“users aren’t there for the services”

That’s because Reddit works as a platform, not service. It’s an aggregator of content, not a provider. The only service they provide is a public one.

Yeah, I presume if it had been Tom Hanks, Harry would have been a very different character.

I presume it’s because they’re being driven by purpose, instead of driven by metrics.

I wonder if there’s any metrics out there on how many gamers, like me, turn off vibration effects entirely the first time they feel them. I have very rarely found them immersive, mostly I find the effect annoying. But I do wonder if I miss out on the occasional clever usage.

I’m totally fine with him being brown and dreadlocked. I wish he didn’t look designed to be a Fortnite guest character.

I didn’t even know there was a new PoP game coming, I’m glad you brought it to my attention.

That being said, I can see why it’s not blowing anyone’s socks off... if it’s “big budget”, I’m not seeing it in the trailer. A 2D platformer that bites off Fortnite’s style? This feels like some big steps back from the richly…

It’s not an entirely dead phenomena, Bruce Lee clones still appear in videogames (particularly fighting games), most recent and well-known being Tekken’s Marshall Law. Over in the land of webcomics, long-running series Hanlim Gym stars a main character who has slowly become an explicit Bruce Lee stan.

I suppose it’s a…

Those are some very specific, very plain steps. I could see this applying to certain commercial/office settings, but in homes...

People got all sorts of staircases, and few of them are simple uniform blocks.

I mean... how old do y’all think Mario is, in whatever current sliding timeline we’re playing with here? Or Princess Peach?

It’s a little weird that he’s not older, but it’s not shocking that his “age” has been outpaced by his history.

If I can accept Homer Simpson being perpetually in his middle-thirties, (he always…

Have there been any votes of confidence for Elemental? It looks visually stunning (as is to be expected, however in the Current Era of 2023 they can no longer ride on the basis of visuals) but the story looks boring as hell. Oooh, she’s a fire girl and he’s a water guy, how ever will they make it work? Thbbbbt.

Contrarian click-bait. Post a title which triggers people to respond. We’ve nicely weaponized society’s tools for self-correction in order to drive engagement, and I’m sure that’ll be just fine and not backfire at all.

Textbook clickbait article, designed to engage interaction through negative response.

I wish it was a little clearer on what their vision of “threatening civilization as we know it” looks like to them. I suspect the future of AI is one in which there are fewer and fewer jobs and far greater stratification of wealth and opportunity, and I suspect they’re thinking of Skynet and The Matrix.

I worry very…

I was expecting a clothesline, not a spear. Ouchies.

Majel Barret was the main voice of The Computer for TOS, TNG, DS9 and Voyager, as well as five of the films. She also played Number One in the original pilot, Nurse Chapel in the original series, and Luwaxana Troi in TNG, and was married to Roddenberry from 1969 until his death in 1991.

Sounds a lot like HarmonQuest.

I grew up in Central Florida. Comparing Busch Gardens to Disney World is a joke. Sea World? Legoland? You must be kidding.

Universal is at least a near competitor, but they still run second place behind the combined power of the Disney parks.

“It was all over Goodreads in 2020 and was definitely an indie bookstore darling.”

Goodreads and indie bookstores are usually counted as well within the circle of science fiction and fantasy. They’re talking about that next-level attention, where it becomes a focus of morning talk shows and gets front-stacked at Barnes…

The real-time effect of watching the planet rapidly drop away from view, passing through the atmosphere and into open space before jumping to hyperspace with those signature VFX and SFX was an absolute treat, every time. It never got old, I could stand for even more of it. Let it take a little longer, or show more of…

When actors improv, they also usually do a take as-written, and let the directors decide which way to go. They don’t re-write, they add to what exists.

It sounds like Ortega was flatly refusing to perform the scenes as-written. And maybe she was right! But it’s not quite a 1:1 comparison you’re making.