“I had to sit through a 3 hour lunch at Nobu and a visit to a whorehouse with that dreadful bore Altman. What an exhausting 16 hour day.”

I post very little on insta and I’ve still had to block a half-dozen LLM slop accounts after they commented word slurry on photos I posted.

It would probably be “1000s”.

Smaller roman numerals before larger are subtracted from the nearest larger numeral.

So, IX (1 10) is (10-1)=9. “LLM” would be (50 50 1000) which would probably be (1000-(50-50))=1000. It could be (1000-(50+50))=900 but that would more correctly be written “CM.”

That’s fair, I may have been traumatized by spending 3 hours trying to get through the first section in Sekiro before calling it 😅

There’s a second factor at work, which is that the institutions targeted by more “extreme” actions also don’t want those actions publicized.

Consider an action like the one depicted in “How to Blow Up a Pipeline.” If they don’t have a perpetrator in cuffs, the oil company and the cops would not want to admit the action happened at all, because it makes them look vulnerable.

Sekiro? I guess it’s less of a difficulty “spike” if it’s just a difficulty cliff from the jump.

I loved BG3 but there are serious difficulty spikes. I couldn’t make it to the third act because the second act boss kept wiping the floor with me and I couldn’t adjust my party to make the fight winnable.

Recently on the geologic scale, so roughly 100,000 years.

How far we’ve come (fallen?) from the days of alt.tasteless trolling rec.pets.cats.

I’ve met far too many people who either subscribed or would have subscribed to Cat Fancy.

Alberta’s rep as the Texas of Canada seems more and more accurate every day.

Look up Jaime Loftus’ excellent podcast “My Year in MENSA” for an in-depth look at the organization.

This headline is garbage. You could put just about any Fortune 500 company’s name in there and the headline would still be accurate.

And then you get to a point where you look at that and think “clever but I’m sure it’s fucked up in some way that isn’t immediately obvious.”

Who used those triangular pastel buttons? I remember seeing them on some friends’ computers but not on any Dells or Gateway 2000 machines. Maybe Compaq? Or Packard Bell?

I saw Slackware running on a similar config, although it was probably a 486/50 or 486/66.

I remember my dad’s friend upgrading our PC clone to 640K. He used a soldering iron.

Nah, Thanos was moderately competent.

IIRC, vista got hate because to run it a massive number of users would have to…upgrade…their…hardware.

“Try not to suck any dicks on your way to the parking lot!”