Are there even 4 90$ games worth purchasing in any given year?

Most of my library is in the <30$ range

Nobody sabotaging anything that manages to shit itself half a step into any task.

If they wanna sing the whole alphabet song remix every time this comes up, that’s on them but shitting on people who criticize the lack of a stable core idea that can be carried across conversations for years in a concise matter as bigots seems counterproductive not only for the people on the fence but also for those on either side of that argument.

The fact this comes from a representative of the only party that has some hope to unfuck things around here makes it so much worse imo.

Yeah. Wasn’t a storm, just cloudy.

After reading a bit about it, it seems low level cumulus clouds will clear due to the shifting weather, due to the onset of colder climate of the sun being partially blocked, those clouds clear out and basically vanish by the time the solar eclipse starts.

Won’t work on storms or such, but if it’s just cloudy, by the time the eclipse is in full force, you get a clean view.

There’s an interesting phenomena that happens when there’s a solar eclipse, the clouds clear out shortly before the eclipse begins.

Not sure if it’s consistent or why that happens at all, but that was my experience with it during the last eclipse.

Any and all AI shite enabled by default rather than the opposite with a prompt asking me if I want to enable it

There’s a toggle to disable all of it with a single click, why do I need to go fishing for it?

So wait, what happens to all the chapels in hospitals and such? Or is this solely applicable to universities/cegep and not much else?

Which is still convoluted considering the McGill campus is both an educational facility and a hospital so which way does that lean…?

I think the latter scenario is more likely. Then they can claim “look, we got rid of the guy that did it” and continue with whatever agenda the actual folks in charge are following with a new figurehead.

An exercise in futility.

The more you “grill it” or more specifically pigeonhole it to the narrative you want to see, the more likely it is to spit it at you sooner or later.

Same thing happens when you push these text generators to convince you that the earth is flat or that taking a hit of heroin to take the edge off is something you should be doing.

Only thing it’s useful for is logs like originally stated, any sort of interaction will result in statistically plausible bullshit, not actual evidence.

I wish it was that simple.

Most large (and probably majority of small) cities experience this phenomena to some degree, most noticeable are ones that have aging architecture that wasn’t built to accommodate the ever growing heat.

It’s not even a question of using blackout blinds or putting UV reflective film on your windows or painting the roof white or even running the AC for as long as your wallet will allow you to.

The walls get hot. The ground gets hot. The roofs get hot. The air itself is hot. And it’s getting hotter (referring to the last decade+ as a trend)

Any reflective surface gets progressively more aggressive (glare and redirected heat) and anything that is not reflective is absorbing the heat at unprecedented levels the stronger the sun rays get, any dwellings not specifically engineered to deal with any of these heat phenomena are subjecting its dwellers to the consequences of not having any policies that would force these dwellings to be habitable in summer months.

This isn’t a problem that can be solved by simply packing my shit and moving, this is a systemic problem that we’re (more or less world wide) failing to address since the whole global warming thing is not being actioned at nearly the urgency it warrants.

With all the above said, there’s also the question of job availability and housing affordability, which is adding extra layers to this already delightful shit cake.

In short: It’s not that I don’t want to live with the penguins and caribou as my neighbours, it’s that I can’t afford to.

Man, screw DST. I just want my room to have a chance to cool down a bit from the blazing sun and incessant climbing temperatures before I go to bed.

Vampire survivors.

Seen a bit of a rise of those sort of people since moltbook or whatever it’s called emerged, trying to sucker people into believing the random bullshit generator is sentient or cognizant of its assets in any way.

What’s worse homie said “nu-uh” it’s not statistical probability and then proceeded to describe a statistical probability mesh.

Might help a bit if we all stop slapping the AI term on everything and start calling things what they are such as scripting, large language models, cronjobs, etc.

Trying to argue with those people just makes me sad and tired :(

At least 2 layers.

LLMs don’t think. They copy paste something that’s been found repeatedly in the data it was trained on, statistical probability of words going with other words. Hell, it doesn’t even know what words are or much less mean. So it’s at least 2+ layers removed from the truth, one being the one you pointed out, and another being an amalgamation (mishmash) of the data it was trained on.

Place your bets how long before this is moved into the nottheonion sub

I still remember playing StarCraft 2 shortly after release on a 300$ laptop and it running perfectly well on medium settings.

Looked amazing. Felt incredibly responsive. Polished. Optimized.

Nowadays it’s RTX this, framegen that, need SSD or loading times are abysmal, oh and don’t forget that you need 40gb of storage and 32gb of ram for a 3 hour long walking simulator, how about you optimize your goddamn game instead? Don’t even get me started on price tags for these things.

Software and game development is definitely a spectrum though, but holy shit is the ratio of sloppy releases so disproportionate that it’s hard to see it at times.

Homie installed an alpha version of a distro instead of picking the stable one, ran into issues, something something picture of dude shoving a stick into the wheel of the bike he’s riding.

This is very much the best approach, help your kids along when they need it, but don’t make it the main source of their knowledge, anything else they should have the freedom to explore further on their own or ask for help to get there

As long as there’s a quick check mark for steam deck, steam machine, steam frame and then “custom” this sounds like a great idea

I think a lot of people don’t realize that their pleasure receptors aren’t the same anymore (or are willingly blind to that fact?) and even if you recreate scenarios that might be as enjoyable as the ones that were 20 years ago, for a lot of people the sense of “childhood wonder” is either dulled or gone entirely after so many years so the result still wouldn’t be the same.

One of those times where it needs to pivot to an entirely different approach to the genre to make it viable, and I don’t see anybody doing that… yet?