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Comment on Disney is staring down the barrel of a no good, very bad year in ~movies
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Comment on Disney is staring down the barrel of a no good, very bad year in ~movies
Bullmaestro LinkMy problem with Disney's live action remakes is that they're soulless. Two of the more recent ones are a testament to this. Aladdin was panned for atrocious CGI and Will Smith frankly being a bad...My problem with Disney's live action remakes is that they're soulless. Two of the more recent ones are a testament to this.
Aladdin was panned for atrocious CGI and Will Smith frankly being a bad casting choice for the Genie, in a "how dare you stand where Robin Williams once stood" kinda way.
The Lion King was panned for being a shot-for-shot remake of the 1997 original, but with realistic CGI-rendered animals that show no emotion whatsoever.
I haven't watched The Little Mermaid. A friend of mine has and said it's pretty good. But I think the audience is just sick and tired of Disney doing half-arsed live action/CGI remakes. Halle Bailey may have been brilliant as Ariel but the damage has already been done, not by the vocal minority complaining that Disney casted a black actress to play the lead (few people care about this), but by past Disney live action remakes being so underwhelming.
Lilo & Stitch is my favourite Disney film, and I dread to think what they're gonna do to butcher that.
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Comment on Summer Games Done Quick 2023, a week-long charity fundraising event featuring speedruns, has begun in ~games
Bullmaestro (edited )Link ParentIt's honestly cool that they're being more LGBTQ and female inclusive, I mean the amount of hate that speedrunners like Narcissa Wright got for coming out as trans has been downright shameful....It's honestly cool that they're being more LGBTQ and female inclusive, I mean the amount of hate that speedrunners like Narcissa Wright got for coming out as trans has been downright shameful. This is somebody that helped revolutionise Ocarina of Time speedrunning and we frankly treated her like trash the moment she transitioned.
For the record, I completely agree with the more recent actions GDQ have taken to ban streamers from the event. As far as I'm concerned, people like Luzbelheim and RWhiteGoose deserve no place at a speedrunning marathon. Especially not the latter, who had been outed by the community as having massively white-supremacist, antisemitic and transphobic views. I also agree with the decision to temp ban Trihex for using a homophobic slur on his stream. Popular streamers and other famous personalities have a standard of etiquette to stick to.
I was referring more to how they handled the Bonesaw577 and (to a lesser extent) PvtCinnamonbun incidents. Bonesaw's Jak & Daxter 2 run was entertaining and blacklisting him because he made one-too-many Owen Wilson jokes and jokingly asked viewers to tweet @AirCanada just feels excessive. As for PvtCb, it was proven he didn't wear pro-Trump attire at the event from video footage, yet the organisers still "justified" his permaban on the basis that they saw him unplug a power strip.
To be honest though, PvtCb should have been banned a year ago for a tweet he made which was purposely worded in the same way as the Umpqua Community College shooter made his post on 4chan - at this point the "some of you guys are alright" line had become a dark meme.
GDQ has also often felt like some kind of surreal Twitch teleshopping channel with the overemphasis their presenters put on donations and raffles in recent years - even during key moments in speedruns.
That is what I meant by overly corporate and sanitized. I want to watch some informative, entertaining and cutting-edge speedrunning content and see a strong audience reaction to it, not have donations read to me ad-nauseum in the style of a QVC presenter.
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Comment on Summer Games Done Quick 2023, a week-long charity fundraising event featuring speedruns, has begun in ~games
Bullmaestro LinkWatching SGDQ is just jarring this year. Everybody has to wear a face mask, social distancing is clearly being enforced based on the sheer number of empty seats (either that or so many were...Watching SGDQ is just jarring this year. Everybody has to wear a face mask, social distancing is clearly being enforced based on the sheer number of empty seats (either that or so many were disinterested that they didn't buy tickets), and the stream is struggling to break 46.5k viewers on Twitch.
It's 2023... COVID-19 is no longer considered a global health emergency by the WHO and is basically endemic across the world. To my knowledge no government outside of China is really mandating restrictions to control the virus, so it's especially jarring to see the event follow the kind of guidelines you'd see from a late-2021 live event.
This might actually be GDQ's lowest viewership yet, and I don't think it's because speedrunning is necessarily dead, but because of how much the organisers have made their events feel overly corporate, sanitisied and soulless over the years. Channels like Summoning Salt, Karl Jobst, etc still prove that there is a lot of interest in speedrunning.
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Comment on What are we in the golden age of? in ~talk
Bullmaestro Link ParentLast time I played Arabian Nights... it took nearly an hour just to explain the rules. Recommended game time was 2 hours for 4-players. More like... 2 days.Last time I played Arabian Nights... it took nearly an hour just to explain the rules. Recommended game time was 2 hours for 4-players. More like... 2 days.
