I think the first time I heard "slide deck" was within the last few years. It was always a (PowerPoint) presentation. I heard "deck" on its own without context (something like "I'm making a deck") within probably the last 6-12 months and had no idea at the time what that person was talking about.

Nothing is really jumping out to me.

I may do another run of cyberpunk during rainy season since it's about all my PC can do and upgrading is basically impossible right now.

I just finished my ~yearly run of Skyrim (with mods other than just skyui for the first time this time).

I used to play a lot of 7 Days, but they lost me when they started adding triggers in POIs that automatically alerted zombies, opened doors, etc. and TFP's general bullshit after that.

The only other two games I've played this year are Last Caretaker (it was alright but had too many performance issues and bugs at the time), and Peglin which I'm also kinda over.

Mine:

• ends in not 00, so add whatever makes the ones digit a 9 (7 in this case).
• make the cents even -> .20 (add .03)
• go to 100 (add .80)

I think, anyway. I can mostly just look at it and know.

We don't need giant, dangerous, shitty trucks like that here.

I listen to bands I trust and older music mostly

a fit of pique

I don't think I've ever seen those words in that order.

Yeah, I've seen a lot of places around me cut back. Thankfully, I'm not forced to use AI directly. We do have it for code reviews (which I don't hate as a concept, but would prefer local models trained on ethically-sourced data).

Maybe the right will suddenly be for ranked-choice-like voting. I'm not holding my breath, but it would be a neat side effect.

Hangin' out with gas and plasma snakes.

I was still a kid in the '80s, but basically grew up around (and in, sometimes), computer stores and computers. I don't recall hearing this.

I will believe privacy-first when I see the implementation. If, for instance, Google is one of these trusted issuers and I already have an account with them I guess I've opted into that. If it requires signing up for some new devil, then that's different.

I also suspect these will be spoofed in about 5 minutes, but we'll see.

During this period, passengers will remain on board, with cabin lighting switched on throughout.

I thought that was a typo, but

室内灯は点灯したままとなる。

from Yomiuri. That does not sound fun. I mean, I can nap on the shinkansen most of the time, but I don't think I could sleep through the night like that.

They should bring back more sleeper trains instead.

I was looking at the home page which just said 'sold out' under each one except the 512 w/ steam controller. This morning, they're all just listed as 'sold out'. No mention of a lottery anywhere there. It's not surprising, though, given so many things are lotteries here. Still, if that many people entered, I would expect it to functionally behave the same as being sold out since the lottery winners will presumably snap them all up.

Not at current spec and price. I don't think it's worth what I would get. It's also already sold out except the 512 w/ steam controller version for my region so I couldn't even if I wanted to for the larger spec versions.

I'll just slowly continue to upgrade my PC as money allows.

Gwar shows are a lot of fun so seconding this; go if you get a chance (and maybe bring a change of clothes).

They're too busy responding to all the Europeans' comments on US housing construction materials at the moment.

I don't like her (to put it nicely), but I don't think she's that daft. It's basically meaningless stuff that's pandering to certain portions of the LDP base.

I doubt it with the flag (though tons of people fly the naval ensign today already, not just far right folks and nothing legally forbids doing so AFAIK) since this would have consequences with some of the biggest trade partners when the economy is already in trouble.

Edit: to be clear, I think this is a really dumb idea and don't agree with it.

I was going to say "at least three", but someone is always faster. Instead, I started the quiz but got bored by entry 10.

.... you kids need to get off my lawn *shakes fist*

We had Apple IIs and later some early macs because my area experienced a population boom and had some more tax money to play with.

Probably not interested for those specs at that price.

In Japan, the page also has a link that goes to some partner of theirs that's just a maintenance page at 09:38 on a weekday which.... does not inspire confidence.