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I doubt this is a new sentiment but I've noticed this year the (US) college football bowl season just sucks. It used to be nice to catch some games between teams that wouldn't normally play as a way to chill out after the Christmas insanity but now the games are just awful. Between transfers and people leaving teams to join the NFL draft most of the games are like spring football full of third stringers and freshmen. I don't even see the point. Of course it's always been more about the advertising than the football but surely even the brands can see nobody is going to want to watch these games going forward. I guess they're counting on the expanded tournament to bring in some excitement but we'll see.
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This year had an edible mascot so with all due respect to whatever else you said I disagree
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bossy lady posted:Everything needs to have "lore" now. It's not sufficient to enjoy something without 3,000 wiki pages explaining the backstory or melvins picking apart every minute detail to find meaning. Haven't you ever wondered how the villain in this beloved story came to be so evil? In this prequel
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Dec 31, 2023 04:06
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800peepee51doodoo posted:Haven't you ever wondered how the villain in this beloved story came to be so evil? In this prequel Studios are terrified of risk on any unproven IP Great way to make compelling films
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Dec 31, 2023 04:11
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800peepee51doodoo posted:Haven't you ever wondered how the villain in this beloved story came to be so evil? In this prequel I bet this so called villain is just a misunderstood hero, destined for her role in Book 3, The Teacher Reckoning
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poo poo Fuckasaurus posted:Now consider how fuckin cool it's gonna be when everybody's grandparents have a 24/7 assault of AI scammers. I use the Google AI screening thing where you can ask questions to the caller through the AI without answering the phone. It catches the boomers every time. People will have conversations with it - ask it how it's day is going, etc It's gonna be bad in 5 years
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Dec 31, 2023 04:14
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redshirt posted:lol please refer back to this comment when you question in the years to come "Have I turned into an old man?" What do you mean? I'm already old as hell. Look at my reg date
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bossy lady posted:What do you mean? I'm already old as hell. Look at my reg date There's more to being an old man then just age....
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redshirt posted:There's more to being an old man then just age.... nut sacc length?
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bossy lady posted:What do you mean? I'm already old as hell. Look at my reg date Look inside you and find this truth
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Vampire Panties posted:here's a funny/weird one - It’s not. I’ve actually had surgeries that have given me amazing new vision, after years of failing vision. And with my amazing new science eyes I can confidently say graphics stopped getting appreciably better 10 years ago.
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Dec 31, 2023 06:35
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7of7 posted:I doubt this is a new sentiment but I've noticed this year the (US) college football bowl season just sucks.  IMO all football has sucked for years. As Bo Jackson, Deon Sanders, etc have proven, a talented athlete can excel at any sport... so why play a game that will turn your brain into mush after two years and leave you with no retirement?  I also think this is why the influx of megastar QBs has slowed/stopped Also figure out how to make a ticket to the game under a hundred dollars TIA
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Dec 31, 2023 07:08
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The etc doing a lot of heavy lifting there
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Cerekk posted:Plastic wrapping for tea bags does a way better job of preventing the one box of mint tea from making all the other teas smell like mint tea I am not a tea drinker, but man it's nice with metal tins and loose tea that you can refill.
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galagazombie posted:It’s not. I’ve actually had surgeries that have given me amazing new vision, after years of failing vision. And with my amazing new science eyes I can confidently say graphics stopped getting appreciably better 10 years ago. We've long since passed the point where the appeal of graphics is no longer limited by hardware, but by the quality of the talent that works on it. You can keep cranking up the number of polygons and shaders and other technological bells and whistles, but it has pretty much zero effect these days. But hiring competent artists and delegating more power to them to take advantage of the technology is expensive, and not easily converted into kpis, and hard to stomach for the managerial class, so we'll keep pushing those meaningless numbers up and pretending it matters.
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7of7 posted:I doubt this is a new sentiment but I've noticed this year the (US) college football bowl season just sucks. I took my daughter to the park yesterday for like an hour when a game started yesterday. Upon my return, only 11 minutes had elapsed on the game clock. What a waste of time
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steinrokkan posted:We've long since passed the point where the appeal of graphics is no longer limited by hardware, but by the quality of the talent that works on it. You can keep cranking up the number of polygons and shaders and other technological bells and whistles, but it has pretty much zero effect these days. But hiring competent artists and delegating more power to them to take advantage of the technology is expensive, and not easily converted into kpis, and hard to stomach for the managerial class, so we'll keep pushing those meaningless numbers up and pretending it matters. This is definitely an element, as well as the brain drain that comes with paying people low enough that they get out of the industry altogether, but another factor I think is console generations growing longer and there being a larger focus on higher resolutions, which means that you're trying to make the same thing on older hardware at 1440p / 2k / 4k. Advancement is definitely going to stall at that point. Crowd simulations and ray-tracing are new neat technologies, but really the biggest leap forward recently is probably something like DLSS, which doesn't make games look better, it allows worse hardware to make games look the same.
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Armacham posted:I took my daughter to the park yesterday for like an hour when a game started yesterday. Upon my return, only 11 minutes had elapsed on the game clock. What a waste of time This is ultimately why I stopped watching football about 15 years ago. It's so loving slow. After break, ball went OB? Ad break. Gotta measure the play, ad break. Scoring play? Ad break while we review.
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Armacham posted:I took my daughter to the park yesterday for like an hour when a game started yesterday. Upon my return, only 11 minutes had elapsed on the game clock. What a waste of time We were at the in-laws for two days during the holidays and they still watch broadcast TV and the advertising is absolutely relentless.
