I’m struggling to get my head around someone who just got into Star Trek starting with Picard.
I mean, fine - if you enjoyed it that’s great! But it’s a show explicitly about exploring the later life of a franchise figurehead. If you didn’t watch any of the earlier series or movies first you’re missing 90%+ of the context for what’s happening, surely?
In that case you might remember people having similar reactions to Hootie & the Blowfish or Nickelback.
They’re all very popular, with big-selling albums, but very ‘safe’, overproduced, bland perhaps. That combined with overexposure creates a backlash and it becomes cool to hate them.
Old enough to remember the massive backlash against disco? Same thing, different era.
They’ve become quite common in the uk over the last year or so too.
I believe it’s intended to make the material easier to process for recycling. Something about very small pieces of plastic (like loose bottle caps) being tough to properly sort at the plant, so they wanted a way for them to stay with the bottle instead.
It’s not just down, it’s gone:
Absolutely not the same.
The key defining characteristic of a game is interactivity: the ability to affect the outcome in some way. Some games allow for less freedom than others in that respect, but watching someone else play and make those decisions for you is always going to be fundamentally different to playing it yourself.
Not to diminish the value of streams, especially if you find enjoyment in watching them, but you should understand that it’s not a comparable experience.
the optics of such a move cannot be considered ideal
This is a pretty good descriptor for almost everything the Browns do these days.
It’s hard enough finding one job - how in the hell are these people getting five?
That’s just the reality of ‘adult’ being the most common euphemism for porn in English, as in ‘adult films’. It’s not going anywhere.
On the other hand, this is Valve capitulating to PayPal and removing games from sale for everyone because a payment provider didn’t like them. Not a good precedent to set.
Just dropping in to say what follows in this thread is the most pointless, overblown argument I’ve seen in a very long time.
Full-on, unironically, arguing over dictionary definitions with each other and trading insults.
This is what the internet does to some people. Look on and despair.
Why save 2 clicks when you could save 3?
The menu item in question reads as follows:
Chicken Pops
Small, itchy, blister-like bumps caused by the varicella-zoster virus; common in childhood.
I get something like what you’re describing with my M3 Air when using an Anker 555 hub to connect to an external monitor via HDMI. Most of the time it’s fine, but occasionally I will get a distortion/interference effect on the external screen, kind of like rolling horizontal bars or flickering. Sometimes quite subtle, other times very distracting.
I’ve tried swapping out cables and repositioning devices in various configurations: it’s not the cables, and other devices don’t exhibit the same issue when displaying through the same hub.
I’ve also noticed that certain patterns onscreen cause it to happen more easily - checkerboards and fine diagonal stripes in particular. Very odd, and means there are some websites and apps that can semi-reliably trigger it.
I almost wonder if it’s something to do with how macOS is scaling the image for the display, and that not playing nice with the hub’s HDMI encoder for some reason?
I have 6a
The pic from the article with candles and ray traced reflections is giving big ‘time cube’/geocities conspiracy theory energy
Wow, Silverlight - now there’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.
Good day for laundry! Otherwise, staying sheltered indoors.
We’re lucky enough to have aircon upstairs if things get too spicy, but just keeping the curtains drawn and the windows closed is working for now.
Because YouTube thumbnails are designed to generate clicks and engagement (including this conversation right here!), not to be correct or informative.
Interesting! I wonder if it’s in any way linked to the word ‘doobie’?
Not personally, and if a creator I follow did so I would unsub immediately. It’s lazy and insulting to the audience.
Anyone who cites an LLM or AI-generated summary as a legitimate source can’t be trusted to provide truthful or accurate information.