When I worked at B&N way back in the day the policy was to sell any book that was legal to sell, though many would have to be ordered. In that regard, as long as AI slop is legal to sell I don’t have any particular problem with a store selling it.

I wouldn’t buy it, of course. It’s bound to be wretched.

My whole career was like this until I moved to the public sector. Now, I wouldn’t say we are over staffed, but my team of 3 has about 2.5 people worth of work, such that if one person is out we can still handle everything, if two people are out it gets stressful.

By comparison it feels like I am exhaling for the first time in 25 years.

It’s the bypass in question that falsifies validation data to the Denuvo DRM. It runs under the OS (Windows in this case), which gives it more permissions than your operating system itself. You have to disable a significant amount of your security, reboot, run your game with the HV bypass, reenable your security, reboot, and then you can use your PC normally again. Even if you trust the HV bypass software (and I don’t personally think that’s a good idea), you are still opening your machine up to attack. If you are perfect in your actions and very cautious you can minimize the risk, but slipping up could leave your PC compromised. It’s just too much risk.

Just a quick extra note, that people who have not completed up to a certain point in the MSQ are tagged with a little sprout next to their name, the only time I have ever seen people get a /kick was for hassling a sprout.

It is very solo-friendly. There are some story beats which require you use the dungeon finder, but it’s very painless and the community is supportive of first-timers, so there’s no stress.

I certainly hope Denuvo steps on something pointy, but there’s no way I’m installing an HV bypass on any machine.

Shadowbringers is the best expansion, if you want some high-quality writing it’s worth a play through. The prior two expansions (Heavensward and Stormblood) are also good, it’s just getting through ARR and the pre-HW story that is rough.

People should respect the boundaries set by their partners.

It is much, much larger than the dot com bubble.

The joke was that they called it OS/2 because it was half an operating system.

Poor spiders always getting blamed for staph infections.

I asked my Magic 8-ball what the problem is and it says “Outlook not so good”

Given the performance improvements gained by using NTSYNC which game developers have used for years, I wonder if we’ll see improved performance on games running through Wine/Proton compared to native.

I, of course, sent the Hunt after one of my enemies. I’m not going to waste the opportunity to play “let’s you and him fight”.

My catspaws The rest of the circle are sometimes frustrated with my antics, but I’m too useful for them to ditch.

It’s very much like in OP, except I can just pickpocket a target’s name when they aren’t looking.

Like a lot of Sidereal charms, it’s deceptively useful but dependent on setting up a situation to make it good. I use it to either fuck with someone powerful (a CEO whose name can no longer be used by anyone is paralyzed) or to learn the name of someone I just met so I can convince them that we’ve met before to improve their initial reaction to me.

In one instance a villain summoned the Wyld Hunt and just as they appeared I swiped her name and proceeded to command the hunter because they were summoned by [villain’s name] and that was my name (now, anyway). Storyteller ruled it worked because it was a fey creature.

I do this to my storyteller when I play my Sidereal Exalt, abuse of Name-Pilfering Practice is probably my hallmark.

It was during DADT and I wasn’t joking. Though since then I have met more gay marines than any other branch (I guess if you want to prove your manliness to the world…).

The bar has been low for at least 30 years. Marine recruiter wouldn’t leave me alone even after I started hitting on him.

Yeah, my cat just wants effusive praise when she does this, she doesn’t want me touching her.

You would be largely correct. Though I was kind of amused with the “Does anyone know how their telephone works?” ca.1994 and then listed a bunch of things that I very much know. So maybe a bad example.