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Jackbox Survey Scramble

Basically like Jackbox Family Feud. Was a really fun all-ages activity over the holidays.

Assetto Corsa (in VR). Civilization was mostly my ex-wife. eFootball PES is kind of a weird one, but it has really great mods that have now been spun off into a totally free singleplayer game called SP Football Life.

Not really into MMORPGs, but I’ve been trying The Finals and it’s pretty cool. Like the destruction of Battlefield mixed with the movement of Apex Legends and maybe a light touch of Rainbow Six: Siege or COD. Definitely worth the $0.

I’ve got some magnetic bracelets that remove all SS7 toxins from your body. DM me if you’re interested. $50 is nothing compared to peace of mind from state-of-the-art tech.

I’ve been using the Swiss Cheese Model for my sandwiches and they’ve been a disaster.

I don’t have a specific figure for you. My use-case is I’m trying to write a non-fiction book. I’ve got a ton of old newspaper articles in PDF format. The Library of Congress’ built-in OCR is very helpful, but very lacking and, in some cases, can miss large swaths of pages or generate really unhelpful gibberish that requires painful cleaning. I’ve had similar results from every other OCR tool I’ve tried.

Thus far, in using Claude/ChatGPT for transcription of a few dozen articles, I’ve only had to fix one individual stray word a few times. It’s been very close to perfect in my limited testing. High 90%. Impressively, with old newspaper articles where words have worn away or are otherwise very hard to make out even for me, it has done a great job of inferring/recognizing, where OCR would start generating gibberish. I haven’t tried hand-writing and suspect that’s a different beast, but I know there are tools that have cropped up to that end.

This has been an immensely helpful feature of both Claude AI and ChatGPT. I have tons and tons of historic sources and suddenly, I’m not fighting with non-working OCR options. It’s pretty great.

Um, where’s Jeeves? Wtf.

Fuck Musk, from Chanel

Look at Hellish Quart on Steam, if you haven’t. Really cool and fun, like a spiritual successor to Bushido Blade based in Eastern Europe. Updated with impressive regularity.

Pretty sus.

“We just wanted to be sure. Carry on!”

They already have a massive disinformation machine across every medium.

I’m just a bystander, China sucks, but referencing a NY Post opinion piece feels a bit like using a Fox News segment as a source. They’re pretty trash.

For all its bullshit, YouTube is the same. I’ve found myself on it more lately precisely because of the reasons you’re saying. It’s amazing how much niche content there is for any taste, even ones you don’t yet realize you have.

Tell them the soap removes toxins and you’ll make a killing. Heh.

Won’t someone think of the poor CEOs!?

Stephen Markham

Dude went to BYU for undergrad and graduate degrees. That might not tell you everything you need to know, but it should, speaking as someone who worked at a Mormon-dominated college in Utah.

RDR 2 is about the most-detailed and physical-feeling combat system I know of (limb targeting, visible body damage and working guns, ragdoll-type physics, environmental interactions like falling off ledges/into deep mud or snow, etc…)

BeamNG is the most-impressive physics showcase that comes to mind off-hand. It’s really incredible.

It looks so fresh and cool. It feels like a throwback to old, fun, dumb videogames of the past. Like this could totally be a Dreamcast 5 launch title.