I get it. Anime noises killed my interest in the Final Fantasy 7 remakes.

Oh, definitely. Warframe’s movement mechanics are second to none and the combat is sublime, albeit unbalanced as hell (though in the player’s favor at least). It went from a good game to one of the all-time greats once they added the narrative alongside handcrafted missions.

I think another cause of early Warframe burnout is needing to unlock the starchart. Its mostly linear design forces you to play several of each mission type to progress, including ones the majority of the playerbase hates. And before we got open world hubs like Cetus and Orb Vallis with activities like spear fishing, hunting and racing, there wasn’t much you could do to unwind within the game when you got bored of missions.

I think the main reason The Second Dream hit so hard was because the game was so flat and plotless up until that point. Like, it’s a great story and all, but the “twist” would have been guessed within moments of starting it if players expected there to be any plot beyond the scraps of lore they’d been given thus far.

Though kudos to the devs for making that flatness part of the plot, as you’re basically just a machine going through the motions until you “awaken”. Still sucks from a gameplay perspective, of course.

Sounds you don’t want to hear coming from her bedroom.

Have you tried disabling Shatner Mode in the settings?

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Could also be Aperture Science tech, given how their turrets behave.

Unless their goal is to catch common mistakes to improve their code analysis and quick fixes, in which case this plan is secretly brilliant.

I was having terrible performance problems in Windows a while back, and it turned out it had marked every drive as removable and the write cache was filling up due to an extremely slow external HDD, causing even the internal SSDs to grind to a halt until the buffer was flushed whenever a large amounts of writes were made to the HDD. Which, since the external drive was used for backups and large Steam games, was almost every other day.

If this happens often, you can disable write caching for that drive. It’ll feel slightly slower (since it’s actually operating at the speed of the hardware instead of caching operations in RAM and gradually writing them to disk in the background), but you’ll be able to remove the drive almost instantly.

It looks like it’s opt-in for everyone except those who get Ultimate for free (students, open-source maintainers, etc). Paid Ultimate is opt-in, free Ultimate is opt-out, and the free Community editions are opt-in with a for now attached.

This is my new favorite meme using that format. It’s perfect.

In a sane world Oracle would be laughed out of court, but Larry Ellison is a major political donor who’s been cozying up to the Trump administration, so who knows if the facts actually matter anymore?

ChatGPT

Cybersecurity

So you know how to fix all the security holes the AI left in your codebase, right? Right?

You just wait. Come Vatican III, my homeopathic infini-wine will be an accepted, nay, mandated part of Catholic mass. They’re always saying to be more like Jesus, and what’s more Jes-ish than duplicating food to feed the masses?

And are they considered bread or meat? Or both, allowing for the world’s most compact and efficient sandwich?

“The Sacrament of the Eucharist is the body and blood of Christ really present under the appearances of bread and wine; if the appearances cease to be present, then the sacrament no longer exists, and so the Real Presence ceases.”

“The Eucharistic presence of Christ begins at the moment of the consecration and endures as long as the Eucharistic species subsist. Christ is present whole and entire in each of the species and whole and entire in each of their parts, in such a way that the breaking of the bread does not divide Christ.”

Hold on, I figured out a trick for infinite communion wine. Just water it down but occasionally add some Red 40 so it still looks the same. It’s theologically sound!

Ideas for the inevitable Homeward Bound reboot.

A pretty good way to get a code review is to post the code on GitHub and make a post advertising it as a tool everyone needs. People will be quick to review it.

Is this a corollary of Cunningham’s Law?