Eji1700's recent activity
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Comment on Mamma mia! ‘Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ karts $372M+ in global debut, best for Hollywood pic YTD; ‘Project Hail Mary’ on path to half billion in ~movies
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Comment on Suggest media in which the antagonist is an idea or an abstract concept rather than a person or intelligent entity in ~talk
Eji1700 LinkI can't think of what it was off the top of my head, but I've read at least one book, and probably other forms of media, where "Entropy" is a malignant force rather than a fact of nature.I can't think of what it was off the top of my head, but I've read at least one book, and probably other forms of media, where "Entropy" is a malignant force rather than a fact of nature.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
Eji1700 LinkMarathon - Still enjoying it. I think they've done a very good job on the balance and it keeps even lower level stuff for me enjoyable. I do wish fewer missions were "in one run" as helps you feel...Marathon - Still enjoying it. I think they've done a very good job on the balance and it keeps even lower level stuff for me enjoyable. I do wish fewer missions were "in one run" as helps you feel like you're still making progress even if you get camped out at an extract if you can say "well at least part X of a mission is done", but I get that's a tricky balance to strike.
Retroid Pocket 3 Plus Game Native - I got a RP3+ awhile ago and boy is it a FINNICKY device. After having it stuck in a boot loop years ago I shelved it. Finally got it back out, found some documentation on how to fix that (still have plenty of other oddities but it's useable), and did all this because of Game native. The point of game native is to allow you to run Steam games locally inside a container on your Android device, so I can now play games like Gravity Circuits which are low demand without any internet connection. I've still got a few bugs here or there to iron out, but this should help me plow through some of my lower demand backlog as it's much much much easier to carry than the steam deck.
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Comment on 'Dungeon Crawler Carl' TV series lands at Peacock in ~tv
Eji1700 Link ParentMy take was the first book was meh as it was just a lot of "but what if gross" with some okay storytelling. I stuck with it because the "what if gross" is less common (although still there) and...My take was the first book was meh as it was just a lot of "but what if gross" with some okay storytelling.
I stuck with it because the "what if gross" is less common (although still there) and they've done a very good job of real storytelling/world/character building.
So in short this has all the usual redflags of "oh this is going to just be shock humor" but in fact bothers to still tell a very interesting story rather than just ride that, and that's why it has been so successful (unlike, i hear, their other works which are more on the shock humor train).
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Comment on Pam Bondi ousted as US attorney general in ~society
Eji1700 LinkTo be replaced with Deputy Attorney General Todd BlancheTo be replaced with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche
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Comment on Backrooms | Official trailer in ~movies
Eji1700 LinkHere’s hoping they pull off something unique but my money is still on “character from earlier goes nuts and starts killing others”.Here’s hoping they pull off something unique but my money is still on “character from earlier goes nuts and starts killing others”.
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Comment on Disney reportedly keen on buying Fortnite developer Epic Games in ~games
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Comment on Disney reportedly keen on buying Fortnite developer Epic Games in ~games
Eji1700 Link ParentExcept right out of the gate they did exactly that... Having site wide sales to compete with your competitor, who does exactly that, kinda requires a good method of allowing people to...EGS also doesn't have as many sales events as Steam. So the need for bulk buying isn't as needed.
Except right out of the gate they did exactly that... Having site wide sales to compete with your competitor, who does exactly that, kinda requires a good method of allowing people to frictionlessly stock up on things before checking out all at once.
They solved a problem they didn't have
They screw devs behind the scenes to make up for that. EGS is practically the opposite where they put devs first.
Not really. I am aware of what steam charges, and it's a pretty fair price for the feature list provided. I'm aware of EGS's argument they put dev's first, and I think that's a very risky one to take at face value given their goal and behavior of choking the market.
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Comment on Disney reportedly keen on buying Fortnite developer Epic Games in ~games
Eji1700 Link ParentThis gets complicated fast and is why there's entire branches of law for it. Short answer is "anything is possible" and likely answer is "they wouldn't bother"This gets complicated fast and is why there's entire branches of law for it. Short answer is "anything is possible" and likely answer is "they wouldn't bother"
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Comment on Disney reportedly keen on buying Fortnite developer Epic Games in ~games
Eji1700 Link ParentI'll be money the Epic Game store is STILL a fucking black hole for funds. They want a cut of that Steam cash but steam can't be jousted with like a normal company because they're actually,...That has to be due largely to mismanagement.
