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Also the fact that the grain on the side of the shell is perpendicular to the grain on the top, and it changes where the cat ear comes up in front of it.

Very telltale sign of AI is a change of pattern in something when a foreground object splits it.

Not saying it's always a guarantee, but it's a common quirk and it's pretty easy to identify.

Your reference is ancient and dusty and it makes me feel old. Stop it.

Which is great, honestly. Borogoves themselves are fine, but it's not worth the risk letting them get all mimsy.

More specifically, the only source the article even gives is a link to a reddit post with a screenshot of the tweet, of which doesn't have a direct link to the tweet. This is half assed journalism at best, considering they even quoted the original screenshot wrong.

Edit: lol they couldn't even get the person's name straight. It changed from Robert Stevenson to Anderson after the email portion. Why's this article even here?

Jokes on them, my TV can't connect to the internet anymore because of the the bloat added by Roku in automatic updates.

I do not like to add AI.

I would not like it here or there.

I would not like it anywhere.

I would not add it in a handbag.

I would not, could not, in a car.

Not to a baby, not to a helmet.

Not in my house, Not on a mouse.

I do not like to add AI.

I do not now, nor ever will I.

Do you hear me Microsoft?

Take your AI and fuck off.

And here I thought someone was just saying they like path of exile.

Yeah the Steam refund 2 hour thing is just the no questions asked guaranteed refund window. You can absolutely request a refund outside of that window and they'll be quite reasonable in most cases.

The part of the brain that goes "we're doing reflexes now and you don't get a say" is wild.

When you hear a real knee slapper and your aim is slightly off.

I find this hard to believe. I'd be curious to hear roughly how many people you know that are on disability.

For those unaware, social security is extremely strict with earned income affecting benefits. It's also incredibly difficult to start getting disability benefits, even with mountains of documentation and medical records. It's quite common to have to appeal a case multiple times, and it often takes years for people to be approved.

Dudes with long hair can get a real vibe. Francesco Paoli (Fleshgod Apocalypse) also nails it I think:

And in usual fashion, here's a very cool song and music video. Sugar (youtube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmq3iyW02b8

First heard of Fleshgod when I saw The Black Dahlia Murder live. Nobody knew who they were, so they just walked up on stage, yelled "We are from the Italy!" and then went straight into playing. Such a great show.

I also thought Alexi was hot, but I've never heard anyone else say that until now.

Also Tosin Abasi (founder of Animals as Leaders), but I'd be shocked if anyone said he isn't attractive.

Edit: some pics and tunes.

Alexi Laiho, lead singer of Children of Bodom:

Lake Bodom (youtube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtmFh-2CJ7A

Tosin Abasi, guitarist of Animals as Leaders:

CAFO (youtube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0ZrF7taMHA

Searx (as others have said) is an aggregate of multiple search engines all bundled into one, with very finetuned customization (ie: you can toggle every search option you want or not within each category).

You also don't need to host your own, though I'm not sure what the significance of being self hosted in this case is.

As far as usefulness over other search sites, it's generally better with some caveats. Search engines as a whole are in a pretty awful state, so combining them is better, but still not that good. It does offer some very niche search engines that can be extremely useful when pooled together though, which is nice.

Searx also has some captcha issues that I haven't quite figured out. My understanding is that essentially, search engines don't like when you use their engine without being on their site, and it'll stop working via searx (until you go to the site in question and do the captcha maybe?).

There's also a few different domains for searx with varying degrees of availability as far as what engines they reliably connect to.

All in all, searx is great by comparison to mainstream trash, but it can be a headache to setup, and a headache to maintain. There's a masterlist of searx hosts somewhere, I'll try and see about finding it if someone else doesn't link it.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Just wanna throw it out there that the Monster Hunter series is a perfect example of in game free content becoming microtransactions in just a few years.

Old MH games had all cosmetic items as free event quest rewards, where you'd get a unique and fun battle to play, and a cosmetic reward for winning. No paid DLC even available to buy. MH Rise (the newest game) has 221 paid cosmetic items listed on their site. That number is not including bundles, soundtracks, character edit vouchers, or the expansion (Sunbreak) itself.

$60 game, $40 expansion, and 200+ paid cosmetics that would instead be free in earlier games in the series.

That'd be pretty funny if that was the case, because Craftopia (Pocketpair's first game, released before Legends Arceus was announced) also did the monster collection mechanic in the exact same way as Palworld.

I run a heavily modded game on an rtx 2060, and the only crashes I have are VRAM related, and your experience sounds similar to my crashes. Crowd density, texture quality (main menu setting only), and dlss settings are the major factors for whether I crash on load or not.

I also recall that ray tracing shadows or reflections helped with VRAM, but the FPS hit wasn't worth it to me.

