MH4U on the 3ds was my first introduction and I actually kinda miss being able to quickly tap the items that were up on the touch screen to use them. World on PS and Rise on the switch scratch the itch but I was visibly upset that tracking didn’t make it into Rise; it was just a great mechanic and it felt extra satisfying to build out the monster knowledge, and it added some wonderful depth to the gameplay.

I’m not really all that crazy about the fort defense mechanic in Rise, I’d genuinely skip it if I could.

As much as I enjoy the series and still play it, there’s a certain amount of ennui that I’m experiencing when it comes to hunting Jaggis and the rest of the same monsters every time. New mechanics help to make up for it by having the hunt be slightly different, but wow what I wouldn’t give for a totally new experience playing Monster Hunter.

doot DOOOdoodoodoot

My side of the family is slowly trickling into the state for their annual vacations in Maine, for two weeks this year instead of the usual 7 days. It’s nice though, getting to see each group when they arrive instead of showing up to 20-something people all at once, all in one house. It will be that level of craziness come Sunday, when they’re planning to throw (yet another) baby shower for us. Much as I enjoy not spending money, three baby showers is too damn high. I’m hopeful that my brother found the copy of Go the F#$k to Sleep we gave them when my niece was born.

One of our ducks, Pearl, hatched out a dozen little babies under my potting bench. While she’s exceptional at hatching them, she is a less than stellar mother and I have been responding to alarm peeps regularly while she sits around with the ones who manage to keep up with her.

There’s just so much hidden goodness inside! My last playthrough has me struggling less, and I found more, but apparently I just wasn’t thorough enough

Trying to actually get the good ending in Tunic, not too proud to admit I’m using a tracker this time around. And wow, I passed up SO. MUCH. last time around

Iirc the leaked internal docs and reporting showed that nvidia was downloading 81 years worth of video per day. If the pattern holds, and we “throw” the books at them, it probably looks a lot like one of those building-sized front end loaders dropping the library of Alexandria on those executives.

As an alternative, I would be fine if nvidia were no longer allowed to hold copyright or trademarks since the company believes that those don’t matter, required to share all internal documents (including any and all planning), and required to open source all their code until the company implodes

Here’s hoping the plaintiffs can bring the leaked internal docs from nvidia’s management directing engineers to violate the TOS of several sites to show a pattern of malfeasance, and that the judge has at least a modicum of understanding regarding these topics. Throw the book(s) at 'em.

I use it/its in spaces where I do not plan on engaging with people as individuals, like on youtube where I get hundreds of comments and I’m not going to bother reading usernames

Like @Vodulas I’m a little perplexed by this and hope you won’t mind providing some more clarity

Chewing will cause them to mix as well, but there’s less time for the compounds to catalyze and “mature” to change the flavor very much

It’s not just that, but the number of cuts made also increases the amount of different compounds mixing after being separated by cell walls which causes them to form new compounds.

Iirc it’s a fork of open camera so… Sort of?

I’ve been pretty happy with HedgeCam2 for still photos - good shots without mucking about in settings but there are tons of settings you can fiddle with

From this layman’s perspective, this seems like the executives at Nvidia directed people to access computer systems in a way they were not authorized to and with methods designed to circumvent the security of the sites in question. It seems, on its face, to be a violation of the CFAA that was knowingly pushed by these executives - and I hope you’ll all join me in calling your congressional representatives to advocate for a full prosecution of them

We had our baby shower this past weekend, and I’m glad to have it behind us. There’s still another one for/from my side of the family in two weeks but it should be very low-key comparatively. My mother drove for 8 hours to be here for the weekend (New England summer roadwork smh) and it was the first time we’ve seen her since last August, so it was really wonderful to have her up. I sent her home with so many plants…

I’m nearly done rebuilding our original bird coop, and it’ll be super great to have that finished and ready. It was a huge pain to move by myself with no tractor access but the frame held up admirably, and the new tweaks should make maintenance way easier - it feels like a prerequisite with all of the additional work we’ll be facing in another month.

I’m with you 100% on the music helping with time management, there’s nothing like putting on an album with the right bpm for what needs to get accomplished. And the small dance movements, head bops, and shimmies while working helps to prevent getting burned out on the chores. Plus that feeling of serendipity when the task completes around the same time as the album… pure magic.

Went to the farmers market from 7-1 today, came home to find my wife running a fever so I’m now doing laundry and dishes. I’ll have to go do all the watering a little later today, but that’s okay. I still have about 7 cubic yards of wood chips to move, and our pond is now low enough to allow me to buck and remove the trees that fell into it during a wind storm earlier this year. Some of that will get done today, and I’ll be doing more of it tomorrow before and after the weekly grocery run. I also recorded and edited a video for our channel but I’m sorta 50/50 on it a few hours later and don’t know whether it’ll be posted or just deleted despite the time it took to do all that.

I, too, clean to music! It’s usually some kind of bop like Parov Stellar or Caravan Palace to prevent me from stopping to admire my work partway through.

Given the slant of the article, it really feels like The Register missed an opportunity for a spicier headline like “Mike Howell, Heritage Foundation executive, reportedly discloses gay furry prison sex fantasies”

when reached for comment, the makers of the ai tool stated that they were shocked that the tool was used for the purpose for which it was built

/s because it’s not a real quote but also:

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Hey thanks! He stopped by the farm today to take a short tour (nothing like you all are dealing with but it’s hot & dry for us northerners) and I’m going to be visiting one of his rewilding projects in a week or two to consult. We’ll see where it goes!