Right - but the criticism isn’t just “similar themes or plots” it’s “similar themes or plots and also copying the visual mechanism for which they’re delivered.” I’m not arguing that Bird Box or TQP are inherently unique allover, more so that this just felt a bit specifically derivative of those two instead of a unique…

As a kid (and still a bit to this day) Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness was always the scariest.

I could always explain away horror as “well it’s not real - it’s ghosts. That’s dumb.” But the way PoD has that sort of... science? element to it? Just made me feel like, well now nothing is safe. It just made it feel…

Why? Why is my criticism not fair? It’s literally those two movies combined.

You have some unseen enemy force that will “get” you if you’re “exposed” to it (BirdBox)

The people trying to convince you to get off the path and it’s actually Beautiful (BirdBox)

The path is a different mechanism but it’s functionally…

It was literally a Bird Box and The Quiet Place mashup. Decent for a horror block at a film festival, but it definitely felt wayyyy too derivative of those two.

I mean my first thought upon reading Giz’s article was “ok well now it’s time to just go ahead and commit to a full deletion of my account.”

Went to do it and, whelp, I can’t! 

hahah oh my god I loved that one too. In just a complete “uhhh....ok.” sense. I love his style in general. It’s so very non-sci-fi-sci-fi.

I’m fine with basic. At the end of the day I always ended up turning my Nest’s learning shit off and just only ever really used it for voice or remote app control. This does that at a cheaper price so... good! (I left all of my Nest stuff with my house when I sold it).

But I absolutely need some external room sensors!

This was a good movie, but I *beg* people to read the short story “Stories of Your Life” from collection “Stories of Your Life and Others” by Ted Chiang. It’s even more personal. It’s so touching and if you’re a parent it hits even harder.

He writes some of the best sci-fi to date. Good stuff.

For E-Ink yes you are correct. E-Paper is just LCD, so no.

This is weird because my standups involve at least *SOME* interaction from other members. The whole point is a quick pulse check to make sure things are running smoothly. That often requires other people... talking.

Yeah this sounds like E-Paper which, of course, gets confused with E-Ink but in reality is a low-power LCD solution that still has similar power saving methods (it can save states and be low power when they’re not changing, but not no-power like E-Ink).

The Pebble Time used this.

Even in video mode it would use less…

... non-luxury?

Both Google and Amazon's ecosystems now support this feature though.

“I want the free market to work! Free Market Free Market Free Market!


....... wait... no not like that.”

Cameras. I love Moto phones. *Love* them. And would have gladly kept with them, but they just *can’t* get their damn cameras to be good in their budget phones. I mean they’re serviceable, but once I had kids and the need for “quick, sharp and accurate pic in .5 seconds time” became more of a priority - Motos tended to…

Same. The characters just feel like some really bad early aughts video game cutscenes. The animation is poorly executed and the designs are cheap.

Basically. It’s how these people got this rich in the first place - by being incredibly selfish megalomaniacal assholes.

Just let it cool and congeal. Voila!

Well Darabont’s season was the only good one (I don’t count the second season) so good on him. Maybe if they would have kept him the show wouldn’t be such a trash fire.

Part of it is marketing for sure, but there’s a sound strategy there. If your console supports all these features, but finding a display that does them all well is hard - and the customer has a bad experience when they don’t have one... then it does make some sense to at least try to have an official program to…