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- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Completely and utterly wrong.
He was convicted by a jury in New York court of Falsifying Business Records, a felony crime, that carries up to four years in prison as potential punishment.
Maybe try googling what you think you know since whatever method you use to inform yourself of things has evidently led you to be confident of multiple objective falsehoods.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yes, Trump was convicted of multiple felon charges, making him a felon.
He recieved a conditional discharge for his sentence, meaning he didn’t spend time in jail, but he is 100% a convicted felon.
You also ignored the part where he’s treasonous traitor to his country.
You’re not a moderate, you’re just blind to how extreme the American right wing is.
- 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:
But let’s take your example. I’m willing to accept the premise that movie prices have kept pace with wages (they haven’t, due to the varying pay standards you pointed out, but I’ll assume for the sake of argument).
Yes, but the point is that movies are primarily made in California, so if California raises its minimum wages, then the cost of making movies goes up, and so the cost the consumer would experience at the end is increased. If you live in California and your government increased minimum wage that’s not a big deal, but the issue is arising because some states haven’t raised minimum wage to keep up with inflation, so consumers their see a real cost increase that California consumers don’t.
But at a fundamental level, the problem there is not with California raising their minimum wage to try and keep up with inflation / cost of living, but with the other states for not raising theirs. Those states are effectively artificially lowering labour costs, which makes their consumers pay effectively more for imported goods, so that businesses in the state can be more profitable.
If a state does that to support home grown businesses that keep profits in the hands of workers, that can be a path for establishing an industry that will sustain itself and enrich the state, but in most US states, the companies that benefit are big corporations that funnel the profits to the executives and investors (often out of state) rather than average people, so the average worker is just poorer for no reason and sees inflated costs everywhere.
- 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 don’t have historical pricing on movies theatre snacks available off hand, but I would be willing to bet money their pricing is 100% consistent with what it was 15-20 years ago as well.
Movie theatre popcorn and drinks have always been over priced (at least in my lifetime) and have always been where theatres recoup a ton of costs.
If anything, these days theatres shouldn’t have to charge quite as much for popcorn now that they can make money selling alcohol and food and such as well.
- 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:
That stuff comes up occasionally but like maybe there’s an issue once a season or so, it’s not going to be distracting episode to episode.
The bigger problem their imho, is the laugh track. It’s just weird watching a show with a laugh track these days, especially when modern comedies have learned to use that time to cram in way more jokes. It just makes friends feel somewhat archaic and out of time, even compared to Seinfeld which objectively looks much older from a cinematography standpoint
- 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 think that’s an issue with whatever State / jurisdiction you’re in.
When I was a teenager it was ~$12 to get a normal (non-VIP ticket) at the big multiplex and minimum wage was $9.50 / hr.
Nowadays it’s $20 to get a normal (non-VIP ticket) at the big multiplex and minimum wage is $17.50.
Literally almost identical.
- Comment on Fable delayed to 2026 1 week ago:
Fair point, but in that case it means they’re not just pivoting, but building a whole new studio from the ground up for this game.
- Comment on Fable delayed to 2026 1 week ago:
Sounds like the author has a skill issue with Stealth.
Mobs are leashed? Cool, that doesn’t matter cause I play the game like a high fantasy battle mage, and don’t run from fights.
Also, mobs are leashed in most games to some extent or another. Avowed is well written, well voice acted, tells an interesting story, and is fun to play through.
Really just feels like people were expecting Skyrim and are upset they got something more focused.
- Comment on Fable delayed to 2026 1 week ago:
Lmao. Bruh, wtf are you talking about. I’ve basically used nothing but melee or stealth / dialogue the whole time.
It’s a tight, well written game, that doesn’t waste your time with endless auto-generated quests.
- Comment on Fable delayed to 2026 1 week ago:
The studio is pivoting from making Forza, to making Fable, this feels like a perfectly normal development timeline.
- Comment on Fable delayed to 2026 1 week ago:
Bruh avowed is great, I’ve been loving it.
This sounds like a you problem.
- Comment on Fable delayed to 2026 1 week ago:
The Master Chief Collection is the single reason that I will never ever preorder another game no matter what bonuses it comes with or how confident I am with the developer.
In general though, Microsoft Games is pretty good about not pushing bugs out the door.
I honestly don’t understand the middle reception to Avowed, it’s been truly fantastic so far, and completely rock solid.
- Comment on Why is a two-party system considered democratic? 1 week ago:
That’s not what democracy is.
Democracy is simply a system of government where leaders are voted on instead of inheriting their title or gaining it through physical force and coercion.
The original form of democracy had slavery, and excluded women and non-land owners, the word simply distinguishes which mechanism brings someone to power, it doesn’t inherently imply fairness or free choice.
- Comment on Show top LLMs buggy code and they'll finish off the mistakes rather than fix them. 2 weeks ago:
What a waste of time. Both the article and the researchers.
Literally by the time their research was published, it was using irrelevant models, on top of the fact that, yeah, that’s how LLMs work. That would be obvious from 5m of using them.
- Comment on Gaming has a polarization problem 3 weeks ago:
Skyrim’s varied gameplay systems?
It has stealth, it has magic, it has melee combat, it has ranged combat, it has dialogue options for talking your way through stuff, it has multiple ways of solving quest lines…
It’s basically Skyrim, if it was smaller and more focused, with better combat, voice acting, and heads and tails better writing.
- Comment on Gaming has a polarization problem 3 weeks ago:
Also, from a mechanistic standpoint I think that mostly has to do with the high cost of entry for games.
