Yeah I tried tabby too and they had like a mandatory "we share your code " line and I hoped out. Like if you’re going to do that I might as well just use claude

I told him he could either have his racist and hateful views of people, people that include my friends and mentors, or he could have a relationship with his son.

So it’s been 9 years now, I’ll let you know when I hear back on his answer.

How dare us peasants have concerns about what they are doing

Exactamundo. OP expected this guy to be a criminal, and noticed when he did criminal things. How many people has OP assumed weren’t criminals based on the way they dressed who got away with whatever scam they were pulling?

All it takes is one asshole to ruin a whole production. The funniest bit is that the church could have told him “hey Dave, they’re working hard, and they have a point. Take your kid to the back or something until they’re done”, but couldn’t be bothered. Great story.

I’ll bite. (Note I do notice you do have a 12 day old history, and we have had a wave of spammers trying to incite bullshit, so we’ll see how this goes)

So, why play long games? Why read long books? Why watch long movies?

For me, I like a good well-told story. A game like Red Dead Redemption 2 has such a good story that it is worth investing 120 hours into. It’s protagonist, Arthur Morgan, is so well written that he is arguably the most well-written fictional character of all time. Over the course of 120 hours you get to know him so intimately that you truly feel like you know and understand him, and over the story that will both make you laugh and cry, it culminates in an amazing climax, truly a story that could only be told over 100 hours.

To answer your other points:

For me personally, I tend to look at things in terms of costs and benefits. Through that lens, most games seem like a bad deal

This goes counter to what you said at the beginning, they are actually ridiculously cheap compared to other forms of media. Going to see a 2 hour movie now costs about $18 in the states, that’s $9/hour. RDR2 was $60 and for only the first playthrough of 120 hours that’s $0.50/hour of entertainment value. Now, take playing it multiple times and it’s one of the cheapest forms of entertainment. (arguably the hardware to run it needs to be calculated in, but it depends on preferences etc etc etc)

When I was in HS, I had a band. Has that type of interaction simply been replaced by video games?

No. Apples and Oranges.

I really want to understand the interplay between video games and psychology.

I like good story telling. I like being enveloped in my media, and feeling truly immersed. Gaming does that in spades.

Cuz it seems like FPSes are dominant whereas not too long ago they were a single niche among many niches.

Maybe in your friend group they are, but in the circles I’m in it’s simply not true. Everyone is different. Everyone has different preferences. I just played Dispatch over the weekend, a fun 8ish hour romp that also made me both laugh out loud and well up with tears, it was an adorable game. I see 98% positive ratings on it with almost 100k reviews, so I don’t think we need to jump to “FPS is dominant”.

Yes that’s what I don’t like about Stoat. No one is going to create logins for 7 different Stoat servers, they need to have a single place to access, and then join others from that one. Average users don’t want to know about servers or DNS names or anything, they want to click a button and start talking

I was always disappointed that Stoat (terrible rename btw) pushed federation out of their roadmap. If that would have taken a front seat it could have been a real discord clone. Anyone could spin up a server, and it’d be simple enough for users to understand. It honestly could have been the next IRC.

From OPs anger I think we can assume he may live 1000km further north

It means extremes for sure. It’s why the hurr durr it’s cold out people are morons, our climates are changing. Warming causes global changes.

Some areas get drier like California. Some places get colder. Midwest of the US gets more intense and frequent tornadoes and extreme storms. My area is getting more rain.

Take what you already get in terms of extreme weather, dial it up to 11.

I sleep in a big bed with my wife

Exactly, they join d the main networks and instances, who hate the Al right trolling, anger, and hatred, and have defederated all of them. They’re still out there, isolated and alone, b cause we all chose we didn’t want to sit here and listen to their drivel.

Yeah was worried I went to my state’s university at first instead of a “good” school. No one in companies care, the only ones who care are those in academia. Now I hire people and you’re exactly right, I look for a degree, I don’t care about from where.

Most people won’t be affected until it’s an old boomer on an electric scooter

It’s more that it’s indicative of the engineering culture at Logitech. Business bros cry for more useless features and don’t allow any time for infrastructure or technical debt. An unautomated cert like this (or no teams who monitor it) just screams process failure and lack of business allocation of engineering resources.

Guy whose job depends on slop wants you to stop seeing slop as slop

Thanks for letting us know, in fact it may be worth a today I learned style post because I don’t think people know this

Yeah, last time I went there was over a year ago and had a similar experience to op, now I go to my local shop. Same price now as mcds, but I get almost 2x the food and it’s better quality.

Sounds like the washer just needs to be cleaned. It’s not water it’s just old detergent. Go get some of the washer cleaning pods, home Depot has them, they’re pretty much everywhere. Run a clean cycle, then another one after that just to rinse it, everything will be fine.

Agreed. Luckily with RAM, you know pretty quickly if a stick is dead. Yeah the test can run for hours, but in my experience if a stick is dead, memtest will go red almost immediately, most of the time not even making it 2 minutes.