FIash Mob #5678

Oh yeah. It’s super creepy.

And even better, they accurately replicated the voice in PinballFX. It’s the 80’s electric robot voice.

The only downer is that, even though I only own six of the 125 tables in the game, it was still a 38gb download.

Which I’m fine with for nostalgic purposes.

Lots and lots and lots of Pinball. I picked up Pinball M (horror-themed tables, such as Dead by Daylight and The Thing) and a vintage table pack containing a few digitized versions of tables that actually existed when I was hanging out in video arcades as a kid. (Most notably, Funhouse, which had a ventriloquist dummy head that mocked you during the game.)

I also picked up Yet Another Zombie Survivors, which is a Vampire Survivors-styled game with a zombie apocalypse theme. It is a BLAST.

Total cost of all of these was $14 bucks during the sale.

It’s a good time to be a PC gamer.

Got eaten by lions the first time playing it.

10/10, still loved it.

Removed by mod

This is going to be very helpful when I’m feeling nostalgic.

Still playing BG3, nearing the end of Act 2, but also picked Elden Ring back up. I still have stuff to do in the main game so I’m not getting the expansion yet, but wanted to know what I was doing when I do.

Christ almighty, that was dramatic.

Not being able to use your cell phone for the duration of the school day is fascism.

Fascinating.

Unfortunately, that ship has sailed.

The corporate social media algorithms do two things: Convince users that everything they believe is correct, no matter how crazy it is, and also keep them as pissed off as possible. We were never sophisticated or intelligent enough to discern truth from fallacies, and that’s much harder to do now that fake information has become so sophisticated.

It will be interesting to see how the EU AI Act works out, because that will apply to external companies that have users in the EU, and therefore may force some of the bad actors to self-regulate. That said, I have zero faith that people themselves will decide to make better choices.

Fun!

I’ll probably pick it up in a few weeks. I’m having a lot of fun with BG3 right now.

I picked Baldur’s Gate 3 back up two weeks ago.

Last summer I played Act 1 of the game and found myself thoroughly satisfied, and decided to wait to play the rest.

Act 2, like Act 1, is just as awesome. We’ll see if I decide to take another break before the third act, haha! This game is nothing short of a masterpiece.

Other than that I’ve been taking a lot of 10-15 minute breaks while working from home and enjoying the minigames on Meta Horizons.

Reminds me of how vociferously the Right raged against Obama when his DOJ released its report on domestic terrorism and rightly attributed to right-wing interests. Obama, as the good corporate lap dog that he was, apologized for saying the correct, factual things, which is weird, because that report’s one of the few good things Obama ever did.

I’m about 2/3 of the way through backing up my ‘Liked’ songs to MP3 files, at which point I’m ending my sub.

It’s a bummer because I actually really like Spotify’s algorithm and it suggests great music for my tastes, but, I can have that for free without feeding their stupid insatiable greed.

LOL

US agencies will take their bribes and do jack shit. As with everything else, Europe will lead on the regulatory front.

They still sold user data without being upfront about it until caught,

And then they did better, as a business should. It’s all in their FAQ.

I’m not sure why there has to be a circle jerk of trolls any time someone mentions Brave, but here we are.

That’s fine. Do what you like.

I think that, if you’re going to pretend to know what you’re talking about, you should know what you’re talking about.

I think it’s a good thing that a person as to willingly opt-in to data collection.

It’s really that simple.

False.

They sold data from Brave search, which you don’t have to use. (and I don’t.)

Also, the crypto thing is also opt-in. You don’t have to use it either.

It works better than Firefox, especially if your aim is blocking ads.

Brave’s native adblock works better than anything else I’ve tried.

Give Brave a look, folks.

I switched to Linux this week. I highly recommend it.

Never got into it myself, but I know very well how popular it is, so it must be an objectively good game.