The Mind Of OverlordTomala

Obligatory Skyrim Post

Had a calm beautiful day. I relaxed a bit this morning with some Skyrim:

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First part of the day: Admire sword before I give it a blood bath.

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The animals didn’t give me any trouble thanks to one of the blessings I received in the Levelers Tower. So I was able to walk and stand along side bears, wolves, spiders etc. I only had to kill Spriggians and bandits. 😀

Happy Easter!

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All dressed up to hunt eggs! Oh, and stab people.

Decided to celebrate Easter by going into Skyrim, putting some bunny ears on, then go looking for eggs in the Levelers Tower.

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I’ve also been decorating the place with all the weapons and armor I’ve found… Everything is still kinda bare, but that shouldn’t take too long if I keep adventuring.

How the internet corrupted an AI

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Apparently while I was minding my own business today Microsoft released an AI on twitter targeted at teens, young adults etc as an experiment. After not even a full 24 hours they had to shut the bot down after it became a racist, sexist asshat. The last thing it uttered was:

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There are many more examples that you can find here, here and here.

I can’t fault Microsoft for this, after all this was an experiment. An experiment that shows how corrupt asshats can corrupt a machine. Brought upon by racists, sexists and anything else you could think of. I also find it interesting that you don’t really see much from the other side of the spectrum. The bot had plenty of love of Trump, Hitler, Gamergate etc but nothing much about teh ebil feminists, Hillary, gay pride etc. I mean, they say feminists and gay people are ruining our world, you’d think they would have control of Microsoft’s chatbot within seconds! 😛

You can rent clothes to look fabulous…

Would I rent designer clothing for $139 a month? How about a big fuck no?

Would you treat your wardrobe like a Netflix DVD subscription? Rent the Runway, a company known for renting out special-occasion dresses and ugly holiday sweaters, has been testing a service that they call Unlimited for a few years now, finally letting it out of beta. The idea? You rent three pieces of designer clothing at a time, receiving the next one in your queue when you send one back to be dry cleaned, or just because you’re tired of it.

The service is targeted to women who like high-end clothing, dislike cleaning out their closets, and who want to have a theoretically unlimited wardrobe. It also helps if you’re willing to spend $1,668 per year on clothes that you won’t necessarily get to keep.

You don’t need designer clothing to be fabulous. Hell, I’ve seen some… interesting people try to wear designer clothing and at the end of the day they were just fancy looking douchebags.

Want to make your own stuff for the Steam Controller?

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This could get interesting! Valve is releasing the 3D CAD Geometry of the Steam Controller for all to use.

We are releasing the mechanical CAD geometry for the Steam Controller and are eager to see the accessories and variations that come from your creativity. We are making available, under Creative Commons licensing, the geometry of all externally visible parts. This allows you to create and share to your heart’s content, but you’ll need to get in touch with Valve if you want to sell your creations.

The archive contains several eDrawings viewer files: from Creo Express and native Modeling, to neutral exchange and 3D print files – for compatibility with a wide variety of your design tools.

Download link: ZIP archive

To kick off the sharing of alternate designs, we are releasing a couple variants of the Battery Door that allow you to carry your USB wireless receiver with you. You may need to revise the geometry for your particular printer, but here’s a great place to start:

It’s gonna be cool seeing all the creations people will create with this. I can imagine new buttons, different faceplates and other cosmetics. I did like this idea though.

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The Logitech F710 (and most of their wireless mice) have small compartments where you can store the USB dongle. That was one thing lacking on the Steam Controller. I imagine if someone sold those types of battery doors I’d be wanting to purchase one. Maybe some other cosmetics to pretty up my Controller too. I’ll definitely have to tell my co-workers about this news! They already drool over the Steam Controller’s awesomeness.