Yes, I agree. I'm a long time consumer, fairly recent grower, and pay attention. And when I've never even heard of any of the strains available at my local retailer I think something's going on. I know there's an arms race for ever greater potency (it's up to like 30% and more lately) but I also wonder what the economic or social factors are that influence that sort of thing.
I was at the tag agency once and there was a lady who had a little emotional support monkey that a guy kept fucking with. Eventually the monkey let out a cry and swiped at the guy. It was terrifying.
I should just link to the cartoon but I don't feel like it.
So, in today's Olive and Popeye, Olive -- who has gained the ability to "see dead people" as the movie put it -- has gone forth on an adventure to help people. She's looking out over the ocean when one of her companions asks what she's looking at. She replies, "The ghosts of a couple of mermaids. It must be nice to have a friend to while away eternity with."
Cut to a close-up of the mermaids, who look somewhat, er, segmented. One says (in what I will assume is a mocking tone 'cos it's in quotes), "Oh, look, that ship has a spinning flower!"
To which the other replies, "Like *you* knew what a propeller was?"
Well, as the replies point out, at least some of it (the tents part) is attributable to the organizers telling people that tents left would be gathered up and donated. So I imagine people who bought a cheap-assed $30 tent were just as happy to leave it behind.
Good on Jack Lowe and others to collect tents for refugees. Bad on the litterbugs. As for just leaving the tents - all of which looked pretty new and in good shape, makes no sense to me. And would be a waste, if not for the people collecting them for the refugees.
Apparently abandoning tents so that they could be collected and donated was part of the plan for the festival in the first place. The trash, not so much.
...tents are not cheap things. Taking time off work, traveling, getting a tent,attending a fest, and then leaving it there because can't be bothered to pack it up is some peak americana shit I guess
But yay the people collecting them for the homeless!
"Part of the problem is that someone previously suggested that tents left behind would be donated to refugees, so not entirely their fault, & modern accommodation doesn't have space for drying large objects. But yes we live in a disposable world"
I've noticed locally the litter is getting worse. Always were a few bits, usually around the bigger highway. Now it is every country road and even on a military base.
Which is a huge fucking no no.
The local problem stems from assholes, but also people throwing garbage into their open beds and then driving off and letting it blow out all over.So assholes.
Up before Tabs, already showered - this going back to work shit must be real. The start of the school year always sneaks up on me.
Of course, when it's just staff, we start at 8 AM. When students are involved, and our students are teenagers, we start at 7 AM. Someone please tell me how it makes sense to try drag teenagers anywhere that early in the morning and expect them to do things they don't want to do?
Lewis Black had a funny bit about 8:00 classes, with the punchline being "Why are you teaching this at 8:00? Are you trying to keep this shit a secret?"
I switched from an academic major to science after my first year, and found myself after a year away from school back with a required 8 am Chemistry class full of go-getter freshmen who would sit down front and correct the lecturer. It did not go well for me.
When I went back for my teaching certificate, I had to drop an 8 AM class because I was working midnight to 6 to help pay for school, and I missed a class because I fell asleep at the wheel, hopped a curb, and bent a rim on my car. So I decided I'd get those credits another way.
Are you in a state or county where the local industry relies on teenaged labor?
That is why we start the teens at 7 here. The local amusement park lobbied for it, and continues to lobby for it, every time the schools say "this is dumb, why are we doing this"
That's part of it. There's no specific industry that relies on it, but many of my students have jobs, and many of them are working more hours or later than someone their age is supposed to.
That is something else we really need to factor into our start times. And why we need more, smaller schools, in larger districts - more teachers, less central admin, less travel time for students. But now I'm just dreaming.
It doesn't. I know one of my colleagues in the Psychology Dept published some findings about how useless students are at that hour, but our overlords conveniently ignored them.
The problem is all the other shit. If we just cared about education, we'd completely rearrange our schedule and start later in the day. But then parents who drive their kids in on the way to work would be upset, and so would the coaches who would have to move practices even later in the afternoon, and all the people illegally employing teenagers would throw a fit. So nothing changes.
People talk about trump wanting to be president for life or a king, and I don't doubt that they are right, because trump is stupid and wants power (and now, he wants to stay out of jail). He should study history, and find out that way, instead of by living it himself, what has happened to some presidents for life or to some kings. Prison for some, executed for others, or both for yet others.
