#shovelware — Public Fediverse posts

Watched the last episode of #DeadLikeMe last night, and watched the direct-to-DVD movie early this morning.

The final episode was a nice capper to the series, although it left a lot of questions unanswered (understandably, though).

The movie (Dead Like Me: #LifeAfterDeath)?

Absolute #shovelware. It did not make a lick of sense, whatsoever. The new actor played Daisy Adair with all of the subtlety of a dump truck, Henry Ian Cusick's talents were wasted on a character with zero perceptible motivation, Roxy somehow lost all of her street smarts in an instant after schmoozing with the police commissioner, and while George's character got some nice closure (although not entirely believable), the whole thing felt really off and bewildering.

I think the only character that was fully true to the original was Mason, my personal favorite. Pretty hard to mess up a character that's already so utterly morally bankrupt 🤣

But overall the character development for George, her mom, and her sister was nice. I'm thankful Joy finally became a tolerable character in the last view episodes. I kinda wanted to slap her throughout the first season. Just very typical unhappy wife schlock. She was actually likeable and sympathetic in the movie.

Also the #Palm #Treo product placement in #2009 was hilarious.

But yeah, don't ask me to summarize the plot, because I really couldn't find it. Nothing made a lick of sense.

Not direct quotes, but they could have been:

"Oh man, he gave us these new high-tech smartphones, but he gave me some bad info. I need to get a hold of him. I wonder HOW!!!"
"You're such an evil person, because all you care about is money, even though you're treating us to this really lavish lifestyle, and you're not actually making money from any of this... this is so confusing, we're going to kill you!"

This could very well be the worst movie I've seen, omitting things seen on #MysteryScienceTheatre3000 and Christian #glurge films like "God's Not Dead." (Christian Pop-Eschatology movies deserve their own category in the lowest circle of hell, appropriately enough)

Watched the last episode of #DeadLikeMe last night, and watched the direct-to-DVD movie early this morning.

The final episode was a nice capper to the series, although it left a lot of questions unanswered (understandably, though).

The movie (Dead Like Me: #LifeAfterDeath)?

Absolute #shovelware. It did not make a lick of sense, whatsoever. The new actor played Daisy Adair with all of the subtlety of a dump truck, Henry Ian Cusick's talents were wasted on a character with zero perceptible motivation, Roxy somehow lost all of her street smarts in an instant after schmoozing with the police commissioner, and while George's character got some nice closure (although not entirely believable), the whole thing felt really off and bewildering.

I think the only character that was fully true to the original was Mason, my personal favorite. Pretty hard to mess up a character that's already so utterly morally bankrupt 🤣

But overall the character development for George, her mom, and her sister was nice. I'm thankful Joy finally became a tolerable character in the last view episodes. I kinda wanted to slap her throughout the first season. Just very typical unhappy wife schlock. She was actually likeable and sympathetic in the movie.

Also the #Palm #Treo product placement in #2009 was hilarious.

But yeah, don't ask me to summarize the plot, because I really couldn't find it. Nothing made a lick of sense.

Not direct quotes, but they could have been:

"Oh man, he gave us these new high-tech smartphones, but he gave me some bad info. I need to get a hold of him. I wonder HOW!!!"
"You're such an evil person, because all you care about is money, even though you're treating us to this really lavish lifestyle, and you're not actually making money from any of this... this is so confusing, we're going to kill you!"

This could very well be the worst movie I've seen, omitting things seen on #MysteryScienceTheatre3000 and Christian #glurge films like "God's Not Dead." (Christian Pop-Eschatology movies deserve their own category in the lowest circle of hell, appropriately enough)

Watched the last episode of #DeadLikeMe last night, and watched the direct-to-DVD movie early this morning.

The final episode was a nice capper to the series, although it left a lot of questions unanswered (understandably, though).

The movie (Dead Like Me: #LifeAfterDeath)?

Absolute #shovelware. It did not make a lick of sense, whatsoever. The new actor played Daisy Adair with all of the subtlety of a dump truck, Henry Ian Cusick's talents were wasted on a character with zero perceptible motivation, Roxy somehow lost all of her street smarts in an instant after schmoozing with the police commissioner, and while George's character got some nice closure (although not entirely believable), the whole thing felt really off and bewildering.

