We got through Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines 2 after its many years of development hell. I think the story, character writing, character models and voice acting were all pretty good. But my husband, who was the one actually playing, thinks the combat is Not Good, and you can definitely tell they cut and simplified a lot of systems down to bare bones to ship the damn thing. They also fudge the lore in a few very noticeable ways.
If you want to experience the story, turn the difficulty all the way down, because the combat isn't rewarding and there's no point suffering more with it.
Zuckerberg has blown 77 billion – enough money to revitalize entire countries – on an idea so overwhelmingly, obviously stupid that I have never once heard anyone, from the Thanksgiving avuncular table to the most wretched depths of social media, say they liked it or even tried it. He was so sure that it would revolutionize the world that he renamed his extremely famous company after it. And now he's on to the next thing that he's so very, very sure about.
The world needs direction from sober people who aim to improve the human condition, not the whims of a handful of billionaire princelings who absolutely, positively cannot be dissuaded from failing at unprecedented scale while chasing their own vainglory off the edge of a cliff.
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I feel terrible but a very special boy came to visit. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon
Trombone Concerto Allegro Vivace by Rimsky-Korsakov but make it JRPG With An Airship On The Title Screen
#music #classicalmusic #chiptune #jrpg
it's an impressive commitment to consistency that Steam, which is a Web Page That Lists Items, runs exactly as incredibly poorly in 2025 on a high-end gaming machine as it did in 2008 on a dying second-hand Dell
I heard suspicious chewing sounds in the hall and found him eating this, which he had casually removed from his fur after it was stuck to him for at least 20 minutes without it bothering him at all

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Odin the Well-Armored plopped himself down in the middle of a massive thorn bush thicket with his paw on the leash, knowing I'd have a lot of trouble getting enough leverage to make him stand back up and finish the walk.
#dogs #dogsofmastodon

my discord informs me that Paw Patrol isn’t even operating under color of law but is a private paramilitary organization which is a terrible piece of lore to learn at seven in the morning
Someone on GitHub is providing a medically-tuned LLM where the readme says “This is an open-source project with a mission to provide everyone their own private doctor” with absolutely no mention of the risks and limitations. AI Ethics grade: F-