Look up some scalper listings. No one's making money scalping the Switch 2. Nintendo has met the demand with supply. It's not like the XSX and PS5 where people were buying them up and selling them for twice as much. Scalpers now are just trying to break even. You might almost feel sorry for them.
cerebralhawks
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If it aims to please a vast audience and it succeeds, then that means more people are happy.
The opposite is a film aimed at a very specific niche.
The best movie I've seen is the Japanese film 君の名は。. It's (maybe) not for everybody. It is somewhat popular (a bit more so when it was new, 9 years ago), people know what it is, I'm pretty sure it's in the IMDb Top 250, it's one of those movies everyone should see at some point, but most people wouldn't Top 10 it. I like movies with certain elements that appeal to me, and some of the movies I like, "most people" don't. Like maybe if they gave it a chance they'd like it, but they wouldn't watch it. The algorithm wouldn't recommend it to them. And niche films keep getting made by studios like A24 and Blumhouse that give creators more control. But anyway, I also like KPop Demon Hunters, which is like, the #1 movie right now. I recognise it's a formulaic movie. I see the formulae. I still bop to "Soda Pop" and "What it Sounds Like" along with the kids, teenagers, and millions of other people who made it the top film. I listen to the songs in my car, and at home. I was one of the ones in the theater watching it last week, but I did not sing along, I was just there to enjoy it on a bigger screen.
There's nothing wrong with liking popular movies, or movies that are marketed to you. There's nothing wrong with marketing working, doing its job, serving its intended purpose.
It's only wrong if you can't find movies that nobody else but you (and a few others like you scattered around the world) like.
(P.S. I'm not trying to be obtuse, or a smartass. 君の名は。 is called "your name." outside of Japan. I simply prefer to use the original title as a personal choice, and I can pronounce it correctly as well (something like "key-me no nye-wah." The literal translation is "what's your name?" which is where the international title comes from. I also prefer to watch it in Japanese without subtitles, despite it being fully translated to English as an option. I don't know Japanese. I've just seen it enough to know exactly what's going on at all times.)
Oh — I meant strictly for health reasons. Guess I got a bit off-topic there.
But yeah, starch breaks down to sugar and we don't need more of that. I do love my corn (maize) tortillas for wrapping up meat and vegetables though!
You know what I find deplorable? Spyware as a feature. Like Android.
Also, Google bypasses ad blockers. Say you have an iPhone, or an unrooted Android phone. You're blocking ads? You're using DNS to do it. The Google app, and Google apps in general, ignore the system DNS settings and use Google's own DNS. There are some good reasons they do it, but the chief upshot for Google is, they get to inject ads into a device whose owner explicitly tries to block them. Since ads can also carry malware/ransomware, Google is intentionally opening a security hole in a device you may not be able to 100% secure, but could be fairly secure. Relatively secure. For a smartphone.
I actually got ransomware on a popular Android blog through an ad they served. I'd just wiped my phone — this was the last Android phone I'd owned. So I mean, I'd wiped the internal ROM. Repartitioned it, installed a recovery (TWRP, naturally), and then flashed a custom OS. Back then, you couldn't get stock Android on a national carrier in the US. So, I was flashing a European CFW customised with the CDMA radios that the US was using at the time (we're all GSM now like the rest of the world, I think the last CDMA towers, which were 3G, have been shut down but I'm not sure — Sprint and US Cellular were CDMA and they're both part of T-Mobile, and Verizon was the big one and they're all on the GSM tech now). Anyway, I hadn't installed AdAway yet, I was just reading tech blogs, when my screen went red, said illegal content was detected on my device, pay "the FBI" so many thousand dollars in Bitcoin to unlock my device. I laughed, wiped the internal ROM again and started over... installing AdAway before going out to the open web. Lesson learned. But that's the kind of thing Google intentionally opens its users up to by tunneling around the ad blocker. (I don't name the tech blog because I contacted them and they were very helpful in identifying the source of the ransomware attacks and getting that advertiser de-listed. So there is no reason to "name and shame." But it can happen to anyone, and without even going to "shady" sites.)
Yes. If you're a free developer (you have to register as a developer to even do this), you have to re-authorise the app every 7 days or it gets "revoked" which means the app will not launch.
