Living the dream ~

Which is 5TB of movies I think I should watch, 1.5TB of stuff I already watched and think I would watch again and the rest of stuff I actually want to watch.

Jellfyfin is the reason why I do this. I went from spending 30 minutes dumpster diving through terrible movies in one of the streaming platforms to now spending 30 minutes trying to choose from a selection of movies that I actually want to watch.

I blame my career choices to that game and the 90s movie “Hackers”.

Dungeon Keeper, Diablo II, StarCraft maybe, Morrowind, Uplink, Civilization II, Sim City 2000 or 3000 (depends on what will run), quake.

Maybe it’s a Minecraft-trained AI.

Mountain Dew Verification Can when?

Don’t mind me, also we all probably think alike.

I’m right now going through the Saturn and Dreamcast catalog.

OP is just asking if he can use the Switch offline and what will happen to games bought online, albeit phrased very oddly.

Boom, Rostedt.

I’m pretty surprised it was this guy; he’s pretty senior and has a ton of experience.

Linus could have shown a bit of leniency this time.

It’s truly you! The hero of Kvatch!

I had the same overwhelming reaction to BG3’s creation menu, but honestly, the game goes the mile to let you change everything later if you feel like it and honestly there’s a “go with the flow” vibe by the fact that very few cases have instant game over conclusions.

I would say though that combat tends to be a measure twice and cut once because there’s often an easy way of dealing with it, being either using the environment or exploring first another location that might give an advantage.

And if it wasn’t for these meddling gnu followers it would have gotten away with it too.

First time I heard about them, but looked right my alley if it wasn’t because it’s multiplayer.

I can’t invest the same amount of time as most players…

Everspace spoiled me and set the watermark too high for any space combat sim.

I’m tired of glorified arcade plane dogfights.

Then again, I wish there was a sim that was similar to the Expanse combat-wise.

No, I just wanted to emulate Tim Curry in Red Alert.

How much I wish for a modern BSG sim…

“, ,” also known as S P A C E

You can’t do wrong with: https://nostarch.com/catalog/kids based on your kid’s interests and experience I would probably point towards any of the python proposals, but I encourage you to look through the catalog together and find one that sounds interesting.

And be released anually until homo sapiens is no more.

big patient gamer energy here, I didn’t regret waiting for Cyberpunk.

That sounds fantastic. I would also rather start as a grunt that knows some martial arts or is good with gadgets and have a rockman/megaman mechanic that let’s you learn/open the skill tree from the enemies you defeat.

That would mean that going for a big baddie can give you a big reward, but you’re also risking making it stronger.

Plus it would give a boon to strategize lining oponents as you see what skills you need for defeating bigger enemies.

Shadow of Mordor’s Nemesis system is fantastic, and also a shame they copyrighted it, not allowing others using it…

Avenging Spirit for Gameboy and Arcade was exactly like that, and I think maybe Messiah had that mechanic, although you spent a long stretch being a plump and frail cherub.

Yet often you have to repeat the mission, and often said missions have concrete failing states (don’t be spotted, don’t miss the car, don’t let x die) and less opportunity for branching from a failure.

You’re probably right, I just watered down my rant to make it sound less like 5G chips in vaccines gang.

Yes, please see the links below, however as a brief summary:

Bill and Melinda Gates foundation do two things: Invest in public issues and lobby governments to spend in said issues, in exchange for further donations and investments.

However, in parallel, Bill Gates also invests in specific companies that will be targeted as main providers for those activities.
One could consider that he’s investing in companies that help out (e.g., vaccination) and that’s not a bad thing. The problem is that he is bennefiting from lobbying in pro of the companies he has invested on.

We could also agree that even if he’s bullying governments and institutions into giving him more money through those companies, at the end it is a positive boost (like the example you mention).

That’s not the case with Common Core: Diane Ravitch put it better than I could here, but basically Bill Gates’ is forcing public schools into programs that do not work, alienate teachers and students, have almost bankrupt public education and required purchasing materials from companies he controlled.

Furthermore, for each time Common Core failed, he doubled down, and for each consecutive failure he decided that a new drastic measure will solve the issue, even though the education community was saying otherwise.

The issue with these foundations is that rich people believe they have the solution to all the problems: not money but their intellect, and that they know more than everyone combined on that profession.

This is in parallel what is been happening with carbon capture. This foundation is also lobbying for a technology that has been heavily critisized as a pipedream; however, surprise surprise, Bill Gates do have large investments in carbon capture companies (e.g. Heirloom).

Again, I do not think he’s evil or is going to inject me with pentium II mmx now; I just think he feels smarter than everyone else and is misguiding governments to invest in failed practices despite what the actual professionals are saying.

