Kernal64

@Kernal64@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft FrontPage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry, some of us are still leet like jeffk, even after all these years!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need for Speed: what is the best title of the series?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To add to this great list, I’d recommend Blur. Imagine Mario Kart, except fair and in a realistic setting with real cars. This game was phenomenal and should have had so many sequels. Alas, it was the swan song of Bizarre Creations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans have been enjoying nut milk and nut butter for at least 4 centuries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure I’d call it milk either. Seems more like juice to me.

  Nut juice.

  Say it. Embrace it.

  Americans enjoy drink nut juice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla grants Ente $100k⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No problem!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla grants Ente $100k⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Standard*

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Thomas was alone", a simple game but with lots of charm⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This game made me get emotional over extremely simple squares and rectangles and I’ve never fully come to terms with that. 10/10 I definitely recommend this to everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HowLongToBeat.com for my game library really helped me to become patient gamer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, man. The kids these days are into all sorts of crazy things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My journey with ENT theme⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree. Nothing is as bad as the ENT theme song.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumer, we have detected that you are above the poverty line. The 99¢ price printed on this Arizona tea can only applies to those below the poverty line. Your total comes to $3.67.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that… Is that not what it costs now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We here at lemmy love the antichrist⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The dollar sign comes before the number. Putting it behind the number is just another effect of micro plastics. 😢

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 2 improved on everything I liked from B1⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Username checks out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Need to Talk About the State of Calendar Software on Desktop⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d much rather have Tau’ri calendar software than Goa’uld software of any kind. Who knows what kind of malicious code those snakes have snuck in there?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s hard to say. Look how long it took for the music industry to stop suing their customers en masse and just adapt to a changing market. The film/TV industry hasn’t even begun walking that path. It may never change, but if it does, I suspect it’ll take a very long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not who you asked, but my opinion is that it comes down to the types of people you’re dealing with and age of the industries. The video game industry isn’t that old, especially in its modern, mega blockbuster age. By its very nature, it’s something that is on or near the leading edge of technology. This means the people involved are usually (though not always) forward thinking and live in the modern world.

  By contrast, the motion picture industry is over a century old. It’s deeply established in how it does business and you can see the effects of that entrenchment every time a new technology emerges that affects how people watch film and TV. They went to court to make VCRs illegal. DVDs were too high quality, so they made a self destructing kind of DVD (remember divx before it bizarrely became the name of a codec?). The industry went to war with itself more than once with format wars (VHS vs Beta, HD-DVD vs Blu-ray). This isn’t an industry that handles change well, and they’ve always believed everyone is a lying thief.

  All this to say, the video game industry is trying to make money in the modern world, while the TV/film industry is trying to cling to a business model one or two generations out of date because they fear change. There’s no technical reason that a game or a movie couldn’t be licensed for exactly the same amount of time. It’s just how the people with power in both industries operate.

  If the movie industry was smart, they’d have looked at what the music industry did and just copy/pasted that. The music industry has 2 kinds of stores, neither of which they involve themselves in running:

  1. Streaming services like Spotify or Tidal. For the most part, all the streamers have the same content and they compete with each other on price and features. AFAIK, none of these services are run by a record label.
  2. Download to own stores, like Amazon or iTunes. You pay a reasonable price and you get a DRM free file you get to keep forever. Again, the stores have largely the same catalogs and compete on price and features. And again, none of the labels own these stores.

  Compare that to the TV/film industry who looked at all that and decided to do the opposite. They run their own streaming only stores that are all bleeding money instead of fostering competition by encouraging more places like Netflix to start up. They don’t, to the best of my knowledge, run any stores where you can download a DRM free video file after paying a reasonable price. This whole industry is fucked, but it’s so massive it can absorb decades of bad decisions because there’s enough good actual product that people will pay for. And that insulation from their shit decision making and their fear of change is why TV/film licenses are so much more restrictive than game licenses, at least IMO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beep beep⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure they bought the rubber ducks at stores or online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NASA wants a cheaper Mars Sample Return—Boeing proposes most expensive rocket⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If NASA goes with Boeing for the rocket, they can expect the rocket to disassemble itself halfway into the atmosphere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation Walks Back Helldivers 2 Changes, PSN Account Linking No Longer Required⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am. Sony are notoriously hard asses about stuff like this. I’m glad to see they relented.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How In-N-Out Burger’s president runs her fast-food empire: Keep it simple, affordable and close⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are McDonald’s burgers better? No. Are Wendy’s? Yes. I haven’t had Jack in the Box in almost 10 years (none in my area), so I can’t compare them directly.

  Their fries seem like their burgers to me: good, but not remarkable. They’re certainly better than BK fries and the current Wendy’s fries (the old Wendy’s fries were better).

  I’m not sure what you mean about the lab thing, though. The vast majority of the fries I’ve had have just been sliced and fried potatoes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How In-N-Out Burger’s president runs her fast-food empire: Keep it simple, affordable and close⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They absolutely aren’t. I’m not comparing them to some $20 burger. I’m comparing them to other fast food burgers, and in that comparison, they’re decidedly average.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How In-N-Out Burger’s president runs her fast-food empire: Keep it simple, affordable and close⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What you said makes sense and I completely understand why this would make them popular. They should be applauded for their cleanliness and good treatment of their employees. Those are great! However what I don’t get is why people act like their burgers are top tier when they’re clearly not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How In-N-Out Burger’s president runs her fast-food empire: Keep it simple, affordable and close⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m with you. People love this place, but the half dozen times I’ve been there, it’s been thoroughly mediocre. It’s not bad, but it’s not this amazing pinnacle of burgers either. And I truly don’t understand why people are in love with “animal style,” aka make my burger as messy as possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10 Commandmends for a digital age⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Studies show red light cameras don’t decrease accident rates in the intersections they’re installed at. Furthermore, some municipalities have started doing things like varying timing of the light cycle to get more people running red lights for the increased revenue. These cameras haven’t been shown to decrease accident or injury/fatality rates anywhere they’re installed. If you’re against people being slaughtered by cars, it seems you should be against red light cameras since they don’t do any good and have the potential to make things worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real!⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Q’PLA!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we can use hydrogen to power electric motors, why can’t we use water to run a car?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where does the energy to break down the water in the car come from?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millions can no longer afford their rent⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only fortnights that exist in America is the video game. It’s not a division of time used here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Letters 4 Legacy-A Campaign for a Star Trek Legacy show by Terry Matalas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You know what? I’d be down if they brought back the whole 80s Room Plus interior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A variety of premature ejaculation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think you’re legally allowed to be confused by anything after posting this meme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon to introduce ads on Prime Video in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hulu DID start out with ads. When they launched it was an entirely ad supported service. Hulu+ didn’t come until years later. After several years of running two tiers of service, free ad supported and paid ad free, they dropped the free tier. Now, years later, we’re back to ads with Hulu, but this time you pay for the privilege.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hahaha oops. I don’t know where six came from. 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  BRIDGE SIX!