darkstar

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[–] darkstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 7 months ago

Jirard's words were unambiguous over the years, though. It was always "we're working with..." or "we've donated to..." and not "we're looking at these charities". I don't know what the rationale for hanging on to that money was, whether it was for the right reasons or not. What I do know is that people were lied to. It doesn't matter if he intended to or not. It's not a good spot to be in, and I can't imagine it gets much better from here. The whole thing felt very much like w crypto scam, except the money was still available, but there was a whole lot of "trust me, bro" and misrepresentation of what was happening behind the scenes.

How many years of research do you need in order to pick the charity or university you want to fund? How many times do you repeat the lies (with numbers!) without even knowing what your own charity is doing? I wouldn't be surprised if there was a different reason they hung on to the money, because this doesn't pass the sniff test. Where there's smoke there's fire.

[–] darkstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I also like tools like Honey or CamelCamelCamel, which show you the actual price changes over time, and you can decide when the right time to buy is. Obviously, you never know when something will go on sale in the future, but it at least helps you see how good the current price is compared to the past month or year.

[–] darkstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago

I just bought an Elegoo Neptune 4 Pro, and its semi-automatic bed leveling is great. I'd say getting anything with automatic or semi-automatic bed leveling would be a huge time saver.

[–] darkstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you're upset that the average consumer won't be able to shoot something of that quality with their iPhone, you've got to fix your expectations. The average consumer won't even have the editing skills to pull that off, let alone any of the other myriad of tools required to turn recorded footage into a high quality production. As long as they only used iPhones, I don't think it's misleading at all to say it's shot on an iPhone.

A master at their craft doesn't need the best equipment to do their job well. Similarly, the average person won't magically be able to produce outstanding results just because you give them an expensive camera. If anything, the fact that the event was shot on an iPhone is Apple taking aim at content creators and marketing the iPhone to them as an alternative to expensive camera equipment.

[–] darkstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't know if you recall, but Zillow was found to be price fixing as well a few years back. They were buying up real estate, then pumping the Zestimate of any houses they owned. I remember seeing people compiling data on Reddit, tracking home values before the house sold to Zillow, and after. Zillow is just as shitty, and just as much of a middle man. So, yes, Zillow can do a lot of what the Realtor does, but I'd argue we deserve better.

[–] darkstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I doubt exclusion of men from this feature has anything to do with it being more work to add men. Hell, it's actually LESS work to enable it for everyone than it is to add exclusions. Excluding men was a business decision, I'm sure.

Now, I'm in the privileged position of being male, so take this with a grain of salt, but I entirely disagree with the blatant sexism of this feature. I get the purpose, but it feels horribly misguided. Can women not commit violent or sexual crimes? Can nonbinary people not commit violent or sexual crimes? Only men can apparently commit these crimes, according to the people who thought this feature up. Sexual crimes by women, for example, go wildly underreported..Even if they were using statistics to justify how they implemented this feature, they didn't do their homework.

[–] darkstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

Ah, sorry. I think I confused Telltale and Double Fine.

[–] darkstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Shit, I'd take four 10-hour workdays and a day off over five 8-hour workdays. It's not about the hours per week, but about being able to enjoy a full day to myself.

[–] darkstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I haven't heard anything about this until now, but I loved the Monkey Island games. I started with Monkey Island 3 because I was too young to be aware of the other two. I didn't like the fourth one much because they changed the style a lot. I think DoubleFine did made a few Monkey Island games after, but I haven't played those.

The Lucas Arts games of this era were amazing, so let's see if this will live up to them, since it seems to be aiming for that. Full Throttle was sick, and I would love if somehow Full Throttle 2 were to still happen. Insert skeleton "still waiting" meme.

[–] darkstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago

Brave on my Windows desktop, and Arc for my MacOS laptop

[–] darkstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

FOR FREE?! Girl, you need to be getting paid for all that!

[–] darkstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What did you use to print them? Is it hard plastic like PLA? I'm contemplating getting into 3D printing, and if they were anywhere between wood and silicone in hardness I'd be thrilled.

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