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platelets2020··on Do You Love Me? [video]
Hydraulics make robot motion look fake? Have you watched real robots move before? I've never once watched a robot move and thought to myself "that looks fake".

This is how the robot moves IN REALITY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhND7Mvp3f4

platelets2020··on Do You Love Me? [video]
Impressive rant, but you realize this ad is CGI right? The opposite of everything you're praising.

Or do you believe the cars in car ads are real too?

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/cinematographer-reveals-one-...

platelets2020··on Do You Love Me? [video]
Heavy study lighting? That's very clearly CGI.

I bet you believe all the vehicles racing around in automobile TV ads are real too.

platelets2020··on NumPy Illustrated: The Visual Guide to NumPy
As far as I can tell, this "visual guide" is nothing more than:

1. Taking screenshots of code.

2. Taking screenshots of code and putting the array values inside of blue boxes.

platelets2020··on Building a $400 at-home DIY spin bike for Peloton and Apple Fitness+
The author conveniently left out the cost of the tablet, which is included in the Peloton price. Adding the tablet pretty much doubles the cost of this "DIY build".
platelets2020··on Building a $400 at-home DIY spin bike for Peloton and Apple Fitness+
DIY project? He purchased a brand new, off the shelf spin bike and put a cadence sensor on it.

I'm not sure when it happened, but the bar for saying things like "built" has become so low that we get titles and "projects" like these.

platelets2020··on Chrome Is Bad
There's been a massive influx of reddit-quality comments for quite a while. I guess it was only a matter of time before it was reflected in the submissions.
platelets2020··on Chrome Is Bad
You don't get to stack "hand waving" indefinitely. The person who made the original claim is responsible for providing refutable evidence.