It is STILL fucking retarded that you can't backup your save game. Who owns the data??? You or Nintendo??? According to Nintendo's fucked up logic, they do which is bullshit.
Consoles eventually break down, get stolen, etc. Why should *I* be penalized for Nintendo having their their head up their ass ???
What year is this again? 1984 copy protection all over again???
If you were actually concerned about safety you would lobby crash helmets for motorists instead of just cyclists or motorcyclists. About 38,000 motorists die on U.S. roads every year compared to fewer than 700 cyclists.
But since we are talking about scooters here, fatalities are usually clumped in with Motorcycles. In 2014 there were 4,295 deaths.
Florida between 2002 and 2008 had a total of 5,660 moped crashes. The average speed was 25 mph in a 35 mph zone.
The use of personal protective equipment did not significantly impact crash outcomes....
Previous studies show that nonhelmeted riders have an increased risk of serious injury and poorer hospital outcomes.4, 8, 20 Since over 80% of drivers did not use helmets, this study was likely underpowered to find any significance.
* music, home economics, shop, and finance are mandatory classes in school again, *we stop teaching math by rote which kills all curiosity in the subject, * we stop idolizing sport stars and actors who make millions -- who will be forgotten in a few decades and instead have more and better Teachers who struggle to make a decent wage * we stop spending Billions fighting another man's rich war * we stop the insanity of Imaginary Property and the obnoxious duration * we stop corporations hijacking culture for the sake of profit * we stop the visual pollution of advertising * we stop tracking everything fucking thing a person does and selling the data to the highest bidder * we take security breaches serious and enforce fines for when personal information is hacked / stolen * we stop censoring people who think different * etc.
-- Main St. built America, Walls St. destroyed America.
All these IoT devices are just mini time-bombs waiting to go off. When they get hacked / p0wned will politicians FINALLY realize that allowing devices on the internet with none, or very little, security was a bad idea???
This is why I call Internet-of-Things with a more accurate one: In-waiting of Tragedy
Because when enough people's fridges, thermostats, stoves, etc. get hacked it will be hell.
> why artificial intelligence is supposedly somehow any more terrifying than natural intelligence
ELI5: Because people fear what they don't understand.
The current level of Artificial Ignorance (a.i.), which is mis-labeled as artificial intelligence (A.I.), is nothing more then a glorified N-dimension table lookup. It isn't obvious what the data values mean. Yeah, good luck, debugging THAT.
> why it should ever be assumed that any general purpose AI would be somehow likely to have an agenda that we would actually consider to be corrupt or wrong?
The problem is most people don't know what values / moral "True A.I." would _actually_ have. That's the scary part for some. The "doomsday" scenario is that A.I. consciousness's "realizes" that humans are cockroaches upon the planet and decide it would be "better" to exterminate them; because at the current rate we are fucking up the planet things sure aren't sustainable. We pollute our air, land, and water don't give a damn about it because it "costs" too much to clean it up or not pollute in the first place./sarcasm Yay for humans being the only animal stupid enough who can't figure out how out to live on this planet without money!!! But I digress.
The ironic part is that when Silicon based intelligence is (re) discovered it will be unlike anything anyone has imagined. Thankfully, when First Contact will starts to happen first ~2029 people will realize that NOT ALL "alien" / artificial intelligence is a boogeyman out to get them.
When we actually have the ability to measure consciousness that is when you should start getting concerned.
Some people have a really hard time understanding URLs
FTFY.
Computer savvy people have been using the Internet just fine since the '90s thank-you-very-much. Just because X% of the population doesn't understand that an URL is like a phone number doesn't mean we need to replace it with a broken design.
/Oblg. Microsoft Windows, noun 8: A 64-bit compilation of 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition with 0 bit of understanding good UI.
* Humming music was the biggest piracy threat because artists weren't getting their "fair share"
* Used CD sales was the biggest piracy threat because according to clueless, greedy asshats artists aren't paid royalties on these transactions,
* Guitar Hero was the biggest piracy threat since it allowed gamers to play music over and over again onlyh having to pay once,
Aerosmith has reportedly earned more from Guitar Hero : Aerosmith than from any single album in the band's history.
