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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else obsessed with Queens Domain?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes I’ve been playing almost every day. This game is a real gem. I’m running around all the time, trying to find all the secrets and the game is taunting me all the time. Look at this loot, you want this loot right? Good luck finding out how sucker!

  All the wandering I’m doing it’s very confusing what is actually progression and what is just finding neat stuff. Then I do this crazy shit I half remembered seeing earlier, thinking it was some kind of obscure secret. Nope that was actually progression, lucky I found it. Then you fall down a hole and get ganged up by a bunch of enemies you’ve never seen before. You hit one and the health bar barely moved, Game over! Now how did I ever get there?

  I love this game, I love the graphics (have the retro filter on), love the music (shop music = best music) and love the challenge. The game sucks you in and you just want to play more of it. I feel like this might be my GotY for sure!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do companies that use AI for things like AI customer service representatives pay the AI company for its use ? It is a token based thing per call or just a weekly billing ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of the AI industry is powered by VC money at the moment. Which means a lot of the services offered are using very low fixed billing. This loses a ton of money, but is seen as an investment. The idea is to get a lot of customers and lock them into the service. Then slowly raise prices, enshittify the service and thus gain back the money lost in the beginning.

  However what we’ve seen in this AI bubble is everything is moving too fast for that to be a good option. VC money is running out fast and the price of AI from the large providers is getting higher by the day. This means a lot of those AI startups that were trying to get customers are losing money much faster than expected and either have to raise prices or shutdown.

  Especially in sectors where there isn’t a lot of money to be made. Customer support for example is one of those areas that costs money and doesn’t make money normally. So corners get cut, people don’t get paid much and stuff is outsourced to India for example. When the AI solutions are offered at the low fixed price, it’s a good idea for companies to use it. But when the price goes up and pricing becomes unpredictable if token based billing is involved, suddenly it isn’t as good an alternative as the older solutions were.

  This is a large part of the AI bubble when people talk about that. It isn’t just the circular investments, way too high spending commitments and overpromising of the tech. It’s also the huge amount of VC based startups and investment programs that can’t economically exist without that continuous injection of funds. Now that the real price of AI is showing up, it looks like al lot of those startups will go bankrupt and large projects funded by investment will stop. With a lot of the market price of the larger tech companies being based on this huge demand that might evaporate in short order, the fear is a lot of them are way overvalued. When the market corrects for this, the impact will be pretty big and the fallout felt by everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm in the empire business⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My aunt and uncle, double suns

  And sippin’ blue milk

  My aunt and uncle, double suns

  I’m sick of blue milk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do millennials keep looking significantly more youthful than previous generations?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gen Z is addicted to vaping: www.chestnet.org/…/gen-z-is-hooked-on-vaping Gen A is a bit young, but the older Gen As are included in the stats and follow the exact pattern as Gen Z.

  As for how bad vaping is, is a bit more difficult, as it’s a more recent thing than smoking is. But indications are it’s better than smoking but it’s far from safe. This site had a good overview with sources: healthline.com/…/is-vaping-worse-than-smoking-cig…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do millennials keep looking significantly more youthful than previous generations?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gen Z/A are heavily addicted to vaping, which is a little better than smoking, but only a little.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Never slop

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨first state btw⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sxswmichigan

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will the proliferation of AI slop lead to the renaissance of craftsmanship?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps, I was thinking about it in terms of furniture the other day. Like most people just go for their factory made, flatpack, cheap IKEA or IKEA-like furniture. But at the same time there is a whole industry of craftspeople out there making beautiful furniture by hand. Some people go out of their way to get something carefully crafted just for them, or make something themselves because it adds soul.

  Nobody really knows what the future will be like, but I hope there will always be a space for things created with love and soul, no matter what.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If You Do 40 In A 60 Zone Then Goodbye Bradley⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I think that’s accurate. I had a car crash late last year. I was driving home on a single lane road with a car in front of me. This road has some slight height changes, so people just driving slow down some and speed up. I however was on cruise control, so my speed was constant. This was annoying because as the person slowed down I’d get close and as the speeded up the gap would grow. So to prevent getting too close to them on the slowing down parts, I put some extra distance between us and them, which meant leaving a longer gap on the downhill parts. Chill driving for me, no tailgating idiot for them.

