valen

joined 1 year ago
[–] valen@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The opening of Cowboy Beebop: Tank.

[–] valen@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Looks like it's strictly one server. Too bad I can't connect to multiple servers and switch between them.

[–] valen@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

When Galaxy Quest came out, Wil Wheaton called Patrick Stewart and told him to go to the theater and see "the best Star Trek movie ever made."

[–] valen@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

The opening song to Neon Genesis Evangelion. A Cruel Angel's Thesis.

[–] valen@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For ST, the Voyager looked good, but I didn't like the moving nacelles. The updated Enterprise from the first movie was my favorite iteration of the Big-E.

But, my favorite ship is the Omega class destroyer from Babylon 5. (sue me)

[–] valen@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My first wife would get this thing about every 3 years or so where a contact would migrate around to the back of her eye. This would then be followed by about an hour of her trying to get it back front-and-center. Just the thought of it is enough to horrify me.

[–] valen@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I have over the glasses sunglasses. Yes, they're big and dorky. My son says they look like the glasses in the TV room from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I don't care. I'm retired (so am an annoying old person)

[–] valen@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't care which password manager you use, as long as you use one (and it's secure). It's such a game changer.

[–] valen@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I've been really happy and surprised at how well https://wefwef.app works. It's a PWA and is slick as snot.

[–] valen@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I agree. I'm primarily a lurker, and had to view "contribute" as "would appreciate such and such a community".

As an aside, I remember someone asking on Reddit for all the lurkers to be more active and post a lot. I really don't think this user would like Reddit if suddenly the number of posts/comments increased by at least a factor of 10, most of which would be stuff like "I agree with this" instead of just upvoting.

[–] valen@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What I actually want is to be able to pay Reddit or Google or whoever it is a fair amount of money, say the amount they'd make by showing me a reasonable number of ads, plus a bit more. Say 10% more. In exchange for making more money from me than they would with ads, they would let me use old.reddit.com, or a third party app and not show me any ads.

I get an ad free service, Reddit gets more money than they would have before.

I figure that the amount would be easily less than $10 per year.

They would have to show something like this: at the end of each month, they tell me that I consumed so much of Reddit. They would have shown an ad every 25 posts, at $0.0005 per ad impression. So my payment for the month will be $x.

[–] valen@beehaw.org 24 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I've heard about Reddit removing a mod from a popular subreddit, then turning the subreddit public (sorry, don't have the reference). They can always stop the blackout by force. But once they do that, those mods will have definite incentive to start the communities in the fediverse.

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