Blackmist

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Blackmist,

There does seem to be a high proportion of city dwellers wondering why somebody who lives four miles from the nearest shop that sells something more substantial than Budweiser and crisps would need a car…

Blackmist,

It’s mostly a bunch of feeling over what sounds right. Like big red rubber ball sounds infinitely better than rubber red big ball.

I draw the line at “on accident” though.

Blackmist,

Sounds well peng fam.

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Blackmist,

There’s all the remasters and tweaks as well. Star Wars is the obvious example, but even things like Red Dwarf got messed with with awful looking CGI plastered in.

Blackmist,

“Not compatible with my device” sadly. Probably Android version since my phone is old as all fuck.

Blackmist,

As a Brit, it’s always weird as fuck to see people in American movies boiling an old tin kettle on the stove like they’re stuck in the 1950s.

Even if you’re living in London’s smallest flat, and all you’ve got is a microwave, a mini fridge, a bed and a cupboard with a toilet in it, you’ve still got an electric kettle.

Blackmist,

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Blue=Black, Red=White.

Blackmist,

I think phishing is by far the most common way to get passwords.

I saw a guy at work fall victim to one. Looks like it’s from some customer he knows, links to document on Office365 or similar, enter username and password and swearing because it’s “lost them”.

I went, “What URL is that?”

He looked at his screen for a second. “Fuck.”

“How many passwords have you given it?”

“My work ones and my bank ones.”

“Better change those then, hadn’t you?”

Blackmist,

Or when they ask for the 2nd, 5th and 8th letters.

Or have a max character length.

Blackmist,

I don’t think that will fix the performance issues either.

I think I’ll just play the first one or Tropico.

Blackmist,

Exactly. It’s not geographically midwest, but it embodies an idea of the midwest.

An endless patchwork of green and yellow squares. Countryside but not natural.

Blackmist,

Is your house surrounded on all sides by corn?

Does Napoleon Dynamite seem like a documentary about your town?

Then you live in the Midwest.

Blackmist,

The Nintendo Switch is the gold standard of updates for me.

Blackmist,

Made three out of the top four grossing movies of all time.

I don’t really like any of them, but you can’t argue with the results. The man knows how to put bums on cinema seats.

Blackmist,

Like the second was ever going to happen, even without the first one.

The real second option is “cut taxes for our rich mates”.

Blackmist,

The government are the ones telling the ISPs to do it, not just allowing it.

Blackmist,

The secret ingredient is running the fuck away before either of them notice.

Blackmist,

Ah, the good old days, when only the screen was glass.

Blackmist,

Yeah, the music people were dying to piracy for a good while there.

Spotify is streaming done right. It’s all there, no need to search for which service has it, or pay 99p a track for it.

The TV and movie people should take note, because their streaming services are fucking dire in comparison. For all the stuff Disney owns, there’s a surprising amount of fuck all new on Disney+. It mostly seems to be milking old shite into TV shows nobody asked for.

Blackmist,

I think that’s always been the case, even before streaming or home-taping “killed the music industry”.

Blackmist,

Apparently he wasn’t actually drunk during those out-takes.

He’d been filming something else the day before, it overran and they filmed until almost dawn. So he had some sleeping pills so he’d be refreshed before filming the adverts.

Unfortunately, and probably not unrelated to the sheer size of the man, they kicked in just as he was scheduled to start filming.

So that’s what you see. A man fucked up on barbiturates.

Blackmist,

The secret to long life is to live a really long time without dying.

Blackmist,

I tried to avoid Amazon for a product the other week, by buying direct from the person who was selling through Amazon.

They had their own store.

The prices were 50% more than they were charging on Amazon.

Blackmist,

I think any popular video platform will do the same shit. It’s just expensive to host on a large scale.

Realistically, we need a good P2P solution for this so everyone “pays” for the videos they watch with a bit of their own outgoing bandwidth.

Having the viewing platform paying the content creators is a bad idea. It’s mostly led to the video equivalent of spam, and looking around YouTube, it doesn’t stop them filling their own videos with ads for godawful exploitative mobile games anyway.

You could even have a Tubarr torrent thing that automatically downloads stuff to your Jellyfin server from your subscribed content creators.

Blackmist,

This haircut makes my eyes rain!

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