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Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote: It’s cheap and reliable. If I go into a McDonalds, I know exactly what I’m in for in terms of speed, service and taste. And so it’s a known value.
If I go to a restaurant? Results vary, and a high price isn’t a guarantee of high quality.
Yeah, you already know what you're getting yourself into with chain fast food restaurants. My wife and I tried ubereats once and there were a lot of restaurants in the area that it brought up that we had no idea existed. The problem is all we could go off of was their ratings on the app. Safe to say we didn't order from any of them and stopped bothering with ubereats.
Jaxmeister wrote: When I served in the forces, security was drummed into us but doesn't seem to be so controlled now.
it is mental - I remember it being drummed into everyone. Now you get a note on the intranet about being generically careful, like everyone just shrugged shoulders and gave up. I thought for a moment how social media was exploited in the current war int he East would make people pay attention. A few more intranet articles is all and some challenge coins. Nuts.
Jaxmeister wrote: When I served in the forces, security was drummed into us but doesn't seem to be so controlled now.
it is mental - I remember it being drummed into everyone. Now you get a note on the intranet about being generically careful, like everyone just shrugged shoulders and gave up. I thought for a moment how social media was exploited in the current war int he East would make people pay attention. A few more intranet articles is all and some challenge coins. Nuts.
Now you have MOD and command wondering about security leaks. You would think with what's happening in eastern Europe with disinformation etc, not to mention satellite tracking picking up communications more care would be taken but apparently not.
Bran Dawri wrote: Not to mention them charging on both ends - both the restaurant and the customer pay for delivery, with the restaurant end being gouged to death.
I seriously prefer walking through a storm before giving racketeering like that so much as a penny - and have done so.
The few times we use doordash or uber eats or whatever the heck, is also the few times we don't get a local mom and pop restaurant. The gakky delivery services can gouge panda express or Chipotle for all I care, but I won't do that to one of our many local eateries.
I'll never understand this take.
You using the "gakky delivery service" on a franchise doesn't magically make it so that the person driving for said delivery service is suddenly getting treated well.
They're just getting screwed by the crummy delivery service instead of a big company.
Basically this: it's well established through many many articles that mom and pop restaurants get a raw deal. One pizza shop actually LOST money per order, depending on what a given customer ordered. . So, by using only mainline big corporate chain restaurants, I'm not screwing over the mom and pop shop. See, IDGAF if Panda Express "loses" money on my order. I DO care if "Yummy Teriyaki and Sushi" makes money off of me ordering the food they offer.
The driver, at the end of the day made the choice to drive for whatever delivery service it is. I have zero sympathy on that specific aspect of it. That said, whenever we do go this route, we DO tip pretty damn well. And if other people's tipping isn't enough for the driver, well. . . it does still have a stigma/view of being a side gig, and I feel I've done my bit for the driver.
Not only has Den of Geek really gone downhill when it comes to content? Rather Irritatingly Every Headline Is Fully Capitalised.
No Really It’s All Of Them. Every Single One.
As if they’ve given up pretending it’s not just a collection of click bait hot takes and drivel, with the occasional dash of “insight” which everyone knew anyway. Like “Robocop Is Actually A Satire Aren’t I Clever”.
Time was you could get some fun movie recommendations and articles. But not anymore.
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kodos wrote: For something different but I guess I have the right people here to get the necessary information
I need a hobby account on facebook as some projects are going to use FB messenger and I don't want to drop out but neither want my real name there
so of course a dedicated email and some kind of name but what else is needed as the first time I tried I just get a "not a real name" notification
FB has shadow accounts of everyone they got data from regardless of if that person has actually FB especially from databrookers.
Meaning they can filter you out pretty accuratly.
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GW:"Space marines got too many options to balance, therefore we decided to legends HH units." Players: "why?!? Now we finally got decent plastic kits and you cut them?" Chaos marines players: "Since when are Daemonengines 30k models and why do i have NO droppods now?" GW" MONEY.... erm i meant TOO MANY OPTIONS (to resell your army to you again by disalowing former units)! Do you want specific tyranid fighiting Primaris? Even a new sabotage lieutnant!" Chaos players: Guess i stop playing or go to HH.
