Really traditional vampires are super OCD; one of the ways to get rid of them is to spill a big bag of eg. rice in front of them, and they’ll spend so long counting every grain that they’ll get caught by the rising sun. Salt ought to work as well?

One grain of salt, two grains of salt. Ah ha ha ha. Three grains of salt…

Was in the Steam sale recently - bought it, completed it. It’s pretty good - revisits a lot of MI1 and 2 with the hindsight that comes with age. There’s a lot to like, but it’s also fairly blatantly unfinished, some of the puzzles seem like placeholders for the much bigger puzzles that ought to be there, if you see what I mean?

It’s not quite as good as any of the original trilogy, but it’s not far off. Massively better than 4, obviously. I quite enjoyed the Telltale ones, tho - the episodic structure forced them to keep the puzzles tight, and they had some really good moments.

Oh, cool. Great game, really fun to play.

I’d like to nominate “several different versions of Dredmor” as the update required; maybe have some cryptic clues as to which version he is as you progress down the dungeon. You either know what he’s like and have planned your build around it, in which case you’ll whip him like a red-headed stepchild with implausibly big eyebrows; or you’ll get a complete kicking because he will one-shot your otherwise end-game character as soon as he gets close.

A rogue-like where most of the options aren’t good isn’t a great one. Everything should be useful in some kind of character build.

Even when I go to festivals with friends, we usually have slightly different priorities in who we want to see and end up separated anyway. Can catch up at breakfast time and get a report on how good the stuff that you couldn’t see was, which you can perfectly well do by speaking to randoms. Depends on the festival, of course - some are much more friendly than others.

Problem being, of course, that you can add more certificates, but you can’t revoke the original M$ one. And since it’s vulnerable and you can’t get rid, then these exploits still work and there’s nothing you can do to stop it.

Lots of calories in beer. Need to move yourself over to neat spirits. Make sure that you spend all your money on them, so that you’ve nothing left to buy food. Then follow the diet posted above, but skip the eggs and replace the large glass of wine with a large glass of vodka. You’ll lose a tonne of weight.

BBC food, English muffins are indeed called English muffins here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/english_muffins_56640

Where I am (oop north), if you just said “muffin”, people would assume you meant the small round bit of bread that you put fillings into; a barm, a roll, …

Get some Hendo’s relish on it as well - meal for for a king.

That pieathalon link is something else! Cheers Tal, will dig through more of it later. And yeah, chilli con carne with a big tortilla on top sounds like a winner.

My “classic pie that went horribly wrong”, and my mates still take the piss out of me now for how bad it was, was an attempt at “fidget pie”. How bad can a pork-and-apple pie be? It can be a soggy undercooked bowl of slop, that’s how.

My three all flop out in front of you and demand belly rubs - they will pull your hand back in if you try and stop. The tortie is quite vocal about it, too. Fine if it’s one of them, but if two of them get you then that’s what you’re doing for the rest of the day, and good luck trying to drink anything.

I admire your diligence. Shame the video ends before they ask how long they’ve been in the queue.

I love the ones that open where you can see the fireball from the previous hit. Now just need to line up the video cuts a bit better with the tune.

I’m all here for the green energy. I think it’s worth investing in “both sides of the coin”, though. Now that I’ve replaced all the energy-wasting bulbs in the house with LEDs, and the house is well-insulated enough that there’s just no need to run a three-bar electric fire to keep warm, then I’m at the point where solar panels would be sufficient for nearly all my energy requirements. That’s partly because solar has got better, but mainly because I’m just using loads less

On that note, the secret to not having power and cooling issues running tens of thousands of super-hot GPUs in the desert, is not to build them. Which as they’re not being built, might be enough ;-) But investing in more effort processing units and more efficient models would do it too. They wouldn’t have their “no one else can afford this” moat if it was all made more affordable, tho.

I think the manga starts off really goofy and then gets more serious when it finds its feet. She becomes lots more serious after merging with the Puppet Master, which isn’t so significant in other adaptions, since she’s so serious before as well.

The 1995 anime reorders the plot of the manga a little so that it’s one big story, which to me is an improvement over the “disconnected vignette” style of the original. I wouldn’t want an adaption of that…

He’s mentioned in the third paragraph of the link. But yes, it is. In order for it to be “worth” burning a trillion dollars every year on AI, then there has to be a time in the near future, 2030 or so, where AI will be making unimaginable trillions. If the datacentres aren’t being built, then that money can’t possibly be coming in as planned. That makes the massive investment in NVidia’s GPUs look extremely shaky - why buy them if they’ll never be turned on? - and it means Oracle will be completely in the shit.

Ed’s arguments have been, “if any link in the chain fails, the whole thing falls down”. I think he’d been leaning towards “banks being unwilling to keep financing datacentre builds on debt” as the most likely stumbling block, but just being unable to power the damned things for want of infrastructure and skilled engineering, as here, is a problem he talks about frequently too.

He thinks it’s likely it’ll bring down the entire tech industry, since they’re now full of idiotic MBAs with no other big ideas. And frankly, it’s about time.

Can’t comment on the Lemur Pro, but the Pulse has an excellent screen. Was wanting more pixels than a 1080p screen but 4K incurs ridiculous cost and tends to be available on “laptops that don’t fit on your lap”. 2880x1800 @ 120 Hz means your fonts look really crisp and updates are smooth.

When my Tuxedo Pulse arrived, I turned it on once to marvel at the fact that it started up straight into Linux. Then restarted it to install Arch btw and never looked back. Fantastic laptop, tho.

Heh heh, phallus.

Without a doubt, but to be fair to OP it is the word used in the link, and there’s a number of Lemmings that get a bit put out when links are “editorialised” by changing words. Bit of a no-win situation.

Since “killed” can be a bit of a trigger word, I’d suggest replacing it with “fucking annihilated, get it up you you russian bastards, heroyam slava” in future, just to be safe.

Asha Sharma had this statement, in amongst the rest of it. As per Ars Technica:

Some decisions in the gaming division currently pass through “14 layers” of decision-makers, Sharma said, before promising that the new Xbox will be a “flatter organization” with “no more than 5, and where possible, 3” layers of management involved in any decision.

You’d have to think that it’s this shit that she’s pointing at. Massively excessive management certainly helps with all the design-by-committee cookie-cutter crap that’s filled with monetisation. Alas, they’ve just got rid of the really interesting studios that I’d like to see spread their wings a little.