It sounds bonkers but I actually had this happen to me. Back in my teens, I would lay a blanket on the ground outside in our yard. Our house was deep in the woods so you would rarely hear anything except nature and the occasional car passing by. I would lay outside in the sunlight with the dogs. One day I was doing it and out of nowhere I heard my name whispered. scared the shit right out of me, I told the dogs to come with me and ran inside.

I assume since the dogs did not react to it as their ears did not perk up at all and they did not detect any sort of uninvited guest. Creeps me out to this day.

Such hallucinations are common in various mental conditions, including schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar disorder.

Ahh PTSD.... yeah I do have that, had it back then even. Guess it was all in my head.

Skuggasveinn wrote on Apr 30, 2024, 11:24:

Darks wrote on Apr 30, 2024, 11:06:
Ill bet you that they are now rushing to get one done Intime for Season 2.

They took 7-8 years to develop Starfield, and that was a hot cow manure.
So I can't even imagine what kind of a clown show Todd and Co. at Bethesda could vomit up if they would rush a new Fallout game.
The best scenario I can think up is that they don't rush Fallout 5, but instead get someone to remake Fallout 1 and 2, isometric and all.
That way you don't need to write anything, the plot is already in place, the characters etc. They could make it modern using 3d models from assets already in Fallout 3,4 and 76 but keep it isometric and turned based, playable on modern systems.
I would buy that on the spot.

But where is the recurrent user spending in that?! How dare you attempt a logical game design without thinking of the important money maker aspects? /s

In a serious note, I would love if they did that. Revisit the old stuff in a new engine? Count me in. That is why mods that are redoing the old Isometric Fallouts have a cult following now. There is definitely a demand for it.

Parts of the game need to be torn out and replaced to fix it. Instead of infinite procedural planets. Limit it to certain planets and limit that to densely packed higher detailed points of interest. For example.

Even NMS gets eye wateringly boring after you planet hop enough. And Starfield has even less going for it then NMS does.

And that’s coming from a deluxe edition buyer. I liked the game enough, gave me 180 hours of a good enough time. I want it to be awesome. I still want my Cowboy Bebop style world out of this.

Meta is garbage. You can report scammers and hate speech and you get an auto response that it’s not what you think it is and the hate speech is not hate speech, the scams are not scams.

And that’s living in Germany, which has pretty strong anti hate speech online laws.

It’s long overdue for a good EU probe. Better than a US probe which means very little anymore. They are a toothless government when it comes to holding companies accountable.

Manor lords is a passion project for the creator. He has been working nearly solo on it for over 5 years. He never over promised anything so far. I think it’s a fine game myself. But clearly the Early Access warning will be on the game for a while.

Its fully customizable sandbox settings from what I have seen. Decide to play it however you want.

Going the way of Nintendo maybe? instead of in-person events. Controlled, tightly monitored videos get released instead? Its their call.

"All you need is a computer and a mouse and an interest in gaming, and you can go from games to guns in 15 minutes," Bragg said.

Most games include weaponry of all sorts. In this he sites a non-direct link to Call of Duty videos.

Investigators said a simple search for the video game 'Call of Duty' can quickly lead to a flood of content about guns.

The game isn't about much else, its a gun fetishists dream. And Youtube doesn't take long to push really tangential stuff on to you based on very little, not surprising you can skim the surface and find videos about Ghost guns.

I just hope its not blaming games again for people being stupid about firearms usage.

I used it often enough back when they had Mission tables in Warlords of Dreanor/Legion Class Halls I think? It was an easy way handle that without logging in. It was also a way to show off your characters and their gear back then. After I got a phone upgrade, years ago, I never reinstalled the thing. I do have the Authenticator program though.

The TSMC's plant reeks of the same bullshit Ford tried to pull with Fordlandia. A foolish attempt thinking one work culture needs to dominate another work culture by force. Fordlandia via the Guardian

The whole event shows you cannot just transplant an entire work culture, scheduling, management and expect it to function. Westerner's do not need or want to deal with the same things Asian cultures do in terms of work culture.

