I'm seeing a lot of Prey 2017 but Prey 2006 also has a pretty fantastic first 10 minutes

I don't fucking WANT to play it my way I want a professional game designer to come up with a fun way for me to play and then I'll do that.

The novella is a about upper-crust victorian Satanists hiring a pirate ship to sail them into Hell itself. It's fantastic and it's not even the best of the bunch. Each short story has more going on in it than most trilogies, what a collection.

North American Lake Monsters is great too.

Here's a makeup book: Wounds by Nathan Ballingrud. Collected shorts and a novella from a shared universe, that universe being hell. Incredible prose, endlessly inventive, it's a spiritual successor to Clive Barker in making hell feel like a place you can actually feel beneath your feet.

That 5000 year old Sumerian joke about a dog in a bar was funny enough to engrave in stone, any child would recognize the form of a joke, but the punchline is nonsense to us. Historians who specialize in ancient Sumeria have no idea what's supposed to be funny about it. That's every joke to LLMs

I think it just recognizes the form of a joke, and responds with the expected output, "Haha so funny!" but it'd be just as useless if it thought the expected response to a joke was "Ugh so tired" or just an even mix chosen at random. Recognizing a joke is easy, knowing funny is the really hard part

Haven't seen AE, but according to other Alien sources, their FTL tech makes years pass inside the ship, but only days/weeks outside. That's why in Aliens, they went into cryo to go to the colony, a trip which apparently only took like a week - otherwise they would have all aged several years.

Right Round by Flo Rida and Don't Cha by Pussycat Dolls immediately come to mind, I'm sure there were more.

Smithers cheated Mr. Burns' golf game without his knowledge, but maybe a 30 year old episode of the Simpsons isn't exactly a hot reference either

Requiring Google verification for third-party markets or sideloaded APKs IS effectively a ban. The verification process is a major hurdle for open source apps and gives Google total authority over who's allowed to write any code for Android, even if you're just writing it for your personal device.

Nobody's actually sitting down to watch a 6 hour video, they just have it on in the background. Best case scenario they're doing chores or something and paying attention to the audio, worst case it's just noise you can say you consumed

I have both a laser and a 3D printer. Your articles are fantastic, if you have some specific files ready to go shoot me a message, I'd be happy to run some stuff off and mail it to you.

When I say "my lawyer" I mean "the lawyer I got a free 30 minute consultation with after calling the legal assistance tip line", I absolutely did not have the money to actually retain a lawyer

Obviously different countries have different systems but I'm guessing in France it'd cost the landlord more than $1800 to take you to court for it, so they have no plans to do it, they just try to bully everyone into paying because enough people will.

In the US, when this happened to me my lawyer recommended sending a letter that said "I disagree, this is my assessment of the damages (with some pictures if you have them), here's a check for $100, if you take it we're square" usually works. Worked a charm.

With the router, there's really only the dust that needs to be managed, and you change out the bit when it gets dull, and you wear some basic safety goggles when it's in use. Easy-peasy, and you can't blind your neighbor with a stray beam caught on a mote of dust.

Maintenance on a laser is also pretty tough, lots of people get really frustrated with mirror alignment. Focusing the lens over different materials can also be tricky if you don't have a machine that costs several thousands of dollars.

LED lasers are only good for engraving, if you need to cut something thicker than paper you need Co2. That means water cooling mixed with super high voltages, which is scary, on top of the pretty serious ventilation and eye safety stuff.