souls games and the like are just far too mechanical to be enjoyable, get killed till you learn the pattern, do pattern, repeat, i do enough boring laborious tasks in my day, i dont want to do them to earn money only to use it to buy another one

If you duplicated Midjourney’s proprietary source code, renamed all the variable names, and sold “your” new software, they would sue you into oblivion for copyright theft despite it not looking identical to the original.

Between my husband and I, we inherited not one, not two, but THREE complete sets of sterling silver flatware and serving pieces, all family heirlooms. We got everything because no one else wanted it.

I mean, Elden Ring is more about finding out what works for you than it is hard at any point. Honestly I feel like the fandom overrates how hard the soulsborne games are by a ton just to seem like they’ve achieved something big

As I said in that comment thread, I don’t enjoy frustration-porn games (like Elden Ring) because life comes with enough frustration and I don’t feel like seeking out a crushing level of it in a game.

to develop new products and software is totally fine so long as the copyrighted work is no longer present in the released product

I have strangely found enjoyment in Fromsoft’s output, though I never thought I would, and I definitely have to beat my proverbial head against the wall repeatedly for most of the bosses. I agree with you on their design philosophy, the way they tell their stories is incredibly obtuse and obnoxious; I think that’s why…

It’s always been absurd to me, the people who care so much about what foods other people are cooking, selling, and eating. You absolutely don’t have to like pineapple on pizza (though I do, very much), but it doesn’t stop being pizza or anything like that. Like, there’s no debate in my mind, just don’t eat it if you…

I *hate* Fromsoft games. Like, all of them, yes, even Elden Ring (which even from an art design / graphical standpoint I find massively overrated). Their design philosophy pisses me off, and the fan base is full of insufferable tryhards who are borderline cultish about it. But then, most of the appeal seemed to be (in…

I’m a four-hour drive from Atlanta, and for several years I’ve wanted to do a little weekend getaway and go to the World of Coca-Cola, among other things. I went to the original location, across from Underground Atlanta, back in the 1990s, but haven’t been since they moved to their current facility. On trips to Kenya…

AI models cannot ‘learn’ in the same way a human can learn. It cannot have it’s own experience or perspective, it cannot create what a human artist can because it is simply not thinking. A child can draw a house without ever seeing another drawing of a house- an AI model purely fed with photos of houses could only…

Italian Food Gatekeepers are the worst. We went on a street food tour in Rome. One couple was Canadian (birthplace of Hawaiian Pizza) and needled the guide about it a little. She said the problem was you shouldn’t have ham and fruit together. When they asked her about the classic Italian dish, prosciutto e melon, she…

That’s fair, if you think the person is talking about life in general. But as I’ve gotten older, I’ve found I have less patience for hard games. If I’m lucky, I get a couple of hours of leisure time a night, and it sucks to realize I took that precious time and chose to use it being frustrated.

My mom passed this summer and as we were deciding what to do with all the various stuff none of us wanted the china, crystal and silver. Beyond the lazy aspect of not wanting to wash it by hand, if it was ever even used, none of us had a place to display it so it would have ended up boxed up in one of our basements.…

It is the same way every artist starts.

“I’ve never understood the idea that you get satisfaction out of failing and eventually succeeding.”

When we downsized (not boomers like the article said), we were going to get rid of ours for the same reasons. It would have been a pain because there was a lot of it and there was a hutch/buffet. Then when we were haggling with the home buyers they said they would only meet our price if we included the china, silver,…

The huge uptick in slideshow “articles” over the last month has gotten way outta control.

I actually like that product, as food, when on sale. But not as a face.

Good call. SPAM (spiced ham) would be too spicy ...