Different financial goals. Movie series are designed around a hype cycle to put out a major blockbuster every few years or whatever and produce massive ROI at the box office. Word of mouth and reviews matter; if it isn’t widely liked, it’ll get less revenue.

Series are produced by streaming providers primarily to entice new customers on to their platform and rake in subscription fees. Once they have the customers from season one, there’s less incentive to keep pumping money into the series. They rely on customer inertia and make it difficult to cancel a subscription to keep you around.

They do, but differently than us. They trade some sharpness and colour perception for field of view, low light vision, and speed / motion tracking. 30fps to a cat would look like a series of stills. Source via Archive.org

The BOM really needs to get their shit together regarding HTTPS. It’s 2025 ffs.

Is this the new standard for measuring bullshit?

Dialing in to a local BBS to play 4-player deathmatch DooM 2, circa 1995.

Holy shit this is still running?

Okay but bardcore is a real thing

Bittersweet. My partner’s mother is terminally ill, so we’ve been trying to make it as special as possible because it’s unlikely she’ll see another one. It’s been nice, but there’s that vague undercurrent of inevitable loss.

We don’t. The point is to reduce attack surface relative to target value. People use a VPN for piracy, for example, not because it’s totally secure, but because rights holders generally aren’t going to bother going after a single person when they’d have to go thru a VPN provider as well. OTOH someone doing it on clearnet is being logged by their ISP and the data is right there. OTOOH, the three letter agencies are absolutely going to bother if they have a tip that you’re doing something really dangerous to the status quo.

TL;DR: It’s like IRL security. If somebody really wants your shit, they’ll find a way to get it. The point is to make it generally not worth it.

Jesus fuck at least touch up your AI slop before vomiting it on the internet

It’s worth noting that Ad Standards is the industry self-regulatory body. They don’t do anything pro-actively, and nothing they do is legally enforceable. They don’t have the power to issue fines or enforce takedowns and all their recommendations are just that – recommendations. Member organisations tend to abide by the industry rules, but they themselves had a hand in writing those rules. All that really amounts to is the occasional withdrawal of an ad -after- it’s been running long enough to have complaints received and reviewed. In the meantime, the damage is frequently already done. More frequently it’s a case of “we have investigated ourselves and found we’ve done nothing wrong” (note the number of “no breach” decisions in the article). Non-members, OTOH, are under no obligation to do anything at all (the Gotham City ad in the article is still running AFAIK, despite being declared a breach – Gotham City are not a member of Ad Standards). All it really does is acts as a way for people to feel like their complaints are being heard while fundamentally changing nothing.

could help the affordable housing crisis

Yeah because private investors owning tons of homes totally isn’t how we got into this mess in the first place.

The first one wasn’t even good.

Happened in 2017. Twice.

I mean that’s true too, assuming you don’t destroy your air fryer first.

Okay this is a shitpost, but ffs don’t try this. That’s a small electric fan-forced oven. There’s a nonzero chance the airflow will splash water all over the inside, which is absolutely not liquid proof. Water + electricity == bad.

The only downside I’m seeing is that now you have 30 nuggets.

Thing is, he has a big enough bankroll to just keep throwing shit at the wall until something sticks. 100Mil for a triple-A game is effectively pocket change when you’re worth a couple hundred billion. He’ll keep trying until he gets bored or stumbles onto the next Fortnite out of sheer luck.

Straight to the recycle bin, then.

Whatever you get, invest in a decent quality USB audio interface with ASIO support. You’ll notice the lag with WDM drivers if you ever try to hook up a controller.