Okay, someone please tell me that there is better terminology for this…

“Cyberwitch” and “Technomagic” feel like cyberpunk tropes straight out of Shadowrun and it’s really awkward to try and explain my Practice to normies, non-tech-savy occultists, and the techies that stridently refuse to use their own magical thinking with Intent. XD

Eh, it’s not just BBQ tho. Houston is America’s most international city and you can find restaurants serving cuisines from around the world all fighting tooth and nail to prove thselves against the competition. The Cajun, Tex-Mex, and Southwest American food is amazing. Some of the best Greek, Thai, and Indian I’ve ever tried, the only fancy Irish pub I’ve ever tried (try the Guiness Stew at McGonigals Mucky Duck), not to mention almost everything else from late-night Italian delivery to a literal Russian bar to an Ethiopian eatery. Want Phó, a street taco, sushi, and a slice of pizza after watching the game at a sports bar? They’re all just minutes away and they’re all great!

Only if you’re using the Chrome extension, maybe. This is just Google trying to kill even the memory of Google Reader by fucking with the biggest competitor to social media in Chrome.

Now there’s a euphemism. XD

Information Women

Economic Women

Marital Women

Gender Women

Source: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.18.712572v1.full

Arch w/KDE Plasma desktop, of course.

“Smart” TVs should be kept off the internet and only used as video output for actual computers.

Gotta spend it somewhere. Charge some batteries or else dump it into a load cell.

IIRC, biological grey goo is called Pink or Green goo.

A lot of medicinal compounds are alkaloids, which are naturally bitter

Faraday cage, but it’s just a dog crate wrapped in aluminum foil.

As usual, shot placement is key. I imagine the navigation sensors are fragile enough that a small air rifle could do enough damage to disable them, but a .22 would definitely do it and maybe even be enough to lock up a knee or shoulder joint.

Detail Leaking Shabby Seer

Debt Limited Stereotype Sketcher

Seems pretty enforcable to me. Hell, they were even able to compel the U.S. Olympic committee to pay out hundreds of millions when their lead team doctor sexually harassed so many athletes that he’ll be in prison for the rest of his life.

What fact about yourself are you least willing to share with strangers?

If there is no way to tell if that is a reasonable question for me to ask, then by what metric do you decide whether or not to answer it? Does that metric act as a stand-in for “reasonableness” to you, and if so then how do you square it with your earlier insistence that drawing such a line is impossible? If not, why?

I’m confident in my “never” because of the capital economics; the service has to be expensive enough to pay for the infrastructure it requires plus some profit for the shareholders, while simultaneously being cheap enough to offer gamers a better value proposition than buying their own hardware. There’s no margin between those limits, so the only market left for them to appeal to are niches where local rendering performance is limited but network latency and bandwidth are not. Even then, gamers still have the option of streaming from their own hardware using Moonlight rather than paying for a third-party service, so the only customers left are the ones with more money than sense.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the concept (I even bought an OnLive microconsole back in the day and still regularly use a Steam Link to stream games to the living room TV), but it isn’t nearly convenient or performant enough to justify itself as a subscription service.

How, precisely, would this “uplift old games”?

Are you suggesting that their rights holders should commission some game devs to update their old titles to add support for DLSS5? Where’s the value proposition in that?

It can’t, remastering games is an entirely different process that requires artistic direction. Piping a game’s video output through an AI filter just takes the original game and smears a bunch of slop over it.

Double Latency Slop Slinger