Was told over and over again that AI is so good at coding that it was replacing people already so when I tried to get it to write an algorithm for the most efficient way to smith in terrafirmacraft, it gave me this bullshit.

I never truly appreciated how close I got to killing my self horribly as a dumbass middle school kid. I saw so much media on people stealing drugs from the bathroom that I wanted to try it. We only really had Tylenol Extra Strength, and other simple OTC meds. Not deterred, I went and downed probably 8-10 of the 500mg pills and stopped because I couldn’t swallow any more. Got super tired and fell asleep on the couch for a few hours. Can’t imagine if I had something like this that also had alcohol in it that I wouldn’t have tried to chug it instead. Kids are dumb and they’ll do shit nobody expects and tell nobody about it for fear of consequence.

I’ve considered trying to leave the US and I’ve looked into the process, but the limiting factor for me is leaving behind family.

COVID is also doing some heavy lifting on that part

I remember being obsessed with the show when I was in my late teens. On one hand they convinced me in a single episode that pot should be legal and that lawns are a scourge on the world. The dolphin episode was an experience. But the anti environmental ones did put some brainworms in that took some work to get out. Doesn’t help that they were somewhat right in that recycling is sold as a cure when in reality a lot of recycling just doesn’t work as advertised.

I mean Optum is a pretty unsecret thing in nursing homes. I think we’ve been through like 12 nurse practitioners over the last year and a half I’ve been working at a nursing home. We’re told that if they’re an Optum patient they need to be managed by them, but a solid amount of the time we’re just going to the primary provider because they’re nowhere to be seen because their entire local network is a shitshow. I also know they seem really averse to starting hospice or even having that conversation. I know they’re super big about preventing hospitalization and treating in place, but I feel like if I just outright disagreed with a call made I could just speak to the primary provider or if I’m really concerned, override the NP, especially if they’re not present in the building.

The examples they give of stroke like symptoms, if I’m on the unit and they clearly are having a stroke, I’ve already called 911 before I’m calling the provider to ask for orders. Unless they have a history of TIA I’d assume stroke and deal with the back and forth.

In the end there is that little nag from Optum asking you to call before a hospitalization, but there’s also a level of nursing judgement that needs to exist with that thought towards patient health rather than an insurance company’s nagging.

You can also use the fecal sludge as fertilizer or just dump it on the ground creating a health risk for your colonists or maybe just some super fucked prisoner torture system.

I’ve fallen and I can’t get up

I always interpreted it as literally the exact same shit with a different coat of paint, the only differences between them literally are just the aesthetics.

Honestly I remember back then getting through it and being like “oh that’s it I guess” went online and people were just melting down. It is sorta hilarious that there’s an entire mod dedicated to fixing the ending and to be fair I used it back in like 2018.

I think what disappointed me the most was when they released that patch that basically killed off the Shepard Indoctrination Theory. I loved how open ended it was, it was subversive, it explained so many bizarre things the game did for a far better payoff (that random PTSD chasing kid stuff is awful). It even ended up being subversive against the idea that doing all the side content will get you the best ending by making the special synthesis ending another dead end and the kill all reapers to be the best choice and you were given a payoff for it.

I like Nimi Nightmare, she’s nice and chill, , and just some comfy vibes.

Nyanners - she’s a gremlin, not awful, just a cringe streamer.

Trey The Explainer - good quality highly informational videos about anthropology, archaeology, and paleontology.

They’re already queuing it up

I used Facebook back around 2009 when I felt obligated to do so to keep up with friends from school, and then I came out as trans and basically nuked my social circle. While I’m friendly with people at work and I’d call them work friends, every time I’ve really tried to bridge the gap from work to personal it’s fizzled out primarily because I don’t use social media and I’m fine with that. I like having a small handful of people I really like and trust. Some of my best friendships formed away from social media, on the remnants of internet 1.0. This guy’s idea of the future of friendship means just alienating you more from the people directly in your life and pushing you towards a walled garden of his creation where you only talk to “people” he wants you to who will make you just happy enough to stay hooked but not satisfied so you have to come back.

I was looking for a youtube thumbnail I saw a few weeks ago that was an AI remake of the overly attached girlfriend but it just super uncanny and I hated looking at it, but while I was looking youtube decided to send me in a different direction and honestly I’m still rather disturbed.

Sometimes I feel like the visual queues are a better gauge for dodge/parry. Some enemies have a super easy audio queue that the sound goes and you push the button to win, but enemies like Luster when they do the anime dash slice I feel like the best time to parry is when their arms point forward since I don’t notice much with the sound

Fuck the space and support cool indies if you can.

The magic wore off for me back with Skyrim, I was obscenely hyped for it, literally failed several assignment in the pursuit of playing skyrim nonstop and then after like 120 hours, I was done and for years I felt like I just didn’t “get” Skyrim and that it was me, but it was already happening. I grew up with Morrowind, I was too young to actually play it and understand what was happening, the combat system was too abstract for someone that had very little RPG experience, and then Oblivion hit and it fixed all those issues dumbass kid me had with Morrowind. I swung a sword and I hit things and it had the compass that helped me not get lost. And then lost interest in the “genre defining” Skyrim. I look back at all of it now, I’m rather fond of Oblivion to this day, but I’d probably have a pretty negative reaction to Oblivion if it was a new game, but as a game with infinite meme potential and infinite jank along with some rose tint, it’s great. I love watching people do silly things in it, the NPCs doing uniquely Oblivion things. It’s an encapsulation of gaming and bethesda at that point in time and once you rip it out and remake it in a new engine with none of the original jank, meme potential, or rose tint, it’s just a crappy game. The studio making it is a Singapore based art asset outsourcing place so my expectations are in the dirt. It’s a game I don’t think should be brought to the modern era, kinda like how Todd says they’ll leave Morrowind alone since it was its own thing, they should’ve just left oblivion there too.