And only an idiot would want a title that includes "for life." Why? Because the only way to get rid of the lifer would be to kill them.
He's old enough, and looks to be in poor enough shape, that 'life' might not even extend through another term, if he got one (which I don't think he will), and more likely only a couple years beyond. At this point, he just wants the power to protect himself.
I hear ya. I have had a nailbed infection since the weekend.
It is kinda... interesting.. about the pain. I finally cracked and saw a doc yesterday who prescribed antibiotics. But, it remains super-sensitive and just wakes me in the middle of the night. We can't get codeine over the counter anymore, so I'm finding it a bit of a challenge.
But Apples are srs machines and not for playing -- except playing around with art and video. So I guess they’re great for *designing* games on, they just don’t expect you to play them.
If you can find them, both the XBox Series X and Playstation 5 are inexpsive, relative to a second computer. The XBox will play all the games your dying xbone played as well, so it's pretty much just an upgrade.
As for the Mac, I guess it's just numbers. It's already hard enough making games that work on windows and two or three different consoles, so I guess often one more just isn't in the budget.
I am locked into the Mac ecosystem, because I work in Graphic Design for a major agency, and I would rather not need to maintain another system, just so I can play contemporary games.
Maintenance on a console is minor. The solid state hard drive on the Series X is unfortunately small, so I have to swap things between it and another hard drive to keep it from filling up, but otherwise it just sits there, ready for when I want to play games on it.
Someone said yesterday they'd found a PS2 emulator for Mac. I looked at it but I couldn't find any system requirements and I have a MacBook Air. It's open source.
Ironically, I can't play Fallout 4 on my current machine because the game doesn't recognize my 2023-issue graphics card. And if that's not a first world problem I dunno what is. :)
I can probably find a mod to run the game if I really want, I'm just amused that Bethesda, while repackaging Skyrim for the umpteenth time, somehow didn't take into account that people would want to play its other games years later too.
I would definitely wait on that, though. Cyberpunk was supposed to be playable on the older systems as well, and half the reason it got the reputation it did at the start was because of how badly that worked.
Thankfully, I already had my series X when that came out, so it was mostly OK for me, though it ran much better on my second run a few months later after several patches.
Some of my favorite early gaming memories are of playing "Impossible Mission" on my friend's C64. One of the earliest home games with a recorded voice--the villain's at the beginning. Also if you dropped your character down one of the many bottomless pit hazards, he let out a hilarious scream, so we spent most of our time killing him instead of actually playing the game.
That was how my friends and I played flight simulator (get to 40,000 feet, turn off everything) and sim city (load a half-built city, cheat in all the disasters).
would not have been a difficult position for me, but then again I'm not a power hungry fool and thus never would have been in that position in the first place.
For me it's less the turn based combat and instead the isometric perspective.
I can deal with it in some games, but generally cRPGs are so zoomed out it's just not something I enjoy even if there are scenes with characters that are well rendered.
In Larian's previous games, the turn based combat would often feel slow, but in BG3 it is often over in a round or two, so it doesn't wear out its welcome. (Except for a couple large fights towards the end of Act 2, and probably a couple more toward the end of the game but I haven't gotten there yet, and that's helped by turning down the difficulty.)
Tabs y'all.
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Fuck damn but is the new Jupyter system in vscode some slick ass shit.
Bought a strain of pot I had never heard of before yesterday: That Chicken.
It's "medical", you know.
Keep fucking it...
There are simply way too many varieties.
Yes, I agree. I'm a long time consumer, fairly recent grower, and pay attention. And when I've never even heard of any of the strains available at my local retailer I think something's going on. I know there's an arms race for ever greater potency (it's up to like 30% and more lately) but I also wonder what the economic or social factors are that influence that sort of thing.
Chicken soup for the brain?
You got a monkey:
https://twitter.com/heyyitsjanea/status/1696174576818868318?s=20
The dangers of primate meth addiction
I will never complain about the cat pissing outside the box again.
I was at the tag agency once and there was a lady who had a little emotional support monkey that a guy kept fucking with. Eventually the monkey let out a cry and swiped at the guy. It was terrifying.
Sounds like the monkey was failing to be supported by its person.
That probably seemed like a better idea in his head.
I should just link to the cartoon but I don't feel like it.
