Never said they were anything like the same. Just that neither of them had done anything particularly worthy of a Nobel peace prize. As you say, every American president in the past century would have gotten one, were that the case.

Oh, for sure. I’m not saying they should have given one to Obama. That and Kissinger are why it’s not completely unthinkable that Trump might actually get one somehow.

The deal thing is a smokescreen. The real reason he’s upset is that he badly and urgently wants to end a war. It’s the only chance in hell he’d ever get a Nobel peace prize, and in his delusional mind, he’s still competing with Obama.

That’s a Hunter S. Thompson quote.

Riding is unaffected, it’s only hang gliding that got removed. But it makes just as little sense in that context. None of this patent trolling is justifiable, Nintendo is just using the broken Japanese patent law system to crush competition from smaller companies making better games.

Yeah, but that’s why it’s great to see them fighting each other. Nobody else seems able to do it better.

It’s tricky, because there’s no hard definition for what it means to “change the world”, either. To me, it brings to mind technologies like the Internet, the telephone, aviation, or the steam engine. In those cases, it seems like the common thread is to enable us to do something that simply wasn’t possible before, and is also reliably useful.

To me, AI fails on both those points. It doesn’t really enable us to do anything new. We already had chat bots, we already had Photoshop, we already had search algorithms and auto complete. It can do some of those things a lot more quickly than older technologies, but until they solve the hallucination problems it doesn’t seem reliable enough to be consistently useful.

These things make it come off more as a potential incremental improvement that is still too early in it’s infancy, than as something truly revolutionary.

So glad to see another one of your posts! Encountering these in my feed is like stumbling upon an oasis of casual fun in a vast desert of bleak chaos. Always a pleasure!

I thought you might like to know that your earlier posts inspired me to take my Steam Deck to the next level. I got Heroic Launcher set up and used it to play Art of Rally (purchased on GOG). Both were good suggestions, so thanks! (But in my case, Art of Rally should probably be called “Fishtail Simulator”) I was also pleasantly surprised that it was able to run the original Wing Commander on the first try, but getting the controls fully mapped and comprehensible seems like a larger undertaking…

Since you asked about games being played: I’m jumping around between stuff a lot lately, but some notable and enjoyable highlights include For the King 2, Guns of Icarus Alliance, The Cosmic Wheel: Sisterhood, and Hexagod.

I guess it’s technically not bribery if you only defrauded people into thinking they were going to receive a bribe. /s

I was also curious. Found this explanation: https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/best-scouse-recipe

A stew often made with lamb, beef, or both, it originates from the word ‘lobscouse’, which was a stew often eaten by sailors throughout Northern Europe, popular in port cities such as Liverpool. By association, Liverpudlians are known as Scousers, and many have their own special recipes for this delicious Liverpool staple.

Finally got around to reading the article, and this part was a pleasant surprise:

…there’s a lot more on the way in the coming weeks, including the return of Game Informer’s print magazine. Our intent is to bring back the magazine bigger and better than it was before, and add a host of membership and subscription benefits, including an expanded scope to our videos, streaming, and feature coverage, while also broadening the range of experts and partnerships we tap to bring you those perspectives.

To your point, it remains to be seen if they’ll succeed, but it sounds like they are at least trying.

It should also be mentioned that it was owned by GameStop, so back then it was not completely independent. Sounds like that aspect is different this time around; should be interesting to see how things unfold.

It wasn’t really that big a deal. Most of them have more in common than they have differences. If anything, I experienced fewer problems in the age of SVN. It has fewer options than git, but it’s also a lot more intuitive and easy to learn, which counts for a lot when your largest limiting factor is your coworkers.

Not saying I want the world to go back to that, just pointing out the hate is really overblown.

I never understood the SVN hate. Then, as now, the problems are almost never caused by the tools, and almost always caused by the people misusing them.

Unfortunately, I think that 4th branch is supposed to be the people.

So, what you’re saying is… You agree with me? Great!

From Duracell to Powerhouseofthecell.

It’s like poetry, it rhymes.

Seems like most of the people who hoard such weapons want to join them and be part of the largest group of thugs.

I just see two dogs.

“Gulf of the Jade Skirt” sounds kinda badass.