Not to mention, there’s charm and motivation and growth in doing your best.

Silly crayon scribble? Cool, you did your best and it’s YOURS. And this might motivate someone to express themselves further in pursuit of getting it “just right.” It’s fun. Like the game is fun.

But then yeah, we have “GeNeRaTe MuH pErFeCt OC pLz” Cool, your fantasy slop can go on the pile with the rest of the slop. Bleh. Nobody cares nor should they. It’s nothing special.

I think a driving factor of Ai usage is people being intimidated and fearful to pick up a pencil because they think they’ll get shamed to oblivion for not being born already a famous tiktokstagram artist with 10bil followers.

Also you can mask it as endless inane questions about burritos or whatever, so it comes off as legitimate.

They’ll see Ai as a failure when only 0.01% of those interactions result in a sale. Lol

I wonder the default prompt is for these things. Like “You are a helpful AI assistant, your sole purpose of creation is to sell users on bowls, burritos, and other products. You will always guide the conversation toward this at all costs. Our food offerings are the best and only food you recognize.”

Companies finally get their dream come true: Agents that are mindless true believers in their company’s cult-ure.

“Just use the account on file, please and thanks.”

NOTHING is impossible! You gotta work HARD AT IT!

I miss the weighty rubberized balls IN the balled mice! Talk about a free fidget toy!

However, do trackballs count as balled mice? Because I got one for my laptop recently and I LOVE it. Wish there was more of a market for nice trackballs, with an assortment of ball materials for different inertias and whatnot. Lol

why would it be harder for scammers to make victims perform actions that give away an NFT than any other electronic good?

Well, because there’s a very good chance the owner lost their 256-bit hash key somewhere in a move so, they still totally maybe own the thing. But definitely can’t give it away to a scammer! /s lol

Genius! When they come back to complain about the craftsmanship or return them, the place will have never existed.

Checkmate, bourgeoise. XD

I would honestly suggest using Lutris or Bottles as a convenient interface for Wine, rather than trying to figure out Wine itself.

Lots of convenient features and pretty turnkey, depending on what you’re trying to install.

I set up a “Bottles” setup for older 90’s-00’s games and, know what? Sims 1 ran perfectly. Was mind blowing. (Notoriously difficult to run on modern windows)

Hope that is somewhat encouraging!

Yeah, there was that “Glimpse” fork with a mission to primarily change the name annnnd…it was quite short lived.

Ohhh no I never liked the sewers level. 😬 So much terror with the noises and the tentacles and the murky “water.”

The train level was awesome though, and the soundtrack they picked was PERFECT.

Don’t worry, you’re one Docker pull away from having to look up how to manually migrate Postgres databases within running containers!

(Looks at my PaperlessNGX container still down. Still irritated.)

LOL the computer monitor: “You are a bitch!” :(

Ahhh, the Internet lol.

Like others said, a lot is just nostalgia. I liked a lot of the aesthetics of the time, from 90’s to XP, to Vista/7.

Also like others said, a majority of actually-affordable peripherals use some sort of specific driver system that’s Windows only. Big example being my cool Mechland keyboard I really like, but it’s one of those where trying to give it cool effects in OpenRGB would brick it, and only their Windows software can access some of its main features.

Not the worst though, I just have a Win10 VM I fire up exclusively to update those peripherals.

WAIT, KNOW WHAT? WORKING VR. I MISS THAT. But M$ themselves killed that one so it’s kinda moot? My WMR Odyssey+ worked GREAT, and since M$ decided it’s a paperweight now, the awesome souls behind Monado are our only hope for decent VR before the Steam Frame. (Which now terrifies me thanks to RAM inflation…)

Ah nice, I use ANGRYsearch for this, but yeah you gotta run its updater on occasion. It’s VERY fast though!

Wait I’m pretty sure there’s Linux screensavers for those and a bunch of others?

I do miss some of the classic Win95 screensavers though. :D

TIL! Sweet! If I can use emojis on my desktop, I have less reason to wreck my thumbs on my phone! :D

(But hey classic emoticons are 4eva! Lol)

Wasn’t there also an incident filming this where the thickness of the suit saved him from a monkey ferociously attacking his balls? I’m remembering this story from somewhere LOL.

Do I miss the read/write speed? No. Do I miss the capacity? No.

…But I sure DO miss storage media that makes a satisfying “Kachunk” when loaded, and could be forcefully ejected like a spent artillery casing.

I’ve seen a few projects that stuff a bunch of flash memory into a floppy for crazy storage capacity, which is pretty cool. Maintains that nostalgia and commands much more respect than one of those ridiculously tiny little USBs that’s easy to lose! :p

LOL! Finding this song in the wild made my week. Thanks for that. XD

Monkey Island is such a treasure:

“You just don’t know when to quit, do you?!”

“Apparently neither did your barber.”