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redhorsejacket

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  • Imagine Firing A 155mm Howitizer Over A Busy Civilian Highway And Then Uploading A Video Of It To The Internet

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  • Alright everyone, turn your 3 AAR comments in to your squad leader before we get back to cantonment. As always, use IDR format. Johnson, put your goddamn hand down. If I have to explain IDR to you again, as God as my witness, I will cheetah-flip in your ass. PSGs, consolidate NLT than COB, to present at tomorrow's CUB, when we can file all of these lessons learned in the commander's "special" filing cabinet and totally forget the feedback when we do this event next year."

    //Idk if the Marines do these things different than the army, but I imagine the process is the same, even if the terms are different.

  • "The King" (Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon)

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  • Interesting. I remember taking a look at the previous game from a couple of years ago because, in spite of myself, edgelord dark fantasy is still appealing to me if it's done knowingly (which is different, I'll hasten to add, from not taking it seriously). However, one glance at the screenshots told me it was a deck-building game and I immediately disregarded it. It's just not a mechanic or loop that I enjoy.

    However, given that this appears to be to Skyrim what, say, The Outer Worlds is to Starfield (narrative tone notwithstanding), my interest is piqued.

    Are you enjoying the game?

  • Liver and Fava Beans

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  • I'm sure, prepared correctly, it's lovely, but liver and favs beans sounds like a Fancy Feast variety.

  • Based Swede

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  • A tidbit from earlier in the article which heightens this guy's story even further:

    He was a nephew of Carin Göring, wife of Hemann Göring. [...] From an early age, Carl Gustaf was interested in mechanics; his subsequent fascination with flying machines was likely influenced by his uncle, who was a fighter ace in WW1 (and later head of the Luftwaffe). [...] Von Rosen's happiness with his second wife, Hanny, ended with the outbreak of WW2. She joined the resistance, was arrested by the Gestapo, and sent to Dachau in Germany.

  • A tale of two mac and cheeses.

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  • Midwesterner checking in to say this post tastes like lunch at the babysitter's house. She didn't go for the full mixed veg gamut tho, preferring frozen peas alone.

    Despite the inevitable disappointment, I feel a vague desire to fix a dish of it for dinner.

  • 'Points, clicks, and misery' - Civvie11 plays I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream

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  • Love me some Goth Gamer Nation, but the other creator is unknown to me. Always happy to find another creator though, thanks for the recommendation.

  • Krafton is now an 'AI-first company,' will spend $70 million on a GPU cluster to 'serve as the foundation for accelerating the implementation of agentic AI'

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  • I mean, that's the goal of all of these AI companies. If you peruse any marketing material for Google, Microsoft, ChatGPT, Grok, etc. they almost all mention the "agentic capabilities" of their flavor of spyware.

    Personally, an AI model which is capable of doing tasks like this would actually interest me. However, no organization (for profit or otherwise) is trustworthy enough to have access to all of the data on me that it would take to make an agentic AI actually useful, so, for me, it would have to be something I run locally. However, rather than invest all of the time, effort, and money into learning how to make that happen, I think I'll just call the damn dealership and schedule an appointment. I may suffer from terminally online brain rot, but I'm not so paralyzed by human interaction I can't make the occasional phone call.

  • Krafton is now an 'AI-first company,' will spend $70 million on a GPU cluster to 'serve as the foundation for accelerating the implementation of agentic AI'

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  • AgenTic, not Agenic. As in, an AI that acts as your agent. Meaning, the goal would be to have an AI model that you could direct to perform certain tasks in the background while you focus on other things.

    For example, youre in the middle of doing something or another when you remember that your oil change is due. You pull up KraftonAI and tell it to "book me a service appointment for my vehicle at the dealership this weekend". The AI proceeds to work on that task in the background, only prompting you for input if it meets a road block it doesn't understand.

  • Couple at a LGBT rights protest, San Francisco, USA, 1960s

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  • Homie on the right looking like a skinny David Harbour.

  • Experimental British armor and dagger-gauntlet, WW1, ~1917

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  • I immediately thought of The Rocketeer when I saw this, which is basically proto-Iron Man, so this all checks out.

