abfarid

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[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

She is a little weird. IIRC, at some point she looks directly at the camera. And I always just assumed she was played by Fox, was she not? I didn't confirm.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, maybe it was a bad example, because in some very specific scenario, it can work. My point was that treating a symptom won't cure the underlying disease. Just like as long as there are rich people, trying to take away their planes won't work.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah, as in it provides respect? And sounds like cash? I know, I know, dissecting jokes is a lot of fun.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website -4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

But that won't solve anything. That's like treating diabetes by drinking diet soda.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I didn't find any references to "cache". That's the part I want to understand, what the significance of that part of the joke. Why "cache"?

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago

I think because Gates famously can jump over a chair, which he has demonstrated several times on stage. As the result, Gates (now Windows) didn't learn to jump over his first chair and all hell broke loose.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Could you please explain? Now I'm curious.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

To be fair, Fox also played his daughter in part 2 and his ancestor (Seamus?) in part 3, but rather briefly.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Oh, it had like an inventory functionality? I love Oblivion, but I obviously didn't get the armor and don't remember the details. I suspect it also provided defense for the horse? In that case it's almost approaching Assassin's Creed's "buy xp to skip grind" level of egregiousness, but still just a DLC.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Even if we are talking about specifically jets that are owned privately, they could have legit use cases. It's the abuse that is the issue. I agree with the whole "eat the rich" sentiment, but that's a separate issue. In the system where rich people exist, the problem is abuse.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 9 points 2 years ago (11 children)

It didn't start with horse armor. And even then, while clearly stupid, it wasn't egregious in the way modern mtx is. It was just a poorly priced optional cosmetic DLC. Modern mtx is a whole other beast, where companies use every psychological trick in the book to get people addicted to gambling.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The "graffiti" is funny, actually. They wrote АТБ which is a groceries chain in Ukraine, the equivalent of Russian Пятёрочка. That store is effectively renamed.

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