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The US military is in a hot engagement with China

What do you mean by that? Almost gave me a heart attack reading that in the News Mega.

EDIT: Didnt see the “Imagine:” before it.

When I see photos like these I always go and find the nicest summer picture I can find of it.

£10 Million to build a device that John Kellogg invented over 100 years ago

For those of you who dont know, this is a vibrating chair designed to make you shit yourself that John Kellogg, famous religious health enthusiast and creator of the anti-masturbatory cereal Corn Flakes, invented in the early 1900s to encourage intestinal peristalsis, AKA extreme shitting.

These are the posts I come to Hexbear for, and its kind of crazy how hard they are to find. That Venezuela thread should have like 50 comments and have been on the front page but I never even saw it. These highlight posts are definitely something I hope continue.

Im afraid modern technology cannot yet replicate the almost human features of the NI pubgoer, but they would probably look like an older version of this combined with a younger version of this

Also any location specific is guaranteed to be at least 50% americans pretending they are from there.

Self made “Energy Crisis” as an excuse to raise the prices and gather subsidies but then the prices never go down again, they become the new normal. What happens to all these data centres when the AI “industry” falls apart?

Its a movie I come back to quite a lot, obviously there is no deep political discussion going on but its definitely worth a watch.

Good idea, I also went and lowered the resoloution (56k Warning!) Im not sure I’ll keep it up for that long though I’m not a very frequent poster but your signature just got me nostalgic for the complete type shit you would see in signature banners.

Honestly I’d rather have a new game from any of Valves other game series before Half Life, Portal 3, TF3, Left For Dead 3. Deadlock already is kind of their honest attempt at TF3 by combining MOBAs with Overwatch. I always wished that Valve had taken a more direct interest in the games that came from Half Life mods. Really what Im saying is I wish Valve would make NMRIH 2 good.

Forum signatures and custom pronouns are the only thing Hexbear is missing IMO

Reading one of the interview articles Gilligan sums up the concept as “The most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness.” From that I can see it going either way, perhaps affirming that negative emotions are a defining characteristic of human life, or the opposite. Carols wife was definitely a sponge for her negative emotions and I think now that the only people she is left with either wont or literally cant handle negativity (For now, I suspect her mirror in Paraguay will show up in some point to give her a taste of her own medicine) she is beginning to spiral. I suspect next episode she will begin to take advantage of the hive mind in an attempt to push it to its limits.

https://www.polygon.com/pluribus-episode-3-chatgpt-ai-vince-gilligan/

But Vince Gilligan says that wasn’t what he was thinking of when he wrote Pluribus. In fact, when he first came up with the idea for the series, ChatGPT didn’t even exist.

“I wasn’t really thinking of AI,” he says, “because this was about eight or 10 years ago. Of course, the phrase ‘artificial intelligence’ certainly predated ChatGPT, but it wasn’t in the news like it is now.”

However, Gilligan says that doesn’t invalidate my theory.

“I’m not saying you’re wrong,” he continues. “A lot of people are making that connection. I don’t want to tell people what this show is about. If it’s about AI for a particular viewer, or COVID-19 — it’s actually not about that, either — more power to anyone who sees some ripped-from-the-headlines type thing.”

Seehorn takes it one step further, suggesting that the beauty of Gilligan’s work is how well its relatable storytelling maps onto whatever subject the viewer might be grappling with at the moment.

“One of the great things about his shows is that, at their base, they are about human nature,” she says. “He’s not writing to themes, he’s not writing to specific topics or specific politics or religions or anything. But you are going to bring to it where you’re at when you’re watching.”

Gilligan has been pretty explicit I believe that the show was not written with AI in mind. I see alot of people drawing this comparison from the newest episode, but honestly I just think no one has any clue where the show is going right now.

Also paywalls, so many articles get posted on this site behind paywalls with no archive link that it makes me wonder if the poster actually reads them (not related to this post specifically).

The turn towards marketing VR headsets as essentially a big screen steam deck was definitely something I saw coming. When the Index was first launched the VR market was very nascent, but nowadays the Quest has dictated the standard. High-End VR will always have a niche among the sim and enthusiast community, but right now the majority of VR is happening on a Quest, they are being sold at a loss to ensure that. Those dreams of AAA VR games are gone and now if it cant run on a standalone Quest 2 you may as well not bother to make it. Valve is pretty much the only ones who can challenge the Quest in any way with their steam compatability. You can see this in how it is being advertised, the VR games are an afterthought, this is essentially a slightly better Quest 3 with dedicated steam compatibility.

Interesting to see how it plays out, alot of which depends on the pricing. But as a VR user with no interest in flat screen gaming with it I will probably stick to the Index, the built in headphones (which are fantastic, any VR headset could be instantly improved by adding Index’s sound system to it), top strap and controllers (The new ones aren’t even rechargeable!) are not worth losing for a very slight upgrade in resolution and wireless.

EDIT: After watching the entire PC Gamer review, The main focus seems to be on streaming with minimal lag from a PC, and the speaker system does seem a little more sophisticated with a set of back speakers too.

begin the countdown clock for breaking news that Hollywood is making Sniper Tourists - a movie based on real events.

Bacurau (2019) is a Brazillian movie about rich tourists trying to wipe a rural town off the map for sport. It was a great movie and I would recommend it.

Connolly only won because there was pretty much no other sane candidate to vote for. Her very moderate views on NATO and Russia would have made her impossible to elect if FF or FG hadn’t basically ceded the election to her with their candidate choices.