I think it’s absolutely worth setting up local image gen/text models if you’re interested in the tech. My computer is more than 8 years old and generates images fine, it just takes longer to do it. Local video gen is probably still a ways off being viable though.
Making slop is a fun activity.
I can’t wait to enjoy this change in 4-5 years when I pick up Battlefield 6 for $1.50 on a Steam sale.
They should fully integrate touch screen and controller based navigation for the steam deck. Its wild how the store doesn’t work that well on their hardware.
If you don’t mind paying, Kagi’s the gold standard imo. Been using it for years. The pricing has been pretty garbo at times but they’ve settled on a good model now. Used it extensively for research back when I was a freelance writer and it’s stuck around as my general-use search engine. It’s great for research, functionally really well designed.
I’ve been waiting for the perfect day off to set this up on my Steam Deck. I’m extremely excited, as I started the series with Wild World onward. Never got to properly experience the first releases, and I personally love playing fan-mod ‘definitive’ editions of older games like this.
if my child ever starts talking about israel i’m grounding him
I was under the impression that the writers were wishy-washy about that sort of thing. Sort of a ‘it functionally works this way, but varies as the plot demands.’ CyborgMarx has pointed out it definitely gets a reference in an episode.
Modelled after Doctors Without Borders, it sends practitioners to developing countries to administer the pseudoscience of homeopathy
something so haunting about wealthy westerners flying around the world to underprivileged or economically underdeveloped areas and, i guess applying salves or some shit?
ghoulish
So healing spells more often elicit surprised reactions than not. Makes one wonder: are healing spells accessible? They’re cheap for the player and seem easy enough to forage for on your own. You have to assume they’re not, because people generally still suffer in this universe, and healer is like, a profession.
But what about the reactions of its physical sensation? A companion remarks that it feels nice and another remarks that it feels like just waking up from a nap. Do you think there’s possibility for recreational heal spell usage? Maybe you pair it up with Skooma/other in-universe ‘narcotics’ for a nice combo buzz that heals away the damage from the drugs.
This is a common misconception about doctors without borders. It’s not that they operate independently of a nation, or that they are awaiting to form a nation. It’s just, there’s supposed to also be a complementary group known as the Militaires Sans Frontières, and the two groups would combine into one to make 2/3’s of a nation. Unfortunately, this complementary group manifested in the wrong reality and is part of the reason we’re in the worst timeline.
I always liked to imagine the federation had a separate economic system for trading with capitalist coded races in Star Trek. Basically an isolated, pretend command economy where, for the purposes of importing/exporting, all of these whacky alternative currencies are accepted and then immediately melted down into whatever the replicator uses. The federation operates at a loss while trading this way but the loss is ideologically justified by eventually converting the species into a federation member that will convert to trek’s brand of fully automated communism.
The Ferengi’s free market ideology is baked into their religion so they’re this one annoying stubborn species that the federation can’t flip, and the Ferengi continue interacting with the federation because they understand this system and continue to take advantage of it.
All of this headcanon serves to make any and all references to currency make sense when I watch Trek. Makes the gold-pressed latinum conundrum a sort of paternalistic struggle between the federation, trying to uplift the Ferengi, and the Ferengi government who just wants to keep hoarding shiny metals.
“Yes, sure, we’ll accept your…two tonnes of worthless metal, sure. Have you given any further thought to our aid programs…?”
feeling for the two houses built next to the church in an all-white neighborhood. they better not park their cars on the street
your tesla steers into a group of children crossing the street b/c its grok-based brain deduced it was a woke mob of protestors attempting to box you in. you try to apply the brakes but grok has a prompt hardcoded in urging it to not shy away from politically incorrect actions. seven children are instantly killed and another two are splattered across your windshield. your tesla dings that its time to replace the wiper fluid.
elon retweets the news story weeks later with a one word reply. another twitter user asks grok if its true. grok replies by questioning the veracity of the holocaust
That’s great. I can find it just as funny without feeling genuinely sad.
the hell hahaha, what is the context of the original clip? is it satire? this is one of the best worst takes i’ve ever witnessed. usually leftists get chided for reading too many books and obsessing about theory. guess the standards change when it comes time to actually do something
Heard you. VLC is legendary software. I’ve been using the same media player for 20 years. No enshittification. Use it to watch movies on my computer, to listen to music on my phone. Hell, I’ll use it to trim a video if I’m feeling lazy. I’ll probably be using it for another 20 years.
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pretty banger video. i wanna keep an eye out on this channel, though game dev stuff usually isn’t my jam.
They called me a Redditor, and suddenly I was trapped in a small red room where every upvote echoed like a scream from another dimension. A sickly, flickering glow from a basement monitor. There is light in the world, but not here.
One great benefit of the stop killing games initiative is the spotlight being put onto EULA’s. we all knew this is the wild shit EULA’s tried to dictate for years now, but now we have media actually reporting on it. even if SKG goes nowhere, at least we’ve had a revival of this massive consumer issue.
grounded 2 came out. first one was a special game for me n my boys so we’re hyped up like we’re teenagers again. too bad it runs like shit atm