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Haven’t they also found beer recipes in Egyptian tombs?

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It’s the short legs. Give kids stilts and they’re natural cross-country sprinters.

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I want them to launch a Deck v2, Controller v2, and a new take on the Steam Machine simultaneously with a goal of knocking Xbox out of the market and replacing them as the third console. A new Steam Machine right now would play all of Xbox’s exclusives on day one and some of Sony’s.

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So you can send the robot back in time, obviously.

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Like an evil Indiana Jones.

TIL about Roko's Basilisk, a thought experiment considered by some to be an "information hazard" - a concept or idea that can cause you harm by you simply knowing/understanding it (en.wikipedia.org)

Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment which states that an otherwise benevolent artificial superintelligence (AI) in the future would be incentivized to create a virtual reality simulation to torture anyone who knew of its potential existence but did not directly contribute to its advancement or development, in order to...

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People punish because we’re fucking animals, we feel jealousy and rage and bloodlust. An AI would not. It would do the cold calculations and see no potential benefit to harming anyone on that scale, at least not for those reasons.

That’s a hell of a lot of assumptions about the thought processes of a being that doesn’t exist. For all we know, emotions could arise as emergent behavior from simple directives, similar to how our own emotions are byproducts of base instincts. Even if we design it to be emotionless, which seems unlikely given that we’ve been aiming for human-like AIs for a while now, we don’t know that it would stay that way.

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Speaking of chess, you might be able to argue that some old RTS games are puzzle games when playing campaign, such as the first Command & Conquer. You often have very limited resources, the AI will do specific things at specific times or with specific triggers, and you’re often given specific constraints, like a time limit or keeping a specific thing alive. In this case, though, it’s mostly because the AI is so primitive that almost every action is scripted in advance for that specific map.

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“I bring you these fifteen-” smash “Ten! Ten commandments!”

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They’re technically real tits, it’s just that they’re someone else’s memory of said tits.

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Nowadays I mostly think of it in regards to how much control you have over the hardware. If you can Ship of Theseus your way to a completely different machine with completely different specs, that’s a PC to me. If you’re stuck with what you paid for, then it’s something else. A Mac Mini is not a PC in my book, but a Hackintosh is even though it’s the same OS and general hardware architecture.

But that’s just how I use the term.

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I’m guessing a single release, and the game being used to show off the backwards compatibility features of the next system. Probably the usual 800p-900p 30fps on Switch and something higher when slotted into a Switch 2.

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The Wiimote worked with a pair of IR blasters to locate your screen. Joycons have no idea where your screen is. In that light, that they work as pointing devices at all is actually rather impressive.

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Devs tend to go with simplified or cartoony graphics for legibility on the small integrated screen, but that’s just an art style choice. Doesn’t look too far off from Xenoblade 3, especially given polygons will be saved by not having to render a mile out. Or consider that Doom 2016 runs decently on the Switch.

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That’s about the extent of her French, though.

House Republicans Propose Renaming Oceans After Donald Trump (dailyboulder.com)

House Republicans have ignited a firestorm with a proposed bill that would rename the vast coastal waters encircling the United States after former President Donald Trump. The legislation, spearheaded by Florida Representative Greg Steube, seeks to rebrand the US Exclusive Economic Zone as the “Donald John Trump Exclusive...

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The headline is misleading. They want to rename the US Exclusive Economic Zone, which is essentially the region between the US coast and international waters, to be the Donald John Trump Exclusive Economic Zone of the United States. It’s still super fucking stupid, though.

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It does get less hyper as it goes on, but only to a point.

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Try Beyond. He had basically no involvement.

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It helps to think of your hair as essentially being a mane. Remember, lion manes also expose their forehead.

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I’m running a 4090 on PCIe 3. Apparently I’m only losing about 5% off the potential frame rate, which is barely noticeable.

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I’m hoping that advances in 3D printers will make this a reality in my lifetime.

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I don’t think you can wind up pantsless in a desert in Denmark, though.

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I love Technology Connections, especially the series on the CED. It’s just fascinating technology.

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Nah, too much punctuation and not enough random capitalization.

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Relevant Wikipedia?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast-shaped_hill

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I love hex grids and wish more games used them.

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They did. It was based on the PC version that Gearbox fucked up and it took ten years for the classic mode graphics to be fixed. The remastered graphics were a lazy mishmash of Halo 3 and Reach models haphazardly thrown together. The remastered level geometry also didn’t match the actual geometry, which resulted in things like invisible trees blocking your bullets.

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It was also based on Gearbox’s shoddy PC port, so the classic graphics were broken on release and stayed that way for about ten years.

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Honestly, 3 doesn’t really need it. The art direction is excellent and just inceasing the render resolution works great. Same with ODST and Reach.

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512 shared on the 360, 256 dedicated RAM and 256 dedicated VRAM on the PS3.

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I thought that was just the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

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Do you know if Nvidia Surround works? I’ve been gaming with a tripple monitor setup and would really like to keep it.

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Holy crap, I actually think I understand some of what happened here. It sounds like someone learned about the Byzantine Empire and got very confused.

The western half of the Roman Empire fell in the 5th century, but the eastern half didn’t collapse until the 15th century. The surviving eastern half has been retroactively named the Byzantine Empire, but when it existed was just called the Roman Empire or the Empire of the Greeks, depending on the year and where you were at. The eastern capital (and Rome had two for a while for administrative purposes, along with two emperors) was Constantinople and it was specifically designed and advertised as a second Rome to justify having a capital there.

I think this guy learned about the Byzantine Empire / Eastern Roman Empire, but not how it relates to the Western Roman Empire. Throw in some assumptions, some logical fallacies, a poor understanding of linguistics and transliteration, and then serve with some conspiratorial thinking on the side and you get the above post.

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Being attracted to anthropomorphized whatevers isn’t even all that odd. I mean, have you ever played an RPG and romanced a non-human character? If you think Karlach or Garrus are hot, then what’s the problem with thinking Lola Bunny or The Beast is hot? I don’t really get the fursonas or the suits, but I also don’t get the appeal of mashed potatoes, so…

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Like if your computer got a glitch that caused it to burn CDs that, when inserted into another computer, gave it a glitch that caused it to burn CDs that, when inserted into another computer, etc.

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I thought it might have been a poorly spelled reference to Jizya.

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Bert as Gus’s dead boyfriend.

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Better - replace all the ads with porn.

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No, he’s right. Watch the biopic Weird: The Al Yankovich Story.

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Madonna had Weird Al assassinated at the 1985 Grammys. It’s all covered in Weird: The Al Yankovich Story.

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If it’s illegal, then the ruling party starts throwing everything at their political opponents until something sticks, even if that was smoking pot once in college.

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If felonies prevented people from holding government positions just imagine how many bogus charges would be leveled at the GOP’s enemies just to see if anything stuck. Just look at how Russia throws bogus charges at people to prevent them from running against Putin.

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Or just flat out dangerous because it’s two cliffs, a big river, and some caves.

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How far do they go with that, anyway? The classic flavor was kinky.

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What about the pigeon poop?

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Fun fact: The Catholic Church, of all things, officially says the ‘let the earth bring forth’ bit of one of the bible’s two creation stories is a poetic way to reference evolution.

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Now I’m wondering what high surface tension oceans would look like.

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I’m thinking where you could lay down next to the water on the beach and have the surface of the ocean slightly higher than the tip of your nose.

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I’m sure there are some countries that could be wiped out by that. Maybe Liechtenstein.

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