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Literally looks like The Homer — the Car Built for Homer.

I haven’t been 2hing much and haven’t tested much on those sorts of things yet. I did notice that I don’t think you can die on a perfect parry even if you have no health left, though, as I seemed to be in that position during a boss earlier today.

Started with a ranger who starts with an axe, went to a spear, then a halberd, most recently using a hammer. The spear was quite lungy which caused some issues around open air vertical areas with a lot of narrow paths, while the halberd was just too slow. Hammer is feeling good, and has a good set of running attacks.

Been playing these games since DeS on the PS3 when it first came in 2009.

Overall, I’m enjoying it. Multiplayer that doesn’t require consumables and rituals like placing signs or ringing bells is such a QOL improvement. After 14 years of putting down summon signs and ringing bells and gaining insight, I just want to get to it these days. A few thoughts:

• Bosses initially seem challenging until you get a grip on their movesets and then realize you can defeat them with just a few moves. I beat one boss using nothing more than a running R2 attack over and over again.
• Perfect parry windows seem huge.
• A few control decisions and whatnot are bizarre. Someone else mentioned filling the quick items with apparently random items when you deplete another for instance. Most of the time I don’t even equip any other quick use items, just my estus/healing plants/flasks/whatever.
• visuals generally are good on PS5. Am playing in performance mode for the FPS.
• umbral mechanics are pretty neat.
• short cuts and area connections feel good and natural, DS1-like.
• only been invaded once and haven’t tried an invasion yet. Battle went back and forth until my invader went in for the coup de grace and I dodged while they went sailing over the edge of a cliff. They probably would’ve had me had it not been for that cliff.
• dodging feels like a mix of Souls and Bloodborne. Stamina meter might be a bit too forgiving, as it feels like you can dodge over and over through pretty much anything.
• weapons feel like they have weight to them. Movement is a tiny bit floaty but generally the weapon movesets and decent and feel like they have impact
• inexplicable missing sound in some instances. Sliding down ladders for instance happens in dead silence.
• being able to watch the host continue playing while you’re dead is nice. Nothing worse than helping someone almost defeat a boss and then not being able to watch the end result if you happen to bag it near the end.

Anyways, a few thoughts. Hope they continue to support the game with patches for a while to come and fix up a few odds and ends. I’m not all that far into it, but this feels like it has legs.

Well, inside all of us there’s a skeleton trying to get out.

It could also indicate that other summaries of the texts were used to train the LLM and that it is summarizing those summaries. The actual book doesn’t need to be there, unless you can have it spit out the actual text of the book itself?

Portal 2 also came out on PS3 and Xbox 360 but was a standalone and not part of the Orange Box. Portal 2 on consoles was interesting because I believe it also came with a Steam key for the game as well.

Next episode: completely forgets about the incredibly traumatic, horrifying incident and never mentions it again and is never plagued by even a hint of post-traumatic stress.

I’m assuming the one where they go to Itchy & Scratchy Land, which the internet tells me is season 6, episode 4.

DS and 3DS are obviously the exception., but those were special cases being completely portable and the screens were situated right atop one another.

The creator of the format, Steve Wihite, says it’s pronounced as JIF, but personally I still say GIF out of habit.

https://www.cnn.com/2013/05/22/tech/web/pronounce-gif/index.html

I’ve had similar arguments with people over the pronunciation of Linux, with one person saying it’s “Lie-nicks” because it’s named after “Linus”, but Linus himself has said he pronounces his own name differently depending on the language he’s speaking at the time, but Linux is always pronounced “Lynn-icks.”

https://youtu.be/5IfHm6R5le0?si=9bQHnIiB0UxBYS2o

There’s a few places around southwestern Ontario that ain’t too bad. Sammy’s Donair I. Burlington is a decent one. There used to be a place in the Danforth called the Fuzz Box that was run by a guy from Berwick, but that place closed down a while ago now. There used to be a place called Halifax Original Donair that had locations in Burlington and Milton but I see that they retired literally two weeks ago and closed down. If you’re in the Burlington area, I guess Sammy’s is your best bet.

“Computer: two steamed hams, hot.”

Computer terminal lights on fire

…

Yes I know replicators weren’t available in Archer’s time, but still, it would be a fun scene.

I drive really slow in the ultra fast lane

While people behind me are going insane

Edited to say: I guess the lyrics of Denis Leary’s “Asshole” have been lost to the ages.

In Canada, the difference is generally that universities offer degrees while colleges offer diplomas and certificates. Degrees generally take longer to earn that diplomas or certificates and would include things like bachelors degrees, masters degrees, PhDs, etc.

Also X, the band from Los Angeles.

I hope it does well at the box office, ‘cause you know what everyone will say if it doesn’t… it stinks!

I took engineering for a year before I realized it had nothing to do with trains.

Some of my friends went to one room school houses.

macOS is also a certified UNIX according to the Open Group:

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/