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  • I prefer to think of it as they made a bad show on purpose, and then tried to claim that the reasons why it's bad are the reasons why it's good actually.

    Don't get me wrong, the plot (what little of it I did see) was pretty good, and the acting was (mostly) pretty good, the set design and costuming and whatnot was pretty good. Very high production quality. The problems that you pointed out with the writing I 100% agree with, and relegate what could have been a great show to expensive background noise.

    Dune Prophecy did the same thing, and it was in those conversations I found the term "3rd screen content". The studios really are doing this on purpose.

  • yeah, this is actually completely unacceptable default behavior, and I've been unable to find a setting to change it. I'm on a metered data connection, so the video buffering without me interacting with it first is literally costing me money. I went straight to the comments to avoid this.

  • I've usually seen big bang theory compared to jersy shore.

    one is a smart show about dumb people, and the other is a dumb show about smart people.

    if we follow this logic, does that make it crowd a smart show about smart people?

  • I'm talking about normies, not gamers, and not power users like yourself.

    Normies touch their pc for less than one hour a day, because everything they could want is in their phone. Many normies don't even have internet connections in their home because they exclusively engage with the internet through their phone. I've talked to normies who don't have pcs at all because their ipads do everything they could possibly want.

    It's a fact that there are certain games that simply do not run on linux, because of drm or developer stupidity or any number of reasons. As a separate argument, I'd argue that those games are not worth playing. I used to be a hardcore gamer, I've gotten old since then and become a casual. I don't have time nor energy to dedicate to figuring out why game x won't run on pc y with configuration z. If the big green play button doesn't work, I refund the damn thing, and in my almost 2 years of linux usage I have yet to need to do that. Another separate argument is my disdain for AAA games, the lack of ethics in their creation, and the abysmal conditions in which they always launch in these days.

    So as to your actual question, can I convince you to switch your gaming pc to linux? No, and I'm not even going to try. If you insist on playing the latest AAA slop that the megacorps shovel at you, then you must have windows and you must continue to allow microsoft to continue to rape your digital existence in order to have crappy entertainment that I wouldn't dignify with the time of day.

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  • As the years go by and I approach my {redacted}'s, I am frequently reminded of and learning of ways in which my parents were both smarter and stupider than I ever could have known.

    My mom can accurately describe a dozen different behaviors that I expressed throughout my childhood that indicated add or autism or something, yet still she was (and still is) adamant that I am a perfectly normal human being. I can't tell if she's just trying to be supportive in her own dysfunctional way, or if she can't accept that she produced a defective offspring. She is responsible for the quote "I don't need a doctor's permission to be weird", and I fucking love that.