Usenet.

What argument? The article appears to claim that the reason there’s more bad CGI now is studio leadership changing stuff in post and failing to plan.

Nope, they really don’t. You may have to engineer a cooling station.

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And nothing of value was lost.

Why? Palestinians aren’t synonymous with Hamas.

China is a state capitalist regime lol.

Corporate consumer brands are crap now. If you want quality you have to buy from craftsman with janky websites they built in 1995 or sometimes on Etsy. There are still tailors and leather workers and so on doing their thing, but you won’t find them on Amazon.

The crazy thing here is that she wasn’t even traveling to Dubai. It was a layover! And all she wanted was help putting on some sort of medical device they made her remove. The whole thing was basically an extortion scheme.

Well when you hoover up companies left and right…

I take it your server has been BUSY.

Love that shot from Elite, nice work.

Raft is really fun but explains very little about how things work.

A trap for the unwary.

I have a black and white laser but am considering color for crafting purposes. But the B/W laser has done well for years and rarely needs toner.

I am surprisingly ok with this.

I don’t know what “morally lazy” means as the author never defines the construct. Discord has an uncertain monetization model, sure. It’s not great for privacy. It will, no doubt, follow Doctorow’s “enshittification” model.

And then I’ll just spin up a Mumble server or something. So what? Should I feel bad for using a service while I can? Should I feel bad for having fun conversations with my friends? Maybe not everything has to be a fraught struggle of good vs evil.

I found a job that doesn’t ask me for 50 hours a week and they go to bed at a reasonable hour. But don’t ask me what I’m not spending enough time doing, like working out. Or how much we spend on takeout (way, WAY too much). And on top of that I have pretty great family support.

Basically, it’s hard even under ideal conditions with some less than great compromises.

Play Gris, if for no other reason than the art. It’s just so beautiful.