Wooster

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[–] Wooster@startrek.website 4 points 5 months ago

Automakers care about how much R&D they have to invest and the impact on the quarterly profits. ICEs are dirt cheap in that regard, and it took the federal government bribing them to do so.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Because US automakers and oil interest groups actively sought to keep the status quo?

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 2 points 6 months ago

I liked to use a three tiered approach…

Back when we could jailbreak our iPhones I’d use this and overwrite the system’s hosts file. I still use it on my Mac, even if I can’t on iOS anymore.

A VPN is an excellent solution, but when selecting one, you have to read the privacy policy and NOT give the policy the benefit of the doubt. I’ve seen a few that give themselves permission to share your info while making it sound reasonable. I use lockdown personally.

For Safari Extensions, 1Blocker is what ai currently use.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 4 points 6 months ago

According to the article, it won’t qualify for the federal tax incentive, so yeah… probably.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 4 points 7 months ago

This is a large reason why I dreaded Apple making iOS apps a priority for the Mac. Everything wrong about the mobile model becomes a first class citizen.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah… there were a bunch of issues with the Virtual Boy.

A Sudo 3D experience on hardware that couldn’t handle 3D graphics, needed to be setup on a table, and a color palette that made the GameBoy seem high fidelity, never mind the red was horrid to stare at for too long.

It really was ahead of its time… in all the wrong ways.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I suspect, nothing less than Nintendo, Sony, or Microsoft going all in on their next generation console would be enough to bring VR mainstream. As in, the VR being the primary way to play.

Of the three, I can’t see Sony or Microsoft doing it.

Maybe Nintendo, as doing weird stuff is kinda their thing, but even that’s doubtful.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 12 points 7 months ago (3 children)

This is specific to the videogame-ish sub-genre, mostly Isakeis…

But you go out of the way to include RPG mechanics into your story… but the only real influence it has on the storytelling is spending an inordinate amount of time grinding… a mechanic explicitly added to RPGs to pad the game.

There are good video game based stories, Survival Story of a Sword King and Dungeon Reset both immediately come to mind… but I feel like this is a widespread problem.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 44 points 7 months ago (2 children)

From what I can tell, it’s still in the ~$50,000 range.

I don’t really see how that can be considered ’cheap’.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 0 points 7 months ago

They’re all beautiful shots, but something about them doesn’t leave me curious about their contexts. I wish I could articulate it better….

Like maybe it’s not enough of a tease?

Or maybe that you could’ve told me most of those shots were from S4 and I wouldn’t question it?

Or the lack of a contextual caption maybe?

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Lethe. That's who I was thinking of. Like Cornwell was Lethe before she became Lethe.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Wasn’t Cornwell based on a character from TOS, specifically with the same name as an episode title in DIS?

I always felt there was the intent to kill her off, (even before the S2 finale) only to bring her back as an incomplete being.

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