He’s not eating it exactly. Just trying to suck it through his mask. I suppose if he drooled enough on it and the mask is porous enough he might manage to slurp it down eventually. He is part spider.

Exactly. AI will take any old random slob’s opinion and present it as fact.

Long ago, I’d make a Google search for something, and be able to see the answer in the previews of my search results, so I’d never have to actually click on the links.

Then, websites adapted by burying answers further down the page so you couldn’t see them in the previews and you’d have to give them traffic.

Now, AI just fucking summarizes every result into an answer that has a ~70% of being correct and no one gets traffic anymore and the results are less reliable than ever.

Make it stop!

I bet their date was offal.

Oui

Discord works absolutely fine in Linux. I use “Vesktop” which is a desktop client for Discord. Performance is identical to using the Discord app in Windows AFAIK.

The only “problem” with buying a nice mechanical keyboard is that you never need to buy another one.

I’m five videos deep, now. Thanks! It’s weirdly super refreshing to watch something other than Serral bodying everyone.

You ever watch any bot matches? Tens-of-thousands of APM. They’re pretty entertaining too.

This is wild. I watch a ton of professional Starcraft on YouTube and had no idea! I’ll look up some matches, tonight.

Yeah, the past twenty years have been a bit of a roller coaster ride watching what’s happening in NA. Ironically, I thought I’d be moving into a blatantly corrupt government basically run by crony capitalists. And yeah, Korea has its share of that, but wow, things out west have been falling apart horribly recently. South Korea seems to have its head on straight by comparison. Canada at least doesn’t seem to have fallen too far down the fascist rabbit hole, yet.

I’m sure this is referencing someone, but I have no idea who. Twitch is blocked in Korea.

Well, I now run my own (half-owned) school in one of the most beautiful places on the planet, work four days a week, 6 hours a day, and fund several hobbies, a nice house, and a gym habit. I can’t really complain. Maybe I’d have a more secure retirement working as a middle manager back home, but which one sounds like more of a career trap to you? Oh, and I can transfer my pension to Canada and go live there when I retire if I really want to.

I came to Korea from Canada in 2004 to teach English for a “year or two”. I’m still here. I have zero regrets, though I do wonder sometimes what my life would be life if I’d stayed in Canada.

Final Fantasy isn’t continuous. Aside from races, the occasional character name, and some thematic elements, the games are not connected at all. PS2 has two of the best: 10 and 12.

Of the two, 10 is a more traditional turn-based experience with notoriously awful-in-a-good-way voice acting and a very typical FF plot. It’s not really a spoiler to say that you end up killing god. It features some of the most egregiously awful mini games to grace the franchise. And if you want some of the best gear in the game, you will be committing a not -insignificant amount of time to frustrating button mashing.

Square tried a whole bunch of new stuff with 12 including realtime, MMO-like combat and a much smaller and focused narrative that is mostly a side story occurring inside a larger narrative. The voice acting is infinitely better than 10’s, and there are no obnoxious mini games.

They’re both still worth playing. The PC ports don’t add all that much to the games over what you can do with them emulated. In fact, I bet save states make some of the mini game awfulness of 10 better.

I did not intend to write an essay…

Looks like they might not be terrible. They use a tiny amount of gochujang, though. I’d expect pasta sauce to use a lot more. I suppose he could be making a massive batch of cookies.

I will search that! Sounds cool. Why are there no giant mud dauber horror movies I wonder?

Wait… gochujang is Korean spicy red pepper paste. Gemini suggested turning it into cookies?

Sounds to me like it created more problems than it solved.

I code Csound. It’s still sort-of being maintained, but otherwise the community is super dead. It’s a shame because it’s very versatile and fun, but realistically there are quite a few more modern alternatives for coding sound synthesis these days.

That’s cool. Mud daubers are extremely chill and will only sting you as an absolutely last resort. They also are great at keeping the spider population down. Which I’m a little torn on because I love spiders since they eat mosquitoes, and mosquitoes can fuck off and die afaic.

Imagine my surprise when I just now typed in fark.com and saw that it’s still there and it looks exactly like it did 25 years ago. Mind blown! I might even go back.