I did something similar to what this article describes a bit back. For me it was turning off my phone, the effect was staggering. Anxiety etc dropped immediately.

For me in particular, it was being constantly available to anyone in my life, but also the doom scrolling, and knowing there’s a vast ocean of infinite content at my fingertips. Sure, I could curate my experience, and block people, but overall the phone is still functioning largely the same as it ever does. I can always turn those features back on. By changing how the device works externally, you’re disconnecting those people from the decade and a half of reinforcement and whatever they have associated with their phones.

To get similar results I was able to just turn off my phone, but that might vary for some. Anyway, it seems reasonable for the experiment at least.

See I don’t follow that one, because how are they actually making money in this theory?

In the real world the ai bullshit is just another grift that’s a giant money pit. While I recognise people that follow these kinds of theories probably don’t have critical thinking skills, I wish they would following thinking to it’s conclusion. It’s a stupid hope I know.

Anti sematic behaviour is unfortunately part of the internet and general historical data, which means it could very well be an undercurrent in training data. AIs then could exhibit subconscious biases, no matter how many times the creators tell them not to be racist.

I could see it. They’ve been pretty anticonsumer lately, souring the fanbase a touch. The PS4 is still seeing releases, because most games actually don’t need the power of a ps5. The technological improvements have been seeing diminishing returns every generation. I’ve had very few games actually maxing out my base ps5, and frankly I think at this point shit can’t look that much better anyway. It’s mostly down to art style now.

With all that going on, I’m happy with my ps5 for a bit.

Idk dude, we already have the sun and wind but they hate that stuff too, despite it being very close to free. Hell they’ll probably bitch about fusion causing a surplus of power outside peak loads.

If it doesn’t perpetuate the broken ways we currently do things it doesn’t give their buddies money, so it’s woke or something else bullshit.

Bloodborne I could see them saving for a PS6 launch, MGS4 is so extremely in the PS3 architecture that nobody wants to try porting that minefield.

But yeah, they’re clearly trying to keep a old business model when it’s not working anymore.

Yeah that one rubbed me particularly wrong. Valve can be a bit hit and miss sometimes, but they’ve not actively monopolized games from other devs.

So the core is very much video poker, in that you make poker hands and score points. The twist is that you can dramatically modify your deck as the run goes on. It’s kind of hard to describe, but things like my king is now worth 50 points, multiplies my score by 5, and I’ve cloned it enough to make fictional hands like flush house, or five of a kind.

Jokers have unique effects that can modify the deck, give additional score, change the rules of the game, that kind of thing.

It’s quite fun and challenging, I highly recommend it.

Fuck yeah, grow that factory

Fucking DLLs

Hell yeah dude, keep it up. I feel like the hardest part of this game is not burning your brain out and pacing yourself, get that down and you should be golden.

It can be difficult to get your head around first time. If you’re taking advanced processing, making three output pipes parallel to the factories and outputting using large amounts of underground pipes helps a lot.

Is there any aspect in particular you’d like advice on?

Seconding this. Anecdotally from my last job in support, every drive failure we had was a Seagate. WDs and samsungs never seemed to have an issue.

I’m sure this is real, but I see a headline like that and I think of schoolyard talk. Like, nuh uh, my armour has 100 trillion bonds, you can’t shoot me.

Windows feels like a bit of a sinking ship. Not entirely, and it’s slow, but the feeling is present and consistent. I don’t want to keep having to rip apart the OS to remove shit they shoved onto my hardware without my consent. I just want an easyish experience that I can do my shit on, and they aren’t really interested in that it feels.

In comparison to that, alternatives like steam os sounds great to your average user.

Technically for the first three planets you don’t need anything. I’ve done all three with only power armour and legs (because I’m too impatient to walk). That being said, bringing a stack of your standard belts, grabbers and machines goes a way towards making that first initial base a lot quicker.

I actually respect the hell out of the dev here. Owning up to past wrongs, growing as a person, clear and concise communication, honestly that’s all huge progress.

Amazing game, recommend it to anyone and everyone. Presentation, puzzles, story are all top notch. Love it.

I’ve been watching this guy for a decade. He plays the gymbro so well you almost forget, then he’ll hit you with some insanely good pun about classic literature or something.

That’s nuts, good luck with the sluething