Please do not perceive me.
I am personally also cautiously optimistic for Owlcat’s upcoming Dark Heresy game. I enjoyed Rogue Trader, and Owlcat has a history of making one pretty good game and then making a second game which is a world class banger, as evidenced by Pathfinder: Kingmaker vs Wrath of the Righteous. If their pattern holds and they stick close to the source books like they like to do, it’s probably going to be pretty good.
Fucking right?
3am on a Tuesday, I can’t possibly get anything done at this time, I have all of the collective motivation I’ve ever managed to scrape together in my entire life hit me all at once.
Any other point in time? Fuck you, best I can do is a headache.
Reminds me of a joke I heard a few years ago.
The “Tech Enthusiast” : My whole home is rigged up with smart systems! I can control my AC and my lights from my phone from 1,000 miles away!
The Tech Engineer : the most recent piece of equipment I own in my home is a printer from 2003 and I keep a loaded gun next to it in case it makes a noise I don’t recognize.
Han Solo is supposed to be a scoundrel, he’s a damn smuggler. The bar they meet him in is described as “a wretched hive of scum and villainy”.
George Lucas has an incredible talent for fucking up the intent of the author in a story that HE’S THE AUTHOR OF, it would be very funny if it weren’t so annoying.
You also can’t throw it up if you have too much, which is the body’s safety regulation for alcohol poisoning. Same reason you can technically vape alcohol, but it’s hilariously dangerous and should never ever be done. It’s really easy to kill yourself with alcohol when you bypass the liver with it.
Yeah I’m not too upset with Paradox’s strategy here. I am of mixed feelings about it though.
It makes it next to impossible to get into as a new player, because you go to the store page and see that the game costs $250 for all content. But each of those content drops were spaced out, well executed, and usually come with major changes to the base game formula to accommodate them. For someone who has been playing the game for 10 years, each DLC is exciting and fresh, and costs about $20 for another 8 months of new enjoyment in your favorite game.
But anyone looking at it as a new player is going to see the bulk cost of the game and, rightfully so I think, decide “nah, fuck that”.
Rimworld also comes to mind here. Rimworld has like 8 DLC packs that collectively add more content to the game than the game even started with. I don’t own most of them because I don’t play Rimworld all that often. But for someone who does play it often, they’re genuinely good expansions.
I’d love to see more games like Terraria, which gets sold for $5 on the regular and has had over a decade of love-labor free updates that fundamentally change the way the game works, but I understand how that may not be financially responsible for larger studios. For bigger projects I’m not that mad at paying $20 twice a year for quality expansions, so long as they are in fact quality.
I know a depressing number of people whose brain contents are 45% AI.
Right, what are they gonna do, kill me? Bring it, aura boy
My favorite song changes on a weekly basis, lol
This is this week’s hit:
These mother fuckers are going to make me want to support a poll exam.
To be clear, that’s an absolutely terrible, no good, awful idea that is guaranteed to be weaponized and we should never, ever want this to happen. But I am at a loss as to how else to make sure your voting base is at least minimally educated enough to understand what they are voting for.
I’ve always considered it to be one of my fundamental principles that every single living person should have a voice in how they are governed. I don’t care how stupid you are or how evil you are, if you are being governed by another, you deserve a voice in that conversation to steer your government in a direction you find acceptable.
I’m getting that fundamental principle extremely rocked at the moment, and I do not know how I should feel about it. I now simultaneously hold that position as well as the position of “some people just shouldn’t fucking be allowed to vote”, and this is a rock and a hard place that I’m finding it very difficult to reconcile.
This would be a valid argument if X itself weren’t the ones generating the images.
Suddenly it’s 4am and I just finished the book. The sequel is on a 4 week wait list. I’m due at work in three hours.
Vanilla soy latte is a variation of three bean soup.
Human Resources has no jurisdiction over non-humans. Data can do what he wants.
So can Worf, come to think of it.
Well, let’s turn this situation around then and see how it changes.
I hammer Meta’s backend services with 6.8m requests per second, ignoring all posted guidelines, absorbing all the data I can get my hands on from them and feeding it to my machine which is busy trying to build BaseFook based on Meta’s data that I’ve harvested from them.
Criminal DDOS? What’s that?
Copyright law? Surely this doesn’t apply to this.
Unauthorized access to backend systems? Nah, we’ll be fine, that’s definitely legal.
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It is currently true that robots.txt doesn’t have legal teeth and relies on voluntary compliance, but there have been court cases involving it in the past, and in my opinion they should have resulted in an established legal precedent. Check these out (courtesy of Wikipedia:)
The robots.txt played a role in the 1999 legal case of eBay v. Bidder’s Edge,[12] where eBay attempted to block a bot that did not comply with robots.txt, and in May 2000 a court ordered the company operating the bot to stop crawling eBay’s servers using any automatic means, by legal injunction on the basis of trespassing.[13][14][12] Bidder’s Edge appealed the ruling, but agreed in March 2001 to drop the appeal, pay an undisclosed amount to eBay, and stop accessing eBay’s auction information.[15][16]
In 2007 Healthcare Advocates v. Harding, a company was sued for accessing protected web pages archived via The Wayback Machine, despite robots.txt rules denying those pages from the archive. A Pennsylvania court ruled “in this situation, the robots.txt file qualifies as a technological measure” under the DMCA. Due to a malfunction at Internet Archive, Harding could temporarly access these pages from the archive and thus the court found “the Harding firm did not circumvent the protective measure”.[17][18][19]
In 2013 Associated Press v. Meltwater U.S. Holdings, Inc. the Associated Press sued Meltwater for copyright infringement and misappropriation over copying of AP news items. Meltwater claimed that they did not require a license and that it was fair use, because the content was freely available and not protected by robots.txt. The court decided in March 2013 that “Meltwater’s copying is not protected by the fair use doctrine”, mentioning among several factors that “failure […] to employ the robots.txt protocol did not give Meltwater […] license to copy and publish AP content”.[20]
Or maybe she thinks she start a grift like Charlie Kirk giving speeches or some shit (hence the Christ thing.)
Would bet my life on this. These people only ever talk about Christ when they’re trying to grift the Christians. She saw how many people were happy to blow their entire retirement fund on Trump merch and she sees some of those people now being upset at Trump. So she moves in, talks some trash about Trump (because that’s all these people ever want, never solutions, only trash talk), sprinkle a little Jesus on it for the razzle-dazzle, boom you just sold $10m worth of MTG merch. Use that money to grease some palms and you’ve got speaking engagements booked at TPUSA events for the next hundred years.
It’s not really that confusing.
The software equivalent of armed masked men are illegally breaking in to your personal property, stealing everything that isn’t nailed down and ripping all the nails out of everything that is, and then leaving with it in order to reuse it for personal profit. It is, in all ways, similar to a home invasion. These invaders are then telling you that you’re a bad person because you don’t want them invading your property and stealing all your shit.
Its highly illegal, everyone involved with it knows for a fact that it’s highly illegal, so they best they can do is try and spin propaganda around it because nobody has the balls to try and arrest Sam Altman, et al about it.
If you pick the lock on my front door and enter my home without permission I am going to put a 12 gauge slug through your solar plexus. If I could do the same to an AI crawler I would.
To each their own, I guess, I thought WOTR was one of the best cRPGs I’ve ever played. I rank it above BG3 in terms of personal enjoyment.
Rogue Trader certainly didn’t recieve that high of a grade, but the bones are there, and it’s one of the better 40k adaptations I’ve come across. It was clear the writers read their lore first, and they pulled out a couple of twists that even I, a decade-plus 40k nerd, wasn’t expecting.