That was a surprisingly good sequel.

A woman once told me she worked in a club and when one of the regulars passed away, a bunch of them went to his funeral.

There’s certainly worse legacies one could leave, than having spread some wealth around while presumably having been respectful enough to be missed.

How dare you compare this popular almost plot free slugfest to that… Other…popular almost plot free slugfest!

Edit: Of course, I’m joking. And I am vaguely aware that both franchises have some kind of plot now.

Still, I think it’s funny you got downvoted for making the obvious comparison. We either have one die hard fan in here, or someone with fat fingers meant to upvote you and misclicked.

I hope so. That game made the rest of the stupidity of adapting a plot free game into a pointless movie worth it. Because we got a game out of it.

It absolutely delay people buying. If you held out for 6 more months, you’d get a substantially faster computer.

That describes most of my life, under Moore’s Law.

I handled it in the traditional way: I bought what I wanted, and then I immediately cussed about my shitty timing to my friends the next day.

It’s not like cars would eventually cost negative money and they pay you to take them.

While I accept your point, I feel conditioned to interrupt here and clarify that I absolutely would download a car. There was some unexpected confusion about this, at one point.

Okay. Carry on. Thank you.

“Enterprises might discover that production agent deployments are harder than demos suggest. Hallucinations in high-stakes workflows, regulatory concerns around autonomous AI systems, or implementation complexity could slow adoption dramatically. If the agent future takes 5-7 years instead of 2-3, there’s a painful gap where billions in infrastructure sits waiting for demand to catch up.”

Yes. AI agents in infrastructure are a fundamentally stupid idea, at their very core.

Learn to write a bash script or pay someone competent to do it.

Almost no one needs a shittier solution that is 1000x faster to implement while 100x more likely to make profit-margin-evaporating mistakes.

Even the idiots calling the shots today are bound to notice this.

There’s a third category of adoption to consider: “between 7 years and - let’s not fucking do this, it is stupid”

There’s a delightful DC Comics Elseworlds story that amounts to this. It was fun.

Sure you harpsichord! Anyone harpsichord do it!

I don’t think this is the right community for it…

That’s right,

A third person is about to show up and express mild interest, then they will wander off for a drink, but then return and ask to have the rules explanation start over…

I dont have time to build and maintain a curated offline library like I used to.

I’m sorry for your loss. I’m sure the high seas legitimate DRM free music purchases will welcome you back when you have time again.

Good points. I feel like Fate does a better job staying in the interesting in-between for longer, and also supports “epic” stories a bit better (than other systems I have played).

But I haven’t tried to force Fate to support the newbie to epic growth, because the rulebook calls out that the Fate rules intentionally ignore supporting the ability to play as a helpless nobody.

Hence the number one rule: cool stuff should be done in the game, not your backstory.

I prefer Fate, where the rules practically require having cool stuff in each character’s back story.

Yes. That’s one reason that the Fate system basically disallows characters ever being low level. Low level starts aren’t actually particularly fun, and they can prevent characters from having diverse epic shared backstory.

Raspberry Pi with Android Open Source Project is the best privacy option. It’s quite a bit of work to get tuned, but nice afterward.

I don’t really think you can possibly do something to deserve eternal torment like some of these comments seem so gleeful about.

It wouldn’t be eternal. Most kids don’t have that kind of attention span.

Plus, these consciousnesses might be carefully protected the way major corporations have protected my SSN. So maybe the billionaires have nothing to worry about…

I mean, I would.

Of course, the pool won’t have a ladder…

I tolerate continued existence out of a morbid sense of curiosity.

That’s beautiful, in it’s own way.

I felt that way at one point. It led me, eventually, to moments that I later decided mattered very much, to me.

If I hadn’t had that morbid curiosity, I’m not sure I would have made it to those moments I now cherish.

Here’s to morbid curiosity!

Misleading title: there’s questions about rising car costs and discussion of cancelling new safety laws that haven’t gone into effect yet.

That said, I suspect we’ll get another dose of Reagan economic policies, rather than anything that could work to lower costs, such as sending price fixers to jail.

There’s plenty to be angry about, but this isn’t a compelling argument to change minds and build desperately needed class solidarity.