(He even "decreed" the construction of a bridge or tunnel between San Francisco and Oakland on the other side of the bay, predicting the existence of the Bay Bridge and Transbay Tube!)
(He even "decreed" the construction of a bridge or tunnel between San Francisco and Oakland on the other side of the bay, predicting the existence of the Bay Bridge and Transbay Tube!)
A high-quality dumb TV.
Get your ads (and security vulnerabilities) out of my damn house.
Bold of you to assume no one will come up with a replacement date library rather than just getting rid of JS.
Where tf are all my The Mummy (1999) stans???
RCS is an open standard, isn't it? Are you referring to the E2E encryption that Google added to Android?
You still end up with awkward, overcomplicated UIs that make using the TV in basic ways unnecessarily obnoxious.
I kinda disagree here - I have no problem using smart lights, etc., as long as they're controlled by a non-cloud system like HomeAssistant. This just doesn't seem to be an option for more complex devices.
Furthermore, it's "Zeno's Paradox", (as in, attributed to Zeno) not "The Zeno Paradox"
In 1597, Korean admiral Yi Sun-sin, who had successfully managed the construction of a formidable fleet of warships, was stripped of his rank, tortured, and nearly executed, with naval command transferred to his rival, Won Gyun, due to political machinations.
Won Gyun promptly loses much of the fleet in several disastrous engagements with the Japanese, leaving the Koreans heavily outnumbered.
Yi is hurriedly reinstated, but by this point he commands just 13 ships against a fleet of at least ten times that size. Many of his ships are crewed by survivors of the previous battles, and fear a return to combat.
Yi carefully selects a narrow, shallow strait for his "final stand" limiting the size and number of Japanese ships that can attack simultaneously.
Yi's flagship initially engages the Japanese attackers alone, due to the other ships' hesitancy. As it repels one ship after another, like "a castle in the sea", the other ships eventually join, and the Japanese fleet is repelled.
The Japanese lose at least 30 ships. The Korean fleet loses none.
I mean... does Squid Game count? 'cuz it's fucking based.
As long as I don't have to maintain it.
(Who tf downvoted this? The "legacy code" lobby?)
checks box on "Sabaton thread" bingo card
Got a hater!
There's that old chestnut: "you know what they call alternative medicine that works? Medicine."
Yep, this is the major flaw that's becoming clear about the Turing test, and why people are so hyped over LLMs: computers don't have to be good at imitating people, because people are so good at anthropomorphizing computers (along with everything else).
Good lord yes. Overwatch is just a corporatized TF2 ripoff, but Battleborn was a creative, unique game with a soul.
Anyone who hasn't seen it should watch the game's intro cinematic, which gives a great sense of just how much character the game had.
The "solution" is to curate things, invest massive human resources in it
Hilariously, Google actually used to do this: they had a database called the "knowledge graph" that slowly accumulated verified information and relationships between commonly-queried entities, producing an excellent corpus of reliable, easy-to-find information about a large number of common topics.
Then they decided having people curate things was too expensive and gave up on it.
Alien might be the scariest movie of all time, IMO, so this makes perfect sense to me.
So like, 3 months of PG&E bills?
Well, that one was already in all caps
Roughly in order, I think:
Honorable mention:
Looking over this, it seems like I'm drawn to games that have either unusually good writing, very long skill curves, or (e.g., #1) both.
UT2004 sneaks in for being the absolute best LAN-party game ever (fight me). I think Link's Awakening is mostly just nostalgia though. 😋
Edit: bumped UT2004 down to "honorable mention" because I somehow forgot the billion hours I've sunk into Satisfactory. Still very curious to see where that game goes story-wise after the 1.0 launch, though.
Sigma Star Saga for the GBA. Really creative mashup of an RPG and a side-scrolling shooter, with a cool weapon-configuration system thrown in. Definitely suffered a bit from platform limitations, but there's absolutely more that could have been done with the core concept.
Shockingly good writing, too.
plan 9
I don't actually have the patience to run it, mind you. But it's definitely my favorite in principle.
*Pi-hole
Already got one. A lot of devices seem to route ads over channels that can't be blocked without compromising other device functions.
Or, if you like it more pithy: "The difference between theory and practice is larger in practice than it is in theory."
My dad used to sautee them with bits of bacon or prosciutto. I don't eat pork anymore, but god damn do I miss those Brussels sprouts.
Imma let you in on a little secret:
All media is political. It's just not always obvious.
Oh shit, I misread the thread title lol
Yeah, still deserves a song.
I tried Disco Elysium, and I really appreciate everything it did/was trying to do, but I simply could not get over the pacing, long-winded conversations, and lack of guidance.
Don't get me wrong, I love narrative-based games and open-ended exploration, but what amounts to turn-based game mechanics are too slow, and a complete absence of any obvious paths to take makes the game unapproachable.
FYI, "anthropomorphizing" doesn't strictly mean "viewing as human". I never meant to imply that people see a spoon as a human being.
Anthropomorphization is the act of associating human qualities with non-human entities.
My point is that humans are remarkably good at doing this, even as far as, e.g., ascribing "unhappiness" to a spoon simply for being unused.
This kind of behavior is why we must be extremely wary of the Turing test and other measures of machine "intelligence" - humans may see intelligence even where none exists simply because it's our nature.
Pretty sure the lyric is "ride the pony", my dude.
Lost the coin flip.
It's also just an incredible deconstruction of the "modern warfare" shooter genre. It screams at the player, "hey, hold up a sec, think about those people you're shooting".
I think it's part of why the only other shooters I like are TF2 and the Borderlands series, both of which frame the violence with a distinctly fantastical, escapist setting, intentionally distancing the game from reality.
Funny story about that one: my first time playing it, I actually found it a bit too... visceral, and had to stop after getting a couple hours in - I only came back to play it all the way through several years later.
In the intervening time, I learned that one of the developers, when asked whether the game had a "good ending", said something along the lines of "that's when the player stops playing in disgust".
Guess I got the good ending.
(jokingly:) "Titanium" by David Guetta is about the A-10 Warthog
The aircraft protects the pilot with titanium armor, features a large machine gun, (technically a rotary cannon) and includes many redundant systems that allow it to keep flying even after suffering significant damage.
These things fit with the song lyrics surprisingly well.
I do use Kodi for local content, but this unfortunately doesn't help with streaming services, and even dedicated steaming boxes have ads on their home screens now.
Das Boot is the movie you show an engineer if you want them to be anti-war.
The submarine itself is as much a character as the rest of the crew, and it fights alongside them through every struggle...
...only to die a pointless death at the end. A beautiful machine wasted on the cause of warfare.
Armies get stuck on ramps.
Runaway Jury
Was not prepared for the Diablo II reference lmao