ManosTheHandsOfFate @ ManosTheHandsOfFate @lemmy.world

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I saw the first in the theater and my expectations were way too high and I left disappointed. I just rewatched it at home the other day and felt a lot better about it this time around. I think now that I know what I'm getting into, I'll have a better time with the second one.

I'm not going to watch that show but man do I find that kind of content weirdly entertaining in 5-10 minute chunks on YouTube.

A lot of my printing happens when parents visit. They love to print everything. I'm much more likely to use the scanner on my Brother printer than actually print.

Yeah, sweat tea is the worst.

I remember a time when news for most people came from the local paper and/or a 30 minute network evening TV show. Both were written by real journalists who attempted to be unbiased.

Obscure, cult, and foreign genre movies. I like finding films that have been lost to time and I have this probably irrational fear that if I don't acquire them they'll disappear and I'll lose my chance to see them.

I don't think there's a backlash against shorter games. Ubisoft found a formula that has kept people playing their games for long periods of time, and if anything, there's a backlash against these long, collect-a-thons.

Yeah, I feel that way about all entertainment. I don't want to be watching 8 hour movies, reading a book for six months, or sitting through 20 seasons of a TV show. There are so many entertainment options, it seems crazy to spend so much time on one thing.

I'm currently enjoying Witcher 3 but at the 80 hour mark I'm seriously considering finishing Hearts of Stone and then taking a break before tackling Blood and Wine.

I got unlimited, synchronous 1 Gbps a year ago and I agree that for day-to-day applications it's not much different from the 250 Mbps I was getting from Comcast. There are a few noteworthy exceptions for me: (1) It's much easier to maintain a good torrent ratio (2) Large backups, like system images, to the cloud are much more feasible now. (3) Comcast limited me to 1.2 Tb a month which sounds like a lot until you realize how quickly you can kill that downloading modern games.

In general I think less about my internet service now. It's not at all life changing but it's nice.

Yeah from an audio/video quality standpoint we've taken a big step backwards with streaming. I'd rather watch an HD blu-ray movie than a 4K stream from Netflix or Max. With a semi decent multi-channel sound system the streaming offering is even more stark.

I lived in Niger from '86 to '92 as a kid. It's sad to see a country in which I spent my formative years in such bad shape. There are so many wonderful Nigeriens that don't deserve this

Yeah, I don't think this even qualifies as news.

I'm not sure any car company could make me feel comfortable about using a full auto feature.

I think it would be completely reasonable to put an upper age limit on elected officials - say you can't run after 75. You can run right before 75 and serve as an elected official for a few more years, but after that you're done.

Add soon as I started reading it i had this feeling that I'd heard this story or something very like it before.

Not sure how you had your Chromecast set up but I have the 4K version on one TV and the Nvidia Shield on another. The apps I want are favorited and sit right in the center of the screen. I turn it on with my remote and select the app to launch it. I'm not sure it could be any simpler.

Yeah that stood out as super weird.

I feel cynical about this and don't think we live in a time when most people's minds can truly be changed. Therefore I choose not to engage most people about politics and so find it easier to like people.

There's definitely a samurai cop. I've seen the movie.

"In a video message, an “ecstatic” PragerU CEO Marissa Streit announced the “move into schools,” claiming “parents have been frustrated, teachers have been frustrated,” because “schools have been hijacked by the left"

Assuming there's any truth at all to it, why is the go-to solution to schools being hijacked by the left for them to now be hijacked by the right?