https://youtu.be/n-NnxdZqPOE

Time isn’t holding up. Time isn’t after us.

The argument is that they are both simply tools. It’s completely wrong, but that’s what it is.

Not just alive, but with proper data extrapolation, there should be one more of you every almost 30 years.

There will be millions of you around by then!

The remake is being handled by a third party, and it’s unclear so far what they’ve been allowed to do besides replace the graphics rendering with Unreal Engine 5. It’s all reportedly still Creation Engine under the hood.

Considering that Bethesda refused to roll in the community bug fixes with their rereleases of Skyrim, it’s likely that it will have all the bugs of the original.

Cool, I was wondering what all the stuff about food forests lately were talking about

95%, as they’ve already done that for the last Skyrim rereleases and Fallout 4.

That and the Air Ride sequel man. All I can hope is that people get emulators going fast.

Unfortunate to see that they haven’t tested with xash3d or the like. I’d be especially interested in the ray tracing fork of xash being supported.

Improved lighting does wonders for old games, imo.

When the protests against scientology happened. Long before it was sold. Long before MAGA or the politics board were even a concept. It didn’t die immediately from them, but it was the start of a measurable drop in discussion quality that never stopped.

The “protests” devolved into some of the cringiest irl meetups of online communities I have ever come across (yes, worse than dashcon), and it caused so much media attention that it accelerated the “eternal september” problem the site always had exponentially.

Motherfuckers forgot the golden rule about “hiding your power level”, which at the time at least meant doing your best to appear relatively normal in public and went full “I’m a horribly socially maladjusted mess with bad hygiene who can only communicate via tired memes, look at me! Look at me! I know memes! Haha longcat is long am I right?”.

A lot of people remember the cringe of reddit’s “When does the narwhal bacon?” forced meme attempt at the world’s most embarassing “secret pass phrase” bullshit. The scientology “protests” were significant orders of magnitude more cringe.

4chan was never a secret club, but the sheer agressiveness of non-tolerance towards obviously new posters helped to maintain a very low bar of “quality”. I’d argue that’s needed to maintain any semblance of a community on an entirely anonymous image board that has minimal moderation. Shitty threads would get saged relentlessly, eating up the maximum comments a thread could have and drowning out any discussion in the shitty thread, all without bumping it back up to the top. Hit the reply limit and the thread slides off the bottom, gone forever.

“Lurk moar, faggot” was the phrase of the time. Stop posting until you figure out how things work around here.

But as more and more people unfamiliar with what shitty community existed came in, there hit a point where they outnumbered the old guard, and the already low quality of discussion tanked.

/b/ used to have discussion threads about all sorts of shit. Actual thought provoking stuff now and then. Funny stories. Occasionally legitimately good OC. It was the breeding ground for most of the memes and meme formats that spread to the internet at large. Mudkipz, rickrolling, EFG (the progenitor of trollface and rage comics), lolcats, advice animals. All /b/.

Now it is almost entirely people sharing photos of women they know that they’ve downloaded off the ladies’ social media accounts to jerk off to. Previously they would have been chased off to the dedicated porn (or softcore) boards using fire, pitchforks, and spam of the most digusting images the internet had until the posters got the message. Or at the very least they would have been bullied into a single thread at a time instead of taking over almost every thread on the board.

Instead it has all devolved to the absolute lowest common denominator.

/b/ (and by extension 4chan as a whole) has always been a cesspit. I’m not trying to deny that. There’s screenshots out there of it back when the post count hadn’t breached 1000 that show that it was shit even in the very very beginning. Back when it was almost exclusively m00t, W.T. Snacks, and their friends from Something Awful. That said, it used to be engaging to scroll through because you could stumble upon some legitimately good discussion. It hasn’t been worth even trying to look for good discussion on /b/ for well over a decade.

The retro videogames board was a brief shining return to quality for a few years after it was created, even managed to find, back up, and translate some things that had been lost media. The DooM threads used to be the place to be for new DooM wads. Even that board’s pretty shit now too.

