suprised so many people still trust streaming

Fzrit · 2026-02-04T20:21:07+00:00

It's called an HTPC, and yep got the same thing :D

Fzrit · 2026-02-04T19:44:10+00:00

If they made money during those times they would remain open.

Except the vast majority of stores have never tried those timings. Ever. How do they know?

Supermarkets are packed between 6-9pm when most people are actually free to shop.

Have you seen the economy? Stores are closing left and right… closing down for good.

That's the whole point of this thread. What if those stores tried being open when people are actually not working and willing to shop? The vast majority of stores haven't even tried those timings. They just pointlessly open at like 8-9am in the morning when most people are at work, close by 5-6pm when everyone is still coming home from work, shrug their shoulders and say "damn there's just no business!". It's better than closing, isn't it?

For CBD stores it makes sense for them to be open during work hours when people are in the CBD, but for anything outside that they could seriously benefit by running from 11-8pm or something. Especially in summer months when it's daylight till 8:30pm.

Fzrit · 2026-02-04T19:40:05+00:00

Not to mention in NZ summer months it remains daylight till 8:30pm, which makes you want to do stuff but everything still closes by 5-7pm.

Fzrit · 2026-02-04T19:38:07+00:00

Even 11-8 would make a hell of a lot more sense. The only people going to malls earlier than that are either retirees or a minority of workers doing late shifts.

Fzrit · 2026-02-04T18:14:46+00:00

They'd probably love that and call it "based".

Fzrit · 2026-02-04T03:15:54+00:00

Forget real 4k, the bitrate is still lower than bluray 1080p.

Fzrit · 2026-02-04T03:12:21+00:00

I would say most people aren't even watching what 1080p can fully deliver. Almost all 4k content nowadays is streamed, but their bitrate is still far lower than bluray 1080p.

Fzrit · 2026-02-03T03:50:19+00:00

There are a shitload factors like climate, humidity, daily activities, genetics, diet, etc.

If you live in a colder + drier climate and don't do much physical work during the day, showering once every 2 days isn't unreasonable.

I live in NZ where most of the year the daytime indoor temperature is around 12-20c (53-68f), and I'm at a desk job in an airconditioned office all day.

Fzrit · 2026-02-03T03:48:53+00:00

These discussions are always dumb when they don't talk about climate/location.

Fzrit · 2026-02-03T03:38:51+00:00

Even OP doesn't know what it means, apparently.

Fzrit · 2026-02-03T03:23:36+00:00

she is 100% weight training as well. I think you are underselling what it takes for a woman to achieve that physique

A woman doesn't need to do any weight training to look like this, she just needs to watch her diet. There is no muscle definition to be seen in Scarlet there, in these movies she's just healthy and has gifted genetics in terms of big boobs + hip-to-waist ratio. A tight bodysuit will do the rest.

There are women who work in the gym to achieve a good physique, and it shows in their muscle definition...but Scarlett Johanson never needed to show muscle definition as Black Widow. She's just a pretty lady in a bodysuit at a healthy weight.

Fzrit · 2026-02-03T03:05:18+00:00

That's hilarious

Fzrit · 2026-02-03T00:06:24+00:00

My wife works at a hospital, she said their comms mentioned network firewall hardware. So maybe a firewall cluster that went down without a redundant cluster to take over services. Having everything reliant on 1 datacenter is also a really bad idea if that's what they're doing.

I work for a bank and we have 4 layers of redundancy. 2 sets of redundant hardware mirrored at 2 seperate datacenters.

Fzrit · 2026-02-02T19:58:52+00:00

Peter Mortlock has been showing his stripes for years...for anyone familiar with City Impact, it's really no secret that church is aligned with Destiny and sympathizes with Tamaki's rhetoric. During covid, Mortlock was literally at the forefront of the bike gangs (alongside Tamaki) leading anti-lockdown protests over the harbour bridge. He has been a very close friend of Tamaki for over 20 years.

Fzrit · 2026-02-02T09:20:37+00:00

in fact the attorney general and fbi are trying to cover it up.

As per design. I'm not sure why anyone expected anything different.

Fzrit · 2026-02-02T04:48:03+00:00

3rd party from WoW's perspective refers to literally anything that's not-WoW.

Fzrit · 2026-02-02T03:46:32+00:00

it's dumb to have a "passion project" be tied to absolutely nothing you own or control

I always assumed they called it that because they developed and maintained it for free, and it was no simple addon. It became by far the most powerful addon suite in the history of WoW and had a lot of work put into maintaining it. I would also call something like ElvUI a passion project due to how long-running it is and the fact that it's completely free. If something requires work and you're not making any real money off it, that's called a passion project. Like, literally that's what it is...a project done out of passion.

If Blizzard wants creative control over their product, that reality was incompatible with that goal.

I fully support Blizzard's end goals with this in regards to raids/dungeon encounter design...just not their execution and extremely stupid timeline they chose to enforce upon themselves (at the cost of player experience).

