jaaake

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[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

How prominent Honey, I Shrunk The Kids (1989) was at the time you first saw Star Wars (1977).

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

They also have a video that is my favorite way to explain how colorblindness affects me:

https://youtu.be/uRNKxAy049w

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

My partner got a pair for work when they first came out (her job involves creating social media content). I was impressed by the speakers and it’s the same style of sunglasses that I normally wear daily, so I got a pair for myself. It was so nice to be able to listen to stuff and take calls without carry around headphones or putting them in when the phone rang. I was already uncomfortable with the association with meta, but was able to isolate that aspect at first. As they continued to add features, I’ve started being less comfortable with them. I accidentally left them somewhere a couple months ago and decided not to replace them. It’s such a bummer that all the cool tech is now not just spying on you, but on everyone around you. Fuckin capitalism ruins everything.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

As a jew, I also had the same initial reaction to the star of david. Then I realized the bars of the flag are present as the band of the underwear and a line at the bottom of the briefs. I wish there was a gap between the bars and the top/bottom to make this more obvious and more accurate to the flag instead of the symbol of judaism. This being the flag makes sense. If it was just the star, I would agree that it is antisemitic.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Never heard of this before. Google tells me it was only available in the US on Showtime and later the SciFi channel, neither of which I had access to.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That rug really ties the room together.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

What a great "mask off" interview. I love hearing about all the subjects they covered without the pretense of selling the show within studio guidelines. Feels much more "VH1 Behind The Music" than "press junket."

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 60 points 1 week ago (10 children)

The alternate universe on that show was the horniest thing in TV for decades.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The people living paycheck to paycheck are ones who would make the most impact by striking, but are least able to as they will starve, be evicted, lose utilities/cell/internet if they do.

The people who are making enough money to be comfortable are afraid that if they upset the people above them, they will become the people living paycheck to paycheck.

The independently wealthy and top tier capitalists are the ones that have the most financial freedom to protest, but have the least reason to, are the smallest group, and are mostly fine with how things are (at best) or actively making things worse (most likely).

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I'm guessing this is the non-specific way of saying Limbo-like.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I've been with my partner for a decade. I want to get married, she doesn't. She was married for 8 years in her prior relationship. She doesn't want government involved in our love life and doesn't like the thought of being a wife or having a husband. Both of those titles come with the stigma of a power dynamic that borders on ownership to her. She tells me the main reason she got married the first time was to change her surname, which she never felt connected to (parents divorced at young age, estranged from father since then).

I assume at some point we'll be forced to be married due to some legal restriction that would be lifted by such paperwork existing.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

https://gdcvault.com/play/1034535/Independent-Games-Summit-It-s

This is a joint talk with Dana Trebella and Derek Lieu about this exact subject from their professional perspectives (indie marketing and trailer editor, respectively). They both have multiple talks over the years where they explain different aspects of their day to day work. Taken as a whole, it's a solid crash course on DIY marketing.

Another talk more focused on finding your messaging: https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025673/More-Feelings-Fewer-Features-Showcasing

If written articles are more your jam: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/marketing/how-to-market-a-game-an-introduction-to-game-marketing

 

Every year, my partner of a decade and I have Christmas with her family. My family is Jewish and we also spend at least one night of Hanukkah with them. For all gatherings (including birthdays) the gifts are almost exclusively chosen and purchased by the one who is more directly related to the recipient. It always feels a little weird to me that their family gets me gifts, but they never receive anything exclusively from myself, it's just very vaguely implied that the gifts are from us as a couple. To be fair, their parents give gifts as a couple (always from their mom). Also, I would never ask my partner to purchase gifts for my family in addition to theirs, they're already stressed enough by finding something for their own family. I've never brought this up with my partner as I don't want to make them feel either obligated to or guilty about implicitly declaring that they don't want to.

 

I see news articles that the vote to release the files might not happen until the first week of December, but yesterday saw a massive dump of emails.

Are these two separate things? Why are they categorized like this? Do we know how different they are from each other? Who has actually seen what's in the files?

 

Nobody likes voting for the “lesser of two evils.” Casting a vote in favor of someone who is diametrically opposed to your viewpoint(s) absolutely sucks. The shitty reality is that we aren’t going to change the electoral process in the next two months.

If you don’t see either major candidate as a champion that you can support, it seems more beneficial to see it as selecting your enemy for the next four years. I would rather fight against someone that I have a chance of changing. At minimum I would rather protest against someone that I think has a lower chance of authorizing lethal force against a march that I attend.

Voting for a 3rd presidential candidate (or not voting at all), is letting someone else make that decision for you.

That said, we have got to get out of this constant cycle of only having two options. There’s too much money at a national level to start there. We’ve got to start local and get third party candidates into offices at a city level, then state, then national. It’s going to take a long time and it should have happened so very long ago. We can’t change the past, we can only change the future. The only time to start changing the future is in the present.

 

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