I remain flabbergasted there’s no simpler way to get ten buttons of input and 240p of output on a generic 32-bit ARM device with a zillion official and unofficial add-ons. Especially when you look at the unholy chain of adapters necessary for input.
Especially once you swap the console playing the game for an early-model Wii, which has been hacked to hell and back, and has Gamecube, Bluetooth, and technically USB inputs.
At 22.5 x 9 x 3 cm, the Ayaneo Air 1S is more like a Nintendo Switch than a Steam Deck. In fact, it's a touch smaller than the Switch. Or slightly bigger than a medium-large banana. The retro model I've got in for review weighs only ~405g on my scales, which is a little heavier than my Switch at around ~400g but far lighter than...
Everyone who’s ever scolded people for blocking ads, ‘because otherwise we’d have to pay for stuff,’ can straight-up go fuck themselves.
This happens every time.
‘Come to our paid service, no ads! Oh wait we can get your subscription and sell your eyeballs. More money for us fuck you.’
Can’t even whine at pirates about creators not getting paid, because it’s these fucking studios not paying them. Precious few of the billboards at the writers’ strike or the actors’ strike are about you or me.
Enshittification is distinct, as a slide from genuinely free, to abusive toward users at the hands of capital, to having a stranglehold on both users and capital. Simultaneously a monopoly and a monopsony. (And anyone bickering about how mono- those have to be before the word qualifies can take it up with my middle finger.)
I have no love for this company whatsoever. Most of the their revenue streams should frankly be illegal. But I’m not exactly thrilled about every glorified software repository taking a pound of flesh off all revenue, licit or otherwise.
This all stems from the game's description of its offline (and online) multiplayer, which originally read: "Paw it out with your friends both online and offline"....
Yesterday, popular authors including John Grisham, Jonathan Franzen, George R.R. Martin, Jodi Picoult, and George Saunders joined the Authors Guild in suing OpenAI, alleging that training the company’s large language models (LLMs) used to power AI tools like ChatGPT on pirated versions of their books violates copyright laws...
They could have fitted the whole ring / tape / mouse assembly into a small paper bag Aragorn could have kept it in his jacket and fed it little bits of lembas on the way how lovely x
Yeah that totally contradicts where I said he could keep it safe, oh wait.
The text is outright telling you, eventually Sauron would get it. Not by “steamrolling” anything. Tortuously, through the use of all his power, with several hint-hint comparisons to the world itself having no strong opinion. Not because Tom Bombadil is any less capable than some half-pint farmers and a few aristocrats. He’s filled to his feather-topped brim with bullshit magic. But the power to defy the enemy is not within him. Frodo shows him the ring and he barely gives a shit.
You’re arguing like I think he’s the bestest OC ever, donut steel. Nah. He’s Roger Rabbit. Eddie gets handcuffed to Roger, they barely survive some shenanigans, and when he finally gets a hacksaw to separate them Roger slides his hand out so he can lean in and watch. Eddie understandably throttles him, demanding - “You mean you could’ve done that, at any time?!” Roger tells him: “No! Only when it was funny.”
she’s a girl boss with no obstacles to overcome or ignorances to set straight.
… did you people watch the fucking movie?!
The whole A-plot is Rose going from loyal soldier, sister to a sacrificed pawn, stopping a deserter - to someone who’d ditch precious materiel to save one life, even if it meant the army got blown up. She goes from telling Finn he can’t leave, or her sister died for nothing, to telling Finn he can’t repeat her sacrifice, because dulce et decorum est is antiquated horseshit.
What that did to Finn’s characterization is another question entirely.
TLJ was an A+ script for an anarchist deconstruction of Star Wars.
It somehow got made into an actual numbered Star Wars sequel.
The final edit has hallmarks of executives going “Oh shit” and nuh-uh-ing most of the important parts, until the final product is a C- film in a D- trilogy.
I beg you - think about how the movie begins and ends. A soldier sacrifices herself for the cause, with a hint of untrained Force use, and the enormity of that is immediately undercut by the engagement’s irrelevance. A child slave casually uses the Force while he looks to the stars. These would be incredible book-ends, if they weren’t adjacent to a goddamn prank call and a twenty-minute action sequence going ‘whoops, nevermind.’
I’m getting worked-up about the fantastic details squandered by the final product. Rey’s parents being nobody is a perfect answer. Kylo might as well stop the movie, turn to camera, and say “anyone can be a hero.” A sentiment echoed verbatim in Luke’s JJ-made-him-a-hermit training, where he’s incensed that some religious order ever laid claim to a universal energy. Rose’s sister was not a Jedi. That nameless slave child was not a Jedi. Fuck’s sake, young Anakin and teenage Luke weren’t Jedi, and they still used the Force on the regular. Luke in particular was supposed to be an everyman protagonist - some dirt-farmer who got dramatic music when he looked to the horizon.
This movie’s central thesis was recapturing that invitation. It told everyone, you, yes you, can go do cool shit. Nobody’s gonna hand you a destiny.
Was it a good movie? Nooo. But it was better-written than the first one by a mile, and the third was a clusterfuck on every conceivable level. Well, almost every level. JJ makes stupid shit so pretty. The whole thing where they erase C3PO is fractally stupid, but Rey’s almost-fight with Kylo is fucking incredible. Just a shame about all the parts where people say words.
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Ayaneo Air 1S review (www.pcgamer.com)
At 22.5 x 9 x 3 cm, the Ayaneo Air 1S is more like a Nintendo Switch than a Steam Deck. In fact, it's a touch smaller than the Switch. Or slightly bigger than a medium-large banana. The retro model I've got in for review weighs only ~405g on my scales, which is a little heavier than my Switch at around ~400g but far lighter than...
Beanie rule (sh.itjust.works)
Amazon to Run Ads in Prime Video Shows and Movies (www.wsj.com)
Oh boy, more enshittification
9-22-23 www.thefarside.com (sh.itjust.works)
Amazon to introduce ads on Prime Video in 2024 (www.breakingthenews.net)
Embracer says its ‘crazy’ outlay on platform fees exceeds its spend on game development (www.videogameschronicle.com)
What’s the funniest internet argument you’ve ever read?
Inspired by this Jon Bois video where body builders argue about the number of days in a week....
Party Animals developer addresses "confusion" around playing offline (www.eurogamer.net)
This all stems from the game's description of its offline (and online) multiplayer, which originally read: "Paw it out with your friends both online and offline"....
It's water under the bridge now, right? (startrek.website)
This is an Octobass (sh.itjust.works)
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I’d seen the story about a spacecraft making a drug in microgravity and planning to land it in the US....
Grisham, Martin join authors suing OpenAI: “There is nothing fair about this” (arstechnica.com)
Yesterday, popular authors including John Grisham, Jonathan Franzen, George R.R. Martin, Jodi Picoult, and George Saunders joined the Authors Guild in suing OpenAI, alleging that training the company’s large language models (LLMs) used to power AI tools like ChatGPT on pirated versions of their books violates copyright laws...
But first they would need to invent some tape (i.imgur.com)
They could have fitted the whole ring / tape / mouse assembly into a small paper bag Aragorn could have kept it in his jacket and fed it little bits of lembas on the way how lovely x
[SWSW] Clearly... (lemmy.world)