A fat senile man blows up half the world because he has mental problems and we and our children are all going to pay for it for the rest of our lives.
How's your day going.
Dude schedules a meeting with me at 8 AM on the first workday after the DST switch and then stands me up. So awesome.
I was listening to a history podcast last night about tyrants of the medieval age, which said of England's King John I that "the only good thing he did for England was die" and boy did I immediately think of several modern-day applications for that statement.
lol gawd what a timeline to be living in
I’d love to see this same engine used to make more games in a different setting. Like a Wolf3D spiritual successor.
I admit I’m nostalgic for the ‘90s when we got lots of Wolf/Doom clones.
Watching some RE: Requiem gameplay...looks like a lot of hospital / medical areas early on? My interest is intensifying.
Kinda wild...what I think of as the "golden age" of a show spans almost a decade. Longer than the total run of most shows on TV.
Some of these early episodes are kinda wild too, with the outmoded language they use for developmentally disabled people and the like. Some bits didn't age well.
Ha, yeah it really is a sausage fest in the beginning, now that you mention it.
To me the golden age of the show is Briscoe + Curtis/Green + Van Buren on the NYPD side, and McCoy + Kincaid/Ross/Carmichael on the DA side. So about seasons 4-12.
Man, McCoy doesn't show up till S4...sigh!
Yeah, McCoy practically made the show for me. Him and Lenny Briscoe are my favorite characters.
Lenny doesn’t show up until season 3 either IIRC, but funnily enough, he played a random defense attorney in S02E02 (which I just watched). Not much of a part but he was still great in it.
From what I read, Max’s actor was a pain to work with and got into arguments with the cast, and he didn’t live anywhere near NYC, which made things worse.
But wow, in S02E01 they had some random actor play Max getting shot in the back while on his knees. Reads like a final “F you” from Dick Wolf.
So Dick Wolf really didn’t want Detective Max Greevey back for season two of Law & Order, did he?
I need to look up the story behind that epic write-out.
Gives real “Man Performs Live While Receiving ECT” energy
I remember this. Lord that’s bananas.
Heard the same about RE3 Remake. It regularly dips to like $10 on sale for PC and I have it on my list, but never end up biting.
I remember having problems getting accustomed to RE4's combat until I played it on the Wii with motion controls, which were great. Haven't played the remake yet.
I had a similar experience with 7. I enjoyed the demo to some degree, but only got a few hours into the full game before dropping it. Never tried 6 or 8 either. Played a little of 5 and wasn't impressed.
RE2 Remake was great though.
Maybe I'm interested because the game is giving me vibes of Condemned: Criminal Origins (FBI agent protag, abandoned locations, supernatural fun times).
Think I'll wait for reviews / impressions on this one.
I haven't cared about a Resident Evil game in years, but Requiem has drawn my attention for some reason.
I also haven't bought a game at full price in I don't know how long, which honestly feels like the bigger obstacle right now. 😅
Oh crap, I was using this too. Thanks for posting about it.
So...like... <snickers> get this...
...management wants me to be the AI evangelist for our engineering team.
Not because I'm big into it, but more as a way of coercing me into getting more into it.
I have a set of scales with "Soul" on one side and "Paycheck" on the other and they won't balance.
Acrobat is literally the software embodiment of capitalism's problem of "unchecked inertia", where terrible things must continue to happen at an ever-increasing rate because constant growth demands that no one ever dare ask "Should we really be doing this?"
My new work laptop came with Acrobat installed. It's unbelievable to me that anyone looks at the UI of that application and says, "Yep, seems good."
It's like...the literal definition of anti-user software. Slow, bloated, tries to do way too much and throws all of it in your face constantly.
If I survive long enough, my goal is to have the most analog retirement possible.
I think people of my weird Xennial generation will get what I'm saying.
Oh yeah there's the AI adoption and monetization bullet point.
And there's the "sales team should get whatever they want" bullet point, so when they ask for 30 sprints worth of work to be done in 2 sprints we basically have to get down on our knees while they unzip.
This call is soul-destroying.
Company town hall fun times, where we learn about:
- New exhausting process we have to go through
- The fact that nobody gets a pay rise anymore unless it's tied to performance
- Lord knows what other morale murdering corpospeak
My smartwatch occasionally taps me on the wrist to inform me of stuff that it thinks might be relevant to the time of day, or where I am, etc.
Sometimes, it taps me just to say, "Hey, the sun's gonna set in 1 hour."
Like...cool I guess? But I really didn't need to be interrupted for that.
lol my company is doing another reorg. As usual, it's vague, rushed, and smacks of rearranging deck chairs on the Titantic.
This is exactly the kind of mindless allegiance which makes AI a problem. People aren't using it as a tool, they're using it as a replacement for effective communication, proper procedure, and courtesy.
You say you need my PR review, but I don't rate 30 seconds of your time to briefly describe it?
In the continuing story of the AI circlejerk going on at my company, now part of our team is having AI write their PR descriptions.
The results are piles of overly verbose paragraphs about *what* changed, which say nothing about *why*. So I'm left to guess at the purpose of what I'm reviewing.
Reads like they're discontinuing the frozen canned lemonade also? The pink version of that was a staple of our household growing up; my dad loved it. I haven't bought it in years, admittedly.
The definition of success as a corporation in America today seems to be to get a bunch of large business customers, entrench them in your product / service such that it would be very painful for them to leave, and then change your pricing model so that the top users end up having to pay 1000% more.
