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Artist, theatrical performer, roller derby announcer, and former derby skater in the Midwest.

Single, childless, and married to my my freedom and sense of adventure.

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Happened a few times under Trump, like when the US redeployed from Syria, doing the right thing for the wrong reasons, that is.

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This is the stuff people need to remember whenever Congress and other federal politicians make exorbitant promises this fall. What they’re actually going to do is make your lives harder.

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The original Resident Evil was pretty revolutionary and terrifying for me, but the 100% scariest I’ve played is the original Dead Space.

More recently, The Outlast Trials is really good, and I would HIGHLY recommend any of the Dark Pictures Anthology games, but my favorite is Man of Medan.

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More like bots, really. Threads had a huge user influx but also a ton of inorganic activity.

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you gotta assume they’ll eventually hire and fire/lose all the usable talent

I’d like to think that, but Amazon has the benefit (at least in the US) of operating in a country where most people need 2-3 jobs in order to live, so it’s either churn-and-burn or starve.

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Yeah, it is.

Could even get Trump reelected in a few months. Super bleak.

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Video games as a narrative vehicle have come a long way.

Go try ‘Detroit: Become Human’ or ‘Man of Medan’ or ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’. The stories in gaming are GD amazing.

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I’m curious as to how the fundraising for Palestine actually benefits the situation. Is it even possible to get charitable donations in?

Calls Mount for U.S. to Investigate, Hold Israel Accountable for Killing Turkish-American Activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi (www.democracynow.org)

The body of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, the 26-year-old Turkish American activist who was killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, has arrived in Turkey ahead of her funeral. On Thursday, Ayşenur’s father, Mehmet Suat Eygi, praised Turkey for investigating the killing and called on the U.S. to do the same....

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I wouldn’t hold your breath waiting on that, honestly.

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Agreed. The headline made it sound like the deceased person was injected or something.

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Compared to the US, very hefty.

Is it enough, though? I can’t say if it is or not, but my gut tells me it’s not enough.

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Mostly Neverwinter Nights.

We’ve had more active players on the server I DM for, so I’ve been popping in more often to run quests and ambience for all the newbies.

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Not blaming the victim here, just glad I have different habits.

Stories like this make me glad I’m not one of those people glued to my phone 24/7.

It’s way harder to snatch it when it’s in your pocket.

But the fun of these stories is when someone writes an article about the thieves trying to scam the victim into giving up their codes. That’s always amusing.

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Fair point.

Let me be perfectly clear that I think you should be able to look at your phone 24/7 without getting robbed.

Still glad I don’t, though.

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To be clear: I 100% think people should be able to enjoy their things without being robbed, public or no.

I’m not amused, just glad I have different habits.

U.S. School Monitoring Software Sacrifices Student Privacy for Unproven Promises of Safety, Digital Rights Says (www.eff.org)

Imagine your search terms, key-strokes, private chats and photographs are being monitored every time they are sent. Millions of students across the U.S. don’t have to imagine this deep surveillance of their most private communications: it’s a reality that comes with their school districts’ decision to install AI-powered...

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Yeah, that’ll be misused. Without a doubt.

What an awful development.

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Barf.

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I love the idea of using AI as tool for studying the past, because conceivably, you can train it on every piece of art and writing a particular civilization ever produced and it can analyze that information in a more thorough and efficient way than a human. In my head I hope it’s possible to see ancient cities, or dinosaurs, or battles in historically accurate (and safe) VR experiences one day.

The problem is, as we’ve seen, AI tools are trained on garbage and stolen IP and none of the companies producing these tools care to differentiate between junk and good data, so the information these systems produce is always going to require human validation.

What then is the point? Yes, the image may be pretty and look suitably historic, but we can’t really trust a tool trained on shit not to spit out bad information.

Misinformation: Baseless claim about U.S. presidential candidate Kamala Harris crash spread by mysterious website (www.bbc.com)

A story posted on a mysterious website has been widely circulated on social media after it made a baseless claim that Kamala Harris - the Democratic presidential nominee - was involved in an alleged hit-and-run incident....

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I don’t need fake stories, myself.

To me, electing someone who is famous for prosecuting non-violent drug users and truants en masse when our government is becoming increasingly more fascist by the day seems incredibly ill-advised.

