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Bahnd Rollard

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  • Best buy has been on my "one-bad-black-friday bankrupsy" bet for years, yet they seemed to have survived the death of Sears, Radioshack, Circuit City, and Frys Electronics...

    For me, as a customer, they are the shop of last resort. I will go literally anywhere else because they will likely have the thing, but no specific models. If you need an SSD, RAM (lol no in todays market) or a cable they will likely have it, but its going to be a smaller range than Microcenter, if time is no object, just order exactly what you need.

    The thing I will give them credit for is keeping the home theatre market, I feel that only a fool will buy a TV without physically looking at it first (they turn the blue up, just an FYI).

  • There have been UBI trial runs in the EU, they usually dont. Once peoples needs are met, they tend to want to want to continue doing things as they are. If they wern't buying fancy cars, UBI isnt going to change that, and if a car is a need for that individual, then the system is working as intended.

    Plus, the thing every counter argument to UBI seems to forget is that not everyone will be responsible with the funds or onboard with the program. The system will need to have to buffer for abuse and poor habbits, but unlike now, an unwillingnes/inability to participate in the workforce does not mean poverty. Plus a well designed system will help people use it effectivly and get them the help they need (see the current failures of the US mental health system).

  • Nuuuu!

  • 68 missing out on all the fun by being a normal number and not subject to memes.

  • Hubbard trash is fun with friends. We used to do shitty movie night before the plague, and one of the last events before lockdown was "Drinking and Dianetics"... It was a choice, really eye opening and deeply stupid. Plus the story of how the nerd herd aquired the DVD was hillarious.

    It started off normal enough, a self-help video with a bunch of sunny California people and a higher than expected budget. Tons of power imagery and hints that you would get if you watched south parks "Scientologists believe this" bit.

    After that it starts getting weird, bad psychology, incorrect biology and theories that were clearly written by a sci-fi author. The worst was their search for "the original trauma" thing, absolute hog-wash.

    People were already out of it by the time we got to the DvD extras, but we all remember the skit with the panther and the actor putting up his dukes like Popeye the sailor man.

    The showing was all in good fun, but there was a thing in the back of peoples heads, this is a cult that ruins lives and people fall for this crap.

    If you see that book or film, help that person and be excellent to each other.

  • That is some vintage meme ya got there.

  • Thats the neat part, I dont. I simply continue the routine of putting food in my face and if anything bad happens... Try and deal with it.

    Due to my job, if about half of the fortold "end-timed" occure, its not an issUe not an issME. Ill probably be at ground-zero of what ever it is, or atleast down the block from it...

    Have fun in the appocalypse. If its zombies, I get to do that one.

  • Unfortunatly its considered a primary source for Google, correct or not. Some parts of it still catalog relavent answers and help, but its more machine now than man, all twisted and evil.

  • Bet

    GANDALF THE GREY

    GANDALF THE WHITE

    MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAILS BLACK KNIGHT

    BENITO MUSSOLINI

    & THE BLUE MEANNIE

    COWBOY CURTIS

    JAMBI THE GENIE

    ROBOCOP

    TERMINATOR

    CAPTIAN KIRK

    DARTH VADER

    LO PANTS

    SUPERMAN

    EVERY SINGLE POWER RANGER

    BILL S. PRESTON

    THEODORE LOGAN

    SPOCK

    THE ROCK

    DOC OCK

    HULK HOGAN.

  • Avoiding slopification seems to be the main priority, and you would have to have the AI be incorporated into a game it would have to do something that AI is already passable at, otherwise it wont pass that barrier and will get shunned like the rest of the slop.

    For example, you could have an LLM act as a character or have a neural net incorporated into the game-ai like how tool assisted DOTA2 competitions work.

    I see three main problems, first is that you would need the hardware to run it locally, which may be a hard sell to some people depending on what the game it is, only online expirenes should endebt themselves to AWS, if its single player, its going to lose a ton of sales there. Two, its really hard to convince audiences electrons have feelings, remember Final Fantasy (2001)? Thats what happened last time someone tried to personify a digital construct, and well... It went swimmingly (Microsofts Tay, does not count). Lastly, impact, would a narrative focused title have the same impact of an AI wrote the script? How would you feel after playing through a title like "Papers, please" and when the credits roll it says "script generated by CoPilot"? I feel like it would ring hollow, the feelings would be cheapened by it...

    I would be interested to see how this plays out, but im content to support the titles and studios that do things the traditional way.

  • Im very thankful that it appears this chapter of consumerist history is over. Last entry on Black Friday Death Count was from 2021 and I was going past my big local mall and I saw tons of parking. In past years that place was a zoo, but today, slightly more crowded than normal, but nothing dangerous.

  • I did the green bean casarolle this year and also have been asked to double the roaster carrots next year. I dont even like roasted carrots, but sure, people seem to like em.

  • I saw that clip... Its normal current-level unhinged. In times past, it would have been a black mark and his colleages would use it to mock him for ages, and it would cost him elections... But in [current year] its Tuesday...

  • [slaps buzzer] logical fallacy, Straw-man, you are awarded no points.

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  • Secular socialism? Threaten me with a good time, when does it start?

  • It is the most unrealistic, dispite [gestures broadly to everything] because.

    1. President Dwayn Elezondo Mtn. Dew Herbert Comacho has a problem.
    2. They find the most qualified person to solve it, even though they are not sure 😉
    3. They (reluctantly) listen to his advice.
    4. Finally, once the day is saved, President Comacho does not take credit for it.

    That is the most unrealistic part of the film.

  • Correct, but im rather nostalgic for these jokes as they were told to me during a simpler time, one when the internet was more LOLCAT memes and less enshitified.

  • Hey now, Vance already has a restraining order, he isnt allowed within 200 feet of sofas, ottomans or Ikeas.

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  • Shrek 2 , I feel has a special place in Hollywoo history along side the first Scary Movie. They are very accurate pop culture time capsules. The first shrek was yet another giant middle finger to Disney from Katzenberg, they are all very much products of their time.

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