Another YouTube Double Feature Post! This time it’s Borderlands 3 and Half-Life Decay… both giving us the silent treatment, and both produced by Gearbox. Meaning these bugs are probably Randy Bitchford’s fault, or at least that’s the excuse I’m sticking with! 😛
It’s Late Night Somewhere Open Thread
I’m already two days into one of the busiest weeks of the year, and I’m already looking forward to the weekend, or just anything after Friday. Might have to celebrate by taking myself out to lunch.
Open Thread.
Hell Will Be Run By AI
I actually had a dream last night that was worth remembering, and I was actually going to write about it tonight… but then the thought of AI gathering my thoughts so that the terminally lazy can write stories by doing queries in place of their own keystrokes.
It was only a few years ago I could look at an image online and appreciate the artists line work, or painting, or a photographer’s perfect scene framing and use of lens filters. Now whenever I look at an image online I have to question it. Sometimes I can’t help but laugh at some of the creations people have come up with using AI, sometimes I do see genuine ideas that put a smile on my face.
I’m not completely anti-AI, it can be used as a tool in the right hands. But I also see too many people who think that by using words and descriptions to generate their visions, that they are suddenly artists now. There is also no I in our current iteration of AI. It’s just a large database that has scraped the corners of the internet in order to deliver desired queries to a user.
One of these days it could possibly change, but for now it is what it is. A resource burner that companies want to use to eliminate employees and actual artists.
May The Vibes Be With You
Focused on editing some DOOM footage tonight. I think I can make two sessions into a video, just need to figure out how to end said video… If I was going to work on any kind of video tonight, at least I picked one with a kickass soundtrack for maximum vibing.
Preparing For The Giftening
Mostly spent today working on my holiday shopping. It’s a little bit different this year since I’m not buying anything from Amazon, they’re currently on my shit-list, among a few other places. I’ve instead been going directly to websites for the products that I would buy through Amazon and paying them directly.
So far I’ve stayed away from Amazon since last January. It’s a choice I made, a choice I’m proud of, and so far I haven’t had a reason to go crawling back to them. Earlier in the year I bought a headset directly from Audio-Technica, but went to their website directly and bought it. I’ve also been buying my tea directly from the tea manufactures.
Does it hurt Amazon that I’m doing this? Nah, but I do feel better not contributing to another one of Bezo’s dick ships . Maybe if he paid his employees worth a damn instead of playing billionaire astronaut I’d reconsider. Until then I’ll take my money elsewhere, and he can go suck an orange toad.
Friday Night Open Thread
Do you ever have one of those days where not much happens, but enough happens that it feels like it was a busy day? Yeah, this was one of those… I had a package returned that needed to be intercepted before being delivered to the wrong address, I was asked to a last minute zoom meeting and had to delay because 1: It was short notice, and 2: I needed to install zoom and dig out a webcam that doesn’t die every fifteen minutes. So, on that note…
Open Thread.
Baby Grrl
I took this picture of Mandy last year in the spring but never got around to uploading it (like a good bunch of the pictures I take). She’s the sweetest baby girl we’ve ever had. 🙂
Living The Half-Life
The original Half-Life turns 27 today! We recently visited Half-Life together in a couple of videos I decided to release today!
We tried to play Half-Life together in co-op, it didn’t go according to plan… but we still had some memorable moments:
Then we visited it in Left 4 Dead 2 and… had plenty more memorable moments to share:
Happy Anniversary, Half-Life! May we keep finding new ways to explore your old universe… also a HL3 announcement would be grrreeeeeeaaaaaaat. kthx.
Diving Back Into The Unknown
It was almost a year ago that I tried Dave the Diver, but it kinda fell to the wayside against the many Castlevania’s and other games requiring my attention. I took it for a spin tonight and pretty much decided this was the game that will distract me for the rest of the evening. Dave the Diver is more than just a game about a diver. You dive by day, and serve sushi at a restaurant by night while performing quests in between. It’s one of the more cozier games I’ve played. I can understand the well deserved hype!
Replace The G With An R And You Get…
Once again it’s time for me to try something new. I recently bought some of the Ninja Gaiden games during one of the steam sales. Started with Ninja Gaiden II Black last night and I’ve been having fun with it, even before finding the mods. My only complaint about it so far is the camera. You can’t focus on an enemy like you can in most modern hack n’ slasher games. Ordinarily I’d chock that up to it being a limitation with the original game, but this is running in the unreal engine… where there are many games that allow you to focus on a particular enemy. It isn’t a deal-breaker, more of an annoyance than anything.
Lame camera controls aside; I’m almost three chapters in and holding it together. Will have to come back to this one soon.