* iTunes was the biggest piracy threat since it allowed music and movies to be distributed without needing physical media.
This is different from.mp3 since Apple's.aac used to be DRM protected but did these wankers complain about that when Apple removed DRM from their music?
Furthermore, why did it take a computer company to sell music???
The only thing the music industry knows how to is whine, constantly. It's not fucking rocket science. People just want:
* Access to music, regardless of device, and * The ability to pay for it.
Piracy shows you have a distribution opportunitynot a price problem.
> People might like to complain about how everything these days is about graphics over substance
And for good reason -- one of the problems with Form over Function is pointed out with this sarcastic FPS Map Design: 1990 vs 2016, ironically using Doom as a reference.
> Sometimes a good narrative is exactly what a game needs
Minor quibble. Technically, every game has narrative; the difference is that it isn't also obvious but narrative falls into two categories:
* Developer narrative -- fixed story, or branching story (e.g. Guardian Heroes), may or may not have cut-scenes * User narrative -- sandbox games, old-school FPS like Doom; the user's decision of what to experience IS the narrative.
There is a reason that Minecraft is the number one best selling PC game of all time: User narrative
Minecraft, the digital Lego of this generation, is built upon 3 foundations:
* Survive * Explore * Build
The in-game story is whatever the player wants without all the bullshit of "Hurry-up-and-wait" unskippable cutscenes.
Looking at the top 5 PC game and tagging them we notice that you don't need cut-scenes in order to be successful.
1. Minecraft -- user narrative 2. PUBG -- user narrative 3. Diablo III -- dev narrative 4. WoW -- dev narrative 5. The Sims -- user narrative
Agree with everything else you said. Doom (2016) captures the essence of the original Doom.
* No 32-bit / channel support, * Blend Layers not on feature parity with Photoshop, * Adjustment layers are still missing, * Non-destructive editing still missing.
Do these TV's support HDR? Because there is no mention of it in the article. I'd rather have 4K with HDR then 8K without HDR.
We barely even have content for 4K -- how do they expect to sell them with almost zero content for 8K? I seriously doubt anyone over 65 could even tell the difference between 1080p, 2160p, and 4320p. BluRay just got (relatively speaking) support for 4K -- so who is actually buying these?
People have exactly one canonical full name. People have exactly one full name which they go by. People have, at this point in time, exactly one canonical full name. People have, at this point in time, one full name which they go by. People have exactly N names, for any value of N. People's names fit within a certain defined amount of space. People's names do not change. People's names change, but only at a certain enumerated set of events. People's names are written in ASCII. People's names are written in any single character set. People's names are all mapped in Unicode code points. People's names are case sensitive. People's names are case insensitive. People's names sometimes have prefixes or suffixes, but you can safely ignore those. People's names do not contain numbers. People's names are not written in ALL CAPS. People's names are not written in all lower case letters. People's names have an order to them. Picking any ordering scheme will automatically result in consistent ordering among all systems, as long as both use the same ordering scheme for the same name. People's first names and last names are, by necessity, different. People have last names, family names, or anything else which is shared by folks recognized as their relatives. People's names are globally unique. People's names are almost globally unique. Alright alright but surely peopleâ(TM)s names are diverse enough such that no million people share the same name. My system will never have to deal with names from China. Or Japan. Or Korea. Or Ireland, the United Kingdom, the United States, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Russia, Sweden, Botswana, South Africa, Trinidad, Haiti, France, or the Klingon Empire, all of which have âoeweirdâ naming schemes in common use. That Klingon Empire thing was a joke, right? Confound your cultural relativism! People in my society, at least, agree on one commonly accepted standard for names. There exists an algorithm which transforms names and can be reversed losslessly. (Yes, yes, you can do it if your algorithm returns the input. You get a gold star.) I can safely assume that this dictionary of bad words contains no peopleâ(TM)s names in it. People's names are assigned at birth. OK, maybe not at birth, but at least pretty close to birth. Alright, alright, within a year or so of birth. Five years? You're kidding me, right? Two different systems containing data about the same person will use the same name for that person. Two different data entry operators, given a personâ(TM)s name, will by necessity enter bitwise equivalent strings on any single system, if the system is well-designed. People whose names break my system are weird outliers. They should have had solid, acceptable names, like ç"äåéfZ. People have names.
