PineRune

• Month Python and the Holy Grail
• Young Frankenstein
• Seven Samurai
• LOTR Trilogy

I see a lot of LOTR fans here. Good crowd.

Tonight, you.

Wait for it to mess up and end up petting your wife and fucking your dog.

I remember seeing a recent Kickstarter that has a sort of holographic AI friend in a “container” like that, and it reached funding far past its goal.

Any noticeable latency and I won’t even give something a chance to try it. Needing to send my inputs over the internet, wait for them to get processed, and then have the video output streamed back to my local setup means even a small amount of latency. 40ms (which is what I expect for my connection in online gaming servers) would kill the experience of many games, especially rhythm games or other high-reflex games like the entire fighting game genre. Some stuff like Turn Based RPGs could possibly benefit from cloud gaming for users with underperforming hardware, but that’s it. Strong No Thanks F*** Off from me when it comes to cloud gaming.

Morrowind is probably one of my favorites, but it definitely has not aged well. Going the mage route with custom spells can absolutely make you overpowered though. A single Damage Strength spell can cripple most enemies, as they become over encumbered by their few items in inventory.

They don’t make that kind of money by being smart. They make it by screwing over everyone else for profit.

This is exactly what came to mind for me as well! My second grade teacher read this and Hatchet to us. I remember him trying to figure out if it was from stray bullets from a hunter’s gun or what was going on.

This is still one of my favorite pictures on the internet. Thank you for sharing it! Sent from the local Psych Ward

It’s called Survivorship Bias and it’s very real.

There’s another part of “they don’t build them like they used to” that people don’t talk about, and that is the “Good 'Ol” products like toasters and tools from back in the day were an expensive luxury compared to what you can get today. If you shell out the money, you’ll get a darn good product that will last, but today’s technological advances have made it very cheap and easy to make a not-quite-as-good product that will still last a decent while.

There’s also planned obsolescence and I’m not gonna get into that.

I think the big difference is the older generation of gaming didn’t have to compete with every kid having a tablet they could just play games on.

Then it points up.

Their most amazing survival trait is evolving to domesticate humans into protecting them and providing lush environments for them to thrive.

But on a serious note a lot of agricultural plants do not have any of those listed survival traits, not at least not to the extent that people will not use pesticides.

Most people don’t live near hordes and hordes of hungry bears and wolves, and those that do are typically prepared to defend themselves or flee. Plants can do neither.

This is exactly the point I’m making. Once a few companies effectively own the market, what’s stopping them from programming their devices to communicate with each other without user knowledge? I remember seeing some post about a reddit guy asking why his Samsung (or other smart brand) dishwasher was using several GB of bandwidth daily.

You’ll have to rip the networking chip out pretty soon to stop them from sniffing out and connecting to WiFi or other devices connected to the internet.

The new problem is AI running on the TV taking the images sent to it and processing those separately from everything else, and using that to see what you’re doing and watching.

I had to look it up. The RAM I bought 12 months ago for $99 is now $350. This is insane.

I think some of their Black Friday deals can be “upgraded” for existing customers, though. Like upgrading from just VPN to Proton Unlimited or whatever it is. But not staying in the same tier.

Cheeseweed would probably be the coolest kid in school, ngl.