Being a good lover takes years of practice, not just physically but mentally and emotionally. So, by all means let’s have zero practice and just assume everything will go well 🤣

So, correct me if I’m wrong by all means, but Google News is just the channel isn’t it? Right now I’m seeing content on there from a dozen different news organisations (BBC, Reuters, Sky News, The Guardian, The Telegraph etc.)

What’s the negative with it being conveyed via Google News?

This site needs more people to know about it (and it was only one guy called Iain MacDonald maintaining it. I think one other person joined him recently).

It’s called NewsMap. It’s a wall of headlines that updates over time. No distractions, no images and you can choose your region and the topics you want to see. The dude revived it after the original site went down for some reason a few years ago. Pretty cool, specially for my ADHD brain.

This is NSFW so I’ll cover it in spoiler text…

Nvidia are making $750 million a day… I think they’ll cope 🤣

Oh thank God.

I wonder how all the “Lawsuit incoming” doomsayers feel now? They were so sure too, almost smug about it. In the end it was a massive gamble but it seems to have paid off hugely for them no?

What if… We’re all being manipulated by Nvidia? What if they are the ones that started this “global outrage” in the first place? What if that’s how a mega-corp markets it’s products these days? What if they know that the anti AI cultists aren’t actually the biggest group, just one of the loudest ones?

Look at the result. Look at how many people are talking about this. Look at how it’s front page news all of a sudden. Look at how many people are now aware it exists.

In the end all that will matter is that they did a thing and now the whole world knows about it. In the end DLSS5 will go ahead and games will look better than they ever have before. In the end all the memes, jokes, likes, upvotes and downvotes will be a footnote in the story of how AI came to games. In the end we will all keep wishing for better and better gfx cards and that… is the point.

I’ve got a few that I can’t really separate:

Dental hygienists are greedy charlatans who convince us we need an expensive hygiene appointment every six months when we really don’t. That used to be true before the invention of the electric toothbrush but not now. I stopped going 7 years ago and I make sure I brush properly daily for two minutes with my electric toothbrush. I occasionally use inter-dental brushes for a deeper clean and my teeth are perfect. No soreness, gum bleeding and certainly no cavities. It’s lies I tell ya.

AI is the most incredible development in human evolution since the invention of the wheel. I think it is the beginning of our next evolutionary step. It may even save us from destroying ourselves. It has brought me personally incredible results that have enriched my life in countless ways. I can’t wait to see where it takes us. People who are angry about it are dumb (you did say “controversial opinion” lol).

Money is basically the ring from Lord of the rings. You can’t have it without it changing you. I’ve had the dubious pleasure of knowing a great many millionaires and they’re all miserable bastards pretending that they’re not. Their families hate them, most of them are alcoholics and drug addicts. They hate themselves even more and their money doesn’t mean anything to them so they use it to impress others or hurt them, just so they can feel something. It’s all a disgustingly wasteful, tragic act.

I’d say it’s how you feel when you get up every morning. There’s a few moments when we first wake up when our brains haven’t had a chance to switch on all the filters, so we get the purest sense of our baseline happiness then. If you wake up every morning feeling deeply satisfied, I’d say you’re probably living a good life, whatever you might define that to be.

Hey thanks for that. I hadn’t heard of this one. Looks really good! Grabbing the demo now 🙂👍

Oh I loved Desperados 3! 😁 I paid £18 for it back in March 22 and spent 61hrs in it. Excellent game. Shadow Gambit is meant to be good too by the same people.

£70 for a game was never justifiable. In the last 5 years these have been my most expensive purchases:

£27 Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream (Finished it - Superb game!) £50 Assassin’s Creed Shadows (Played 6hrs - REGRET! Won’t ever spend that much on a game again) £26 Manor Lords (Played 4 hours - REGRET!) £28 No Rest For The Wicked (Played 8hrs - Will play more) £28 Tower Simulator 3 (Played 19hrs - Superb game!) £34 X-Plane 12 (Played 8hrs - REGRET!)

Now… people who PRE-purchase games for £70… That’s truly mind boggling.

I get to work from home exclusively. My right to do that is never questioned. My boss is super understanding and my work gives me holidays whenever I want on short notice. I get raises all the time and if any of our clients start being toxic I’m allowed to shove them out of the nearest airlock. Yes, I love being self employed 😁.

Everyone should at least once, seriously consider starting their own business and working from home permanently. Specially now you can literally put everything you love doing, whatever it is, into ChatGPT and it’ll tell you the best business for YOU to start, how to structure it, what you’ll need and how to make it all work (Yes, yes AI will be the end of us bla bla but in the mean time it’s a goldmine of free information and inspiration).

Having a job can be nice and cosy but working for yourself is incredible. There’s no HR, no KPI’s decided by someone else, no office politics and you can work from home wearing scuba gear if you want to. It really is worth trying to find your bliss and not just accepting things as they are.

Couple of little success nuggets I will add… Only buy hardware/software as you need it, not before. In fact, don’t buy anything until there’s a clear need. No office space, no business cards even, no cool e-ink tablet to take notes with or other vanity silliness. Nothing you don’t need. Don’t offer services you don’t need to offer. If you behave like a swiss army knife, you’ll be treated like one forever.

Whatever you’re selling, make it a monthly subscription. This might be the most important bit of advice I have if you want to work happily from home for yourself successfully. Try out a bunch of networking groups and join a couple that focus on friendship first and business second. Those are your office pals who will bring you clients, be clients and give you advice and all you have to do is the same for them.

I guess no one’s reading this far down but that’s ok. For some reason your post inspired me 🤭

This line is interesting from this article (no paywall or ads).

“Thinking about business cards in the future, they are destined to go the same way as the tie. Some people will use them but they will not serve any real purpose other than to simply establish an image about the person or the company they work for”.

I think that feels about right. It hadn’t even occurred to me to compare it to tie wearing, but I think it’s true. Maybe 2 out of 30 people now wear any kind of suit or tie to the groups I go to and it used to be the standard. I haven’t had to order any new cards in over 2 years and it used to be every six months.

The only thing more certain to exist till the end of time than prostitution is people complaining about it. I like it because it makes something explicit that is implicit in so many apparently non transactional relationships. There are so many people who say prostitution should be banned, who are also in relationships/marriages where they expect sex for shelter, food, safety or whatever. Prostitution makes the transaction clear. People point to the exploitative nature of it, but then reveal their real agenda by also rejecting the idea of making it safer for the people selling access to their bodies. The whole thing is a massively hypocritical pile of double standards. Mix into that cultures with backwards patriarchal religious doctrines and that’s where you get the really angry people who talk about dishonor and stoning and all that jazz. Prostitution has been around since there were people and will always be around. When the puritans are in charge it just hides for a bit. This has been my TED talk, thanks lol

Sadly that is the trend, but not always (thank goodness). I do think people are getting wise to this smoke and mirrors garbage though. Anyone can make a sexy looking rendered scene. Without a hint of what the actual gameplay will look like, it’s just pointless.

Visually stunning? check Meaningless? check About as relevant to the actual game as that Witcher 4 Unreal Engine tech demo? check checkety check.

Really nice list and well laid out too. Currently downloading the demo for Revenge of the Savage Planet from it :) (and have now bought it. Such a fun game!)

There really is no need for this rudeness. I’m sure you can make your point without resorting to this kind of language. Please see rule 3 and let’s try not to turn into reddit (Clarification: I am not a mod or trying to impersonate one. This is just my opinion).