But any close examination will reveal that the experts are having a great deal of fun on a higher level than the scrub can imagine.

Uh, citation needed.

I don’t like that this article seems to be written by a Type-A 22-year-old whining that none of his friends want to play Settlers of Catan with him anymore.

There is a point to be made here about people having a self-improvement mindset, about not letting their frustrations take over, about not jumping to conclusions regarding which game tactics are unfair or not in an obvious bid to cover for some self-made injury to their self-esteem. And I would love to make that point.

But, there is something really important that seems to be missing from this discussion entirely: sportsmanship.

Dominating the board with move choices that are optimal but which do not respect the other players, their time, or the spirit of fair-play

Is rude.

This is sort of fine in an online context where anyone who doesn’t like you can find another lobby, but you would really struggle to do things like “gain a minor lead and then run out the timer” every match in the living room with six of your cousins, and you know exactly why.

Anyway, I strongly disagree with this article, even though we might come to a lot of the same conclusions about the… pragmatism of tournament rules, or whatever.

Wind Waker begins with grandma giving you your tunic for your twelfth birthday. :3

Thank you, this saved me a lot of work.

He said never. That’s an order.

He says with seething jealousy.

As a funny math boy, believe me, I know. :p

You know what’s funny, the dihydrogen-monoxide bit works in part because when you tell someone “ha ha, you’re anti water” they should get embarrassed. Like, it’s impossible for them to continue arguing, you know?

But if anyone is going to take hidden-agenda numerals at face value and still insist that we use a new, much stupider number system to get away from centuries of Arabic influence, it would definitely be nazis, lol.

Wait a minute.
Wait wait wait wait wait.

I saw the lava lamp thing. Is that just a wacky PR stunt?
It didn’t even occur to me that there are less stupid ways of getting hundreds of reliably chaotic numbers.

I gotta look into this more, this is spinning my brain.

Imagine being able to fire up your PC and just tell it to play your favourite show, instead of having to use your feet or, I don’t know, a pencil in your mouth,

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In its current form, the agent will be run locally (requiring a device with an NPU), so corpo won’t have any access or control to your device.

I’m imagining this so hard right now.

Yes, thank you! That’s so nice of you.

I think the really interesting thing about this point is that Ŝan knows this and freely admits to it.

I think of it like a fun puzzle. Like being able to read a 24-hour clock.

All at once, or do we get a month to slowly introduce the new kibble? 'Cause that’s, like, all of human history, man.

What if being pretentious and annoying is their disability. Could you find it in your heart to let it go, then?

It’s early morning for me, it’s not fair.

You could just as easily paste this link into any discussion about 4chan or Tucker Carlson, except we know how stochastic terrorism works.

Not really, no.

The problem with this is that none of it is rooted in reality. Pretty much everything you’ve said is just jibber jabber about your discomfort with being mean.

The right is not motivated by this gentle soothing of their pain. They don’t even remotely care about it. They gleefully jeer at us every time someone tries to take a hammer to a democrat’s head, every time black democrats in congress are murdered, every time Mexicans bound in chains are loaded single-file onto planes; they do not believe in this kindness you are affording them. It does not affect them.

When they complain about the public reaction to things like Charlie Kirk, they say those things because it bothers us, not because they care.

What this means is that the right gets to view themselves as strong, self-actualized, Roman warriors for racism freedom, and we are always putting the ball gag in our own mouths.

It is a culture of disempowerment. I’m not saying Harris should be jeering necessarily, but she should not be doing whatever the hell this is. It serves no one.

This… requires a person to look at the profit numbers. To care about them, even. I’m not really sure what you’re getting at.

I think you’re saying that computers can be very good at chess, but we are the ones who decide what the rules to chess are.