Frankly I was a little more stoked for team Canada because I recognized more of the NHL players on it.

Then team USA went on to act like complete assholes and it kind of soured their big win to me. There’s such thing as being a bad winner and that’s exactly what they were.

I’m pretty sure it can still do that. Like if you can trick it into playing something that isn’t even video, it’ll shit out whatever it can interpret as video. Which of course will be garbled nonsense, but it did exactly what you asked.

My observation is that the accomplishments of older times would be entirely impossible today, like basically all the public services we enjoy wouldn’t be possible if they were proposed as a new thing.

Take the post office, if somebody had a big idea for the government to build tens of thousands of buildings and hire over a million people just to move around pieces of paper - they’d be laughed out of the room. Impossible, the government couldn’t and shouldn’t do any of that. All public services: the fire department, the police department, and especially public libraries, that all couldn’t be created in the current political environment if it hadn’t already been built.

This is how they all need to be - let the chimpanzees throw their shit all day, ignore them, move forward as if they don’t exist.

I think this game could run on PS4 just fine. Turn off raytracing and a few other things and it would probably work.

But then, I guess they can’t keep releasing for the old console forever.

It’s unfortunate, but it was always coming. I was quite refreshed to see so much open piracy talk too, good indication it’s an “anything goes” kind of place.

But I guarantee they’ve received a copyright order by somebody, probably the mpaa, and failure to act would result in legal action.

When my mom had cancer, I swear every relative and distant acquaintance came out of the woodwork trying to sell some kind of nonsense. It was already a devastating time, but on top of that it was insulting being forced to hear about all these delusional snake oil cures and conspiracy theories.

One thing that hasn’t been mentioned yet - have a good backup solution. If there isn’t anything on your computer that can’t be restored, then you’re not going to feel as much pressure to protect things.

Of course there’s crypto miners, identity theft, botnet stuff, all sorts of things that run undetected and don’t simply render your computer unusable. But if you’re absolutely sure you’re not losing anything, then “nuke it from orbit” becomes a more paletteable solution for virus removal. A hassle for sure, but format and start over again becomes an option that results in no loss other than the pain of having to reinstall everything.

Seems to me there’s a concentrated effort to convince the public that there’s outrage.

I’ll say I have a considerably higher opinion of him now than I did in 2020. Then, I basically voted for a seat-filler, hold down the fort so the fascists aren’t in power. Now, I’m fairly impressed.

But the fact remains that the man is 80. Sometimes he looks like a canny old man, and I kind of like canny old men, those old guys who are sharp as a tack with a wit to match. And sometimes he just looks elderly. I don’t like the idea of the oldest president ever three times in a row. Frickin 80, he’ll be 86 by the end of a second term. That’s a problem. And while I don’t have any problems with Harris, a lot of folks do.

My best hope is that he’s saying he’s running because it’s politically weak if he doesn’t. And if Trump is convicted of something before 2024, he’ll bow out and there will be a democratic primary. Worst case scenario, I won’t feel bad about voting for him again.

Well maybe a little - the man deserves a comfortable retirement.