a net cultural exporter to the rest of the world; think blue jeans and coca-cola, metaphorically. (I’m sorry, Americans, but it’s true. Put on your big boy pants and deal with the criticism like adults, please.)

  But it only rises to the level of arrogance in those people who think that the rest of the world only exists because of them and should behave as some sort of client state to American hegemony.

  That’s not all Americans. Heck, I’d say it’s not even most Americans. But they’re just really really loud and drown out everything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a thousand years, will historians regard today as the digital dark ages?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My oh my. Check out Mr. Optimist over here thinking that they’ll be time to be “historians” in between scavenging for scraps and battling the nuclear mutants for the last bottle of fresh water at the bombed out Tesco.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Katy Perry, Gayle King, Lauren Sánchez to go to space on next launch from Jeff Bezos' rocket company⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On a brighter note, I’m pretty sure Katy Perry’s boobs would look absolutely fantastic in zero gravity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨telecommunications dish⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why’s your aardvark wearing a cone?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would America declaring cartels terrorist organizations be a problem for Mexico?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It might be his best book since Name of the Rose

  My personal favourite is The Island of the Day Before. Though I haven’t read either in years and it might be nostalgia because that was my first introduction to Eco.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most Americans use an iPhone?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Marketing.

  Convincing stupid people that their self-worth is based on how much they spend.

  Not a thing that is exclusive to Apple, of course. It’s how society has been since the 80s and Reaganomics, with Nike and other running shoes being the first really noticeable marketing push in that regard.

  Where Apple paved the way is that, even back then, a company would make a product, assign a profit margin to it (traditionally about 30-40%), and sell it at that price…

  Apple came along and said, “the only limit to a profit margin is how much you can convince stupid people to pay. We’ll use billions of dollars in advertising to convince people that they’re sub-human if they don’t agree with it. If the consumer is dumb enough to pay 250% profit margin for a phone device that costs us literally a couple hundred bucks to make…than that’s on them and their own stupidity.”

  So in short, profit margin is no longer a relatively stable number dictated by market forces and the relative strength of the economy, and (thanks to Apple) instead has become a function of marketing. How much can you convince suckers to spend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would America declaring cartels terrorist organizations be a problem for Mexico?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Best review of it I read was:

  “DFW is a perfect example of what happens when people think they are above editing.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would America declaring cartels terrorist organizations be a problem for Mexico?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve honestly never made it through the whole thing.

  Tried to, back in the day. It’s one of those things that’s expected of you if you want to be a proper turtleneck wearing, pretentious literati as a university student. (I was a douche, okay…I admit it…it’s the same reason I fought my way through War and Peace and Foucault’s Pendulum) But I’m much better now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would America declaring cartels terrorist organizations be a problem for Mexico?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a pretext for invasion. Just like invading Afganistan was to intervene in order to get Al-Queda. Or invading Iraq was about getting the Taliban… etc… etc… etc…

  If America wants a war with someone for oil/economic pressure/etc… (really whatever reason they choose to make up) they simply say that there are terrorists there.

  I’m calling it now and saying that in two weeks he declares the Quebec Sovereignty movement a terrorist organization for reasons…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite retro racing game?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It makes me feel old to admit it’s retro, but Gran Turismo on Playstation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why hasn't the deep state stopped trump?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Those dreadfully dangerous Antifa terrorists sure have gone silent too, haven’t they.

  It’s almost as though they never existed.

  Right now, we need Antifa to be everything that the right wings pretended Antifa was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  More and more every day…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why there is no photos of earth from space?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are no stupid questions.

  But there are in fact, some very stupid ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if USA invades Canada?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You think a U.S. military base isn’t getting kicked the fuck out of a foreign country the moment they are declared an enemy? Or do you have such a little opinion of everyone else that you think a couple of military bases will immediately take over every European county at once?

  If America invades Canada it’s global reach becomes null and void essentially the next day. Every Nato country expels American military personnel, by force if necessary, and America’s role in the world is done, regardless if they win against Canada or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The English word "four" has 4 letters. Are there any other numbers where the English name for them has that many letters?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Flive has flive letters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what if another country staged a coup in the US and deposed trump?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Putin is currently staging a coup, and it’s on the United States’ dime. If all of this is somehow actually the machinations of Putin, you can’t help but be impressed with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you like the smell of bookstores?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  oh god yes. ESPECIALLY used book stores. Shared stories have a particular smell that just speaks of history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t help but think that there’s a Broadway musical first act closing song somewhere in there…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone here good at drawing political cartoons?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Update - Idea has been claimed. If he changes his mind I’ll post it publically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone here good at drawing political cartoons?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I might end up doing that. The reason I didn’t do it immediately was because as cool as that would be, I’m relatively sure some AI slop would crawl into the responses and end up shared (which would make me sad) versus just giving the idea (and credit) to a single human.