  However the person behind me was not pleased with the gap I created. He began tailgating, swerving, blasting me point blank with highbeams. I touched my brake pedal a couple of times, enough to flash the brake lights, not enough to disable cruise control. But he didn’t back off. As I was close to the point where I would turn off the road, I ignored them. As we got to the offramp, he tried to overtake me, but he also had to make the offramp. He couldn’t so he braked hard and went over the hard shoulder behind me. Figuring that was the last of it, I slowed down because there was an intersection at the end I would need to yield at.

  However this dude was in full rage mode, so he gunned the gas, overtook me on the right and just steered into me. I managed to stay on the road, but the whole right side of the car was destroyed. When we stopped on the shoulder and got out, he was calmed down again. He had his wife and little kid in the car. Everyone was shook, but only the cars were damaged luckily.

  He had no idea why he did what he did. He was so angry because of the gap I created to the next car and didn’t know why he did what he did. I explained the gap I left went from the normal 2 seconds to maybe 6-8 seconds? So he tried to use his car as a weapon because he would get home 6 seconds later than otherwise. Now he got home an hour later, with a damaged car, angry wife and kid and probably much more expensive insurance going forward. That’s what road rage does to a person.

  He turned out to be a good dude and we handled everything in terms of paperwork and even had contact a few days later to figure some stuff out and chatted for a while. The insurance handled everything, I didn’t need to pay anything and a few months later I had the whole right side of the car replaced. Good as new, including a new right front wheel. I didn’t trust that wheel so I couldn’t use the car for a while, but that’s fine, I don’t use it all that much and can always borrow cars or rides when needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember when the Panama papers came out and it turned out just about every rich person was an asshole who dodged taxes? And then absolutely nothing happened or changed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can one individual get Nestle, Amazon, Google, Apple, Disney, and Blackrock to go out of business?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gonna start a war! Start a nuclear war!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Officer, I Want to Report a Bad Day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention the asshole with the lifted pickup truck with the giant engine and no muffler or catalytic converter because “They like how it sounds” and “Like to roll coal”, who can only drive by either having the accelerator fully down or the brake pedal fully down and has to leave at 6:00 AM every fucking day.

  I hate that guy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should the next President of the US pardon Trump for all his crap like Ford did Nixon?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole pardon thing should be abolished ASAP!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feels good to give others compliments and lifts their spirits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Only thing they have going for themselves is they don’t shit their pants being naked

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would climate change be like on a Type 1 world on the Kardashev scale?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have basically infinite energy, problems like climate change kinda go away. Type 1 is so insane, it’s hard to imagine what it would actually be like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So sensible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You might disagree with his goals, methods, morals and basically anything about this man, but you have to admin he is doing some good work. I’ve never seen someone take to a goal and get stuff done like this man has. Just a shame the history books will never credit people like this as much as they should. Mostly because there will be no more history books, but the point still stands!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valheim: Deep North 1.0⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This game is disappointing to be honest. I played it years ago, did about 40 hours without mods and then another 40 with mods. It had so much potential but was lacking some major QoL and basic stuff. I did gave it a good chance and with a ton of mods it was kinda fun, but it felt like I needed to work at it to make it fun.

  Years later and basic stuff isn’t fixed. The development has been slow for years and nothing got fixed people complained about. I heard that development was completely stopped and the game abandoned, so I was surprised to see it released as 1.0. But from the looks of it, it’s just a 1.0 badge slapped on and not actually a fully cooked end result.

  People still have a lot of fun with it, but playing this without mods is pretty oof.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avast!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And the name of the ship was the Billy o’ Tea

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flock is canceled—and its competitors are profiting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is very revealing how the people rebelling against Flock isn’t seen as the people opposing mass surveillance and data being made available to all the cops without cause, due process, oversight, restrictions or consequences for abuse, but instead as the people being against Flock specifically and the same system with a different label would be peachy.

