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- Comment on Never tried it but it sounds like fun 9 minutes ago:
…
… but Albert.
I am very hungry.
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 11 minutes ago:
Ah well, last guy who talked like that got his cranium evacuated by the CIA in broad daylight, so uh…
… yeah …
- Comment on Anon wants to be fatty 6 hours ago:
This would send me into a food coma.
Which is not to say that I do not occasionally enjoy sending myself into a food coma… but I would basically eat this, fall asleep, wake up an hour or two later, likely not need to eat much else for the rest of the day.
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 6 hours ago:
Which seems like a decent plan, untill your house breaks down in the middle of nowhere, or your apartment gets impounded while you’re at work, and then auctioned off after the mail notice they sent to your last physical address was not responded to in time.
Its basically not legal, anywhere in the US, right now, to live in a car and park it almost anywhere.
You have to be hypervigilant, to survive this way, and … that just is PTSD, it’ll make you worse at your job, more likely to lose it.
So we’re basically just making a permanent, sub-proletariat class, thats just gonna get funneled into jail or some kind of concentration camp, probably just turned into some kind of functional, if not formal slave class, whether by debt or criminal conviction or both… within, I dunno, 5 years or less?
- Comment on Never tried it but it sounds like fun 19 hours ago:
Sounds good to me, lol!
Economists have used the uh, “BigMac Index” with an increasing level of seriousness, over the last decades… so why not?
- Comment on Never tried it but it sounds like fun 21 hours ago:
…as well as the consistency of their glazing…
- Comment on Never tried it but it sounds like fun 22 hours ago:
Hey I mean, that just means it takes more handiwork from the… donut stacker… to eat the same number of donuts.
You’ve already phrased this with ‘we’, so don’t worry Albert, I’ll happily munch whatever number of donuts from your donut pole singly, as many times as it takes for me to uh, get my fill.
=P
- Comment on Never tried it but it sounds like fun 23 hours ago:
I mean, there are lots of studies on the distribution of male donut pole sizes, I’m just doing a rough comparison to the latest meta-analyses of such data.
I can provide sources.
… If you give me a donut.
- Comment on Never tried it but it sounds like fun 23 hours ago:
You have inspired my autism.
Banana for scale?
Krispy Kreme Original Glazed Donut.
Extremely standardized, as far as donuts go.
Dimensions?
Outer Diameter = ~4 inches
Inner Diameter = ~ 1 inch
Height = ~ 1.5 inches
So…
An approximately average, enthusiasticly participating man should be able to get 3 on there, with the uh, additional frosting nozzle still visible, or nearly so.
2? Below average.
1? Probably an actual, diagnosable micropeen.
4? Above average.
5? Something like 1 out of 10,000 in terms of how rare that level of above average is.
… 6? More like 1 out of 1,000,000 in rarity.
How snug is the fit?
Somewhat snug?
Average.
Very snug, moderately noticable donut tearing?
Above Average.
Not snug? Loose?
Below Average.
- Comment on Never tried it but it sounds like fun 1 day ago:
Pff, I’m bi, go for it!
- Comment on Never tried it but it sounds like fun 1 day ago:
This would also make me (m) happy.
Who loses in this situation?
No one.
- Comment on Have YOU ever done this? 1 day ago:
I solve this problem by occasionally yelling at bafflingly stupid current events.
Gotta keep up that ability to insult on the fly.
… Less insanely, I also sing, and… have neighbors I talk to.
- Comment on Actual theft 1 day ago:
Uh, OpenTune.
Its basically all of youtube music, accessed via proxies, but works roughly like spotify, i think it actually pulls playlist alb and artist data from there.
Oh and you can just hit a button and download any song.
… downside is it is slightly slower than Spotify.
… why does anyone give any money or ad time to any corporation?
You don’t have to.
- Comment on Actual theft 1 day ago:
And there’s the worm in your Apple.
- Comment on Porn Is Being Injected Into Government Websites Via Malicious PDFs 1 day ago:
Uh yep, pdfs are a fucking nightmare from a security standpoint, … guess we’re gonna keep learning that the hard way, as opposed to maybe, I dunno, using a more sane document format, that isn’t a meta-container for basically every other file format in existence, at this point.