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E; nevermind this post
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Rochallor posted:This is definitely an element, as well as the brain drain that comes with paying people low enough that they get out of the industry altogether, but another factor I think is console generations growing longer and there being a larger focus on higher resolutions, which means that you're trying to make the same thing on older hardware at 1440p / 2k / 4k. Advancement is definitely going to stall at that point. Much like movies, game budgets are going to be the limiting factor, as a lot of titles are nearing the point where they need 8 figure sales numbers just to break even. The most recent Spiderman game apparently cost something like $300 million to make. And, like movies, when you are talking those kinds of numbers, you can't really afford to take risks, so expect yet more sequels and remakes of 20+ year old games at the top end.
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Instead of spending $100 million on one game, why not spend $1 million on 100 games?
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Outpost22 posted:Instead of spending $100 million on one game, why not spend $1 million on 100 games? Grats on becoming a venture capitalist in 2021
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Pennywise the Frown posted:I absolutely hate fan fiction and theories with a passion. Complete garbage. Insane theories and so much wasted thought processes on creating your own idea and showing everyone else on the internet what your made up idea is. The fan fiction and theories on horror based around existential dread ideas is how we ended up with two mentally ill kids nearly murdering another kids, with the wiki's and theories and fan fiction getting to the point of saying Slenderman could be summoned and that Slenderman had proxies instead of just being this weird creature mean thing in the background of photos taken before terrible events and causing dread. more on topic: my posting has gotten noticeably shittier for no good reason
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tactlessbastard posted:We were at the in-laws for two days during the holidays and they still watch broadcast TV and the advertising is absolutely relentless. Live sports are the only time I deal with commercials now and once you get into the habit of hitting mute every time it makes a big difference.
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It kinda sounds like street fentanyl is basically enshittified heroin
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I can't fuckin upload images via imgur through the Awful app without linking the accounts which didn't work. So I spent 20 minutes trying to remember my imgur account info to log in via their unbelievably lovely homepage, at which point I find out its been used for years to post pictures of what I assume are russian mail order brides.  E: you can't even upload through their site, it has to be via their app???
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Biplane posted:I can't fuckin upload images via imgur through the Awful app without linking the accounts which didn't work. So I spent 20 minutes trying to remember my imgur account info to log in via their unbelievably lovely homepage, at which point I find out its been used for years to post pictures of what I assume are russian mail order brides. Yeah, imgur has been a lost cause for like 10 years now. I miss the simpler days of imgshack and waffleimages. Imgbb.com is a pretty decent option nowadays, IMO.
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Modal Auxiliary posted:Yeah, imgur has been a lost cause for like 10 years now. I miss the simpler days of imgshack and waffleimages. Imgbb.com is a pretty decent option nowadays, IMO. Thank you, I'll check out Imgbb.
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800peepee51doodoo posted:Haven't you ever wondered how the villain in this beloved story came to be so evil? In this prequel ever wondered how "the blob" become "the blob"? find out in "behind the blob", streaming exclusively on toilet+ Convex fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Jan 1, 2024 |
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Tythas posted:The fan fiction and theories on horror based around existential dread ideas is how we ended up with two mentally ill kids nearly murdering another kids, with the wiki's and theories and fan fiction getting to the point of saying Slenderman could be summoned and that Slenderman had proxies instead of just being this weird creature mean thing in the background of photos taken before terrible events and causing dread. Yeah!!! Crime went up because of GTA too!!
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Biplane posted:I can't fuckin upload images via imgur through the Awful app without linking the accounts which didn't work. So I spent 20 minutes trying to remember my imgur account info to log in via their unbelievably lovely homepage, at which point I find out its been used for years to post pictures of what I assume are russian mail order brides. Postimage.org has served me well though catbox.moe works, but some can’t see it
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:Yeah!!! Crime went up because of GTA too!! i think theyre just saying it gets to some people
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veepfake posted:i think theyre just saying it gets to some people I understand what they’re saying it’s a dumb take
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teen witch posted:Postimage.org has served me well though catbox.moe works, but some can’t see it The latter is for enshittified reasons but can be resolved FAQ catbox.moe posted:## Connectivity Issues
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:I understand what they’re saying it’s a dumb take oh. idk, i think media can reinforce stuff in some people. doesn't make them do anything obvi but doesn't not act as validation sometimes. mix that in with some mental illness like a murderer and there ya go. but ya i mean that's a vulnerability that wouldnt affect most people
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:I understand what they’re saying it’s a dumb take Pretty sure it's not a coincidence school shootings and violent FPS (later TPS) games blew up at the same time
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mawarannahr posted:Pretty sure it's not a coincidence school shootings and violent FPS (later TPS) games blew up at the same time Lmao here comes the boomer takes https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/02/20/after-parkland-video-games-back-critics-crosshairs/356654002/ quote:Not so fast, says Villanova University psychologist and researcher Patrick Markey. “All we can really say for sure is that there does not appear to be a link at this time between violent video games and school shootings,” he said. “And if there is a link, it goes in the opposite direction.”
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quote:Markey, co-author of the 2017 book Moral Combat: Why the War on Violent Video Games Is Wrong, said school shooters as a group “tend to do things that aren’t typical of their peers.” Typical teenage behaviors include playing video games, many of them violent. “It’s just a sign of a healthy childhood to do things that our peers do, even if parents don’t like it,” he said. New school shooter identification protocol: "If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you do that, too?"
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:Lmao here comes the boomer takes .95 of psychology is completely made up (increasingly enshittified too); look into the reproducibility crisis, Stanford prison experiment, Kitty Genovese etc.
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