Nice! I’m playing through TP2 right now and it’s great fun, though I did enjoy the mystery of the first more I think. How many laser puzzles does a person need in life though?
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Surely some of these are fannon? Also, do the robots next!
People with no money have one big problem, people with money have many small problems.
I’ve noticed that wine (and proton?) use a vulkan-based system to emulate DX/D3D, did you tweak any graphic settings or is this default settings “out of the box?”
It’s possible the Linux version is defaulting to OGL and the Windows version is using d3d-as-implemented-in-vulkan, (or a similar situation) which could cause some differences in rendering or capabilities.
Many school shooters talk about wanting to be seen, wanting fame/notoriety, and so on. With the huge positive response to this, it wouldn’t be too surprising to see copycats. “If I do this, people will remember me and love me for it.”
I first heard of it from Joel Spolsky’s blog and wikipedia also credits that article with popularizing the concept. In it’s original formulation, it was based on remote procedure calls being hidden in APIs. Because a remote computer call has all these limits of latency, packet/info loss, and possible connection loss, it is impossible to make a perfect abstraction that allows the programmer to treat the remote call as though it were local. The reality the abstraction tries to hide “leaks” in those fundamental limits.
All of contemporary global society is such an abstraction; that’s one of the principles of post-modernism. When you buy clothes online an entire invisible work force of shippers, manufacturers, resource procurerers, and more lies beind each article of fabric.
Pressure from climate change, tariffs, global war, and more are straining the foundations of society and the comfortable abstraction is starting to crack.
Is this a variation on “there are only 2 stories: a person goes on a long journey, and a stranger comes to town.” Some would argue those are two sides of the same story (digressions about this are the backbone of Lemony Snicket’s Poison for Breakfast, an excellent light read).
The dip in usage comes just as Microsoft has been forcing full-screen ads onto the machines of customers running Windows 10 to encourage them to upgrade.
Yeah no shit! When my computer does full-screen, disruptive things that I didn’t tell it to do, I figure out how to remove that malware. I’ve been off Windows at home for about a month now, thanks Linux Mint! Getting some games to work has been challenging, but most things have just worked and quite a few work much better!
Performance is up overall, and my confidence that my computer isn’t running a bunch of secret ad and spy ware is way up. Hardware like my gamepad and microphone would randomly disconnect and have issues on Windows, all working perfectly now.
Unfortunately I’m still deep in MS land for work, but there’s almost a comedic quality to it. Everything’s very slow, everyone has constant issues with Teams, or Office online, or Dynamics, or copilot shoving it’s tendrils into everything. Watching businesses struggle to keep operating in the face of Microsoft’s inadequacy is like being a mechanic watching a motor grind to a halt because the owner/manufacturer replaced all the oil with syrup.
Like yes, it’s my problem to fix, but I’m just glad it’s not my car.
(Obligatory, “oh thank God it’s not the game engine”)
I like where Ed’s at on this issue, and have all along. I wonder if there’s any analysis to link NFTs and blockchain boosters back to the AI pushers as well? In both cases, you’ve got technology that require huge amounts of GPU power. How much AI hype was over-leveraged NFT scammers trying to shift their compute power into the next profitable scam?
Metaverses too are GPU hungry, not as much though, too consumer focused.
Maybe next we’ll see a return to streaming games, but in VR with rented/subsidized rigs?
Shall we brainstorm other ways that running GPUs at 99% capacity at all times can be used to bilk suckers out of their money?
I love Fossil and use it for all my personal projects! I use syncthing to keep my all my repositories updated across devices and it works great!
I do wish I better understood either self-hosting or that there were more web hosts though, it would make collaboration easier when I feel like sharing. A git(hub) bridge could do it too I guess…
So ketamine but still dosed for horses then?
I had in some ways the opposite 23&Me experience and goals. My parents told me growing up that I had some small native ancestry. This is actually a common myth many Americans have either been told or somehow deluded themselves into believing.
So I did the DNA testing (which I now regret from all the obvious enshittification and privacy reasons) to prove that my ancestry was boring and predictable. Which it was, no indigenous ancestry, just the expected European countries that my great grandparents came from.
They also do a lot of nice health screening things and I think that’s probably the much more valuable aspect of it. It really is very American that people are so much more concerned with what DNA says about one’s race or ethnicity than about their health and wellbeing.
As Abraham Lincoln famously warned, “Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet!”
Coffee beans are laid out on a big sheet after roasting and then sprayed with flavor oils to create this kind of thing. So it’s no more or less healthy than any coffee, plus some flavor compounds that probably won’t give you cancer at those concentrations.
Flavor-wise is up to your preferences. Coffee snobs are dorks, don’t listen to them. Obviously M&M flavored coffee isn’t something you hand grind for a pour over, you brew it up in bulk then add some sugar and milk to bring out the chocolate flavoring.
Would I prefer a pour over with some fine cocoa powder? Sure. I also have time and energy to put into coffee. Some people need the coffee to put time and energy into them.
Ah, the WSJ, bastion of level-headed reporting. Since I clicked through to the article and read the one paragraph us free-tier losers get (one more than the rest of you read) I know that it was Huawei trying to recruit semi-conductor manufacturing engineers from Germany.
So settle down, China isn’t trying to pay you $240K a year to make wordpress sites for them, it’s just another front in the ongoing microchip wars.
Thank God for Stephanie Motherfucking Sterling! Other game “journalists” barely cover the blatant evils of the industry, it saddens me to think that she’s probably looking for an exit and may not be reviewing for a lot longer. No one is going to fill those fabulous boots.
Thish posht… isht very intereshting sniff what ideology can we ashsume from it?
Please point me to the statute or code which states a juror is legally obliged to render an accurate and truthful verdict, and explain how you would enforce such a thing.