Geek_King @ Geek_King @lemmy.world

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Always Carry A Banana

That sincerely sounds like someone caught saying something stupid trying to spin it into something less bad.

In 50 years people will back on us the same we look at all those people in the late 1800's and early 1900's using asbestos in tons of stuff.

I don't agree with Epic trying to artificially segment the PC market with needless timed exclusives. If they want to compete with Steam, make a better product, but don't remove choice from the consumer. With that being said, I vote with my wallet and time on this one, I won't install Epic, or give them money.

Oh yes, I'm very expected about Space Marine 2, especially when I found out it's co-op for up to 3 players! The problem is, GW has a problem with having shitty games get made, Martyr wasn't very good, Darktide was received very poorly, buggy, unoptimized. Deathwing, same thing, buggy, glitchy, shallow.

Yes pretty much any other genre of game would be great, The RTS games in the Dawn of War series were great, 1 and 2 were fantastic, 3 was hot trash. First Person Shooters would be nice, 3rd person action games, god even a Telltale Games style story driven narrative game in the setting of you being an Inquisitor chasing a heretic would be wonderful. There are just so many things they could do with the setting! For me the sweet spot is audio books, I love listening to stories sets in the WH40k universe! The Eisenhorn series was fantastic! I also love a ton of various space marine centric stories. But I adore the Necron and had a massive amount of fun with The Infinite and The Divine (Warhammer 40,000), and The Twice Dead King series.

I know of those games, but when you compare the number of turn based tactical games vs how many are different genres, the ratio is pretty crazy.

I love the setting of WH40k, but I don't like tactical games. I don't play the table top for this reason, so for GW to have this giant fleshed out universe and just about exclusively make games similar to their top top offers feels like a huge waste. They could be commissioning so many other game types!

You think a “troll farm” can influence elections? Imaginary or not? Really? Okay, but that’s not Russiagate. Yes, in swing states a few hundred votes is the difference between one candidate vs another candidate, so targeted inflammatory ads to motivate more people to get out and vote definitely can make a difference. That's why Facebook sell adds to a hostile nation to influence elections is dirty as hell.

You should be thanking them no?
\ If Hilary's emails were such a big deal then when the FBI investigated they would have charged her and her IT staff, they did not. Those email leaks were designed and timed to hurt Hilary and help Trump.

Trump has shown over and over again that he idolizes dictator strong men. He's like a groupie when it comes to Putin, that isn't a quality we should have in a President. Or do you think Russia has the U.S.'s best interests in mind, and they're our friend?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections Date June 16, 2015 – November 8, 2016 Also known as Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections Motive Destabilization of the United States Election of Donald Trump Removal of U.S. sanctions on Russia Perpetrator Russia[who?] Outcome Trump elected president Mueller probe

Because Biden is worse? As has been proven now. Because Fox News told you he's worse? When you consume straight up lies it's pretty crazy how much it twists your perspective. Please provide me some evidence that Biden is objectively worse then Trump. There are so many horrid things Trump did, as opposed to the imagine shit Fox News spews about the "Biden Crime Family". 20 years ago I would have said that both parties were pretty similar, just slightly different opinions. But now, we have one party that lives in reality, and one that doesn't. One party that wants to help make peoples lives better, and one that just wants to shit on the disadvantaged, the vulnerable, while stripping rights from the American people, and of course giving tax breaks to the richest and huge corporations.

Yeah I remember that as well, and I was surprised that it didn't even move the needle during the investigation. The investigation was looking for direct enlisting of help from russia as an agreement. Him saying "Russian, if you're listening..." was flippant and didn't prove what the investigation was looking for. It sucks, because if a hostile nation is rooting for one candidate over another due to the chaos and division he'll sew, that's a very bad sign. Here we are years after his 1 term, and we're still fractured in a way no one in living memory has seen. This sucks, I have no idea how to even begin to heal the damage this moron has caused.

The phrase "A useful idiot" comes to mind. He's a dangerous mix of stupid, lack of empathy, with a massive dose of narcissism.

Oof, what a callous asshole. That ladies comments about that guy of "We don't need you" is spot on. Someone with such casual treatment to an innocent death has no business being any where near a position of authority.

