I have used AI a little for Linux adaptation but I do want to caution overuse since it’ll sometimes give you really bad advice, like regarding important dependencies and such. Sometimes it cites info for a wrong distro or outdated info, so it’s not so much made up BS, just bad search results essentially.

I’ve been tempted to! I’m not sure how well I’d do though, it’s a weirdly religious part of LA and I’m very not. But I think I could run for school board when my own personal life settles down a bit more and I have money to run, though.

Valid point, haha. Also I’m still voting anyway, my local city has pretty awful choices though for some reason.

I’ve already seen (almost) this exact model with RetroAchevements subsets and it is indeed an improvement. It’s not just about having organized achievements, but mastering a base set and skipping the grind set is a nice touch. (They also do multi sets, glitch sets, challenge sets, etc).

RA is a bit strict on guidelines though, like all achievements being single player unless in a multiplayer subset, etc, which would be a good model for games with multiplayer modes that go defunct. Too bad I don’t see many developers going back and making that adjustment, though.

I’m unfortunately in one of the cities in LA with its own local government so no go on being able to vote on this… which is unfortunate given how much of an impact it’ll have on us.

At one point, I saw 99% and laughed. I knew we were in for bad polling.

Vote early if you can, too.

Correct, it’s somewhat rare but for example, the city of Santa Ana was in the news sometime in the last year for allowing non-citizen voting in local elections. It makes sense for them, although it I’m being honest, it makes sense for any long term residents to be allowed to vote if they’re paying taxes.

I love that I didn’t remember that line because I parodied the song for my daughter when she was a newborn needing to sleep and I used melody, mine being “your screams make me cry…”

I guess I miss the days when people avoided questions by being vague or redirecting… wasn’t good then, but certainly better than lying, getting angry, then threatening journalists with laws that don’t apply.

I’d imagine you’d need to be promoted to demon from the ranks of tormented? Then again, necromancy would be similar and they’re very much dead, so being a demon isn’t necessary in that case.

But summoning someone from the living world is just forceful teleportation, lol.

If only he was dead enough to summon from hell…

Imma bout to rip holes in my wall to get a cable upstairs. WiFi is simply awful.

As infuriating and dangerous as MAGA is, just remember who the true enemy is. There is no war but class war.

That’d make a good T-shirt.

Emotional recommendation of the year: Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of the Sky.

It’s almost upsetting having a 2009 pixel game have more emotional charge than a AAA with mocap and voice acting.

They somehow got me to play a ton of Wii and collectathons this year with events and… some retro games suck but they suck less with RA.

To give a non Fediverse answer (we’re awesome), of the mainstream-ish platforms I’ve found Bluesky very non-toxic-- perhaps, I dare say… not toxic enough? You’ll get really dumb takes or sloppy AI posts without a hint of pushback.

But I’m with people in these comments, I like this place most. Call outs aren’t always considerate, but at least it keeps it from being utterly stupid. Polite corrections though are a treasure. That, and Never Slop kitties.

It’s kind of amazing that Oglaf, even with their SFW comics, frequently gives punchlines I’ve never seen or considered before. Lol

I can’t really see the data on mobile (or can’t find it anyway), but does Valve really only show %s? It’s easier to see changes if we have raw numbers, as percentages have the problem you describe.

Humans naturally have oily hair, if you just don’t wash that out. Takes a few really uncomfortable weeks if you stop shampooing cold turkey, though.