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It depends on what you mean by piece of technology I guess, since what we have now is a culmination of thousands of awesome tech over the last few hundred years.

If I were to choose one thing, I'd say the telephone. It's the predecessor to the internet, and suddenly communication between people was instant rather than messages that'd take forever (or morse for the places that had it).

It probably changed the world forever, being able to talk to someone in a completely different country and share something quickly.

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It's a classic in the sense that it was incredibly influential and original for its time. The serious joker/batman dynamic has been overplayed a lot since then, so reading The Killing Joke feels like more of what we come to expect out of a batman story.

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Oh yeeeesss, I had no idea they were working on a sequel to the original short

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The animation looks really cheap honestly..

The animated "Watchmen" movie is confirmed to be a two-parter, and will be CG animated instead of 2D. "Watchmen: Chapter 1" allegedly releases in August 2024, while Chapter 2 has been delayed to 2025.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/26f80c5c-39e5-429b-9a16-79493d8b4c52.jpeg...

Can't wait for them to say "it's Watchin' time!" and then watched all over the bad guys.
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Ehhhh... On one hand, we get another chance that they might do a great adaptation of Watchmen, but on the other hand every single time they touch the IP it pales in comparison to the original graphic novel. I kind of wish they'd leave it alone.

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I'm actually really happy that the 2nd season will be the final one, it's good that they won't stretch out the story longer than it has to be.

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Sounds awesome. The poster is also giving me big Akira vibes.

Akira poster

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I still cannot believe they think people love Gollum. Why can't they just make a normal lord of the rings movie?

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Right? Cats are very low effort. They can basically live on their own and have a good habit of staying clean and only pooping in the litterbox. Chances are they'll either be sleeping or lazing around the house. Putting them next to dogs which need WAY more attention is off.

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Making every community ever in your instance won't attract any users, the only thing they're going to see is dozens of empty communities.

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With that in mind we are announcing updates that will go into effect before Recall (preview) ships to customers on June 18.

I doubt they can do much with last-minute changes. It being opt-in is better, at least.

our review units of the new Surface hardware are being delayed by a week or so, presumably so Microsoft can update them.

GROAAAAAAAN. I just want to see proper benchmarks of Qualcomm's new chips and they keep delaying it despite the laptops releasing later this month.

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The average person doesn't even know that new hardware is coming because the only thing MS is advertising is "AI AI AI AI AI AI AI". Is that seriously more appealing than saying "hey our new laptops have better performance and 2x more battery life than older laptops"? Because I'm feeling the latter is what they should've leaned on.

Why Assassin's Creed has lost its identity?

Remember those iconic games before 2014? The OG, while dated was really unique for its time, the Ezio Auditore Trilogy that became the standard for the franchise, 3, that was very ambitious (probably too much) with it's setting and story telling. Even 4, although it was the first time AC escaped from the base of what an...

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Because they were getting really stale and they wanted to hold onto the franchise name anyways. People are nostalgic now, but when AC games were coming out back to back people were getting really bored of it.

When Assassin's Creed 3 came out, everyone was saying how this is the third time they remade what is basically the same game (AC2, brotherhood, revelations, then 3). People weren't impressed. Unity and Rogue didn't sell that well. Syndicate apparently also didn't sell very well.

So they basically remade the franchise into an RPG starting from Origins. They aren't that special, but honestly, neither was everything after Revelations.

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Graduated from college ages ago. Still have nightmares that I'm late to an exam or haven't studied well.

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Everyone that wants context should read this: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-internet-archives-last-ditch

Listen, I love the IA and everything they stand for, but they're not winning this. They fucked up and gave away copyrighted content, for free, in unlimited amounts during covid. They then proceed to melt down in court because they know it's impossible to win. Now they're seeking empathy from everyone and not talking about why they got sued - which is giving away potentially millions of copies of other people's work...

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Finally some bloody good content

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Wow. Now there's even MORE wasted space.

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I don’t even REMEMBER 3.

Dragon age inquisition is pretty well received from what I've seen. It wasn't amazing but I don't think the series is as dead as you might think.

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Very cool. I think PieFed will be a sleeper hit when it's stable, right now the spotlight is on Lemmy and Mbin but I'd gladly switch to it if it has better features. I like the idea of topics to make content discovery way easier. Polls seem nice as well.

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The movie was sick too. I don't understand why they never revived that series.

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Not to mention if it does happen and it does make it to consumers these robots will be insanely expensive to make and maintain. People going "why doesn't AI just work on physical labor?!" can't seem to understand that software is a million times easier and cheaper to make

It's not like scientists woke up one day and said DAMN we need to make robots take away fun jobs ans nothing else. It's just where machine learning took us.

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This is insanely good!

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They OCR the entire screen and store it in plaintext?! There is no way... I know it's Microsoft we're talking about, but are they really this stupid?

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There's a button in the bottom right to make the page wide. As for text size, I guess it's kind of redundant since you can just zoom in the page.

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I expect this'll be in nottheonion within 3 days

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That cat looks so miserable lmao

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There's even a deluxe edition of the game that comes with a physical version of the manual! Though having all the pages from the start is a little spoilery.

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The data suggests some gamers are partially treating the service to trial or even rent a game they might be interested in, before unsubscribing.

This is me. I often subscribe when there's a discount, go through some games I'm not interested in buying but want to play anyways. Xbox game pass specifically has a lot of great indies that can be finished relatively quickly.

I subscribed earlier this year for a month, might resubscribe for a month again later this year.

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I need more of this

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Can confirm, my friend worked as a cook for 2 different places (not fast food, local restaurants) for a while because he needed money in college. He told me it's the most stressful job he's experienced and the pay wasn't worth the effort. Nobody in the kitchen wanted to be there, in prime hours there are so many orders that they can't help but rush everything while shouting to each other.

I can imagine how tedious that job is, having to make the same food for months except you're always time pressured and told to do it faster. Working as a waiter or cashier is way simpler and I imagine the pay difference isn't massive.

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If somebody hasn't played Jak and Daxter yet, now is the time. It's a lovely 3D platformer, I can't wait until the whole trilogy is ported.

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The practical effects are great!

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