It is terrifying to think how many low-margin industries heavily run by independent small companies are going to get badly damaged or destroyed by the tariffs. I've seen a lot of talk about local game stores and I'm sure there are a ton of industries outside my bubble about to take a beating.

I'm so glad people remember Shogo. It was a silly, fun game with awful yet great jokes and such a fantastic sense of scale. We need more games like it.

And at least with Wikipedia you could use it to chase down primary sources. Unless something changed (I don't use AI and haven't been keeping up with the various flavors) i don't get that with the current LLMs.

Yup if you haven't read up on the issue it is a totally fair question to ask. I'm still thankful I happened to get a 12th gen in my laptop, and now when I get my next machine I know to go AMD barring a MAJOR proof of trustablility in any new Intel CPUs

12th gen should be fine. The entire issue is the 13th and 14th gen CPUs were destroying themselves, and even computers that got the update suffer from existing damage. I have a 12th gen laptop and it is running great still.

Well this is the most horrifying news I've seen today, and will be hard to top. Ugh.

Though I'll probably take this utter mess of a draft and build an outline based off of that and all the things I've learned (I already found scenes I never would have come up during outlining) before I start a "real" draft, but with all the knowledge this Zero Draft is giving me.

It feels so nice.

And now without the pressure of thinking a single word of this version will be seen by anyone, I'm writing. I was doing ~1200 words most days before I realized I could do more. Added a second session and now I'm up over 2500 and learning this story in a way outline never taught me.

I just don't understand the appeal. On one side you have a young man who's a massive sack of garbage, on the other hand anyone who expected it to be a good fight is an idiot. What was the draw?