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  1. Cool. Cool. Another bomb from WW2 has been found in my city and the planned defusing of that bomb is in a few weeks. Need to prepare for an evacuation, mostly for my mother as she lives in the evacuation zone. At the edge of it but everyone has to leave that zone for the whole time (about 6 hours).

    about 6 months ago from web
  2. Oh boy I hope the Thai place doesn’t racially profile me again

    about 6 months ago from web
  3. Man I haven’t seen Beetlejuice since I was like 12 and back then the whole “Beetlejuice is a pedophile” aspect of the movie kind of flew over my head

    about 6 months ago from web
  4. In Yakuza 7, there’s a particular endgame boss with a one-hit KO move that you need to prep for in advance by using one of Ichiban’s defense moves to tank the hit. I did not know this until after the fight was over, because he attempted it once on my healer, missed, and then apparently got embarrassed because he never tried to use it again after that.

    about 6 months ago from web
    • @zeldatra You were so lucky. I had to fight that boss probably a dozen times. I had to switch up my whole party because of him. Without Joon-Gi Han and his poison attack I couldn't get over that difficulty spike.

      about 6 months ago in context
    • @adiwan with that longass dungeon just before the fight, if I had to go back and change ANYTHING about my party I’d have probably just rage quit and not come back to the game for a couple of days.

      about 6 months ago in context
  5. A longtime cashier at my new store just gifted me a hand-crafted Dominican cigar to welcome me to the store. Is this normal? Is that a thing old people do?

    about 6 months ago from web
  6. “Don’t look away” nah man, that batcave’s horrifying, I’m gonna look away just a bit

    about 6 months ago from web
  7. Read a story on CNN about how they’ve nearly doubled the price of Japanese rail tickets for foreigners, up to ¥50,000 from ¥29,000. Is it bananaed up that my first thought was “well, the yen is falling in value so quickly that by next week it’ll be like nothing even changed?”

    about 6 months ago from web
  8. aww damn Dick Butkus died

    about 6 months ago from web
  9. Somebody at Sega is going to hell for designing UFO Catcher

    about 7 months ago from web
  10. this site needs to get about 20% cooler

    about 7 months ago from web
  11. Silksong Never

    about 7 months ago from web
  12. just got accused of racism at the store because “you look like a Hispanic”, which I’m pretty sure is the most racist way you can accuse somebody of being racist

    about 7 months ago from web
  13. Whoa, activity!!

    about 7 months ago from web
  14. Soo... how 'bout that Unity blowup? !vgp

    about 7 months ago from web
    • @scribus Unity is in the red for years and buying Weta wasn't cheap so they were grasping for the most stupid decision to gain (repeatable) revenue by choosing to get paid by the amount of installs of the games. The problem is that indie game developers have very little profit and it can cost more in the long run than it gained profit. Also the way to determine the amount of installs is not clear. The last information I heard was that Unity wanted to use a heuristic to guess the amount of installs. Also Unity did that decision out of nowhere and tried to cover their tracks by sneakily removing paragraphs in their license that would hinder that license change. Unity had image problems (being used for asset-flip games, taking a lot of time for updates and being behind on the technical side) before but that was a huge kick in the balls to devs and all people who bought games made with Unity.

      about 7 months ago in context
    • @adiwan their president also sold 2000 shares just before the install thing was announced, adding up to about 50k in the preceding year. seems bad

      about 7 months ago in context
    • @zeldatra Him being at EA before that goes great with that... I read that that amount of stocks was only a very small percentage of his stock holdings. Still looks scummy.

      about 7 months ago in context
  15. Very cool and normal that you need to limit your game to only use two CPU cores in order to do the fishing minigame, SEGA.

    about 7 months ago from web
  16. Weird thought I just had: do you think someone who doesn't know sign language would have an easier time understanding ASL or something improvised by another non-ASL-knower?

    about 7 months ago from web
    • @scribus Typed an entire response about how ASL would probably be the harder one only to realize that my reasoning applies to braille, not ASL. I found ASL somewhat easy to learn (could not use it today, though) and I’m crazy bad with foreign languages so maybe the answer’s in there somewhere?

