Did one of my old favorite mechs from MechWarrior 4

Finally going back to Library of Ruina and just turning on cheat mods because while Project Moon does write really great characters and this wonderful horror setting their games are some of the least pleasant things to play I've ever encountered. Which sucks because I can see the solid bones here.

Wow this absolutely nails a nagging feeling I've so often had.

The fundamental issue with AI is that you can use it to augment and get much better product out for your time or you can get much shittier work out for almost no time and a tremendous amount of managers are slamming their various squishy bits down hard on doing #2.

the image that will send a thousand Star Wars fans into palpitations (positive)

How regional is Escalator Etiquette? In DC it's stand on the right, walk on the left. You can always tell a tourist because they'll put their big suitcase on the right and stand directly next to it and block the whole escalator. But is this a thing in say, NYC?

I think the two kitchen gadgets I have which aren't standard fare (eg toaster/microwave/coffee machine) that are self justifying are my rice cooker and my instant pot. They're just so damn useful that they make themselves space even in my tiny little kitchen.

I think we can get to C3 but it will require work to move there from A3. That said I don't think there's really a meaningful divide between A2 and A3; it is absolutely a powerful and important new technology but it's also overhyped to some degree!

Kind of wild it took this long, I guess they finally decided Steamboxes of various stripes were getting deep enough that they had real competition for couch players?

An incredibly large amount of ones that imply she's about to have a walk or dinner. A vanishingly small amount that resolve to her doing something she didn't already want to do

Ice Cream trucks should play a jingle version of Rocky Road to Dublin

I feel like there should be a Time of Death tracker for Live Service games that hits 0:00 once "thanks to the devs and players for being a wonderful community" posts start to be visible on its reddit.

We played La Marseillaise for French expats and refugees at American owned bars, as documented by Michael Curtiz's seminal work.

IR theorists simply lack the drive and hustle that real academia calls for. Etymologists wake up every day thinking today is when they can find a cool new bug to name after themselves. Why aren't the IR Realists rushing to dub Real Stupid Idiot theory? The talk circuit alone!

The Grand Poobah will see you now

Decided to try and get back into writing by blogging about my clicky clacky math rock hobby sumassemblyrequired.substack.com/p/face-value

...yeah, if you had asked me what song Grok would spam this jives intensely.

Working on a blog post I threw at Claude to see if I had any stupid bits and it actually got a huge chunk of its response incorrect... But then had a single nugget of insight that was actually pretty useful for refining my idea

I think I'm much nicer in person because text dehumanizes but also my main form of meanness is being sardonic and that just works better face to face.

Can you just remake them with spiffy CGI and drone shots and replace the original? Despite Disney's best efforts I'd say you can make a lot of money but not replace in canon, therefore they are Books and not Video Games.

The most Millennial song is Flip Out Like A Ninja and if you know it you know why

Tried doing some yellow magic effects but eh, think the chest and face highlighting came out okay at least.

I think people world understand this easier if it was called Igor instead of Claude

So this ended up being a stupid quibble about if an election is when polls close or polls open and fuck, I think in terms of intent the bad guys have this one.

I'm glad he released this as well www.youtube.com/shorts/w0Z8j...

‘Dispute’, a quite impressive real picture captured by Polish photographer Jacek Stankiewicz, featuring two birds embroiled in what appears to be an animated argument. Original post

Your Uncle gives him a different answer; Germany only goes East in 1914, maintaining a defensive posture at the border of Belgium. The French government barely manages to hang together to go East themselves and finds themselves in a stalemate with a decaying public opinion. The British stay home.

It's darkly ironic how many leftists will tell you the 1 in 6 statistic from East Germany was a western lie while acting like they'd be trying to win the Stasi's informant of the month award

"Druid missed the session so her character is present but doesn't do anything" is just an absolutely perfectly done Bit. Wonderful film.

Have we considered sailing the Plague Ship through the Strait of Homuz as a way to break the stalemate?

I am still excited to see this but woof, not a great trailer.

Techno-Druids Cometh

Stormtroopers should be legitimately scary. The push towards "oh it's actually the cheapest, shittiest armor and they can't aim and they have no real training" you see toyed with over the years paper tiger's the Fist of the Empire while its greater institutions should be the weakness instead.

Little dude just came up to yell at me and my dog. Really a ShoutingAssholeBird more than Mocking

Vote Blue No Matter What means exactly what it says. If you don't live in Maine and thus you aren't even expected to vote you can just not post instead of going "but I didn't mean it to apply to me!"

Did a little #Battletech display board of the end of a very long campaign season

Spring!

I gotta know what colors Woke 2.0 is doing the J Edgar Hoover building in.

The late 1700s, in terms of inflection points are probably one of the worst for the Eastern European Jews. Everything just went to shit

Following Christ in the same way a poacher follows an elephant full of precious ivory.

Bunch of cowards, why don't they publish my Ode to Heroin, the Sweetest Smack instead of this small ball suicide.

A good piece, just kind of funny that ~decade ago I didn't get a job because I got into a minor argument that I didn't think the depressed energy demand would last. Didn't predict AI but went with Streaming/Video/EVs.

The thing with the focus group is that they are getting what they think the readers want to read, they're not unbiased samples of America. The actual story here isn't "look at the dumbasses who voted for Trump and regret it" but that the NYT thinks "they regretted voting for Trump" is the Narrative.

I play Warhammer there every year, it's not really much different from any other giant convention space other than not being modular? Lightning is kind of naff though

Can we normalize reading Infinite Jest?

Someone put in a quarter for a Continue

Wow the Anti Bedtime Caucus comes for Claude

They are settling so hard, so fast

The fundamental problem of social media is that it's too big and wants to be too big to be moderatable. I don't think this is unsolvable, but it would require the mod teams to just regularly put heads on pikes and corporations just don't seem to enjoy that in the same way forum mods did.