The people asking questions are often fans lobbing questions they know fit the narrative. Like the tiktoker who streamed immediately and apparently stole merch from the booth: they were a fan and in line.

I agree with most of the comments in this thread, and I’ll add: there is zero need to purchase Windows 11.

Although DS2 gave us a reprieve with despawning enemies eventually, making runbacks feel rather poignant when you’re walking an empty world.

I think it is fine. No one should produce or raise children they do not want.

I still support our society focusing on improving the material conditions for every generation, new and old.

There should not be conflict there.

The same language rules are used for control/ownership of objects as well. A book is on you, (or with you), as is your car and your clothes.

That said, the concepts in english aren’t foreign or lost in translation. When the language became more than a tool for people to communicate, miscommunications start happening.

DotA when it was a WC3 custom map.

I threw together spare computer parts and a new hard drive, installed Bazzite, Steam, and did an entire Dark Souls 1 playthrough without issue using an xbox controller.

Waiting for things to go awry now. Kinda feels like an Ambrose Bierce story playing out.

Well my backlog is over five years old, so these spoilers right out the gate I guess lightened the list for me a bit.

RIP TLOU.

I have two. One, in my office where I work. It rarely, if ever, moves. Mostly it lifts for cleaning.

The other is in the living room. It is always on max height because I have small kids so it stays on ‘out of reach mode’ any time I am not in my chair.

Out of reach mode has paid for itself many times over compared to whatever I get out of standing.

I am more worried there might actually be a Maximum Overdrive sequel.

“Mastercard did not communicate with Valve directly, despite our request to do so,"

Well now how did you make that request?

I just installed Bazzite because my rig has been used for Steam 90% of the time and Firefox the other 10%.

Now I laugh when it tells me where the steam deck buttons are supposed to be, reminding me to choose the non-deck version next time.

But the ‘HAY LISTEN’ of Windows 10 dying and being forced to use Windows 11 at work was enough.

This is an affront to music production if you ask me.

I played CK2 more than CK3, but mainly I recall a successful dynasty winds up being too desireable. It’s not about the blood relation, it’s about the… huge tracts of land!

So while you can control it somewhat within your own realm and dynasty, my reliable go-to strategy was always marry Lowborns with good traits. Let/hope the stats make up for lack of title and opinion hits.

I’ll match you and raise:

Oh absolutely. FromSoft looks at what players do and then troll that directly in the DLC.

Trying to remember… Artorias just required not being greedy and just casting after his full spin move. I seem to recall it to be a matter of spacing, similar to Bell Bearing Hunter in Elden Ring, you can get him to predictably chain the same punishable moves. Or like DS3’s Gundyr or Pontiff for parry strats.

DS2 at least eventually despawns if you’re not in the champion covenent. And hexes are really powerful. (DS2 Brume Tower DLC crown replenishes spell uses over time, so you can Dark Fog the world if you can clear that one.)

hopefully even in the DLC (but that one will be tough…)

If you mean Kalameet, I think it can actually be killed without Gough using magic. You just have to have good timing and great magic sheild, and snipe each flyby.

I remember Sanctuary Guardian being more tough than Artorias and Manus for my sorcery only run like… six years ago.

Nonetheless, good luck! Challenge runs are fun. I’ve only just started replaying Remaster since I’d only ever had PTDE.

Mah boi.

I spent chunks of 2023 and 2024 investigating and testing image gen models after a cryptobro coworker kept talking about it.

I rigged up an old system and ran it locally to see wtf these things are doing. Honestly producing slop at 5 seconds per image v 5 minutes is meaningless in terms of value if 0% of the slop can be salvaged. And still, a human has to figure out what to so with the best candidates.

In fact at a certain speed it begins to work against itself as no one can realistically analyze AI gen output as fast as it is produced.

Conclusion: AI is mostly worthless. It just forces you to accept that human effort is the only thing with intrinsic value. And it’s as tough to get out of AI as it is to put any in.

And that’s looking past all the other gargantuan problems with AI models.

Way to get him killed, with all that talking. Unless you’re some kinda servant of chaos or something.