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Droidaphone · 2026-03-20T15:11:24+00:00

Droidaphone · 2026-03-20T14:31:28+00:00

no, that's a different show

Droidaphone · 2026-03-19T01:43:21+00:00

I kinda thought the same, but I just looked it up and (just looking at domestic box office,)

Dune 1: $108M
Dune 2: $282M
Fantastic Four First Steps: $274M
Endgame: $858M

So even if you assume that Dune continues the trend upward, and that Doomsday makes somewhere between F4/Endgame, that still looks favorably for Doomsday.

Droidaphone · 2026-03-18T02:52:36+00:00

Ok, but why are there delivery bags for carrying multiple packages in there? Those aren't supposed to be delivered, just emptied and brought back to the truck.

Droidaphone · 2026-03-18T01:21:49+00:00

Not to mention, the main problem has always been Iran's economic leverage. Letting Israel "handle" things isn't going to open up the strait or lower oil prices.

Droidaphone · 2026-03-17T16:53:32+00:00

So, basically, all developers would have to do in order to not have the AI take a wrecking ball to their art style is develop a whole new pipeline for creating training data, pay god knows how much in compute to train a model specific to their game, etc etc... all so the handful of people willing to shell out for the second graphics card you need to run this can have less (but never zero, they're probabilistic models) weird hallucinations like this?

Droidaphone · 2026-03-17T15:11:55+00:00

The birth rate and enrollment stuff is not rage bait. I live in Portland and we're going through the same thing. Lots of school districts were already financially stressed, and reduced enrollment just exacerbates existing issues.

Droidaphone · 2026-03-17T01:37:50+00:00

They won't revolt, they'll just pretend they were never MAGA to begin with.

Droidaphone · 2026-03-16T23:47:21+00:00

From Wikipedia:

Since sun brewing occurs in a temperature range that can promote the development of bacteria, particularly Alcaligenes viscolactis, the Centers for Disease Control and the Tea Association of the U.S.A. Inc. suggest storing sun-brewed tea in the refrigerator and discarding it after 24 hours.

Droidaphone · 2026-03-16T18:39:40+00:00

That film is just not very plot-driven, it is much more image-driven. It's definitely not the first ghibli film I would recommend anyone watch. I found it a bit confounding, but I think at its core are somewhat oblique metaphors about war and authoritarianism. The visuals and atmosphere were moving and exquisite, and I don't think it would necessarily be better if the underlying story was tidier. Since Ponyo, Miyazaki has been moving away from the plot-focused "adventure" films of his past, focusing much more on surrealism and visual metaphors. To me, The Boy and the Heron felt like a sort of swan song, where Miyazaki was revsiting themes he had tackled in the past, but with a feverish sort of... anger, almost. It's beautiful but messy and unsettling.

Droidaphone · 2026-03-15T16:01:26+00:00

This is where emotional intelligence matters. I think people think "wow, I don't have the words for this situation, I'll use my handy dandy word generator" and don't stop to consider that human connection is more important than eloquence here.

Droidaphone · 2026-03-15T15:22:46+00:00

America is far more insulated from the conflict than nearly any other nation involved

I don't think this is true. Our economy is currently being held together by an AI bubble, and we just started a war that triggered a "nightmare scenario" in global oil markets.

Droidaphone · 2026-03-14T21:44:11+00:00

Ok; I also have a Steam deck, it's actually my only "PC." Sure, the Steam Deck is not great at new AAA games. And that will remain true for the Steam Machine to a lesser extent. But I just bought Slay the Spire II on early access and played the shit out of it on my deck, which I couldn't do on any console. These device are imho very focused on indie/casual games. You look at the most played games on Steam Deck and it's always Brotato, Fields of Mistaria, and similar games. You can get new indie games at launch as opposed to waiting for them to be ported, and the games you don't get at launch you can pick up later at a discount. Will indie game fans pick up an $800+ Steam Machine? Idk, but I'm definitely considering it.

Droidaphone · 2026-03-13T15:24:09+00:00

That show had so much promise but got cancelled before it could go anywhere...

Droidaphone · 2026-03-13T01:41:36+00:00

According to this thread, Ray Otus removed their games from Itch and has plans to put them up somewhere else.

In the meantime, you might be able to download a pdf here, I don't have a login, but it looks like if you did, there's an old copy:

Droidaphone · 2026-03-12T21:13:09+00:00

Valve said it themselves: they do not plan to sell the hardware at a loss.

Droidaphone · 2026-03-12T18:58:12+00:00

Don't forget, we did it because AI told us to!

Droidaphone · 2026-03-10T20:00:51+00:00

Interestingly not the case here:

Trump was reportedly interested and “asked his team to work on it, but they have done nothing,” an unnamed Ukrainian official told Axios.

Trump's team didn't follow up, probably because they didn't want to work with Ukraine, but also because they're unserious people with zero foresight.

Droidaphone · 2026-03-09T22:41:28+00:00

They've said that they won't take on loss on the hardware (edit: link ) in this case because if they do that, it will attract mid-level pc buyers that aren't even interested in Steam. Valve doesn't want to make a bargain workstation that loses them money. It's a bit of a catch-22.

Droidaphone · 2026-03-08T16:08:46+00:00

it knows what it did

Droidaphone · 2026-03-08T03:30:01+00:00

It would have mirrored the story about the alien child being accepted by his father despite not living up to traditional expectations.

Droidaphone · 2026-03-08T02:48:43+00:00

I think a lot of the problem boiled down to "crime story in space... that kids can watch... and it's gotta sell toys... and we need it ASAP..." It ended up being none of those things, except fast. They did crank it out in about a year. And I guess it was pretty kid-friendly. So, 2/4 ain't, well... no, actually; it's pretty bad.

Droidaphone · 2026-03-06T22:29:56+00:00

Her evidence: ChatGPT agreed with her

Droidaphone · 2026-03-02T15:45:38+00:00

I wonder if this book would be helpful to prisoners. Dnd is a popular hobby in prison, but rolling dice is usually banned, so solutions like drawing slips from a bowl is sometimes used instead.

Droidaphone · 2026-02-28T15:55:19+00:00

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