I mean, that was a solid cpu, but damn.

This was supposed to be my upgrade cycle. I built our PC’s in 2021, and i tend to upgrade every 5 years. Between the pricing and industry collapse, and just plain having more fun with low spec games, i don’t know how long it’s going until i upgrade again.

Yeah, but Mr. Wizard’s a dick.

He was awesome, but i love those clips.

Imagine how jank that game would have been on release if they tried varied procedurally generated biomes hahaha.

OK but how can anyone trust a guy who literally defended himself in court by saying that a reasonable person wouldn’t believe him?

Well, I’m not interested in one of those things, and I’ve already mopped up the mess. Apology accepted, begrudgingly.

But I was actually wondering how seniors with limited mobility are supposed to poop with a 4 foot tail sticking out the back?

I’m also wondering how you poop.

I mean, Rothfuss has produced a couple novellas, and Martin has some projects. I get it, but at the same time i wouldn’t blame either of them if they didn’t feel comfortable releasing another of their mainline series.

I want them to, and ten years is a long ass time, but nothing they produce will live up to the hype so that probably causes a lot of anxiety.

But maybe im projecting here. Idk. I feel like the same thing is the reason we don’t have a Half-Life 3 video game. The first two made such a huge impact in terms of tech and gameplay that nothing is going to live up to the hype. So you can either kill yourself trying to achieve unachievable levels of amazing, or go do something you want to do.

I think Rothfuss/Martin and others are pressured too much. No matter what they produce, it will never be good enough to satisfy the hordes of loudmouths.

There are several ‘edits’ you can put together online that are actually way better than the movies. They cut out a lot of the nonsense and trim around excess to provide a 2-ish hour movie that feels choppy but good.

Unrelated but, Theres a section of Prince George Canada that all of a sudden does a big U. The story i was told is that back in the day there were two competing railway companies, and one of them bought enough influence that when the city was making roads to the other company, they instead made the roads bend back.

I still have my Kickstarter book, complete with gross dead wasp.

I found a Ghost Magpie. These fellas are usually a pretty black and green colour, but sometimes they have a genetic abnormality that makes 'em brown!

Reminds me of a vintage stereo repair shop near my old place. The guy would give you a free length of lamp cord with every purchase because “its good enough”.

Win 11 feels like i replaced by SSD with an HDD. I’m half convinced that they’re making it as awful as possible so when the whole OS as a service thing arrives, it’ll feel super snappy.

I actually had this whole period where i would be doing something and I’d think to myself “Surely i misunderstand NFTs” then I’d stop what i was doing and check.

I don’t support the use of AI tools in general, but i have a soft spot for long-term maintainers. These people generally don’t have enough support for this to be a full-time hobby, and when a project becomes popular the pressure is massive.

If the community wont step up to take the burden off the maintainer, but they still want active development, what can you do? As long as the program continues to be high quality, i cant complain about a free thing.

I used to really dig Linus, i watched from NCIX up until a few years ago. I stopped watching for a bunch of reasons. I remember when he said one of the things he wanted to do when starting a company was ensure everyone that worked for him could “afford a house”, then to see how he treated people and kept them at low wages was a bummer.

I mean, i guess when you grow that big that fast some things get left out, but i also feel like maybe exponential growth isn’t always a necessity?

Also it seems like he’s one of the only personalities online that has not increased in technical ability at all.

I’m a returning student, and I’m really upset at the level that my cohort turns to AI for everything. There’s no effort to think about a problem when most school work is already in the system and can be retrieved easily.

It’s also upsetting to me how attractive an option it can be. I can spend all this time working on something, or i drop a simple prompt and just rewrite the answer in my own words. When you have something that you forgot about or procrastinated on, it’s really attractive to say “What are some themes in Moby Dick?” and basically rewrite the response. What’s even more upsetting than that, is the amount of people who wont even retype a thing to pass it as their own, but just copy/paste.

An increasing number of my profs are adding AI into their courses, with the feeling that it’s inevitable. It’s distressing to see an assignment that calls for us to ask a chat or about the problem then fact check it. I feel like that’s teaching the exact opposite of what these kids need.

Looks like I won’t buy EA games on a whole new CPU architecture