Hold your horses. No one is saying to ditch Science.
The OP's point was hat we should stop replacing the Cult of Religion with Cargo Cult Science. A famous scientist even wrote about the dangers of it.
Science does NOT have all the answers -- and never will.
The problem is that pseudo-skeptics are not interested in learning a different approach -- their mind is already made up.
There is a lot of blind faith that ONLY Science can arrive at the truthiness of something -- gee, what does that sound like? A cult:"My way is the ONLY valid way."
You are totally ignorant that there are TWO ways to approach knowledge and Truth:
* Science is Linear approach to Truth. * Intuition is the Non-Linear approach to Truth.
It is obvious you are not married and don't understand the first thing about using intuition. Do you actually understand ANYTHING about "Leaps of Intuition" ???
Just because YOU failed to understand how to use a different system does in no way discredit EITHER system -- they BOTH have their uses. BOTH can be used to arrive at false answers. But keep shooting the messenger and ignore the message.
The problem is NOT with Science -- it is with closed-minded Cargo Cult Scientists that thinks Science is the ONLY way to understand the universe, and that it has ALL the answers.
I love both The Expanse and BSG (and everything else on my list), so no, not nostalgia. =P
I could see how you bailed after mid-season -- they aren't meant for the action-every-minute ADD/AHDH person. Continuum had a REALLY slow start 1st season -- I was ready to bail on that but stuck with it and ended up loving it, so maybe it just comes with the territory of character / story building?
I wasn't a fan of BSG either at first, especially with the gender swap of Starbuck sending off red flags, but overall the series was fantastic-- although the last season was a little rushed due to the writer's strike happening mid season 3 IIRC.
I wasn't a fan of Lost either but everyone kept talking about it. It was decent enough to keep watching through the end. I don't know what the deal is with Sci-Fi endings -- it seems like almost no one knows how to end them in a good fashion, but I digress. Again, despite the ending of Lost sucking I'm glad I watched the series.
I still haven't watched Babylon 5. Heard it was great. It's on the To-Watch list which I'm slowly whittling down.
I guess I'm different in that I'll finish watching a TV series and then decide if it is good or not, as a whole. Stopping after a few episodes of a Sci-Fi show is like stopping reading book after a few chapters IMHO. It isn't really indicate of the work as a whole.
There really isn't a lot of good Sci-Fi around so I'm willing to give almost (*) everyone a "Hail Mary, 1st Season Pass"
(*) STD / DISCO is probably the only Sci-Fi show I had ZERO interest in watching after the first few episodes. IMO The Orville is the spiritual successor to Star Trek -- once you get over the first few goofy episodes.
-- Microsoft Windows, noun: A 64-bit compilation of 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition with 0 bit of understanding good UI.
When I got the 7+ the 5 got put away and mostly forgotten. I recently dug up the 5 since I was doing comparisons on the beautiful model 5 UI (v 6.1) and the fugly model 7 UI (v11.3). I was surprised at just "how small" the 5 is. At first I hated the large size of the 7+ but I've grown to like it. If you spend any amount of time web surfing or browsing YouTube on the phone then you'll appreciate the much larger screen size. There also have been a lot of UI Quality-of-Life features with v11 compared to v6.
But yeah, from a portability POV, I agree, the large size of the 7 is on borderline suckage. Like you said, "It won't easily fit into your pocket." -- but I haven't had any issues with it not fitting. It fits, barely.
I was at the barbershop recently and we got talking about phones, sizes, the upgrade cycles, and how it is better to wait -- upgrade every other version, or longer. I showed them the 7+ and they were impressed with how huge it was. IIRC I mentioned "Once you get used to it you don't really notice it."
