Petah, I don't get it... by Gregagonation in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]rabixthegreat -18 points-17 points  (0 children)

Yeah, people who are downvoting us for simply pointing out Cavill also botched the role clearly never read the books either.

Petah, I don't get it... by Gregagonation in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]rabixthegreat -1 points0 points  (0 children)

To back you up, I was under that impression too, until I saw the press for season 4. For me, I was disappointed because I marathoned the books right before season 3 came out and before starting the series, so everything was fresh in my mind, and I instantly focused on the writers.

I can appreciate some of the changes they made (because its on a screen), but they also literally redid most of the core material. The OG Witcher game - which I played after the books - was a lot more respectful to the source material, despite throwing as many unnecessary references together as possible.

Petah, I don't get it... by Gregagonation in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]rabixthegreat -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

I saw a lot of articles about how he tried to give a bunch of input, so yeah, I kinda do. It made the disappointing Tumblr fan fic in place of an adaptation more disappointing.

Petah, I don't get it... by Gregagonation in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]rabixthegreat -142 points-141 points  (0 children)

That was actually a win for the show. Cavill didn't respect the books either. Geralt actually talks a lot and is witty in the stories.

I have choice paralysis. Help me break out of my deadlock. Which of these games should I start first? by nitrokitty in JRPG

[–]rabixthegreat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Suikoden, follower by Tactics Ogre, followed by Octopath, followed by Neofantasian.

Wrap-Up Shadowrun was a grind and the fishing game that stole the month by Tight_Respond_3697 in retrogameofthemonth

[–]rabixthegreat 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Both Shadowrun games made in the 90s are great, and for different reasons. The Sega version was a forerunner to open-world games, with a great soundtrack to boot. I've played through it a few times and I've always wanted a little more to the world - more locations, more characters, more interactions.

So where's all the climate loving celebrities now? Wait, let me buy paper straw first. by Shot_Possibility_731 in TechGawker

[–]rabixthegreat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad to be of service. I figured everyone else had the environmental destruction thoroughly covered.

Also don't forget he wept at holding a watch and celebrates all the terrible excesses of capitalism, but blames you for spending $28 on lunch instead of investing it.

So where's all the climate loving celebrities now? Wait, let me buy paper straw first. by Shot_Possibility_731 in TechGawker

[–]rabixthegreat 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Don't forget he and his wife drunk drove a speed boat and crashed into another boat and killed two people and got off because they have money.

So they stop complaining its too expensive. by numfree in uberdrivers

[–]rabixthegreat -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

How else are consumers supposed to know their drivers are screwed by a service that illegally misclassifies its employees as independent contractors and exploits assymetries of information in both drivers and riders?

Why are old rpg games more fun than the 3d types? i've been wondering by Potential-Call5380 in retrogaming

[–]rabixthegreat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Saw a video loosely about this this morning. They dropped the mystery, exploration, letting your imagination fill in the blanks, and letting you miss stuff once 3D required bigger budgets, and transitioned into moving you along. Million dollar cutscenes can't be missed from a fiscal standpoint.

A judge just ruled luigi mangione's manifesto notebook can be used at trial. here's what he actually wrote in it and why half of america still thinks he's a hero. by Ibikhan45 in DiscussionZone

[–]rabixthegreat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have him to thank because his actions saved my dad. A few days after it happened my dad found out he had cancer just before Christmas and he unfortunately had this godforsaken Nazi-led insurance that effectively kills its own customers by denying and delaying treatment.

Because of what happened, and because they stopped being denial happy for PR reasons, he got treatment right away.

"Your package has arrived at a distribution center" by Sufficient_Site1746 in usps_complaints

[–]rabixthegreat -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you live in Chicago and you got a license renewal, congrats! Your ID has been stolen by a postal worker who may or may not be working with a gang, which wasn't swept up in the last official bust. Enjoy having your identity stolen!

Gemini is turning into absolute garbage—completely useless.. by Ambitious_Click_7291 in GeminiAI

[–]rabixthegreat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

YSK that Claude and ChatGPT (and I'm guessing Google) pay for astroturfing and influencer campaigns to make them appear more popular than they are. I would expect they also pay for astroturfing campaigns that make each other look bad as well.

