Idk dude, I got a redundancy about a year ago. There are still jobs out there but it feels like it’s dwindling.

All good, it was an opportunity to hammer out my thoughts as well.

This is not speaking for everyone that thinks there’s a bit of a dip in rotj, just myself. It’s a fine movie, but it has a few issues that could be looked at as the small cracks showing in the franchise that would become bigger problems later.

A big one is they reused a few beats from the first movie. Start at Tatooine, deal with the death Star, destroy it. Kind of explored territory, similar setup to the first movie. Honestly not too bad in and of itself, but the franchise really leans in to callbacks and reusing narrative structure, and this is where it starts.

Character motivation and writing is a little shaky in places. It’s enough to hold the movie together, but it was better in the first two movies. Stuff usually just kind of happens to the characters, rather than the characters having active agency in the story. Villains become non-threatening and incompetent, hell even storm troopers start turning into the useless cannon fodder they’re known for now. The characters are overly hammy, and the line readings are wooden at times. This goes a bit back end forth with the franchise, but it is a noticeable downgrade compared to the first two movies. Especially with how good Empire was with this sort of thing, it stings a bit. This goes on to be a huge issue with the prequel trilogy, on and off in the sequels as well.

Luke and Leia being twins is the first example of the plot event that happens because they wanted drama and a big reveal, but didn’t set it up ahead of time. It’s not hugely bad, but it’s a bit why go in that direction? It kills the Luke/Leia thing that the last two movies have been building on, I assume so everything is clean for the ending, but it’s a bit much of a jump when they sort of made out last movie. The lack of planning is something that bites them in the backside pretty hard with the sequels, but it shows up here first.

The last one that’s weirdly specific, but Yoda wasn’t supposed to talk like that. He is putting on an act in Empire, up until he’s found out, instantly drops it, and doesn’t talk like that for the remained of the movie. When he turns up in Jedi again, he starts talking in the fake voice he was using, and now he’s forever stuck in that way of speaking. It’s iconic now, but it’s a little weird continuity wise.

There’s a lot of pretty decent stuff in the movie, but compared to the genre defining first and amazing second, it’s just pretty alright. Which is fine, but it’s hard for me to shake the feeling that it’s the beginning of the series solidifying into a slow decline. Most things go that way, and I don’t have strong feelings about the series these days, I more just find it fascinating how you can see the momentum of a cultural touchstone progress from movie to movie.

Same. I know a lot of things get blamed on the prequels and sequels, but the issues with the series do set in as early as rotj.

Ditto for us in Australia

Looks like a Russian palace, maybe Tetris?

That’s pretty much the main thing, through they keep trying to slip shit it like the recall function, ads in new places. They also had some real trouble with the new internal CPU management, not sure where that is these days.

Honestly I’m tired of Microsoft pulling this shit. Personally I can take a bad OS launch or needing a little more maintaince on my PC, but I don’t want to fight them anymore for control of my own hardware.

Good fucking luck, the hardware will likely be a 2022 tablet if the switch is anything to go off of. Considering as well the console will likely have similar architecture, and switch emulators already exist, I’d give it about 3 months.

Remake 8 you cowards

Concrete goals, and reasonable steps to achieve them.

I feel like lately we’ve hit a weird speculative investment period in tech, where we have a bunch of tech that’s created because it can be, but not because it’s needed. Do LLMs, crypto currency, or NFTs have actual uses? Very possibly, but nothing concrete enough to satisfy the bubble that formed from them.

We live in an age of unreality. Give us something achievable and genuine, we get excited. It doesn’t have to be complicated, just real. Hell, I’m excited as fuck over solid sodium batteries, and that’s boring as shit.

It has, but it was aiming at the wrong monsters sometimes? Either that or the auto height aim wasn’t kicking in sometimes. Not the worst thing in the world for sure, easily patchable.

I tried it out for a bit. it’s not bad at all, but there’s a bunch of stuff in there that doesn’t gel with me personally. I had to turn the crosshair off because it was too high on the screen, and the autoaim was causing me to miss shots due to height differences. It’s neat enough and I’m sure it’s a great option for consoles, but I’ll stick to gzdoom myself.

My rimworld prisoner about to be inflicted with the war crime of eating with table.

Second one, I live pretty close by.

100% agree. I haven’t been on the backend of managing crowdstrike so I don’t know if this is a option, but running a wsuz server and manually weeding out bad updates was such an improvement over rawdogging windows updates.

Gonna try my best here:

Crowdstrike is an anti-virus program that everyone in the corporate world uses for their windows machines. They released a update that made the program fail badly enough that windows crashes. When it crashes like this, it tries to restart in case it fixes the issue, but here it doesn’t, and computers get stuck in a loop of restarting.

Because anti-virus programs are there to prevent bad things from happening, you can’t just automatically disable the program when it crashes. This means a lot of computers cannot start properly, which means you also cannot tell the computers to fix the problem remotely like you usually would.

The end result is a bunch of low level techs are spending their weekends manually going to each computer individually, and swapping out the bad update file so the computer can boot. It’s a massive failure on crowdstrikes part, and a good reason you shouldn’t outsource all your IT like people have been doing.

I legit have never been more happy to be unemployed.

Oh that could totally work actually with the parabolic reflector. I’m not sure about the leds, I think there might be a lense involved in the phone to direct the flash to a certain radius. It didn’t reverse the image or anything so the focal point must be at the lense itself. Anyway, I’m sure with some messing around we could get such a batsignal torch.

Probably too diffuse still, you would need a focal point in front of the bulb for it to cast a recognisable shadow I think? Because the reflective dish would be bouncing light at all angles around the stencil, including inside the intended shadow. You need something exclusively pointing light in a focused beam.

The flashlight on my phone seems to be a pretty decent for this kind of thing, so whatever led and design that’s got going on could work.

Iirc literally the nuclear launch systems? I’ll see if I can find the article.

Edit: not anymore, but as recent as about 2019ish. Can’t imagine they’re the only ancient infrastructure still using this level of technology though. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/nuclear-weapons-floppy-disks.html