You say that, but eventually CDs will stop being produced.

Floppies still exist, but they are more and more difficult to find in the wild.

I mean, really the modern equivalent is throwing your phone at a hard surface.

It certainly makes a statement. Fuck all of this to the point I’m going to sever contact with the world and throw away a ton of money.

If an amateur mycologist picks and eats the wrong mushroom that an LLM said was fine to eat, is the LLM liable for the death legally and/or financially?

I mean, I know better than to pick random mushrooms and eat them, but I don’t really care for mushrooms - though some have some delightful effects when metabolized, lol. The only ones of THOSE I tried, I knew who grew them, and saw the “operation,” and reviewed his sources before trying one.

Call me paranoid, but I’m not blindly trusting a high school drop out to properly identify mushrooms when professionals make mistakes to the point where any mycologist will tell you, DON’T TRUST PICS OR THE INTERNET.

It can be too difficult to tell from those sources, and I doubt the LLM and the human asking questions have the right wavelength of discussion to not produce misleading, if not entirely fabricated, results.

Yeah, I shave my head fairly routinely (damn genetics) and a bar of soap is generally fine for head, face, and body. Though if I’m growing my beard out past the “scruff” level my wife generally likes, I’ll apply some beard oil there.

I have definitely used some “girly” body wash in a pinch though.

I mean, the US put out the game America’s Army as a recruitment tool.

Passably decent multiplayer shooter for its time. Good enough to kill some time with.

Play: Hockey, at least in theory. I’m a lot older and more beat up than I was back then, lol.

Watch: I guess hockey? I dunno, I enjoy going to games. I more watch because its on somewhere, or other people wanted to watch, or whatever. I don’t really watch sports on my own.

I’m not a practitioner, but I’ve done a lot of reading on Voodoo.

African, Haitian, and New Orleans.

Often, at least in Haiti and New Orleans, Catholic saints are matched with a particular Loa (spirit, god, whatever you wanna call it)

This was due to Voodoo practitioners being killed for not being Christians in Haiti. Thus, they could worship Saint whoever visually, while still interacting with their own faith. It just traveled to the new world as people did.

The process is called Syncretism, and Voodoo is hardly the first or last instance of it happening.

As you mentioned, the church has done this too.

Easter? Eostre was a fertility deity associated with spring and rabbits.

Christmas? Yule.

It goes on.

Wait wait wait, did Judaism invent the basic concept of a checksum?

That is… very interesting. I know numerology and the like are very popular parts of Jewish occultism.

Anybody have a pic of the underside of a Cybertruck? Need to scope out a place with airflow but limited visibility.

There is at least one asshole in my general area who needs a come-uppance.

Yep, seen them in Dallas and Fort Worth too.

I felt that way about CyberPunk 2077 and CDPR.

CDPR hadn’t let me down. Yet. Ultimately, they redeemed themselves, sure, but at launch… whew, there were issues.

Game companies CAN redeem themselves. Business wise though? Its hard to recoup that kind of shaken faith in investors, board members, etc; let alone the people you’re actually trying to sell to.

There are so MANY fucking games out there these days, that I’ll look at something new, and decide I don’t like certain elements of the gameplay, and just move on.

If a feature looks more frustrating than fun? I’m good, thanks.

I’ve played hard games on the hardest setting for the challenge. I’ve also played “easy” just to get drunk and enjoy a story.

If it isn’t fun though? Then what am I doing here?

I already spend 8+ hours a day on the computer and hate it, but at least they pay me.

Baldness can either cripple you, or make a man of you.

Once you accept it. Rock it. Own it… well, IT at least doubles in size, results may vary.

I will not be taking questions, please refer to the Mr. Sins. If he is not available, Sir Stewart will happy to demonstrate on your mother.

Check out Cocteau Twins, they surely aren’t everyone’s cup of tea, but the vocalist has a lot of “lyrics” that aren’t actual words, but are used for their tone and percussive effects and shit, basically exploring what the mouth can do as an instrument without relying on language.

I found them on some gothy playlist some years ago, wikipedia says they were the progenitors of shoe gaze, but I’m not sure what that entails but it might help others.

I decided to be a smartass once and made a 63 character long password.

It wasn’t too bad at a keyboard, though if you make a type you’re screwed.

Trying to use my AD account to access admin tools on printer? I got it fixed, and immediately changed my password, lol.

Except, no?

Medieval peasants had SOOO many holidays.

It was a cheap way to keep them from violently revolting. Even then, it didn’t always work.

Speaking of violent revolt against an oppressive system, where are we at?

Don’t forget his choice in condiments.

I only did a little fast food, but a lot of retail in my younger years.

People would “threaten” to call corporate over things that were outside of my hourly hands.

Honestly, most of the time, it pissed me off too. Management wouldn’t listen to me though.

So call corporate. Please. We’re store #1234, and the corporate number is 1-800-COMPANY. Shit was fucked…

To put it in perspective, I worked at a store in a state that bordered Mexico. I quit, but still had an active employee discount card and shopped in a smallish town in a state connected to the Canadian border. The employee asked me which store I worked at, as they didn’t recognize me. I told them the store # and who my store manager was.

This person ACROSS the country had heard about how badly our store was run and knew the manager by name because of the shitty working conditions and how many issues we had with customer “service.”

I’ve seen that, and variations.

I’ve noticed house flys being more common than bees.

That being said, I’d piss on a fly. A bee could sting me. Rightfully sting me, I might add.

Someone pisses on me they have a good chance of being hit.

Oooh, Detective Pikachu - Rated R.

A gritty, bleak, neo-film-noir take on a grizzled, aged, jaded Pikachu who just needs to finish his work before he can pass on - his duty keeps him alive.

Opening scene - Black and White.

We enter an alleyway, slicked down with rain, with clearly muddy debris visible under the surface of the water in foot prints as characters pass.

The camera pans up, to a victim. The gore, the blood, the entrails, the brains… All vividly rendered in color against a monochrome background.

Zoom into Pikachu’s eyes. He squints for a moment, takes a drag off his non-filtered cigarette, closes his eyes for a moment as he inhales, and tosses the butt into the alley gutter.

Opening credits roll.

I had some, before I moved.

Let me just say this, what came easy to young me in boy scouts… well, I’m just glad if I hit a safe area in the general direction I’m aiming.

The other issues is as a boy I shot off the right of the riser on a longbow, and this was an off the left takedown (recurve) bow - still the amount I sucked surprised me a little, lol.

So hopefully you have time to practice.