This has not remotely been my experience. It’s also incredibly easy to avoid getting into this situation by rainbow flipping.

F tier click bait. Literally nothing informative was said in here.

Alan Wake, Quantum Break, Control, and Alan Wake 2, are all some of my all time favourite games.

Going to wait for the next patch before trying out FBC Firebreak, but I’m excited and can’t wait for the Max Payne remakes and Control 2.

Lol did it solve anything though?

If you actually watch the full episode, the timeline of events is:

• Someone rents a new house and finds a skeleton in the marsh behind it. It’s a ~30 year old woman who died in the winter and was bludgeoned and stabbed repeatedly.
• They send away for DNA sequencing but the lab doesn’t get back to them for like a year and half.
• In the meantime they look at missing persons cases (over 100 in North Carolina they state, though presumably ~half that once you filter for skeletal women)
• They determine that this woman’s case seems most likely based on all the other details about her case. The forensic tech who’s oddly interested in how much pain people feel as they die is interested in using “impose an image of a skull on a face technique” to see if it matches.
• She reaches out to a skateboarding computer science professor who uses gimp to paste a semi transparent layer of the skull on top of a picture of that victim’s face and thinks it probably maybe matches.
• They get fed up with the DNA lab and send it to a second one that responds in three weeks confirming it was who they thought.
• They talk to the victim’s friends who point out what party she was at the night she disappeared.
• The people at the party say that she was hanging out with this one big truck driver after everyone else. His story has been that she walked home after everyone else left, in January, for 7 miles.
• They interview him a few times and he eventually says that they had sex that night and she belittled him for not getting it up and he pushed her and she he hit her head on the nightstand and he left and she was fine when he left.
• He’s convicted of murder and dumping her body because that’s an obvious crock of shit.

Kinda feels like the whole GIMP escapade was just a waste of everyone’s time and all it took to solve the case was basic police work in terms of interviewing people who saw her last. By the time they tried GIMP they already had a prime missing person that they thought it was, and they wouldn’t have had to try gimp if they just went to a second / competent DNA lab immediately. The way they present it is a little unclear, but it sounds like they didn’t even pull the suspect in for further interviewing until they finally got the DNA confirmation for who it was.

epic bad, upvotes plz

Epic barely changed it. You stopped playing because you put 1000+ hours into it and eventually got bored and moved on.

This is honestly a trash article. It can be summarized as:

“Microsoft, a trillion dollar corporation that makes around $150 billion in pure profit, every single year, is tempering expectations around AI, BUT then why are they still investing $12B dollars in it, that makes no sense!”.

Like, they’re tempering expectations around AGI revolutionizing the economy, not saying AI is trash and theres no value whatsoever in it.

Fellow AI-haters should check out the newsletter and podcast of Ed Zitron.

If you’re not a hater and want a balanced and rationale take, don’t.

To be fair, he navigated Disney / Lucasfilm’s grip on the Star Wars franchise pretty adeptly. He was both director and story director on the Star Wars games and both were some of the best star wars media in recent times.

Notably not being described as an RPG but an action adventure game.

Still, interesting given the studio founder is Stig Asmussen, who directed both the Star Wars Jedi games, God of War 3, and came up through the art department working on previous God of War games.

It’ll be interesting to see his level of spectacle brought to a DnD universe.

Yes, but the article is literally nothing without that information.

The only interesting thing about a new approach to laser internet is if they’ve solved the critical issue holding it back.

💯

If gamers are bitching about a game not adding a whole new island, you should ignore them because they’re clearly idiots.

If gamers are bitching about your menu system being navigable by someone with less than a PhD (cough, Risk of Rain 2 on console, cough), and you’re estimating that will take 6 months to fix, then that’s because you (as a company) coded your software badly.

Sweeney is not lionized as a false saviour.

Newell is.

100%.

Gamers act like Gabe Newell is a god, when he’s just a billionaire that charged them more than he needed to, like all the others.

Epis using Fortnite money to break up Apple and Google’s app store monopplies an objectively good ded

Apple is such a piece of shit company.

Hot damn I want to see what modders do with this game.

Saber’s really showing itself to be a great studio.

It’s not even particularly accurate or nuanced in its history of Microsoft’s actions and the doc formats, it doesn’t mention any competitors, it doesn’t mention anything about the history of type setting generally or more advanced projects like LaTex, and at a fundamental level, it’s edited worse than my first year essays.

It spends like 2000 words just to say markdown good because it focuses on intent rather than a particular style.

Yes, I would describe it as bad.

Honestly, this is a pretty badly written and researched article for someone that likes writing so much.

Like, just the opening two paragraphs about Microsoft controlling document formats … They repeat the same information in both paragraphs and give a rather incomplete history of document formatting.

It’s also wild to write that many words about Markdown and never discuss its connection to HTML and its foundation in formatting via declarative intent rather than imperative formatting instructions (i.e. in markdown you dont style your title by saying bold / underling / font-size:20, you declare your true intent which is this is the top level title / heading, but that all comes from the underlying structure of HTML which markdown is basically just a simplification of.

This is literally lemmy, a (relatively) niche platform where somebody is asking about a (relatively) niche subject. I dont think anything about this is a average person.

‘Average person’ was in quotes because it’s the language you used to describe someone not comfortable with the command line.

I mean what’s the point of “self” hosting then?

If you have to be a professional server administrator to host one of these services, then why even have a self hosting community as opposed to just a hosting community for server admins to discuss how to set and configure various services? Is this community dedicated to just discussing the uniqueness of managing a home server without a dedicated IP?