Did Donald Trump directly ask Russia for help winning the election? No. Did Russia want Donald Trump to win so he'd sow chaos and division? Yes.

Russia's troll farm did their level best to help him win. Russian entities bought ads on facebook targeting swing states with inflammatory ads like "HILARY WILL TAKE YOUR GUNS".

[https://www.wired.com/story/russian-facebook-ads-targeted-us-voters-before-2016-election/](How Russian Facebook Ads Divided and Targeted US Voters Before the 2016 Election)

Russian hackers released the info about Hilary's email server, which hurt her severely in the election. Donald Trump has spoken glowingly about Putin on many occasions:

[https://www.npr.org/2022/02/22/1082478790/trump-praises-putin-as-savvy-amid-new-escalations-on-russia-ukraine-border](Trump praises Putin as 'savvy' amid new escalations on Russia-Ukraine border)

So to paint it as "Russiagate" and as something that isn't real is a bit disingenuous and simplifying something to minimize it's importance.. It's complicated, but clearly if Russia prefers Trump over any other candidate, there's a reason for that.

What the hell is this abomination of an edited comic!?

I hope that bodyguard is well hidden! This guy must have REALLY HATED working for Putin if he was willing to flee and risk being murdered in retaliation.

I can appreciate how algorithms might be helpful with seeing what you like and helping you find other stuff similar for you to enjoy. I think the issue comes when you end up getting pigeon holed and only see certain things, despite maybe wanting to see something completely different. I noticed this when I saw what my Dad's Netflix looks like compared to mine. He had all sorts of movie suggestions I've never seen before due to his different watching patterns.

We're both in agreeance that they could do a better job with movie descriptions though.

I joke that I pay 15 dollars a month to watch thumb nails of movie box art scroll by from right to left. I've thought a lot about this, why was it easier to find a movie to watch when you drove to a video rental store? I think it's because there was a shift in how descriptions of movies were being done from Tape/DVD era to streaming. You'd get a few paragraphs and a few pictures on the back of a DVD or Tape, but on streaming you get one MAY BE two sentences. Plenty of times I passed by a movie on netflix called "The Devil's Rock" the box art look like cinemax T'n'A garbage, and the description made it sound very run of the mill shitty horror relying on tits and shitty monster effects. I ended up watching the movie and I was really impressed on how well it was done and how god damn poor the description was.

I also think the move toward algorithms deciding every single fucking aspect of what we see across all platforms has had a huge part in this trend. When combined with the shitty non-helpful descriptions, the algorithm just randomly picks a fraction of whats available to show you in weird, always different categories. When you'd go to a video store, they had back stock, which was organized by genre. So you could walk in and just be in the mood for a horror movie, or a sci-fi movie and browse based on that interest. It's a lot harder to browse based on genres on most streaming apps, Netflix used to let you look at a full list of genres but most streaming services have moved away from that.

So in summary, shitty descriptions for movies, ever shifting categories where you have little control in what you get presented. This makes the total available list of movies feel amorphous. No way to, or not easy to find genres to help narrow down based on a general mood. It's ironic, we have more access to just about any movie you want, but it's harder to actually settle on anything in particular. Also, the move toward streaming has meant that if a movie isn't carried by any major platforms, it for all intense and purposes, doesn't exist. For many years, it was very difficult to find Dogma any where to stream, as an example.

I could make suggestions on how to fix this, but I don't know, maybe they'd help, maybe they wouldn't. It doesn't matter because all tech companies are in fucking love with their algorithms to steer users.

Perry Bible Fellowship is a treasure.

Space Garbage Men, job of the future. In all seriousness, I'm glad they're looking at solutions, because this issue can get out of hand very fast from what I've read. If we had no regard for the build up of space trash, we could have a halo of debris making leaving the planet impossible, or at the very least, dangerous.

Yeah, they taste awful to me, very overpowering. I think I've heard some people can be more sensitive to bitter flavors, so it's possible that's why I don't like anything with bitterness as one of its traits.

There is zero flaws in your math! I'll have to use this as a talking point when introducing my self (not really, but maybe down the line after I know someone)