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  1. I can recommend Blue Eye Samurai on Netflix. It is bloody, gory, and contains some sex scenes and nudity.

    Friday, 03-Jan-25 18:52:06 UTC from web
    • @adiwan You had me at being someone whose tastes I've come to trust, endorsing something I've heard good stuff about already, maybe I should finally get around to it

      Friday, 03-Jan-25 22:26:06 UTC in context
    • @scribus It is not without its faults. A few music choices are not so smooth and the brutality made me flinch a few times. However in general I enjoyed the story. The characters were believable and the choices they made were properly inferred by the culture and past actions. What the series did well is to reveal the exact amount of backstory and story beats to create tension and make me fear of the outcome of a few characters as death is cheap in that world. I also seen some glowing recommendations of that series and last night I was bored enough to jump into it, so much that I was on the verge of binging it way past midnight. I think it is a very good weekend binge but be aware not to start it too late in the day. Plan at least 6 hours with breaks to watch it.

      Friday, 03-Jan-25 22:55:54 UTC in context
  2. My poor Blackberry is deteriorating faster than I expected. It shuts down at 40% battery charge when there is a bigger power draw. Effectively I have to keep it on the charger all the day to make sure it's not dying immediately but it also makes my situation worse because it is constantly on the charger. My search for a new smartphone has been accelerated.

    Wednesday, 01-Jan-25 16:04:33 UTC from web
  3. I hope 2025 is as exciting as 2024 was

    Tuesday, 31-Dec-24 12:42:51 UTC from web
  4. The state of Linux desktop environments for old hardware (i.e. ASUS EEE PC 1000H) is abysmal. I love KDE but the current version is unusable. The same goes for GNOME, which is furthermore hampered by being unusable because of UX reasons. Even the "classic" Gnome is horrible performance-wise. MATE is a tad better but I don't like it. The only real choice I have is XFCE. It is fine with a huge GNOME-influenced asterisk. I'm looking into Enlightenment but it also irks me a lot.

    Monday, 30-Dec-24 16:19:16 UTC from web
  5. It’s a little weird that one of the most well-known and revered Christmas films of all time came out twenty years ago and stars Will Ferrel, right?

    Tuesday, 24-Dec-24 21:52:55 UTC from web
  6. Think I might see the new Sonic later today

    Sunday, 22-Dec-24 09:20:44 UTC from web
  7. good lord do not ever let me make a video game, i am certain i am violating every coding best practice

    Friday, 20-Dec-24 11:41:05 UTC from web
    • @zeldatra At least you got practice, even when it's not the best. I'm a software developer for over 7 years and in my last project (ended a few days ago) it is littered with crimes I did. Mostly because I was not given enough time to do it properly. It is of great value to know which "technical debt" one has caused and how to mitigate it next time. There are only a few principles one has to follow to write good code like writing modular code that has as few dependencies as possible to solve the problem, naming the variables and functions and classes clear enough such that they convey their intent unmistakably, and writing code that can be reused. The last point is a nice to have but for a small project it is probably too much hassle except it is really needed more than once in the program. Otherwise software is malleable enough to be rewritten with the power given by the knowledge of hindsight, meaning good ol' refactoring.

      Friday, 20-Dec-24 13:04:41 UTC in context
  8. Kaito never enters a building in Lost Judgment that requires him to take off his shoes. I learned this when his feet suddenly disappeared after I entered a shrine in Infinite Wealth.

    Wednesday, 18-Dec-24 17:37:02 UTC from web
  9. Also Yagami (and Kaito’s) entries in the party database seem to genuinely stem from RGG just adding protagonists sequentially with each new game going back to Yakuza 6; Kiryu is 1, Majima is 2, Yagami is 3, Ichiban is 4, and his yakuza 7 party + Masumi Arakawa fills out the remainder before we suddenly start getting LJ side characters; seems the ones who follow you around worked internally like Y7’s party members even though most of them don’t ever join you in combat.

    Monday, 09-Dec-24 05:44:26 UTC from web
  10. http://rainbowdash.net/url/876675 Kaito’s here now too just because I wanted practice

    Sunday, 08-Dec-24 02:59:34 UTC from web
  11. “Suck Up!” is the right way to do a generative AI-based video game. No stolen art assets, no cheap Unreal Marketplace sets with a shoddy text to speech voice actor, just a whole lot of fun attempting to gaslight a neighborhood of ChatGPTs with their own personalities.

    Wednesday, 27-Nov-24 03:43:14 UTC from web
  12. Well... Got a cheap burner so I can lay my old Blackberry to rest

    Tuesday, 26-Nov-24 15:13:45 UTC from web
  13. Cities Skylines 2 is so great, I love how the entire town will all choose one road to drive on so no matter how many new highways you build they will all decide to clog up a suburban street forty miles away because they all decided that is the best way to work

    Monday, 25-Nov-24 06:46:59 UTC from web
  14. Psychics and astrologers should know better not to advertise here.

    Tuesday, 19-Nov-24 11:57:14 UTC from web
  15. 12 hour work days effed me up. I'll probably sleep through the whole weekend.

