Well, we've had hard drives and modems try to throw up roadblocks, but that can't keep me out because I can't read!
Let's finish Fallout 3.
twitch.tv/radiodeadair
It didn't make any difference, of course.
But it's not as bad as it's been other days, so we'll try to power through. Hold on and we'll get underway.
Currently running some streaming tests to see if the network will behave today. It was just acting up a few minutes ago.
I did an automated signal reset on my modem. We'll see if that made a difference.
All right: with my hard drive acting up during the stream yesterday, I did a full backup of both my game drive and my OS drive. Since then it hasn't acted up at all.
So we'll try to stream again in a little bit. Gimme about 30 or so and we'll attempt to finish Fallout 3.
I just realized that all "hot as fuck" literally means is "around 100 degrees Fahrenheit."
I just realized "hot as fuck" literally just means around 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
"I AM SAD WHEN WE ARE NOT ABOUT MEEEEEEEE"
www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
Manchin has long been an outspoken critic of the Democratic Party and an obstacle to many of President Joe Biden’s legislative priorities.
www.huffpost.com
Their family finally showed up.
They did *not* want to leave.
Oof. I'ma lay down I'm too old for this shit.
GUESS WHO'S BACK
BACK AGAIN
IT'S THESE DOGS
TELL ANIMAL CONTROL
YES IT DOESN'T RHYME FUCKING BUMPKISSES
Considering my laptop's 10 years old now and I don't use it for much besides browsing, videos and remote desktop, I'm gonna see if I can use a Bluetooth keyboard to turn this into a replacement.
Who knows?
Now granted, the first one they sent me *did not work.* It kept shitting itself trying to play a YouTube video or open a web page.
But they actually replaced it, and the second one's pretty good. Honestly my phone is technically faster, but for a free tablet it doesn't suck.
Nice little 11 inch screen, Android 14, 8GB of RAM, 256 GB of storage, microSD slot, nano SIM slot for mobile data, aluminium body, decent-ish case included ...
The processor's two years old and a bit on the puny side, but it runs pretty well so far.
If you want a tablet for normal use and entertainment, the AGM Pad P2 gets my recommendation, and it'll only set you back $169.
www.zdnet.com
So I filled out one of those Amazon surveys promising you can win something.
Yes, yes, I know, my computer has herpes now. But guess what? I actually won something.
A ~$150ish (depending where you get it) Android tablet, and it's actually not bad.
The more I think about it, the funnier it gets: if the cheap bastard hadn't tried to cheat Daniels and just paid her relatively paltry sum of $130,000 as agreed, then likely none of the falsification of records would have been necessary.
There was literally no crime until the cover up.
The amount of work it takes to convince a cat you're not going to eat or murder them is exhausting.
Remember to put your leftover schadenfreude in the toaster oven and not the microwave or else it'll get mushy.
I get to go for a walk in the park this morning and the temperature won't even touch 75F.
Gotta love the little things.
If you want to be mad, be mad that literally anyone else would be in Rikers right now awaiting sentencing.
If he actually does go to jail just imagine him complaining for six hours a day to the world's most forsaken Secret Service agent that you can't get bronzer in lockup.
Maybe seeing the God Emperor passed out and drooling on himself in open court was a shock to that juror's system. We may never know.
I think the wildest part of all this is that there was one juror who claimed they got most of their news from Truth Social, and we all thought "hung jury."
And yet they still voted to convict.
The *absolute best case* juror and he still couldn't win.
This is just another example of why this delusional old man was so bad at using or keeping power: he constantly falls victim to his own magical thinking.
Trump and his team thought one of the jurors was on their side — and might help him evade conviction. That didn’t happen.
www.rollingstone.com
Yes, yes, fuck Biden, I agree.
But in times like this I feel as though we've forgotten that "fuck Trump" matters just as much.
I mean if we're basing this off of "Everything Elon touches turns to shit" then woo boy
Donald Trump is considering an advisory role for Elon Musk in the event the former president and presumptive Republican nominee reclaims the White House.
www.wsj.comWHO WANTS DESSERT
Class action alleges secret Twitter stock scheme ahead of Musk's SEC testimony.
arstechnica.com
I can get the D: drive to recognize again, but I'm going to be on the safe side and update the backup.
We'll see if everything holds up, and I'll be back tomorrow to finish Fallout 3.
This is what it looks like when your hard drive fails while you're playing Fallout 3.
This is what it looks like when your hard drive fails while you're playing Fallout 3.
You're all welcome in advance. clips.twitch.tv/RelentlessPl...
Well, since nothing important or historic is happening today, why don't we play some Fallout 3?
twitch.tv/radiodeadair
Don't mind me I'm just setting myself up to be horribly depressed and dismayed.
Fuck.
Here we go.
JUSTICE MERCHAN: We received a note.
"WE THE JURY HAVE A VERDICT."
(via Anna Bower, Lawfare)
If you aren't coming away from any announcement by every single "AI" company without having any sort of credulous naivety violently beaten out of you, then I'd like to introduce you to Bridgr: an "AI" service that will sell you any bridge in America.
I love how motherfuckers forget that Bluesky blocks nukes their horseshit from a thread entirely.
Come at me, bro.
(looks at Bobby Kotick's golden parachute)
I dunno, it's a mystery.
if graphics work isn’t responsible for driving up the cost of games, then what is?
As an object example outside lying self-important gaming executives, because we'll never have transparency on actual budgets:
Right now there is one guy - ONE - who has retroactively added Nvidia's DLSS to at least a dozen games from multiple publishers, single-handed.
So you tell me.
Yeah, you had a good point until this one. Where's your source on hyper realistic graphics not being costly?
And middle ground is the best option here. You can have really good graphics without hyperrealism you won't even notice without zooming in.
Getting some stuff sorted and then hopefully we'll begin Fallout 3's Broken Steel around 4:30pm ET. See you then!
Hell, AMD and Nvidia will pay studios A LOT of money to include their graphics technologies in games.
But the guy who makes more money in a year than some state GDPs tells you graphics make games so expensive they have to charge you more?
I am dubious.
I just want to mention the same people who told you this graphics cost so much are also the same people whose salaries represent the largest single expenditure at any studio.
I dunno maybe they're lying?
I think there is an acceptable middle ground between MUDs and 2 billion dollar game budgets that produce realistic and visible skin pore distributions for ultra-fidelity screens.
Or, to crib from the Architect, “There are levels of graphics which we are willing to accept”
And that doesn't even include shit like PragerU.
Longer and longer ads, creepier and creepier ads. Lots of fake medical bs, lots of IDF adjacent nonsense, lots of the world is ending buy prepper gear like food and tiny generators that wouldn't run a laptop for more than a day... Betterhelp.
This is not an exaggeration.
I'll turn off ad blockers when YouTube stops trying to show me ads that are *over a god damn hour long*
I try to put in manual ad placement for midrolls and the like, and I try to limit them to two per video.
And YouTube's fucking system sometimes just ignores those placements.
Also, one ad at the start.
Don't fucking interrupt the video for it every five minutes or whatever.