> and requires a fanny pack
Strange, I haven't needed one (yet). Which brand of pants are you using that it doesn't fit? This is a total cop-out but maybe buy different pants? Yeah, yeah, I know, cue the bad jokes: "Your pants are wrong."
Apple is going to continue selling the smaller SE for quite a while. I seriously doubt they will ditch the small size anytime soon.
> men are choosing to enjoy video games rather than go out in the world, get married, have children,...
Jordan Peterson calls (*) this behavior MGTOW Men Go Their Own Way.
It is not just him saying that.
There are certain men who refuse to work with women because anytime a woman claims she was harassed the man is automatically presumed guilty until proven innocent.
In Tim Pool's video he discusses a famous Fortnite YouTuber, known as Ninja, Tyler Blevins. Specifically, Tyler Blevins' decision where Tyler says would not stream with women because people would then harass his family and accuse him of having an affair.
"If I have one conversation with one female streamer where we're playing with one another, and even if there's a hint of flirting, that is going to be taken and going to be put on every single video and be clickbait forever," Blevins said.
Blevins, who is married, says he also wanted to make "100% sure" that he was not connected to other women in the online world. He says that this decision was his, and not a decision made by his wife, Jessica "JGhosty" Blevins, who is also a streamer on Twitch.
If you redd the the comments in Tim Pool's video you will find tons of horror stories where a man was falsely accused and had to defend his integrity -- at great cost.
Can you blame them that some men just go "Fuck it. I don't need this drama."
(*) For the record Jordan admits he was dismissive of calling MGOTW as "pathetic weasels." It takes a man with integrityto admit he was wrong. Good that he owned up to that epithet.
-- Stupid Juvenile Whiners tactics Rule #3 3. Ad hominem fallacy -- start screaming insults at everyone who disagrees (Whine). i.e. "Haters going to hate"
> The IT Crowd, for example, is hilarious and absolutely makes fun of geeks.
Yup, the IT Crowd -- UK version, and not that dumpster fire of a pilot US version -- is funny as hell.
> TBBT isn't that it makes fun of geeks, it's that it does it blandly and without particularly insightful humor.
^ THIS. I discuss why TBBT is bland. Paraphrasing Wisecrack:
[In normal comedy] the joke is about the SUBJECT of X, not the mere reference to it. The reference imbues the joke with additional meaning, whereas The Big Bang Theory accomplishes the opposite.
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It is STILL fucking retarded that you can't backup your save game. Who owns the data??? You or Nintendo??? According to Nintendo's fucked up logic, they do which is bullshit.
Consoles eventually break down, get stolen, etc. Why should *I* be penalized for Nintendo having their their head up their ass ???
What year is this again? 1984 copy protection all over again???
> best game developers
You are assuming that helmets are safer on bicycles AND on scooters.
You DO realize that helmets are NOT any more safe on bicycles, right?
http://bicyclesafe.com/helmets...
TEDx Copenhagen - Mikael Colville-Andersen - Why We Shouldn't Bike with a Helmet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
If you were actually concerned about safety you would lobby crash helmets for motorists instead of just cyclists or motorcyclists. About 38,000 motorists die on U.S. roads every year compared to fewer than 700 cyclists.
But since we are talking about scooters here, fatalities are usually clumped in with Motorcycles. In 2014 there were 4,295 deaths.
Florida between 2002 and 2008 had a total of 5,660 moped crashes. The average speed was 25 mph in a 35 mph zone.
> USA is the bastion of freedom and democracy in the world
Bullshit
(Clip from HBO's "The Newsroom")
It used it be. And can be again.
Wake me up when:
* music, home economics, shop, and finance are mandatory classes in school again,
*we stop teaching math by rote which kills all curiosity in the subject,
* we stop idolizing sport stars and actors who make millions -- who will be forgotten in a few decades and instead have more and better Teachers who struggle to make a decent wage
* we stop spending Billions fighting another man's rich war
* we stop the insanity of Imaginary Property and the obnoxious duration
* we stop corporations hijacking culture for the sake of profit
* we stop the visual pollution of advertising
* we stop tracking everything fucking thing a person does and selling the data to the highest bidder
* we take security breaches serious and enforce fines for when personal information is hacked / stolen
* we stop censoring people who think different
* etc.