  Either they are monumentally stupid or more likely they are corrupt as hell and/or evil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Posted by a school district's official Facebook page in response to a shooting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see you baby, shakin that ass!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Posted by a school district's official Facebook page in response to a shooting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s less disturbing than the otter who appears to be holding a cut off arm to comfort the bulldog. Perhaps he’s offering it as a snack?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Person most likely to be able to survive the Apocalypse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Survivorman is Les Shroud and he is the real deal. He was a survival expert long before he started to make TV. His whole deal is he just gets dumped somewhere, along with a shitload of camera gear. Then he has to walk out, often walking parts twice to go pick up his cameras.

  It’s more about nature with Les and not so much about the surviving part. He does explain a lot about what to do and what not to do, but being in nature and being a part of nature is a large aspect of his show. It isn’t sensationalized, the dangers are never overstated. And he usually has a satphone on him and an agreed time and location for extraction. But he is actually out there for a week all on his own and not like most shows where the crew just drives to a location to shoot a scene and then go back to the hotel later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Photo of Road Runner Snagged by Coyote Shows That Cartoons Were a Lie⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Meep meep

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life is hard⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t just an American car thing, non American brands do this as well. That’s because it’s a good idea. The heater core has way more capacity than the AC, so the air coming out of the vent will still be warm. But running the AC is still a good thing, because it gets the moisture out of the air.

  Without running the AC the humidity in the car shoots up and takes a while to clear, with the AC on the humidity stays controlled. This helps clear the windscreen sooner and helps with comfort in the car. It also prevents mold, which if you live in a cold but humid place, can be very annoying. It is very normal where I live to have the AC on in fall and winter, because otherwise the humidity inside the car is very uncomfortable and can easily cause mold all over the interior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨just sayin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Trogdor!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Knock knock⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a two man job

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Knock knock⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Luke can use his massive dong to knock on the door (image is a side view)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this true?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah agreed. Even if it wasn’t anything useful, it would be interesting and something to inspire future builds.

  Agreed on BotW, although I didn’t like it to start with. It being open world felt actually like a step down, as I liked the exploration in the earlier games where you’d be locked out somewhere and had to find an item to get further. It made me wonder what there was to find and I was excited whenever I got the item so I could go find out. With the world in BotW just being open and mostly empty on top of that, it just felt boring. And I didn’t like the shrines, I felt they were too easy, too short and too gimmicky. The only fun I had with them was trying to do thing in an unintended way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What my crap sees as I check out my handiwork⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s actually a good idea to regularly check on your poop. The consistency, color and smell can be good indicators for your health. If there’s any problems, you can catch it early and it only takes a few seconds to check.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this true?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Elden Ring is excellent for being open world. People often criticize the open world aspect because the crafting system is kinda dumb, the caves are samey and don’t offer much in terms of benefits or exciting stuff. It’s also hard to find quests and easy to miss them (on top of the bullshit story telling of Souls). And experienced people often just basically do a boss rush where they run from boss to boss. But I actually think it’s excellent and brilliant game design.

  I absolutely loved the feeling of having an entire world to explore. The world did actually feel alive for me, with people and stuff everywhere. Different biomes and decent enemy variety (even though there are plenty of repeats). Looking for quests, exploring caves and doing it all felt like fun. Even though I didn’t engage with the crafting much (I did do a bow and consumables challenge run once, but I stuck to just a few kinds of pots and arrows throughout). I felt for me personally it added to the experience.

  But in terms of game design it’s a huge step forward. With the older games if you got hard stuck on a boss, that was it. You could go grind the previous level if you were really desperate, but that was about it. Especially for new people, this often meant they didn’t finish the game. A lot of them didn’t even make it past the tutorial boss. With a community telling them to Git Gud, people would assume the games weren’t for them and quit. Which is a shame, because the games are good and worth playing imho. With the open world aspect, there’s no rush to beat a boss. You can go explore, level up, find better weapons and better armor. And with the way the world is laid out, you can go pretty far without ever beating a single boss. Then come back later and beat the boss, maybe a bit over leveled, but that’s fine. If you want the challenge, it’s there, but if you are just a casual gamer looking for a fun time, it’s there as well.

  It’s not all upsides tho, as people can also easily get lost and feel like they don’t know where to go. Or miss entire areas because they were following the main quest. So not all rainbow and sunshine, but overall a positive aspect.

  The open world also makes for an excellent randomizer, I’ve been absolutely addicted to Elden Ring Rando. So much fun!