I mean, Rothfuss has produced a couple novellas, and Martin has some projects. I get it, but at the same time i wouldn’t blame either of them if they didn’t feel comfortable releasing another of their mainline series.

I want them to, and ten years is a long ass time, but nothing they produce will live up to the hype so that probably causes a lot of anxiety.

But maybe im projecting here. Idk. I feel like the same thing is the reason we don’t have a Half-Life 3 video game. The first two made such a huge impact in terms of tech and gameplay that nothing is going to live up to the hype. So you can either kill yourself trying to achieve unachievable levels of amazing, or go do something you want to do.

I think Rothfuss/Martin and others are pressured too much. No matter what they produce, it will never be good enough to satisfy the hordes of loudmouths.

There are several ‘edits’ you can put together online that are actually way better than the movies. They cut out a lot of the nonsense and trim around excess to provide a 2-ish hour movie that feels choppy but good.

Okay, but my cats tail points straight to the back of his head. What the shit does that mean? Is he leading me to pirate treasure?

Unrelated but, Theres a section of Prince George Canada that all of a sudden does a big U. The story i was told is that back in the day there were two competing railway companies, and one of them bought enough influence that when the city was making roads to the other company, they instead made the roads bend back.

I still have my Kickstarter book, complete with gross dead wasp.

I found a Ghost Magpie. These fellas are usually a pretty black and green colour, but sometimes they have a genetic abnormality that makes 'em brown!

Win 11 feels like i replaced by SSD with an HDD. I’m half convinced that they’re making it as awful as possible so when the whole OS as a service thing arrives, it’ll feel super snappy.

I actually had this whole period where i would be doing something and I’d think to myself “Surely i misunderstand NFTs” then I’d stop what i was doing and check.

I don’t support the use of AI tools in general, but i have a soft spot for long-term maintainers. These people generally don’t have enough support for this to be a full-time hobby, and when a project becomes popular the pressure is massive.

If the community wont step up to take the burden off the maintainer, but they still want active development, what can you do? As long as the program continues to be high quality, i cant complain about a free thing.

I’m a returning student, and I’m really upset at the level that my cohort turns to AI for everything. There’s no effort to think about a problem when most school work is already in the system and can be retrieved easily.

It’s also upsetting to me how attractive an option it can be. I can spend all this time working on something, or i drop a simple prompt and just rewrite the answer in my own words. When you have something that you forgot about or procrastinated on, it’s really attractive to say “What are some themes in Moby Dick?” and basically rewrite the response. What’s even more upsetting than that, is the amount of people who wont even retype a thing to pass it as their own, but just copy/paste.

An increasing number of my profs are adding AI into their courses, with the feeling that it’s inevitable. It’s distressing to see an assignment that calls for us to ask a chat or about the problem then fact check it. I feel like that’s teaching the exact opposite of what these kids need.

Looks like I won’t buy EA games on a whole new CPU architecture

Do I want another option in the desktop CPU space? YES

Do I want that option to be Nvidia? NOPE

I have some ideas about this, I’ve been rocking a moto RAZR with a clicks keyboard for a few months. I do maybe 80-90% of my phone time on the external screen which does great for music/audiobook selection, emails and Feeder/Summit, but apps that capitalize on longscreen scrolling like Instagram, tiktok, Facebook are a terrible, infuriating mess to use. I think they’re leaning into the square screen format for the keyboard, and using the marketability of “less doom scrolling” to try and net people who feel they want to get away from the apps.

I remember the time I had a good pear. I actually thought it was a different fruit.

I limit myself to one or two “new full price” purchases a year, and it’s usually games from known devs i want to support that I’m excited about.

Honestly, the only way you’ll know is to try. I don’t normally go for a lot of new anime, but I really enjoyed some of Dungeon Meshi.

Hey look how about some sympathy for the gun owner here? He accidentally pointed a loaded weapon at a loved one while having a heated argument, and the gun felt scared and accidentally went off! By accident!

Really, that poor gun owner might be scared to point a loaded weapon at a loved one again! Don’t victim blame the poor owner!

I remember when the welders at my shop started coming in with skinny pants, they all looked like bearded trapezoids. I mean, they’re allowed to wear whatever they want, i didn’t mock them beyond the normal amount, but it was weird looking.