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I would recommend playing the game first or ditch the rest of the series altogether. Certain important moments need to be felt really hard and the series is just not delivering that. I played the game twice actually and it still works. It’s a bit long though.
I’m surprised it lasted 3 seasons to be honest. I hated it.
I hope there will be a little less shouting this time. That Thanksgiving episode was unbearable.
What does „replace plunger“ mean here?
The way I know it:
Me when I learned that Minesweeper actually had logic and you’re not supposed to just click randomly.
Today I watched the first three episodes of the new Black Mirror season and while Common People and Bete Noire were good but pretty standard, Hotel Reverie somehow hit every note for me. Mid film I just thought Wow this is brillant! I was so invested I stood up at the shooting scene and I surprised myself by saying a high pitched and very happy „Aw!“ when the credits rolled. And my god Emma Corrin is excellent! Maybe I was simply enchanted by them and the episode wasn’t so great.
I don’t understand why anyone with a brain would need this feature.
So we have this format called Last One Laughing in Germany (it started in Japan). The first 2-3 seasons were pretty funny but lately it has become unwatchable.
For anyone who doesn’t know, the concept is a bunch of comedians are put in a room together for 6 hours and are not allowed to laugh. Whoever laughs is out, last one wins (hence the title). So everyone is trying to be as funny as possible by finding out that one trigger for each person or by shooting in every direction. It’s a great concept, if the contestants are funny.
In Germany they now struggle to find any good comedians willing to join (not that we have many options in the first place). But the viewer numbers are still high somehow and they want to continue so they add more and more random personalities who are not funny at all but use this opportunity to show the world what they’re made of. Imagine that one guy who doesn’t belong to a group and desperately tries to belong but here everyone is that guy.
Then there is the annoying host Bully Herbig who is constantly fake-laughing for the audience and holding his hand over the red button like „Oh my god look how funny this is! It must be happening any second!“ It’s basically a laugh track. Later they even added people into the stage who fake-laugh. It’s ridiculous.
On top of that the show runners tuned the concept so there is no time for anyone to settle anymore, it’s just one special event after the other. It’s like Tik Tok. No opportunity for the contestants to just do a random joke during conversations or something. Also what counts as a laugh is so strict, they only need to move a muscle and it counts.
The UK finally started doing their own version and the first season is so much better than what Germany does. There are much less special events and they are more controlled. Most laughs happen from random conversations and they don’t even need to be so strict about what is a laugh because this is actually funny and they are laughing out loud!
Lumon is a fictional, evil company from the TV+ series Severance
The last two seasons were really forgettable but I still have hope.
So charge money for a notifications feature, what’s the big deal? If people don’t want it they don’t have to pay.
For me there is often some small, interesting thing that keeps me watching. Even if it’s not like „Oh my God amazing!“ I feel if the show has potential for me.
Resist the FOMO. If episode 1 doesn’t pull you in, just stop. Why waste time giving shows a second chance? You might miss out on something good, sure, but does it really matter? You don’t owe the creators anything, it’s your life.
This is where „… or anything that might be an issue in the future“ comes in.
My experience is that nobody cares about privacy, moral issues or anything that might be an issue in the future. They only care about convenience, distraction and whatever their peer group is doing. So the “attention” this is getting is never going to reach the spineless mass audience.
I wish I could get everyone to use it but many of my friends are having trouble with notifications not working reliably for Signal. Or sometimes messages are simply not sent immediately, even if both sides are online. This is not helping to get people over. Also no one but me really cares about all the reasons why I would like to get rid of Whatsapp, especially if they would have a lesser experience.
Browsing Lemmy what’s wrong with that?
The reason is
I’m German and I’ve never heard of that name. I’m sure it exists but it must be extremely rare.
There used to be a town in Austria called „Fucking“ but they renamed themselves to Fugging in 2020.
You can reduce animations and transparency, enhance contrast (though not every application supports it) and turn everything grayscale but you can’t change the overall style and layout of the OS.