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loudandskittish

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    Comment #48604945

    Pulled out my guitar to play the Duke Nukem theme and At Doom's Gate (...uh, minus those runs...)

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    Comment #48188013

    My first thought when I saw the headline was, "Did anyone even notice a difference?"

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    Comment #48184840

    So, this comes up pretty much every time Obsidian is mentioned... to the point where I'm curious as to where the idea that it's open source comes from in the first place.

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    Comment #48100818

    Oh, cool, so another thing I was avoiding due to H Pylori actually could've helped... (but seriously, thanks for posting this).

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    Comment #47856408

    Exactly how I feel. There is already more art, movies, music, books, video games and more made by human beings than I can experience in my lifetime. Why should I waste any time on …

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    Comment #47856287

    There are already more games being released on Steam than anyone can keep up with, I'm not sure how adding another "wave" on top of it helps.

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    Comment #46818918

    This story has Apple + $2B acquisition + AI ...how is this not at the top of the page?

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    Comment #46716762

    ...haven't bots been buying things off eBay since the 90s?

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    Comment #46418340

    Love all the variations of "8GB of RAM should be enough for anybody" in here.

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    Comment #46041276

    Until I got the last part, I actually thought you were being serious.

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    Comment #42477708

    ...something happened. Growing up, I had cats that ate squirrels. Then, sometime around the early 2000s, I had cats that were being chased by squirrels.

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    Comment #42372320

    So... why are they harassing the dude's mother?

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    Comment #39446229

    > "First of all, to be clear, we would never ask questions on such a topic in this way." I love how they worded that. Having once worked for Ipsos, they DEFINITELY do it, but the s…

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    Comment #39437089

    "Americans will use anything but the metric system."

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    Comment #39322498

    To me, all this feels like recreating "Hollywood UIs" that were designed for the benefit of the audience watching and not an actual user.

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    Comment #39296209

    So, does the fact that I have zero trouble focusing on the dot for 60 seconds mean I DON'T have ADHD, contrary to what so many people on social media have been trying to convince m…

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    Comment #38986309

    Yeah, I used to stop at McDonald's on my way home from a big grocery run and stopped when I saw the fries there cost more than the giant bag of frozen fries I had just bought...

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    Comment #37895204

    Indeed, I've come across more instances of things that were supposedly AI-generated that turned out to have been made by a human being...

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    Comment #37851529

    ...I'd always heard it was to make it easier to find your house after too much Screech.

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    Comment #37574718

    I'm always suspicious when I open comments and see a whole lot of people posting variations of the same talking points as top-level threads... even if I happen to agree with those …

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    Comment #35845009

    I'm finding this entire comment section confusing and I genuinely want to understand what is so offensive about what this editor did. To me this does not look like a problem that r…

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    Comment #35461934

    Damn, these comments are scaring me. I recently added the book to my to-read list after learning that it was a big influence on Hideo Kojima, but now I'm worried about what I'm get…

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    Comment #35251921

    Huh, this one actually seems to work... I ask for pixel art and it gives me pixel art (Stable Diffusion and DALL-E keep giving me needlepoint).