I’m on former Centurylink fiber which was similarly sold off to private equity. Other than the name changes and wonkiness with accessing my account in their system, its been…fine actually? The connection is more stable than it ever was under Centurylink for one thing, and my bill hasn’t changed at all in the years since

Farm Simulator has a bunch of tree farming content in the base game

404media is a super high quality new independent news source and they specifically broke this story as they’ve been breaking a ton of big stories (it seems like at least one per week) since they started up. It’s run by a bunch of former Motherboard (Vice News) reporters who broke tons of big stories for Motherboard back in the day.

It sucks that it’s paywalled but journalists have to eat too and as an independent media company they don’t have the option of operating at a loss that, say, Arstechnica can as a subsidiary of the behemoth Conde Nast which itself is (was?) a subsidiary of AT&T

Streamer mode is typically for one of two usecases:

1. The streamer plays their own music, so being able to silence all game music simplifies things
2. The game might contain copyrighted music by known artists, which can trigger automated enforcement. In most jurisdictions music used in a game is fine to stream/record because it’s covered by the developer’s/distributor’s license, but that doesn’t stop overzealous rights holders from placing bogus claims that can muck up your revenue, so it’s easier to just not play music that you don’t yourself have license to play

A friend talked about getting weird looks once when doing this ok a shopping trip without the kids

A steam outline engine if you will

The price is irrelevant, because they aren’t for you or regular consumers. They’re already reserved and being shipped to AI data centers.

I mean this is the standard operating procedure for all top end data center products, they aren’t sold on consumer marketplaces but can be purchased by suppliers with existing contracts and relationships

As they ramp up yields larger capacity drives will slowly trickle into more consumer channels until eventually the 40+TB drives are like the 8-12tb drives are today

My wife spotted a couple of strands of grey recently and seemed to get really excited, so maybe she wasn’t just playing it up to make me feel better

I’m just glad it took longer for me than it did for my dad, he went grey in his mid twenties. I remember by the time I was my kids age he was already completely grey, and I still occasionally have people scrutinize my ID when buying alcohol

we will be left with many living MAGA in our prisons

Conveniently they’ve been building tons of prisons that could be put to use for this

I love the automation but holy crap do not make me make 20 steps of 20 different widgets just to make one thing, that is the most frustratingly dull form of making things expensive to craft in any factory game. Just add more expensive materials not 20 unnecessary interstitial crafting steps

Grand Theft Auto 4 - wasn’t fun to play, though I keep trying since I want to see where the story goes but get too jaded to make it far.

Around the time GTA 5 first released for console I was playing the (terrible) PC Port of 4 and I got pretty far but ended up stuck at a specific story mission where you need to fly a helicopter and no matter what I just couldn’t get the helicopter to fly fast enough to the point where I was either missing something or it was bugged out. Honestly both are solid possibilities. I’ve never felt the need to return to it and finish that story.

I did like the relationship building aspect and how folks would randomly call you to hang out. Honestly I feel like that was something 5 should’ve kept, it definitely made the characters feel a bit more alive and slightly less 2 dimensional

Sounds like my experience with the first Watchdogs game. I snagged it a couple of years after launch, thoroughly enjoyed it and it was honestly one of my top games of that year. Apparently that’s the trick sometimes is don’t buy whatever game at launch

I tried so hard with Terraria back in the day but never could get into it. I suppose it was partly because I approached it thinking “2D Minecraft” which it is not

I enjoyed Kingdom Come: Deliverence but I couldn’t get past the lock picking part of one of the early quests. I’ll probably circle back to it at some point

That is one thing I will say about Culver’s, is the quality can very wildly from franchise to franchise. Craig Culver ran a really tight ship but things have slipped a lot at some of the franchises since he retired

Culver’s is quite good if you consider it high end fast food (fast casual or whatever the fuck those industry goons call it) and now that every fast food restaurant costs way too much you might as well get good food that’s not been pre-prepared

Also during Lent you can get walleye from Culver’s

Hey me too! When I read a long series I try to read something else in between, but I’m excited to continue with Foundation’s Edge

I mean, maybe I’m a bit too optimistic but if they’ve pissed me off they’ve probably pissed off everyone so it should be easy to convince enough people to show up to tear out the silly rules that they keep getting fines for

I said what I said!

I rewatched it for the first time as an adult last year and holy crap that film is incredible