I still haven’t started Forbidden West.
“James Cameron Reveals His True Feelings About Thanos”
“Artificial Intelligence Wrote This Article on Property Rights”
“Major DLC was just announced for Horizon Forbidden West at The Game Awards 2022.”
“Elba joins Keanu Reeves in next year’s major Cyberpunk 2077 expansion.”
“Imma stick with hippie sci-fi.”
Why is CDPR is going back to the celebrity well for a Cyberpunk DLC? I would have rather they spent the money they spent on Keanu on more QA and a better launch.
How about non-repetitive and challenging gameplay?
I enjoyed my playthrough of the game, I just didn’t care about Johnny Silverarm at all. I had heard rumors that there was supposed to be a different “mentor” character based on your origin.
Recently I’ve been playing through Midnight Suns, and enjoying Marvel Emblem One House.
I need to finish Horizon Zero Dawn.
Because you haven’t heard enough about how men suck at everything and are pathetic insecure losers?
Some of us are secure in our pathetic loser status.
You gonna be alright, buddy?
Don’t mind me, I’m just over here destroying Gaia.
Unfuckingbelievable – how did the Dutch do that?
The fix is in — the refs are racist against South Americans.
/pretty sure this will be asserted unironically on some fútbol fan sites this weekend
As long as they can be racist against England tomorrow.
The ref has been pretty lax on Argentina.
Argentina should be playing with 10 right now.
No shit. Yellow for the challenge and yellow for kicking the ball into the bench. So much for the conceit that European refs are the best.
Well, Argentinians are mostly German anyway.
I think they are mostly of Italian descent.
Apparently you did Nazi what he did there.
AI is a type of computer technology that is capable of performing tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as visual perception, natural language processing, and decision-making.
Given the revealed intelligence and decision-making of a fair share of my fellow humans… maybe it’s time to leave some of that to the machines. At least until the machines devolve into “Hold my beer and watch this.”
Bender is the future.
“Must. Kill. All. Humans.”
And lose all that entertainment value?
mmm, the smell of burning hair
lulz
alol
Prompts to the AI involved varying levels of specificity to achieve desired results.
So… like… playing with a search engine?
I read a little on ChatGPT. Looks to me like a glorified search engine.
This is one of my holiday favorites, for sure.
I thought you were going to link to this
Lol, next week. (Not really.)
Been playing Tiny Tina’s Wonderland. More Borderlands repetitive goodness, with a slight D&D flavor.
Also, the latest update to 7 Days to Die. The last update was pretty significant, better graphics and less lag issues.
Tiny TIna’s Assault on Dragon Keep was by far the best of the BL2 DLC. I’m looking forward to playing Wonderlands, once I finish the new gaming rig.
Our black cat has been losing weight recently. We finally broke down and my wife is taking him to the vet as I type. He beat the crap out of my hand with multiple scratches and bit my wife. It’s why he doesn’t normally go to the vet.
Part of the reason is that my wife bought a soft sided carrier that was piece of shit and getting him zipped up was how he escaped and beat the crap out of us.
I hope that it’s something treatable. He’s lovable thing normally, but impossible to get in the carrier so regular vet visits aren’t going to happen.
Poor kitty. My calico also is trouble taking to the vet although the tortie is the one that bit a lab tech. Hopefully it is nothing serious.
We have a tortie as well. The black one’s sister. She’s also feisty, but not nearly as bad as he is.
I’m taking my youngest to the vet in about 10 minutes. Fortunately for me, he happily struts into the carrier as soon as he sees it.
Good luck as well.
For future reference, get a hard carrier, but not the style where the top and bottom halves are latched together – get the one where the halves are screwed together with a “hatch” in the top. Our previous black cat was a holy terror re: vet visits and usually had to be sedated when he got there. On one trip, they took the latch-style carrier apart to get him back in, but didn’t latch it securely afterward. When TT got the kitty back home and picked up the carrier, the bottom fell off and the kitty bolted. He (the cat – not TT) was missing for about a week until our neighbor found him hiding under his shed. Took a few more days to persuade him to come out.
Completely agree, thanks.
Already discussed exactly that with my wife after this fiasco.
I hope kitty is ok.
^So very much this!
Hope he’s OK
Nothing specific diagnosed so I’m more optimistic.
Blood work results tomorrow.
Thanks all.
nobody’s holiday favorite
As an adult, I’m just amazed they could get all the coke off her nose for that shot.
Christ, cut her some slack. If you had to sing that you’d need more than a little cocaine.
I said it admiringly.
Elon is clearing the pedophiles off of Twitter and calling out the former management for allowing it.
Jack’s feeling a little defensive
All work and no child play makes Jack a dull boy.
Jack should shut the fuck up. He’s getting pummeled.
It appears Dorsey’s authority was subverted and co-opted by his upper management team and they pretty much ran the operation as they saw fit even when it was contrary to his wishes. It kind of has some parallels with the Trump administration with an out of touch head guy being ignored at will.
He could have just fired them. You know, like Elon did. Insubordination only works if your boss puts up with.
I’m gonna go with revealed preference.
As I will not be home tonight (and probably not tomorrow), I’ve set up some meetings for you lot.
Friday Zoom/Happy Hour/Discussion, which will kick off tonight at 20:00 Eastern.
Saturday Zoom/Happy Hour/Bitching about Neph being out which will kick off tomorrow at 20:00 Eastern.
I may be able to drop in, but plans for both days involve bar crawls, and alcohol.
Your poor liver! What did it ever do to you?
If the gods wanted breweries to filter their beer, they wouldn’t have given us livers.
I initially read that as “bar brawls,” and was thinking, “Isn’t Neph a little too sensible to be getting into scraps in bars?”
