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by vlunkr 5y ago
Philosophically, that's still not convincing. Lets take the most basic form of advertising as an example. If I put a couch in my yard with a price tag on it, I'm wanting people to notice and desire to buy it, but there's no m
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by vlunkr 5y ago
> Smiling has increased with media exposure over time. That sounds really made up.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
Unless I missed something, they lost a couple of artists that weren't exactly chart toppers, and a few episodes of a podcast. I don't see the fuss.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
I don't think they're on thin ice. Remember when people were boycotting Netflix over Cuties? Their stock prices recovered and everyone forgot. People have also boycotted YouTube or pulled their ads. These things just blow over.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
I think it depends on your interests. Lots of new AAA games can't run on the switch, but most indies do.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
I don't understand people getting upset about fan projects being shut down. What do you expect to happen? You can create an earthbound-like game without calling it earthbound.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
While composability is nice, I've always assumed they were just really into OO ideas when they wrote active support.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
Well you can't write your backend in elm, so that's not much help.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
As someone who is mostly ignorant about the GTA series, can someone explain why it's so popular? When GTA 3 came out, I understood the hype around a sandbox game, but now those are everywhere.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
Exactly, even if Meta vanished out of nowhere, react is open source. It's also not even that large of a codebase.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
Or you have multiple camera angles and you switch between them to hide the cuts. Like they've done in movies forever. People started doing jump cuts in youtube videos and for some reason we're stuck with it.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
This video from a few years ago is a great counterpoint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL6hp8BKB24 It's not defending all CGI, just arguing that we only notice it when it's bad. It's basically a toupée fall
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by vlunkr 5y ago
Lots of undesirable things have been with mankind since the beginning. Not a very compelling argument.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
The other thing they didn't get into here is that the quality of ads online is generally trash. In the old advertising world there was at least some thought and work put into ads. Now they are auto-generated nightmares. Check out this
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by vlunkr 5y ago
Depends on what you mean by "like the Beatles." If you mean popularity, it's because there's only so much room culturally for artists to reach that level of popularity. They are essentially the mascot for Rock and Roll m
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by vlunkr 5y ago
LSP integration is a real game changer. I've tried different plugins but coc.nvim is the first to work incredibly well and not trash the performance.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
I used Puppeteer on a project recently to generate some really big and complex PDFs that would have been a massive pain to do any other way, so thanks for your work, and I'm very happy to hear that the project isn't dead.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
I wonder what the story is there. Why wouldn't MS just have him continue to work on Puppeteer? They're both open source, so there's not much point in "owning" their own clone of it.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
That sounds pretty cool actually. I've used a shell or ssh on my phone; it's fun,but the lack of a physical keyboard makes things incredibly awkward.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
It's interesting that Sony and MS have not even attempted to compete directly with the Switch, despite it being a massive success. They're kind of in their own market right now, which is where they usually succeed (like the Wii).
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by vlunkr 5y ago
Their comment was incredibly mild, and also accurate. Ironic that you're trying to convince people that Europeans are humble and kind.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
I didn't know it as kid, but the original TV series was created by dubbing over a Japanese show for the action scenes, and then filming new footage of the American actors for scenes when they're not in costume. The white ranger wa
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by vlunkr 5y ago
The harm done is that impressionable young people on /r/antiwork are given false hope in their dream of getting paid to do nothing so they can play more video games.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
Yeah this is the big red flag for me. I believe that a law firm without a ton of technical knowledge would hire someone to do this work manually, but they'd get an intern or something, this is not skilled work.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
Indie games might be a good place to start. Whatever genre of older games you are into, there are probably new indie games exploring the same ideas.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
I agree, I'm not saying things were necessarily better then.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
It's a tangent, but it's incredible to me that people used to ship video games and other software on physical media and it worked fine. Now you can drop a big turd on the steam store initially and it's just business as usual.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
They didn't directly rip assets, but based on those screenshots, they obviously mimicked tons of assets. Armor, weapons (the frying pan, really?), structures, and even some level design. That, combined with the fact that the design of
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by vlunkr 5y ago
That's a deep cut that I really appreciate.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
> Websites should still be functional (even if a bit inconvenient) without Javascript. I don't see why it needs to go that far. They could have just not used the optional chaining operator, or used a pre-processor if they really wan

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