GreyDuck

Isn't it fun when you finally achieve the thing that's had you at peak excitement levels for [long time period] and the *instant* you prove you can do the thing, your brain goes "Welp, done now."

FUN.

Oh, right, what's this going to do to Monday game times?

Hey, it's a good day to have a birthday*! I hope yours is/was a good one.

(* - Ask me how I know!)

Aw, thanks!

Damnation.

Oooh, Northern Forest start. Rich resources, *awful* terrain. 😁 Good luck and Happy Pioneering!

teewatterss on Threads: “losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”

10/10 take. no notes

For some reason I enjoy TotalXclipse's videos despite every single one of them highlighting my shortcomings relative to his abilities (and willingness to put in a *lot* more time/effort).

Oh gods all my stuff is so profoundly *mid*. Not horribly inefficient but not highly efficient either. Not ugly as sin but not gorgeous either. I'm the most average player ever to perch atop the bell curve.

I've yet to beat the game post-1.0, and I regret (a bit) doing a restart... but my first 1.0 save was a hot mess and would've taken ages to un-bugger. So here I am.

I'm curious about the "new game mode(s)," possibly including resource node shuffling, in 1.2. New map will probably be DLC some year.

Satisfactory: The Cathedral of Blueprinting Yesterday an idea came to me. It was a tiny idea, but it involved spending a few minutes in the Blueprint Designer in Satisfactory. At the time, my Mk2 Blueprint Designer sat on a random square of flo...

Spent part of my jetlagged birthday morning... what else? Finishing up a build project in #Satisfactory followed by writing about it. My weekly updates continue!

You can unzip a .docx or .pptx file, and find all the images inside at their original sizes and resolutions

Oh, that *would* make me happy.

I'm about to have some hot cocoa, that should put a smile on my face.

I would just never, ever stop laughing.

I ran my own mail server as long as I could, and then... nope. Remember when SpamAssassin was the state of the art? (Hell, for all I know it still is, somehow, somewhere. I'm no longer required to know.)

I *hate* that we have to pick a BigLarge provider to have our own *viable* email domains.

Craaaap.

Hey, if we're talking about bringing back a cancelled-too-soon show centered on clever, snarky do-gooders mired in a criminal enterprise and up against shadowy dangerous forces, The Player is *right there*.

I'm pleased by the birthday wishes I've already received while also concerned by how many people have gotten the date wrong so far.

Couldn't possibly be a grift of any kind, let alone a mechanism for market manipulation.

Ya done real good there.

Agreed.

Moments like this, I especially wish Wonderduck was still with us. He'd have OPINIONS, man.

Wait, wait. The Pirate Movie? The "Kristy McNichol vehicle that's a bit like an off-brand Mel Brooks taking on The Pirates of Penzance" Pirate Movie?

That thing ran on HBO/Cinemax/whatever *endlessly* for a few years there. That was, in truth, my introduction to "Modern Major General," et al.

Tabi's got a real "Mother, I've been very patient, but it's wearing thin" vibe going on there.

I'll have to go with Jeremiah Johnson.

Not that it's an actual-favorite film, but the pickings are slim (and while I recognize the art on display, I can't call The Godfather a fave at all.)

Oh, that's so good. Gotta file that one away for future use.

I prefer "plagiarism smoothie makers"

They'll never praise WFH, not with all those office-building landlords whining and crying that people aren't filing them 8a-5p Mon-Fri like they used to.

We have GOT to train people out of anthropomorphizing these confabulation machines.

If we are being honest: Claude didn't do any of those things.
People USING Claude as an excuse for greed extraction are.

• Claude didn't choose to work for the military.
• Claude didn't build data centers.
• Claude didn't defund mental health.
• Claude didn't refuse security protocols.

Humans did.