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Comment Impressive attention to detail (Score 2) 52

What I really liked about the show was the subtle attention to detail. In the interior shots of the research ship, every monitor looks like it's a CRT, because that is the display technology that we had in 1979. The ship was supposedly launched before the Nostromo encountered LV-426. However, the displays in the Prodigy compound were flat panel or holographic. You couldn't buy a CRT monitor today even if you wanted one, at least one that worked well enough to be on camera. At least they made it LOOK like they were CRTs. Any other movie probably wouldn't have bothered.

Comment Re:They mean "Microcenter" (Score 1) 23

MicroCenter is great, and has often had a lot of iFixit toolkits. I'm glad they made the agreement official.

CompUSA's main downfall was that they would never have any prices on the products... Only a sticker with a SKU, and you would have to look for the price tag on the shelf and match it against the SKU. More often than not, the tag with the actual price was missing or wrong.

Who wants to go shopping at a store where you don't know what anything costs?

Comment Re:When you've got no new value to offer... (Score 2) 84

Too many times I have had to endure a commercial break on a streaming platform that I have paid for. I can forgive some ads if it means a lower price, but they squander the opportunity by running an ad for the exact show that I'm ALREADY WATCHING! Of all the ads that they could play, that is the one that benefits us both the least.

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