Sounds like a good idea. Now we just need a way to determine which users are kids and which are adults. I’ve got it! We can use age verification for that, and we’ll probably also need to ban vpns to stop kids from getting around it.

Wtf, pizza hut doesn’t employ their own delivery drivers anymore? Sounds like they are complaining because they outsourced delivery and now they don’t like how the work is getting done.

I lined up to get the Wii on it’s release date. I went to Walmart at around 11 am to wait on the midnight launch. We were put in the garden center, and it was pretty chill. The guy at the front kept a list so people could go to the bathroom or to grab food without losing their spot. One guy brought a portable TV with a PlayStation and guitar hero, so we spent a lot of time playing that. I brought my DS, but not many people in line had one. It turned out to be a fun and memorable experience, but I’ve never waited in line like that again.

In what way did Microsoft miss the Internet wave? Internet explorer was basically the gatekeeper of the Internet for a while, to the extent that it led to the antitrust case.

Probably the Sega 32X. The messaging around it was kind of confusing, and still being fairly young when it came out, I was expecting it to be the gateway to 32 bit gaming that I would be enjoying for years to come. I ended up getting virtua racing on it, which was better than the Genesis version, but nothing spectacular really. I also got virtua fighter, which was a genuinely good game. Almost everything else was ports of mediocre games that had already come out on the Genesis. A couple of original games like knuckles chaotix just… Kinda sucked. Then when I found out that all of the support was going behind the Saturn, and that’s where all of the new and original games were going, well I just felt swindled.

Well maybe, but fsr still doesn’t include frame gen, right?

The weird thing about it, is it says you need dlss upscaling and frame gen to reach 30 fps at 1080p for the minimum requirements… But the GPU listed is a GTX 960 which doesn’t support any of that in the first place!

My personal thought on that matter is that they are probably saying that a GTX 960 can get you 1080p at 30 fps, but they recommend enabling dlss if you have a more powerful card that supports it (which would take you above 30fps). Maybe I’m wrong, but that’s the only way it makes any sense to me.

Without the Internet, you had to find other ways of entertaining yourself. Regular toys and board games and stuff were played with a lot. As an only child, I would sometimes play my board games by myself, acting as 2 players (yeah, sad I know). I remember getting lots of activity books and coloring books when I was really young. Then as I got older I read a lot of magazines and books. The Readers Digest was kept in the bathroom, and I would read jokes or stories from it while on the toilet. Things like Legos could keep you busy for hours. I got a Nintendo and it consumed most of my time. The games were simple, but tended to be difficult, and you would just play it over and over and over again. On Fridays after school you could go to the video store to rent a movie or game as some weekend entertainment. Going to the movie theater seemed to be reasonably priced back then. There were arcade games all over the place, like at the movie theater, inside convenience stores, even in the pizza hut. We used to actually go to the pizza hut and sit down at a table to eat, it was fun. Before cable or satellite TV, there were only like 3 channels, and they went off at night.

Its easy to think of it similar to something like computer hardware or game consoles. There is always newer and better hardware coming out. And the newer stuff is always more efficient (performance/watt) than the old stuff. But the user’s expectations increase as well, so new hardware doesn’t just aim to be more efficient, it aims to be more powerful. Then that sets a new baseline for expectations.

So a lot of these LLM and other types of models are very much like that. The newer models definitely bring improvements in efficiency and performance. But no one wants to sit still, they have to keep pushing the envelope to make them better and more powerful.

A couple months back, I had an Internet outage, and decided to just watch some over the air TV. My TCL TV wouldn’t even display the standard TV broadcast without an Internet connection.

Is there any benefit to this over ublock origin?

I believe it’s generally accepted that zombies can’t climb, or at least, they are really bad at it. So you basically just need to take the high ground. If you can get up a ladder or something, you would basically be safe and could easily pick off any zombies below with a spear or other ranged weapon.

Long term, I would probably go to the mountains, find a clean water source and plant crops. The mountainous terrain would be a big obstacle and most zombies probably wouldn’t even try to go up. For any that do, I could probably set up some traps to lead them off an edge where they would fall back to the bottom.

Most small websites these days are just WordPress with a template.

I found Freakazoid to be hilarious when I was in my teens, even though a lot of the jokes felt like they were written for my parents. It’s a fairly short series too, at least compared to a lot of the other kids shows.

Maybe we need web directories again, like what Yahoo originally was.

Even this archived version is showing me the paywall.

Check out brotato. It’s a cheap game but it’s got an addictive gameplay loop, all you have to do is move a character around. I’ve put over 100 hours into it, and each session is pretty short.

I think I am finally going to join in on this game since they are still putting so much support behind it. It looks pretty awesome.

Of course I’ve seen it. I was a teenager and it was the deepest thing I had ever seen. I don’t like the new ones.

I mean, I can understand the appeal of it. I’m probably not going to buy any of the games on here even if they were cheap, because I don’t know anything about them. But if I have an opportunity to try out 70 games for a low price, I might give it a try. Afterwards maybe I found a couple that I actually liked and I can shell out a bit more directly to the developer to buy it.