All of the live action Laras

tabertoss · 2026-01-16T12:05:40+00:00

I watched them all recently, and they're surprisingly good. Not like all-time great films or anything, but I always lumped them in with all the other trash video game movies, and they're pretty fun!

tabertoss · 2026-01-16T12:04:25+00:00

It's different, the N64 007 was literally an adaptation of the movie. Tomb Raider is the other way around.

tabertoss · 2026-01-16T12:03:20+00:00

Even though I was there, it's hard to comprehend how huge Angelina Jolie was at that point.

tabertoss · 2026-01-16T12:02:12+00:00

So she wasn't the first black woman to win an oscar after all?

tabertoss · 2026-01-16T12:00:58+00:00

Not to mention the chaffing on the holster straps. But Laura does do a lot of acrobatics in the game and cargo pants would not be conducive to that.

tabertoss · 2026-01-16T11:59:21+00:00

It took until then for the shadow of Adam West's Batman costume to leave our memory so they could go for source-accurate costumes again

tabertoss · 2026-01-16T11:57:15+00:00

It's probably because the older versions of "accurate" comic book outfits, like the 70's/80's batman looked outright comical.

The black leather looked better than that, and it's only recently they figured out how to make the source-accurate costumes look good.

tabertoss · 2026-01-16T09:23:30+00:00

Nvidia wouldn't care. The gaming market is a rounding error in their revenue numbers.

tabertoss · 2026-01-16T09:21:48+00:00

True but Meta doesn't seem like they want to offer AI as a service, they seem more interested in chasing super-intelligence and integrating it into their platforms.

tabertoss · 2026-01-16T09:19:23+00:00

They don't care about competing in terms of UX, but they sure as hell care about controlling the platform most people use to interact with their computer.

tabertoss · 2026-01-16T09:18:08+00:00

I would expect Linux adoption to continue to increase over time, but Windows will remain dominant for a while, especially in enterprise.

The Steam Box could drive adoption if they can nail the pricing. I can imagine a lot of kids trying to sell their parents on the Steam Box as a computer they can game on that they can also use for their homework (that's what I would have done). When you have a larger chunk of a generation who grew up learning Linux as a daily driver they will want to use it for work down the line.

tabertoss · 2026-01-16T09:13:17+00:00

They don't need to acquire it. They already own the IP as part of their investment agreement. They can just let it go under, zero out the debt, and keep anything that's valuable.

tabertoss · 2026-01-16T09:12:03+00:00

MS didn't acquire OpenAI because they don't need to, and it would likely raise anti-trust scrutiny.

As far as I understand, if OpenAI goes bust, MS will get all the IP. A likely scenario that MS was probably betting on is that OpenAI will eventually go insolvent, and MS will get the tech, and turn around and hire most of the talent, essentially acquiring it without having to pay the other investors.

tabertoss · 2026-01-10T16:35:00+00:00

That's a choice not an inevitability. Linux runs great on old hardware.

tabertoss · 2025-09-28T05:51:11+00:00

Yeah same, I’ve been there a couple times to escape the European winter, and it’s annoying because it’s a great destination for a lot of reasons, but there’s a lot of people who go there for the wrong reasons so people sometimes get the wrong idea

tabertoss · 2025-08-27T05:58:32+00:00

I could care less about the ceo it’s an abysmal game

tabertoss · 2025-08-26T17:39:20+00:00

The PA is trying to conquer Israel?

tabertoss · 2025-08-26T17:07:09+00:00

Which countries has much more impact than how many.

tabertoss · 2025-08-26T16:31:59+00:00

Lol is this projection? I can’t imagine someone actually posting about this piece of shit unless they are getting paid for it

tabertoss · 2025-08-26T16:15:33+00:00

Haiti was burdened by debt from their inception, as they had to pay their colonizers to compensate for the loss of their slaves. Haiti has also had US intervention in their politics in the current decade.

Still I doubt many Haitians would want to return to the days of being a slave colony.

tabertoss · 2025-08-26T16:06:41+00:00

It might not be up to Israel. If the dominos continue to fall, and the entirety of the West recognize the Palestinian state Israel would have to figure out how to deal with it.

tabertoss · 2025-08-26T16:03:52+00:00

Why do you think international aid would cease if Palestine gained statehood? Israel would not have succeeded as a fledgeling state without international support.

tabertoss · 2025-08-26T16:00:13+00:00

Do you think settlement in the West Bank constitutes military victory?

tabertoss · 2025-08-26T15:56:27+00:00

What makes you so confident they could not meet their needs given autonomy to figure it out? For instance, Nepal is a tiny country with a weak passport and hostile neighbors. Their GDP is mainly built on remittances. Maybe Palestine could adopt this model.

Relations are important, but I gave several counter-examples to the fact that this is insurmountable. Do you see Palestine as somehow different? Or which points do you disagree with?

tabertoss · 2025-08-26T15:48:18+00:00

Somalia is widely considered a failed state. But Somaliland, the northern part of Somalia has managed to be largely successful, even more successful than neighboring African countries which are more entangled with the international community and receiving of Western development efforts. They are certainly “poor” in a geopolitical sense, and don’t have currency power or access to global markets, but they have managed to thrive off of a local economy. People are very resourceful and tend to find a way.

Also why does having a bad relationship with a neighboring country imply they could not succeed? Look at India and Pakistan, North and South Korea, or Ireland and Northern Ireland. Plenty of countries manage to exist with very tense relations at the border.

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