I had a similar experience with OOT, never owned an N64 but finally played it 2 years ago on PC. IMO the gameplay just isn’t very good by today’s standards, yet it was very innovative for its time. Some of my friends who played it in the 90s when they were young still love that game.

As others have said, I too think the golden era of video games is now. Games are getting better and better and there has never been a bigger selection of games to play than right now. There have never been as many people enjoying video games than right now. That being said, I don’t play as much as I used to, but that’s mostly because I’ve been getting older and working in video games for almost 20 years I’ve been a bit overexposed to the medium.

Not drinking alcohol when I’m alone or not in a good place mentally. And yes, this can be hard depending on the social circle.

idk, Mastodon has official apps for iOS and I think also more users

Video game programming, because I’ve been doing that for more than 20 years.

I don’t get it, what does “pause payments” mean, who stops paying whom and how much money are we talking about?

Chinese food! More specifically, Sichuan and Northwestern style food.

I don’t need to pick a second one.

It should be possible to buy frozen durian in Germany, in asian supermarkets. Not sure if that’s an option.

When I was studying computer science I had a dual-boot setup on my laptop. I was never happy with a VM but it’s not a lot of work to set up so you could try that first! With dual-boot I could still use Windows if I absolutely needed it for a course. I can recommend the Arch Linux wiki, it has many articles and tutorials. It’s only really useful if you are using Arch Linux or a distro based on Arch, e.g. EndeavourOS

The downside is, you will be spending a lot of time customizing your Linux and fixing problems. This can be very rewarding and a great learning experience but it also takes time and effort. If you want to spend less time with your computer and more time talking to people offline or enjoying nature, installing Linux can be a bad idea.

Check out https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/ There is a list of books he wrote with free PDF and links to Kindle store. “Mencious Moldbug” is one of his pseudonyms.

Yes, exactly. The comic was published on October 13, 2008, according to Explain XKCD, that’s probably why iTunes is in it.

Might want to add that yogurette by itself is a weird thing to eat.

Where I live you can buy only frozen Durian and it’s very expensive :/

32167 (Heroes of Might and Magic 2)

I would argue that people you are describing enjoying Tik Tok and being too lazy to look stuff up themselves, are not really engineers. You could also frame it as, information technology got so mainstream, even people with no technical background whatsoever are part of it. Engineers and tech nerds still exist, but they are a minority now.

I agree there is a lot of marketing BS around LLMs right now. But I would argue that they are quite useful for e.g. basic language and coding tasks and at least for me these are real-world use cases too.

The headline is misleading. By “real-world use” they mean using ChatGPT and Claude for street navigation in New York. Which is one very specific use-case.

Paper drinking straws