Bro, even the study saying AI coding isn’t great is shilling for AI. That conclusion “It’s going to get better, we swear, despite the evidence we have counter”.

Good Lord does AI need to die already.

(Normal caveat I’m talking modern LLMs, not all AI is evil, blah blah blah)

Oh so you wrote “Do not invent the Torment Nexus”.

You reduce the protein in their saliva

There’s a pre-made Purina food but there’s also food additives like safeline and pacagen.

I’ve not tried any of them myself and don’t know anyone who uses them, but the science itself seems solid. Worth looking into.

Also quite the beautiful floof

I mean, calling it the “T800” just screams what they want it for. This world is so cooked

And I’ll go “nope, you lost your chance”

I mean, I kind of expected it. It’s a natural progression of them providing alternatives and there’s growing demand. People knew they were supporting Fex for a while. It just kind of made sense.

I’m too scared to start calculating it myself, but I sometimes wonder how much electricity, drive space, and bandwidth we’d save if we cut all this nonsense analytics and forced ads

This is a very common substitution but in some cases you definitely need more. Good recipes will state what the batter should look like so you can adjust to the right consistency (wet and runny, thick and stiff, etc). I usually add just a splash of oil alongside to increase the fat but but always, depends on the recipe.

I would actually guess they under mixed the batter. I find a good muffin needs a little bit of that gluten build up for a nice crumb and bite. Not too much, but you can be too careful mixing ingredients and you won’t get the right texture in my book.

I can’t comment on aoe2 specifically but Halo Infinite (through steam) and Minecraft both use my Microsoft account just fine on Linux Mint.

You’re looking at his right hand, his left hand is mostly out of frame and does have paint on it

Not wanting a cat doesn’t mean won’t care for a cat. I said no to another cat because I’m not prepared to care for it on top of everything else I’ve got going on.

This whole “didn’t want a cat but is secretly a softy” thing needs to die.

Depends on how you define “best”. Most well known? Most read? Most highly awarded? Wrote the most? “Best” is such a vague and useless term here. I’ll give it a go though.

Someone already mentioned Ursula K. Le Guin. So I’ll add a few more along with their likely most well known book

• Mary Shelly (Frankenstein)
• Agatha Christie (Murder on the Orient Express)
• Emily Brontë (Wuthering Heights)
• Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
• Harper Lee (To kill a mockingbird)
• Margaret Atwood (Handmaid’s Tale)
• Laura Ingals Wilder (Little House on the Prairie)
• Beatrix Potter (The tale of Peter rabbit)
• Ann Frank (her diary)
• Margaret Mitchell (Gone with the Wind)
• Anne McCaffrey (Dragonriders of Pern)
• Octavia Butler (parable of the sower)

And just to spice it up a bit:

• Hiromu Arakawa (Full metal alchemist)

I think that’s a good start. I’ll end it here or I’ll be here all day

I was supposed to buddy read three different books and all of my buddies backed out. I’m sitting here not sure what to read :( I was so ready for House of Leaves too.

Maybe it’s time to finally pick up Absolution by Jeff Vandemeer

I only saw it once ages ago but I bring it up every now and again in discussion. It’s a solid movie worth a watch at least once

Might be time to add a few more drives to my NAS 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

I add Nebula into there personally. I just wish it had a couple more of the creators I like.

It’s not the most niche, but y’all wanna come play the Stargate TRRPG while we rewatch the show?

Long enough for the youths to not recognize it. So like ten years or so I’d say

Parallels to The Expanse too

All my friends and I have felt this way for a few years now. My wife and I are planning to spend $200 total on Christmas and that’s including the dinner we’ll likely host for friends.

Halloween is fun and my wife and I get into it but it’s also becoming a very commercialized thing around us. Everyone buying the massive 12 ft skeletons and trying to outdo each other with the yard and giving out bigger and bigger treats. Someone was handing out full Doritos bags this year, not the single serve, we’re talking family size.

I think my wife and I are going to try getting into Mari Lwyd next year instead.