Oh well I guess!
- Comment on "Man, I used to beat this level so easily when I was younger..." Me now not realizing I did it on Easy mode 1 day ago:
Ah ok ok, yes, what you’ve said is all true as well, removing the sort of comepetive aspect and just focusing on a single person playing a game as an experience.
Absolutely yes, in general, nowadays, most single player games are simpler, easier, power fantasies, as opposed to legitimate challenges.
While I do not miss the bullshit ‘difficulty’ of grinding, healthbar sponges… I do miss the actual lower amount of tactical/technical complexity and risk/rewark of a lot of modern AAA games.
Its possible for gameplay itself to be actually complex and engaging, instead of having essentially a metagame of stat min maxxing wrapped around it, basically to compensate for the actual shallowness of the rest of the gameplay.
But, most people seem to prefer a dopamime stream, over a challenge of both intellect and dexterity.
And also yes, even without comparing your skill at or experience in a game to others… yeah, if looking at a game guide is basically the same as having substantial portions of a movie or book spoiled for you… yeah, that’s a problem for any kind of game with a narrative structure that weaves into its gameplay as well.
If you can’t be surprised in any real, impactful, shattering kind of way, its not a very compelling experience, at least in my opinion.
- Comment on "Man, I used to beat this level so easily when I was younger..." Me now not realizing I did it on Easy mode 1 day ago:
Oh yeah.
Back in the (dial up) day, amongst the neighborhood kids?
If you looked up a GameFAQs guide to a game, if you had to do that, to beat it?
You were cheating.
Only possibly acceptable if it was a game with an onbnoxious amount of hidden collectable type items, and you were just now doing a full completionist run.
Nowadays, you’d have to basically make a whole lot of your game procedurally generated, to get back to that kind of a paradigm, (hence the existence of roguelites, i suppose) but yeah its absolutely totally normalized now that just looking up a guide or a playthrough is totally acceptable, whereas pre-mass-internet-adoption, doing that was largely seen as cheating.
- Comment on "Man, I used to beat this level so easily when I was younger..." Me now not realizing I did it on Easy mode 1 day ago:
Battletoads // Double Dragon is like, notoriously near impossibly hard. I think its level/stage 4 where shit goes from ‘moderately challenging’ to ‘fuck you, die.’
… 7 year old me did not fully understand that.
Near 37 year old me now does understand that, and also chooses to abstain from that level of masochism.
One really wild thing about watching a lot of like, weird retro game review type channels, is me realizing that quite a lot of games I got frustrated with as a kid?
They’re often just literally broken in multiple ways, or require a level of timing and precision that just actually is near impossible for a human to achieve.
Oh yeah, lets make whole subsets of games that require milisecond input precision, with some of the shittiest controllers ever designed.
… Anybody else remember the old Mario Party mini games that featured you rapidly moving the control stick in circles?
Not only does that destroy an N64 controller, it was also widespread that people would just hold the main stem of the controller with one hand, basically palm the stick with the other hand… you can do faster circles that way, but it will also chew through your hand’s skin and give you blisters.
… Thats why those kinds of minigames don’t exist in any Mario Party game beyond I think 2.
- Comment on Anon's vibing with the boys 2 days ago:
Thats much less ‘bros before hoes’ than ‘boys before toys’.
How immensely embarassing for everyone involved.
I must be one of like 3 people I ever knew who didn’t immediately flip into either ‘simp being performatively impressive’ or ‘chad being permofrmatively assertive and demeaning’ whenever a girl joined some voice comm platform.
… and I mean back when I was a kid, back when m00t hws basically just started 4chan…
- Comment on Anon solves mental health 5 days ago:
You can try that as well, though there’s less empirical data backing up its validity as a generall effective way to improve your mental wellbeing.
- Comment on Seems legit 1 week ago:
Bazzite also has podman, though not specifically docker, in the core OS.
So… I have spun up one local LLM in Alpaca, told it what hardware, OS, and environment it is, told it to generate a context prompt to inform itself of all that… and its now helping me try to figure out how/if it is possible to set up a podman container/environment… for LLMs that either Alpaca does not yet support, or I am too stupid to figure out.
