You know, maybe i dont know enough about games as i am a casual these days, aside from baldurs gate 3 which is a fucking masterpiece, i really like the 2 (soon to be 3) star wars jedi games outcast and survivour. They are like a much easier souls mixed with the 3d prince of persia (sands of time, warrior within, two thrones) games but are very story driven. I am very excited to see what will happen in the final game in the trilogy qhen it comes out.

If you dont mind me asking, how old are you?

I grew up from 0 to mid-20s watching tv this way. As a child in the UK we had limited options, there were 4 (eventually) 5 analogue tv channels, which quite early on became something between 30 and 100 when we got “sky” tv (satellite) and that became somewhere close to 500 with some duplicates a bit later. But all of this was adverts every 10 to 15 minutes. Most programs ran in 30-minute blocks, including adverts. So either your show was 20 minutes with a break in the middle and the end to make it to 30, or it was 40 mins with a break every 10 minutes to make it to 1 hour. Breaks were about 5 mins each.

Generally this lead to channel hopping, you would watch fresh prince of bel air until the break, then swap to 5 minutes of a show that you dont need to follow like cow and chicken or a music channel and then swap back to fresh prince to catch the second half. As we got older, the breaks became a chance for talking or getting a drink or something.

Thats why i ask if you are young, because im 36 and i can remember tv being this way and not having an issue, but also feel like i couldnt go back to that way because its so much better now.

The issue is the big streaming services are all going that way and putting adverts before and even in between and in the middle of shows so soon i will be back to piracy :/ i guess.

They sound a lot like an ex colleague of mine who had aspergers. They latched on to me because they got promoted to a different team in the same office as me when i got promoted and they would not stop talking to me, and about the most inane and mundane shit. Stuff i didnt gove a fuck about

I would be polite i would answer and engage in the conversation but if it had been too long and i felt managers eyes in the back of my head i would just fizzle out and start to turn back to my screen and say something like “ok, well, i need to get on” and they would go away.

I believe they were this way because of aspergers. They could never tell when i was uninterested or when i was busy with something. They didn’t pick up on social cues. They just kept talking.

I wonder if it’s a similar reason with your colleague?

I never liked track 3. I skip straight to track 4 to save Time

😎

You should know. Money is in 7/4 thats 7 quarter notes in a bar.

1Dum 2dum 2.5da 3dum 4dum 5dum 6dum 7dum

I guess the sad thing is, that given the way things are, i cant blame people for thinking this way. Because be honest. Would you put it past them to not do it?

I can 100% see healthcare and pharmaceutical companies doing this for profits.

And the owl turned 360 degrees, and walked away…

Wow! So wealth transcends racism?! We’ve done it boys! 😜

To anyone downvoting this. It’s meta humour and its spot on.

What is it that a fartographer would do exactly?

If a cartographer maps out the land, would a fartographer map out the bowels?

And it wears me out…

I really dont mind sucking at capitalism.

That’s like saying “you suck at giving people cancer” or saying “you are terrible at being a complete dildo”

Yeah. I am fine with that.

I dont believe this is inherent. It’s not human nature. Its social conditioning as a result of living in a capitalist society.

In a capitalist society, yes. Absolutely a lot of people would do this. But even then, its not everyone.

I live in capitalism but i would certainly not force someone to pay me to let them out of a trap. Especially if they were suffering. And i would never befriend someone that would.

I would think they were a cunt.

I know this is off topic and not really that important but i can never stop myself from pointing this out about a commonly misused phrase.

Its not fuck sakes, because a fuck doesn’t sake

Its fuck’s sake, because the sake belongs to the fuck.

In fairness, i completely agree that the experts mentioned in the article are more than likely a reliable source of information here and their opinion is almost certainly the one i would side with, not being a biologist by any stretch of the imagination myself.

However, that’s not really my point. My point is that this person immediately, condescendingly and patronisingly disputed the claim of aomeone who at the very least sounded like they knew what they were talking about, without showing any evidence that they themselves are a reputable source of doubt and without knowing anything about the person they were disputing.

I dont think that’s a healthy way to discuss things.

I dont think i have given them any credit. I would argue i simply didn’t dispute them out of hand. Especially as you did without backing myself up with evidence of my own credentials.

I also thought i expressed that we should all be sceptical of anything we read on the internet. My issue was how you weighted your sceptisism. You seem to have automatically given all credibility to a reporter, under the assumption that they held no bias that affected the story they wrote.

For all you know, the random poster on the internet may be a legitimate scientist and expert who disagrees with them. Their opinion may be just as valid as the opinion in the report.

As a recent example, google released a quantum computer chip, and lemmy immediately ripped apart the reports and media buzz around what it was actually capable of. I believe that this is a great example of healthy sceptisism.

I believe that what you did is an example of unhealthy or misplaced sceptisism.

Granted, if it turned out that this random poster was absolutely unqualified to make the assertions that they did then absolutely you would be in the right.

I just dont think its helpful to dispute them out of hand with nothing to back you up.

Fair enough. Its not a great sign that this is likely to continue.

Thinking about it, i wonder how many vendors rely on big players like LG for parts.

You know, like in the phone market and car market for example. Vendors use parts and designs from other vendors all the time. Googles folding screen comes from samsung. In fact, samsung make parts for a ton of other manufacturers.

You read what they wrote and became sceptical of their credentials? I mean, it’s healthy to be cautiously sceptical of anything you read/hear to an extent. But to immediately and without any further discussion, call them out in a patronising and condescending way is wild.

It makes me want to know if you have a background in biology. Since you so readily dispute someone else’s. Someone who, at least on the surface, seems to know what they are talking about.

In fact, why do you give so much credit to the legitimacy of the article and its writer, there might be a “38 strong group” of nobel laureates and experts warning about this, but the writer of the article adds the spin. The writer decides how to portray the warnings and their urgency. They might be overselling this. And since there is little to no citation in the article, i am more inclined to question the articles’ legitimacy before i query this poster…

I just read LG has stopped manufacturing blueray players. Meaning, soon, the dvds/bluerays at your local library will be defunct :(

There are apps that can work this out for you

So either i say im going to sleep “now” and it tells me all the times that will align with light sleep and i can choose one to set an alarm for. (It even accounts for the average time it takes people to fall asleep)

Or i can say i want to be up at X time, and it tells me the best times to put my head on the pillow (phone off and eyes closed actually trying to sleep)

Sometimes it works out better for me to get slightly less or more sleep if it means waking during light sleep.