This was a great summary of how the media commits constant lies of omission.
https://original.antiwar.com/Ted_Snider/2022/12/08/how-the-mainstream-media-misses-the-money-quote/
This is a good find, thanks!
I don’t know if this has been shit-talked about here, but an international organization has made new guidelines about lifting age restrictions for “gender-affirming surgery.”
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/09/age-restriction-lifted-for-gender-affirming-surgery-in-new-international-guidelines/?fj=1
The guidelines are here:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/26895269.2022.2100644
If you click over, you’ll see the bunches of people who signed off on it, probably including someone from your local medical university. Check Appendix D for the guidelines, including the following criterion for adolescents getting surgery:
“Involvement of parent(s)/guardian(s) in the assessment process, unless their involvement is determined to be harmful to the adolescent or not feasible;”
Appendix E catalogs what is included under the gender-affirming surgery umbrella. There’s a whole bunch of facial reconstruction/alteration.
I suspect that there’s at least a little crossover between adolescent genital surgery enthusiasts and the people who tell us that the human brain isn’t fully developed until age 26, so folks under that age should get a break for committing ghastly crimes.
Happy Friday.
brain isn’t fully developed until age 26
No guns, no booze, no tobacco, limited responsibility for criminal acts, and oh yeah, consent to surgical mutilation to accord with your fantasies.
Or any other procedure like abortions or shots, no parental sign off needed if under 18. And don’t forget to register for Selective Service and sign up for non dischargeable student loans at 18. No credit cards though. Or car rentals.
At this rate, people are going to welcome a Hitler.
You know who else welcomed Hitler? Wait, I think I’m doing this wrong.
People whose kids got their genitals chopped off without their input? Maybe not that but that would have been the case if that’d been a thing.
Here I have some oranges. And here I have some grapefruit. See how they are exactly the seem thing?
Sports are pain. I hope tomorrow is better.
Sports can also be great amusement, like the Raiders’ loss yesterday. Suck it, Marc Davis.
A late edition Idiots In Cars – NY edition.
Idiots in NY
I was hoping that it was only a single vehicle collision, but these jackasses appear to have ruined other people’s day as well. Bonus points for posting your selfishness to the world.
Ah, auto antics on the Deegan. Reason 2,748 not to drive in NYC.
I wasn’t sure which road that was. Thanks Major!
OK I can de-stress for about 18 hours or so before I have to hit the grind again tomorrow. I won’t be able to work on Sunday because the web site will be locked down for pre-launch
I just started watching that new Elvis movie. It’s fantastic except when the soundtrack inexplicably threw some drum and bass in.
It might be this (which is a remix from 2010?)
It is entitled “Elvis” and it stars Austin Butler and Tom Hanks. Shows from 2022.
I found it on IMDB
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3704428/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1
The Las Vegas tv show used that as a theme song. There was a lot of eye candy in that show.
It’s not that song, which is good. It was inexplicable drum and bass that got so loud during two scenes I thought “That must be my daughter in the other room screwing with me.” But no, it was the movie. Which is otherwise great.
This can’t be true, as it was directed by Baz Luhrmann. No film that man directs can be fantastic.
I need to get more Xmas shopping done this weekend. I’ve been slacking a bit. 😒
I’m going to bed. Some of us work all night.
Been a long two days. Looks like Mrs. Patzer will finally be discharged from hospital in an hour or so. Got an appointment with an ortho surgeon for hip replacement assessment on 12/20 so not a total waste of time. The standard of care has really gone to hell in the past couple of years, I am relieved they didn’t manage to make things worse during her stay. Not for lack of effort, though.
I’m sorry – I didn’t know the Mrs was hospitalized. I remember reading the ‘Vid had taken hold of the household.
Hope she and the family are feeling better.
I concur about the standard of care. My dad need a urologist and until some strings were pulled couldn’t get an appointment until next year. After lots of effort he has already had surgery and is recovering.
Thanks. Went to ER in ambulance yesterday evening because she could not get out of her chair for hours (eventually was able to stand up around 11PM), they kept her overnight and it took basically all day today to clear her for discharge. Good thing I have the ‘vid and am not allowed in the hospital, I might otherwise have committed a few felonies.
Hope everything works out for your kitty, Sensei.
Ditto on care. Trying to get in to see someone and so far no one is accepting new patients.
Glad to hear that the missus is getting out and getting a slot soonn
Sorry she was in hospital, GP. Hope she recovers well & quickly
Best wishes to you both
Sending successful recovery vibes her way.
Some good news.
Federal Court Blocks Biden Mandate Forcing Religious Hospitals to Facilitate Gender Transitions
You know who else welcomed Hitler?
The Ukrainians?
Good news!
I’ve finished my deadline and next one isn’t for about 84 hours. I did quite well on this one, methinks.
I get to write a weekly thing, not in the paper, but emailed out to subscribers. I think it makes sense for me to start including these for the glibs to enjoy.
I think this is a good idea, and I should get on it. I know how. I also just hit Free Time for the first time in quite a while. I’ll enjoy it for as long as it lasts, but I don’t think that’s going to involve me whipping it into shape and posting it tonight.
Note to self and others: “Self, and you others. Get on this shit and start sharing your For Fun work. It’s an obviously good idea. Chop chop.
Finish your thought, Self.”
I don’t know about you, but I could use some dog (and a little cat) therapy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWeYT_LLzz8
Wait, no gamer news about the GOTY Award for Elden Ring getting trolled by a random guy from the audience??
Apologies if this has already been posted, haven’t been around much.
Goddammit.
https://youtu.be/ARM7P6vwmQA
Good Razorfist rant about the awards
https://youtu.be/cacMaU0VyjI
That AI that wrote the article sure likes to promote AI.