Carrot

joined 2 years ago
[–] Carrot 50 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Just know that if you are a manager, everyone is reacting out of obligation

[–] Carrot 4 points 2 days ago

I joined Plex after I already needed to have a login to plex.tv to be able to stream. I understand that that already was problematic, but Plex was leagues ahead of its competition in terms of ease of adding users, as well as polish. You must be forgetting how awful Jellyfin was in comparison, even just 5 years ago. I've been keeping up on Jellyfin and it's amazing how far they've come. Now Jellyfin has great theme options, a simple-to-install skip intro/outro plugin, an app option with built-in jellyseerr integration, decent collections support (still needs some work here on feature parity with Plex, but it's on the way) and with Wizarr, onboarding new users is as easy as sending an invite link, just like Plex. All this came in the last 5 years, and were pretty much requirements for my use cases.

Sure you can say that I'm picky, but Plex really was the best option until like, this year. I started to accept the need to switch when they added the social media aspect to it. They completely ignored what their users actually wanted. Since then, they've been making worse and worse decisions, which is crazy because now more than ever their competition has reached their level. Hell, by pushing all their users away, Plex is only going to accelerate the development on Jellyfin.

[–] Carrot 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What's with the blue line?

[–] Carrot 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Carrot 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)
[–] Carrot 2 points 5 days ago

Top Gun was what I came here to say

[–] Carrot 12 points 6 days ago

This but unironically

[–] Carrot 20 points 6 days ago

The one time I used lua was to make a casino in Minecraft with the ComputerCraft mod like, over a decade ago. I enjoyed it. Even as a young lad I didn't like index from 1, though

[–] Carrot 15 points 6 days ago

Vast majority? Eh, maybe. I watch a crazy amount of anime, and I've only had a few of the shows I'm interested in pull that, and typically I just don't continue watching. The one trope that I really dislike that gets shoehorned into almost any anime is the over-infatuation of a sibling. I'm not talking incest or anything, but for some reason there's almost always a character who is obsessed with their sister/brother, and it weirds me out. Not enough to stop watching if the anime is otherwise good, but definitely enough to stop watching if the anime is just soso.

Now, oversexualization of adult characters? That's almost unavoidable. I tend to just ignore it, until I show an anime to someone who hasn't seen anime before and then I'm hyper aware of it. That's why when introducing people to anime I usually pick Death Note or Fullmetal Alchemist. These anime have a good dose of the anime goofiness, but very little fanservice, almost none.

[–] Carrot 2 points 1 week ago

I've really liked Ncuti as the doctor, I've liked the companions as well. I've liked a good bit of the overarching mysteries of the last season and this one. But as someone who grew up watching starting from Eccleston, and then went back to watch the original series, the only part of the new season I really dislike is the front and center focus of "Magic" villains. I understand that this was done a bit in the original series as well, but I disliked it there too. It really cheapens the entire narrative when the doctor can somehow overcome what are essentially gods with an almost unsurmountable level of power that doesn't have to be rooted in some sort of scifi explanation.

Obviously this is a personal opinion, and it does seem that the target audience has shifted a bit more mainstream (not that it was super niche before, it's just that stories now feel very surface-level), it just saddens me that a show I liked has taken a turn for the worse, narratively speaking. I'm still mostly enjoying these seasons, and their more grounded stories feel pretty similar to the 2005 series.

[–] Carrot 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I agree that societally we should get over it, but it doesn't change the fact that it's an awkward activity on a first date

[–] Carrot 27 points 1 week ago

This. The who point is to cram more seats than they are currently able

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