Cyberpunk has NPCs with some fun lines for this if you don’t choose options fast, and in some of the more intense scenes they have a countdown with limited time for you to respond before the conversation moves on.

Out of curiosity I’ve tried the AI feature in Paint (on my work computer) to erase something and use AI to fill in the background

I was removing a line between two items on a flowchart, background had diagonal colored lines in a regular repeating pattern (think college ruled paper at an angle).

Instead of connecting the lines in the background it seemed to just take an average of the pixel colors of the edge of what I erased and fill it in with that average color. Such intelligence!

I’ll let you in on some reality about sysadmins: we generally don’t care what you’re doing until it causes problems. Clearly this guy’s amount of traffic did.

So yeah, absolutely. This is normal and reasonable.

It has to be against the rules for situations exactly like this where OP should be using a seedbox. But generally, they have better things to do than track down every little minor rule abuse.

Like playing their own pirated games while wfh. Or fixing other problems. Most teams of people who support shit like this are understaffed.

For instance, I’m sure that people are using my work network for all sorts of shit. I’ve seen people streaming Netflix to their desks. We lock down what we can, and don’t worry about shit until we have to because it’s causing a problem. Like years ago when someone streamed Netflix at an old location with I think only a T1 connection, saturated the network connection, and then no one could access anything on the network.

Most people don’t go around looking for reasons to enforce the rules. They use them when they have to because there’s a problem.

And that’s the only reason I’m even vaguely considering picking up a Switch 2 around launch.

That said, even with a gen 1 Switch, booting into the CFW is just enough of a pain that I don’t do it often. Gotta grab the shim for the rail, plug it into something that can deliver the payload… ugh.

I miss the days of Wii and PSP homebrew. No online shit to get banned from, no special booting techniques. 3DS cfw came pretty close in terms of ease of use.

That said, being able to pirate games directly from the 3DS and Switch was a big step up from having to transfer files over to the memory card (PSP) or effectively needing a dedicated external HDD/partition (Wii). Even if it was slow as hell and couldn’t use my full internet speed.

Great to finally see my boy Jimmy Chug get some love! Don’t know how so many directors get away with leaving him out of the credits.

I know Nuts N Bolts wasn’t what anyone wanted from a Banjo Kazooie 3, but I think the rendition of Spiral Mountain in itwas beautiful. I’d love a remake of the first two in that style!

Yeah, I think they went a little too hard with Crash 4. I understand wanting to make sure there was a reason to play it instead of the remakes, but sometimes it’s okay to just give players more of what already worked.

The amount of domain knowledge to even begin to parse what the fuck you’re talking about is absurd.

Secondly, why would anyone want this?

I’m glad you’ve found yet another project to look nice for your github portfolio, but maybe be up front about that instead of drowning everyone in near gibberish and what seems like poorly written advertisement.

“Hey, I’ve made another quasi-social media network leveraging the fediverse, AI, and a programming language made to resemble normal english. Check it out!”

Otherwise this is just blatant buzzword salad. I’m going to guess you’re also using AI to get project idea involving the latest buzzwords? Maybe even using AI to write this psuedo ad-copy?

Again, more power to you if you’re trying to build a portfolio/github/resume where you can say that you’ve “created numerous projects leveraging federated social media and AI”, but just be up front about what you’re doing when you post about it here please.

No one needs more shit pretending to be something it isn’t. It’s okay for your little portfolio project to be just that.

Is joke.

Sorry, I don’t have anything off hand. I know there has been some stories by research groups about how it’s measurably increasing security issues in codebases, but I don’t have any links.

You might also want to ask in the pinned weekly thread on !techtakes@awful.systems as they seem to be more active than this comm. It’s about making fun of all the “techbro takes” online, but I’ve seen people ask for similar help in the weekly thread and get assistance before.

Part of the problem is that most companies aren’t publicly sharing failure stories for anything, let alone failures of the latest hype thing.

You might be able to find some stories on the more “greybeard” oriented tech news sites like the register as well.

Doing trade routes in solo mode is considerably less engaging, but is still a great zen thing for me while I listen to podcasts or half watch something.