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Thinking about starting Black Company or Broken Earth. Also want to get this https://www.dragonsteelbooks.com/collections/leatherbound-books/products/the-eye-of-the-world-leatherbound. But I don't want to pay something like 350 euros for it... Need to find a mule to get it to me from the US.

New Dresden Files book "12 Months". It's alright, I would compare it to Ghost Story quality wise. Like Ghost Story this one wasn't planned originally, but due to some big things happening in Battle Grounds he wanted to have a book where Dresden could recover and reflect. The good news is that Mirror Mirror should come out relatively soon at least according to Jim, writing done by March and book out probably beginning of next year. Here's hopping.

We had a bunch of fog here too around the same time. The issues come when the air starts to smell when you open the windows... I promptly went and bought a couple of more air cleaners.

Rereading the Dresden Files before the new book comes out.

Was undervolting a new laptop (asus proart p16) with a AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 cpu and when I was stress testing I did a benchmark to see if there was any performance gain (minimal) and for ****s and giggles I did a benchmark on my PC to compare. I was kind of floored to see the laptop get a 2.5x better result...

Isn't she in Russia?

Some evil hearts will spin this story as Trump having done this to bolster Russian economy, as China is now more dependent on Russian oil.

Was poking fun at some people here. Not really serious. I doubt they can switch from Canada that fast as pipelines beat boats for delivery and it's not like Canada is propped up by it's oil industry (as far as I know).

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c5yqygxe41pt?post=asset%3Aea9f1475-6c65-4930-8370-04be588ee845#post Oh wow. This is a first time a US president just right out said they did it for the oil... Wonder how Canada is going to survive this shift in oil export. Maybe sell to China? Also a good chances that the rest of South American countries start arming themselves as fast as possible after this. Wonder who they will buy their weapons from?

So the US will occupy Venezuela, this wasn't a hit and run. Will be interesting to see what happens in the next couple of weeks.

Apparently the US captured Maduro and his wife.

Happy new year!

The circle cutoff takes the picture to another level.

One Battle After Another (2025). Suppose it's a metaphor for today's America, or at least what they wanted it to be. That being said, it's a great movie.

Playing BG3 in small spurts. Exploring the first map and getting ready to go to the goblin fort. The game hasn't grabbed me so far, but the combat is not tedious in TB.

The new comedy special by Dave Chappelle. I sat through it, it was interesting enough, but I maybe chuckled 2 times. Probably his worst one to date. I think fame has really done a number on his material. This will probably be the last thing I watch from him.

From what I remember Activision, which means MS, which means it's possible.

What a a horrific crash. One can hope he died instantly, but considering that the passenger died in the hospital, it's less likely.

With that amount of money they can get AI to fight the war now... I'm not sure what exactly that 90b is supposed to change. No one in Europe is willing to part with more of their arsenal without replacing it and money can't buy manpower. Realistically that money ensures that the Ukraine doesn't collapse due to lack of ammunition but even that is capped by production.

The issue is on my end, something changed in my build that is not letting some apps write files even when ran as admin. That is why I said it's cursed. I have a portable ssd with windows 11 and that is what I use to play games. Waiting on my new m2 drive to arrive and then I'll reinstall windows.

Greg Biffle (NASCAR driver) and his whole family lost their lives in a plane crash. Only reason I know of him is through a youtuber Cleetus Mcfarland.

Got BG3 and figured out that GOG doesn't work (won't install games) on my cursed version on win 10. 😂 Kind of a pain in the ass to boot win11 whenever I want to play a game, but whatever...

Happy holidays!

I don't count everything under one umbrella as they do. I was thinking of ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini. Image and Video generation is a separate thing in my head. Also I am really bother by the markets insistence of calling it Artificial Intelligence, when it ain't...