While I understand your sentiment about Windows, this is how you end up in a world filled with iPad kids who become adults who accept technology that they don’t own.

Good to know Alan Wake 2 is better. The gameplay loop of the original is definitely a bit repetitive, I intentionally played on “easy” because I knew that going in, and wanted it to feel like less of a slog.

The first 3 Uncharted games also feel like a bit of a slog in many of the same ways for me. There are too many “waves” of enemies in most of the areas and while the stealth mechanics in those games help make things a bit more interesting, the second wave of enemies always finds you immediately and forces you back into guns blazing at enemies going for first-time headshots on the NPCs because it’s the fastest way through, and if you miss the headshot and hit the body at all they become bullet sponges even if you follow it up with headshots.

I’ve heard they can be also quite useful for blind/vision-impaired users to describe surroundings and read signs, etc.

I’m not gonna say I slept on it, but I’ve had Alan Wake in my library for over 5 years. Picked it up on sale around the time I got Control which I really wanted to play but never got around to. Decided since that whole universe seems more interconnected and with more games than it did when I bought them (Alan Wake 2, the upcoming sequel to Control, etc.), I should just do a playthrough of Alan Wake before I finally get around to getting Control off my backlog.

Played through Alan Wake (the original, not the remake) this past weekend, and while it certainly shows its age in some areas, I had a lot more fun than I expected to. If you’re into narrative third person “shooter” games like Uncharted, Tomb Raider, or similar, Alan Wake is worth checking out.

I’m looking forward to finally getting to Control this weekend.

I’m apparently already participating. Haven’t booted my PS5 since April.

Replace the bags on the cameras with faraday bags/cages. No damage to property, but no signal in or out. Slap a high voltage sign on it to make anyone who wants to remove it hesitate a bit.

Would inserting a tube and turning it into a fountain be in bad taste?

City Council is all elected, not appointed.

More likely new bots are all being vibecoded and aren’t pretending to be anything because everything is stupid now.

Unfortunately, taking it offline also won’t work, because iirc games stop working if the console hasn’t been online in a month.

Kinda hard to ask her at this point.

And it still won’t be that Tiger King guy.

Remember when Trump was leaving office and he was convinced Trump was gonna pardon him, and his team rented a stretch hummer or something like that and then he didn’t get a pardon?

The dentists my insurance will cover are the national chains, and they are always trying to tack on an extra $85 for whatever brand electric toothbrush they’re peddling. They’ll even say I’m doing fine with brushing, but still recommend it, and have the receptionist ask while I’m scheduling my next cleaning.

I find I brush more thouroughly with a manual brush and spend more time than when using a powered one. I think it’s probably more a “what I’m used to” situation where the electric brushes are a bit overstimulating and I forget to keep them charged.

Probably an American thing, many of the dentists I’ve had tried to sell me an electric toothbrush. I claim I already have one (which I do, I just prefer not to use it).

It would be nice for all of us who’ve known he’s a dipshit for years, but there’s always new people coming along that haven’t realized yet.

I’d rather have to see more articles about some dumb thing he said, than to live in a world where I’m in an increasingly small club of people who know he’s an idiot.

The explaination for the sign reads like an LLM. The first sentence might be Trump.

I just want to say, Mamdani is excellent. But I feel like he’s getting a lot of undue credit when the candidates he endorsed are just great people. For example, Brad Lander was a similarly-strong candidate for NYC mayor who was arrested by ICE for attempting to prevent them from detaining someone. When Mamdani won the Primary for Mayor everyone kinda just knew Brad had a future somewhere else.

Mamdani deserves some credit for endorsing good people, and using his brand to boost them, but it seems like the accomplishments of those he endorsed are getting overshadowed in articles and headlines by what seems like an attempt to turn real progressive momentum into “Mamdani’s little club.”

Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against Mamdani, or even him being the face of the movement. It just seems like there are people in power trying to undermine him and the movement by making him the face of it.

Thank you for your service! o7

How much do you think it would take to get the Pentagon to sue LLM companies for bad intelligence? With as much as this administration refuses to take blame for anything, if they’d just scapegoat the AI companies and sacrifice them on the altar of Trump’s ego, we could at least get a small win out of this whole mess.