The opening mission sets the tone incredibly well. If that kind of humor doesn’t suit you, you probably wont enjoy the rest of the game. Otherwise, turn the brain off and nod along for a good time

I wish that, much like targeted advertising and receiving spam calls and emails, was opt in

I also wish the author would specify that he considers every computer algorithm to be AI, because reading the first few lines makes one think that everything on computers is now running entirely off AI

AI quietly shapes almost every part of our lives – from the news we read chosen by AI to how our cities manage traffic. AI promises convenience, productivity, innovation and efficiency. (…) AI powers essential systems such as healthcare, transport and finance.

Ask anyone with the bare minimum knowledge of computers and they’ll tell you that those existing systems ARE NOT AI.

• STR 10
• DEX 10
• CON 8
• INT 12
• WIS 8
• CHA 8

I don’t recall which of the Greek philosophers hated writing, because it would make it so people wouldn’t bother to remember anything anymore.

Learning more about the Greek culture of the bronze age really makes me wish they didn’t have such a big impact on western culture, given how misogynist and slave reliant they were. ACOUP has a great series of articles on how the real Sparta worked (a shithole place where more than half of the population were slaves, plus their warriors were just average)

Mint in any of its default offerings feels significantly more familiar to a Windows environment than default Ubuntu, Lubuntu (LXDE desktop) or Xubuntu (XFCE desktop), making the migration “less painful”;
The ISO image is ~1GB smaller \

Kinky

What the hell are those wheely thingies?

I’m having a feeling that GTA 6 will be so massive in disk space requirements it’ll force plenty of consoles to be “only one game at a time”. I’m sure a lot of people will enjoy that nonetheless, much like they enjoy buying FIFA EA Football <current year> every year and spending real money on whatever bullshit microtransactions are in place to get their dream player for their team.

It all leaves me reminded that any sense of Rockstar being in any way countercultural is surely an ancient, unfunny joke by this point.

Spot on.

I remember when “GTA clone” was a type of game that some studios went after, with varying success. Saints Row did a great job at having that which GTA 4 lacked: fun over realism. SR3, the non remastered version, still holds up incredibly well. Being so balls to the wall and over the top was a great choice

The weird thing is that you can find lots of RP videos using GTA on youtube and tiktok, but it’s always on a multiplayer server

Interesting, I wasn’t aware of that connection of chess and early islam, though I was somewhat aware that during the 17-19th centuries, in Europe and USA at least, dice games were seen as “street gambling”, but card games were not.

The main issue, how they plan to enforce that rule.

Given it’s the Taliban, my bet (heh) is on them sending the wives and daughters of players to jail “as a warning”

The flag was defined as a horizontal tricolour of red, white, and blue in 1848, but it was not officially adopted until 1993.

They were so embarrassed of copying the French colors it took almost 150 years to officially adopt it

Linux Mint (XFCE desktop) is the best for beginners coming from Windows, in my opinion. Linux enthusiasts will fawn over KDE because of customization, but they ignore that the vast majority of people don’t want to spend months tweaking pixels, widgets and animations, they just want to use the computer.

I despise them because they’re shallow as fuck, “content” that requires zero brain to enjoy (I do enjoy some of that shit on occasion, but not in the form of short videos, I prefer the lazy approach of putting something on and not having to move a finger for 10+ minutes).
Another thing that makes me hate that kind of video is that it’s a breeding ground for “reacts”, as if the longer form of that wasn’t already a piece of shit. Neither of these problems are exclusive to YT, they’re just following on Tiktok, like Instagram did

More importantly, you can search text to get straight to the point you need. Doing that in video or audio is not possible, you have to memorize timestamps

Wait, if Jesus is saving a sinner, then he’s absorbing the frenchness out of the woman!

Also missing from the list is the horny bugger. It doesn’t matter who or what it is, if it’s near them, they’ll try to seduce it

I think that’d fall into #8, biggest explosions

Honest question, what does the current office suite does, or does better, that office 2013 doesn’t?