So, in today's Olive and Popeye, Olive -- who has gained the ability to "see dead people" as the movie put it -- has gone forth on an adventure to help people. She's looking out over the ocean when one of her companions asks what she's looking at. She replies, "The ghosts of a couple of mermaids. It must be nice to have a friend to while away eternity with."
Cut to a close-up of the mermaids, who look somewhat, er, segmented. One says (in what I will assume is a mocking tone 'cos it's in quotes), "Oh, look, that ship has a spinning flower!"
To which the other replies, "Like *you* knew what a propeller was?"
Ouch.
Morning!
https://substack.com/profile/155704339-teen-laqueefa/note/c-39231454?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2kpa8j
Those are a lot of tents.
https://twitter.com/MrJackLowe/status/1696432901737337057
Twitter, show me the environmental impact of Brexit voters.
Flippin' yobs
That is disgusting, and how are that many people able to walk away from a perfectly good tent? I can't imagine being that wasteful.
Well, as the replies point out, at least some of it (the tents part) is attributable to the organizers telling people that tents left would be gathered up and donated. So I imagine people who bought a cheap-assed $30 tent were just as happy to leave it behind.
Without a doubt.
I really hope at least one of them got halfway home and suddenly shouted "BLOODY HELL WE FORGOT THE FUCKING TENT"
I've done that.
And the trash? COME THE FUCK ON.
Yeah, that's just horrible to see.
The trash really is inexcusable.
Good on Jack Lowe and others to collect tents for refugees. Bad on the litterbugs. As for just leaving the tents - all of which looked pretty new and in good shape, makes no sense to me. And would be a waste, if not for the people collecting them for the refugees.
Apparently abandoning tents so that they could be collected and donated was part of the plan for the festival in the first place. The trash, not so much.
OK, that makes sense. But not the litter part.
That makes sense at least
Humanity is so fucked up sometimes.
It's really.... [puts on sunglasses]... in-tents?
You just go sit in the corner right now and think about what you've done, Mister.
You're just anti.
No, I'm an uncle.
*runs*
...tents are not cheap things. Taking time off work, traveling, getting a tent,attending a fest, and then leaving it there because can't be bothered to pack it up is some peak americana shit I guess
But yay the people collecting them for the homeless!
"Part of the problem is that someone previously suggested that tents left behind would be donated to refugees, so not entirely their fault, & modern accommodation doesn't have space for drying large objects. But yes we live in a disposable world"
https://twitter.com/MikeMoxon2/status/1696448832609964469
Peak English in this case.
I'd gloat, but I have the feeling that not only do we do it to,but we do it worse
(danke)
We'd do it bigger in any event. Which I guess IS worse now that I think about it.
I've noticed locally the litter is getting worse. Always were a few bits, usually around the bigger highway. Now it is every country road and even on a military base.
Which is a huge fucking no no.
The local problem stems from assholes, but also people throwing garbage into their open beds and then driving off and letting it blow out all over.So assholes.
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Up before Tabs, already showered - this going back to work shit must be real. The start of the school year always sneaks up on me.
Of course, when it's just staff, we start at 8 AM. When students are involved, and our students are teenagers, we start at 7 AM. Someone please tell me how it makes sense to try drag teenagers anywhere that early in the morning and expect them to do things they don't want to do?
The joke about the dean asking the college professor to teach a 9AM class.
"Impossible. I never stay up that late."
I failed two classes my senior year, both of which started at 7 a.m. I refused to be there.
Little kids can start earlier but adolescents and especially teens need to SLEEP. How about 9-4?
9-4 would be great, if we could get everyone else to let us do it.
Beats me.
Builds character!
Lewis Black had a funny bit about 8:00 classes, with the punchline being "Why are you teaching this at 8:00? Are you trying to keep this shit a secret?"
I switched from an academic major to science after my first year, and found myself after a year away from school back with a required 8 am Chemistry class full of go-getter freshmen who would sit down front and correct the lecturer. It did not go well for me.
When I went back for my teaching certificate, I had to drop an 8 AM class because I was working midnight to 6 to help pay for school, and I missed a class because I fell asleep at the wheel, hopped a curb, and bent a rim on my car. So I decided I'd get those credits another way.
I had a teacher who told us that students should not have to take night courses, then added, "Anything before 9 am is a night course."
Are you in a state or county where the local industry relies on teenaged labor?
