Maybe you should just give up

I’m more than a little miffed that Nintendo has my Patreon dollars.

I almost wish I was still in Oklahoma so I could be a bigger thorn in their side. I’ll see what I can do…

This whole thing has me really fired up. I grew up in Oklahoma. My wife went to that high school. We can’t say we’re surprised what with all the politics going on there, but I wish there was more we could do than donate and vote. It doesn’t feel like enough.

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Saving this for later when somebody inevitably gives me shit for gaming on windows.

I wonder why “Play” is written in English but “Store” is katakana.

Mine and my roommate’s Hyundais were stolen. His was stolen by a child. We know this because the high schooler that stole my roommate’s car kept parking it randomly around the neighborhood because he obviously couldn’t bring it home to his parents and parked the car directly in front of our house (he stole it from a train stop so didn’t know). We caught the kid when he came back for it. The kid was 16.

Mine was stolen and then used in 3+ more hijackings involving a gun according to the FBI agent assigned to my case.

Still never buying a Hyundai or Kia ever again.

The game is “The Day Before”

That was the one and only prompt I gave it in that chat. New bard sucks as bad as old bard.

After it was supposedly updated to support helping with code, I asked bard about how to access password protected zips in Go and it made up libraries and gave me a very simple non-functioning example. When asked to describe Octopath Traveler 2, it invented a new main character and setting that isn’t in the game or its predecessor or the mobile game. I don’t have a lot of faith that Gemini will be better.

The TSA

This was a hit job and news outlets are trying to pretend it’s an accident.

Wait, Robinhood survived their GameStop bullshit?

There’s been 3 or 4 mass exoduses of advertisers from X. There have been multiple shit-hitting-the-fan moments that Walmart shrugged off.

This is just petty

I’ve been cooking up an idea for a smaller style MMO with as few NPCs as possible. It’d take a large skill tree in which you can’t possibly put points into everything so people have to specialize and work together. NPCs might fill in jobs while a player is offline like taking sales at the store or unattended crafting but all quests and rewards come from other players. Something unavoidable is that I think there has to be an end or else people either 1) can branch out and become so skilled they don’t need other people or 2) stagnate. So after X real world days, an apocalypse happens. Plague, dragon attack, aliens, zombies, blight, pirates, whatever. If you win, you can rebuild and get a benefit before your next go around. If you lose, you migrate to a new place (generate a new map) and try again.

I’m never buying another game from Google again. They dropped the ball on Stadia so hard.