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  • Paid full price and got this in the mail (open box). GameStop and I have different definitions of “new”

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  • As soon as the case is removed from the shrink wrap it is used. GameStop won’t pay you full price to trade in an open copy of a game just because you say you never put it in your console.

    When. I buy a NEW game, the entire thing should be in mint condition, case included. When I pay full price, I’m paying for everything that comes inside the shrink wrap, and it should be unadulterated.

    If anything has been adulterated in any way compared to how it came from the factory, then I shouldn’t have to pay full price.

  • Paid full price and got this in the mail (open box). GameStop and I have different definitions of “new”

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  • This is so unbelievably shitty, and they’ve been doing it for decades now. The number of times I went in, asked for a new copy of a game, and was told to pay full price for something that came in a grubby open box covered in stickers was infuriating. It’s a big reason I stopped shopping there over 10 years ago.

    Other stores figured out how to put games on their shelves without opening the boxes and taking the discs out. In fact, it’s actually less work to not be shitty. Just put the fucking game on the shelf LIKE EVERY OTHER GODDAMN STORE ON THE PLANET.

    Fuck GameStop. I hope their CEO gets hemorrhoids regularly.

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    What's a show that should've gotten cancelled or ended SOONER than it did?

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  • Bryan Fuller thought he could run Star Trek: Discovery and American Gods simultaneously and ended up losing both.

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    What's a show that should've gotten cancelled or ended SOONER than it did?

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  • Even 30 episodes per season might be pushing it.

    That is a lot of content to put out in a year, and achieving that usually means sacrificing quality or putting in a bunch of filler.

    Many of the best anime shows of all time only have 20-30 episodes for their entire run.

  • What are your go-to brands for any electronic, networking, computing accessories or peripherals?

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  • There's your individual experience, but I'm basing my statement on Backblaze's annual drive failure rate reports.

  • What are your go-to brands for any electronic, networking, computing accessories or peripherals?

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  • Isn't Western Digital one of the more reliable hard drive manufacturers?

  • Your VPN won't go to jail for you for $5

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  • What the hell are you guys doing that would result in jail time?

  • Do younger people go home earlier now? Or go out less? Is it since COVID?

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  • This year I've been going out more than ever. COVID gave me a new appreciation for out-of-the-house activities and now I can't get enough of them.

    Ironically, I met my current IRL social circle on discord during the pandemic. Most people in my old social circle started having kids over the last few years so I don't really spend as much time with them anymore.

  • Best privacy tv's? Or dumb none smart tvs?

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  • "Digital signage" is horribly overpriced, and lacking in features you probably do want (like HDR, HDMI 2.1, VRR, etc).

    Just buy a regular TV and don't let it on the internet.

  • How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock?

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  • These numbers aren’t arbitrary, they are from different base numbering systems.

    60 can easily divide by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 10.

    12 can easily divide by 2, 3, 4, and 6 (notice how much overlap there is).

    10 only divides easily by 2 and 5. Common fractions like 1/4 or 1/3 now require decimals.

    Basically, base 12 and base 60 make it significantly easier to think and work in common fractions.

    It is also historically significant, as base 12 used to be more common than modern base 10. Our timekeeping system dates back to the ancient Babylonians, who worked in base 12. This influence is still felt in other places, such as the fact that eleven and twelve have unique names in many languages rather than following the same pattern as everything that comes after them.

  • Paramount Invites Fans to a Special Global 'Star Trek Day' Celebration on September 8

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  • SAG and WGA want people to watch the new content. Their members still make money from it during the strikes, and continued demand is further evidence that their work is worth the money. If nobody goes to the movies or watches TV, then it gives the AMPTP more reason to say that actors and writers shouldn’t be paid so much.

  • ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Cast Talks About The Big Change For Season 4

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  • One season of Lower Decks is 6 months in-universe, so they’ve only been ensigns for a year and a half

  • How do I convert my videos to h265 without melting my current, shit, hardware

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  • What are you transcoding from, and what is your reason for wanting to do this? It might not be worth th effort. Lossy to lossy transcoding is already not ideal, and hardware encorders end up trading either size or quality in exchange for speed. I've played with NVENC h.265 a lot and found the end results weren't really any smaller than what x264 gives me for similar quality, so I just use x265 and deel with the slower encodes.

    It may be cheaper to just buy more storage.

  • The prevalence of touchscreens has probably resulted in a decrease in average fingernail length

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  • Resistive touchscreens are soo 2005

  • "Sponsored recommendations": I pay for Spotify Premium, and yet somehow I'm still the product?

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  • All the streaming services use DRM, it’s just download stores that are DRM-free. Which makes sense, when you buy an album, you should own it.

  • Rank your favorite Star Trek movies! Be ready to defend your positions!

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    1. Undiscovered Country
    2. Wrath of Khan
    3. Beyond
    4. Galaxy Quest
    5. First Contact
    6. Voyage Home
    7. Generations
    8. Insurrection
    9. Search for Spock
    10. Star Trek
    11. The Motion Picture
    12. Nemesis
    13. Into Darkness
    14. The Final Frontier

    I only consider the bottom three to be outright “bad” movies.

  • "Sponsored recommendations": I pay for Spotify Premium, and yet somehow I'm still the product?

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  • "Sponsored recommendations": I pay for Spotify Premium, and yet somehow I'm still the product?

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  • DRM-protected music stores went extinct over a decade ago, following Steve Jobs' open letter to the music industry on the topic. By 2009, iTunes music was completely DRM-free and alternative stores had to follow suit to remain competitive.

  • "Sponsored recommendations": I pay for Spotify Premium, and yet somehow I'm still the product?

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  • That doesn't really fix the "somehow matches your interests" part of their need. Your torrent software isn't able to track your listening habits and recommend things that other people with similar habits also liked.

  • "Sponsored recommendations": I pay for Spotify Premium, and yet somehow I'm still the product?

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  • removed also rolled out a really good seaparate app specifically for browsing and listening to classical music.

    Classical music doesn't organize easily into "bands/albums" the way most works from the last 80 years do. Most music players tend to fall apart when you try to organize a library of classical music in any coherent manner. So they solved this problem by desiging a completely separate UI for it.