Alpaca even has tools. You can give an LLM the ability to search the web for something, and find some info or what not.
Presumably you could tell it to do a lot of things but that seems like a bad idea lol, anyway yeah, I was able to just tell it ‘go online and lookup bazzite, familiarize yourself with pertinent details, reformulate context prompt.’
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 1 week ago:
I… just went to went to Moby and actually ctrl+f searched for the names that Sawyer specifically mentions in his the reddit thread that I linked to.
And I at least already knew Sawyer, Avellone, and Gonzalez, because I’m a pretty big fan of New Vegas,
I’m quite familiar with Sawyer, because…
… Sawyer famously released his own mod for New Vegas, which is basically ‘Hardcore Mode ++’, literally his originally intended design that was not able to be fully stuck to in the main developement cycle of the game.
Other people have since taken his mod further and expanded on it, but you can still find the original though, up on NexusMods.
Just literally named JSawyer mod.
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 1 week ago:
… Hes on Outer Worlds 2.
As basically a design lead, as opposed to total project lead.
Yeah, sure, he could have requested that himself.
It still basically is a demotion, its less responsibilities, not in charge of the whole project.
In fairness, he’s getting pretty old, I don’t blame him.
But the main point here is… its pretty much just Sawyer, out of names people might actually know, who’s the only one from New Vegas, who is on the Outer Worlds 2 team.
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 1 week ago:
“Look guys! 16x the detail!”
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 1 week ago:
Josh Sawyer, Chris Avellone, and probably most importantly, John Gonzalez, were responsible for disproportionate amounts of New Vegas’s design, world building, and writing.
reddit.com/…/josh_sawyer_clarifies_who_created_wh…
Of those 3, only Sawyer is on Outer Worlds 2, as the Studio Design Director, a relative demotion from being Project Lead in New Vegas.
Of those Sawyer specifically names… we still have himself, Jesse Farrel, Jeff Hugses,
John Gonzalez, Chris Avellone, Eric Fenstermaker, Akil Hooper, Rob Lee, Charles Staples, Travis Stout, Steph Newland, Mat MacLean, and George Ziets, are all absent.
So basically, almost everyone is gone other than Josh Sawyer and two area designers/writers, who I am guessing wrote the stories and dialogue specific to the areas they designed (for New Vegas).
John Gonzalez was probably the most invovled in actually writing the most important parts of New Vegas, he doesn’t appear to be on the Outer Worlds 2 team.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yep, you could theoretically do a similar sleeper malware as extension for Firefox based browsers.
But that is not what this article is about.
No where in this article is anything about a Firefox based browser mentioned.
So, again, go back your original comment on my comment.
You tried to put a bunch of words in my mouth, now you’re trying to argue hypotheticals based on conjecture.
Are you trying to make some kind of point?
Or just waste the time of anyone bothering to read this?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Because ShadyPanda published a malicious extension for Edge and Chrome.
Not for Firefox based browsers.
… You… can’t install an Edge or Chrome extension in a Firefox based browser.
You have to make a different version, designed for Firefox, sorta like a port of a video game; a DreamCast won’t play a PlayStation disc, an N64 won’t run a GameBoy cartridge.
- Comment on Seems legit 1 week ago:
Oh!
Well, I didn’t know that.
I’m too poor to be able to afford such fancy phones.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Uh, genuinely no clue what you’re talking about.
I just know that I can configure Waterfox to be both private/secure, and functional, fairly easily, and with most other browsers, that’s quite difficult, largely due to them being fundamentally controlled by giant corporations who have being a datamonger as a very significant element of their overall business model, who very much want you to watch the ads.
And… because its based on / is a fork of Firefox… it was not vulnerable to or affected by this sleeper malware.
Even if that’s not directly a result of some kind of software design/engineering paradigm type difference, and is just a kind of security through obscurity/non-popularity… thats still a very valid approach to using a computer system privately and securely.
- Comment on Seems legit 1 week ago:
Unless I am missing something:
Most people do not have a local LLM in their pocket right now.
Most people have a client app that talks to a remote LLM, which ‘lives’ in an ecologically and economically dubious mega-datacenter, in their pocket right now.