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These are just Surfing Pikachus in their 40s.

I misread that first line as "Did he kill u?" which leads to a very different and potentially more fascinating story. Are they deposing a ghost via seance? Did the victim become a zombie but they're too afraid the murderer might kill them again if they testify?

In my head I'm reading Parsons with the voice of Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler. Highly recommend.

I'd also have settled for "Trick question: puzzle games are not commercially viable."

Does "solving difficult puzzles" fall under digging a hole or fighting a last stand against unbeatable odds?

AU where capitalists are furiously trying to develop and distribute recreational drugs to stop the dopamine overload that makes people lose interest in the instant gratification of AI gen.

I didn't get it. I looked at who posted it. I looked again harder. I cringed.

If you have android pebblebee is great. I have one on my keys, my wallet, and my bone conduction headset. Basically the things I take everywhere with me and need to grab before leaving the house.

Even indie game exclusives are usually timed exclusives. I have trouble believing that Epic offered them enough to make up for the difference in lifetime sales they'd get also releasing their AAA game on Steam. Which means either poor decision making or desperation by management.

Alan Wake 2 being an Epic Exclusive was a sign to me that something was starting to go wrong over there.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

When I was first starting out at my job debugging set-top boxes I got handed a bug that required watching PPV movies, and this was one of the movies I ended up watching the majority of while testing.

Turns out running a justice system based on rule of law is hard when your secret police don't obey court orders and keep arresting people on charges that won't stick.

Why bother with firearms training when there's no consequences for shooing people?

That seems like it would be a complete violation of the rule of law though. /s

I can't promise much interesting activity besides an alarming amount of playtime in FFXIV.

In either of those cases gen AI is not stealing money from anyone because nobody was ever going to get paid to create it and it doesn't matter if the product is bad, because the alternative would also have been bad.

My criteria for deciding whether gen AI is acceptable for something is "If gen AI didn't exist would the alternative be either A. it doesn't get made and nobody cares or B. I do it myself really really badly and nobody cares?" If the answer is yes, gen AI is probably fine.

I hadn't seen the photo yet and was about to debate that a jacket over a maxi dress seems fine to me, then noticed the word "sheer" and had to go look look at the photo. Good god woman.

We're basically entering the plot of The Labyrinth Index, where the US plans to strip mine the moon and build a dyson swarm powering massive space data centers, except instead of using it to summon Cthulhu they're just trying to keep the bubble going for a few more years or possibly only months.

Or maybe call it the Jester and rule that it can't actually take pieces, only threaten the King into check

If you can't find the option to switch to Personal Classic, click "Cancel subscription" and it should show up in one of the options. Looks like they're hiding it to use as a last resort for catching people trying to jump ship.

Sweet

I actually just started liquidating all the marketable TF2 items in my inventory which didn't hold sentimental value for me. Made like $30 bucks so far.

I've been tempted to go back a couple times, but I don't think I can handle the hat singularity it's become. I'm waiting for a sort of TF2 classic mode where all the cosmetics are disabled and it's just the base weapons.

I always wondered why badgers in the Redwall series were one of the "good" creatures. I guess the ones in Europe are less aggressive?

*All magnified scopes disappear from games. The guns themselves remain and still have precise aim ala HL1 revolver. The monkey paw curls one finger.*

Columbo. So yes, I'll be saved, but it will be the single worse episode in the entire show.