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Cake day: June 16th, 2023
  • |IlI|lIIl|IlIll|Il|IllI|@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Has anobody seen Odyssey?English
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    4 days ago

    I agree they both fucked it up, but my main problem is how there seems to have been a clear shift in how they “weigh” reviews after both IMDB and RT were bought by large corporate entities (Amazon and Fandango, respectively).

    I can’t help but feel like a lot of the movies coming out from those companies or their subsidiaries (…and at least some number of politically expedient allies) somehow manage to get higher overall review scores on RT and IMDB than they maybe deserve.

    For example, that shitty right-wing nationalist churchslop movie “Young Washington” got relatively high scores on RT…

    …and IMDB…

    …but not on Letterbox’d…

    …which is one of the main reasons I shifted to checking Letterbox’d for reviews… but unfortunately, another day to shift to a different platform be coming soon again.

  • |IlI|lIIl|IlIll|Il|IllI|@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Recommend a new TV! 📺English
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    5 days ago

    Go one step further.

    Get the LG TV’s MAC address, then from the router admin page (192.168.1.1), force your router to assign that LG TV’s MAC address a specific fixed IP address, and then block every single external port for that IP address… then you can do local smart home stuff like with Home Assistant, but the TV will not talk to anything externally.

    Additionally, then plug in a dedicated smart TV box to the TV like an NVIDIA Shield for a couple hundred bucks, install a 3rd party launcher like FLauncher so no more Google bullshit shows up, replace YouTube with SmartTube Next so you have YouTube without ads, and then S0undTV to replace Twitch that then also has no ads.

    Had that setup now for years. It’s amazing.

  • |IlI|lIIl|IlIll|Il|IllI|@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•French Presidential Candidate Calls For Legislation After PlayStation Announces End To Physical DiscsEnglish
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    17 days ago

    No.

    It should just be illegal.

    If Nintendo decided to make your original SNES Earthbound cartridge now worth $$$$s suddenly stop working and just had to pay you the inflation adjusted cost you bought it for, they’d still be ripping you off.

    Here’s what I want to do :

    Make it illegal for a company owning an IP to do any action that hampers product functionality of any kind, even if “ceasing” action causes a hamper to that functionality.

    The only CAVEAT that should be allowed is a game having a MODE that the company supports in which they provide an “official” e-sports competition circuit server you can connect to if you want to compete in an official capacity.

    They should be able to sell you the game, and if it is centered around multi-player gameplay, it should work at a basic level with open community-hosted networked gaming support.

    Additionally, any company that owns a game should be required to submit a source code version of it to the government to act as a “patent” to the game’s source code and copyright. No submission? No valid piracy case can be pursued.

    Owner company goes out of business?

    Company loses game patent / copyright and the game’s source becomes publicly freely available.

    New company buys the IP and fails to support all functionality originally in the game from the original owner company?

    Game code is publicly released and you lose the ability to pursue piracy cases.

    If you don’t do something this comprehensive, the real problem is - what if a company goes out of business or sells to some other entity?

    Corporations do this already in many industries in order to shirk responsibilities to repair issues or do recalls of broken products.

    They do it with digital movies, they do it with John Deere hardware, they’ll do it with anything they are not fully required to do that they can weasel out of… so make the barrier to entry to even have ACCESS to the consumer market such that even doing nothing means the company risks losing ownership and enforceable copyright.

  • |IlI|lIIl|IlIll|Il|IllI|@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•'This is our culture': Japan fans clean up World Cup stadiumEnglish
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    1 month ago

    It’s 95% b/c ALL the schools make the kids gain an appreciation for manual labor.

    If you grow up doing a job, you will respect those who do it. Same as how anyone who ever has worked as a waiter tips well and treats service staff better than someone who never has.

    As a result you have decades of it being ingrained into their entire populace a personal sense of respect for cleaning and maintaining a space.

    …And for the other 5%, because it is always covered in news stories every time it happens now so positively, now it’s also probably a point of national pride.