  • The struggle is real

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  • "Slutty Jesus (same as Dionysus, sans staff)" is a very funny sentence devoid of context.

  • "STDs come from anyone except us!" - Everyone

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  • Interesting! To be honest, I never really thought that much about why it was named what it was. For those who are also curious, but perhaps not enough to look it up, the accepted answer is that the belligerents of WW1 were actively and enthusiastically engaged in wartime censorship and propaganda by the time the disease was starting to appear. Fearful of anything that might upset continued appetite for war, the primary belligerents squashed any reporting of a nascent epidemic. Spain, a neutral country, had no such incentive to keep things under wraps, and so was one of the first countries to start ringing alarm bells. Thus, Spanish Flu.

    For what it's worth though, there appears to be some question regarding the Kansas original as well.

  • Im sorry but I cannot stand the Sleep Token hype

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  • Yeah I could very well be mischaracterizing ST's fandom. Like I said, I barely know anything about the group beyond one song, their aesthetic, and some of the drumming highlights (thanks Drumeo). However, OP's post smacked so very neatly of older complaints that Tool is over hyped and Bad, Actually™️, that I felt secure in conflating the two.

    Totally agreed that there is an element of musician snobbery in Tool's fandom, but I'd be shocked if that's not also present in Sleep Token's world. Like I've said, I've got a very limited pallette to draw from, and maybe The Summoning is nonreprestentative of their usual sound, but I don't see how a band which produces that track doesn't attract the same type of fan that can't make it through a Tool song without mentioning the Fibonacci sequence (I say that with love, I'm often that fan despite my best efforts).

  • Adam Ellis

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  • The on-set intimacy coordinator gave me the go ahead! They said, in fact, "squish that spider or so help me you're going to NEED a paid professional to conduct intimacy in this bedroom".

  • Adam Ellis

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  • Friendly cuddles without consent? That's assault, brother!

  • Im sorry but I cannot stand the Sleep Token hype

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  • Sleep Token seems to be Tool for a younger audience. Not exclusively, of course (I'm positive there is a lot of crossover appeal), but they tick a lot of the same boxes that Tool did/does, without the baggage of looking like it was made by the hypothetical listener's dad and his friends.

    Now, I'm sure that this argument is reductive, and that mega fans of both bands could easily come in and explain how their music is worlds apart and yadda yadda yadda. I get it. In truth, I've not explored much of ST's catalog (just focused on exploring other sounds at the moment) but The Summoning absolutely slaps ass, and I don't believe anyone who suggests that they knew where that song was going when they listened to it the first time.

    Mostly I'm invoking Tool because I feel like there are more parallels in their fandom than in their music. Alternative metal acts with progressive instincts who thread the needle between metal, rock, pop, and art to greater or lesser critical and popular acclaim. Both groups have a contingent of fans who won't shut up about how much they love the band, which leads to a certain counter-argument coalescing around people who are more sick of hearing about the band than they are actually upset by the band's music.

  • Discuss

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  • Yeah, but you execute drone strikes in 3rd world countries all the time, CIA_chatbot, how can we tell when you're doing it out of genuine anger?

  • Wet Leg - mangetout (Official Video)

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  • Yeah, I suspect some levers are being leaned on behind the scenes to promote these guys. The KEXP set hasn't left my YT homepage since it dropped, and several of their performances and songs started appeaing in my recommendations even prior to that, not to mention one of their singles appearing in my Discover Weekly playlist this week.

    It could very well just be my innate contrarianism, but feeling like they are being shoved down my throat does not engender curiosity to listen to them, rather I'm developing a pretty much unfounded hostility towards the group. It doesn't help that, of the songs I've heard, their sound is nothing special (to me, at any rate).

    Idk, seems like every couple years there's a new alternative group with a very stylish front woman that surfaces on the strength of their image, and then sort of fades away if they don't catch on. I guess for every Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, or Hayley Williams and Paramore, you've got lots of bands like Pale Waves or Starcrawler. That's almost certainly overly reductive and cynical, but, given what is known of the music industry, it sure seems plausible, if nothing else.

  • Ramming speed!

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  • I see, thanks for filling me in! I can imagine she does, she's a dead ringer. At least at this resolution haha