This is an odd card to play here because the protagonist only comes to value her appearance by seeing it through the lens of the male gaze. Ursula LeGuin or Becky Chambers would be far better places to look in that respect.

Lots of people love AI too, but that doesn’t make Midjourney an artist. Liking the taste of slop doesn’t make it not slop.

I’m sure it’ll have the “not like the other girls” protagonist who is smoking hot and doesn’t know it, but will it also retain the cringey dialogue and cliché teenage love triangle of the book? Those are the most important elements of that literary slopfest. It could truly become the next Marvel franchise.

LGBT = Let’s Game Blox Together

120k in silion valley in particular is barely a livable wage. CoL is incredibly high there.

This is my last comment to you before I block you for being a histrionic liar: laws can be changed without destroying a country. The USA for example used to wholesale endorse slavery and managed to get rid of that without wiping out the country altogether.

“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is an unacceptable or inadvisable thing to say in the midst of a genocide of the Palestinian people, because it suggests that the state responsible for the genocide shouldn’t exist?

Uh… yes. Germany exists. Turkey exists. Russia exists. Unless there’s something about Israel in particular that you especially don’t like but aren’t willing to say in public?

“Zionism is when you don’t want the wholesale dissolution of an entire country”

That one’s going in the .ml hall of fame, thanks

This will go over like a lead balloon here, but I do in fact think “from the river to the sea” is neither an acceptable or advisable thing to say and truly is a dog whistle for the destruction of Israel. I’ll say “free Palestine” all day long but will never use the other slogan.

Mass Effect, WoW, Skyrim, Dragon Age: Origins, Witcher 3, Baldur’s Gate 3, Bioshock…

I wish they’d found a larger sample, but this is still interesting. The fact that much of the time is wasted on prompting makes sense. One important thing not mentioned however is that much of the market for vibe-coding tools is non-developers, i.e. people who don’t have the knowledge to actually do it themselves.

I assumed people supported these old game repackages by, you know, buying them - or will GOG give them away?

What’s the difference between this and missiles?

Good riddance. I’m so tired of FOSS projects using that platform as their main communication channel because it’s completely disconnected from the Web.

They’re up today, unless I’m missing something. Is there another Nvidia besides $NVDA?

Perfidy?

I like NMS but it’s just about the opposite of the polished writing that the first 2.75 Mass Effect games delivered.

Apologies for linking to Reddit, but: https://www.reddit.com/r/PORTUGALCYKABLYAT/

It makes sense for all of Eastern Europe to be the same level.

The marvel reference is on point, because it’s the exact same thing that’s happened to movies.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3290363/chinas-hypersonic-jumbo-jet-prototype-hits-mach-6-gobi-desert-test-flight

Nice, thanks for this extra background! My first thought was scramjet too, but it would be nice of them to mention how it takes off and lands.

The original rendering looks awesome, in a bonkers sci-fi kind of way.

Based on the renderings (as there are no actual photos of this thing, other than the blurry-ass pic of what appears to be a rocket taking off vertically) it’s nowhere near the size of a 747. It actually looks rather like an elongated SR-71, which makes me very skeptical that it can actually hit Mach 6.5 because ramjet engines have a hard limit due to something called “physics”. That fact, plus the rocket-like takeoff, are why I think this is more like the X-15 and can’t sustain its top speed for long.

Uhh OK, they’ve matched something the X-15 was doing 65 years ago. What’s the endgame here? Build a ludicrously inefficient passenger aircraft?

just looking for something that runs a game smoothly in 1080p without overpaying

I bought a 7800XT this fall and am very happy with it, FWIW

Sure, but that difference is less than the variability based on load. The difference in efficiency between a Gold and Platinum PSU is like 4%, but load can vary that efficiency by 10 or 15%

The PSU doesn’t use more power just because it has a higher maximum capacity. Plus, a PSU is most efficient at partial loads (usually around 60-70%)

Eeeewww. You know there’s a panel on the other side to hide all that, right?

But there’s no installer, so I can’t reinstall it on another device. With GOG I have an installer just like I’d have with physical media.

I’m well aware — that’s the whole point of DRM-free games.

You still need your gog account to download games though.

I need an account to make the purchase and download, but I can then delete my account and keep the installers on a hard drive.

Because I can download and save installers for GOG games and install them without needing to connect to GOG at all. It’s more akin to buying physical media than it is to Steam or other storefronts.

I imagine GOG is exempt?

Whoa, you should preface your posts with a warning, lest anyone cut themselves on all that edge.

GabeN will name twelve disciples who will spread His word and continue His work.

The leaked data targeted primarily Ashkenazi Jews.

$30M for 6.4M people - so minus legal fees they can expect about two dollars each? I thought these damages were supposed to be punitive?

Sure, 20% of 1.4B is 280 million, more than almost any country’s total population.

It’s “leading” with only ~20% market share, though.

Very good article, but it would have benefited from a few historical references, because none of this is new. The insularity and navel-gazing of royal and imperial courts, for example, are legendary — with their own customs, shibboleths, and of course everyone within believing they have the answers, despite being totally dsconnected form the “real world”.