Depending on your setup, and if you're mod savvy, you might be interested in the FSR3 Frame Gen mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/14726. Short version is that it replaces DLSSG with FSR3 and allows frame generation to be used with a ton of GPUs that can't normally use it. Makes UI elements feel choppier, but the overall performance increase is nuts (helps CPU and GPU bottlenecks). Without it, I can't reasonably play above low crowd density, and with it, I can play on high density pretty easily.

How long have you had yours? I've had 3 8bitdo controllers (iirc, sn30/ Pro/ Pro 2) and none of them work anymore. They also had a ton of connection and software issues leading up to becoming bricks.

Check out Battle of Mice, Deafheaven, and Oathbreaker if you haven't. They lean pretty heavily on the depressing side of metal, but they have some killer vibes.

Yeah it's apparently a common first choice for bipolar (which is overly diagnosed). It made me gain a ton of weight, and then my doc was exclusively concerned about my weight from that point on, until I stopped going to him.

Before that though, I was just like "I gained the weight because of a side effect from a med you gave me, for a condition that I don't have. The weight is an issue that will be fixed if we look at the actual problem here, doc."

Ugh.

Check out Sidebery, it's a vertical tab extension.

Get a hormone blood panel done, it can check your cortisol.

I had one done a few weeks ago and (big surprise) my cortisol is basically non existent.

The adapter shown is functionally identical to a usb 2 to usb c cable. I believe the meme is essentially suggesting the same thing you did with using a file explorer.

It's also a way to essentially say, "hey if we release paid dlc, you can't call it a mod and release it for free".

Funny, I have a stray cat that comes by who has that description. We call him Waggles.

Here he is, pondering what a tortured life he would live should he choose to be a house cat, forced to see life outside through the iron bars of the window frame, on account of being too inconvenienced by going through the cat door. He decided such a life was too much to bare, so he went to the front door and demanded I let him out.

He hates cat doors, but he'll end up coming in the house on his own maybe once a month or so.

Monster Hunter is a great series. Not terribly stoked about the endgame in Rise though. I think my ideal game would be something like Generations Ultimate but with the overall clunk removal that world/rise did.

Is this Babymetal? I feel like I've seen this image before but I can't remember where.

To be fair, Abilify would cure the hunter of the energy to do anything other than eat or sleep, which might not make for a very fun game.

Abilify is fucking awful.

Honestly though, I really do need to read more of his stuff. I've only read a few, but they're incredibly good.

Having a pull out cup holder seems insane to me, my personal rule is no drinks near my pc at all.

That said, I have a drawer in place of my cd drive that holds all my small peripherals (thumb drives, usb to sd card adapter, stuff like that) and it's great.

I'll happily settle for any amount more physical buttons. It sucks to listen to music using my phone because I can't skip, replay or pause songs without using the touch screen.

To be fair, dragosta din tei is an absolute banger, but I'm not sure if the numa numa dance video classifies as brain rot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_jamming

Because I was also curious. In short, I think it's essentially saying shit that calls out advertising bullshit in an overt way while using the format that advertisers do.

Kinda like the magic glasses in the old movie "they live" but more colorful. Image for context:

Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate (released 2018 outside of JP) had a ton of dlc quest unlocks and they were all totally free. It's proving difficult to find a proper separated list of exactly how many, but here's a google doc that lists ~200 quest related equipment unlocks, the vast majority of which are dlc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hlBLacFYxdh83a-GkxYnsIF6nH7huP_H2aI4APRGicg/edit?gid=408012748#gid=408012748

Something noteworthy is that's just quests for equipment. In contrast, there's only 37 event quests (all event quests are free) in Rise that offer any unique item reward, and 23 of those quests give equipment.

Giving a very conservative estimate with that all in mind, I think it's safe to say that GU had a good five times more free dlc rewards than Rise does.

Susfishious.

The term you're looking for is doublethink.

On an unrelated note: 2+2=5

Fair warning, Battle of Mice can be tough to listen to. Song 6 of "A day of Nights", titled "At the base of the giants throat" has 911 call audio from 7:00 ish to the end of the song.

Rheia is so fucking good. It's a perfect example of music driven by emotion and backed up by incredible execution of the music itself. Glad to see that other people dig it. As for Deafheaven, I loved it when I first heard of it and listened to it all the time, but it's become one of those bands that I can't listen to anymore because of the association to that point in my life, which was not great to put lightly. I remember it being an incredible band, but it's been close to 10 years since I've listened to it, so I can't say whether I'd think it's good today. Maybe I wouldn't like it today if I was just hearing it the first time.

Edit: my favorite Battle of Mice song, Sleep and Dream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k74EB4XVp0

So is your IQ 140+ or are you in IQ debt?

I agree that a cable would be wildly more useful than what's pictured, for what it's worth.

That said (tangentially related), I have a few male/female usb cables and they're a godsend. Extremely handy for game controllers and/or extenders for bluetooth or wireless device dongles.