I think the only character that was fully true to the original was Mason, my personal favorite. Pretty hard to mess up a character that's already so utterly morally bankrupt 🤣

But overall the character development for George, her mom, and her sister was nice. I'm thankful Joy finally became a tolerable character in the last view episodes. I kinda wanted to slap her throughout the first season. Just very typical unhappy wife schlock. She was actually likeable and sympathetic in the movie.

Also the #Palm #Treo product placement in #2009 was hilarious.

But yeah, don't ask me to summarize the plot, because I really couldn't find it. Nothing made a lick of sense.

Not direct quotes, but they could have been:

"Oh man, he gave us these new high-tech smartphones, but he gave me some bad info. I need to get a hold of him. I wonder HOW!!!"
"You're such an evil person, because all you care about is money, even though you're treating us to this really lavish lifestyle, and you're not actually making money from any of this... this is so confusing, we're going to kill you!"

This could very well be the worst movie I've seen, omitting things seen on #MysteryScienceTheatre3000 and Christian #glurge films like "God's Not Dead." (Christian Pop-Eschatology movies deserve their own category in the lowest circle of hell, appropriately enough)

Watched the last episode of #DeadLikeMe last night, and watched the direct-to-DVD movie early this morning.

The final episode was a nice capper to the series, although it left a lot of questions unanswered (understandably, though).

The movie (Dead Like Me: #LifeAfterDeath)?

Absolute #shovelware. It did not make a lick of sense, whatsoever. The new actor played Daisy Adair with all of the subtlety of a dump truck, Henry Ian Cusick's talents were wasted on a character with zero perceptible motivation, Roxy somehow lost all of her street smarts in an instant after schmoozing with the police commissioner, and while George's character got some nice closure (although not entirely believable), the whole thing felt really off and bewildering.

I think the only character that was fully true to the original was Mason, my personal favorite. Pretty hard to mess up a character that's already so utterly morally bankrupt 🤣

But overall the character development for George, her mom, and her sister was nice. I'm thankful Joy finally became a tolerable character in the last view episodes. I kinda wanted to slap her throughout the first season. Just very typical unhappy wife schlock. She was actually likeable and sympathetic in the movie.

Also the #Palm #Treo product placement in #2009 was hilarious.

But yeah, don't ask me to summarize the plot, because I really couldn't find it. Nothing made a lick of sense.

Not direct quotes, but they could have been:

"Oh man, he gave us these new high-tech smartphones, but he gave me some bad info. I need to get a hold of him. I wonder HOW!!!"
"You're such an evil person, because all you care about is money, even though you're treating us to this really lavish lifestyle, and you're not actually making money from any of this... this is so confusing, we're going to kill you!"

This could very well be the worst movie I've seen, omitting things seen on #MysteryScienceTheatre3000 and Christian #glurge films like "God's Not Dead." (Christian Pop-Eschatology movies deserve their own category in the lowest circle of hell, appropriately enough)

Watched the last episode of #DeadLikeMe last night, and watched the direct-to-DVD movie early this morning.

The final episode was a nice capper to the series, although it left a lot of questions unanswered (understandably, though).

The movie (Dead Like Me: #LifeAfterDeath)?

Absolute #shovelware. It did not make a lick of sense, whatsoever. The new actor played Daisy Adair with all of the subtlety of a dump truck, Henry Ian Cusick's talents were wasted on a character with zero perceptible motivation, Roxy somehow lost all of her street smarts in an instant after schmoozing with the police commissioner, and while George's character got some nice closure (although not entirely believable), the whole thing felt really off and bewildering.

I think the only character that was fully true to the original was Mason, my personal favorite. Pretty hard to mess up a character that's already so utterly morally bankrupt 🤣

But overall the character development for George, her mom, and her sister was nice. I'm thankful Joy finally became a tolerable character in the last view episodes. I kinda wanted to slap her throughout the first season. Just very typical unhappy wife schlock. She was actually likeable and sympathetic in the movie.

Also the #Palm #Treo product placement in #2009 was hilarious.

But yeah, don't ask me to summarize the plot, because I really couldn't find it. Nothing made a lick of sense.

Not direct quotes, but they could have been:

"Oh man, he gave us these new high-tech smartphones, but he gave me some bad info. I need to get a hold of him. I wonder HOW!!!"
"You're such an evil person, because all you care about is money, even though you're treating us to this really lavish lifestyle, and you're not actually making money from any of this... this is so confusing, we're going to kill you!"

