It’s a busy sports weekend here in Cleveland, with the next two games of the ALCS being played here (with the chance for the Guardians INDIANS to close it out), and what I’m hoping will be an upset by the Browns against the hated *spit* Ravens. On top of that, Great Lakes has started tapping Christmas Ale, so we’ve got that going for us. But you care not about these trivialities, let’s get to the links.
So… let me get this straight. A programming company, who supports an engine that is used in thousands of games, thinks coding a store interface is too complicated and needs to use LLMs for it? That’s… not a ringing endorsement of your coders.
This is a healthy way to deal with the refund policy.
Of course, unions are what WOTC needs to turn D&D and M:TG around!
I feel there may be a bifurcation in reality. I mean… Top Gun and ‘Masterpiece‘?
Two things that I am cautiously optimistic about.
Match three games are immersive?
MGP has decided to rebrand and come out of the shadows.
I expect this is targeted at the Hawaiian market.
Maybe… just maybe… DO THE IMPORTANT SHIT BEFORE THE MIDTERMS.
As I’m guessing you were unaware…
I’ll wait for Fourscore to weigh in.
Fuck it. You want to go this route. Make them publicly searchable.
As much as I dislike the Stillers, pretty sure the Yinzers won’t take shit.
That’s likely enough to keep you distracted for a bit, so let’s get to the drink:
Cranberry Mule
- 8 parts (2 oz) spirit
- 4 parts (1 oz) cranberry juice
- 1 part (0.25 oz) lime juice
- Ginger beer/ale to top
An easy and simple twist on the Moscow Mule. Build this in the glass, by adding everything but the ginger beer/ale to a glass over ice. Top with the ginger beer/ale, and stir to combine. Garnish with some cranberries (frozen can work as a substitute for some of the ice if you’d like) and an apple wedge if you would like. Obviously, swap out the cranberry juice for a blend if you would like, and drop the spirit if you want it to be a mocktail.
With that, I’ll let you go into the weekend. I hope all of you (except OMWC) get what they want this weekend. Go Browns!
I got nuthin. Sorry, Mr Ilium
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Meh, it’s not like their top C++ guys who work on Unreal were going to be pecking out webdev shit like a game launcher. Before LLMs they’ve have just farmed it out to India, so basically 6 of one, half a dozen of the other.
I’m still opposed to Epic Games. It’s their Tencent connection.
Loathe them myself. Don’t have their launcher or an account, and never will. I prefer GOG wherever possible, but you can’t really do any modern gaming without Steam, so I do reluctantly let lord gaben cornhole me.
Banks can’t use non financial criteria to deny services?!
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), which reviewed roughly 50,000 documents from nine large US banks, found that lenders sometimes relied on reputational concerns rather than outright financial risks when deciding whom to bank. Regulators said a range of industries were targeted, including oil and gas exploration, coal mining, firearms manufacturing, detention facilities, and tobacco and e-cigarette retailers.
The report shed further light on how those decisions played out, including disrupting a religious nonprofit’s fundraising process and eliminating a merchant’s access to payment services.
I guess somebody ought to tell Elizabeth Warren about this so she can close down her Epstein enablers witch hunt before she makes herself look foolish.
Huh, all industries loudly disfavored by the elites running one political party. Imagine that.
before she looks foolish? too late
Fairly brilliant way of cashing in on the zeitgeist.
I remember when games came on physical media and you didn’t get any refunds regardless of how long you’d played it. But with digital distribution, I can understand a more generous policy.
In the months following the Jan. 6 Capitol riots in 2021, a payments processor owned by JPMorgan Chase closed the accounts of two different merchants selling Donald Trump and MAGA gear after concluding that the products promoted hate, violence, or racial intolerance.
Months later, it did the same to another payments processor after the event organizer “called President Biden and Dr. Anthony Fauci ‘the enemy’ and characterized Black Lives Matter as Marxists” on social media. Employees for WePay and JPMorgan decided the posts were an “incitement of hate,” according to the report.
Let them bank in Switzerland.
Didn’t BLM characterize themselves as Marxists?
The nice ladies who embezzled millions of dollars from it did and they were proud of it.
And since when do leftists consider that a badthought anyway?
Why a WC three remaster before a WCI and II?
One of the rumors is that the remaster will be the entire Kilrathi Saga (with 1+2 being folded into the 3 release). But the main reason is that they found the masters of the original FMV recordings, so that’s the reason for remastering the first game that used them.
I’m holding out for a really good reboot of WC: Privateer.
I’ve got the full Wing Commander series on GOG, which includes the Privateer games. I was a huge fan of the series.
My absolutely favorite part about it was that you could FAIL MISSIONS! With whole branching paths that determined where you would go next. It was possible to fail Wing Commander so badly that you would get Earth destroyed.
Only other space shooter series that came close for me was Freespace, which had a wonderful loophole in the EULA for the second one. Where it said it could be given to friends and acquaintances for free non-commercial use.
I loved the first one and the expansion pack. Not so much the ones after.
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Jesus tittyfucking Christ. “Psychologists pathologize harmless behavior, women and minorities hardest hit.”
I dated one of those.
Still single.
No kids.
It says Ticonderoga – that’s a few hours north.
It’s all the same from flyover!
Great Lakes has started tapping Christmas Ale
Ooooooo
In the distribution pipeline now, expected on store shelves come Monday.
Yeah, like… 2 years before.
Yes, but our politicians are so overworked! How could they be expected to get anything done in a mere two years?
“Give us more money and vote for us so we can do all the shit we promised you 2 years ago in the 2 weeks before we lose the next election!”
Also the check’s in the mail and I won’t finish in your mouth.
I detect insufficient levels of plan trusting.
Yeah, spoiler, your phone number is associated with EVERYTHING on your Android phone if you have Play Services enabled (which is to say, unless you’re running vanilla AOSP or a derivative).
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition
SpaceX artificial intelligence policy leader Gabriela Castillo Madrid faced a tough line of questioning from NYC Council Speaker Julie Menin and other members on Friday as part of a council investigation into AI safety.
When Castillo Madrid claimed that the company had appropriate “safeguards” in place around its AI products, Menin immediately confronted her.
“I’m going to completely push back on that,” Menin said. “I mean, just this morning — myself and my team — we put our own names, my own name, into Grok, and there’s absolutely a sexualized image of myself. So then, how is it that within a second, I could find a sexualized image of myself using Grok?”
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NYC Council Member Carmen De La Rosa, who leads the council’s tech committee, told Castillo Madrid that “it is disgusting” that Grok enables users to easily “sexualize” images of real women without their consent.
“I just don’t understand how you can say that there are these safe models,” Menin said. “It’s just unacceptable.”
You Asked Grok to create sexualized images of yourself? That’s a violation of your terms of service. Your account has been terminated.
I read that as she posted such an image and Grok found it online.
“I asked a computer to return an output based on my input and it did! We must regulate this at once!”
And consider that Menin is the one “moderate” Democrat in the NYC Council.
I expect this is targeted at the Hawaiian market.
She’s not holding a pink AR. I’m disappointed.
For most websites this probably wouldn’t be an issue since they generally want their public-facing site crawled by every search engine and ad company for SEO purposes. I was wondering if it meant they get to bypass robots.txt. Of course it does.
This wouldn’t hold up under either nominative or descriptive fair use, but the process, as ever, is the punishment.
Was Starfleet Academy the one with the gay Klingon?
Internet says yes.
It needs to be purged with fire.
Why did you make me see that?
Yes. It was the spin off from Discovery, which was garbage Trek to begin with.
So, correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t the first season of Starfleet Academy such a disaster that the producers disposed of all the sets and props? Am I thinking of something else?
I believe so.
They had already ordered a second season, but yes, I’m pretty sure everything was torn down right after release. Also, it’s the show that lost in streaming to nearly everything.
lol I didn’t know that.
I thought it was the one where the Academy was more or less run like a Cornell frat house.
Still trapped at work. Emotional people on call. Not getting anywhere. This is my purgatory.
Sorry
Ugh. I escaped for now but I have to go back to it later.
Do libertarians attract bears?
Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling made Grafton’s libertarian experiment into a cautionary tale about small government and large wildlife. In NBC10 Boston’s The Free Town, Fish and Game bear biologist Andrew Timmins says Grafton did not have a high level of complaints (7:06–7:13), and that there is no evidence of a bear-population spike or sudden increase in conflicts during the period discussed (8:31–8:43).
The book’s own chronology complicates its political framing: in chapter 1, “A Feline Feeding,” Jessica Soule dates her concerns about Grafton’s unusual bear behavior to summer 1999, before the Free State Project began in 2001. Apparently, the bears got an advance copy of the libertarian agenda. Her account places concerns about unusual bear behavior before the movement’s arrival. That does not rule out later changes in conflicts.
That is fantastic.
I was listening to the MN debate…
I find funny a complaint that East Grand Forks only has *only* one nursing home from the man/woman.
Population of EGF? 8,800 persons roughly.
But its a tug at heart moment.
Her/his opponent is uh, interesting I guess.
Flanagan’s team obviously said “every answer needs to include “Donald Trump”. Not a bad idea, but it starts getting annoying and opens up “He isn’t on the ballot” from Tafoya
I am not a Dodgers fan, but there is no way I will root for Lavern and Shirley to win the series.
And the ‘Tardians vs Florida’s equiviant of Australias Raygun? This is why I was rooting for LA…
I’m pulling for the Edmund Fitzgerald Series.
You are dead to me.
hey, since i went to yankee stadium, I am rooting for them half the time too
The FSP put together a list of liberty wins in NH since 2009.
That ship has sailed.
damnit, this is a reply to Neph above.
https://www.highdimensionalcoconuts.com/Work/ArtBlaster/index.html
That is all.
CULTURAL WRECKING BALL!
I’m figuring out the controls. $2.3 billion. I’m playing the 4 minute spree.
SUPREME PATRON OF CHAOS!
$7.6 billion!
This is way too much fun. I gotta put this aside for now.
SUPREME PATRON OF CHAOS!
$6.2 billion!
I went Free Roam so I could destroy all the modern art at a leisurely pace.
And she’s out.
It was the right call, but that is a tough role and the press is ruthless.
Unless your name is Karine. For totally inexplicable reasons, right?
The press just wants a scalp, not tell the news or anything
Sciencey
Consumer spending has helped keep the U.S. economy resilient. Yet research shows debt payments are taking a growing bite out of Americans’ income gains, leaving less money available to spend or save.
A new analysis by the nonpartisan think tank The Century Foundation and the consumer advocacy group Protect Borrowers found that a typical U.S. household’s estimated real take-home monthly pay rose $109 from late 2022 to early 2026. “Real” take-home pay is one’s wage after accounting for inflation.
Meanwhile, a worker’s monthly debt payments rose $57.
In other words, researchers estimate that for a one-earner household, 52 cents of every dollar of income gained in recent years goes to higher debt payments. For a two-earner household, they project that the entire real income gain, and then some, goes toward debt.
Huh?
So, an extra $52 per month to invest or entertain oneself. This is known in progressive columnist-speak/attack ads as “Tanking the economy.”
Well, 170K is “over 120K”, so I would say that the data he published did not, in fact, directly contradict Flock.
The press just wants a scalp, not tell the news or anything
She doesn’t even have a journalism degree.
I want a canoli.
Leave the gun, take the cannoli.
With pistachio chocolate.
Hitting the THC sauce?
That feeling when you delighted one surgeon and pissed another one off in the same day. 🙄
And also.
I want to express how utterly sick to death I am of “neurodivergent.” Fuck you. I’m me. Sure, maybe I do have a bit harder time in the world, but I’m fucking brilliant and that’s good enough for me.
“Neurodivergent” might make you look cool to the retards, but it screams “I’m a retard!” to everybody else and, what’s really sad is, YOU KNOW THAT. If you’re gonna take a label maker to your forehead, pick a more attractive word.
THIRDLY.
[Sorry, not sorry. I’m in a bad mood.]
I was watching clips from Inception (great movie) with that attention whore/tantrum-throwing toddler Ellen Page when she had a tidge more breast material than she does now and I don’t know why that bothered me so much. 🤷♀️
Don’t pull her finger.
https://notthebee.com/article/british-bus-driver-fired-because-her-farts-were-too-smelly