That is why we start the teens at 7 here. The local amusement park lobbied for it, and continues to lobby for it, every time the schools say "this is dumb, why are we doing this"
That's part of it. There's no specific industry that relies on it, but many of my students have jobs, and many of them are working more hours or later than someone their age is supposed to.
My school started at 815 I think, but since my bus ride was 45 minutes, it seemed earlier.
My spawn started elementary at 745, and middle and high at 715. Their busride was over an hour when we lived at oldhouse.
....What was that thing about wanting things better for our kids again?
That is something else we really need to factor into our start times. And why we need more, smaller schools, in larger districts - more teachers, less central admin, less travel time for students. But now I'm just dreaming.
It would also help if businesses did not start earlier and earlier. Used to be that only factory shift work started before 8 am.
Now it is most jobs.
We have staggered arrival for HS here in NYC, the upperclassmen don't have to arrive until 9:30-10 and dismiss at 4. It makes a huge difference.
This is the way.
It doesn't. I know one of my colleagues in the Psychology Dept published some findings about how useless students are at that hour, but our overlords conveniently ignored them.
The problem is all the other shit. If we just cared about education, we'd completely rearrange our schedule and start later in the day. But then parents who drive their kids in on the way to work would be upset, and so would the coaches who would have to move practices even later in the afternoon, and all the people illegally employing teenagers would throw a fit. So nothing changes.
People talk about trump wanting to be president for life or a king, and I don't doubt that they are right, because trump is stupid and wants power (and now, he wants to stay out of jail). He should study history, and find out that way, instead of by living it himself, what has happened to some presidents for life or to some kings. Prison for some, executed for others, or both for yet others.
And only an idiot would want a title that includes "for life." Why? Because the only way to get rid of the lifer would be to kill them.
He's old enough, and looks to be in poor enough shape, that 'life' might not even extend through another term, if he got one (which I don't think he will), and more likely only a couple years beyond. At this point, he just wants the power to protect himself.
Remind him that Saddam was President for life. Till he reached the end of 2 yards of hemp.
Idi Amin also too, until he wasn't.
He died of tertiary syphilis in exile. A possible path for PAB, but not quick enough for my liking.
I sometimes have difficulty being patient.
Gah. I've been up since 1:45am. I may have to go back on Temazepam.
I hear ya. I have had a nailbed infection since the weekend.
It is kinda... interesting.. about the pain. I finally cracked and saw a doc yesterday who prescribed antibiotics. But, it remains super-sensitive and just wakes me in the middle of the night. We can't get codeine over the counter anymore, so I'm finding it a bit of a challenge.
I'm sorry. Pain when you're trying to sleep is so frustrating.
TY. It is worse as it triggers other stuff. Being awake and aware at 2am is a massive problem to me.
Where are all of the good Mac games?
It is an OS with a solid performance.
And there is a system to transfer Windows games to it.
I want to play Fallout, Starfield, and BG3.
(And, yes, I have an xbone, but that's not going to last for too much longer. AND, I don't want to have to maintain another computer, tyvm.)
This is a simple story about shite engineering masquerading as "reliability design".
There are no real 3d graphics cards for Mac because they're allergic to fans.
Because they made a strategic decision that reducing the frequency of repairs makes them look super reliable.
As usual for Apple, it's the triumph of marketing over engineering.
But Apples are srs machines and not for playing -- except playing around with art and video. So I guess they’re great for *designing* games on, they just don’t expect you to play them.
If you can find them, both the XBox Series X and Playstation 5 are inexpsive, relative to a second computer. The XBox will play all the games your dying xbone played as well, so it's pretty much just an upgrade.
As for the Mac, I guess it's just numbers. It's already hard enough making games that work on windows and two or three different consoles, so I guess often one more just isn't in the budget.
I am locked into the Mac ecosystem, because I work in Graphic Design for a major agency, and I would rather not need to maintain another system, just so I can play contemporary games.
But, that seems to be how it is.
Maintenance on a console is minor. The solid state hard drive on the Series X is unfortunately small, so I have to swap things between it and another hard drive to keep it from filling up, but otherwise it just sits there, ready for when I want to play games on it.
Someone said yesterday they'd found a PS2 emulator for Mac. I looked at it but I couldn't find any system requirements and I have a MacBook Air. It's open source.
I saw that message.
