wizardbeard

If your student loan is federally backed, they have "income based repayment plans" which can go as low as full deferment, $0 a month. Interest still builds, but it's better than starving.

I had a sip of beer or wine here or there as a kid, but my first "real" drink was shitty vodka mixed with grape juice. Tasted like cough syrup. I was 18, very depressed, hanging out with friends, and up to make poor decisions.

Later that night I had one mouthful of "Natural Ice" and poured the rest down the sink at some house party we managed to wander into. Don't know how something can taste like skunk and watered down piss at once, but they made it happen.

Shocked I drank much at all after that mess of a night. Now I know that I have a recessive genetic liver condition, so no more booze for me, outside of small sips of whatever new craft beer the wife has found.

Zandronum was the Doom server browser of choice, at least 4 years ago or so. Even will auto download the mods the server is running (if the admin configured things right).

Updates are usually automatic (at least in the modern days with Steam), and DLCs are optional.

DLCs are also usually a paid affair, unless they're explicitly referred to as "free DLC". Not sure if you worded it that way or not, came to this post after you edited the title.

Why didn't he just do this? Was he stupid?

People with one rarely feel the need to assert such.

Reminder that they have a business relationship to allow Google to directly scrape their database for AI training, so anything like that is only to stop competitors.

We are so far away from a paperclip maximizer scenario that I can't take anyone concerned about that seriously.

We have nothing even approaching true reasoning, despite all the misuse going on that would indicate otherwise.

Alignment? Takeoff? None of our current technologies under the AI moniker come anywhere remotely close to any reason for concern, and most signs point to us rapidly approaching a wall with our current approaches.

Each new version from the top companies in the space right now has less and less advancement in capability compared to the last, with costs growing at a pace where "exponentially" doesn't feel like an adequate descriptor.

There's probably lateral improvements to be made, but outside of taping multiple tools together there's not much evidence for any more large breakthroughs in capability.

Really? Did you read the article? The only trashy thing here is the abandoning birth mother and the weird computer generated false name.

The rest of this is a father just trying to get the documents he needs to get his daughter care while he gets the run around from two different state governments.

I can understand where they're coming from, but the examples given seem particularly... minor?

Not sure if it's my privilege showing, or the article author chose examples to make this seem goofy.

Yeah, that's probably the most concise way to state my reaction to this.

This reads like someone called them an NPC and they got big mad about it. Putting this much effort into trying to turn something around on a bully might help you feel better, but you're putting 10x as much effort into it as they ever did, and they don't care about your comeback.

You haven't showed them anything except the insult worked. It got you worked up and that's all they cared about. The person who "loses" is the one who puts in more effort.

It's also demonstrating a willful choice to ignore the intended meaning of the insult to try and play a game of technicalities, which is rarely a good look. You can't "well ackshually" an insult, it just makes you look silly.

It's not difficult to understand that by calling you an NPC, they don't mean the well written memorable ones. They mean the oldschool unnamed townsperson who only says one single pre-programmed line.

Most charitably, they're saying that you're just reciting a popular opinion and haven't thought through it yourself. While also dehumanizing you.

Like, if this comeback was maybe 1/3 of the length it wouldn't be completely awful for online discourse (trying for the last word so shitheel doesn't think they "won"). That said, the best response is to just... move on with your life.

Someone called you an NPC? They clearly aren't worth engaging with.

You gotta diversify your Fire Emblem Husbandos. Hector from The Blazing Blade (first English Fire Emblem, I think 7th overall) is GOAT.

Whole great game series out there beyond the edges of Three Houses.