I hooked my computer up to the HDMI and have used that as my primary interface.

It’s not perfect, but it screens out 95% of bullshit

For people living in small town is an obligation.

Broadly speaking, sure. But most people live in cities. The idea that we need an eight lane highway to accommodate the handful of people coming in from the desolate sand wastes of Bumblefuck, Nowhere is absurd.

The bulk of city traffic is city residents traveling between points in the city. They’re your priority. They’re the ones creating all the traffic

The best transportation system is a mixed transportation system

Just doesn’t seem practical

You can’t make traveling across the street in Laredo easier than flying between Miami, FL and Anchorage, AK. What happens if everyone in town crosses the street at once? The whole town flips over and everyone dies.

If moving from the Quebec to Maine is as easy as moving from Massachusetts to New Hampshire, do you have any idea how many bad things will happen?

All of them! All the bad things!

The EU trade/travel model was a good one, even if the ECB is a moral abomination.

Films shot on the 65mm IMAX cameras would probably make good 8K content, but most of that was educational films, not what most people apparently want to watch all the time.

Sure. But the cameras exist. You can use them for other stuff.

Hateful Eight was filmed in 70mm, and while it wasn’t Tarantino’s best work it certainly looked nice.

It’s not even innovation, per say. It’s just Big Number Go Up.

Nobody seems to want to make a TV that makes watching TV more pleasant. They just want to turn these things into giant bespoke advertising billboards in your living room.

Show me the TV manufacturer who includes an onboard ad blocker. That’s some fucking innovation.

There’s barely any actual 4K content you can consume.

Honestly a little surprised the IMAX guys didn’t start churning out 4k+ content given that they’ve been in the business forever.

But I guess “IMAX in your living room” isn’t as sexy when the screen is 60" rather than 60’

Me: in a pile of sixteen different LEGO sets, mixing and matching to create an unholy abomination

My Dad: “It’s all he does all day, doesn’t want to try anything new.”

That’s not fair. SquareEnix still puts out a few bangers. BG3 was fantastic.

Every game seems to demand you commit more and more time.

Yeah, I have really gotten turned off by any game with “Daily Quests” in it. My compulsive need to collect ever zig makes me feel like an addict trying squeeze 30 minutes a day in for a full week.

It’s like I’m waterboarding myself. When I come up for air, I hate the game and myself for playing it

I’ve been playing Halo 1 on the original XBox for half my life and I’m in my 40s

😏

Jrpgs are OK too, but I only like them on handheld.

People like you should be drawn and quartered

Are you having a good time, though?

Those giant pointy hats are surprisingly warm

The fact that you like dogs, and I find them irritating at best

I’m more of a cat person, tbh. But I think getting angry to the point of committing murder is unhealthy for any reason

It’s really sweet that she read him a story after jacking him off

I would simply sell them to a Greater Fool. Problem solved.

Aurora isn’t really anti-google as it’s merely a different front end for Play (that you can use anonymously).

You could say the same about Piped, which is just an alt front end for YouTube.

None of these alternatives seem to tackle the networking effect of the root Google services. None of them address durability, either. Proton VPN launched in 2017, Google’s been around since 1998. Microsoft’s been around since 1975. IBM’s been around since 1911.

If you don’t mind rebasing your entire digital profile every five or ten years, these alternatives are fine. But most people don’t want to ditch a 20 year old email address or fiddle with a brand new OS, when enshitification can be right around the corner for any of these services in another few years.

Ffs, I’d just finished putting the shine on my PLEX server before they shit the bed.