Nachimir

The shoulder buttons also thrust on the vita, which works well. Is that not the case with default controller mapping on the PC? I guess you could use Joy2Key…

Almost put this in the Big Dog thread because it a teeny bit Ghost In The Shell: http://www.tu.no/tutv/forsvar/2014/05/05/norwegian-army-driving-armoured-vehicle-using-oculus-rift Even the DK1 is much better than other POV goggles out there. I really don't think it'll be long until more video based applications and hardware pop up around it.

Yeah, that's fantastic. I particularly liked these bits too: Calling the crowd out for having wildly different objectives, to the point where they make constructive dialogue difficult, and to the point of somewhat tactfully implying to some "we are not allies", is something very few conference speakers would have the courage to do, even if they believed it. That people contemplating the didactic and behavioural implications of games have such diverse and contradictory agendas is a massive shit on the table that everyone's been politely ignoring. It's difficult to not unconsciously want a Nice White Guy* Certificate, but I think keeping this as an objective is a really good way to counter that. I've worked under a few total assholes in the past fifteen years (bullies, self defining "alphas", etc.), and what I've learned is that unlike them, good leaders create more, similar leaders by enabling the people who work with them. *I'm not assuming you are white.

I like the armour body and the hover engine a lot. I tend to stick to the cannon because it makes keeping combos up fairly easy; if you;re worried about accuracy you can basically use it as melee on gunboats and aces; everything else is pretty easy to hit. The laser is great too though, raking a crowd of fighters or tracking something through a stall are both really satisfying.

Neighbours totally peaked with the plane crash episode.

I have a spare 40% voucher if any thumb wants it. I'm playing on Vita* but am tempted to buy it on Steam too. One thing that consistently amazes me is how tense I become over the course of a game, which creeps up so slowly. My biggest streak so far is about 29,000, and I died a few thousand points after it ended. I've not played many games that require such constant rage and destruction to do well; it's remarkably tuned. It also tends to have dramatic final split seconds when you very suddenly know you're going to die and can't do anything about it. Somehow, it manages that without being frustrating. There are rare circumstances where I just get boned, but the rest of the time it always feels like it's my fault. Also: SMFT mode. Heh. * nachimir on PSN too. For some reason I have friends who also play this on vita, but can't see scores from them. Yes, though I have more hours in Luftrausers now

In that case, I hear the most recommendations for Shopify, though it seems iDeal support is in there after six years of them saying "soon", but it's listed as "iDEAL via Mollie" and may be a faff.

Hmm. His "A few decades" seems short. We're good at making scarily efficient expert systems. Generalist AI is probably a very long way off.

I think he shies away from the attention a bit though.

I only have an unrecommendation: Do not touch woocommerce with a ten foot pole. It's like normal wordpress templates, but splits them into millions of pieces of PHP instead of hundreds.

Your feelings are not canon Jon. * I love you Jon.

Oh, sure. We totally agree on that, and I didn't mean to imply otherwise. I like to read Walt as someone hypercompetent who's always been penned in, and only wakes up in his desperation. I don't think I could name much TV that doesn't require suspension of disbelief or/and ignorance though. Meaning, we still agree I think

Pretty much any discussion of canon and non-canon makes my skin crawl around a little. It just seems a bit dumb. The rightsholders can work off any sheet they want to make a thing. It's basically splitting hairs over whether stuff is "real fiction" or "not real fiction" and I think it's the worst, most tedious thing fandom has to offer.

Empowering? I saw Walter White* as a dire warning. * Also, Don Draper, Hubertus Bigend.

Helping a friend look for music for a show, and found some excellent Jon Hopkins. NSFW:

Dinosaur comics have been especially good these past few days.

I went running for the first time in over a year today, up some hills on moors that look a lot like Sir You Are Being Hunted. It feels like I exercised my quads, and loads of little small, neglected muscles I don't use for walking or cycling. It was only five miles and I feel kind of dead now, but there was a total of a thousand feet up and a thousand down. I looked on strava after and found people doing crazy steep ascents in a stupidly low number of minutes. Nice to have ridiculous goals already set for me…

I kind of trust that, being outside the US, the wider internet will just route around the damage this does to it. If it's especially bad, then viable competitors for things located in the US will emerge elsewhere. Charging for tiered delivery of packets is a fucking awful idea, but it's never going to go away as long as someone thinks they can make money from it. Thanks, invisible hand! *Invisible thumbs up*

This is pretty good advice. I treat moving as a way of getting rid of half my stuff each time. Currently down to Not That Much and pretty sure I could have less. Also, if you can stand them aesthetically, I heartily recommend boxes that can double as furniture: These ones are called laycorn boxes, and have internal racking for shelves moulded into them. Bags of clothes pad them for moving, and once they're stacked, the metal lids pop off to reveal everything on shelves already. They need two people (or a trolley) to move them ideally, but they've taken so much of the pain out of moving house.

I never have much to post here, but those of you who do, I just want you to know my heart does a little jump for joy every time I see this thread has new posts.

Totally second this I met a bunch of people growing up that should have left, but instead spent decades ageing into nice but vaguely sad and lonely people with no drive instead. Do not do this, anyone.

http://codedicks.com Hooray? Indeed. I sometimes wonder if I'm just in a twitter echo-chamber for the most part. It's definitely encouraging that I'm meeting larger groups of people who are vocal about sexist bullshit though.

… and launched just before a weekend for days of continuous rolling controversy. What uncanny timing!

It was after the big pineapple fight of 2003, when **** got the ********* and advocated that Idle Thumbs **************** everyone in the ***.

An old one goes: How do you know there's a vegan at a party? A friend's update: How do you know there's a meat eater at a party? Pineapple censorship is one of my favourite things about the Idle Thumbs forums