Schadrach

So AI is a nice new technological tool in a big toolbox, not a technological and business revolution justifying the stock market valuations around it, investment money sunk into it or the huge amount of resources (such as electricity) used by it.

Specifically for Microsoft, there doesn’t really seem to be any area were MS’ core business value for customers gains from adding AI, in which case this “AI everywhere” strategy in Microsoft is an incredibly shit business choice that just burns money and damages brand value.

It’s a shiny new tool that is really powerful and flexible and everyone is trying to cram everywhere. Eventually, most of those attempts will collapse in failure, probably causing a recession and afterward the useful use cases will become part of how we all do things. AI is now where the internet was in the late 80s - just beyond the point where it’s not just some academics fiddling with it in research labs, but not in any way a mature technology.

Most gaming PCs from the 2020s can run a model locally though it might need to be a pruned one, so maybe a little farther along.

I would ask about the “again” on the chemical weapons in the toilet thing, but I was the kid that played with low grade explosives and chemistry “projects” at that age. Got annoyed when my homemade napalm was caustic enough it started to eat through the container I’d made it in.

Mine does, but that only started after a severe hypoglycemic incident during which I have no memory of about 2 hours, drove about ten miles, wrecked my car, and was found on a sidewalk. EMT report says my sugar was unmeasurably low and it took an IV and oral gel to get it up to 35, which is where it was when my memory comes back coherently. First thing I remember at that point was the sting of the IV in my arm and then my finger, seeing the 35, the EMT noticing I was looking at him and getting a battery of general awareness questions.

I would ask about the “again” on the chemical weapons in the toilet thing, but I was the kid that played with low grade explosives and chemistry “projects” at that age. Got annoyed when my homemade napalm was caustic enough it started to eat through the container I’d made it in.

EDIT: Holy fuck my spelling was bad on this one.

So his ‘genius’ anyways eluded me

His genius is entirely about being very good at picking the right companies to invest in, and having an ego big enough to pretend that he’s behind their creations himself. Except maybe the cybertruck, that one feels very Elon.

There was a slice of time even farther back where you’d eat Taco Bell because you could get an absolute fuckton of food for very little money, even compared to other fast food.

Isn’t she the one who wanted to be cast as Princess Zelda that a surprising number of terminally online folks were super angry about because trans?

Dragon Breaks, a dragon break is what happens when time becomes non linear the fun thing is that it can be both retroactive and postactive. The ending of Elder Scrolls 2 Daggerfall is sometimes theorized to have caused a dragon break so massive that it basically rewrote the setting with its shockwave. This is admittedly just an in universe way of explaining retcons.

Notably these are called Dragon Breaks because the god of time Akatosh is represented as a dragon and a Dragon Break is essentially time and causality just sort of having a stroke for a bit. Multiple versions of events that could have happened did, regardless of being mutually exclusive and some combination of their outcomes is what sticks when things are over and normality resumes.

I kind of suspect TESV: Skyrim will get referred to as a dragon break later in the timeline, with things like exactly who won the civil war being one of those things where there are clear memories and clear records of both sides winning, where two different people were the Jarl of each hold, etc. How that lands afterward when things settle I don’t know. Hopefully in the least helpful possible way for the Thalmor.

Ooh, good to know. Might have to actually try it out sometime. It’s been years since I played Morrowind.

There’s even OpenMW if you want some modern quality of life features.

It’s been years since I played. Will OpenMW work with original MW mods, and if not what does it’s modding scene look like?

it just lets you doom the world if you really want to.

…and it still leaves a back route to complete the main quest. You just have to murder the living god who is a mantling of Mephala to start the alternate route.

the amount of lore to explore is HUGE

…and then you come up for air after reading the 36 Sermons of Vivec, realizing that very basic steganographic techniques were used to conceal at least a couple of hidden messages withing them and the start branching out from there into trying to understand the concepts of CHIM and the Towers and Amaranth and so on trying to wrap your head around the metaphysics of the setting.