Also, I learned that there is a browser version of wipEout
https://phoboslab.org/wipegame/
Ironically, I can't play Fallout 4 on my current machine because the game doesn't recognize my 2023-issue graphics card. And if that's not a first world problem I dunno what is. :)
That's rough.
I got the XB so's I could play Fallout 4.
But, i would prefer to play it native.
In my loincloth (sorry, TMI).
In-game or IRL? Important distinction. ;)
I can probably find a mod to run the game if I really want, I'm just amused that Bethesda, while repackaging Skyrim for the umpteenth time, somehow didn't take into account that people would want to play its other games years later too.
I already have FO4, XB1 native, even with the novelty Pip-Boy (that I can use with my iPhone).
But, I want games to be Mac native, too.
Yeah, I'm going to cry some tears.
If your xbone lasts more than 4 hours, contact a gamer.
Starfield on a Mac? You're gonna be waiting a while.
Yeah, I might be able to play it on my 2015 xbox1.
Maybe.
I just did a quick search, and the interwebs tells me that Starfield *is* playable on an Xbone. Using cloud gaming.
Not the preferred choice, but it's there as an option.
I would definitely wait on that, though. Cyberpunk was supposed to be playable on the older systems as well, and half the reason it got the reputation it did at the start was because of how badly that worked.
Yeah. One of the primary reasons for my purchase of a gaming rig was the subpar release of 2077 on console.
Got it day 1 for XBOne and most of it worked OK, but there were clear bugs and rendering issues which impacted a lot of the story in unfortunate ways.
Thankfully, I already had my series X when that came out, so it was mostly OK for me, though it ran much better on my second run a few months later after several patches.
This is why I go with Commodore. They have Centipede and ALF: The First Adventure.
Some of my favorite early gaming memories are of playing "Impossible Mission" on my friend's C64. One of the earliest home games with a recorded voice--the villain's at the beginning. Also if you dropped your character down one of the many bottomless pit hazards, he let out a hilarious scream, so we spent most of our time killing him instead of actually playing the game.
That was how my friends and I played flight simulator (get to 40,000 feet, turn off everything) and sim city (load a half-built city, cheat in all the disasters).
You are hilarious.
Good morning! Seems we just had this country, or maybe it was a neighbor.
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barely made it thru the rest of the puzzle--missed on population, took a couple of guesses for flag
I think the neighbor Aruba was recent.
We just recently had Croatia, which has the same general shape.
Coastline of Croatitia is pretty unmistakable.
Wow, this is some steaming pile of bullshite...
𝐴𝑠 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑚𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑤𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑎𝑢𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘𝑠 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑖𝑠 2020 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑠, 𝑀𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑠 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑, 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦. 𝐴𝑠 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑙𝑡, 𝑀𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑠 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑, ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑒, 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟.
Hm. Tell me, students of history, how well has "I was just following orders" worked in the past?
what I wanna know is what the hell Meadows had to do with "determining if allegations were true"
That was not his job.
"Widespread"?
"𝐴𝑠 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑚𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑤𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑎𝑢𝑑"
Wonder where he heard that. The voices in his head perhaps?
Meadows was in a difficult position.
Embrace TFG's onerous ideas, or embrace reality - and risk losing all of the "power" that TFG generated.
would not have been a difficult position for me, but then again I'm not a power hungry fool and thus never would have been in that position in the first place.
tfg was never going to "wind down" his maladministration. He wanted and still wants to be President For Life.
Armored Core 6: Meth Souls
Sorry, too busy playing Baldur's Heroin 3.
I don't feel like you're missing much.
Yet.
I mean. I'm sure the writing is spectacular. But I'm never, ever going to get into turn based combat. Especially in a videogame.
For me it's less the turn based combat and instead the isometric perspective.
I can deal with it in some games, but generally cRPGs are so zoomed out it's just not something I enjoy even if there are scenes with characters that are well rendered.
In Larian's previous games, the turn based combat would often feel slow, but in BG3 it is often over in a round or two, so it doesn't wear out its welcome. (Except for a couple large fights towards the end of Act 2, and probably a couple more toward the end of the game but I haven't gotten there yet, and that's helped by turning down the difficulty.)
They did a massively crackheaded and yet balls out amazing thing called Dragan Commander. I'm positive it's still on GOG.
I can only do turn based combat b/c of my bone disorder, so I'm glad that both are available.