Yeah man you hit it right on the head. None of these companies can be good because by nature they can’t. Decent companies can exist and they recognize customers as who are important.

Customers want a lot. Valve delivers a lot of what they want, gas lights some (I just assume), and the ones who are fucked are few comparatively speaking.

All I can think of is the dude inside the oil tanker in water world

What a horrible existence

I had to download a file search program because Windows is such shit. This program searches both my harddrives in no time and iirc shows folder file sizes.

I’ve used windows since the 90s. I’m finally switching to Linux when I get a new PC.

I recently drank a rose flavored sparkling water (Waterloo brand I think) that tasted almost exactly like alcohol (and rose I guess). I took one sip and had to throw the rest out.

You might like it for the taste and none of the effects.

I’ve got a coworker now and have had multiple others where this job was their first job in life. They just sold drugs before and, for some, after.

All of them didn’t want to sell drugs but it was easy money for their skill set and it paid for their use. From what they said it was a pretty annoying job.

All you wrote rings true for me.

Yep it absolutely was a problem on release.

I enjoyed playing ac1 back then but it was very repetitive.

Video of a skateboarder skating off a roof of a church (I think. It was a multi tiered roof with at least two tiers church). Pretty sure the guy falls when he hits the ground. The roofing tiles were those red brown half circle shingles they have in the south western United States.

It’s an old video probably from 2005ish. I have no idea what site it was from. And now that I think about it he might have been a roller blader. It’s been a long time since I’ve looked but I could find it for the life of me when I was trying to find it again

Sports game based around cheating (including murdering opponents) and covering it up could be fun

There were more than one person using different techniques to screw with the LLM bots. Haven’t seen anyone but them personally in a whole. I think they also mentioned their job or hobbies include something with old language.

I highly doubt changing a couple characters screws with the data scraping much. Or that it matters if it does but I also understand wanting to protect your own thoughts and words.

Same here

I think I’ll try again this weekend

I loved coin pushers as a child. More so than every other gambling game in arcades.

I still like coin pushers. The few times I’ve been to arcades (the non good kinds) I’ve had fun with the coin pushers. Not the same fun as a child but still.

Most of the coin pushers on steam suck. Coin Push RPG is halfway decent. I’ve played enough to get my money’s worth.

I have this game wishlisted. I’m sure it won’t be the same as a kid but hopefully the extras will make it fun.

As a side note on the gambling thing, I sometimes play the lottery but I definitely have a problem with gambling. I stay away from real gambling as a rule. I know myself.

I’ve owned this game for a long time. Never can get into it. Bounced off limbus company too

Got more time in library of runia but not much. It’s a shame because the world of the games really draws me in.

Was AI not outlawed in the expanse?

I haven’t watched/read it in a while but that was my understanding. Maybe I’m thinking of a different series

Edit: Nevermind I looked it up and am wrong

I just played some an hour ago. I’ve had it for a while and haven’t played much. I’ve only unlocked three characters and two levels.

It’s fun. I very much enjoy the sound of skeletons bones clattering when they die.

Movement seems slower than any other survivors game I’ve played. It’s a little too slow for my taste but upgrades and gear do make it faster.

I agree you should go back to it. The aesthetics are fantastic.

Pretty sure outside of scifi circles it’s niche. I can think of maybe two people I know that may possibly have heard of it.

At least in the US. It must have been more popular across the ocean

The audiobooks gave a real sense of loneliness and not fitting in/trying to find a place.

I loved them but probably will never revisit them.

Was reading the text like that too? I ask because I rarely read actual novels anymore and wonder how much the narration colored it for me.

I absolutely adored sliders when it was on tv. Glad that you enjoyed it after learning about it somewhat recently.

The nineties reboot of outer limits was also something I very much enjoyed. I bet some episodes hold up. Not a show like sliders but had some decent 90s scifi in it if I remember right.

“because AI reads that ads also” is fucking funny

You’d think summarizing just the article is something a LLM could do. Ah well

There was also a study going around claiming that llms caused cancer screenings by humans to decrease in accuracy. I’m not a scientist but I’m pretty sure the sample size was super small and localized in one hospital?

Anyway maybe they’re remembering that in addition to the automatic AI hating down votes.

Not that I’m a fan of AI being shoved everywhere but this isn’t that

Oh gross