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This is sorta how the Xbox One back button functions and I fucking hate that.

Thank you for the cliff notes, I’m not watching that shit.

I dunno any OS that has an undo button function across apps, though. It seems completely counter intuitive to me that I could have one app active, hit a back button, and be taken to a different app, which I think could happen based on what you’re saying? Going home / app switching are all swipes on iOS at this point, too. I honestly cannot remember this ever happening, but I assume I’m not understanding it correctly based on how you typed it. What do you mean worrying precisely where on the screen you’re hitting? If I wanted to tap “above” the keyboard, I can see everything there clearly and I wouldn’t get taken somewhere I don’t want to go?

Get out.

Also... I rarely log into my google account when I watch YouTube videos, it’s almost always in a private window and a new session. My recommended videos are filled with shit about Gina Carano, Ben Shapiro, stolen elections, cancel culture, etc. It’s fucking ridiculous.

Any of them aside from Human After All.

You tap the screen above the keyboard when it pops up? I honestly can’t remember the last time I needed to dismiss the keyboard, it’s there when I want it to be and it’s not when it isn’t? I understand familiarity driving preference, but I’m confused by someone thinking that the same button doing different stuff not just across apps but also being dependent upon the last action taken which is not a visible thing is good design. And is the keyboard routinely popping up when you don’t want it to? I’ve had an iPhone since 2008 and I honestly cannot remember a single time this has happened? Maybe it’s happening all the time and I just muscle memory it away without realizing it?

In a better world, everyone would realize that anyone who said, “what was Cruz supposed to do lol,” is unfit for office and they’d be voted out of office. These clowns are un fucking believable.

This sounds like it sucks, lol

So does the back button do different things depending on the app and / or the most recent action? In iOS if you swipe on the bottom of the screen, you go back and forth between apps. When you’re in a browser, swiping the screen does back / forward.

OLO

I just don’t get how “anti-social justice” people get invested in franchises like Star Wars and Harry Potter. Like... how badly do you have to miss the point?

Fair enough, I just don’t know Android well, my experience is almost all limited to devices from my last job where we locked them down and ran custom software on top of them.

What does a back button accomplish that swiping the bottom of the screen does not? Or swiping the screen higher if you’re in a browser or something. Unrelated to that but related to the OP... A friend of a friend I connected to on Facebook started shitposting a while back, and towards the end of the election / inauguration got more into the Q, stolen election, etc., bullshit. We weren’t super close so I unfriended her. Ever since I’ve done that, a couple people I know from high school who I’ve literally never engaged with since adding them probably a decade ago who also post conspiracy shit are always at the top of my timeline, consistently, 100% of the time I open the app over the last couple weeks. This shit sucks so fucking bad.

Started posting on IGN when i was 19, I'm 40 now, lol.

Are they doing Flashpoint for the movie? That's... weird.

Stop wanting episodes to be an hour long, most TV shows are too long and have too many episodes as it is.

I mean... Snyder seems to be an objectivist boob (I cannot easily think of anything I'd like to watch less than his take on Ayn fucking Rand, Jesus Christ), but he seems like an alright guy based on any of the things I've read about him. I know someone who did PA work for him not long after he signed to do Dawn of the Dead and at the time he was apparently a good guy to work with. Superhero stuff in general is pretty damn right wing as that term gets used today, it's just made palatable by having most of the characters be social justice warriors, which has become spectacularly ironic in recent years. Even the best of them are just out on the streets committing assault most days and someone like The Punisher is basically "what if a mass shooter generally hit just the 'right' targets." It's no coincidence that his logo is constantly co-opted by terrible people, I'm occasionally surprised that Marvel hasn't stealth retired the character. These characters are heroes because we can get inside their heads and know their intentions, otherwise even someone like Spider-Man is relatively problematic... he's just swinging around, beating the shit out of people, and letting the police deal with the fallout.

I don’t hate Snyder at all. I’d say his best stuff is probably Dawn of the Dead and 300, both of which I quite like. Buuuuuuuuuuuuut... 300 was over the top and preposterous in print. It’s not quite “I’m the goddamned Batman” Frank Miller, but it flirts with that, and that kind of material lends itself well to Snyder’s style. He’s not going to out-Miller Miller when he makes the transition to film, so whatever. Dawn of the Dead is a straight up fun and well done movie. But Romero’s zombie movies have always had some kind of commentary to them, even the awful ones, and Snyder’s just doesn’t. I don’t need all zombie movies to have something to say and it’s fine that his remake is just a romp; I love a romp. And his DC stuff is just... I dunno. It’s like he’s making movies where the characters behave like The Authority except they’re mainstream DC heroes and he wants them to be treated in-universe like they’re mainstream DC heroes even though they don’t behave that way. He fucking glammed up Rorschach, I don’t know if there’s anything else that so eloquently demonstrates the extent to which he doesn’t just doesn’t get it than that. Even at his best he just takes anything that’s interesting, considers it a wrinkle, steams and irons it until it’s something that LOOKS really pretty... and there’s just nothing interesting left. If comics fans weren’t so chatty online we wouldn’t even be talking about him. But his eye for spectacle and pomp is solid, and I don’t want that to come off like I’m damning with faint praise; I think he’s REALLY good at that. I just don’t think anything he’s done has ever done anything much more than look interesting. I think he would probably do really well with something like The Boys. I feel like he’d be less indulgent with the shittier aspects of that show and would handle some of the action better than the show does, even though I think the show does fine. Or something like Red Son, I bet he would do really well with something like that.

We’re going on what, 16 years now? Never go full Snyder.

Congrats!!!

Sports betting isn’t legal in Texas, is it? I guess he could just gamble in another state, it’s a little odd to use that to fund a prize but I guess it’s legal. Weird.

There’s a company up here that used to do that if the Red Sox won the World Series, then pivoted to other stuff after 2007, I think. I don’t believe they placed bets in the traditional sense, they took out an insurance policy against the Sox winning, or something like that.

Everything about every instance of the PlayStation store is presently an abomination, it’s just so bad.