Movies don’t hit me as hard, but the medium that is video games really sells the rough moments for me. Maybe it’s something about being responsible for moving the narrative that makes me connect with video game characters.

It is an embodiment of “it’s all downhill from here,” aside from the fact that evil is vanquished.

Bring a blanket and a box of tissues. There is no “I’m too tough to cry” in this game, at least I don’t know anyone who hasn’t.

That Dragon Cancer made me fucking weep.

Clair Obscur, God of War 2018, What Remains of Edith Finch, The Last of Us, Bastion, Halo: Reach, Firewatch, Celeste, Telltale’s The Walking Dead, FFXV, Baldur’s Gate 3, Shadow of the Colossus, and more, all made me tear up.

Can you tell I’m quite emotional about video games?

What’s the context here? I’m completely unaware.

progressed from the past

And in some ways, regressed.

Cadence of Hyrule’s jazzy Song of Storms rendition. It’s very fitting as a ringtone for those out of the loop, and those in the loop usually get a kick out of it.

Jerrymander 🤦‍♂️

What if I were to tell you that some people oppose shitty tactics coming from anybody, not just as a ‘gotcha’ against one side?

I am a sucker for Gulden’s spicy brown mustard… it’s the only mustard that I like for every use of mustard. Dijon, honey, and standard mustard all have a specific niche for me.

I don’t think it’s fair to think of model training as a one-and-done situation. It’s not like deepseek was designed and trained in one attempt. Every iteration of these models will require retraining until we have better continual learning implementations. Even when models are run locally, downloads signify demand, and demand calls for improved models, which means more training and testing is required.

My point is that your 3.8 Engineering/Humanities assignment is not a product that needs to marketed to the masses. 5k words in that space is easy, and I think this because I have done the same thing in the same field (Engr).

12k words isn’t a huge amount, but as a published sci-fi writer you already understand that fictional writing is a saturated market with brutal competition, and publisher deal deadlines can be brutal too.

Do you think your 5k words in a day were written well enough for someone to pay for it? Homework is not a product you have to market.

If I ever meet someone who boasts about climbing Everest, I will be sure to ask them questions like “How many dead bodies and how much trash did you see?” and “Does it smell like doodoo the whole way up, or does it get cold enough that you can’t smell the piles upon piles of human shit?”

You know that thing where stick someone in a latex sack and suck all the air out of it so it compresses them? I feel like she would be into that.

I would say they could pickle the garlic… but then they’ll probably just end up with too much pickled garlic.

That thing has an inbuilt DAC, as well as S/PDIF and USB inputs, so I’d imagine any device with enough processing power to play lossless audio files and has the proper drivers should be enough.