At $80-$100 for a full priced game these days, it’s hard to just buy on a whim. The only time you would is when they’re on sale, which happens well after initial release. So initial sales of games are basically entirely driven by reviews and online discourse (which itself has an effect on reviews), and you basically just have a bunch of people all waiting for the signal to buy or not.
I do think that services like Gamepass are a genuinely good way of reducing that effect, because now anyone can try anything on a lark.
- Comment on Gaming has a polarization problem 3 weeks ago:
People are complaining about Avowed? What the fuck is wrong with them?
I’ve been too busy loving it to be online reading anything, honestly cannot fathom what their complaints are tho. Avowed has repeatedly impressed me by being more clever and nuanced than I was expecting a game to be.
- Comment on Why do people see me as far older than 19 when I type the way I do sometimes?/Why do people think full stops are rude? 5 weeks ago:
Young people focus on the tone they’re conveying.
Old people focus on following the rules that were beaten into them as children for no reason.
- Comment on Why do people see me as far older than 19 when I type the way I do sometimes?/Why do people think full stops are rude? 5 weeks ago:
Is your intention to convey a certain tone or win a grammar competition?
- Comment on Why do people see me as far older than 19 when I type the way I do sometimes?/Why do people think full stops are rude? 5 weeks ago:
They didn’t say do it right, they said do it with propriety, as in making sure to follow the rules for the sake of following the rules.
- Comment on Why do people see me as far older than 19 when I type the way I do sometimes?/Why do people think full stops are rude? 5 weeks ago:
Because those of who grew up communicating a lot via the written word stopped feeling beholden to type using classic grammar rules like ending every sentence of every communication with a period no matter what.
The entire purpose of language is to express yourself, and people started noticing that their texts sounded friendlier if they sounded less abrupt, so they started typing that way.
You type according to traditional essay writing rules which is how older people learned to write, younger people learned to focus on producing natural sounding language and conversation.
- Comment on US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources. 5 weeks ago:
Oh yes of course, the whole world has of course been watching the mass protests and general strike being organized with baited breath, oh wait.
- Comment on US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources. 5 weeks ago:
You sound like Putin supporting little bitch.
- Comment on US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources. 5 weeks ago:
Come on doc, you’ve gotta help us, we’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!
- Comment on US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources. 5 weeks ago:
Jesus fucking christ. If you do this, and exploit Ukraine while they are literally under the gun, the US will be dead to the rest of the western world.
I cannot express how hard you can go fuck yourselves.
- Comment on Why are there so many graybeards in FOSS? 1 month ago:
Yes, but I would point out that:
a) a bunch of those commercially supported Foss projects still started out as a personal project of one of a small handful of programmers that then got popular and exploded.
b) more importantly yes, a lot of commercially useful FOSS is developed by paid developers working at tech companies as part of their line of work, stuff like browsers, languages, frameworks, packages, etc. but a lot of the most jconic and beloved consumer facing FOSS applications are not as it’s harder to monetize at that point since you’re not building on top of those projects.
- Comment on Why are there so many graybeards in FOSS? 1 month ago:
One aspect of FOSS that most people don’t appreciate is how it’s funded. Like how it’s actually funded.
Once you put a dollar value to the hours put into it, it fairly quickly becomes apparent that most FOSS projects are basically only possible because super rich software engineers (relative to the average person) have the relative luxury to be able to dedicate a ton of free time and effort to building something they think should exist.
It’s why there was a huge FOSS boom after the dot com crash when a ton of software engineers suddenly got laid off but were relatively wealthy enough to not have massive pressure to immediately start grinding a 9-5 again.
- Comment on Defaults are crucial for good UX and getting more users on the Fediverse 1 month ago:
It’s a very easy change to default ‘Auto expand media’ to true for half of new users, and see what effect it has over a few months. It’s also a fun experiment with no real drawbacks.
Writing the code to do that is very easy, determining what metrics are actually important and impact user success and what metrics accurately track user success is much harder.
I do generally agree though! Personally I just asked the instance admins of lemmy.ca to redirect
lemmy.ca/r/…URLs tolemmy.ca/c/…URLs as a tiny user facing feature for Redditors coming over, and they did it in a second. - Comment on Advice on enjoying your life 1 month ago:
No. If you’re going to be pedantic, at least be right.
Average
noun
- a number expressing the central or typical value in a set of data, in particular the mode, median, or (most commonly) the mean, which is calculated by dividing the sum of the values in the set by their number.
The term average, inherently refers to three different ways to calculate the central value in a data set. What you’re talking about is mean, but it can also mean mode, or median.
- Comment on Defaults are crucial for good UX and getting more users on the Fediverse 1 month ago:
It’s not that popular of a concept on here, probably since there’s massive selection bias (everyone here evidently found a way to struggle through), but you’re completely right and I find that that lazer focus on usability is one place that Open Source advocates and projects often struggle with.
And personally, I think it’s because most open source projects are built and run by programmers since they’re the ones who can build an open source project, whereas a consumer facing site like Reddit / FB / TikTok/ IG, would be planned out and designed by a product manager, working closely with a designer and market researcher, and then get programmers to build that for them.
It’s a model that’s really difficult to pull off though in a community primarily consisting of programmers volunteering their free time, but I think it’s worth keeping that in mind. Open Source projects that are consumer facing (and especially ones that rely on network effects), really need to work hard to stay in that user facing headspace.