I took a crack at Infinite Jest maybe 10-12 years ago and found it extremely tedious to get through the first few hundred pages before I put it down. I’m weirdly edified that LLMs have taken the wind out of this sort of literary masturbation.
Feeling a little drunk and nostalgic but this is beautiful. Voxels are chunky (pun intended), but every Minecraft screen is just brimming with potential. I can imagine a thousand things I’d build with this vista.
All I know is that Sisko, Bashir, and O’Brien all identify Section 31 as non-Starfleet assholes that need to be stopped at all costs. Discovery has Pike practically saluting Section 31 genocidal Empress Georgiou and revering the black badges in a way I’ll never forgive it for.
I think DS9 did Section 31 right, as the bad guys to be foiled, as anathema to Starfleet’s ideals, but yeah every other show seems to miss the point.
Enterprise established it as a result of Klingons experimenting with human augment DNA and it getting out of hand. It probably didn’t need to be addressed in universe, but I thought it was a fun retcon.
Ugh, Discovery just made no sense in a million ways. My (least) favorite is how Control was sentient AI like a century before Data was a thing, or even M-5. That and every time Section 31 was acknowledged as Starfleet black ops instead of a rogue agency of assholes.
I don’t think it’s misleading, you just have to know that “KDE Linux” is a distro, not the DE. If anything, poor choice on the devs for choosing such an overloaded name.
30 fold means 30x not 30%, but I agree the article could use some more raw numbers.
That said, I don’t think it’s in doubt that our education system is fucking up. The current gen of college students, my son included, got their high school experience seriously fucked by Covid and now LLMs are basically devaluing having skills at all. I feel bad for kids these days, their prospects are so much worse than basically any previous gen, even with degrees.
Hitman wasn’t really a sandbox until Freelancer mode was added. The story mode has always been pretty linear. Same level order, same objectives every time. I’m not expecting my choices to matter to the narrative, but I am expecting to be able to choose between quiet and loud, lethal and non-lethal etc. to finish the given mission which should be a pretty low bar.
If there isn’t a ton of play style variety like Hitman then it will suck. Play your way is the fun part. I’m a SASO type player and that fits into a more realistic sim but Bond also goes loud and wacky a lot in the movies too.
I haven’t watched a single trailer for this, but I’m hyped solely because IOI did great things with Hitman, and being a (movie) spy is similar except your objectives aren’t always assassination.
Couldn’t really care less about the Bond angle, but since it’s a reboot of his story, don’t really think that matters much.
It means making yourself more attractive by smashing your bones and micro dosing meth while receiving payouts from Peter Thiel
This looks cool and obviously very Trek inspired. I really like the idea of being a fly on the wall in an Enterprise style luxury ship as everyone goes about their business (or as shit hits the fan) but it’s hard for me to imagine this being much fun without some external driving force causing combat / damage / first contact scenarios and an absolutely huge variety of interactions and NPCs.
Definitely ambitious and tough to pull off, but I’m going to keep an eye on it.
I haven’t interviewed anywhere in nearly a decade, but damn, the human interaction part is so important. These are your potential future coworkers, a vibe check goes both ways.
I don’t think I’d even do the first automated interview, tbh. If a human is going to be involved in hiring me down the line, they can damn well be present while I’m answering their questions.
Yeah, wasn’t going to go there to look, but this is a different guy and just happens to have a baseball handle. Weird coincidence.
Uh, what? I thought this guy was an (ex) baseball sportscaster ?
I’m a couple years younger than you, but a lot of this resonated for me. Custom installers were some of my early inspirations for making apps that didn’t have the traditional gray box aesthetic.
However, I will say that Kenshin was a thing in the US. Samurai X was only the name of the OG movies where he was still lethal AFAIK.
I think this is from Graeber’s essay “There Never was a West”, and he does such a good job assaulting the idea that there is some coherent vision of what “The West” is in comparison to everyone else.
The underlying thread in all of his anthropological anarchism is that there are a thousand ways cultures have made (and thus we could make) society work, we just have to decide to change. If this sounds obvious to you, that’s good - because it doesn’t sound obvious to the horde of people clinging to capitalism as if divine market forces are sacrosanct and all human suffering derived from it is inevitable.
Haha, I have the same feeling for opposite reasons. I grew up in a warmer environment but kept my feet against the cool exterior wall my bed was next to. Now I have to have my feet uncovered and a fan on just to feel comfortable and tucked in sheets feel like I’m trapped.
Being human, eh?