I'll be money the Epic Game store is STILL a fucking black hole for funds. They want a cut of that Steam cash but steam can't be jousted with like a normal company because they're actually, mostly, doing what the consume wants. Not just screwing them in slightly different colors.
I recall chatting with an Epic Game Store dev who swore up and down they didn't need a shopping cart and it wasn't actually that important and it was on the road map anyways.
They missed the roadmap and I don't get how you can try and do "binge buy" sales without a cart.
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Comment on Vaping likely to cause lung and oral cancer, Australian researchers find in new review of evidence in ~health
Eji1700 Link ParentI mean...could it just be the human lung is not designed to inhale anything that hot over long periods of time? I know the chemicals don't help, but i'd be curious to see comparisons to the kind...I mean...could it just be the human lung is not designed to inhale anything that hot over long periods of time?
I know the chemicals don't help, but i'd be curious to see comparisons to the kind of person who sits in the hyper hot saunas all the time (both on long term effect and effective temperature in the lungs).
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Comment on TV series suggestions in ~tv
Eji1700 LinkTo throw some others on the pile, all of these are 5/5 for me personally: Easy recs: 30 Rock - Awesome comedy starring Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin Coloumbo - Everyone could use more Coloumbo. More...To throw some others on the pile, all of these are 5/5 for me personally:
Easy recs:
30 Rock - Awesome comedy starring Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin
Coloumbo - Everyone could use more Coloumbo. More seriously I find these to be fun to just throw one on because there's no stakes/overarching plot.
Fargo - Each season is different, some are better than others, they're all good, and all akin to the movie they pull their name from (weird small town crimes going wrong/right?)
Mr Robot - A very wild ride with Rami Malek
True Detective - Like Fargo every season is different. Season 1 is probably one of my favorite shows full stop. The other 3 are still quite good and, imo, get treated harshly for just "not being season 1" when they're still better than the vast majority of shows out there.
Weirder/Harder recs.
Some mixture of very niche, very dark, very offensive so depending on your tolerances i'd skip it.
Archer - starts slow and you either love it or hate it. Animated office spy comedy.
Bojack Horseman - Animated DARK comedy. One of the best shows ever made in my eyes and legit art but also not only a love it or hate it AND a starts slow, but just jaw dropping brutal at times.
Brockmire - Hank Azaria as a washed up Baseball announcer. It's hilarious and actually a shockingly ambitious show given it's starting point. Along with Shoresy and Ted Lasso has led me to believe that sports shows are 100x better than sports films.
Succession - show was "good" for it's first few seasons and "amazing" for its last season. Bunch of hyper wealthy nepo babies vying for dad's throne.
The Venture Bros - Animated Adult Swim comedy that took FOREVER for everything to come out. Starts rough but if you can tough out the first season (dear GOD skip the pilot) it only gets better. Absolutely starts as just dumb raunchy jokes/references and grows into best in its (hyper specific) class dumb raunchy jokes/references while adding lots of really clever jokes and references and legit great storytelling. It feels like the kind of show my friends and I wish we could write lampooning and nerding out about our various likes. It's basically constantly making fun of everything from every era of comic book to things like Johnny Quest.
Veep - Hilarious, and disturbingly accurate, political comedy starring Tina Fey's totally not clone Julia Louis-Dreyfuss. Willing to go just about anywhere for the punchline though.
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Comment on The bot situation on the internet is actually worse than you could imagine. Here's why. in ~tech
Eji1700 (edited )Link ParentIt is, but I'm wary of the overhead (especially if you're already trying to do minimal or no JS), the long term effectiveness (i suspect part of it's success is due to it's lack of deployment),...It is, but I'm wary of the overhead (especially if you're already trying to do minimal or no JS), the long term effectiveness (i suspect part of it's success is due to it's lack of deployment), and possible knock on effects (not sure how much it's going to change things if EVERY site is jamming PoW)
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Coincidentally I accidentally clicked the link again when going to see the topic on hacker news and it gave me a difficulty 8 pow. After about a minute my phone still hadn’t made any progress.
