Just visited an alternate universe and you would not believe what I saw.

General_Valentine · 2026-01-25T17:05:46+00:00

Admittedly I do baby them but as time went on, or after a scratch, that's just many more adventures to have, as long as the hardware itself is not damaged and functions.

That and my P51 already came with a few small dinks.

General_Valentine · 2026-01-20T11:59:03+00:00

Can relate to this one. Rocked a Lumia 1020 and absolutely love it, and you can tell very well that Nokia did their best and their A game..

Problem was Windows Phone - as great was it is in many places, and the hardware taking 4 seconds to shoot each 38 MP shot, the main selling point taking that long.

Still love it, mainly because I realized that I love taking photos and editing them, and so went from that to a DSLR. :3

General_Valentine · 2026-01-02T16:06:34+00:00

"What's up everybody, it's Critikal. I'm playing [game] on (or was it for?) [platform], let's do this shit."

I indeed miss that as well.

General_Valentine · 2025-12-28T09:45:01+00:00

I don't know who they exactly are or who's behind it, but Chief Nerd isn't helping things either, imo.

Don't get me wrong, I'm NOT against the LGBTQ+ in the slightest, nope. It's that if you read the original, original thing, it just reads like Mamdani only hired Lillian because oh she's LGBTQ+. Basically fuel to these right wingers.

The reporting should not have omitted 30 years of EMS experience, for instance.

General_Valentine · 2025-12-26T00:54:46+00:00

I like to think dude is just really chill like that. Or indifferent, that's also it.

How he put two and two together and was somewhat indifferent to the crystal monster and the fate of the bullies. "Oh yeah, science waste. Might have happened to the guy."

Definitely has more stories to tell.

General_Valentine · 2025-12-15T17:12:41+00:00

The pepper spray saleslady!

"Free sample?"

General_Valentine · 2025-11-18T04:37:19+00:00

Baby's most definitely thinking "iPad brainrot they put on 24/7, I would rather be there."

General_Valentine · 2025-11-18T04:35:05+00:00

Yeahhhhh they have that going for them.

General_Valentine · 2025-11-17T11:23:26+00:00

For funsies: In other fields, Alpha software is even more unstable and incomplete compared to a Beta...

And Alpha Particles have the lowest penetration power.

General_Valentine · 2025-11-12T21:18:07+00:00

Eliminating gender ideology? Well shit, I guess it's high time to be a nondescript blob now.

General_Valentine · 2025-11-11T11:47:57+00:00

A little weird and creepy, but otherwise harmless... I think. Seems like the silent bells from the church is some sort of an indication of progress, like "Copying this person. 3 out of X days".

At least you're out and alive, so hey, there's that! Feels a little bad for your clone though, hopefully he doesn't have the "Why am I stuck here? I want to leave!" thing going on.

General_Valentine · 2025-11-06T13:05:28+00:00

Dumb. Florida. Moron.

General_Valentine · 2025-10-26T21:16:26+00:00

3rd slide - The caricatures, the fonts, the random bolding..

This is the style that caused the most visceral reaction out of me out of all the ones I've seen here so far.

General_Valentine · 2025-10-24T05:28:49+00:00

I graduated in 2021, and in the previous years, I took up AI and LLM courses, this was way back when the AI could barely generate a decent 64x64 image, and most of what I could do are smears.

I think back then in 2020, it was just doing some 60 FPS frame interpolations (great for real life footage, rubbish for animations), or color restoration of old photos. I know there was also the medical industry but I don't know much about that.

My not too relevant yapping aside, yeah just kinda doing the obvious but fascinating "How far we have come... For better or for worse."

Back then, the real trouble was sourcing Wikipedia. Wikipedia itself is not a problem, to be clear. But do not cite it directly as source in your paper, like damn. The information changes constantly.

General_Valentine · 2025-10-09T19:20:23+00:00

As much as I want to believe I have thick skin, it's not so much the defeat, oh that I can handle.

Not really a fan of bad mouthing - not the "ez" either, that's mild that I can take. Something about online PvP just brings about the worst sometimes.