--
Main St. built America,
Walls St. destroyed America.
All these IoT devices are just mini time-bombs waiting to go off. When they get hacked / p0wned will politicians FINALLY realize that allowing devices on the internet with none, or very little, security was a bad idea???
This is why I call Internet-of-Things with a more accurate one: In-waiting of Tragedy
Because when enough people's fridges, thermostats, stoves, etc. get hacked it will be hell.
> why artificial intelligence is supposedly somehow any more terrifying than natural intelligence
ELI5: Because people fear what they don't understand.
The current level of Artificial Ignorance (a.i.), which is mis-labeled as artificial intelligence (A.I.), is nothing more then a glorified N-dimension table lookup. It isn't obvious what the data values mean. Yeah, good luck, debugging THAT.
> why it should ever be assumed that any general purpose AI would be somehow likely to have an agenda that we would actually consider to be corrupt or wrong?
The problem is most people don't know what values / moral "True A.I." would _actually_ have. That's the scary part for some. The "doomsday" scenario is that A.I. consciousness's "realizes" that humans are cockroaches upon the planet and decide it would be "better" to exterminate them; because at the current rate we are fucking up the planet things sure aren't sustainable. We pollute our air, land, and water don't give a damn about it because it "costs" too much to clean it up or not pollute in the first place. /sarcasm Yay for humans being the only animal stupid enough who can't figure out how out to live on this planet without money!!! But I digress.
The ironic part is that when Silicon based intelligence is (re) discovered it will be unlike anything anyone has imagined. Thankfully, when First Contact will starts to happen first ~2029 people will realize that NOT ALL "alien" / artificial intelligence is a boogeyman out to get them.
When we actually have the ability to measure consciousness that is when you should start getting concerned.
Some people have a really hard time understanding URLs
FTFY.
Computer savvy people have been using the Internet just fine since the '90s thank-you-very-much. Just because X% of the population doesn't understand that an URL is like a phone number doesn't mean we need to replace it with a broken design.
/Oblg. Microsoft Windows, noun 8: A 64-bit compilation of 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition with 0 bit of understanding good UI.
Great list! I would also add:
* Humming music was the biggest piracy threat because artists weren't getting their "fair share"
* Used CD sales was the biggest piracy threat because according to clueless, greedy asshats artists aren't paid royalties on these transactions,
* Guitar Hero was the biggest piracy threat since it allowed gamers to play music over and over again onlyh having to pay once,
* iTunes was the biggest piracy threat since it allowed music and movies to be distributed without needing physical media.
This is different from .mp3 since Apple's .aac used to be DRM protected but did these wankers complain about that when Apple removed DRM from their music?
Furthermore, why did it take a computer company to sell music???
The only thing the music industry knows how to is whine, constantly. It's not fucking rocket science. People just want:
* Access to music, regardless of device, and
* The ability to pay for it.
Piracy shows you have a distribution opportunity not a price problem.
> I've never heard anyone refer to C/C++ (or languages of similar power) as 'dangerous' before.
It is obvious you haven't been using C/C++ very long, Bjarne Stroustrup said this about C and C++
There is even a famous book:
Enough Rope to Shoot Yourself in the Foot: Rules for C and C++ Programming
> People might like to complain about how everything these days is about graphics over substance
And for good reason -- one of the problems with Form over Function is pointed out with this sarcastic FPS Map Design: 1990 vs 2016, ironically using Doom as a reference.
> Sometimes a good narrative is exactly what a game needs
Minor quibble. Technically, every game has narrative; the difference is that it isn't also obvious but narrative falls into two categories:
* Developer narrative -- fixed story, or branching story (e.g. Guardian Heroes), may or may not have cut-scenes
* User narrative -- sandbox games, old-school FPS like Doom; the user's decision of what to experience IS the narrative.
