Civ 3 was my first civ. I loved putting like a 100 units on the same tile.

I was thinking of civ 6 specifically though.

I have such a nuanced opinion of Nintendo.

I would prefer to pay for high prices to a company that has the reputation of “consistently fun no matter what (unless its online)”.

Why? Because I am tired of paying a ‘good’ price for other media (or any goods/services) with a bunch of hidden aggressive enshitification. I know that when I buy mario kart, I am getting mario kart.

Can’t say the same for most other stuff, especially AAA video games. Nintendo might ask for high prices, but they deliver their product. And that is what I was promised in a capitalist economy, but rarely get it. So I am ‘happy’ as long as Nintendo doesn’t screw me individually.

BUT!!!

Fuck Nintendo for what they have done historically to the smash community. I won’t forget.

Damn I love building railway systems in civ for my army. Something so satisfying about it.

The heart from your hate in my ass

Does anyone know about any other self-hosted/open source projects that are like this? As in, “everyone” could find these useful?

Other ones I know about are Mealie (cookbook) and Warracker (Warranty Tracker).

Yeah no shit. Then the new ones literally have less features than the old one. Like connecting SharePoint calendars

New games just don’t have a ‘punch’ to it anymore. They are not not game breaking anymore.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with old games either. They are the same as they were, which is why reboots and remakes are so popular.

My prediction is that Silksong will be a Nintendo Switch 2 launch title or something similar.

Step 1: put in touchscreens Step 2: touchscreens good because = smart Step 3: … Step 4: Profit?

Who knew you could just gaslight our AI overlords?

This is Not the Onion territory.

If only we had regulations…

Smash Bros Ult - I probably have played over 2k hours playing online and tournaments.

GIVE ME PATCH 8 ALREADY I HAVE BEEN WAITING SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR!!!

Home assistant

AI as a search engine is terrible.

Because if you treat it as such, it will just look at the first result, which is usually wrong or has incomplete info.

If you give the AI a source document, then it is amazing as a search engine. But if the source doc is the entire internet… its fucking bad.

Shit quality in, shit quality out. And we/corporations have made the internet abundant of shit.

Home assistant is currently in development for their own prebuilt ‘Alexas’. But they are only in their ‘preview’ stage for selected devs and influencers. No announced target date when it is commercially available.

I started self hosting AI to learn more about it, and I have come to the conclusion that it really depends on the AI if its bad or not.

For instance, Google’s AI results and just literal dog shit. It is just so factually bad its incredible even. Microsoft also sucks. And this is why everyone doesn’t like AI. The two most common ways people see AI (Google search and Windows 11) is just complete horse shit. They should not roll them out, absolutely disastrous decision on their part all because they were feeling FOMO. For example, I asked microsoft’s AI if the ‘New’ outlook had this feature from ‘classic’ outlook. It said it did. An hour later, I found it didn’t actually have that feature. Fucking ridiculous that Microsoft’s own AI doesn’t know their own software. Embarrassing. Did they not give it their own documentation?

But ‘dedicated’ AI like ChatGPT and Deepseek I can trust to be factual with a 95% success rate. Current events is it’s worse subject.

If we had actual regulation here this would be illegal for distracting driving.

Illegal to look at phone (I know everyone does it and isn’t enforced, but still illegal on paper) but not illegal to watch this short message from our sponsors?

I hate living through a bad joke. Much rather read about this shit and laugh then wondering what the next stupid thing is.

I just don’t get why they haven’t put AI in the already established ‘assistants’ yet.

Why isn’t siri or google home not integrated? Why make new things instead of improving the tech you already have?

If I had to guess, its either because of branding, or because they know it doesn’t work that well yet. Probably both.

Good article, does bring up concerns. But I don’t like this argument.

Though this content could flourish in pockets of the fediverse, the scary scenario of prevalent child sexual abuse material is not the case.

It assumes that non-fediverse sites don’t have this problem. But the few articles I read about this news, Facebook is usually the way they share this disgusting content. So while yes we need to do something to stop it, it is not like traditional social media has solved it either.