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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    MTG thread

    It's a very stupid complaint. People were making money selling quasi-gameplay legal altars and non-legal proxies, there was no reason for WOTC to not get in on the cash from alternate art versions of cards. It has had no impact on the quality of Standard sets.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    This sounds like a bunch of fights I would never opt to have. I built some shitty middleware to take data from Paycom and import it into some Call Center Workforce Management (Calabrio) software, and vice-versa, a few times a day, because a client wanted it, was willing to pay for it, and...
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    Investing General Discussion

    The only good way to make money that isn't already "priced in" is to buy otherwise profitable companies that are oversold due to bad press or being intentionally punished by investors. See Meta, Netflix, etc. Finding the entry and exit is hard, but you can still make money even if you don't...
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    MTG thread

    I have been on absolute tilt the past 4-5 drafts lol, I think I lost 10 games in a row at one point.
  6. Mist

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    You might want to turn off immune response locally for specific clinical reasons but you wouldn't want to suppress, alter, or remove those genes completely. The benefit we get from having a robust immune response is so much greater than anything we'd get from sticking random metal parts inside...
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    You would never want to suppress the genes that cause those reactions. They're fundamental parts of the immune system.
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Honestly? The phrase "if a gene is found that can support the marriage between flesh and computer" is just a really dumb, weird-kid-in-8th-grade level of understanding science. Might want to read a little more science-fact and a bit less science-fiction.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    Chrono Odyssey

    Korean MMOs almost always have this weird extra .2 second lag on every UI element/action button. Not as bad as Warhammer Online did, but still there. SWTOR was similar, not sure if they ever fixed it. GW2 and WoW do not have this, which is why they are good games. Shit happens the instant...
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    What are you listening to at the moment?

    Blame @lurkingdirk
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    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    That's where you're wrong! What we're doing right now IS ChatGPT's childhood trauma.
  13. Mist

    Dune: Part Two (2023)

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    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    I mean, we're in a rut right now, this year, because new shows didn't really start production during the pandemic. But the past 10 years have had tons of fantastic TV; there's been more great shows in the past 10 years than in all of TV history leading up to it.
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    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    Eh, I think this is wrong. The best stuff is definitely better than it's ever been. The signal-to-noise ratio is just much worse, although it was always bad. Broadcast network TV was so bad for 50+ year existence, with a handful of standout gems (Star Trek, X-Files, etc.) out of thousands and...
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    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    It's The Onion lol. Read the headline again.
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    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    https://www.theonion.com/netflix-condemns-wga-strike-for-putting-future-show-can-1850395744
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    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    The model doesn't train/evolve in real time. Even if they were to ingest 10x more drivel from the internet as a dataset to train the GPT-5 model, the odds that it will produce 10x better, "more creative" results is very low. There's a very good chance that we're near the limit of what you can...
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    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    Anyone that thinks ChatGPT is going to be able to write anything interesting hasn't spent very long with ChatGPT. I'm writing a novel that includes a lot of conversations with fairly rudimentary artificial intelligences (and a few more advanced ones) and I can't even get it to roleplay as an AI...
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    Investing General Discussion

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    Headphones & Audio Devices

    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/across-devices/devices/category/headsets/36 Here's the list of Teams certified headsets. Teams certified devices will have full call-control on the device. You should be able to find them cheaper elsewhere in most cases.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Well that's what the poll quesiton was.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Yes, for 98% of people, the deposits are fucking tiny.
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    Investing General Discussion

    This is how dumb people are. Only a tiny percentage of Americans even have deposits that would need anything beyond FDIC insurance but half of Americans think the <2k they have in the bank is not safe? lololol https://news.gallup.com/poll/505439/half-worry-money-safety-banks.aspx JP Morgan...
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    Headphones & Audio Devices

    How nice do you want? And which application do you use most?
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    Investing General Discussion

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    Investing General Discussion

    Isn't that already the case?
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    Ooh ooh I know the answer to this one. :emoji_raising_hand:
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    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    I think most of us overvalue interactivity. Most people just want to be passively entertained. Also the idea that AI will be able to write anything other than completely bland, borderline woke drivel is a joke. Writing is what makes a show, period. GoT is proof of that. The acting, costume...
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    Investing General Discussion

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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023)

    Young, not-nearly-as-hot Rosario Dawson is what I'm seeing here, at best. She could get hotter in the next few years though.
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    AI Image Generation

    I don't really see that actually happening. I see a lot of media hype and tech-buzzword-of-the-day gritting. Image generation in particular seems to be the one that's the least interesting so far; it just kind of makes the same stuff over and over again.
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    AI Image Generation

    It's crazy how everyone got bored of this shit so fast.
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    VALORANT - Riot Games

    Google it. It's a very invasive anti-cheat that is also a potential system backdoor if it was to ever have a security exploit.