Or albums where the artist gets “creative” and interleaves tracks of noise with the songs.

Poor lighting is no laughing matter.

Personally a big thing that holds me back from even seriously considering mobile gaming as an extension to normal gaming instead of “the best you can do when you don’t have access to better devices” is the input side. I hate touchscreen controls for anything with real time action because touching the screen obscures it from view, plus you don’t get the tactile feedback of buttons that makes it trivial to play without needing to readjust your finger positions constantly.

And I know there are external controllers you can use with phones, but if I’m making space (and remembering to bring) one of those, I might as well just bring my steam deck or even the switch instead.

It’s funniest when they act like their rage is justified. Or destroy their own things.

If you read the negative reviews on steam, you can often filter these shitty ones out. Also, be suspicious by default of free games. There are some that were made by some game dev just having fun but most want to make money some way or another and f2p monetization is often pretty toxic, like adding a long grind just to sell ways to avoid it or p2w mechanics.

I haven’t felt like I’ve gone wrong by generally just buying the cheapest well-reviewed games on my wishlist, occasionally stretching the budget to grab a mid-priced game I’m interested in and rarely going for a AAA priced game. Means that I get to some great games later (eg, Hollow Knight is one of the more recent ones, highly recommended btw) but it’s been a great way to experience a wide variety of games from today and the last 15 years for not that much money.

Don’t feel too bad, Emu, Elmo made a similar mistake last week.

Yeah, when my father died, there were a ton of old family photos, some were his, but others came from his parents or maybe even older than that. They were interesting to look through but no one really wanted them. I took some of them but they mostly just sit in a box now. Highly doubt my daughter will want them when I’m done, though maybe she will.

Memories are nice when looking through them, but it’s not like I’m often worrying about things I don’t remember without a reminder.

Though I should take more pictures of and with my daughter so she can have some memories. But I rarely even think about pulling out a camera most of the time.

Hit the reset button then the power button, as the bios usually handles that interrupt by just shutting down immediately (and CPUs reset into low performance modes, so it reduces the power on your CPU immediately).

Appeal to majority? I’ve never found the argument that “most people think this way” to be very compelling.

Some people even want their partners to get jealous and controlling and think they don’t really love them if they don’t.

Could also just say something like, “I’d love to deal with this but first need to write a rust program from scratch that can import or export any file format, converting content as necessary, with a custom GUI written in godot and the interface between the GUI and backend will be a new serial communications format optimized for this wire hangar I plug in to a random port on my PC (which changes every time to avoid being tracked) that acts as an antenna to communicate with an antenna on a custom N64 cartridge where the backend is running (required to meet audit standards). My boss pays me by line of code, so I’d like this solution to be optimized for the maximum possible lines of code so I can retire and buy lots of what you’re selling. Oh also, if there’s even a single reference to JSON, XML, or CSV, my boss will instead fire me (though we DO have to support all of these formats for import/export). Can you help with this first real quick?”

I would hit 1 to speak with a real person when those recorded calls about a warrant being issued for not paying a tax bill or something were popular. Then, when the person asked for my name, I’d act confused and say “shouldn’t you have that, if there’s a warrant?”

They’d just hang up.

I also once answered, “(nearby region) Regional Police, (made up name) speaking, how can I help you?” and they hung up right away, though I decided to drop that one for potential legal reasons.

I’m curious if doing those every now and then resulted in my number getting added to scammer do not call lists because those calls are very rare these days.

Ugh I’m horrible with names, maybe a picture of their face also.

Though on a more serious note, a picture of the last hairstyle you saw them with could be helpful.

Advertisement to people who want to make money is like selling shovels and picks to people who want to mine gold.

There’s worse things to attention whore about. You could call this setting a good example, too.

The more I think about it, the more I don’t like the mindset that good deeds must be done in secret. People shouldn’t expect anything in return other than appreciation, but I think good deeds do deserve appreciation.

And I’d bet that bit in the bible was actually there to discourage competition and make it look like no one helps each other so the church is more necessary.

As long as people aren’t just making up shit, exaggerating wildly, twisting what happened, or humiliating the people they help.

I’d argue that identity and memory are the same thing. Like if you lose your memory, your identity becomes as strange as anyone else’s. Or if you’re a copy of someone else, you won’t know it unless you were told and would think you’re just that person when you wake up. Like if there was a transporter malfunction where it didn’t destroy the original copy. You’d have one copy at the original site thinking the transport just didn’t work and another one at the destination going about their life while Harry wonders how to tell Janeway.

This kind of “introspection” with LLMs is useless. It’s always just predicting the next token, even when asked about why it did something. The response doesn’t need to be at all related to why it did that. It hasn’t been trained to analyze how it predicts each token, though it was trained on a bunch of other recorded conversations of people being scolded and questioned about getting something wrong. It’s just spitting out a version of that when you get upset with it. Similar for talking about how it works, it’s likely regurgitating conversations about how LLMs function, though it could get caught in a context where someone is talking about how they (a human) function.

If you’re doing it for any reason other than your own amusement, you’re just wasting time and filling the context window with junk.

This might be reverse psychology propaganda, making a bad argument that doesn’t really support the conclusion to undermine it.

Either that or the “you are not immune to propaganda” is meant to be treated as another propaganda message.

It’s $1000 to hire the balloon expert that knows how to work it.

On the other side of things, I need to evaluate an AI debugging tool and I feel like a tool any time I need to ask a colleague if what it just said makes any sense when I don’t know an area that well that they are better with. I don’t get how people can cite LLM output without being embarrassed about it, mortified even.