I’m in awe at your skills! I suck so bad at everything on UFO 50

My usual strategy although still imperfect for me. Elden Ring has been in my active games for a while now, and it’s hard to properly try Hyper Light Breaker with my kid because of this issue.

Meh. If you’re writing repetitive code you’re probably doing it wrong though.

And what are we supposed to do with our Switch now? I know it’s been out for a while, but my growing resentment for the linear economy is giving me huge console generation cycle fatigue.

Heh, neat. Here’s the original University of Alberta announcement. The pictures and the video are shared on Google Drive.

Right? The Internet started really picking up in the early~mid nineties. Twitter opened in 2006. Facebook in 2004. There were actual online communities before that. The idea that social media would be a rampart against the disinformation supposedly inherent to humanely-sized, coherent online communities is the worst take ever. The culprit for polarization is precisely social media, and their method was channelling engagement through algorithms fostering gut reactions and virality (I’m adding forums, chats and mIRC to your examples.)

From a design perspective I like how the black variant has these keys that are just the right hue of green to remind us of those solar calculator screens. On the other hand Bluetooth is pretty finicky and is not available into UEFI setup, so meh. For peripherals as fundamental as keyboard & mouse, I much prefer a wireless 2.4GHz dongle connection.

Lobbyism plays an enormous role in the USA’s political system. It’s unfortunate the WaPo is unwilling to recognize this fact.

I think a lot of the people that embrace genAI do so because they’ve been drilled to embrace all new tech or risk becoming obsolete. At least that’s what I feel from my workplace: non technical coworkers nervously grasping at it, trying to squeeze the advertised productivity out of it, with the fear the competition is already doing it, and better. The mediocrity of the results are then interpreted as a shortcoming on their end so they double down.

I’m thrilled to see someone like Freya, a passionate of maths & arts, weighing in on the matter and I agree wholeheartedly with her. GenAI is destructive in many ways, and attacking an essential part of the human experience, storytelling, is not mentioned enough.

Every person that speaks out creates opportunities for many others to give it a second thought and question this venture.

It’ll trickle down any day now.

😅 I went a bit fast lol. It’s been a while so I’m sure new stuff will come up (like Balatro was mentioned)

Just to start off, there was a thread about this some time ago.

Maybe I’m just slow, but I don’t get the gist of your remark. You taking a jab at men denying their sensitivity or at men being too sensitive? The two things are sometimes two sides of the same coin I guess.

This is a nice graph for debunking the idea that biology offers a sort of refuge for the proponents of a strict binary sexual framework. Let it be known that once in a while some people born with penises are XX while some people born with vulvas are XY, and that this is just the tip of the iceberg. Maleness and femaleness might be fact as poles of a spectrum (might be more complicated); what they are NOT is an either/or mutually exclusive phenomenon. The distribution of the population on that supposed spectrum probably look like an inverted bell curve, with most persons closer to either end… but to be honest I suspect the curve is not as pronounced as we are led to think.

Personally speaking I’m forty something and by now I’m convinced I’m not 100% pure male stuff. I don’t give a shit if it’s biological or social. I feel it in a myriad of ways. I’m comfortable enough in the way I’m treated and perceived though so I let sleeping dogs lie and ride the male label. I’m hairy, I have a dick, I don’t want trouble. So this is totally unscientific, but I swear sometimes I recognize this same ambiguous essence in someone else; there’s a faint feeling of kinship. I’m willing to bet the silent majority has plenty of folks who wouldn’t have minded being a wee bit further from the poles if others didn’t make such a fucking fuss about it.