[-] BobQuasit@kbin.social 39 points 1 year ago

I won't install Facebook Messenger because fuck Zuck and his privacy-raping software.

[-] BobQuasit@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

That's a pretty poor summary. It's not all that much shorter than the blog post itself. Could you tell the AI to be much more concise?

[-] BobQuasit@kbin.social 61 points 1 year ago

It's not superhero fatigue or franchise fatigue. It's bad writing fatigue. Seriously, I don't know why Hollywood keeps choosing terrible writers for huge projects, but as long as they are doing that they are going to keep getting what they deserve.

And speaking of huge projects, from what I've heard Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny cost $295 million to make rather than 250. And that's not counting publicity and marketing, which brings it to 400 million if not more. That means they need to make at least $800 million to break even. No matter how you slice their opening weekend, they are in huge trouble. And given that Elementals and The Little Mermaid both bombed hard along with most other Disney movies of the last few years, I'd say that Disney is in serious trouble too!

On the other hand, Guardians of the Galaxy 3 was rather well written, and from what I've heard it did rather well at the box office. Which is just more evidence that if you have a decently-written film the public WILL go and see it. We're just avoiding crap, that's all.

I'll go out on a limb and say that hauling poor old Harrison Ford away from his bong and forcing him at the age of 80 to make shitty movies is tantamount to elder abuse. As for The Flash, coddling wannabe cult leader and mental defective Ezra Miller was just the icing on the cake. The movie was just badly written.

Frantic last minute reshoots and rewrites are a dead giveaway that something is seriously wrong with a production. But that that is happening so often in Hollywood in the last several years is clear evidence that Hollywood itself has completely lost their way. I don't know if they can right that ship, and to be honest I don't much care. If they won't provide people with the good entertainment that they want, eventually somewhere else will. Maybe Bollywood or China.

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Is Jerboa for Lemmy crashing for anyone else?

I've been using Jerboa for Lemmy for my Beehaw account since the Migration. At first it worked fine. Then I started getting an error message about the version of Lemmy being used on the instance. But for the last couple of days it has been crashing immediately on opening:

Jerboa Error Message

Is anyone else having this problem? Can anyone recommend an alternative app?

Thanks!

[-] BobQuasit@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

Reddit will REALLY be good when those apathetic users are all that's left to produce content and moderate subs! /s

[-] BobQuasit@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

You can't become a billionaire without being incredibly evil. They are literally working to kill off all life on the planet.

As for giving them the benefit of the doubt? Seriously? Anyone who suggests that has got to be getting a nice paycheck from the plutocrats.

[-] BobQuasit@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Anyone else reminded of this scene from Firefly?

[-] BobQuasit@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Good idea! I just posted a link to r/politicalhumor.

[-] BobQuasit@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Except communities on Discord aren't search-engine-facing, so they're a complete dead end. Nobody can discover useful information there unless they are already members of that particular community. It's the "walled garden" effect.

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Infinity going subscription-only!

Infinity Announcement

This morning when I opened Infinity to check Reddit, I saw the announcement above: they're going subscription-only. Ironically enough, I couldn't scroll down to see the rest of the message including prices, if there were any. I also couldn't see if there was a button to close the message or start a paid subscription. I couldn't proceed to Reddit at all. My only option was to close the app completely. So I uninstalled it.

That's it for me using Reddit on mobile! Can't say I'll miss it much. But I added a LOT of content to Reddit that way, so it's their loss. Fuck you, spez!

#RedditMigration

[-] BobQuasit@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

God, I hope so. I don't see any way to stop the billionaires from killing off our species, at this point. But I want to at least see those psychotic monsters suffer before we all go!

[-] BobQuasit@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Same here. I'm kind of suspecting that Reddit isn't going to be giving me my data anytime soon, if ever!

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[Mostly Lost] The Weekly Radio Address of President George W. Bush (parody from The Onion)

The Weekly Radio Address of President George W. Bush - parody

I downloaded these every week from The Onion long ago. They've been unavailable online for many years; even the Internet Archive was missing a lot of them. Which is a pity, because they're incredibly funny. Recently I assembled them into a single collection, filling in some of the gaps with supplements from the IA, and posted the whole collection. There are 40 files. As far as I know, this is the most complete archive available anywhere.

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submitted 1 year ago by BobQuasit@kbin.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

How to post audio files?

I have a bunch of very rare comedy MP3s that I collected long ago from the web. They're not available online now, for the most part. They're REALLY funny, and I'd like to make them available on Lemmy. Any idea how I could post them? I have 40 files.

[-] BobQuasit@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

I'm a Beehaw member; also a kbin member, but I wasn't able to get on here until tonight because it had been so laggy a few days ago that I'd given kbin up as unusable. To answer your question, I don't like it but I do understand it. It sounds from what they've said that they basically had no choice; they were overwhelmed.

That said, I'm now VERY glad that I have a kbin account. I just re-created my subscription list (including magazines from both of the banned instances) here. I just hope kbin isn't going to ban them too?

And just in case anyone is wondering: I expect to keep using both Beehaw and kbin (and my other Fediverse accounts, for that matter; I'm on Mastodon, BookWyrm, and Paper.wf). It's nice to have a low-stress refuge like Beehaw sometimes But I want to be able to access the whole wide world when I choose, too!

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by BobQuasit@kbin.social to c/main@sh.itjust.works

Okay, I wouldn't be here if Beehaw hadn't defederated from Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works. I'd set up an account a few days ago, but every time I logged on here the lag was intolerable. Luckily things seem much more stable now.

It's quite a change from Beehaw - being able to create magazines, for example. I'm tempted to give that a try for my favorite tabletop RPG, since there isn't one for it yet. I also quite like this microblogging option, although I'm confused about where it actually is in the Fediverse! Am I on kbin now, or sh.itjust.works?

Anyway, although I like the relative niceness and safety of Beehaw, I'm glad to have the option of an account here, too. Truth to tell, I'm not comfortable with ANYBODY telling me that there are things I can't see. Or things I can't say, for that matter. Both of which have become common as hell on Reddit.

[-] BobQuasit@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

Ironically enough I had just added several communities from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works to my feed on Beehaw. Luckily I can still see them on my "Subscribed" list - not the content, the community names - so I'm adding them to my kbin subscriptions instead.

I'm glad to see that kbin has gotten stable. I'd been trying to use it for days, but it kept freezing and crashing!

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