This could very well be the worst movie I've seen, omitting things seen on #MysteryScienceTheatre3000 and Christian #glurge films like "God's Not Dead." (Christian Pop-Eschatology movies deserve their own category in the lowest circle of hell, appropriately enough)

Every #SoftwareDeveloper makes #lowQuality #Software but their Reason for making it changes how morally good the #Project is.

If the Goal is to get #Money and/or #Attention fast, the Project is bad — #Slop or #Shovelware.

If the Goal is to #practice and #experiment for creating much better Software, that’s good and important.
The #Word for such Software is #Prototype; that sounds too unknown, so **i like to call it #Practiceware.**

#StrangerWord #Jargon #Linguistics #Developer

Sony fait le ménage sur le PS Store et retire plus de 2 000 jeux. À quand Nintendo ?
https://mac4ever.com/195325
#Mac4Ever #ia #shovelware #Sony

Plattformbetreiber #Sony räumt im #PlayStation Store weiter auf und wirft fast 700 Spiele von zwei Publishern auf einmal raus. Die Maßnahme richtet sich gegen sogenannte #Shovelware. https://winfuture.de/news,157665.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia

When you have a hammer, everything becomes a nail. Law of the instrument. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument

Nice links to Codex, by the way. It's a pity there's no link to the source code of that "app". Maybe it woud help to avoid burning through GWh of coal and gas. Oh, yeah, you're so special that there's nothing that does what you want. And you can't ask anyone to add that functionality. You had to pay a corporation to let you consume more water and fuel to output a shitty script with a GUI dialog. Freemium? More like #shovelware. Fuck off.

Copyleft code is cancer and free software is evil.

*said in allegro*

♪ Content, content everywhere.
Bait and switch and shovelware.
Farmers cranking out the wares.
AI multiplying spares.
Content, content everywhere. ♪

© 2026 by Big Blue Gnu. Some rights reserved.

#AISlop #baitAndSwitch #clickbait #content #contentFarms #listicles #poem #shovelware

Switch E shop shovel ware is evolving. I can’t even imagine a little bit of what this actually is.
#aislop #gaming #switch #shovelware

Gerade hat #Sony über 1000 Titel des deutschen Publishers ThiGames aus dem #PlayStation-#Store entfernt. Die Spiele waren als #Shovelware bekannt und dienten Nutzern zum schnellen Verdienen von Platin-Trophäen. https://winfuture.de/news,156209.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia

This weeks new #videoGames Luigi's Mansion 2 for the #Nintendo #Switch and Calvin Tucker's Redneck Farm Animals Racing Tournament for the #WII which is pretty much #ShovelWare but it was fun for a few minutes LOL.

I've wanted to get Luigi's Mansion 2 HD for a while and finally found a brand new copy for a semi-reasonable price.

#Luigi

📉 #Cursor: “Built to make you extraordinarily productive”
📉 #Claude: “Build Better Software Faster”
📉 #Microsoft: “Delegate like a boss”
📉 #Google: “LLMs make developers 25% faster”
📉 #OpenAI: “Computer programmers are now 10 times more productive"

📈 METR study: -19% slower

📉 Mike Judge thinks: +25% faster
📈 Mike Judge measures: -21% slower

#AI #Promises #Marketing #Claims #Shovelware

https://mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the-shovelware-why-ai-coding

https://www.ign.com/articles/ai-prompts-will-soon-let-a-10-person-team-build-a-game-like-breath-of-the-wild-where-the-ai-is-doing-all-the-dialogue-and-you-just-write-character-synopsis-tim-sweeney-predicts

If it comes this far then this might very well ring in the Temu Age of games.

I mean - If games in the scale of Zelda can soon be thrown together by 10 person teams with AI taking care of all the dialogue etc...
Then why should I pay the 79,90€ Metal Gear Remake or Mario Kart World are asking now, then?
If it's not worth your time then it shouldn't be worth my money, should it?

#ai #zelda #epicgames #sweeney #shovelware

Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up

https://mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the-shovelware-why-ai-coding

#HackerNews #AIcoding #Shovelware #TechClaims #Innovation #Analysis

Wenn #KI oder #Übersetzer ohne Kontrolle Artikel posten dürfen:

#ContentSpam #Nonsense #ContentPollution #Shovelware

If there's one #gaming series I just continue to give reprieve to, amongst all the #shovelware, #liveservices and #AAA wankery, it's the #Yakuza series.

