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  • I was really hoping that they would stop trying to keep to a single canon after Endgame. There’s no more stakes to raise at that point. What’s your next move? Killing and saving 2/3 of the universe?

    What I wanted to see was for them to embrace the multiverse and just let go of a single story arc. Let the hero’s just live in their own worlds and don’t limit yourself to a single actor.

    So many creative ideas are limited by the adherence to a single plot. It was really cool for a long while, but I’m tired. I want a reset and a chance for new writers, directors and producers to get a chance to show us their unique versions of these heroes’ worlds.








  • The car I drive every day was chosen for the sole purpose of its art. The flow of a road is art. The choice of what trees to keep or remove is art. What color you paint your house is art. The way your vacuum is designed is art. Your TVs bezels are art. Your fridges tone of eggshell is art.

    Someone made a choice. Just because people choose to view an artless world doesn’t mean it’s not always around them.





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    This is such a misconception. The only reason things didn’t completely collapse into chaos was thousands of people working around the clock to make sure it didn’t. This is even part of the plot of Office Space. It’s great to take the smooth transition for granted as an end-user, but if a lot of people didn’t put in a lot of time and effort, many many things could and would have gone horribly wrong.




  • The actual solution is something like Jellyfin where you stream your whole organized music library using a browser and public access to your home network, but that takes months to learn and weeks to configure if it’s your first time doing it, and you likely won’t have a DRM-free collection to seed with, so it’s also a significant cost investment if you want to respect the artist.

    That also wouldn’t make for an easy article.


  • It’s been a staple of every industry.

    (Rant below)

    There was a period of time, not so long ago, when the vast majority of our daily activities problems were actually pretty well solved. The machines weren’t necessarily the most efficient in materials and energy usage, but they were reliable. And if they broke, most were simple enough to visually break down and understand their functions inherently.

    Then, the problem started when companies realized that they were making their stuff too sturdy. There was one legitimate crowd who wanted to cut down on the resource usage. They wanted to bring the devices away from maximization and down to moderation. I agree with that crowd.

    Then there were the exploiters. They saw this opportunity and ran with it. The cheaper you can make your product, just to work long enough for you to develop the next model, you could drip-feed your customers garbage year over year.

    This went the opposite direction and backfired on the legitimate crowd. Now we use three times as many resources as we once did because they treat everything made for us as expendable. Waste is a good thing to them. The more we throw away the garbage the sooner we replace it.