There’s a lot more than just recognizing known raw IP addresses used as endpoints.

One method larger services with CDNs use effectively is to use DNS for blocking. When you try to access a site, your DNS request will resolve to a server close to you, with your location determining the domain resolving to a different IP. Then the platform just responds to those requests from outside their normal area with a consistent message. No need to know whether it’s actually a VPN or not, the traffic is acting like it is and doesn’t really have much of a reason to do that normally.

VPNs aren’t hard to detect, especially if you’re using a major service.

The poverty line formula was developed in 1963, at a time with much less severe wage differentials between top and bottom. While it technically is updated every year, it is a national level. There is a massive swing from rural America to Urban New York or Los Angeles, and the outliers really fuck up the formula. Especially with the wage stagnation since then.

In 1963 the federal minimum wage was $1.25. In 2025, it is now $7.25. With inflation alone, not considering actual buying power… $1 in 1963 is worth $10.59 today.

The wage stagnation is the core of the issue. It’s the core of a LOT of problems in the US at the moment. Low wages force employees to stick with employers because hey can’t afford to be out of work. They don’t make enough money to build up a safety net, and as soon as a small unexpected expense happens like a car repair, anything they did manage to save is immediately wiped out. Tying healthcare to employment also means many employees can’t readily quit to find better jobs, if there even are any they’re qualified to do. It also prevents many from being able to protest, because they need to be at work just to make ends meet. Taking a day off work to protest means a day’s pay they can’t afford to lose.

For some perspective, that’s 8% of the population. That’s 8% of the population that doesn’t even get paid enough to afford basic necessities like food.

Well, they did. That’s why the deodorant is now locked up.

Denuvo does anti-cheat? I thought it was anti-pirate?

I mean, they are just for different environments. Fins aren’t very useful for terrestrial animals, and legs aren’t as useful for aquatic animals. Both provide similar functions suited to their environment, and are therefore roughly equivalent.

It was a lot more than that. He said from the beginning he was onboard for like 7 seasons if they stuck to the source material. Season 1 they immediately started fucking with main characters. The showrunners made it clear they wanted to make their own story, but had to use The Witcher IP.

The best scenes in the first season were ones that Cavill insisted were changed and that he worked on specifically to stay truer to the source material and his character.

Not sure why you are being downvoted for this

The downvotes are probably because they’re just stating something obvious. No shit, bad looking CGI looks bad, that doesn’t mean the actual CGI itself is necessarily bad. Small things like wrong lighting can make otherwise great CGI look terrible. The reasons DO matter, even if the average person may not really care and just has the takeaway of “bad CGI”.

Posting that type of response is not actually providing anything to the discussion, it’s a useless comment that provides no value. Not all comments and opinions are valid or constructive. The voting system is not really for agree/disagree, but whether a post adds to the discussion.

I’d argue it matters quite a bit. It shows producers, and by extension a studio, that can’t manage production effectively, and that almost always extends to the rest of the movie. “Bad” CG is rarely the only issue with those movies, it’s just what you remember most since movies in general require the suspension of disbelief and that pulls you right out of it.

So 90% of the self-proclaimed “power users”.

And often that’s not because the CGI itself is bad quality, but because the effects team was asked to do the impossible with half the tools necessary. The “fix it in post” mentality.

Even small things like having reference lighting examples from the set can be the difference between an okay outcome and something almost imperceptible.

They’re the same thing. A small oven heats up faster than a big oven. It’s only faster because it’s 1/10th the size.

There’s a lot of other shorr from content. There’s a lot that’s just quick highlights of longer form stuff for instance.

My YouTube Shorts algorithm doesn’t have any of that type of shit in it. Because that’s not the type of stuff that I watch, that’s not the stuff it recommends to be either.

If you’re using a new or privacy focused web profile, it’s going to show a lot of random things because it has no idea what you would want.

They’re always thinking of pp. Constantly. They can’t get it out of their heads. Theirs or others. It’s the one through line transiting everything the Republicans do.

Just need another adapter.

That’s what happens when servers either shut down or instance admins end up being insufferable to the point that entire communities choosing to abandon the instance.

Not sure what would be an alternative solution given how federation works.

All platforms are notorious for that. Moderation is expensive, and consistent free user moderation is extremely hit or miss, mostly miss.

Unless you have enough admins dedicated to moderating every community regularly, like weekly at a bare minimum, shit will get out of hand in the places they don’t visit.

For places the size of Discord, Facebook, Reddit, Lemmy, YouTube, etc. that’s just not feasible without an army of paid moderators. User submitted reports are only useful if the users aren’t partaking, and that’s the first tier of nearly every online moderation system because few companies could even consider staffing a moderation team even remotely large enough to begin to tackle that problem.

Not really. They can see how many people play on Game Pass. 100% chance they’re just taking downloads from Game Pass accounts and multiplying it by the retail price though, which isn’t a perfect comparison, but good enough for this type of general estimate.

300 million divided by the $69.99 retail price gives about 4.2 million sales for comparison.

There’s a difference between having guests that are politicians, and politically charged monologues.