But this is America. Ill-advised is what we do. You drink the unhealthy, uber-sugary soda and just ignore how unhealthy it is because Coke slapped a picture of a Marvel superhero on the can. We’ve demonstrated that we care more about the packaging than the actual product.

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Electing someone who believes that we should have laws and enforce them is exactly what we should do.

That is an exceedingly euphemistic statement about Harris’ career.

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Yes, I am.

And I’d suggest that you use a defense other than: “Their guy is as bad as our guy.”

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Please read what I wrote again. The answer’s already there.

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I have all of my apps set to “ask every time” but I think we should all assume these apps and your phone provider and manufacturer are acting in bad faith.

Luckily I have an external step counter and alarm clock, so I don’t need my phone to be on most of the time.

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A week ago these same people were striking in support of rapist soldiers.

Israel is a sick country.

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Oddly enough. nothing.

I’m on vacation and I’m planning to start Zoria: Age of Shattering and to pick Solasta: Palace of Ice back up.

I’m in the mood for CRPG’s based on D&D.

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Sorry for the double post, but I DID play something new this week: The demo for the Casting of Frank Stone.

LOVED IT.

It’s a narrative horror game and those tend to be out of my price range at the start, because I only buy a game if I get at least an hour of play time per dollar spent, but still, it’s spooky and fantastic.

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I loved the atmosphere and general gameplay, but HATED how they reused so many of the areas, some multiple times.

I hope we get another one someday, but with more work put into the level design.

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It’s nice to see that some non-US countries are willing to stand up to this fascist turd.

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Cali is correct.

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Oh no.

Suppressing fascism.

Awful.

Let me grab my tissues.

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Poop in, poop out.

These lazy bastards need to be more selective about their training data.

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Precisely.

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Looks rad!

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It’s wild how much he’s done to piss on his own legacy. Just a few short years ago he was considered a quirky visionary.

Not anymore, but it’s not like anyone will ever be honest with him to his face, which must be really nice.

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I do.

The only product of his I wish I’d bought.

Will Google’s Monopoly Be Vanquished? (prospect.org)

In many ways, we’re right back to where we were during the last major monopolization case against Microsoft in the late 1990s. From the time Microsoft first lost in 2000 to when it struck a settlement in 2001, legal challenges, tech lobbying, and the turnover of presidential administrations into more tech-friendly hands all...

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Is that a rhetorical question?

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I think that trying to please everyone is generally a bad idea, especially when it comes to niche social justice issues and identity, because everyone thinks their personal rules are universal these days.

With that said, body type over gender is step in the right direction.

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I LOVE stealth games.

Such great fun, even if a tad stressful to pull off at times.

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Origins was my favorite entry in the series, personally.

I’m still playing Caveblazers. Can’t believe I’ve gotten almost 10 hours out of a game I got for 99 cents, but it’s fun.

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LOL at the comments suggesting nothing should be done because this is hard to enforce.

That reasoning is why we don’t have legal abortion, universal health care, a living wage, or term limits.

Some things may be hard to do. It’s no excuse not to try.

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Meanwhile the guy who perpetrated the My Lai massacre just died in peace at the ripe old age of 80 and only ever served a year of house arrest.

Awesome.

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Least favorite - Joycons. They make my hands ache, and I hate that to enjoy my switch I have to have a 3rd-party grip.

Favorite - my Lenovo legion laptop, which has given me for excellent years of service. I’m going to upgrade to a newer model later this year and keep this one, install Linux on it, and make it a Linux-only machine for better privacy in using the Web.

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I appreciate the offer.

I ran a dual boot Mint install on my main PC for two months and it was just too buggy. I had to switch back to full Windows, but I know it’s an issue with Nvidia and some distros have been Nvidia compatibility, so when I make the switch again I’m just going to use a different one.

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Is it truly open-world? You can just go anywhere?

I’ve been thinking of trying it out.

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Yet another reason to use Brave, which has better native ad block than any of the other browsers.

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Brave is still Chroium

And yet, it does a better job blocking YouTube ads than Firefox, without any add-ons.

Crypto, Ads

Those features are opt-in.

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They are now.

That’s what I don’t get with the Anti-Brave crowd. Brave learns their users don’t like a feature and then they do better. This would, to me, be indicative of the way things should proceed.

Meanwhile Firefox is moving backwards.

By all means, use a browser that doesn’t work as well, but maybe don’t run a circle jerk of trolls whenever someone offers a better-working alternative.

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