But us in the middle who pretend we’re smart

The trick you’ll learn is that everyone is just pretending. The more your learn the more you realize you don’t know.

I think the run back is fun for some people and I think the game should deliver the best version they can for those people. For me, it’s just not fun. The reward is smaller than the frustration it causes.

It took Silksong coming out for me to identify why I wasn’t a fan of Hollow Knight, and it’s touched on in this video.

It’s the runback.

The Dark Souls series of games have the same “problem”, and it’s why I don’t enjoy them either.

I’m a huge fan of Celeste, Super Meat Boy, the Ori series. When I fail at these games, I’m right back in the action.

I’m not against having to learn boss patterns, I really enjoyed Cuphead because after I’ve failed I’m right back in the action.

And while it’s an easier game by comparison, Shovel Knight was a fun game. The checkpoints were plentifully and I could increase the difficulty by destroying them.

But when I played Hollow Knight I reached a point where I was just running to the boss and dying. Then again. And again. And again. I wasn’t getting better. And the time it took to get back just took too long and wasn’t fun. It wasn’t a rage quit. I was having fun at one point… But then the game wore me down and eventually it wasn’t.

I don’t think the game needs to change. Although I think adding difficultly modifiers would be a good idea. I played through Metroid Dread on normal difficulty and after beating it was having so much fun I immediately played it again on Hard difficulty. If there were a mode with more checkpoints in Hollow Knight and Silksong I might give them a shot.

Christina Applegate and Christina Ricci

I’d put them both fresh out of high school age in a film like Adventureland, mashed up with a Breakfast Club theme. Just a bunch of young adults figuring out where to go next in life.

Even with this lead time, some OEMs struggle to roll out security updates for all their devices each month. In fact, many don’t even commit to monthly security updates for their entire lineup; their update policies often stipulate that budget and mid-range devices only qualify for bi-monthly or quarterly patches.

Which is to say that most OEMs aren’t making monthly releases. It’s a sad state of affairs.

Google has put a lot of effort into making the process for OEMs easier. Project Trebel to simplify updates. Project Mainline to move updates to be pushed via Google Play. (The small downside being you now need Google Play, but users do now get security updates.

Now the answer seems to be fewer updates. OEMs weren’t doing them, but maybe if they’re smaller? It’s probably better that end users get some updates rather than none.

I’m not even sure they believe their own words.

In the mid-2010s pretty much all of them would do incredible business

That puts us in “The Amazing Spider-Man” territory. While technically both films were a financial success, they were not well received critically. Sony had a whole plan for a Spider-Man universe following these two films.

If it had been such incredible business, they would have continued with their Spider-Man universe. However even at the time they knew they weren’t up to the task, they knew they didn’t have the quality to create a profitable Spider-Man universe. So they made a deal with Disney/Marvel.

THEN, for whatever reason, AFTER giving up Spider-Man, they still tried to create that Spider-Man universe, but without Spider-Man.

Unfortunately for all of us… Venom sorta worked. Sony could have their cake and eat it too. Except, as we saw, not really. But we could justify Venom 2, Venom 3, Morbius, Madam Web and Kraven, all by saying, “But Venom worked, it could happen again.”

Another thing to consider is “bad” according to who?

I’ve watched poorly rated movies that I really enjoyed. I’ve watched highly rated movies that I really disliked.

Maybe you’ll only enjoy a specific actor/performance, maybe you’ll only enjoy a certain scene or storyline.

Sometimes it’s worth rolling the dice.

Not that I’m against new communities, any reason you made a new community instead of joining [email protected] ?

True, but this book is the best thing Microsoft has made.

Why do you think Lady and the Tramp would be better with CG? Also since it isn’t clear from your post, you know that film already exists right?

Among my complaints of these remakes is that converting animals to CG just makes them less dynamic and less interesting. I know The Lion King remake has been successful, but the characters lack the unique feel that the animated version had. I guess with Lady and the Tramp each dog is generally unique versus The Lion King where most lions are just… lions, but I’m still not sure it’s an improvement.

I mean not liking the main actor is certainly going to skew your opinion of the film.

Carell was coming off of The Daily Show as a popular correspondent. The first season of The Office had aired, although honestly that probably didn’t build much hype. Apatow produced (with others) Anchorman, so I’m sure there was a “From the producer who brought you Anchorman” hype. So maybe a little hype before the film.

The movie itself is an excellent comedy and about a month later The Office season 2 would kick off, so Steve Carell now had a film and TV career. I could see Carell being a little overexposed at that time, but it was well earned. That’s probably the hype you’re thinking of.

After you updated the config did you update-initramfs or update-grub (I forget which flags might be needed off hand).

Since this is happening pre-boot it isn’t reading from /etc.

who needs the web?

Generative AI that’s who. For it to spit out information, it needs information. The argument may be that it is better at collecting all that information in one place and returning an answer, although we know it hallucinates responses. But to even begin a response it needs data, it needs the web.

Honestly, yeah. Based on this article the pitch is, “What if FireOS were successful?”

This is an even harder problem today versus when FireOS first launched. The number of things that are now part of Google Play Services versus Android has only increased over the years.

Slammin’ Salmon is an excellent film.

I also enjoyed Quasi, not as much as their other films but it was still fun.

Just tested again with a few different games.

• Counter Strike Source, same results.
• VVVVV, played just fine.
• Animal Well, wanted a controller and then threw an error.
• Binding of Issac Rebirth, failed to load.

So it looks like I’d have to dig in and figure out why some failed to play. Any big games are probably out.

I’ve installed Steam using Crostini in the past and played CounterStike using it. It was technically playable, but not good performance wise. Although I do have a higher spec Chromebook now, so maybe it would be better. Although many Chromebooks are lower spec, so it’s possible there aren’t enough games that are reasonably playable.

I’m guessing the point of this project was to make it as easy as installing Android apps, a “one click” install.

• Directed by Shawn Levy
• Written by Jonathan Trooper

It’s worth pointing out that they worked together on the film, “The Adam Project”.

The film was largely forgettable, but not bad. Assuming they learned from this film, it leans more towards Andor than Acolyte, although just a lean.

E. T.

I don’t care that it was rated P. G., they killed my friend and I was just as sad as Elliot. The tubes and the quarantine were absolutely terrifying to me as a child and even seeing clips nowadays gives sends a shiver down my spine. Just sadness and fear.

Don’t get me wrong those ratings are a little harsh, but they’re not far off base. Films can be “bad” and monetarily successful.