Highbury Hazard

Sometimes even the tiniest whiffs of karma can be so satisfying to my sense of smug. So much so that I'm sure karma is waiting around the corner to punish me for my smugness.

Smiling Like An Unaliver

They weren't fully weighing things on a scale or anything, no, but they are still "risk averse" in the sense of just sticking to the main roads. Like I said, it's just one thing they don't think about or want to bother thinking about.

Calling all tech savvy tinkerers!

A few years ago I bought some cheap generic "smartwatch", and most of its functionality is tied to the VeryFit app. Does anybody know if/how this can be hacked to not depend on the app? Also, does anybody know of other cools things these might be hacked to do? :)

Windows is really bad for setting traps and ambushing. I'm sure it must be some sort of either market manipulation or generally just a way to fool people into thinking they get used, blah blah blah the rich get rewarded for making everything so much worse.

As for Bing, nobody uses it, they just get tricked into it because Windows slides it in when people aren't even trying to use it. I've accidentally "used" it because I was looking for a file on my hard drive and Windows decided to search the internet for it.

... them to be baseline. "If even Edge and Chrome has hiccups, imagine how bad others are".

Average Joe and Jane want path of least resistance, even if it's in their head. We'll prefer the side streets because they're faster and we know parkour.

Of course the savvy are cool with figuring out the best options because if something goes wrong they can work around it essily. Every browser I've used as a main has had some sort of hiccup for not being Edge or Chrome. Even those two have hiccups but not as many, and common man still considers...

So most people outside of the savvy tier prefer safety and stability and don't invite moving parts and complications. Even if other browsers are as easy as and better than Edge and Chrome, they stick to the big brands because they're perceived as reliable and one less thing to think about. (Con't)

I break it down as:

Comp illiterate: at best can follow specific instructions to do what they need

Comp functional: can get by day to day use until something goes wrong

Comp literate: can troubleshoot to maintain status quo

Comp savvy: can confidently experiment and take risks.

(Con't...)

Time to continue my first play of OG Tomb Raider!
twitch.tv/lunarlizzy

Iblis destroying Shapeir in Quest For Glory 2. Text box reads "But the DOW was over 50,000!"

Sure, I just feel you picked the wrong target for it though. Healing grievous wounds with fresh herbs is the sort of thing that should break our immersion but we give a complete pass on.

I'm not Todd so you weren't showing this to me specifically, but thank you for this. I enjoyed it a lot and will look into this group more!

The numbers don't lie! And they spell disaster!

Well, yeah. Just because zombies are established as part of the universe, it doesn't mean all rules go out the window. One is premise, the other is detail. Funny enough there are so many other things you could have used that would be valid arguments. "But, zombies!" isn't really a gotcha here. :P

After giving it some thought I have decided to continue playing the adorable action-adventure platformer Monster Boy IV on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, since I was really enjoying it during Saturday night's Variety Jam stream! See you in a couple of hours on Twitch 😉💜🎮

Put me in a Pokeball and lock me in a drawer, please.

The EGA remake was the first KQ game I ever played. I was already well into SQ, PQ, QFG, and maybe even Colonel's Bequest by then so I didn't really appreciate it as much until I played KQ4. :)

Roberta Wilco?

The planets have aligned to bring you another chill Variety Jam on Retro Console Night over at CobraCommanda on Twitch on this final day of February! 🪐 I think we could all use some relaxing times right about now, so I hope you'll sail on over and vibe with us for a bit ⛵️🌊🥃

It's TIIIIIME!
Episode 1 of my Resident Evil Requiem experience is now live on YouTube in shiny 4k!
Link in the comments ❤️

Oh no! Did it ever leave the house? Or is it lost somewhere inside?

If it's the latter then it's completely gone until you buy another one. THEN it'll show up.

The more I see of A.I., the more I really see how much it's pretty much just my phone's predictive, but drinks a lot more water.

Deliberately blurring the lines between real and fake as its major gimmick is not even a concept that A.I. can come up with on its own, since A.I.'s entire premise is "all of it. All of it is fake. Literally not a single bit of any of this is real. It's our entire selling point. You know this."

Watching the movie on a purely surface level would be to deprive yourself of most of the fun. At a time when "meta" humour is so overdone and exhausting, this movie uses it to elevate the experience. It's about knowing that people might have made impulse buys more expensive than the movie's budget.

Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie is the shiningest example of a movie having the soul that A.I. is literally impossible of generating. Neither the best nor least best moments of the movie would be at all interesting without the magic of "how did they do that?"

Google search presenting a preview of Wolf Heimlich's wiki page.

The hilarity is that it's not like the character doesn't have an entire wiki article which is also the first hit if you search "dagger of amon ra wolf". A.I. didn't at least learn "give examples from the most prominent source from the page that people to for info"

Google's A.I. summary of The Dagger of Amon Ra, based off a search for the name of the museum, which it gets correct, but is noted as naming one of the side characters "Wolf Heimck".

So it got Dagger of Amon Ra's museum right, but got a character name wrong. Which is funny because the cast of characters in the game is quite extensive, it's like it went out of its way to use the one it wasn't really sure of.

I wonder if I need to find a replacement internal PC speaker, or if it's a motherboard issue