If the Predators thought it was an honor, why kidnap them? Surely they would come willingly?

I just feel like if they were acting honorably, they would have invited the victors instead of kidnapping them via what I assume was a cowardly ambush (based off the fact they have no memory of it), and freezing them until their loved ones were dead.

I watched the animated Predator movie the other day, and was miffed that

Never start a land war in Asia?

Is the main image above this article AI generated? It feels like it but I can’t pin down exactly why.

According to my internet sleuthing, “prove” is a british term but “proof” is more widely used. I learned about baking through GBBO so I was also confused.

Seems weird to me to use the noun proof as a verb, but not the weirdest twist of english I’ve seen.

I was also wondering why I kept seeing the same “Faith” email pop up over and over again. Makes sense if it’s a series, though I feel they should link to each other if so.

I read stuff like this and think “I would never supply my sensitive documents to an LLM!” But, like usual, I’m sure I’ll find myself without any other option in the near future.

My brother: excitedly “The game makes you go to the bathroom regularly, and if your armor is too thick you overheat and there’s a hidden stat that makes you run slower. Greatest game ever made!”

Me: “Why?!”

Temporal Anti-Aliasing. It’s a cheap and effective way to get rid of the jagged edges of a rendered image, but temporal effects like TAA and all of the other tools derived from it, like a lot of other AA options and most frame generation techniques, introduce blurring and shadow smearing.

I tried posting a three second clip from TP2 showing it clearly, but Voyager didn’t seem to like it. This post is an extreme example, but you can see it in most modern AAA games. Cyberpunk had it bad (another game I adore).

Thanks!

My biggest complaint with TP2 is that, between the two games, they added forced TAA like so many other games. TAA introduces blurring that drives me into a rage. The original came out before all that and was great, so I’m not super excited to try the modified version, though I might grab it just to support them a little more.

Talos Principle 2. It’s a solid chamber puzzle game like Portal, but the philosophy audio logs were so good that they shifted my real world views into a less nihilistic place.

One of the quick time events in Wolf Among Us is my favorite gaming moment.

Tbh, if I saw my dad absolutely fucked up after hitting my vape pen as a teenager, it would probably have rattled me enough to make me stop for a few years at least.

the Office Space effect

Yesterday I installed a program to run windows games. The installation through the terminal spat out ten different types of “Error reading the jupitos bus” type messages that I simply could not parse, but they sounded grim and serious.

But it ran just fine afterwards so those messages couldn’t have been that important?

It’s weird I didn’t even consider AI.

Haha that would wrap it up in a bow.

I’m not usually one for save scumming, but bet I’m alt+F4’ing if one of my precious few rare seeds ends up as mixed seeds.

My SIL’s friend was bragging about her son “writing” books using an LLM and selling them on amazon. “He checked and it isn’t even plagiarism!”

If it wasn’t our first meeting I probably would have pointed out how, in fact, it is.