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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • Nearly beat it, not a great game 5/10.

    The environments are nice and fun to explore.

    Story is mediocre. Dialog is tiresome, I started button spamming to get through a lot of the conversations that didn’t matter. Combat is nothing remarkable, no matter the weapon combos, and the enemies are just damage sponges with no real tactics necessary to defeat a given enemy. Magic is kind of cool but you have to really spec into mage to get there. The immersion is about as deep as a puddle on flat concrete.

    It is one of the games of all time, a game you could not play and miss out on nothing.

    Edit: Just beat it, terrible ending that feels like it was tacked on last minute to provide some sort of conclusion.








  • Insomniac or someone with bad sleep habits. Lack of sleep is damaging to overall health and can cause issues with your brain function as a normal sleep cycle is important to flush toxic components from the brain according to studies. While it is possible to function on less sleep than ideal, it is overall detrimental. Modern sleep habits are not normal for human biology, humans are phasic sleepers with two separate periods of sleep as a matter of evolutionary biology for defense and fire keeping.

    We are in a transitory period where we are still adjusting biologically to societal/cultural needs that dictate a dedicated 8 hour sleep schedule but haven’t evolved to fully naturalize that behavior.

    Source: I have sleep problems and my brain is fucked.




  • It depends if your car uses GPS or ABS(Wheel speed) to determine MPH. Generally speaking, if you increase the diameter(circumference) of your tire(not wheel[rim] necessarily), then you need to recalibrate your car to have an accurate speedometer reading.

    The larger the diameter, the slower your speedometer will read because your tire makes less revolutions per distance traveled; because speed is distance over time. If your speed is determined by the number of revolutions based on the stock diameter of the tires(+/-5% due to tire wear) then going up considerably(>5%+/-), then your speed will be off.

    Realistically, if everybody is speeding than nobody is, so if you throw 37s on your 32 stock vehicle and keep with traffic, you will be fine until you aren’t. Don’t be stupid, have your car calibrated for your tire size so you don’t get pulled over for speeding with a kilo of fent in your trunk.

    Only break one law at a time, breaking two is begging to get pulled over.





  • AI will eventually be given the task of creating a game based on prompts and it will be able to do that with minimal curation with considerations of other similar games and the consensus about them. It will be able to accomplish the entire dev in a fraction of the time of a conventional dev team of humans. This is probably 10-15 years away and will be the death of innovative risk taking games that come to be held in high regard.

    What is emerging is AI upscaling that will eventually allow a game made 10 years ago to look new. Soon there will be extrapolative AI that can remaster something like Super Mario Bros or Goldeneye and make it into a modern gen graphics game regardless of what “modern” means.

    AI can be a fantastic tool to ease the burdens of the game development process to decrease costs and time so smaller studios can focus on the core of what makes a game good. Unfortunately studios will integrate AI into the development process as they remove humans to decrease costs to an overall detrimental degree and the market will be flooded with mediocre derivative games that offer nothing of value in terms of experience.



  • Almost nobody is going to care unless you go places nobody cares about.

    We don’t segregate people by color, but some people self segregate. There are areas with more black people or more white people, but there is no laws that say you or her can’t go somewhere because of skin color.

    I am assuming she is black. There is a small chance that some people will say rude things to one of you because you are with someone of a different color. Don’t confront them, just walk away. The cops would love to ruin their whole day, so govern yourself accordingly.

    We see a lot of Germans in the tourist spots, your accent will be considered adorable and we will love to know where you are from and will likely fail to repeat the name of your home city unless it is Berlin, Frankfort, or Munich. If you are from Bayern, you are from Bavaria. If they ask you to say something in German, “etwas” is funny, but you will have to follow it up with an actual sentence. Throw in an “umgebung”, it’s a fun word to us.

    Also you need to understand that America is very large. Germany is smaller than our states of Illinois and Indiana, look at those states on a map and understand that things are further apart than you may think.

    If you can manage the 2hr drive, Chattanooga has an awesome aquarium with a massive glass walled tank.

    Ask the hotel desk where are some good local spots to get food, but the best places are not in the information pamphlet they may hand you. I hope your pants fit loose, our food can put weight on you very easily if you take in too much of our hedonistic freedom. Tip your servers, that is how they afford to live.

    Ich höffe das Eures Urlaub wunderbar sind und der Amis sind freundlich. Ich weiß das Sie Amerika lieben werden. Mein Deutsch schlecht ist, tut mir leid, es ist zwanzig Jahre her dass ich Deutsch gelernt habe.