Prime must be getting desperate for advertisers on FreeVee.
Disney+ is advertising (got it) with the Kardashians (a show I have frankly negative interest in).
The others? Basically crappy tik-tok reels for car guff. Like something you plug in which transmits your peripheral via FM. A device I had circa 2002 - and no longer need, because you’ve got to go some to have a stereo and device which aren’t Bluetooth.
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Video games are honestly pretty darn stable on that front; but music and TV/films are insanely crazy.
Now music isn't so bad because most of the larger names do generally get a physical release; but a lot of newer/smaller creators might only get one cd release not a continuing stock; or they might only have a very limited release if they have one at all
TV though, with Streaming, is a nightmare. Some show straight up just vanish because they are written off as a tax item and never get a physical release. Others never get a physical or only get a very expensive collectors limited release.
And yeah online only can be changed. Stuff removed, changed, swapped around.
As a gent of a certain vintage, it doesn’t bother me so much with streaming subscriptions. Being kinda, hadn’t really become properly widespread due to cost, pre-VHS? Shows coming and going from broadcast is just par for the course. For the most part.
But, when I’ve paid money for a specific product? Please don’t go changing said product. Because that’s not what I agreed to buy.
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Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote: As a gent of a certain vintage, it doesn’t bother me so much with streaming subscriptions. Being kinda, hadn’t really become properly widespread due to cost, pre-VHS? Shows coming and going from broadcast is just par for the course. For the most part.
But, when I’ve paid money for a specific product? Please don’t go changing said product. Because that’s not what I agreed to buy.
I suspect if you check the terms of sale, iTunes reserving the right to alter or remove the product from service is very much what you agreed to. You didn't buy the song, you're just renting it for as long as they choose to supply it.
But yes, that and the massive fragmentation of services is very much the problem with streaming, and the reason I'm still buying blurays and DVDs.
Yeah, the various Arrowverse shows wound up on (I think) three different services here in Oz... so I still haven't seen the last few seasons of Flash or Legends. And made watching the crossovers problematic...
Amazon Prime are heading in the right direction there, serving as a hub where you can add additional services in to your subscription, but it still winds up very expensive very quickly.
Likewise, Google's setup of selling individual shows and/or episodes was a handy way of catching up on some stuff that was otherwise unavailable, but a lot of shows are the same price as just buying the DVD, so I do that instead.
Amazon Prime are heading in the right direction there, serving as a hub where you can add additional services in to your subscription, but it still winds up very expensive very quickly.
There are of course, some major issues I'm finding with Prime. A recent example is in sports. My favorite baseball team announced via the book of faces that their game was being broadcast live on Prime (actually, multiple times this has happened). And, being that I got rid of the baseball streaming platform subscription before last season, I couldn't just watch it on there. So, I hop on Prime all excited to be able to watch my favorite sportsball team, only to discover the game is on Prime, with the MLB.tv subscription add-on.
Which, IMHO, means it is NOT on Prime, because Prime means it's available to Prime members generally, not available under specific circumstances like the subscription.
Yeah, streaming used to be a good replacement for the overpriced cable services. Except corporate got its grubby mitts on it again, and now the various streaming platforms very quickly add up to more than cable used to be.
So I no longer bother, dusted of ye olde hat and black flag, and went back to me old privateering ways. Yarr matey! Pass me the rum and shiver me timbers!
(This is particularly appropriate since I'm actually on a boat in the Caribbean right now.)
Video games are honestly pretty darn stable on that front; but music and TV/films are insanely crazy.
Now music isn't so bad because most of the larger names do generally get a physical release; but a lot of newer/smaller creators might only get one cd release not a continuing stock; or they might only have a very limited release if they have one at all
TV though, with Streaming, is a nightmare. Some show straight up just vanish because they are written off as a tax item and never get a physical release. Others never get a physical or only get a very expensive collectors limited release.
And yeah online only can be changed. Stuff removed, changed, swapped around.