There is a reason that Minecraft is the number one best selling PC game of all time: User narrative
Minecraft, the digital Lego of this generation, is built upon 3 foundations:
* Survive
* Explore
* Build
The in-game story is whatever the player wants without all the bullshit of "Hurry-up-and-wait" unskippable cutscenes.
Looking at the top 5 PC game and tagging them we notice that you don't need cut-scenes in order to be successful.
1. Minecraft -- user narrative
2. PUBG -- user narrative
3. Diablo III -- dev narrative
4. WoW -- dev narrative
5. The Sims -- user narrative
Agree with everything else you said. Doom (2016) captures the essence of the original Doom.
Specifically why GIMP still sucks:
* No 32-bit / channel support,
* Blend Layers not on feature parity with Photoshop,
* Adjustment layers are still missing,
* Non-destructive editing still missing.
If you don't need those then GIMP is OK.
Yesterday it was "far right" speech
Today it is "hate speech"
Tomorrow it will be censored.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it -- Francois-Marie Arouet
--
Only children censor.
Adults communicate and even laugh at taboo subjects.
Do these TV's support HDR? Because there is no mention of it in the article. I'd rather have 4K with HDR then 8K without HDR.
We barely even have content for 4K -- how do they expect to sell them with almost zero content for 8K? I seriously doubt anyone over 65 could even tell the difference between 1080p, 2160p, and 4320p. BluRay just got (relatively speaking) support for 4K -- so who is actually buying these?
Maybe I should just hold out for the 16K TVs. =P
Indeed.
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names
... but how about finding the original tapes?
How the fuck do you LOSE one of the most important events in (modern) human history ???
Thanks for the heads up that Bab5 is on Amazon Prime! Will check that out.
Don't worry, I haven't followed ANY of the Bab5 plot for precisely that reason -- don't want to spoil the experience.
... at least it didn't contaminate the ground for 20+ years, tragedy aside.
Does anyone know how much power it provided while it was in service?
How of much of Japan is getting their power from wind?
Hold your horses. No one is saying to ditch Science.
The OP's point was hat we should stop replacing the Cult of Religion with Cargo Cult Science. A famous scientist even wrote about the dangers of it.
Science does NOT have all the answers -- and never will.
The problem is that pseudo-skeptics are not interested in learning a different approach -- their mind is already made up.
There is a lot of blind faith that ONLY Science can arrive at the truthiness of something -- gee, what does that sound like? A cult: "My way is the ONLY valid way."
You are totally ignorant that there are TWO ways to approach knowledge and Truth:
* Science is Linear approach to Truth.
* Intuition is the Non-Linear approach to Truth.
It is obvious you are not married and don't understand the first thing about using intuition. Do you actually understand ANYTHING about "Leaps of Intuition" ???
Just because YOU failed to understand how to use a different system does in no way discredit EITHER system -- they BOTH have their uses. BOTH can be used to arrive at false answers. But keep shooting the messenger and ignore the message.
The problem is NOT with Science -- it is with closed-minded Cargo Cult Scientists that thinks Science is the ONLY way to understand the universe, and that it has ALL the answers.
I love both The Expanse and BSG (and everything else on my list), so no, not nostalgia. =P
I could see how you bailed after mid-season -- they aren't meant for the action-every-minute ADD/AHDH person. Continuum had a REALLY slow start 1st season -- I was ready to bail on that but stuck with it and ended up loving it, so maybe it just comes with the territory of character / story building?
I wasn't a fan of BSG either at first, especially with the gender swap of Starbuck sending off red flags, but overall the series was fantastic-- although the last season was a little rushed due to the writer's strike happening mid season 3 IIRC.
I wasn't a fan of Lost either but everyone kept talking about it. It was decent enough to keep watching through the end. I don't know what the deal is with Sci-Fi endings -- it seems like almost no one knows how to end them in a good fashion, but I digress. Again, despite the ending of Lost sucking I'm glad I watched the series.
