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The jar is great all around., both for bugs and bots.

Plasma piatol hits hard, but so few shots and I tend to flinch a little on release frk charging up so I’m not a big fan.

I personally love the crossbow on nids because it has the explosion for midsized bugs and closes multiple holes quickly. Just have to adjust for the dropoff. If I take that I need one of the faster firing pistols with many shots for the small crowds.

Honestly I like to mix up gear on anything less than a 7 just for fun. Always good to see if things are as good or bad as I remember since there are so many to choose from and almost all of them are decent now.

I’m not saying apple will do anything about it, just that they will let the cops know what is causing the reboots if asked.

The police could just ask Apple, it isn’t like they are going to have some secret reboot process that they would hide from the police.

Cooking by the Book: A Lil Bigger Mix

They took all the parts people complained about in the beta and dialed them up. Especially the predatory monetization.

Unattainable achievements aren’t achievments, they are lies.

Some might be extremely difficult or tedious though.

That is the politicians. The voting base hasn’t changed.

The ones that learned nothing from his first term won’t be learning anything from his second.

She is really a 2,000 year old dragon child of god so it’s totally ok.

-some priest

An article about Joker 2 has the novelty factor of bombing as a sequel to Joker, which was a massive hit. They will got a lot more views on any one of those five Joker 2 articles than they will from multiple articles about a game nobody heard about.

More views = more money. It doesn’t matter whether something is more ‘worthy’ or not.

My point is mostky about people’s expectations and that people who want news on games probably aren’t interested in gaming articles from papers/major news sites and companies in general aren’t looking to advertise on gaming articles in the same way that makers of fashion would want to advertise in the theater section.

I really like this post btw, I never really thought about how sparse reporting on games is outside of dedicated sites.

That has more to do with New York having a thriving theater scene and a NY newpaper promoting a local thing that is popular with its readership and the companies that pay for advertising. It is something that sets NY apart from a lot of other locations, even if theater is pretty common in most areas.

Kind of a chicken and egg when it comes to games, since readers won’t be expecting games news in mainstream sources they don’t dedicate resources to writing the articles. That makes business sense because most people who are looking for game news already have a number of web sites to choose from.

John Carter didn’t get that much attention either, and what it did was mostly about the leadership changes in Disney tanking the advertising and not about the movie itself.

At one point I decided to get all the cars that I didn’t already have and used the auction house to get what was left. While i got most in under a week, there were still two cars that took a couple more weeks to find available even at 20 mil when checking twice a day.

Holy hell the interface is so terrible, and probably contributes to even more bots than if it was fairly straightforward to use. Car names aren’t consistent with the list of cars, there was no ‘cars not owned’ filter, and the nine buttons to place a bid plus the delay every time anything happened including being outbid made trying to get a deal nearly impossible.

I guess he wasn’t paying attention when Trump treated Puerto Rico like shit during his term in office.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/us/puerto-ricans-trump-insult.html

Yup, streaks exist to encourage the feeling similar to a sunk cost, just like rewards programs.

I think step 2 might be done by AI now instead of humans, because AI can blindly copy articles faster.

Step 4 would be AI blindly copying the person with more than two braincells, whcih is why there are duplicates of both versions.

Yeah, but Trump has basically confessed already and his voters give him a free pass while Clinton has an association that should be looked into. They are not even close to the same thing, but maga voters are treating it as the opposite of reality where they don’t care about Trump confessing.

Well, their products have been going downhill so I suspect that 25% was AI genersted and then their QA is less effective because there are no devs doing unit testing.

Selling AI as a solution for everything is absolutely a lie. Modern snake oil in nearly all the public facing uses.

There are a lot of good uses for AI in science and entertainment as a way to enhance work being done by humans. Pattern recognition for lidsr in finding kist civilizations. Finding exoplanets. Finding new compoubds for medicine and manufacturing.

Hell, there is even some usage for some personal things and LLMs are great at addressing certain people’s hesitation when interacting with computers. But like the prior examples, it can’t solve anything on its own. It must be controlled and thigs like search engines and processing job applications are terrible uses for AI when humans are having trouble doing that thing already.

AI only works for technical work that requires precision when it is doing something humans were already good at. It can do a lot of those things faster, but has to be babysat if the output matters.