Yeah that’s actually funny. Calling it FRAGS is just the icing.

Now that it’s less broken, I’ve been playing Cyberpunk a lot and it feels like edgy shit done correctly. All the big tough guys are actually just weirdos enamored with the sound of their own voice, the ads are ludicrously over the top, it’s bloody, and everyone’s a human being. I haven’t felt gross with any of the content in it so far and it has at least as many strippers as Duke 3D had. I think the loud edgelords keep trying to paint it as free speech vs censorship but it’s really about not making players complicit in whatever infantile world view the director has.

Lol that’s awful. 2009?!

Nah this is still corpo bullshit. It’s also one of the tamer specimens of that era. The only difference is, the corpos in charge of advertising at that time were all sentient hardons who heard stories about how drugs are and peaked at 14. None of them lived in the real world and they just churned out knee-jerk sexist bullshit because they wanted to appeal to boys going through puberty and men that never left that headspace.

<rant> A lot of the ads from that era are uncomfortable. Hell, a lot of the games were. It was rare to see a female character that wasn’t ditzy and helpless, a thinly-veiled copy of the writer’s mom, or exactly like a dude but hot. Those were the options. I’m not saying I needed every game to be a work of great literature with complex and tormented characters and copious backstory; I just wanted female characters in games that didn’t like someone doing a ventriloquism act with their fleshlight.

I ended up chasing gameplay and trying to ignore how fucking awkward and immature most of the shooters were in that era and I don’t think I was alone. I think a lot of gamers grew up and drove the market in a slightly more mature direction. Some people blame woke bullshit, but for me it was just being utterly sick of how fucking juvenile everything was and voting with my money. There’s still a vocal minority out there that wants the good old days back, but I’d stop playing if the industry went back to exclusively 3xtr33m l33t 4ct10n d00d bullshit.

Sidenote: I played the demo for some Cliffy B game a decade ago on my XBox and hard-quit and deleted when the guy on my comms told me to “fire a rocket directly up the bad guy’s poop chute.” I was in my 30s and Cliff was probably pushing 40 at the time. What the hell? Are we nine years old again? Then again, he was the guy that threw his cat into his scanner and posted a picture of it every day until the internet told him to stop. Ugh. Let’s never go back there. </rant>

Hell of an album. I’ve been playing it and The Return for my daughter on the way to school every morning and she loves it. We found this live show on youtube and now it’s all she wants to watch. The mix is weird but it’s fun watching Automator conduct a tiny orchestra while Del does his thing.

Shame about all the Kanye on the track.

I became a dad late (around middle age) and was telling dad jokes way before that. My theory is it’s less about becoming a father and more about getting older and just wanting to annoy people for my own amusement.

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Can do.

Oh man yeah. I’d have to dig out the PS2 but I’d love a sequel to that. Mojo King Bee’s theme is still stuck in my head.

Weird. I just got done beating Link’s Awakening it sounds like they’re making a new tiny Zelda game. I’m in the middle of playing Superstar Saga and just watched this. I should go play Earthbound next.

Yeah I had an old toothbrush I’d gently brush them out with and I assume it did something? That’s what the manual said to do.

The bigger issue imo is scraping the accumulated grease and grime off the inside of the firebox and emptying the drip pan regularly.

I have an egg so I lurk on the Big Green Egg Forum and check The BBQ Buddha from time to time and have had really good results with Car Wash Mike’s baby-back rib recipe. Your milage may vary based on what you’re using.

More generally, I also just picked this book up for recipes that aren’t just American BBQ. The author is awesome, and put the book together to be as grill-agnostic as possible.

Beyond that, keep it clean and don’t cross-contaminate. If you have a gas grill, keep the drip pan empty, gently clean the tubes, and scrape all the accumulated grease and soot off the inside of the grill with a rubber spatula. If you have a charcoal grill, keep the ash cleaned out and store it in an airtight metal container to keep any stray embers from re-igniting. Either use separate tools to handle raw meat, or wash them thoroughly before you touch cooked food with them.

And have fun! Some stuff won’t turn out, but I’ve only made one truly inedible thing when I set my gas grill on fire (I forgot to clean it.) The more you practice, the better your results.

He found it in the wilderness? That seems easy to narrow down and verify.

As someone whose employer is strongly pushing them to use AI assistants in coding: no. At best, it’s like being tied to a shitty intern that copies code off stack overflow and then blows me up on slack when it magically doesn’t work. I still don’t understand why everyone is so excited about them. The only tasks they can handle competently are tasks I can easily do on my own (and with a lot less re-typing.)

Sure, they’ll grow over the years, but Altman et al are complaining that they’re running out of training data. And even with an unlimited body of training data for future models, we’ll still end up with something about as intelligent as a kid that’s been locked in a windowless room with books their whole life and can either parrot opinions they’ve read or make shit up and hope you believe it. I’ll think we’ll get a series of incompetent products with increasing ability to make wrong shit up on the fly until C-suite moves on to the next shiny bullshit.

That’s not to say we’re not capable of creating a generally-intelligent system on par with or exceeding human intelligence, but I really don’t think LLMs will allow for that.

tl;dr: a lot of woo in the tech community that the linux community isn’t as on board with

Also, telling me to relax is like telling a tree to do pushups.

is that james van der beek

I can hear this picture.

Steps to test: “Idk try some shit”

Trump becoming president and having MUCH worse policies for the Palestinians becomes much greater.

Oh you mean Donald “Let’s try to move our embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem because appearing neutral in the Israel/Palestine mess is hurting my chances of re-election” Trump? That guy? People actually think he’s going to be better for Palestinians? Really?

Yep. This is the way. Also, you’d be surprised how many devs don’t run through their own QA steps before asking other people to verify.