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Game title: Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced Plaform: pc Rating: 4.25/5 I have fond memories of playing the original Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag. I barely remember the story, but I remember playing countless hours chasing other...
Games that play themselves are like using AI for writing, drawing, and thinking, or, at the risk of making many people angry, watching others playing with balls on TV instead of playing yourself and rediscovering the pleasure of physical...
Talk about the division of labor: large language models can write your term papers and grade them too! https://x.com/pickover/status/2082654566219198642
If you're anything like me, you're a sucker for a good romance. And you've also got a bit of a morbid fascination. Not exactly a "peanut butter and chocolate" type of combination, but we all contain multitudes, don't we?But as I was...
Chris Wayan's Planetocopia is one of my favorite things on the internet. The author made up fictional planets with weird geology. And he tried to give them scientifically plausible climates and biospheres, along with beautifully weird...
Becoming a manager changed the way I experienced customers. I was no longer only the employee who pointed toward the Drama section or checked a tape back in. When a situation became confusing, ridiculous, or angry, I was increasingly the...
During an apartment renovation in a converted 1860s loft building, a view of one of the cast-iron columns that makes up the front facade, as seen from inside: As is typical of these buildings, there’s a column between every pair of...
William Shaw A poem composed of one sentence from every individual winner of the Hugo Award for Best Short Story, 1955-2025. * * * Let us not rely on the dubious assistance of Biblical characters.It is three thousand light-years to the...
The historic Dixie restaurant. This was the only possible photo of the entrance I could makedue to automobiles parked directly in front of it. The sidewalk was narrow so even an ultrawide angle lens would not work well. I think the front...
This blog post is the result of a conversation in the blaugust discord about using GenAI to make it look as if it was not generated by AI. I took a post I had already written and asked ChatGPT to rewrite it in the style of Frankie Boyle....
Last night I had the most vivid dream. I had travelled to a large house with my son with the express purpose of him purchasing a Smart ForTwo car off the occupier. We looked around the car and it seemed okay, so my son went inside to pay...
My siblings and I are retired or close to it, but we still have conversations that start with "Do you remember when Mom made X?" Thus commences a discussion of Old El Paso taco kits, Chef Boyardee pizzas, waffle irons, liver, English...
Translated from Japanese into English by Margaret Mitsutani. I fell in love with Yoko Tawada's writing last year and I've been reading through all of her available works since then. This was another success for me. It's the first in a...
Playing Big Walk with friends, and figuring out (or not) stuff together. First entering the room unlocked by the Red Funnel key is one of those gaming memories that I'll treasure.
I updated my Galactic Compass app for iPhone with augmented reality mode. Background: Galactic Compass is a floating green arrow that always points the way to the middle of the Milky Way, 26,000 light years away. Here’s the announcement...