I finished Signalis, very Silent Hill-esque story, much better than Silent Hill F's IMO. I need to dig deeper and check the rest of the endings, I got the Promise ending.

I started playing Rule Of Rose and the gameplay is quite clunky, however I like the setting and atmosphere and the story is vague but interesting so far.

Nestle CEO on water:

https://youtu.be/mTnJTyeAUA8

Epic does somewhere around 12% and the end user still pays the same so if you think that extra 18% would come back your way rather then going to a devs pockets? Hoo boy.

And most of the time that extra doesn't even go to the devs, the publishers keep it. So you're not even helping the devs for the most part.

Metro Re-Redux

Nooo not Obsidian! Fuck off, Microsoft.

Or at least a discounted buggy piece of shit game that might be worth trying, they don't fix most of those nowadays. Although sailing the high seas would probably the best course of action for such games.

80% sure I want to go into teaching

Judging by the rest of your message, I think you'd be a great teacher, you should become one.

Cashew. Keep them away from my sight or I'll eat them all.

What, she's Elon Musk's niece.

My clothes often serve as cat beds.

It seems I can finally play some games without losing interest immediately. Depression sucks.

I'm playing Signalis and I think I'm quite advanced, ::: spoiler spoiler I'm Nowhere (literally what the game calls that area) and running out of things to do in the area. Not sure whether I missed something or the game just doesn't want you to have a map of the place, but it's a bit annoying having to run around without it. Fortunately my memory is still good enough. I have more than 30 revolver bullets plus some rifle ammo and a few grenades for a grenade launcher I still haven't found. I'm running out of healing objects though. :::

Also playing Divinity: Original Sin at times.

::: spoiler spoiler I think I'm level 4 and close to solving the murder case. ::: The combat is fun and I can see the base upon which Baldur's Gate 3's was built.

I also like the sense of humour.

Meta’s controversial program that spied on its employees’ computers has backfired spectacularly.

Though its chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth assured that the data it collected would be “tightly controlled,” the company is now pausing the tracking program after sensitive employee information was leaked internally, according to reports from Business Insider and Wired.

A security notice sent out Monday said that the exposed data included employee’s full AI prompts and transcriptions, performance data, and even private conversations. The leak allowed the data to be accessible to any employee inside the company.

Meta said it’s investigating the incident and confirmed it paused the program, but maintains it’s keeping a lid on things.

“We have carefully designed this program with privacy safeguards, and while we have no indication at this time that any data was improperly accessed by Meta employees, we’re pausing it while we investigate,” a spokesperson told outlets.

The program, dubbed the Model Capability Initiative, was intended to gather data so Meta’s AI models could learn “how people actually complete everyday tasks using computers.” Reports suggested it collected everything from employee keystrokes to recording their computer screens.

When it was announced in April, it immediately sparked backlash in the workforce, with internal posts openly denouncing the initiative as an invasion of privacy, and some employees circulating a petition calling to end it. It came while morale at the company was at a nadir, following fresh layoffs that forced out nearly 8,000 employees, and a heavy push from the top that workers should heavily use AI to produce as much code as possible.

Under CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s directive, the company has doubled-down even further on developing automation tech, moving employees who were working elsewhere onto a new AI project, sowing further discontent.

Reactions from employees about the leak were unequivocally critical.

“I am incensed,” one employee wrote Monday in an internal group, per a screenshot obtained by BI.

“I don’t see any evidence of malicious access, but the fact that this data wasn’t locked down as originally promised is super frustrating,” another complained.

Memes also abounded. In an internal forum, one employee posted an image of Jim Halpert from “The Office” holding a sign that says, “0 days since our last nonsense.”

Bosworth, Meta’s CTO who promised that the collected data would be “tightly controlled,” responded to employees’ posts by admitting that the initiative’s implementation had fallen short of the standards set in its prevacy review, per Wired.

The company, however, is poised to resume the data tracking program once the issue is settled.

“We will only re-enable MCI when we are confident in the effectiveness of our data protection controls,” Stephane Kasriel, a Meta vice president overseeing AI research, told employees Monday, according to Wired. Kasriel said the company discovered and resolved the issue last week, but that the initial fix didn’t work.

It’s not the only recent security blunder at Meta. In March, a rogue AI agent gave an employee advice that it wasn’t authorized to share, resulting in sensitive data being exposed and causing what was described as a critical security incident.

I finished Quantum Break, the game is ok, but I don't find it to be among Remedy's best games.I think the story has potential to be better than it is, and it's not bad at all. I still have to watch the rest of the endings, but I'll watch them on YouTube or whatever. Overall I'd give it a 7, maybe 7.5.

Next stop is Control's DLCs, but I'm having trouble getting into it. I replayed the base game like 2 months ago and now I can't get into it again, I'm progressing through the Alan Wake DLC but I'm not really feeling it, might end up looking for a summary if it keeps feeling like this. I might play Alan Wake 2 afterwards, but I'm definitely not giving a cent to Epic, so if I play it, I'll just borrow it. My PC should be able to play it at a decent quality level and frame rate, especially considering I'm playing all games at 1152x864@75hz on a CRT monitor lately.

I'm still working my way through Cronos: The New Dawn:

::: spoiler spoiler

I just finished the steelworks area and saved the turning brother instead of my original target. I'm guessing the game has several endings and the choices in conversations affect which one I'll get. I restored power and I'm about to perform the second ascension. The story is definitely keeping me engaged. :::

That trip would be the end of me! But probably worth it.

I'm playing Alan Wake, never played it back in the day. I like Remedy's weirdness, but I'm finding the gameplay a bit repetitive.

I'm playing Final Fantasy IX, a game I never finished back in the day. Let's see if I can fix that this time. I tried again a few years a go but gave up at some point, I still remember some of the plot I'm seeing this time.

That's what some people think about the Voynich manuscript.

I keep advancing in Cronos: The New Dawn:

::: spoiler spoiler I'm at the hospital and already have the 3 chemical compounds needed for the antigen. I also just got the double barrel shotgun, exploring does pay off in this game.

I'm expecting a boss fight almost immediately, and I don't think I have much longer left before I finish the playthrough.

One thing I've forgotten to mention is the cats you encounter around while exploring. I find it funny that they all seem to have fuzzy hair, like one of my cats, I've always considered this to be kind of uncommon for cats. :::

I started Alan Wake 2:

::: spoiler spoiler I haven't played long but the game seems interesting, I like the detective stuff, but I'm worried about how long Alan Wake will actually be playable in this game. I've read he has less play time than Saga, which I find a bit underwhelming.

The game is poorly optimized, it runs mostly ok without ray tracing except while traversing Bright Falls, where it drops to 50s and even 40s sometimes, and it also stutters a bit every now and then. I find baffling that FSR is mandatory, what in the world were they thinking? I don't want to attribute it to laziness, but I don't now what else it could be.

Maybe I'm CPU-bound for this one, I should just try it on my IPS monitor and see how it performs. :::

I bought a bunch of discounted CRPGs on Steam and GOG last month, I don't want to buy anything this time. Let's see if I can resist...