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2 hours agoCthulhu/Dagon 2024
“Why vote for the lesser evil?”
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7·2 hours agoRead through the paper looking for sample jokes, found none. :(
But this was the issue with the George Carlin bit that was online. I listened to it, it was a reasonable approximation of George’s voice and intonation.
But when it got to the part where it said “I think we can all agree, there’s one comedian better off as AI… Bill Cosby.” and I went “OK, AI did not write that.” AI doesn’t get subversion.
Turns out…
1·5 hours agoThat’s a hardware problem, not software, and fixable. PS3 had a similar issue:
61·5 hours agoI’d think you would end up living differently just because of the scale.
Let’s say you were suddenly handed 100 million dollars. Lottery, inheritance, whatever.
I don’t know what your annual salary is, but for me, that’s 694.4 years worth of annual income.
So “paying myself” my current annual salary, which NGL, is pretty comfortable, it would take 694.4 years to burn through $100M.
Of course interest changes that as well. Capping yourself at whatever your annual income is would likely see your wealth continuing to grow and never shrink.
All of a sudden, a world of possibilities opens to you. Vacation rentals? Screw that, vacation HOMES. AirBNB them 96% of the time (50/52 weeks a year) and that’s more money on the pile.
Like a cross between an English muffin and a croissant? Damn!
I love Oroweat, now I need to see if I can get them here.
Hmmm… Franz has them:
https://www.qfc.com/p/franz-buttermilk-outback-toaster-biscuits/0007222000517
Home made version seems easy enough, you can cook them in egg rings.
5·6 hours agoNot only that, she works for a billion dollar multi-national. I can’t tell you who, but you do know who they are. They even have union representation in other areas, just not hers.
71·7 hours agoIt’s not quite the same as 2016 because then, we had no incumbent President running. It was a blank slate on both sides.
1·7 hours agoAdobe Stock requires they be clearly marked as AI generated.
https://helpx.adobe.com/in/stock/contributor/help/generative-ai-content.html
Ooh, that’s a tough call… I really can’t say I have a single favorite, best I can do is say a favorite per generation:
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Pong - the one that started it all. Also taught everyone about screen burn in.
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Atari 2600 - Hands down, one of the all time greats.
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NES - Hard to beat Super Mario 3, but my favorite game of this generation was Phantasy Star on the Sega Master System.
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Sega Genesis - Sorry, the SNES never grabbed me, although Super Star Wars was a great game. Best home version of Street Fighter II was on the Turbo Grafx/Duo of all things.
- I’m going to add an “unofficial” generation here. You will never see this on any official list. Call it 4.5. There was a weird period of time where everyone and their cousin was doing a CD based machine. Sega CD, Turbo CD, Pioneer LaserActive, a whole bunch of crappy “set top boxes” like the Phillips CDi and Tandy Viz. The best of the bunch, with the most games and the best games was the Sega CD.
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Playstation - Another all time great.
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As much as I love the Dreamcast, it was murdered pre-maturely by Sega. Xbox and Halo just demolished everything else. I don’t know that we ever got an official “Halo Killer” until it suicided with Halo Infinite.
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Xbox 360 - Sony handicapped itself with the overly complex cell processor. Games just weren’t as good as the 360.
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PS4 - In this case, Microsoft handicapped itself by fundamentally misunderstanding why people buy consoles. It’s to play games, not “tv, tv, tv, tv, tv, sports, tv, tv, tv.”
- Another unofficial generation, call it 8.5, where you had the PS4 Pro, Xbox One S and Xbox One X - The One X was the clear winner with more power, 4K enhancements and a 4K Blu Ray player.
- Playstation 5 - Microsoft is losing the plot with Gamepass, to the detriment of the entire industry.
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Or worse, I can afford it but still can’t go because my wife can’t get the time off from work.
She had to get a doctors note to get 2 extra days off around the 4th to recover from surgery(!)
Surgery aside, I would have loved to have packed up this week and spent it someplace fun. My wife would have only had Thursday off. She got Wed, Thur, Fri only because her doctor told her employer to get fucked.
It’s not like I can go “Sorry honey! Headed to Vegas! See you in a week!” Well… not if I wanted to STAY married.
I firmly believe there are no voters undecided between Trump and Biden. If anyone SAYS they’re undecided, it’s Trump voters who won’t admit who they’re voting for, or people trying to decide between voting and not voting.
Old time comedian Alan King had a great bit he would do called “Survived by Wife”:
And yet if the teachers posted fake accounts of the students as babies covered in poop going “Going to school today! Wish me luck!” suddenly THEY would be the bad guys.
2·12 hours agoIt’s not authenticating that it WAS a UFO, it was authenticating that the video wasn’t faked.
So it wasn’t faked, what’s the object? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My guess would be undisclosed military tech. UFO? Could be. Time machine? Sure, why not. But exotic explanations aside, we know 110% the military has tech they don’t share with the rest of the world because they’ve been doing that for DECADES.
https://www.flyingmag.com/pilots-places-pilots-adventures-more-flying-photographs-evidence-aurora/
1·12 hours agoRemoved as a duplicate, see the original discussion from 2 days ago:
Removed, editorialized/altered headline.
It could, but there are far cheaper and easier technologies that have been doing the same thing for years.
3·12 hours agoYou know who really deserved an excellence award? Tango Gameworks, the guys behind HiFi Rush.
Oh, wait…
#21 is my favorite:
“If a man broke into a house, he will be executed and hung in front of that breach.”
This was back when houses had mud walls, the translation I read years ago was more brutal… Basically “If you break into someone’s house to steal, you’ll be killed and your body used to seal the hole you made.”