"One who has to say that everyone wants to be their friend is not someone whom people truly want to be friends with" - John Gamer Throne
Huh.
You know, when I think of supercomputer applications, I think of deeply analytical problems based on solid math and well understood algorithms that can be highly parallelised to take the maximum theoretical advantage of the hardware at hand.
You know, the opposite of what the "AI" crowd is doing. Throwing vast amounts of crunching power at a barely understood hypothetical black-box problem in hopes that it potentially yields some interesting results. Maybe.
From Explain XKCD:
This comic was released on Christmas Day of 2024, but makes no reference to Christmas. This year marks the first time in xkcd's 20 year history (of releasing comics around Christmas), that there have been no Christmas comics released during those days. Also all nine times before this year, when a release day fell on Christmas Day, that comic has always been about Christmas.
...But when you really think about it, isn't this comic about the true meaning of Christmas? That is to say, it is about avoiding the Sun. It's still topical, I'd say!
...We control the treble, and all your bass belongs to us too.
/incredibly ancient joke
I've been trying to get to soulslikes for years. One of the thing I've noticed is that the guides are basically even more complicated than the Nintendo walkthroughs of years gone by.
Guide: "Oh this boss fight is a toughie. In phase 1, the boss will hurblinate. In phase 2, the boss will skurblinate instead."
Me: "I'm just getting walloped. How am I supposed to tell a difference? And does it really matter? ...Never mind, I'll just go for it."
I remember December 2001.
"If that red fat motherfucker deviates one inch from the filed flight plan..."
Yeah. I love the French, our dear EU brothers and sisters, but just don't buy a nuclear power plant from them.
Oblivion is an excellent game. I'm not sure how much an official remake can bring to the table. Maybe a Skyrim-esque UI would be welcome.
What I'd really want would be a Morrowind remake. The world design and writing was beyond excellent, but the mechanics side had quite a bit of jank and the UI wasn't the best. Would love a mildly Oblivionised Morrowind. Just don't Skyrimise it - Oblivion had just enough RPG stuff, while Skyrim at times feels more like a story-action game rather than a RPG.
I had a rad cloak for my Hunter. They sunsetted it. Why was I even playing from then out.
I still haven't figured out what that means. Greatest Yeet All Time Time?
Been dumping my GameCube games for my own use. Noticing all kinds of weird things about the old games that I didn't notice before, or had forgotten, because it's been like two decades.
(Didn't get that much into Lost Kingdoms back in the day though. Because as far as inexplicably card-based RPGs go, I sunk so much more time into Baten Kaitos.)
(Image credit: Ken Bohn, San Diego Zoo)
Quick scanlation from Finnish comic book Pahkasika, issue 9, published in 1981.
Modern update: Flight AY286 + HSL's metropolitan P train will actually get you to Helsinki in 1h 55m. Ah ha! So the trains fix this shit! However, as a Northern witchy biaatch, I'm still flabbergasted by the fact that Jyväskylä is in the southern Finland and they don't even get a Pendolino link to Helsinki. We do, here in Oulu. Please do get better, scrubs.
* Edit: Fucked up the last line in the scanlation. Jyväskylä to Helsinki, obviously.
** Wait Lemmy let me also replace uploaded fuck-ups? This is the best platform ever
We used to have a chain of stationery stores over here that had shitloads of stickers. They went bankrupt. Now I have no idea where to get stickers from. Except the Internet, of course, where I can pay up my nose for a few Linux / programming stickers from stores that disappear and reappear. Buying stickers as an adult suuuucks here. I don't know how the kids do it.