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Some of this is the reason why your teleporter has an operator and isn’t automated. The teleporter knows you’re wearing shoes or skis because the operator has specified your parameters. The computer might not know where shoes end and floor begins but O’Brien does.

I only realized after I finished the series and reflected on it, that one of the reasons I enjoyed The Expanse so much because I was enjoying the complex and intricate politics between sensible actors with different motivations. It helped me cope with the real world’s politics being full of sadistic fools.

I haven’t seen the TV show so I don’t know where it leaves off, but if you haven’t read the books, the last 2 books into the ending was a hell of a crazy ride. And it wraps up with a conclusion that I didn’t foresee as possible. I highly recommend the books.

Persist harder.

Everyone in the zip code is now deaf, it’s all part of the plan

“No, we have Sean Bean at home.”

Sean Bean at home:

Man, I managed to completely forget about that. My dad was really, really into that game. Like, that’s about all he did for most of 4 years and ended up leaving my mom for someone he met in game.

I guess SL wasn’t really any worse about that than any other game, plenty of people meet and get married in MMOs, but I think the raging custom-content sex parties in SL probably didn’t help matters at the time.

Wonder how that game is doing these days. Cursory web search says it’s still alive. I probably would have found it to be pretty interesting if I wasn’t so turned away from it by my family experience.

I use my local library from my phone with the Libby app. I don’t know if this benefits them as much as going there in person does. I did go there to get a library card though, you need one to sign up in the app.

But they have a great catalog of ebooks that I can borrow from, I’ve read the bulk of The Dresden Files that way recently and I’m about to finish it if the last two books ever come off reservation.

Maybe silicone would be a good material for this?

The Last Podcast On The Left is the true crime podcast that got me listening to podcasts in general. They’ve got like 10 years worth of backlog and they’re still going strong, I love those boys. Hail yourselves!

This explains a lot about Elden Ring, and I wish it didn’t.

On machines that were actually strong enough to run it, it was mostly fine. I played on PC and while I admit the later balancing update was probably necessary, I didn’t run into most of the real nasty bugs people liked to talk about. I had a great time putting in 100 or so hours in version 1.

A solid 80% or more of all the problems Cyberpunk had at launch stemmed from trying to launch it on last-gen consoles. It absolutely was not intended for PS4 or XB1 and targeting those platforms was a mistake. Once they pulled availability for those and buckled down on getting it prettied up for next gen, the quality jumped by a mile within the next year and a half of updates.

The launch was rough, I grant you that, and maybe I’m just simping for CDPR but even at the time I was in the vocal minority saying, hey this game really isn’t that bad if you give it a chance and run it on hardware that it was intended for.

And of course now with its updates and DLC it’s just genuinely a great game.

That’s not crazy at all, in fact I’m surprised it’s only 40% considering conservative leaders have gutted, stripped and replaced everything the school stands for as well as rocketing down the school ranking lists because of it. I’d be more concerned about the 60% of faculty that remain, personally.

I don’t know about the rest of them, but Ben Franklin sure envisioned some orgies. Attended a few of 'em too.

Most other countries won’t accept American refugees without qualifications that most of us don’t have. So a lot of us are going to be stuck here, for better or worse.

If my death comes with a bumpin’ soundtrack I think I’ll consider that a net win.

Fictorum is the game that most scratches the wizard itch for me. It’s an indie game, so don’t expect AAA polish, but what is there is absolutely what you might call a “hidden gem”.

Just because EA claims something is an expansion on the box, does not make it true.

“Look kid, you’ve pretty much reached philosophical bedrock here and you’re going to need better questions to get better answers. Now go the fuck to sleep.”

You could ask the same thing of Wizards of the Coast who sent goons to a guy’s house over some Magic The Gathering cards.

We live in an age where these two things are becoming interchangeable.

You’ve retained your honor this day.