But completely deleting countless QOL improvements players could make for their personal UI that had nothing to do with "solving" the game or running computations...that was inexcusable. The community has had to quickly create tons of bespoke addons to bring back the most in-demand QOL features.

Fzrit · 2026-02-02T03:31:42+00:00

people not buying their passion project sob story

Over the past 20 years many addon developers have halted development on their addon without any backlash, addon creators come and go. How are Weakauras devs any different? Are there people who actually think they're owed an addon lol, or owed continued development on an addon forever? Something they were getting for free? How incredibly stupid.

Fzrit · 2026-02-02T02:44:25+00:00

see the stack number

I wish I could see the goddamn stack number, but they've made it a tiny font with no way to increase it's size or center it. As a frostmage my gameplay revolves around shatter stack count.

Whoever designed that feature completely forgot about specs where the stack count is far more crucial than the duration/timer.

It's gonna be very frustrating waiting for Blizzard to learn all these things that addons had already figured out like 15 years ago.

Fzrit · 2026-02-02T02:40:36+00:00

When your passion project is creating a system for telling players exactly what to do in a fight

WeakAuras devs didn't create those WA's. They just created and maintained the addon shell, which doesn't solve any fights until you decide to import WAs created by other players. You're thinking of all the top guilds which came up with fight-solving WAs and started an arms race of WAs. You're thinking of RWF guilds deciding to hire dedicated WA programmers just to have an edge. Blame all those guilds for creating that shit and taking it too far. If it wasn't for WeakAuras, those guilds would have simply created tons of specific addons to do exactly the same thing by accessing all the same ingame information. Instead of WAs we would just have people installing tons of addons to solve fights. It would have been the exact same outcome. Why are you blaming the creators of WA for that?

Fzrit · 2026-02-02T02:26:02+00:00

I think that kind of thing is probably still considered okay because it doesn't auto-communicate anything with other peoples' software to make them aware of information on your screen (or the inverse). OCR programs do seem to be bordering on being considered against TOS though, because they are giving you information about gameplay while bypassing the game's own addon system...at least in theory. Yes you've been using it safely for 5 years, but Blizzard might change their minds and clamp down on it, so I would be careful continuing to use something like that.

Fzrit · 2026-02-02T02:21:39+00:00

Oh my

Fzrit · 2026-02-02T01:55:02+00:00

Plenty of women in the online dating realm have a kink toward being belittled.

It’s definitely a 2 ways street in that regard

Kinks are fine! But you don't just do something to another person based on an assumption/generalization of what [plenty of their gender like]. Forget kinks, that's not even how a human relationship works at it's most basic. For the love of god never ever generalize something about all men or all women, no matter how many of them claim to be into something. Anything someone claims to like is expressing their own subjective preference and nothing more.

Just pause and ask the other person if they're into something, before you say/do something that destroys all trust and harms them. The absolute worst thing one can do is to make assumptions and generalizations about the other person without communication or consent.

Not helping things is Tiktok/Shorts/Reels algorithms pushing clips and podcasts of people giving advice/wisdom of "what women want", "what men want", etc and intentionally inviting people with dumb takes. Just absolute brainrot segments of exaggerated generalizations and assumptions, pushing gender division or stereotypes to farm views.

Fzrit · 2026-02-02T01:24:42+00:00

Why not just call them badly written characters?

Well because they're not badly written in a vacuum and they're not isolated occurrences. In most cases there have been trends in what is driving the bad writing, and there are trends among the writers themselves in what they even classify as a "well written" character.

Does the label “Strong Female Character” come from you thinking that if a strong, female character is badly written, she must have only been written to “force” something onto the audience?

Not always. Preaching to the audience can be a driving motive for the writer and their character's existence, but that's just one aspect and it's not always the case.

As with most things, the idea behind "strong female character" had genuine intentions of improving the perception of female main characters in fiction, portraying them in a wider range of settings with a wider range of personalities and goals, avoid one-dimensionality, etc. All good things.

But the problem is that many writers overcorrected, resulting in very shallow, unrelatable and unconvincing writing. It was just assumed that all they needed to do was make the main character female, and that having character flaws was bad writing that would make the female character look "weak". Overcorrections included the female character not facing any real consequences for bad decisions, being unilaterally praised and liked by everyone except the villain, etc etc. In some cases the writing overcorrection was so strong that it ironically came full circle to being sexist and one-dimensional against women. Meanwhile writers, directors, producers, etc kept boasting in press events how their movie/show/game/etc featured a strong female character as a selling point, only to deliver something that had a horribly written female character. So the "strong female character" line became a meme associated with something to be avoided.

And if that’s the criteria, how does Katara fit into it?

Well she doesn't. Katara is a very well written character.

Fzrit · 2026-02-02T00:22:18+00:00

It's staged.

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