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As a 90s kid I definitely feel like there’s such a huge generational gap in the past 20 years though, so much changed so rapidly since then.

Like watching MP3 players come and go. And the transition of videotapes to discs to streaming. Or watching nobody own a cellphone to the entire world not being able to go anywhere without one. As well as throwaway cameras to everyone having one in their pockets.

Pre 00s and after is such a difference in just about everything. I wonder what the pre 10s and after will be like.

I feel like US has a store chain with every conceivable name at this point.

And hearing about chains called like Five Guys just sounds weird to be honest.

Leave it to religions to get insanely mad about characters and beliefs they made up. It’s such a dumb fucking thing. Then blame everything on “demons”. Big talk for someone coming from the one country that literally committed warcrimes with nuclear technology.

Hey you, my eyes are up here!

Reminds me how annoying it is when English speakers use “ain’t no” in a sentence.

Which is just a double negative that practically almost always means the opposite of what they mean.

Yeah I don’t think it’s entirely useless, it’s mostly useful for filtering out spam posts and unrelated stuff from communities.

Just on a comment/discussion level it feels like it’s not that great.

What annoys me about Reddit-like communities (yes including Lemmy) is that there’s this downvote feature.

The whole idea of these discussion boards is to have… discussions. Well, perhaps not so much this particular sub lol. So it’s annoying when you make a post or reply to someone with a constructive reply or argument, and then people can’t be arsed to actually reply, they just downvote to disagree and move on. It’s like the equivalent of people just going like “lol no” and then walk away.

Frankly it’s a feature that feels like it completely contradicts the point of online forums.

Wonder when they’re gonna do that for Adobe products in Europe. Has to be one of the most scummiest subscription services present day. If you cancel too early you have to pay up a “cancellation” fee for remaining time of the month, or sometimes even more I believe. If you do it too late you’ll have to pay for a whole new subscription, and pay for the cancellation fee. I don’t even know why they’re allowed to pull that shit on consumers.

Guess who’s not bothering with subscriptions.

I frequently had to test other developer’s code, the fucking amount of times I heard that shit.

“Your code ain’t working”

“It’s working for me”

“Well it isn’t working for me, did you actually test it”

“Yes”

“On anything else than your own PC?”

“It was working fine for me”

“It fucking isn’t, look!”

“…huh”

For fuck sake just take like 1 minute to press on a frikking button to see if it actually does work.

Glad I’m not doing that shit anymore.

I did get multiple profiles, but it was still missing features that make it more accessible to work with like it does in Chrome.

It’s almost there, it just lacks a bunch of definite features that would streamline it and integrate it better into the UI.

I might start using Firefox once it has proper multi-account/profile features like Chrome.

I recently tried it but it’s such a hassle to set up and switch between them.

Yeah not all characters translated as good to live action as others.

But perhaps these were constrained by other factors, like budget or time or whatever else was going on. Like a few more things in the Kenobi show felt weirdly low-budget, while other things in the same show seemed very high-budget, it was all over the place.

They could’ve gone for a more similar look like the ones in ROTS, but I’m not sure how well that one would hold up in longer scenes.

That said, a lot of the animated characters were based off live-action actors, and like the OP example they don’t look like their live-action models much and they’re very heavily stylized. The Inquisitor was an animated-only character, so they had a lot of liberty with his design, that’s probably harder to translate back to live-action. Loved the actor though, did a marvellous job of translating the Inquisitors mannerisms.

Reminds me of complaints about characters showing up in live action for the first time and people complained that they don’t look exactly like their Clone Wars versions.

One can always research multiple options extensively, looking at different kinds of possible research on the moon and what they’d get out of it and whether or not it’s worth the effort, and then conclude that it would be too expensive. Research itself costs time and money too, and NASA has been tight on the money for a while I believe.

While SpaceX and China can practically burn money just for the sake of it.

Man, I had recently spent a lot of time designing advertisement stuff around an established brand identity, that was pretty much going for a classy/luxury aesthetic. So I was basing all my designs around that identity. Made lots of variations, took many hours perfecting it.

Then was told they didn’t like it. They wanted something entirely different that “screamed” budget and flashy colors and shapes.

Got it just perfect on the second attempt after being briefed properly, but it did really hurt when my first attempt was shot down so easily.

You don’t think that a space agency specifically focusing on space flight, travel and expansion hasn’t been extensively researched all of the options? I’m almost certain in the case of NASA it’s more a financial issue and less of not wanting to do it, and that the financial cost is not worth what they expect to get out it anyway.

As for the others, it remains to be seen what Musk will do. He’s got a lot of money to realise what he’s done so far, but I’m not sure if off-world facilities are within his budget (right now).

Not sure what China’s goal is though, they say it’s aimed at scientific research, but I’m not sure what they’re expecting to get out of it that hasn’t been done already. They could do similar research on a much cheaper and easier to maintain space station.

I’m sure the researchers at NASA, ESA and other space agencies have done extensive work to look at the viability of all that.

I’m thinking if it ever was a viable option they would’ve long done it by now. Same reason why there’ve been no people on the moon for such a long time, there’s practically no reason to go there. Even back when they first did, it was because of the space race and the achievement of it.