12-hour workdays that extend into the weekends are common, as is harsh treatment from managers who were expected to call workers out-of-hours and reportedly threaten firing as punishment for relatively minor failures. This work culture can survive in Taiwan, where TSMC is the pinnacle of engineering jobs, but when American engineers are introduced, friction occurs quickly.

Yeah cause historically that works so well... Having stressed out employees, and threats. Western workers do not need this level of shit being heaped onto them.

So its officially 145€ which is round'abouts $155 roughly for a legal, legit key for windows 11. And now they want to force ads down it too... They will ad us to death if possible. Its endless, useless advertisements for things I do not want or need, just for shareholders to make money from marketing firms.

This sucks.

Obligatory cheer for the EU yet again.

Beamer wrote on Apr 22, 2024, 10:10:

ZeroPike1 wrote on Apr 22, 2024, 09:53:

Beamer wrote on Apr 21, 2024, 21:13:

NKD wrote on Apr 21, 2024, 20:39:
As bad as TikTok is imagine how much worse it would be if they did sell to a US company and put it under the control of far-right US techbros. I hope they decide not to sell and just let the ban go into effect.

What is worse? Serving terrible bullshit like Andrew Tate to preteen boys because it's profitable, or because you want to undermine America through culture wars?

Are they not the same thing?

No. There's a reason why our legal system penalizes intentional acts much harsher than unintended ones, even if the outcome is the same.

And, in this case, we can actually stop what our own corporations do if we choose. We cannot stop what foreign ones do.

Guess, I equate both with being terrible awful things.

Beamer wrote on Apr 21, 2024, 21:13:

NKD wrote on Apr 21, 2024, 20:39:
As bad as TikTok is imagine how much worse it would be if they did sell to a US company and put it under the control of far-right US techbros. I hope they decide not to sell and just let the ban go into effect.

What is worse? Serving terrible bullshit like Andrew Tate to preteen boys because it's profitable, or because you want to undermine America through culture wars?

Are they not the same thing?

I still adore the AT-AT walking sounds. So distinct.

Mashiki Amiketo wrote on Apr 21, 2024, 16:30:

ZeroPike1 wrote on Apr 21, 2024, 12:26:

Musk, also the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, said after the Auschwitz visit that he did not know much about antisemitism and considered himself “Jewish by association.”

“I must admit to being somewhat frankly naive about this. In the circles that I move, I see almost no antisemitism. … Two-thirds of my friends are Jewish,” he said.

You do not walk through places like that and not come out without a better understanding of just how bad genocide on an industrial scale can be. And how bad unchecked fascists can make the world for everybody else. Unless you are Bellend. Musk is a Bellend.

Or Boing Boing like usual gives you a half-truth. Especially when you have people that don't even know what fascism means, or that the NAZI's were socialists who embraced identity politics just like today's left have. With their focus on all those immutable characteristics (race/sex/skin colour/etc.) being so very important.

Not sure how the left being inclusive of diversity to generate equality equals right wing demonising of diversity. I fail to see the flex you are attempting here. These things you are attempting to connect fail to do so.

Musk, also the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, said after the Auschwitz visit that he did not know much about antisemitism and considered himself “Jewish by association.”

“I must admit to being somewhat frankly naive about this. In the circles that I move, I see almost no antisemitism. … Two-thirds of my friends are Jewish,” he said.

You do not walk through places like that and not come out without a better understanding of just how bad genocide on an industrial scale can be. And how bad unchecked fascists can make the world for everybody else. Unless you are Bellend. Musk is a Bellend.

Its a Japanese take on Police work. So the normal brutality from US LEO's is not a feature here I think.

Ahh man! That makes my day! A video adaptation of Rama! I’m so on board.

The book series doesn’t get goofy. But it goes… I guess you could say Meta by its end. It explains what Rama is and why Rama is. And is a reflection on how the writer feels if humanity is ready to start seeing the big picture in the universe or not.

By the end it’s not off the rails but it comes dangerously close.

Prez wrote on Apr 19, 2024, 11:52:

Bots now account for half of global internet traffic and 'bad bots' nearly one third.

According to "Dead Internet Theory", the only actual people who aren't bots are yourself and me. Of course, that is exactly what a bot would say, so maybe it's just you...

The posts are coming from inside the computer! Run!!