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Comment on What are we in the golden age of? in ~talk
Bullmaestro Link ParentYes and no. The AAA games industry is crooked and for every masterpiece like Tears of the Kingdom, you have probably 50 other games that are blatant cash grabs. Indie games are where it's at. Used...Yes and no.
The AAA games industry is crooked and for every masterpiece like Tears of the Kingdom, you have probably 50 other games that are blatant cash grabs.
Indie games are where it's at. Used to rag on indie developers a lot but some of my favourite video games like Undertale, CrossCode, Minecraft, Cthulhu Saves The World and Omori are indies.
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Comment on What are we in the golden age of? in ~talk
Bullmaestro Link ParentA board/card game I'd really like to see is one based on competitive Pokémon. Build a deck with a roster of 6 monsters and various item/move cards (the deck would effectively act in the same way...A board/card game I'd really like to see is one based on competitive Pokémon.
Build a deck with a roster of 6 monsters and various item/move cards (the deck would effectively act in the same way as your PP.) Monsters have different stats and can use different move cards depending on their elemental typing. Simplify the rules so that it can be played with just a deck and a single d6.
Add in multiple strategies like poison decks, paralysis decks, card burning decks, freeze decks, burn decks, tank-centric decks, sweepers, etc. Allow support for both Smogon-style 1v1 and VGC-style 2v2 battles.
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Comment on What are we in the golden age of? in ~talk
Bullmaestro Link ParentI have a close buddy who probably owns about £5000 worth of board games. I have played a few good ones with him, like Arabian Nights, Smallworld, Settlers of Catan, and a few others. Sadly he's...I have a close buddy who probably owns about £5000 worth of board games. I have played a few good ones with him, like Arabian Nights, Smallworld, Settlers of Catan, and a few others.
Sadly he's planning to give away and donate his collection soon. They're not seeing play (our friend groups have diminished since COVID) and he's planning to end his own life in a few years, partially due to depression, also due to hereditary medical issues.
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Comment on What was Twitter, anyway? in ~tech
Bullmaestro Link ParentI'm a big believer in the dead internet theory because of bots and astroturfing. I think a lot of users are not legitimate and it's actually rare to have real discussions online these days. Try...I'm a big believer in the dead internet theory because of bots and astroturfing. I think a lot of users are not legitimate and it's actually rare to have real discussions online these days.
Try using any online dating platform in 2023 like... Okcupid. Tell me how many legit users you match with.
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Comment on What was Twitter, anyway? in ~tech
Bullmaestro Link ParentTwitter have been historically inconsistent when it's come to stamping evil out. Ban Trump but allow the Taliban to remain? Curb hate speech but welcome views which outright glorify pedophilia?...Twitter have been historically inconsistent when it's come to stamping evil out. Ban Trump but allow the Taliban to remain? Curb hate speech but welcome views which outright glorify pedophilia? Twitter has a growing MAP ("minor attracted person", their terminology, not mine) community that has caught the ire of mainstream news outlets for a while now...
Sure, Musk may be turning Twitter into a Nazi bar, but the site was a borderline Pedo bar before this. Not even Reddit or 4chan allowed some of the stuff you saw posted on Twitter just two years ago.
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Comment on "SHA-1 is a Shambles" - A demonstration of a chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1 (2020) in ~comp
Bullmaestro LinkI mean... anybody using SHA1 or MD5 to hash passwords in 2023 is either a fresh newbie with zero programming experience who literally just discovered an old W3Schools tutorial, or if they're...I mean... anybody using SHA1 or MD5 to hash passwords in 2023 is either a fresh newbie with zero programming experience who literally just discovered an old W3Schools tutorial, or if they're managing any kind of actual website, is a moron that may as well just be storing their passwords in plain text.
SHA1 was depreciated a long time ago and there are a lot of better algorithms available today, like Argon2, Bcrypt and PBKDF2.
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Comment on Tucker Carlson to launch new show on Twitter in ~tech
Bullmaestro Link ParentUnless he's got exclusivity clauses in his contract that prevent him from doing so, why doesn't he upload on both platforms? The thing is that Twitter doesn't strike me as the ideal platform to...Unless he's got exclusivity clauses in his contract that prevent him from doing so, why doesn't he upload on both platforms?
The thing is that Twitter doesn't strike me as the ideal platform to host a talk show. It's also very slowly becoming an even bigger dumpster fire with all the Twitter Blue stuff going on.
At least Rumble is designed to host video content.
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Comment on Tucker Carlson to launch new show on Twitter in ~tech
Bullmaestro LinkHe'd probably do better on a platform like Rumble, since that's where all the deplatformed right-wing nutjobs are going now.He'd probably do better on a platform like Rumble, since that's where all the deplatformed right-wing nutjobs are going now.