You also have to install a certificate that certifies the app(s) to you. This is generally safe, but you should be careful with trust certificates. You're basically taking full responsibility for the code that's being executed on your device. If you haven't audited the source code (or if someone you trust hasn't), it might be a risk.
If you used a signing service, someone has bought a bunch of paid developer licenses and they've given you the certificate for one of them. Once Apple discovers this, they'll revoke that developer license which revokes your apps. The signing service will then issue you a new certificate. Revokes aren't super common, or so they say (I've never used a signing service).
I don’t do it. The 7 day thing really isn’t worth it and they aren’t any iOS apps to sideload I care about.
Delta is the coolest emulator due to cloud sync and it’s in the App Store.
No. But we can sideload. Two apps for free, have to be authorized every 7 days. (It’s actually three, but the app that does this for you takes a slot, so that and two others.)
You can also get a developer license for $99/year that lets you do unlimited with a much longer authorization window.
AOSP and production versions of Android (what's on the Pixel) are not the same thing.
Depends on your age to a certain extent. Older men tend to value monogamy more, but we're also older and looking for a sure thing (if we don't have it already). Chasing tail, bedding a different young lady every night, sounds fun, but when you need someone to take care of you, it doesn't really make sense as opposed to a long-term relationship.
If you're younger though, you got your whole life ahead of you... just be safe. And try to avoid the crazy ones. They deserve love too, but they also take a lot of patience.
Wild. I don't even think anything's been fully decided yet. I mean it would be a shame if the show got something wrong.
I don't follow the trial but my wife has, and I know she was found not guilty of some (all?) of the things, but I feel like too much is left unanswered to just up and make a whole series about it.
Anyone who does follow it, think the series has a chance of doing the truth justice? (Note when I say that I have no bias or affiliation to one side or the other. I just don't think the case answered all the questions it set out to.)
Adopt. Don't make new people. Take in people who have been abandoned. My father had the same idea in the 1970s — I suppose I should be fortunate my mother overruled him on that one. But he had the idea almost 50 years ago, for similar reasons.
And apply a similar philosophy to the rest of your life. We all know the word recycle. And I have been a proponent of recycling for over 30 years. I've heard it doesn't help. I've heard some municipalities take it all to the same place. I don't care. I still do it. But I also remember when there were three words. The original slogan went "Reduce. Reuse. Recycle." Many people forgot the first two. You can reuse and repurpose a lot of things. But you should also reduce consumption as well. Eat less processed food. Stick to protein — plant and animal (unless you're a vegetarian/vegan obviously). Stick to the outside of the grocery store (produce, dairy, deli, meat). Bakery is nice for an occasional treat, but find out what they make in-house and not ship in frozen.
I don't think I'm doing enough on my own. I also don't have illusions I'll convince many others. I'm not really trying to. I'm not trying to save the world, just survive it.
I love how everyone dumped on the Switch 2's pricing when it was announced (not here — this was on another site/community) but as soon as it launched, the sales numbers exceeded expectations.
Honestly Nintendo didn't price it high enough — it was clearly not priced as high as the market would bear. It's making such good sales because people consider it to be a solid value for what they expect to get out of it.
If I hadn't just gotten a Switch 1 (OLED) 9 months prior, I might have gotten one. As it is, it's a minor upgrade and I see no reason to upgrade at this point. But a lot of people are.
Fortunately, the game I play, Animal Crossing, isn't hard coded to the Switch's limitations. I think it was always meant to be used on an upgraded console. Playing it on PC/Mac, people have gotten it up to 8K without modifying the game in any way, just running it on a more capable machine. (Macs are particularly good for emulating Switch as they both use the ARM64 platform, like your phone probably does. PCs do tend to have more powerful GPUs, so they can mitigate the additional emulation, not just going from Switch to Windows, but from ARM64 to x86-64. But Macs are already halfway there.) I can't do 8K... my monitor and my MacBook both do 1440p though, which is 4X the Switch 1's native 720p. It doesn't look that much better (the textures are optimised for 720p) but it does perform better. Loading times zip by. If there's a Switch 3 and it does 4K and it still has backward compatibility to Switch 1, I imagine Animal Crossing will do similarly well on that. Though, I kind of hope they make a new Animal Crossing title entirely.