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- Comment on The Division Heartland Has Been Canceled 4 days ago:
Ah yes, the financially responsible decision to spend the money and then never make any revenue.
- Comment on Romance author gets locked out of Google Docs for “inappropriate” content 4 days ago:
That’s why the classic image of censorship is duct tape over your… brain.
- Comment on New Doom reveal hinted at by Zenimax trademark 6 days ago:
They can’t all be as clear-cut as IDSPISPOPD.
- Comment on Former Blizzard president wants to be able to leave a "tip" after completing $70 games: "I wish I could give these folks another $10 or $20" 4 weeks ago:
Only banning that business model will work.
Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.
- Comment on Former Blizzard president wants to be able to leave a "tip" after completing $70 games: "I wish I could give these folks another $10 or $20" 4 weeks ago:
Fractal bullshit. Every aspect is both awful on its face and viciously dishonest.
To pick one: no fucking way does that money reach anyone responsible for making the game.
- Comment on Apple will allow reuse of iPhone parts for repairs, with a notable catch 5 weeks ago:
You need to review how you’ve acted in this thread.
I said Apple needs to be hit harder. You said they probably never will be. You said only consumers could help. I said that’s fatalist bullshit. You’ve since insisted you’d never be fatalist about this… while being fatalist in literally every comment. Quoting you to prove it just makes you scoff louder.
And now you want to scold me for a tone that is largely imaginary. Listen: when I am being an asshole, I’m not fucking shy about it. I know exactly how I prod people in internet arguments. So when I tell you you’re projecting, it’s not some insistence I’ve never done wrong or been rude, it is frustration for how you’re ignoring why and how I am actually giving you shit. If you’re going to whinge about being hassled then the least you can do is recognize what you’re being hassled about.
Adding to that list: tone policing is abuse. If I read this haranguing (aggressive cheerleader, pummeling people!) and tell you where to shove it, well, that must prove the haranguing was right! No way a middle finger is a valid response when ‘calm down, honey’ is lobbed at, say, one sentence expressing disinterest. Or if you’d prefer a direct quote, “take a breath, and go outside.” Sure, guy who responded to my top-level comment, clearly I am picking a fight with you, by being exasperated with the shit you keep saying. Your bickering on this website is totally different from my bickering on this website.
Obviously I should bend over backwards to please you, o sainted pessimist. Arguing just makes you double down. Right? “Good luck trying to pummel people into being more optimistic.” God forbid anyone try unconscionable language like “baloney” or “stop.” You must coaxed gently from the ledge, with soft pillows and a lilting voice. I mean god fucking dammit, aggressive cheerleader, are so pig-ignorant you’ve never heard of pessimism? The thing you’re criticizing? News flash: that group you’re tired of? They exist! I’m sorry we can’t all live in the magical fantasy land where everything goes right forever, la dee dee da da.
Gosh, why can’t you just have this dialogue with me? You seen disinterested for some reason.
- Comment on Apple will allow reuse of iPhone parts for repairs, with a notable catch 5 weeks ago:
‘What you wrote the first two times sounded exactly like what you accused me of making up.’
‘Wow, touch grass.’
Good dialogue, super valid.
Especially when you’re still reiterating the undercurrent of pessimism that I’m criticizing in the first place. ‘Companies just out-spend regulators. I have no faith it will work out. Oh well, agree to disagree!’
- Comment on Apple will allow reuse of iPhone parts for repairs, with a notable catch 5 weeks ago:
Here are the words from your mouth:
They have an answer to everything lawmakers come up with. Consumers are the only group that could punish Apple in a meaningful way
Regulations, however, always seem to be one step behind, don’t they?
Congratulations on this new suggestion of trust-busting to fix that, but please do not pretend it’s my fault for reading where you suggested it’s unfixable. Or I’m sorry, unfixable “in any meaningful way.”
- Comment on Apple will allow reuse of iPhone parts for repairs, with a notable catch 5 weeks ago:
I’ve lost all patience for people whose hot take is that laws can’t work.
- Comment on Apple will allow reuse of iPhone parts for repairs, with a notable catch 5 weeks ago:
Baloney. Consumers didn’t do shit - only state power has curtailed their abuses.
Stop this fatalist expectation that we’d have to shop our way out it. This is what regulation is for. It works. All we have to do is do it.
- Comment on Apple will allow reuse of iPhone parts for repairs, with a notable catch 5 weeks ago:
If they have to “allow” it, they haven’t been beaten hard enough.
- Comment on CD Projekt Red still 'don't see a place for microtransactions' in singleplayer games 1 month ago:
Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.
The fact CD Projekt is even commenting on this is a sign of its creeping dominance over the industry. It is half of all revenue. Only legislation will stop this.
- Comment on Critically acclaimed Dragon's Dogma 2 hits "mostly negative" on Steam after players raze it for microtransactions 1 month ago:
People avoiding this shit could outnumber users ten-to-one and it wouldn’t make any fucking difference so long as exploiting that audience makes more money than selling normally to everyone else.
The whole reason this problem’s getting worse is that it squeezes very few people for a shitload of money. We were never going to shop our way out of it.
- Comment on Critically acclaimed Dragon's Dogma 2 hits "mostly negative" on Steam after players raze it for microtransactions 1 month ago:
Only legislation will stop this.
Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.
- Comment on EA just added classics like Dungeon Keeper, SimCity 3000, and Populous on Steam 2 months ago:
None of the right people get money for this.
This is a serial killer showing off their trophies.
- Comment on EA just added classics like Dungeon Keeper, SimCity 3000, and Populous on Steam 2 months ago:
And good for nearly half that time!
- Comment on India reverses AI stance, requires government approval for model launches 2 months ago:
India strangles all local above-board neural network research.
