Everything posted by Gorgon
- Random video game news... RNG is your friend!
- Random video game news... RNG is your friend!
- Random video game news... RNG is your friend!
- The All Things Political Topic - Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence
- The All Things Political Topic - In politics stupidity is not a handicap
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What You've Done Today...or yesterday...or what you are doing RIGHT THIS MINUTE!!!
Yeah, it's not really a 6 hours a week kind of endeavor. You have to dive in at the deep end, and you have to enjoy the process. Otherwise I don't see it working out in most cases.
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New Phone
The ones called 'armor' this or the other are kinda sort of the humvee of smartphones, meant to be rugged and do without without charging for the longest. Marketed for the outdoorsy type who never knows what adventure life will throw at you tomorrow. They are big, blocky and ugly though. There are reasonable compromises before getting a 10000 mAh battery.
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What You've Done Today...or yesterday...or what you are doing RIGHT THIS MINUTE!!!
i'm puzzled by the term 'make up up to ten assignments'. If you are struggling with a language, the missing part is the skeleton you need before you can start learning/reading on your own. Gramma, syntax, practise exercises, all of those things. It's pretty common for the learning curve to be vastly different for every student because you need those basics first. Another thing is, I don't know how you do a deep dive when your phone translation app is better than you at all levels except expert. I would demoralise me certainty. I'm thinking the students are the same, hell everyone is the same. The tech bros are all telling us to learn nothing and just be customers instead. If I had to learn Spanish I would get a bunch of movies for exposure and start reading books, including but no limited to textbooks, with an LLM window open and just ask a million questions. what is this structure, how does that work, on and on. Some would be wrong answers, but most would be right.
- The All Things Political Topic - In politics stupidity is not a handicap
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The All Things Political Topic - In politics stupidity is not a handicap
I'm reading that the likelihood of Trumps chart originating from a chatbot is very high. That's why the tariff on penguins. If you are smart you don't question the process. Trump is extremely vain and needs to be perceived as 'high IQ'. The cabinet all know this, so they all say nothing.
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The TV and Streaming Thread: That's Entertainment!
I thought it was gonna go more Stanley parable, but then it's just a culty cult.
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Cinema and Movie Thread: coming 2 a theater near u
april fools ?
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New Phone
It's still on Android 14. Excepting flagship versions smart phones usually don't get full version upgrades. It doesn't matter though. When my phone reaches the end of its service life in 2, 3 years, whenever. I just get another, and get a fresh battery in the process. It was only 150 after all.
- The All Things Political Topic - In politics stupidity is not a handicap
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New Phone
I haven't really noticed it. I get security updates every other month and I don't use any of their apps. The first thing I do when I get a new phone is pull up the apps list and uninstall everything it will let me uninstall.
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New Phone
I've gone Motorola the last few times because of price. Samsung doesn't have great value anymore IMHO, and I don't like the Pixel. I would also look at 6000mAh or better battery. Less stress about charging. Mine is a Moto G24 power. Its in the neighbourhood of 150 bucks. It's plastic, the battery is glued in (that's all you get these days) but it's got an audio jack and everything works just fine.
- Anime and Manga - New Season
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Anime and Manga - New Season
what, is there a new Berserk series i haven't seen ? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318871/
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The All Things Political Topic - In politics stupidity is not a handicap
Everything is a battle with these guys. Art, the nature of reality, history. I suppose it's time for MAGA to invent a romantic origin story full of settler wagons driven by hairy alphas and tradwives. It's a crucial litmus test whether national identity is allowed to be continually criticized and challenged. When it's no longer allowed, authoritarian nationalist are usually in charge. hail Comstock
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What are you Playing Now? - the man sez Video games are bad for you - fight the man!
One thing i noticed was that there is basically no texture swapping at all. You can zoom in on a geometric shape with no loss. I think it might be the first time I've seen it implemented ever. I can't wait for that to be the new normal. But yeah, it's pretty, and responsive, except for unsolved micro stutter during exploration. The visual presentation is really good, but it's also definitely missing a layer of mechanics in being a Skyrim or the like.
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Ukraine Conflict - In the grim darkness of the near future, there is only war!
There is a lot of money in it and there is a lot of rebuilding to do. I would say it's more likely than not now that the negative connotations of having an arms industry are set aside by necessity. We have enough know how for a European defense consortium to be a serious player, especially one including Ukraine.
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Ukraine Conflict - In the grim darkness of the near future, there is only war!
Trump really screwed the American arms industry long term though. Europe will want to build their own rather than be dependent on American hardware and parts, now that free availability is not guaranteed anymore, we will need to match the Russians in production capacity. Europe will wind up competing with the US on the international arms market, rather than being mostly customers.
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Ukraine Conflict - In the grim darkness of the near future, there is only war!
interesting.
- Music: Sharing and Listening - Where words fail, music speaks