i bet my police state could beat up your police state

the only possible way this could be worse was if it was called CloudChain and also had weird blockchain/crypto nonsense.

we have always been at war with Eurasia.

if the VPN ban doesn’t work then the only reasonable course of action would be to ban the internet entirely. it’s the only way the children can be truly safe.

it’s the opposite of Economy Plus

unfortunately for the horse, i’m in the 1%

should just be a matter of saying “AI can’t do this job because it can’t properly do any job”. could even make that your email signature.

it’s hard work but someone has to do it

i feel like ubisoft has been having really cool ideas for games pretty consistently for the past decade. (in the sense that every game has a cool elevator pitch.) but then, every time, they ruin those ideas by making the most bland and generic open world game with the most boring stories, dialogue, and gameplay systems imaginable. it’s like the creativity behind their games is forbidden to develop past the elevator pitch.

this is particularly noticeable with the assassins creed games i think. super cool ideas for settings, time periods, and main characters, etc. but every time, they find a way to turn the games into the most boring and generic slop imaginable. there’s just so much wasted potential.

god, what a beautiful language. it brings a tear to my eye

i will never forgive C for making the type syntax be

char* args[]

instead of the much more reasonable

&[char] args 

it also bothers me that char* args[] and char c are “the same type” in the sense that the compiler lets you write

char c, *args[5];

with no problems. i think the C languages would be way easier to learn if they had better type syntax. don’t even get me started on C++ adding support for

auto fn_name() -> ReturnType { … }

what kind of salad is that

then you should pick the thinkpad for the extra job security

16 times the comfort

No crawlers ever go there.

if it makes you feel any better, i would go there if i was a web crawler.

i think that’s fair point. language does work both ways, and i am certainly not in the majority with this opinion. but what bothers me is that it feels like they’re changing the definition of the word and piggybacking off of its old meaning. i know this kind of thing isn’t all that uncommon, but it still rubs me the wrong way.

i think we give silicon valley too much linguistic power. there should really be more pushback on them rebranding LLMs as AI. it’s just a bunch of marketing nonsense that we’re letting them get away with.

(i know that LLMs are studied in the field of computer science that’s known as artificial intelligence, but i really don’t think that subtlety is properly communicated to the general public.)

do you have the steam version or gog? i played the steam version on windows 11 last year and had no more problems than usual. also if you’re using the steam version, you might have to make sure it’s not installed within Program Files or Program Files (x86). those install locations can cause problems with mods.

you might also benefit from installing the 4gb patch in addition to IStewieAI’s engine tweaks. a lot of the mods in the first few sections of the viva new vegas guide are pretty much essential in order to play the game with minimal bugs and crashes. also some of the “crash fixing” mods cause problems in windows 10 and 11.

hopefully one of the above things works. i had to find a lot of those things out the hard way, it can be a pretty finicky game. really fun though.

completely agreeing, 10 times

i’m starting to worry we’ll never find out which store it is. the suspense is killing me