Posts by blackdog

You guys seen The Social Dilemma (and The Great Hack)?

There are people even previously employed in these companies that work and advocate to minimise the time spent.

Disconnect (2012) was a good film about how people get caught up and the risks of online bullying.

As for usage of these networks, as soon as the functions to monitor how much you use certain apps and services was available on my phone, I immediately set Facebook to 20 min a day - which I almost never reach, when I do is mostly because of looking up stuff on Marketplace. But before that I had already started logging off the thing every time I used it, so whenever I compulsively went to it on my computer, I would have to pause, think and most times close the tab. I also had already removed all notifications, Lock Screen, badges etc.

Now when I open it I check my notifications and often close after that. It’s hilarious to see how the algorithm is trying to get me interested, notifying me of different things.

~@Human Doctor not sure how you find Instagram less toxic, there’s been plenty of noise about how it’s even more dangerous for kids than Facebook, that the bullying is even worse.

They were running an experiment of removing the “like” function, but not sure if it’s gone past that, haven’t used it in ages.

Quote from ThunderKeil

On 10/31/2021 at 1:29 AM, ThunderKeil said: Just watched bird box, it's pretty good

http://# Hide contents Did leave me a bit unsatisfied about, like, what the actual ''effect'' is, though. I mean, from what little I recall of it being discussed, I guess the ambiguity is part of its ''thing'' - which I mean yea sure but are you really gonna tell me they spent 5 years holed up literally not looking outside and they never had a thorough discussion of exactly what the fuck is going on? Hell, at the very start you get Mrs. bald dude killing herself while seemingly talking to her long-deceased mother, and, like - that's mentioned once - barely - and then never touched on again? I mean hell at various points Malory hears the whispers too - at least I'm pretty sure she hears them before the final long forest scene - and . . . she doesn't feel its important to prepare the kids for that? ''hey so by the way it's not just about not looking at this shit - it's gonna whisper in your ears and you gotta not listen to what it says yea?'' Kind of feels like that was just left out so they could have the scene where, well, exactly that fucking happens.

And why the hell doesn't it affect the insane? Does it play into your sense of compassion, insinuating those without one are affected differently? I know people dislike excess exposition in storytelling but this apparent utter lack of curiosity of the main characters is just as weird. Also, they showed very little emotion during scenes where it seems they should have - like, I know - shock, and all that - but malory & the bald dude lose a very close relation at the beginning of the story and she's just ''wow dude no I'm shook as hell'' while he behaves like someone just wrecked his car. Which on his part I suppose is kind of part of his character but even then, come on he just watched her self-immolate and he legitimately does not seem phased by this beyond being angry that it's Ms. main character's fault that it happened. Mind you, this is all well before the actual ''well it's the end of the world so what you gonna do'' part of the story.

And you're gonna tell me the effect still works through a camera system but not through a clearly very translucent piece of cloth? And those ghost things are capable of tracking and hunting people down but are equally content to just, like, leave after a few seconds? Surely if they were conscious entities hell-bound on making people kill themselves they'd just . . . keep battering you once they've found you?

RIP Charlie, you were too good for this world

You can’t really reason on these stories. They hold most of their appeal in not telling… like you I’d say it was ok, but given the amount of memes and noise about it, I was expecting it to be much more freaky.

It reminded me of The Happening, but in retrospective, for as apparently silly explanation, it was better (for me).

I enjoyed much more 10 Cloverfield Lane or A Quiet Place, which I recommend if you haven’t seen.

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I watched Ghostbusters for the first time(!) the other day.

I always snobbed it because it came out the year after I was born, so when I was about the age of watching it, it was already old and aged.

Quote from FMPONE

12 hours ago, FMPONE said: I think it was fair to wait and see. Dune only gets weirder from here. I mean, I can understand the studio being cautious about "guy turns into sandworm"

Spoiler alert

I wasn’t expecting a sequel, thought they were cramming the whole thing into one ?

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@Minos dunno if you’ve seen it, but Keanu boy is launching a comic book. Think got funded on Kickstarter… you should easily find it.

I’m more interested in the Batman stand-alone series. Top of my list there would be the one that inspired the new film, Long Halloween, and the Gotham by Gaskight.

Dune 2 needs to be shot from an RTS top down view ?

Quote from Buddy

2 hours ago, Buddy said: Zuck, Gates, Bezos etc are all one trick ponies... all hail elon musk - neuralink is where it's going to be.

I’m team GabeN when we talk of neuro-implants. I used to like Elon, with time I find him a smoke-seller, borderline scammer.

I would still highly enjoy having a chat with him for one of those “who would you have dinner with”, but.

Also on a Spider-man rampage for some reason, so I’ve listened to the Homecoming and the PS4 game soundtracks

Unknown worlds acquired

https://www-eurogamer-net.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.euroga…-unknown-worlds

Quote from ┌HP┘

2 hours ago, ┌HP┘ said:

In the next few years, both the metaverse and defi will become huge. I've been reading a lot about it these in the past couple months, so the fact that Facebook goes ahead and announces this felt pretty surreal. Can't think of a more power hungry and cocky enough company than Facebook to even attempt such a thing, to the point of have it on their name. Since Google is already doing this albeit in a more sneaky way, by the way they're developing their ecosystem. Kudos to Facebook for not even trying to hide it, I guess.

https://www.matthewball.vc/the-metaverse-primer

I'm very interested in the defi side of metaverse. Whether we want it or not, money rules our lives so to have that aspect on a decentralized chain sounds better than a dictatorial centralized power entity.

You referring to Google or Facebook, to develop their own thing. Cos just saw the news and Facebook/Meta is proposing somewhat of an open standard or at least a collab of players to create a larger space

The physics on that Warthog should be a bit more realistic?

If you were holding off for a discount, is already 34% off.

Watching the fly through makes me want to reinstall CS ? lots of interesting angles

Quote from Human Doctor

14 hours ago, Human Doctor said: People have already mods for these games that make them look great.

Also I doubt it's running on UE. Why would they do that? Wouldn't it be much easier to use their own in-house engine?

I guess download the mods while you can, 2K/Rockstar haven’t treated the community of fan/modders very well.

I had the same skepticism in terms of engine, but mine was in direct correlation of rumours of complete remakes. I didn’t see any logic in redoing all the assets, and porting to a different engine… when they have their own that frankly looks great.

I’ve run a couple of searches and here and there confirms it is running on UE. Articles mention the mobile games were built with Unreal… so I guess what we have is an upgraded porting of the mobile games ? (which I had totally forgotten they existed, now that I think of it, I believe I even bought one!)

Quote from Poofoge

12 hours ago, Poofoge said: I don't think anyone would buy a 40$ or a 60$ remastered trilogy TBH

Considering the price for latest AAA it might even look like a deal for some. For 25 I would have got it, if the graphical upgrades were more substantial.

Wow, it’s hardly any better.

*but it is indeed running on UE according to gameranx

Using this space as personal bookmark lol

Jeebus, “can it run Crysis?”. This seems taken from the first game!* ?

I bet the game would run better remade in UE4 lol

*not that it looks like the first game, but some angles remind me of scenes from it, with quality turned up

There’s already a topic for that

https://migrationtest.mapcore.org/topic/1302-wip…el-screenshots/