- Comment on Streaming Ads Are So Much Worse Than Traditional Ad Breaks | MZS | Roger Ebert 2 months ago:
The excuse was always ‘but how will they make money?’
It was always a distraction. There is no such thing as enough money, for these bastards. You could pay exorbitant fees, per-show, per-minute, and they’d still drool over taking your money and selling your eyeballs.
- Comment on Which shows do you think ended too soon, or went on too long? 2 months ago:
Netflix’s two-season reputation means they are not to blame when yet another showrunner pretends they’re gonna get a third. You know damn well you’re not doing Stranger Things numbers. It’s on you to provide a satisfying endpoint, or you’re just pissing people off and pointing fingers.
- Comment on Which shows do you think ended too soon, or went on too long? 2 months ago:
And and and, the second season juggled a dozen characters, so every week was storyline roulette. An episode could be full of plot and still wind up as filler because you don’t give two shits about any of the characters getting screen time.
- Comment on Which shows do you think ended too soon, or went on too long? 2 months ago:
I did not and have not. I’ve heard good things but never felt much interest.
It does sound like it could’ve fit the same niche as Bob’s Burgers.
- Comment on Which shows do you think ended too soon, or went on too long? 2 months ago:
I saw the entire broadcast run of Clerks.
All both episodes.
Only six episodes were produced, and they eventually aired, but I did not find this out until years later. The internet ended a longstanding era where you could be aware of and interested in something, but know fuck-all about it, and have no sensible way of learning more. So I’d heard of Kevin Smith movies - but never seen any. Watching the Clerks movie would have taken a trip to a physical video-rental store, with my parents, and then convincing them (and myself) to rent a vulgar black-and-white movie for all of us to watch together. Wasn’t happening. I was more likely to rent and watch any of the R-rated films that somehow got cartoon adaptations - which were part of that same impotent awareness. Robocop and Ghostbusters and fuckin’ Starship Troopers were advertised anywhere and everywhere, and kids liked the shallow cool parts in the trailers, so executives said “fuck it” and licensed no-budget G-rated spinoffs to sell toys.
Anyway. The Clerks animated series exists because Disney wanted an adult-ish show to compete with The Simpsons. Everyone did. Disney knew they had a gap in their demographics for twenty-something dorks with disposable income. Aaand then they handed the finished episodes to ABC, who used a focus group of old farts and children. Of course it bombed. The first episode aired was a fake clip show full of flashbacks to episodes that did not exist. No, sorry, just checked Wikipedia: that was the second and final episode aired. The premiere ended with a wacky consequence-free style change, where the outsourced animators rebelled and delivered a lolrandom dance party.
At least Clone High got an entire season.
- Comment on mv *.jpg is complete bullshit. 2 months ago:
I’ve been using command-line programs for twenty-five years. “Basic” is not the issue, here. This is obscene edge-case behavior for what honestly should be a Hello World level example.
Thoroughly explicable causes do not make the outcome any less of a problem.
- Comment on mv *.jpg is complete bullshit. 2 months ago:
ls | grep | mv
would work, except the StackOverflow discussion also highlights how parsing ls can have the same issues.I am moving thousands of files at once. If I have to check each one, it’s still wrong.
The pragmatic answer turns out to be
./*
instead of*
. - Comment on mv *.jpg is complete bullshit. 2 months ago:
Jesus. That’s beyond Javascript levels of “helpfully” reinterpreting strings. That’s borderline Excel behavior.
What is the point of strings allowing every character besides
\0
if they’re gonna eat quotation marks? - Comment on mv *.jpg is complete bullshit. 2 months ago:
There’s no way around that without reinventing the entire OS.
Disagree. If wildcard expansion is not a feature of the tool, it shouldn’t be up to the tool to shape how each expanded input is passed. Some hideous escape syntax ought to force
*.jpg
to appear as“-a.jpg”
instead of-a.jpg
, once it reachesmv
.Instead
*
is acting as a cheeky littlels
alternative, minus any degree of formatting control, and piping actualls
input intomv
is similarly fraught with complications. - Comment on mv *.jpg is complete bullshit. 2 months ago:
bash: alias: mv: not found
printf %s\\n *.jpg
is just a list of filenames on newlines. There’s 75,000 of them. You’ll have to take my word for it.Fortunately, GenderNeutralBro’s aside about using
./*
instead of*
works as expected. Could have been files beginning with_-
. None begin with-
, exactly. - Comment on mv *.jpg is complete bullshit. 2 months ago:
It’s literally just
mv *.jpg /mnt/Example/Pictures
.Multiple StackOverflow answers take this as read.
mv ./*.jpg /mnt/Example/Pictures
works fine, though, so thank you for the practical solution. I’m still disgusted there’s any filename that gets treated as… not a filename. That broken stair might be older than I am. - Comment on mv *.jpg is complete bullshit. 2 months ago:
I expected people have tried to move files… using the move command.
I did not expect I’d have to specify that there’s a destination, in an explanation of what
*.jpg
does, not an explanation of whatmv
does.For clarity:
GNU bash, version 5.0.17(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
mv *.jpg /mnt/Example/Pictures
Where it will then die with an error like
mv: invalid option – ‘1’
depending on the contents of the current directory.Every search about this has led back to this StackOverflow page sooner or later. All answers address wildcard expansion.
- Comment on mv *.jpg is complete bullshit. 2 months ago:
Edit: also why would you ever want to move files like this, what is wrong with you
… like what?
The fuck do you mean, why would I want to move files in a terminal? Because I’m doing shit in a terminal! What, do you expect people to Super+E, find the directory they’re in, and drag-and-drop? I’m using tools that only exist in the command line.
I’m using whatever GNOME Terminal came with Linux Mint 20 by default. StackOverflow answers sound like any POSIX terminal will do this. I assume it’s standard behavior.