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Comment on Kena: Bridge of Spirits in ~games
Bullmaestro LinkI completely forgot that this game also saw release on Steam. I really need to play it.I completely forgot that this game also saw release on Steam. I really need to play it.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
Bullmaestro LinkSince I finally got a new PC, I've finally had a chance to put some serious time into Valheim without the worry of overheating my computer. Very good game so far. The base-building aspects are...Since I finally got a new PC, I've finally had a chance to put some serious time into Valheim without the worry of overheating my computer. Very good game so far. The base-building aspects are more complex than Minecraft and make you really think about where you place support beams to stop your building from collapsing. My only criticism is the combat. I beat Eikthyr easily first try and I was disappointed that the game didn't subject me to some ball-busting Soulslike shit with the boss battles.
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Comment on The most unique bike park I've ever ridden in ~sports
Bullmaestro LinkI never did proper mountain biking before but holy shit this looks dangerous. It's like you're one slip-up away from being yeeted thirty metres downhill and ending up with several broken limbs on...I never did proper mountain biking before but holy shit this looks dangerous. It's like you're one slip-up away from being yeeted thirty metres downhill and ending up with several broken limbs on some parts of the track.
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Comment on Amnesia: The Bunker | Gameplay demo in ~games
Bullmaestro LinkAfter how bad A Machine For Pigs was, I hope this becomes the game that revives the franchise.After how bad A Machine For Pigs was, I hope this becomes the game that revives the franchise.
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Comment on Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025 in ~tech
Bullmaestro Link ParentHere's the thing... Microsoft have only discontinued OSes in the past when their latest OS has topped usage statistics. Windows 98 SE and 2000 weren't discontinued until after XP was widely...Here's the thing... Microsoft have only discontinued OSes in the past when their latest OS has topped usage statistics.
Windows 98 SE and 2000 weren't discontinued until after XP was widely adopted, with ME being the commercial flop released in-between. The main reason why XP saw wide adoption was because it had far better multimedia features than its predecessors.
XP wasn't discontinued until after 7 was widely adopted. It was inevitable that 7 would be picked up by the masses because XP was becoming seriously outdated with many security vulnerabilities, while Vista was sluggish due to poor driver support and overbearing user account controls.
7 wasn't discontinued until after Windows 10 saw wide adoption, and the main reason a lot of people picked up Windows 10 was because actually having a Start menu was a clear upgrade from the Metro interface forced upon Windows 8 and 8.1 users.
We now have the unique situation where Microsoft have already announced EOL for Windows 10 in two years time, when Windows 10 has almost 80% market share and Windows 11 has less than 21%.. A big reason why 11 hasn't been more widely adopted despite it being a free upgrade is because the technical specs greatly exceed that of Windows 10, despite the actual OS and its features not really being an upgrade.
Microsoft were also foolish to release Windows 11 in the midst of a global pandemic and semiconductor shortage, and now in the face of a global recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and Russo-Ukrainian War, it feels foolish to tell people their hardware is going to be out of date when they likely cannot afford to replace it.
And Linux is nowhere near as convoluted or barebones as it was fifteen years ago. The fact that you can actually run a lot of games and Windows applications through Wine and use Vulkan graphics libraries like DXVK and VKD3D to get almost DirectX levels of graphical performance is astounding. The only problem Linux honestly has is anti-cheat support, but the success of devices like the Steam Deck are already spurring anti-cheat developers to support SteamOS (and by extension, Linux.)
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Comment on Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025 in ~tech
Bullmaestro LinkI'm amazed that Microsoft are doing this, especially since a lot of PCs cannot run Windows 11. My current PC can but that's literally because I bought a new prebuilt gaming PC two months ago. It's...I'm amazed that Microsoft are doing this, especially since a lot of PCs cannot run Windows 11. My current PC can but that's literally because I bought a new prebuilt gaming PC two months ago.
It's like they're begging people to switch to Linux at this point.
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Comment on 6ix9ine - WAPAE feat. Angel Dior, Lenier, & Bulin 47 (2023) in ~music
Bullmaestro Link ParentWhat's even more baffling is that he faced far more backlash for snitching on organised criminals than for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl.What's even more baffling is that he faced far more backlash for snitching on organised criminals than for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl.
Disney's problem twenty years ago was that they were diluting their hit films with dogshit direct-to-VHS sequels. Lion King 2: Simba's Pride, Atlantis 2, 102 Dalmations, everything that came after Lilo & Stitch, etc were testaments to this. Decent sequels like Toy Story 2 were the exception rather than the norm.
One good thing Bob Iger did with his reign as Disney's CEO was focus on reviving key franchises and making new films. It's the reason why "Disney Sequel" has now become a symbol of quality rather than a cheap cash-grab.