Videos:
https://youtu.be/U3Z9gBKuTIk (CNBC - How Common Core Broke U.S. Schools)
https://youtu.be/laGtd-b0vMY (FT - Carbon Capture: hopes, challenges and controversies)
https://youtu.be/ag5zQeXC-TY (THD - How Bill Gates Hijacked US Education Agenda (Opinion))

• nccs.urban.org/publication/nonprofit-sector-brief-2019#recipients
• statista.com/statistics/250878/number-of-foundations-in-the-united-states
• propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax
• nytimes.com/2021/06/08/us/politics/income-taxes-bezos-musk-buffett.html
• irs.gov/charities-non-profits/private-foundations/taxes-on-failure-to-distribute-income-private-foundations
• nptrust.org/philanthropic-resources/charitable-giving-statistics
• issuelab.org/resources/36381/36381.pdf
• thenation.com/article/society/bill-gates-foundation-philanthropy
• latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-07-na-gatesx07-story.html
• sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1166559/000110465923060842/0001104659-23-060842-index.html
• sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1663801/000089843223000302/0000898432-23-000302-index.html
• latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2012-may-18-la-ford-foundation-los-angeles-times-20120517-story.html
• archives.cjr.org/behind_the_news/ford_foundation_los_angeles_ti.php
• jacobin.com/2015/11/philanthropy-charity-banga-carnegie-gates-foundation-development
• washingtonpost.com/local/education/pearson-pays-77-million-in-common-core-settlement/2013/12/13/77515bba-6423-11e3-aa81-e1dab1360323_story.html
• sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067983/000095012323005270/0000950123-23-005270-index.html
• philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/gates-foundation-awards-11-million-for-financial-inclusion-in-africa
• news.stanford.edu/2018/12/03/the-problems-with-philanthropy
• washingtonpost.com/education/2021/05/05/what-bill-melinda-gates-did-to-education
• chalkbeat.org/2018/6/21/21105193/the-gates-foundation-bet-big-on-teacher-evaluation-the-report-it-commissioned-explains-how-those-eff
• currentaffairs.org/2021/05/humanity-does-not-need-bill-gates
• prweb.com/releases/2014/02/prweb11601976.htm
• washingtonpost.com/education/2020/02/10/bill-melinda-gates-have-spent-billions-dollars-shape-education-policy-now-they-say-theyre-skeptical-billionaires-trying-do-just-that
• philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/statistics-on-u-s-generosity/[28] charitywatch.org/nonprofit-compensation-packages-of-1-million-or-more
• nytimes.com/2013/07/27/opinion/the-charitable-industrial-complex.html
• latimes.com/business/la-na-gates8jan8-story.html
• policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/carbon-billionaires-the-investment-emissions-of-the-worlds-richest-people-621446
• oxfam.org/en/research/time-care → PDF report
• oxfam.org/en/research/survival-richest → PDF report

It’s a neat trick: You give your donations to a foundation where you also put your family members, and use that foundation to lobby for the stuff that you’re investing in.

That’s at least mostly what Gates is doing.

It was just the Elder Scrolls 6 teaser.

I can’t wait to play RDR3 with all the other gamers at the Soilent Green factory pen.

https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DXaI-EOVpDvo&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjQs-iA8JGBAxWC76QKHXE2DuAQtwJ6BAgCEAE&usg=AOvVaw0loXkmEnYuFzFLAappG8UE

Tried and succeeded.

That’s probably why I recommended it. I spent more time with it going around aimlessly, hamging out in places than actually following the story.

I just want a Blade Runner sim so badly…

Kabal also felt like someone bringing meathooks to a fistfight.

When someone played the sheep, you knew that they were either confident or desperate.

Have you tried Cloudpunk?

More than ten years ago, I played with coworkers in a Minecraft beta server at a place I used to work.

Recently I was told that the server still existed and one of my ex-coworkers still maintained and played actively on it being the only one left.

He built around whatever others did, so I could (theoretically) still find all the cubic dirt houses we made.

Here the crime is privacy, which is the same thing many countries are trying to curtail, including France, which is clamping down hard on encryption.

With time we will see services like protonmail or vpns vilified in order to make them inaccessible to the public.

I hate ligatures and I use ligatures if they are available.

Such is the duality of horses.

I may or may not have done some cracking since the early 90s.
Back then three things were true for me to start that hobby:

1. Had a computer and lots of free time.
2. Had 0 money but friends that would lend me a game for a week or two.
3. Had access to burnable media.

This was mostly me trying to keep playing games after giving the disk (or disks) back.
However, once I might have cracked GTA (the original), the rush of finally understanding how a debugger worked and figuring it out, made actually playing less apealing than the whole figuring it out.

It made me rent games then just try figuring out how to crack them, but that was financially killing me as again I had nothing to begin with and I was now at minus some.

Granted that none of the early protections were anything similar to Denuvo.
In most cases, it was just a case of blocking a cd check here and there. Some had hilarious protections where the game would screw the player if detected: RA2 would be probably the most famous I remember. Often than not it made me paranoid if I had triped a trap and the game was being unfair or bugged.

Somehow I kept going until I shifted towards the Hackintosh scene.

Then when the first humble bundle appeared and people pirated it, it disgusted me to no avail and finally left this part of my life.

This was pretty much on point.

I would add not using swap for hypervisors and virtual servers as that can cause noisy neighbor issues and tend to increase iowait pressure.