      about 7 months ago in context
    • @zeldatra According to 2 people on a discord server I'm on, one of whom has a non-verbal child, improvised is easier (and the ASL sign for "Hallway" and "Focus" are the same except for the eyebrows)

      about 7 months ago in context
  17. If you played all the Yakuzas as they were coming out, starting from Yakuza PS2, by the time you get to Yakuza 0 it probably starts to look like Kiryu actually died and the games that followed (in order, a samurai spin-off starring a real life historical figure with Kiryu’s face grafted on where he meets other real life historical figures who look like his friends and enemies, a prequel set in the 80s, and a remake of the first game with stuff that didn’t happen in the original release) are just his brain coming to terms with death

    about 7 months ago from web
  18. There are no restrooms in Washington DC metro stations. I had to venture into the city on Saturday to find a bathroom. Found a Macy’s. It was close enough. What I’m mad about is that in DC you get charged your fare when you leave the station rather than the way it works in Europe where you pay for a distance up front, so I basically paid $2 to use the bathroom.

    about 7 months ago from web
  19. First time posting on this site, how's it going everyone?

    about 7 months ago from web
  20. Gardening will be a pain. Everything is mostly overgrown with ivy. There was even a cut dead tree fully overgrown by that stuff. The tree was so decayed it was basically at the strength of cardboard. The ivy gave it the most structural integrity.

    about 7 months ago from web
  21. "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" what a bad movie. For the most part it's "fine". Very slow pacing but "fine". The last act was the kick into the groin.

    about 7 months ago from web
  22. I have the keys to the house. If it weren't for the heat, I'd be moving my stuff to the house. 31°C and no clouds. Unbearable.

    about 7 months ago from web
  23. The last season of Disenchantment is quite a mess in how the story was told.

    about 8 months ago from web
    • @adiwan I think the whole show would have gone a lot better if the first 4 seasons tried to develop the overarching plot during the whole season instead of just the first and last 2 episodes. This latest one was, like, "all plot, all the time!" and it felt so slapped together. Not awful, but I'm glad they didn't try to keep it alive for 40 years, and I'm not hopeful that Comedy Central will pick it up for a revival in 2030.

      about 8 months ago in context
    • @scribus I think the creators had a lot of internal conflict on how to create an epic and make the episodes episodic, like Futurama and Simpsons. I fully agree with you. I really liked the characters, some more, some less, but none were truly terrible (even Elfo to some degree). It's just that the plot made all of them brainless and stupid stretching all of the characters to an unrecognizable form. Fast-forwarding a lot of the plot didn't help. In this season, multiple times, there was no reason to stop a chase but it happened despite no reason at all.

      about 8 months ago in context
  24. In a week I'll own a house! I'd be happier if the city wouldn't penny-pinch me. I had to pay a bill for something that the city should pay themselves: an investigation if the city has an interest in buying the house (first refusal right).

    about 8 months ago from web
    • @adiwan Wow that is a dumb demand, but congratulations on the homeownership!

      about 8 months ago in context
    • @scribus Thanks. The bill was 65€ for that. I will certainly suffer for pleasure of owning a home, especially since there was nothing done for over 40 years and has still wallpaper from the late 70s. What has to be done: New switch box (solar power ready), new electric cables, new windows, roof isolation, the wilderness of a garden needs to be tamed. Also when I'm at it I'll lay down network cables everywhere, at least CAT7 and glass fiber.

      about 8 months ago in context
  25. ノーベル賞級成果は研究費を「広く浅く」配るほうが増えると判明! - ナゾロジー - https://nazology.net/archives/132703

    about 8 months ago from status.akionux.net
    • https://reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/s/nrDR1vYYHY P40が1枚しか無くて、GPTQモデル使ってて30Bより上は諦めてたけど、この話の通り(に加えてP40でも)GGMLのGPUオフロードで70Bモデルがそこそこ動いた…
      なんでもうLlama2-34Bなくてもいいか

      about 8 months ago from status.akionux.net
      • Am I lost in the sauce? Or is the sauce lost in me?

        about 8 months ago from web
      • Spotless # https://i.imgur.com/7x9HmqT.jpg http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/876403

        about 8 months ago from web
      • IE about to get hit by a hurricane, what even is anything

        about 8 months ago from web
      • I'm not really a big karaoke fan in the Yakuza games but I somewhat miss it in Judgment.

        about 8 months ago from web