Yeah I tried tabby too and they had like a mandatory "we share your code " line and I hoped out. Like if you’re going to do that I might as well just use claude

No I’m pretty sure they were bots. Plants are more honest. Just a little sunshine and water and they’re chill.

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Tomb Raider fans impressed by Sophie Turner’s “game accurate” Lara Croft

“Yeah they nailed it,” wrote one, while another said “great costume, especially the glasses,” and a third added “Woaaaa. Amazon killing it with the game adaptions accuracy lately.”

Another concurred regarding game comparisons, stating: “Clear homage to the original game as opposed to the rebooted version.”

“Wow, Sophie Turner looks like a perfect fit for Lara Croft!” posted one commentator. “She’s got the toughness and intensity – can’t wait to see her take on the role. This series just became my most anticipated show on Prime Video!”

Of course they do. Marketers saw barbenheimer and have been trying to remake that magic. Corporate can’t just have a social phenomenon like that and let it pass now they need to manufacture it.

Hell it’s not a mistake they’re releasing these two big movies at the same time. You think 10 years ago they would have released on the same weekend?

enjoying my audio on big ass speakers you can find in a thrift shop since

How dare you sir, talking about things you got at a thrift store. Mr moneybags over here not diving through dumpsters for his speakers. You in your ivory tower buying things second hand while we’re out in the streets buying things fourth and fifth handed. For shame, for shame.

(/s although I hope that was obvious)

I think they were better at least, and mostly because there was space for them. In a CRT you had enough volume inside the TV to have even just little 2" drivers, now with ultrathins it’s hard to fit any even moderately okay speaker in there.

Kai Leng - ME3

K. You asked why your sound was bad, I gave an answer. Your opinions on if it should or shouldn’t be that way are not relevant, this is the way it is. If you want good sound, you have to buy it. I can’t change society or manufacturers for you, I am only a guy explaining how you can get good sound.

K, like I said your personal finances are your own, but that’s why you don’t have good sound. Asked and answered.

Your personal finances are your business. I am here saying why you can’t hear anything. If the audio is bad, the invest in better audio, simple as that.

Agreed. People were mad it wasn’t related to the main plot but I agree it’s mostly because of how last Jedi fell flat. It it was released now after the sequels it might have done better

Yes. TV speakers have gotten incredibly cheap and low quality. It’s audio/visual. You’ve invested a fair chunk into half of the experience with a TV, but ignored the other half.

Thank you for your input.

So, you haven’t invested in your audio. You have a TV, great, but tv speakers are basically phone speakers.

You don’t need a big surround sound system, but you need something. Even the cheapest sound bars will likely solve this problem for you.

Pay for better audio people. TV companies make big shiny displays but out smartphone sized speakers in them. Gone are the days where you can get good audio from your TV. Even the cheapest sound bars will make a difference.

It’s not your ears. It’s your sound equipment.

What does your audio system look like for your TV?

Honestly she’s had such a run of terrible movies, but Solo was not one of them. She really stole every scene she was in in that

That’s when I stopped too! Literally gave up my subscription then, never went back. It was proven her products hurt people and were complete bullshit, but Netflix prioritized their bait. So, I de prioritized them from my wallet.

How I Met Your Mother. Entire ending was just overdone because execs wanted to squeeze a few more seasons of profitability. It should have ended around Season 6 or 7, the show had obviously peaked, it was time for it to end. I’m even okay with it ending the same way, but being told differently. The ending could have shown Ted coming back around, realizing what/who he wanted, and pursuing that bringing the show full circle. Instead it felt like we were slammed back and forth, side to side with conflicting stories and narratives, on a whacky roller coaster, and then screeched to a halt back at the station.

I’ll bite. (Note I do notice you do have a 12 day old history, and we have had a wave of spammers trying to incite bullshit, so we’ll see how this goes)

So, why play long games? Why read long books? Why watch long movies?

For me, I like a good well-told story. A game like Red Dead Redemption 2 has such a good story that it is worth investing 120 hours into. It’s protagonist, Arthur Morgan, is so well written that he is arguably the most well-written fictional character of all time. Over the course of 120 hours you get to know him so intimately that you truly feel like you know and understand him, and over the story that will both make you laugh and cry, it culminates in an amazing climax, truly a story that could only be told over 100 hours.

To answer your other points:

For me personally, I tend to look at things in terms of costs and benefits. Through that lens, most games seem like a bad deal

This goes counter to what you said at the beginning, they are actually ridiculously cheap compared to other forms of media. Going to see a 2 hour movie now costs about $18 in the states, that’s $9/hour. RDR2 was $60 and for only the first playthrough of 120 hours that’s $0.50/hour of entertainment value. Now, take playing it multiple times and it’s one of the cheapest forms of entertainment. (arguably the hardware to run it needs to be calculated in, but it depends on preferences etc etc etc)

When I was in HS, I had a band. Has that type of interaction simply been replaced by video games?

No. Apples and Oranges.

I really want to understand the interplay between video games and psychology.

I like good story telling. I like being enveloped in my media, and feeling truly immersed. Gaming does that in spades.

Cuz it seems like FPSes are dominant whereas not too long ago they were a single niche among many niches.

Maybe in your friend group they are, but in the circles I’m in it’s simply not true. Everyone is different. Everyone has different preferences. I just played Dispatch over the weekend, a fun 8ish hour romp that also made me both laugh out loud and well up with tears, it was an adorable game. I see 98% positive ratings on it with almost 100k reviews, so I don’t think we need to jump to “FPS is dominant”.