It was close to „so bad it’s good” territory but in the end it’s just one of those shows that have a premise that’s good for about 1 or 2 episodes tops. Could have been an episode of a bigger anthology.

My underwear. Oh wait, they replaced it with a pair that has a hole ripped in it. God damn you, OpenAI.

That was the intention even if I didn’t ask that directly. People try to act cool by pretending that they they’re familiar with something „classic” and to anyone who played old Fallout games it was plain obvious that they didn’t. I didn’t expect people to dogpile on me though. Using the same analogy, I was correcting someone wearing a Metallica t-shirt who said that And Justice For All has the best sounding bass.

To me this kind of rewriting history is really bothersome. What if someone didn’t like Bethesda Fallout games but since everyone says it was always like that they won’t ever give those old games a try?

Goodbye. Apologies for the pedantry, I suspect restricted thinking patterns that don’t allow me to compromise on what the truth is might be part of the autism thing. I kind of like it that way.

Seems like you agree with me that Fallout wasn’t drowning in pop culture references in the beginning. Why the sarcasm?

I’m horrified that you’re using Piefed for work.

Have you considered using Piefed client that has „mark all as read” button or „mark as read on scroll” features? Voyager does this, I’m pretty sure many others do. Another approach is to browse content sorted by new. In such setup all you need to know is if content is above or below your scrolling position. Hopefully these can make your work less tedious.

Thank you for creating this meta meta content. I hope it inspires new generations to become jaded old people.

Six Feet Under, season 4. Spoilers for a 20 year old show ahead. Me and my girlfriend were mightily confused as to sex scenes with Brenda. Sometimes it appears that she’s been having sex for 3 episodes straight and it might have even been the same act. Thankfully other plot lines stopped being so miserable and the show is actually funny again sometimes.

[edit] Oh god, David getting kidnapped by a hitchhiker episode is some kind of awfully written and acted nightmare fuel for LA housewives.

Up next: Widows’s Bay, Silo S3, Ludwig

This looks very interesting, haven’t heard of it before. I love British comedy and my partner loves British detective shows so it looks we have one more show in our queue now. I’ll just have to stop thinking of Cheesoid whenever I see David Mitchell.

That’s not exactly a long list there.

Compare it to https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Fallout_2_cultural_references

Have you actually played Fallout 1?

Fallout 1 was Mad Max type of goofy. Fallout 2 started sprinkling pop culture references everywhere. There’s a big difference in humour between them.

My point is: no, Fallout didn’t start out as campy, it got gradually more campy over time.

I know the Fallout show is really campy… but fuck, it always was really campy, way back to the beginning.

Fallout 1 had some goofy bits but they were more like easter eggs than anything. Fallout 2 is when it embraced being campy in pulp 50/60s style but even then it was restrained to just that. Bethesda made it into a caricature of itself later with Fallout 3 and 4. New Vegas from Obsidian (who are ex-Black Isle guys, original creators of Fallout) tried to right the ship but the TV series also made a caricature out of it.

Fallout TV series is fine on its own but it definitely strays from what original games were like. I don’t mind people like new Fallout but why drag the original with it? Is it to appear cool because it implies you know the original? Someone disliking new Fallout games or TV series might never give FO1 a chance if they hear its like the new ones.

It’s not a matter of what I choose to see but what everyone using default settings sees and how it affects the way they interact with other users.

I explained why this is not just a preference. Having unlimited downvotes creates an environment where you have to downvote everything you disagree with because there are people who treat forums like a competition and bury your content unless you do the same. At that point it’s easier to equalise voting impact by disabling or limiting downvotes.

My latest favourite metaphor for this: If you’re at a concert or a sports game with seats all it takes for having everyone stand up is a single person in the front rows to stand up because their view is obstructed. In the end everyone is in discomfort and the person who stood up probably doesn’t see any better.

This approach of using downvotes for everything you want to reduce visibility of results in a situation where groups of users engage in the voting warfare I was talking about. It’s cancer that invites more and more escalation until everyone has to vote on everything just to have their voices not buried. It’s a bad user experience for everyone except most fanatical.

for e.g. disinformation removal would seem preferable, whereas for misinformation mere downvoting may be sufficient

This is what I half-suspected as the reason for why some feel so attacked by this change. What is disinformation is quite ephemeral in this post modern era and in the end it means that you’re downvoting things you disagree with. And unfortunately that usually means things that don’t match people’s pre-existing beliefs.

According to Rimu this voting quota will affect 2% of users. To me it looks to be high enough that it will mostly serve as a way to discourage voting warfare (upvote everything you agree with, downvote everything you don’t like). If you limit your downvotes to things like offtopic, rule breaking content and bad faith actors I doubt you’ll run out of votes and I hope that was the intention behind implementing it.

What kind of meal takes 2 hours to eat.

I’m in like 3 AI design forums for some reason but whenever I want to start measuring productivity gains I’m ignored so try that for the least amount of effort required.