If there’s a breakthrough to make the technology cheaper, more efficient, and less polluting, I’m all for it even if I hate AI. It’s not like corporations are going to stop while they still see profits to be had. Pushing them towards better/less harmful options is likely the best we can do.
“Have you ever seen the film ‘The Prestige’?”
(Side note: this is my single favorite comedy sketch of all time.)
THERE’S NO JUSTICE. THERE’S JUST US.
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The good ol’ zero finger discount.
The Little Drummer Boy, a Christmas song.
Because he still hasn’t fixed that damn light bulb.
I’ll recommend Escape From Duckov, a parody of sweaty extraction shooters like Tarkov. It avoids the worst parts of that genre by virtue of one thing: it’s entirely single-player. There’s no camping, no trolling, no meta to follow, just you going out on expeditions to explore the world, bring back as much loot as you can carry, upgrade your character and equipment, expand your base, and unlock new areas. The only two friction points are your limited carrying capacity (you’ll be limited by your slots at first, then weight once you have a decent backpack) and that dying twice in a row costs you everything you had equipped - the latter not really being a problem because the game keeps a backup of your last ten saves and lets you jump back in time directly from the load menu, so if losing all the equipment you spent several hours upgrading is a deal-breaker you can simply elect to undo it when it happens.
The looting is the real standout here. Nearly every item you find is used for at least one quest or upgrade, and you continually unlock new places to spend them as you progress. All that food you’ve been hoarding comes in handy after you unlock a gym that uses them to permanently increase your base stats, for example. You’ll also sometimes be forced to make hard choices - say you found an expansion crate that’s used for upgrading the warehouse capacity back at base; unfortunately these crates are obscenely heavy, so if you want to haul it back you’ll need to drop most of what you’re carrying or be limited to slowly dodge-rolling your way to the nearest extraction point.
It’s such an addicting experience, and I’m saying that as someone who normally loathes loot-driven games. If anyone ends up playing, I can’t recommend these three mods enough. The first shows how many of an item you already have in its mouseover popup, which saves you an endless amount of warehouse wrangling due to running out of space, The second shows how much an item would sell for, making prioritizing loot much less stressful when you’re low on inventory slots. The third is a simple luxury mod that adds colored backgrounds to items based on loot rarity.
But whatever happens, it’s all going to good charities.
Says the man whose own philanthropic foundation was forcibly dissolved because he was using it as a slush fund and redirecting donations to his golf clubs.
I can’t even imagine a political environment where that line works. Times really were different back then.
Taiwan being invaded would make the current component shortages look like nothing in comparison. TSMC fabricates the vast majority of high-end chips used by basically every computer and smartphone. They have a two-thirds market share while the next biggest player, Samsung, has around 10%, and Intel barely registers. If you want high-yield nanometer-scale precision manufacturing, TSMC is practically your only real choice.
Who amongst us hasn’t called for the extermination of marginalized ethnic groups after feeling a little economic anxiety?
The worm tried its best.
When you have the time, you don’t have the motivation.
When you have the motivation, you don’t have the time.
When you have both, you don’t have the energy.
So in other words the game’s finally getting Romero-style zombies that match the book canon rather than the awful WWZ movie?
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They’re used as ad-hoc databases. Mission critical ones!
NVCleanstall helps with the Nvidia telemetry/useless feature bloat on Windows as well as keeping drivers up-to-date. It’s absurd that a third-party program is necessary, but it’s a useful program for anyone still dual-booting Windows.