#SEGA proves that as a publisher they can churn out fun games that aren't exploiting the user, that gives you enjoyable characters like #Kiryu and #Majima, along with satisfying game mechanics and the slew of mini games.

Of course the real reason you pay $60 is to play #Mahjong as Majima. That alone sinks it.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3061810/Like_a_Dragon_Pirate_Yakuza_in_Hawaii/

My first experience with Microsoft shovelware… leaving the install CD-ROM in the drive when Windows 95 rev C first boots after installation…

If you eject the disc as the machine reboots, you are left with a pristine Windows 95 install… with the _original_ Explorer, and at most, IE3.

If you were lazy and left it in the drive, you paid the price… IE4 soon invaded.

#Enshittification #Shovelware #RetroComputing #Microsoft

That said, the footprint of this whole OS is still probably smaller than some websites today.

(I note that Windows 95 runs stupidly fast in Bochs with disks sitting in tmpfs on a 2023-era laptop with 64GB DDR4. That said, the VGA console is sluggish.)

The amount of AI generated cover art in the PlayStation store is alarming … what isn’t alarming is that’s it’s all shovelware ..
#gaming #playstation #ai #shovelware

The eWaste clogging up Nintendo's eShop - Vooks

https://www.vooks.net/the-ewaste-clogging-up-nintendos-eshop/

> How we got here, and how to fix it before whatever is next.

#gaming #Nintendo #shovelware

https://www.twitch.tv/drfoxweyman

AND WE ARE LIVE! Come join us for some Super Hero shovelware IN THE FOX CAVE!

..Den... I meant Den...

#furry
#stream
#livestream
#shovelware
#silly
#trans
#transstreamer

https://www.twitch.tv/drfoxweyman

We're gonna be going LIVE tonight at 4:30 PM EST/ 1:30 PM PST with SUPER HERO SHOVELWARE

Put the time aside and come join us in THE FOX DEN! EXCELSIOR!

#furry #stream #livestream #shovelware #silly #trans #transstreamer

https://www.twitch.tv/drfoxweyman

AND WE ARE LIVE! Playing some Mary Kate and Ashley Shovelware!

Time to solve any crime by dinner time, in the Fox Den!

#smallstreamer #stream #twitch #pngtuber #trans #transstreamer #shovelware

https://www.twitch.tv/drfoxweyman

We're gonna be goin' LIVE tonight with... Mary Kate and Ashley...shovelware..?

Uhh...sure.

Usual time of 4:30 PM EST/1:30 PM PST here in the Fox Den!

#smallstreamer #stream #twitch #pngtuber #trans #transstreamer #shovelware

En Mom Simulator podrás llevar la vida de una madre: cocinar, hacer la compra, cuidar a tu bebe...

¿Donde está el machismo? A ver, que yo lo vea.

https://www.nintendo.com/es-cl/store/products/mom-simulator-2023-switch/

#momsimulator #shovelware #switch #videojuegos

As if I needed any more reasons not to use #Brave, "The Hateful Browser": https://www.spacebar.news/p/stop-using-brave-browser #privacy #shovelware #bloatware

https://www.twitch.tv/drfoxweyman

AND WE ARE LIVE! Playing some PS2 Shovelware, starting with the classic (citation needed) FIGHT CLUB.

Let's see how bad these trash fires really reek, in the Fox Den!

#ps2 #playstation2 #shovelware #furry #pngtuber #twitch

https://www.twitch.tv/drfoxweyman

We're gonna be going LIVE with some... Ah... ps2 shovelware

I see... WELP, join us at the usual time (4:30 PM EST/1:30 PM PST) in the Fox Den.

And..pray for me.

#ps2 #playstation2 #shovelware #furry #pngtuber #twitch

If anyone feels inclined to hear me cry about how #javascript #frameworks are the bane of my existence, and how I wish that the #webdev community would rely more on #webstandards rather than #shovelware from #bigtech; have a look at my #blog: https://botched-deployments.com/posts/js-frameworks

Would love to read your comment on my ramblings, whether you agree with me or not ❤️

Why do graphics of so many mobile games have this awful look now? Why do they have to look like this? Why can't they look good or cool? I expect this crap for shovelware, but this is just kinda the default look of most of the games you find in app stores now. Why?

#MobileGames #CrappyGraphics #homogenous #homogenized #BoringGameGraphics #UglyGameGraphics #shovelware #apps #UglyGraphics