…Hex Bear? Like the animal?
Yes Snake. Your contact in Pakistan. Named after a radical communist resistance group in Karachi. It got destroyed after repeated ideological struggle sessions involving cats, but it’s exceptional meme skills still inspire the common people to this day
Those satellite images and it’s descriptions invoke a lovecraftian horror of scale and vertigo in me. We have the phrase “a perfect storm” and that’s the one.
“Unimaginable violence is hiding in the eyewall” is just straight up a Cthulhu description. And the exhausted hopeless scientists just ever and ever repeating, that yes, it’s our fault, we made it, we called it and if we keep burning the planet, more and bigger ones will come.
Basically the two modes of my ADHD
They look the inverse animal of each other.
It looks like one of those animals where the popular rumor is “They actually should not be able to fly! We still don’t know how they do it”. That is, of course, wrong… It’s clearly thrown like a snowball for fun by larger animals such as bears and apes to get enough lift under it’s tiny wings.
The likelihood of aliens existing somewhere in the unierse is 1, unless you believe earth is the divine special place and not just a lucky rock. If you think we’re one in a billion, then there is at least a hundred other ones in the Galaxy.
The likelihood of anyone showing up anywhere near us ever is pretty much zero. Space is too big and the speed of light is too low . Unless they are the divine species, and that’s just too terrifying to think about.
I had almost forgotten about this. Thank you, hexbear account of rachel jake, CEO.
It’s actually hip to fuck bees.
Warhammer40k-ass name. And like 40k it looks like someone made an obvious satirical exaggeration that is meant to make you recoil and then some asshole came and said “that’s actually good and cool and represents my personality”.
And then they park at 3 parking spots simultaneously in front of an McDonald’s in an desolate American suburb to get the new BaconChokerSupreme and they feel absolutely nothing. An empty void where the human soul should be.
I think that’s a good sign of taste though. Games are so incredibly diverse, even the ones that reach the peak of their genre can be just eh for others.
I’ll never finish Witcher 3 because that’s just too much stuff for my little adhd brain. Ghost of Tsushima was a wonderful 2 hours of ogling at the most beautiful wind-swept grass fields I’ve ever seen and I’ll never touch it again.
There is probably fantastic shmups or fighting games that I will never touch. But I gladly bang my head for 5 hours against the next Gulgagram, Darkblood Impaler From Soft throws at me and defend the 15 ms reaction window I have to dodge his instant kill grab.
Scientists have estimated that the power requirements of data centers in North America increased from 2,688 megawatts at the end of 2022 to 5,341 megawatts at the end of 2023, partly driven by the demands of generative AI. Globally, the electricity consumption of data centers rose to 460 terawatt-hours in 2022. This would have made data centers the 11th largest electricity consumer in the world, between the nations of Saudi Arabia (371 terawatt-hours) and France (463 terawatt-hours), according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
By 2026, the electricity consumption of data centers is expected to approach 1,050 terawatt-hours (which would bump data centers up to fifth place on the global list, between Japan and Russia).
If your phone could do the ai trash, it would still be morally bankrupt and devoid of any humanity. But it’s done on 5 gpus that eat as much energy as your entire household.
The real usefulness of ai technology is probably limited to 1% of what it is now. Signal processing, protein folding, translation and transcription are all fine and well. But it is 99% spam and so I’ll judge the technology on that.
Yeah? Well I call them poop-ass bears.
I got fired two weeks ago and it fucks me up pretty badly.
But the fact that i don’t have to use Teams, at least for a while, is just such a relief. Fuck that shit.
Path of Achra
Fields of Mistria (if you’ve played enough Stardew Valley)
Undertaledeltarune
Dwarf Fortress
Balatro (probably all you need for a while)
Factorio (on a more modern chip at least)
Slay the Spire
Terraria
FF 1-6 (emulated or the remakes)
Don’t worry, You Are (Not) Alone.
The smell is unbearable. Probably the only place these should be smoked is in the Cuban jungle. I’ve had a pleasant cigar experience before, but it’s much worse than cigarettes for everyone in a 200 m radius.
People here focus a lot on the fighting and difficulty.
Just so you know, it’s also absolutely gorgeous to look at and the game feel is incredibly tight and responsive. If you just run around in it for an hour or two, but don’t have the patience for getting really good a tapping your shoulder button, you probably still have a good time.
The only one that was on par so far was Nine Sols. It has the most insane final boss I’ve ever seen and the only bossfight I had to grind harder than Father Owl. Probably took me 8+ hours over three days. After beating it, i felt like I could parry bullets in real life if just tried a little harder. Gorgeous and deeply engaging game too.
When you walk as a group, little conversations and pairs will form naturally, chatting and joking along the way. I will very often walk by myself, either pacing too slow or too fast, nobody joining me. Sometimes it feels like an escort ques, where you just don’t have the correct walking speed button.
On the other hand, I’ll find and love you other weird fucks easily at a party, bouncing erratically around from place to place or telling me for thirty minutes about your favorite type of algae when I asked what you did today. Just gotta get invited to a party sometime again…
Conspiracy theory: It’s a ploy to make the Ai image piss filter seem more normal and validate it as an aesthetic choice instead of being the signifier for the lowest of low, the ultimate slop garbage devoid of any humanity or anything interesting.