Greedo didn’t fire, rendering the “first” statement entirely moot
For what it's worth, even before the Special Editions were a thing, Lucas has always maintained that Greedo did shoot first but you just couldn't see it in the close up framing... Lucas says a lot of crazy stuff, though...
Ensis Ferrae wrote: There are of course, some major issues I'm finding with Prime. A recent example is in sports. My favorite baseball team announced via the book of faces that their game was being broadcast live on Prime (actually, multiple times this has happened). And, being that I got rid of the baseball streaming platform subscription before last season, I couldn't just watch it on there. So, I hop on Prime all excited to be able to watch my favorite sportsball team, only to discover the game is on Prime, with the MLB.tv subscription add-on.
Which, IMHO, means it is NOT on Prime, because Prime means it's available to Prime members generally, not available under specific circumstances like the subscription.
Yeah, they definitely need to clean up how they present it all... the front page on Prime Video is currently a mess of 'rent/buy' or subscription links getting in the way of the stuff you can actually watch now, which is what I'm interested in. But the general idea of providing a hub to which you can just add the streaming services you want so that they're all in one place... that's a good idea.
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I find Prime Prime not horrendous (ok, low bar) to navigate, but trying to browse additional channels (got Paramount+ for a couple of $s a month on promotion until I finish getting up to speed on Star Trek) to be absolute garbage.
Ex-Mantic Rules Committees: Kings of War, Warpath
"The Emperor is obviously not a dictator, he's a couch." Starbuck: "Why can't we use the starboard launch bays?"
Engineer: "Because it's a gift shop!"
I don't remember it being that bad, but I only had the Britbox subscription for about three and a half minutes... Subscribed a while back to get access to all of the Doctor Who back catalogue the day after (as it turned out) they removed all of the Doctor Who back catalogue. So I cancelled it and went back to buying the bluray Collection boxes instead.
Yeah, they definitely need to clean up how they present it all... the front page on Prime Video is currently a mess of 'rent/buy' or subscription links getting in the way of the stuff you can actually watch now, which is what I'm interested in. But the general idea of providing a hub to which you can just add the streaming services you want so that they're all in one place... that's a good idea.
Yeah the front page for Prime is a sheer mess.
I also hate how it constantly moves things around so even if you come back a few days later to continue watching something you have to and hunt for where they've moved it too now.
It's the same as how they've progressively messed with the Kindle interface and how they utterly destroyed comic reading after buying comixology and rolling it into their main store view to the point where its now just a mess to find digital comics to read; whereas in the past you could brows them exclusively super easily and your library too (its now all jumbled up with your ebooks from kindle)
Honestly these days I can't tell if interface design is just a dead art that was only around in the 90s or if managers/ceos and people with degrees in "marketing" have infected interface design with so many agendas that interfaces have lost all function
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The latter- content design has been infected and corrupted by its dark twin marketing. However, content design is still alive and well and innovating, particularly in the public sector.
The issue is that fundamentally trying to tell you useful information and trying to sell you something are competing tasks.
ChargerIIC wrote: If algae farm paste with a little bit of your grandfather in it isn't Grimdark I don't know what is.
I could believe that if it wasn't for the fact that I've also seen Microsoft manage to actually break how saving files works in office programs now. I don't know what they are thinking but the modern save setup is bonkers complicated/messy in design
Overread wrote: I could believe that if it wasn't for the fact that I've also seen Microsoft manage to actually break how saving files works in office programs now. I don't know what they are thinking but the modern save setup is bonkers complicated/messy in design
Well there are the usual pressures of offices- unreasonable deadlines to get out minimum viable product, changes for the sake of justifying a team etc.
But the principles are known and content designers exist. It just tends to be the public sector that thinks it is worthwhile employing content designers and integrating them into product teams from the get go (hard to bolt on at the end).
Automatically Appended Next Post: Oh the other thing is that better accessibility for a wider population can reduce efficiency for an individual subgroup (which may be the able majority).
For example, I personally find PDFs very practical, but they are not normally readable by text-to-voice software and thus inaccessible for many people with poor sight. So content design tends to discourage use of PDFs.
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ChargerIIC wrote: If algae farm paste with a little bit of your grandfather in it isn't Grimdark I don't know what is.