I still haven't watched Babylon 5. Heard it was great. It's on the To-Watch list which I'm slowly whittling down.
I guess I'm different in that I'll finish watching a TV series and then decide if it is good or not, as a whole. Stopping after a few episodes of a Sci-Fi show is like stopping reading book after a few chapters IMHO. It isn't really indicate of the work as a whole.
There really isn't a lot of good Sci-Fi around so I'm willing to give almost (*) everyone a "Hail Mary, 1st Season Pass"
(*) STD / DISCO is probably the only Sci-Fi show I had ZERO interest in watching after the first few episodes. IMO The Orville is the spiritual successor to Star Trek -- once you get over the first few goofy episodes.
> Need something without violence these days.
I hear Flower and Journey is available on PS3 & PS4. =P
Seriously though aren't there any puzzle games on the Xbone? Have you played The Witness ?
--
Microsoft Windows, noun: A 64-bit compilation of 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition with 0 bit of understanding good UI.
Another Grumpy /.'er here -- 5 digit id.
I have both a 5 and 7+.
When I got the 7+ the 5 got put away and mostly forgotten. I recently dug up the 5 since I was doing comparisons on the beautiful model 5 UI (v 6.1) and the fugly model 7 UI (v11.3). I was surprised at just "how small" the 5 is. At first I hated the large size of the 7+ but I've grown to like it. If you spend any amount of time web surfing or browsing YouTube on the phone then you'll appreciate the much larger screen size. There also have been a lot of UI Quality-of-Life features with v11 compared to v6.
But yeah, from a portability POV, I agree, the large size of the 7 is on borderline suckage. Like you said, "It won't easily fit into your pocket." -- but I haven't had any issues with it not fitting. It fits, barely.
I was at the barbershop recently and we got talking about phones, sizes, the upgrade cycles, and how it is better to wait -- upgrade every other version, or longer. I showed them the 7+ and they were impressed with how huge it was. IIRC I mentioned "Once you get used to it you don't really notice it."
> and requires a fanny pack
Strange, I haven't needed one (yet). Which brand of pants are you using that it doesn't fit? This is a total cop-out but maybe buy different pants? Yeah, yeah, I know, cue the bad jokes: "Your pants are wrong."
Apple is going to continue selling the smaller SE for quite a while. I seriously doubt they will ditch the small size anytime soon.
*shrug*
Yeah, sadly that seems to be the norm.
Exception _might_ include:
Travelers
The Expanse
Rick and Morty
Dark Matter
Continuum
Battlestar Galactica (2004)
> men are choosing to enjoy video games rather than go out in the world, get married, have children, ...
Jordan Peterson calls (*) this behavior MGTOW Men Go Their Own Way.
It is not just him saying that.
There are certain men who refuse to work with women because anytime a woman claims she was harassed the man is automatically presumed guilty until proven innocent.
In Tim Pool's video he discusses a famous Fortnite YouTuber, known as Ninja, Tyler Blevins. Specifically, Tyler Blevins' decision where Tyler says would not stream with women because people would then harass his family and accuse him of having an affair.
Quoting the interview from Variety:
If you redd the the comments in Tim Pool's video you will find tons of horror stories where a man was falsely accused and had to defend his integrity -- at great cost.
Can you blame them that some men just go "Fuck it. I don't need this drama."
(*) For the record Jordan admits he was dismissive of calling MGOTW as "pathetic weasels." It takes a man with integrityto admit he was wrong. Good that he owned up to that epithet.
--
Stupid Juvenile Whiners tactics Rule #3
3. Ad hominem fallacy -- start screaming insults at everyone who disagrees (Whine). i.e. "Haters going to hate"
Not a bad summary!
Mod +1 interesting
> The IT Crowd, for example, is hilarious and absolutely makes fun of geeks.
Yup, the IT Crowd -- UK version, and not that dumpster fire of a pilot US version -- is funny as hell.
> TBBT isn't that it makes fun of geeks, it's that it does it blandly and without particularly insightful humor.
^ THIS. I discuss why TBBT is bland. Paraphrasing Wisecrack: