because you initially thought going with AI generated crap is fine, just so you can save some money and pad your managerial/C-suite pockets.

It’s worse than that. A lot of places are pivoting to AI despite knowing it’s terrible and self-defeating, simply because adding AI to a product is the only way to get investors interested right now.

Fun fact: nearly 85% of weight loss happens through respiration. We use up a little of our carbon-based body with every breath we take.

Not sure why that’s there when human sacrifice is mentioned with citations in several other sections of the article.

Wasn’t there an equivalent with ceremonial eunuchs becoming corrupt and overthrowing a few Chinese emperors?

A note to any time travelers: if Mesoamericans ask you to join a game vaguely resembling racquetball, make sure to ask what happens to the losers.

It’s in Options - Downloads - Shader Pre-Caching.

Shader Pre-Caching allows Steam to download pre-compiled GPU shaders matching your system configuration. […] If enabled, Steam will collect shaders from your system when needed.

It’ll download shaders matching your card+driver and (if you’re the first with that specific config) upload your own compiled shaders for others to use.

Enshrouded, Grounded, and Abiotic Factor have been my favorite games of the past few years, and all are even better in co-op.

The developers know it’s bad, and the game’s next mega-patch is focused on fixing all the tech debt they’ve accrued during Early Access. You can already choose to play while the shaders are still compiling, but that slows down compilation multiple-fold and you’ll be missing features such as lighting until it’s finished so it’s barely playable (especially considering how ridiculously atmospheric the game is - there’s a reason the shader load is so heavy and it’s totally worth it).

It’s also probably nowhere near as bad a wait for most players. Shaders are compiled on the CPU and which shader paths are compiled is based on what your GPU supports. I have a relatively new GPU (4060) and a fifteen year old CPU, so it’s compiling the fanciest of shaders on an ancient four-threaded relic.

The game itself runs fine - 60 FPS at 1080p on my ancient machine. It’s just getting to play that’s annoying.

But level adjustment go b…r…r…r…r…

What would that look like? I’m picturing that breakdance move where they spin upside down on their head.

1. Steam already does this and it rarely helps due to how every card + driver revision requires its own unique compilation. I think Steam’s is opt-in though and I doubt Microsoft will give you a choice, so maybe they’ll have more luck due to the sheer amount of data they’ll be able to harvest. Ugh.
2. I still genuinely hope it works out. I’ve been playing Enshrouded lately, and on my machine it takes forty minutes to compile shaders after every driver update.

Well maybe Thawne wouldn’t have killed Barry’s mom if Barry didn’t create a stable time loop by giving him the idea in the first place.

Videos of cats falling never get old.

Or when you had a nosebleed while sleeping and you pull out a blood clot lodged deep in your sinuses. It feels like you’re yanking out your brain, but in a weirdly satisfying way.

Dex and Con are for escaping after you roll a 1 on the Cha check.

Hence the idiom “canary in a coal mine” for early detection of a failure. Miners used to carry a caged bird with them to detect pockets of deadly gasses. If the canary suddenly drops dead, it’s time to get the hell out.

The core developers of Godot already sell console export templates on the side since they can’t include the proprietary SDK integrations in an open-source project. Steam hardware support would at least be free and (presumably) open to all, provided it doesn’t require a Steam Partner account to use.

Also Eli Whitney inventing the cotton gin to make extracting cotton less of a tedious and backbreaking process, which lead to a massive expansion in slavery plantations in the American South due to the increased output and profitability of the crop.

What a thrill…

They took the slop out of Sloppy Joes!

(This comment was mostly an excuse to point out Alton Brown is posting a Good Eats-esque cooking show again)