    Friday, 15-Nov-24 14:35:40 UTC from web
  16. Hello Chat
    It's been years, and I'm 2 years on HRT. Life has been hectic but great.
    What's up?
    Also grug, can't upload image on phone >:(

    Wednesday, 13-Nov-24 19:27:29 UTC from web
  17. There are theories about a hollow earth, which are obviously stupid. I have have also a theory on my own: the hollow head theory, which shows more and more signs each day that provide evidence that it might be true.

    Friday, 08-Nov-24 07:27:23 UTC from web
  18. Ah... Projects that search for people who can do EVERYTHING THE BEST. C++, Java, Python, Bash. Everything at expert level and at least 5 years of DOCUMENTED JOB experience. Also at least of 3 years of experience in transportation and logistics related projects. DUDE... I can rather deliver a unicorn than these specific requirements. I'd like to get into that project, however the project owner is very strict with these requirements.

    Monday, 11-Nov-24 14:22:57 UTC from web
  19. One sleep later I'm not less angry and baffled by Amazon's Like A Dragon series.

    Friday, 01-Nov-24 12:31:28 UTC from web
    • @adiwan I get not wanting to tell the exact same story in the exact same way again, like what's the point of that, but if it's not AT ALL the original story then what's the point of THAT?!

      Friday, 01-Nov-24 19:51:32 UTC in context
    • @scribus There are some clever alterations, and some character backgrounds got streamlined and more fleshed-out, which I can appreciate, as well a character that got only mentioned in the games and is somewhat integral to the story has more of a spotlight. For me it's a problem that given what we got in the live-action series is vastly different in the core of all.In the game Haruka is Yumi's daughter. Kiryu was in love with Yumi but she died in the end. There is a huge portion with Kiryu bonding with Haruka and then adopting her in the end because Haruka is a constant reminder of that lost love and her being the daughter he could never have with Yumi. This aspect is completely missing as Yumi is alive and Haruka's mother is Yumi's sister. I can glance over some things like Kiryu emoting heavily and him not being an ordinrary money-collecting Yakuza. It makes me want to watch the adaption from 2007.

      Friday, 01-Nov-24 20:28:04 UTC in context
  20. wait so many of you still exist on here what. what

    Wednesday, 30-Oct-24 01:16:29 UTC from web
  21. Lots of people on Twitter going CRAZY over the fact that somebody got phone camera footage of Rockstar North’s lobby from the window and wondering how he did that. You do realize that’s a video game company and not the Pentagon, right?

    Sunday, 27-Oct-24 16:34:41 UTC from web
    • Like it’s a public street. The biggest threat to your wellbeing for a heist of this magnitude is campus security rolling up and telling you to knock it off.

      Sunday, 27-Oct-24 16:40:01 UTC in context
    • @zeldatra It is as exciting as shooting a video of the entrance of a super market. What do they expect? Spoilers leaking from the offices that are behind secured doors to the lobby area by themselves? I got juicier stuff from the companies I worked for and that is already somewhat public knowledge.

      Sunday, 27-Oct-24 16:50:33 UTC in context
  22. Tomorrow is the day of the live-action Like A Dragon series. Definitely gonna see it with subtitles and original Japanese audio track.

    Wednesday, 23-Oct-24 18:37:44 UTC from web
  23. making a video about wokeness, feel like it’s an untapped market

    Friday, 18-Oct-24 14:31:23 UTC from web
    • @zeldatra Plot twist: It's about problems getting proper sleep which in turn increases the likelihood in developing cognitive and perceptual problems resulting in poor judgments, hallucinations, feeling irritated by minor things to the extend of being actively hostile and feeling too tired to make changes to help against those problems.

      Friday, 18-Oct-24 16:53:52 UTC in context
  24. What happened? It's already Wednesday? Where did the time go? Where is my free time? Where is the time I wanted to spend on my hobbies?

    Wednesday, 16-Oct-24 16:31:04 UTC from web
  25. Did anybody get to see the recent aurorae?

    Monday, 14-Oct-24 21:16:19 UTC from web
  26. Mostly, though -- it's that battery capacity

    Thursday, 10-Oct-24 15:36:45 UTC from web
  27. Well it doesn't have a keyboard, but it does have seven times the battery, cooling fans, and a projector that I otherwise would never have even considered to include but actually does seem kind of fun https://www.unihertz.com/products/tank-3-pro

    Thursday, 10-Oct-24 04:55:00 UTC from web
  28. I'm glad this website's popularity peak wasn't during the AI art boom. That would have been hell to moderate

    Tuesday, 08-Oct-24 08:24:40 UTC from web
  29. colorful cartoon pony with a symbol on its flank annoying a system administrator by hanging up posters of ai generated ponies on a server rack (AI generated) https://i.imgur.com/u7EqESb.jpeg

    Tuesday, 08-Oct-24 14:59:46 UTC from web
  30. Oh my User the UPS application process is practically a lottery at this point ;_;

    Thursday, 03-Oct-24 04:38:47 UTC from web