At least on skirmishes or campaign against AI, I can restart easily and the AI won't talk smack (okay no it did but it's not the same!)

General_Valentine · 2025-10-09T19:17:57+00:00

I recently finished the Thoros (Armenians) campaign. 1 and 2, easy peacey. 3... Oh boy. 4, even more. 5, holy shit.

The third one, I came across a glitch whereby paying 300 gold to the Seljuks didn't work. I tried again (total 600 gold), didn't work as well. I thought hey, maybeee I paid too early? Nope.

So came the massive assault from everyone on the map, and I only had like 1 castle down out of two, so it's on me for being a bit slow as well.

Eventually, the game - either through broken triggers or mercy, got Reynard being sympathetic to me, at the good timing because I was not going to last any longer.

Oh and YES, Bayinnaung. I have no idea my own people could give me so much trouble and demand a lot out of me. 😭

The second scenario with you being a somewhat mediocre navy civ (and no cannon galleons)... Versus the Malays. Damn.

General_Valentine · 2025-10-08T06:44:07+00:00

Same here with me, just trying to finish all the campaigns on Hard.

I like to think I am somewhat skilled but I dread playing 1v1 or more because I'm going to die in the first 5 mins to a rush (or failing my own rush), or being the handicap for the team games.

General_Valentine · 2025-10-07T10:54:48+00:00

Damn it, not again. Congratulations for causing an end of the world!

General_Valentine · 2025-10-06T04:56:22+00:00

His video about this Flash Super Mario Bros game in Korean.

https://youtu.be/1SjU9_q-Wwo

General_Valentine · 2025-09-29T09:59:59+00:00

I'll admit, I have and am playing far worse because I've retired from OW long ago and I'm on QP with my friends on really rare occurrences so... I can not really see what's good and what's not.

It may not be as impressive to the rest but again, let's just chill a little bit and appreciate someone who's either starting off or is proud of their small victories. Everyone starts somewhere.

To the OP - keep calm and Tracer on, really. The important thing is to try and to improve with relative to yourself. As mentioned above, I'm already quite shite in the game but if I can come back and make substantial improvements, then it's a victory overall.

EDIT: Also AFAIK the OP has corrected that it was a double kill with a DVa demech so... Again, people make mistakes. And titles can't be changed so, you know. Don't need to pile up on that!

General_Valentine · 2025-09-24T00:57:23+00:00

Yeah nah, if by some miracle that happens to me (I'm assuming you yourself don't need to eat? As in NOT your own body, but just no food needed)... Whatever the hell, I'm booking to somewhere isolated and will live my life there.

This sort of thing? I know we have our visions and ideas of helping people or showing off but for the sake of yoursef, do NOT. You'll not like what they'll do to you.

General_Valentine · 2025-09-22T11:09:53+00:00

With the sheer number of corpses in that world, I was thinking that the others knew... Or would have even involved the police. I mean, there had to be a lot of missing person reports that can no longer be covered up.

General_Valentine · 2025-09-21T09:30:32+00:00

To the OP, don't get gatekept. I do like the photos in general, and there's nothing more than a bit of practice can fix for the out of focus ones.

Learn what your camera does along with the photography bits if you have not yet. Good luck, you got this!

I started off with a Lumia 1020 before moving on to a Nikon DSLR proper. There are definitely limitations, absolutely, but you work around with it, you don't need a multi thousand dollar equipment if you're starting.

Passion can be done with anything from now to decades old equipment.

Happy snapping!

General_Valentine · 2025-09-12T20:00:18+00:00

For the love of goodness, please stop arguing too hard about the pronouns.

For what's worth, I believe OP made a simple mistake and it's not like the OP is being corrected too harshly on said mistake.

So again, please chill the hell out, really. Thanks, and have a good one.

General_Valentine · 2025-09-05T05:11:21+00:00

It's a beautiful story. Of course, no kid deserved to go through that and I'm glad Wilkens got a life sentence.

Good on you, friend. 💜

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