Tried the demo a ways back. Seemed okay. Way more into the use of Gealdyr as soundtrack than the game itself, though.

I tried multiple distros over the last year to find a good one to recommend to someone I know. My experience with mint was a mediocre startup followed by mediocre use for a few days, followed by a boot failure. Very disappointing from a distro I frequently hear recommended as a newbie-friendly option.

The self is an illusion. If you want to be happy, forget.

You pick up the journal you bought last year. It’s been sitting on the shelf since you lost interest 11 months ago. You had hoped it would be a way to reassure yourself in the face of eternity. But, what’s this… The book is almost full, and the last entry is dated yesterday.

Sure, that’s a certain kind of scary, but imagine the experience of being forcibly given a desire you’ve never known. Imagine you’ve been living as a more or less average human your whole life, and suddenly this creature turns up that instills a mind-warping hunger for something essentially mundane but culturally, slightly embarrassing or inconvenient to satisfy, like a growing need, only temporarily satiable, to have someone else’s finger in your mouth. You can fight it, sometimes holding out for days at a time, but you experience a continuously intensifying, survival instinct level drive to lick, or suck, or simply hold in your mouth, someone else’s warm, living fingers.

‘We call this creature The Dentisubus.’

To borrow an old classic, I don’t have hobbies. I have interests. Hobbies cost money, but interests are free.

Give consentual pets.

Resplendent resplendens.

I’ll call it an arthouse short film until I see at least one home movie/unboxing thing showing how janky any new product really is, and maybe still after that. I can’t see a project like this having gotten to anywhere near that level without it being widely talked about.

Lots of fun ways for it to go wrong if it is real though. ‘Pardon me while I tidy your credit cards with my camera eyes.’ ‘I told the robot to jerk me off and it ripped my balls off instead because it’s actually some 15 year old boy in a VR headset.’ ‘I told the robot to clean my living room while i took a shower, but it came and stared at me naked and wouldn’t let me leave, because it’s actually a 15 year old boy in a VR headset.’ ‘I got an alert that my robot slave had to go into pilot mode because a person arrived, so I pulled up the feed and got a POV video of it object-raping my sister.’ ‘I told the robot to feed my hamster and my cat, but it decided to feed my hamster to my cat, which may have been because of an error in language processing or because it’s actually a 15 year old boy in a VR headset.’

Wee, living on the edge of cyberpunk dystopia!

Hmm, leaving out anime…

• Futurama (excluding Comedy Central era)
• Avatar: The Last Airbender is styled like an anime but isn’t
• Invincible
• Bob’s Burgers
• Gargoyles
• Street Sharks
• Interstella 55555
• Heavy Metal
• Metalocalypse

I know there are more but I am sputtering just now.

I literally just started trying out Ardour the other day. I’d say give it a try. All it’ll cost you is a little time.

As much as I hate it, the old truism remains: ‘it’s not what you know, it’s who.’ I have done the job search thing and I have done the 'friendly recommendation thing. Searching and applying took months, led to very little response, and even less good response. Being the guy who a former manager thought of when a client says ‘Stop sending us idiots. Send someone reliable,’ got me straight into softball interviews and into work within a week or less. Talk to people in your area about finding work. It takes you from the pool of 20,000 people and robots that applied on indeed and puts you in the pool of 2 people who know the back door into their system.

However, if anyone who works in HR is reading this, don’t do this crap. Just do your damn job yourself. Automation makes you worse at your job and convinces your boss you can be replaced with AI. There are no winners when you do this.

Phone call to ask ‘Hey, did you predict 9/11?’ costs nothing if you already have the phone. No need for billions.

This is one of the scenes i saw used a few years back to be mixed with EDM for a different feel. It was pretty good.

Unda

Oysya

Oublier

Solringen

Arbeit Nervt

Rummelsnuff

Peter Pringle

Abseits

Mein Diamant

Gealdyr

Heilung

Zywiolak

L’Ham de Foc

Nie Boj

O Fortuna

DVA

Faradenza

Ombra Mai Fu

Nyarlethotep

Yljah Qey’ 'oH

ÖXXÖ XÖÖX

I Tokuni

Batzorig Vaanchig

Apage Satana

Yoik

Solstafir

Amumu

Martialist

Czarne Okna

Urth

Tout Petit Moineau

Bangra Nights

That’s a lot to ask of one game these days. Last one that ticked those boxes for me was Pacific Drive.

Intelligent =/= wise

And now that I’ve looked at an image of it I need a shower to get the dust off.

I wish you well, kid, but goodbye.

I don’t engage with conspiracy theories much but the two that have actually stuck to my memory are that the WTC attack on 11-9 happened right after the building 7 property was bought and insured for a huge amount, then loaded with the financial records needed for a massive financial crimes investigation, so it was a real attack but allowed to happen as a combo insurance payout and financial crime coverup, and that reddit is a consent manufacturing facility because the city with the most active accounts is an air force base with a small population (something like 25 accounts per person, if I recall) that does cyber warfare.