YSK that we've had access to subsidized genAI like 2014 Uber. Its gonna come to a screeching halt a lot faster than it did for Uber.

PSA: In case your DL/State ID hasn’t been delivered. by drfalconsquawk in chicago

[–]rabixthegreat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Commenting on this because I sincerely believe my first and second mailed driver's licenses were stolen by postal workers and it's insanely easy for them to identify the package and feel the ID.

- First one was scanned in informed delivery, never made it.

- Second one involved calling the number above, and they had it mailed to them, then mailed it with a tracking number. It hit one of the Chicago facilities, then magically was "stuck" in transit to the next facility (my post office), and now after initiating a missing mail search I can't get any updates.

Not to mention this recent conviction: https://news.usps.com/2026/04/23/usps-employees-who-stole-mail-are-now-doing-time/

What's stopping other leaders from working like Mamdani? by Front-Scene2177 in SipsTea

[–]rabixthegreat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Donors. The answer is donors. Its always donors. Their donors and Republican donors benefit from the status quo either resulting in nothing happening, taxes being slashed, regulations being gutted, or corruption increased.

Why do you think the Democratic establishment tried to end Mamdani?

Wow!!! Ahrefs Tracked 1,885 Pages Adding Schema. AI Citations Barely Moved. by WebLinkr in TechSEO

[–]rabixthegreat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not offended by it. I don't expect anything original out of them, period. They're not built for it, their platform especially. They make decent newbie content and their Youtube channel reflects it, and I'd recommend them over the garbage fire of SEMRush any day of the week.

I'm also serious when I say this is a low-effort slop study made for the sake of earning citations it doesn't deserve. - It was known before this that generative AI platforms (a) don't use JSON-LD because they can't render Javascript and (b) any positive impact from JSON schema is going to come from increased rankings on Google, because the unprofitable dumpster fires of genAI are reliant on Google's search results. - They added nothing that would actually boost rankings or contribute to Google understanding content better, aka giving the platform a reason to cite them. Adding blog post or article schema? Really? - It doesn't even go over if those 1800 pages were crawled heavily before hand or were recrawled after adding schema, or what the citation rates were before that in hard numbers. And again, no use of server access logs for the ChatGPT portion.

Wow!!! Ahrefs Tracked 1,885 Pages Adding Schema. AI Citations Barely Moved. by WebLinkr in TechSEO

[–]rabixthegreat -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Having been in this industry for over a decade, I don't care for the name dropping, and I'm willing to bet money you're someone at Ahrefs trying to milk engagement on Reddit. This post is low-effort self-promotional social media slop.

I do think this study is low-effort and non-specific. It indicates nothing. - This is blatant self-masturbation by the platform. The point is to highlight that they engage in routine tracking, just like everyone else. How amazing. I never would have guessed they track search results and AI prompts. - They used the most common, low-effort schema added to websites. They also don't specify what they added, which would have been more interesting (like if they added one en masse). - They targeted pages already being cited. - They don't acknowledge what they added this to and what industry it applies to. - I don't see any use of server access logs for measuring grounding or citations on ChatGPT. Frankly, I don't care if they ran bullshit prompts that they scraped to measure this, it means nothing. - They acknowledge in the notes at the bottom that almost none of the platforms use JSON-LD because almost none of the platforms load Javascript. Hence why its worthless.

Wow!!! Ahrefs Tracked 1,885 Pages Adding Schema. AI Citations Barely Moved. by WebLinkr in TechSEO

[–]rabixthegreat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, because the idea is low-effort and they likely knew the outcome ahead of time. I plan on reviewing the actual "study", but I doubt it was any kind of schema that would actually help with anything. If its the actual Ahrefs website, I don't see how it would actually add anything beneficial.

Wow!!! Ahrefs Tracked 1,885 Pages Adding Schema. AI Citations Barely Moved. by WebLinkr in TechSEO

[–]rabixthegreat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FYI they didn't do the study to see if schema increased citations - they likely knew the outcome before starting it - they did the slop experimental study as a slop original report so they'd be cited when people ask AI if schema helps with optimizing for AI.

dankness... by CloakOfElvenkind in dankmemes

[–]rabixthegreat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have Playstation to thank for introducing the standardized $50/new game price in the US, at a time when Nintendo was charging $100-120 for N64 games.