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Oh and now that I’m actually in the comments section seems like I’m far from the only one with this experience.
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Comment on The bot situation on the internet is actually worse than you could imagine. Here's why. in ~tech
Eji1700 Link ParentThe answer is likely "yes". There's TONS of bot farms all over the world because they're somewhat easy to run. You need the capital to get the devices you need/want and all the required...The answer is likely "yes".
There's TONS of bot farms all over the world because they're somewhat easy to run. You need the capital to get the devices you need/want and all the required infrastructure, but then it just...does the thing with some minimal maintenance by a local (who may or may not even be good at troubleshooting and just given basic instructions or having it handled remote.)
As for the botnets, well naturally? The whole point of a botnet is to do something that requires a lot of devices, and a good way to get a lot of devices is to just run in the background of someone else's system (obviously, seldom legally). Scrapping is probably a hell of a lot more lucrative and less risk than a DDOS or whatever, and as with any resource like this you're probably looking to prevent idle/downtime. You've got the "machine" so you want it running as much as possible to generate revenue to cover costs.
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Comment on The bot situation on the internet is actually worse than you could imagine. Here's why. in ~tech
Eji1700 LinkYeah scrapers are a wonderful example of all sorts of holes in our current infrastructure, standards, and legislation. "Please don't scrape my site" is basically all the teeth you've ever really...Yeah scrapers are a wonderful example of all sorts of holes in our current infrastructure, standards, and legislation.
"Please don't scrape my site" is basically all the teeth you've ever really had unless you're behind something like cloudflare. The way traffic is handled makes it very hard to identify bad actors, and the laws mean that these AI companies can just pay Asian nations for these vast swaths of data that are totally definitely legally acquired.
Its going to be a very tricky thing to handle because while it COULD be done right, it could also be used as yet another excuse to jam horrible practices into place for future control.
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Comment on I think Tildes moderators and admins may need to make a decision regarding how to handle Harry Potter related posts in ~tildes
Eji1700 Link ParentWhy can’t the same advice of “ignore it and move on” apply here? To be clear I know you’re not the one suggesting that, but would it bother you if you never saw it?Why can’t the same advice of “ignore it and move on” apply here? To be clear I know you’re not the one suggesting that, but would it bother you if you never saw it?
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Comment on I think Tildes moderators and admins may need to make a decision regarding how to handle Harry Potter related posts in ~tildes
Eji1700 Link ParentThat post is intended to be insulting to anyone who might disagree with you. Just because it wasn’t removed doesn’t mean it’s not insulting. Hell I don’t even know if it was tagged or worth Deimos...That post is intended to be insulting to anyone who might disagree with you.
Just because it wasn’t removed doesn’t mean it’s not insulting. Hell I don’t even know if it was tagged or worth Deimos time to review if it was but I don’t really see how you can claim no insults were thrown around just because you didn’t throw them directly at someone
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Comment on I think Tildes moderators and admins may need to make a decision regarding how to handle Harry Potter related posts in ~tildes
Eji1700 Link ParentI see I misunderstood what you meant by thread.I see I misunderstood what you meant by thread.
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Comment on I think Tildes moderators and admins may need to make a decision regarding how to handle Harry Potter related posts in ~tildes
Eji1700 Link ParentI've read your quote a few times in context and I really can't quite understand exactly what you're trying to get across, but I'm having a hard time coming up with a read that isn't meant as an...I've read your quote a few times in context and I really can't quite understand exactly what you're trying to get across, but I'm having a hard time coming up with a read that isn't meant as an insult when you add "but don't pretend to", since accusing someone of pretending to stand for something is very much an insult.
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Comment on I think Tildes moderators and admins may need to make a decision regarding how to handle Harry Potter related posts in ~tildes
Eji1700 Link ParentMaybe we're thinking of different topics? There's very much a ton of discussion about exactly that and what a terrible person she is following the FYI link.No one commented about Rowling's views in the other threads in that topic, though,
Maybe we're thinking of different topics? There's very much a ton of discussion about exactly that and what a terrible person she is following the FYI link.
I'm not sure what you imagine for that, but "kids summer blockbuster" has always been something with over the top stakes. People like to complain about Marvel, but honestly they were a step up from the Transformers era.