This seems like a maliciously put headline to make people feel a certain way. Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.

The more I read of the Daggerheart book, the more I'm convinced this is a perfect RPG for me. I'm running a game for the first time next weekend and it's gonna rule

'Mario Tennis Fever' will involve swinging a racket to hit a ball across a net.

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Okay this is a weird thing but does anyone know where that "ayyy it's a podcast" thing started? I've heard tons of people do it on a bunch of different kinds of shows. Somehow it's become a thing everyone just knows, but I have absolutely no clue where it came from originally.

google seems to have the worst 2FA system around. it insists on prompting the youtube app on a phone i no longer own, even though i've removed it from my account. so any time i sign in, it's 20 minutes of trying to coax my account into pinging a different device.

I got Daggerheart, the TTRPG published by Critical Role (which I'm not a big fan of personally!), on a whim because some people recommended it and it wasn't very expensive. After reading up on it and skimming the book, it actually seems kinda perfect for me and the games I run.

Near beating Baldur's Gate 3 and I wanna play another fantasy CRPG, what should I play next? Divinity Original Sin? Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous? Planescape Torment? Pillars of Eternity?

One of the major evils of capitalism that isn't being discussed enough is that I have a tummy ache and still have to be at work

@meysq.com have you tried Orion on iOS recently? I’ve been using it for a couple days since it’s been a while and it’s actually stable for me! It’s nice! I’m gonna try it out on Mac for a bit and see how it goes

I hate when podcasts and YouTube videos try and Do A Bit with ads. I don't care! This isn't funny! You're just making me extra annoyed because it's taking MORE time away from the thing I'm actually here for!

giving up on trying to Be Good and not save scum in BG3. It's my first play through, I'm gonna experiment and reload if disaster strikes lol

reminder that america is an evil institution and the american people need to be able to say that in order to begin fixing anything

like 8 hours into Baldur's Gate 3 and my main thought so far is that they really nailed how D&D as a system has too much combat and not enough roleplaying

imo internet culture peaked at The Gummy Bear Song

I barely remember watching this show, but I know I had a book from it that was like “A Guide to Martians” or something, and I remember getting in trouble for reading it during church

Just started Baldur's Gate 3 and damn, Lae'zel is a fuckin cunt huh

I think I'm gonna dual boot my steam deck for the tiny handful of games that don't work on Proton/Crossover

One of the best to ever do it

Why are microSD prices fucked up now too

I have two devices left in my life that use USB micro-B, and they're both used so infrequently that it's a nightmare to find a cable when I need one, but both are too expensive to replace. I should invest in C to micro-B adapters.

I genuinely believe that if you don’t listen to rap music that your brain is less wrinkly than it could be. Buy a Young Thug album. It won’t fucking kill you. Don’t be a baby.

Idk what it is about Palworld but that game has me hooked. I can play for hours, when I can't sit with a game for longer than 45m or sl normally. I think it's got the Minecraft thing of always having another little task to do, plus cool monsters? That's the best explanation I can come up with so far

someone should buy me a playdate tbh

I’ve said it and I believe it is true There is a willful forgetting and suppression of the memory of the hundreds of protests that shook this nation for the past decade and a half. So while Canadians and European laypeople whine “Americans don’t do anything,” the Americans are actively suppressed

I hate genAI but we really can't be fighting it by bolstering copyright law. Contemporary copyright law is archaic and needs a complete rewrite, if not full abolition, and that's true with or without genAI!!

Cassette Beasts players: I just realized I own it on both iOS and Steam. I know there's not cross-platform sync, so is the iOS (iPad specifically) version good or should I stick to the PC version? Also is it decent in CrossOver on Mac or do y'all recommend playing it on Steam Deck instead?

the future is stupid. what do you *mean* there's a software update for my controller, and that i can't install it because i don't have specific hardware??

Sign of times changing: My 6yo cousin is over for Christmas, I handed him Minecraft to keep him busy, and he had no idea how to play it.

Finished the new Pluribus: it's decent! It's set up to be a good second season, but with how long they take to make a season of TV, I'm not sure I'll actually remember enough to care when that second season comes. I think this whole first season is the first 3-4 episodes of a better show.

i'm gonna admit something vulnerable and i need everyone to be cool: i think that the despicable me and minion movies are actually pretty fun. i'm not saying the minions aren't overused in marketing and boomer memes and shit, but those movies are heartwarming and joyful.

A lot of people who think they've deconstructed or left Christianity still read the Bible the same way hardline Evangelicals do: as a univocal text that cannot be flawed, lest it invalidate the entire thing. They run different directions with this, but it's still the same approach.

when i got my first mechanical keyboard it was all about clicks and clacks, now i hear these people talking about "thocky" and "creamy" and i feel like abe simpson

You'd think that after 3 years sober I'd stop thinking "I should get wasted right now" every day. And yet!

They should make cigarettes but good for you

a ufo! i learned a little bit about lights (i still do not understand them), materials, and the array modifier

i can't explain how big this video was for me and my friends when we were 12 www.youtube.com/watch?v=4txV...

The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks

i never used google stadia so idk if it was any good or not, but god damn, the controller rules. I got one from a friend after the service shut down and it's become my favorite controller

my brain is broken such that when my main 1TB drive has 350GB left, I think "oh I'm running low, I need to free up space", ignoring that I have several terabytes available on external drives

has anyone played the Mac-native version of Palworld and compared the performance to playing it through Crossover? I really like the game and I'm trying to decide if it's worth buying a second time lol

For some reason no one in my home seems to understand that when I am doing a task and have headphones on, I'm not listening to you and it would actually be really annoying to stop me so that you can tell me about what's happening in your Netflix show or whatever

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

I donated to my local Special Olympics once and since then I've been getting nearly weekly letters from them asking for more money, PLUS they seem to have sent my info to both St Jude's and the Wounded Warrior Project, because I've started getting letters from them too

Just watched Wake Up Dead Man, really good movie! I think I prefer it to Glass Onion, though the first Knives Out is still so perfect to me. I will say, though, that I don't think we got enough of the suspects in this one, and also that Mila Kunis felt like a miscast.

between the "living in a desert" and "having three dogs", the dust and fur is an endless nightmare for me. no surface is ever truly clean. i have given up on the monitors and the eyeglasses.

Every time I walk into the local vintage store my friend works at and he's behind the counter, I feel like we're characters in a sitcom and I've just entered the scene

I know it shouldn't bug me but sometimes I see people refer to Texas as the Southwest and it's not. At least not all of it. I'll give El Paso a pass, maybe even Odessa, but Austin, Dallas, Houston? That's not the Southwest. (This post inspired by VCF Southwest being in Dallas for some reason)

8 episodes in and Pluribus is finally getting interesting!