I had an ok experience with Arch and a 2012 macbook pro back in the day. Wifi and suspend all worked without any tweaking. Moved on to using a ThinkPad after that though.

A lot of the new Hitman games systems could be transposed into a James Bond game without the disguises and they’d still be compelling. I’m imagining the silent assassin runs where you don’t ever change into a disguise that are possible on certain levels.

I picked up Andromeda for my Series S recently because it was on sale for ~£3 or so. Never played it during its rough launch. I did play a little of the original ME games when I was hanging out with friends back in the day but not a super fan. Although I’ve spent a lot of time on Bioware’s old Infinity Engine games.

I think that game might be underrated. This could just be a patient gamer moment but the writing is pretty good and I’m finding the initial sidequests to be immersive and compelling. Moment to moment gameplay is smooth too, with combat being a lot better than how I remembered the others to be. Interesting playing it when it was pretty much the beginning of the end for Bioware.

I felt the exact opposite, OUATIH held my attention the whole time while Hateful Eight was a bit of a slog. I think I need to re-watch Hateful Eight though because I’ve been on a bit of a spaghetti western binge recently.

I believe the actual building he’s constructing throughout the film is also rendered with AI when you see if from a distance

Edit: Also the shot of the train accident looked like midjourney to me but that’s total speculation

How were they supposed to know he was a wrong’un? Nobody had any idea at the time.

What a moron lol

The world was experiencing unprecedented economic growth for decades in the run up to the 2008 crash. Sure there were some rocky periods but the general trend was upwards and even in the 70s where there were problems with inflation new technologies were improving people’s living standards all the time.

Now we have growth stagnating; raw materials and international trade becoming more expensive (existing sources becoming depleted, tarrifs); then finally technological gains are happening but for consumers. I’m not sure I’ve seen a big improvement since the original iPhone.

The killer thing I haven’t mentioned yet is overcentralisation of economies in major cities/hubs. If you want the best possible job then you probably need to move to a megacity like London, Paris, New York, Sydney… but then a shortage of new housing in these places has pushed prices into the stratosphere. You better hope you have an economically active partner who has also landed their dream job in megacity! Oh and the inheritance required for a deposit on a flat.

Within countries that last problem can be tackled with better industrial strategies to some extent. Maybe grants and subsidies to open say biotech labs in more affordable parts of the country. In theory since we have increasingly become service based economies, or producers of e-goods like digital copies of videogames, this should also be possible by doubling down on remote jobs as a viable mode of working and possibly offering tax breaks/financial incentives to move to less populated areas. Here in Scotland if you want to be a primary/elementary school teacher on a remote island you can command a salary of ~2x what you would get on the mainland as part of a scheme to entice teachers to live in remote communities.

My brother-in-law has a slightly unusual form of epilepsy called absence seizures where he zones out and ceases to function for almost a minute at a time. It’s the exact opposite of what you’d want for a driver.

However he’s been on medication to treat it and hasn’t had an abscence seizure in over 10 years with his current medication. He lives in Cornwall and some of the council houses he is being offered are perfect but have problems like the nearest pharmacy being 20 miles away and buses being every 3 hours. Out of curiousity we checked to see if he could learn to drive and apparently if you’ve not had a seizure for 2 years then you can get rubberstamped for a provisional drivers license.

Ultimately he’s turning down these places due to these issues, it’s not being counted as a wasted bid since the drawbacks of the property are not just him being fussy. Additionally, I’m pretty certain he lacks the gross motor skills to drive even if seizures are no longer a problem. Will need to wait to bid on more suitable properties. People who live in the country really need better amenities and public transport.

At any rate that 2 year figure struck me as being very, uh, optimistic from the DVLA. Potentially any seizure should seriously curtail your ability to gain a provisional/full license.

As an economic theory I don’t think there is any particularly pressing collision with religious beliefs.

In terms of the wider political philosophy of Marxism there are ways where its skepticism about top-down power structures are going to contradict the teachings of organized religion at least.

I guess you could say the economic version is softer and the political one is a harder view.

They were just trying to prevent people from being tricked into installing Manjaro

Astro Bot from what I’ve seen - and played a bit of - is more similar to Mario Galaxy in level design and that game is maybe the best 3D Mario.

Trippin Like I Do - Blackfeet Braves (2011). They changed their name to Mystic Rabbit for releasing their first album but I don’t think they ever found mainstream success. This is a really good 60s revival band. I think their first LP as Mystic Braves suffered from being over-produced but their older stuff as Blackfeet Braves is all sensational.

Cuntry Boner - Puscifer (2008?). This was a silly side project from the frontman of Tool (Maynard James Keenan). Maybe not a “gem” but it definitely is hidden and the song pops into my head roughly once per week.

Sang Real - Dredg (2005)

I believe Dredg are an alt rock band but they are hard to describe. Some tracks are more like math rock (not this one) and others are more like straight indie. This is probably their catchiest track.

This is real politik unfortunately

Game over, man

You are thinking of Threads

I am not a big fan of LLMs but don’t see a problem with this (or the last confected outrage about Late Night With The Devil). Banning AI in movies is going to be like attempting to put a genie back in its bottle since there are so many potential applications. Maybe indie film makers can advetise their movies as Not AI so that people who are bothered by it can seek those out.

Back when I was a student I also knew fellow students that would play online poker for beer money. Basically there is a dominant strategy for each hand you have, so if you’ve got 4 or 5 games being played concurrently then ultimately you’ll end up coming out in profit.

These were just philosophy students too, not mathematicians. I wonder why more people don’t do something similar. Maybe it requires more self control than you’d expect to stick to the “rules” of the strategy.