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A bag of Kettle Brand Krinkle Cut Salt & Fresh Ground Pepper chips. They good as hell
"Man people crying about AI being used to translate on a game that is 26 years old! like how can it be bad thing if no one one else has done it in 26 years....."
A woman in a white hat with a red ribbon rides on the back of a camel, with a guide some feet in front of her leading it. The sand seems to bear the renmants of a thousand footsteps. On the horizon, the pyramids of Giza await.
tim robinson hot dog
That bit of Hitchhiker's guide about the second worst poetry in the universe: "Grunthos was reported to have been “disappointed” by the poem’s reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his 12-book epic entitled “My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles” when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save life and creation, lept straight up through his neck and throttled his brain."
Brian Cox making that face in Succession
A pair of very kitsch baseball caps for Gilligan's Island and iomega, the defunct tech company I associate solely with zip disks
Wonderfully detailed spritework of a very '90s mascot platformer Lemmings guy doing some spinny moves while the parallax goes crazy.
An email from a company called GPTListed asking if people find Warp Point when they ask a question on ChatGPT or Perplexity. Who gives a shit!!
A Warez games CD including Hoyle Casino 2002
A fax message that begins "thanks for taking me to space jam." And continues by saying "I love playing rock jocks... Please fax me back!"
A drawer of cassette tapes in one of those old wood paneled plastic drawers. Tapes include Starlight Express, Ennio Morricone's score for Hamlet, and the aforementioned
A photo of San Francisco where you can normally see the ocean and the Golden Gate Bridge but it’s just foggy af
JEB!!
bullet hell bullet hell bullet hell (fps)
A short video clip of jumping between giant industrial pipes in a concrete tower in Luna Abyss. It makes no goddamn sense
Red-lit concrete hell in Luna Abyss
A Canon A-1 with some Kodak UltraMax and Gold 200 film boxes
THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
Keep portable chargers and vapes within reach
Head stuck into a TV from Videodrome cuz that's how bad I wanna be there
DIDDY: Anyone love baby oil? emphasis on the goo goo gaga TEDDY: i Do I do
Google Maps presents a tragic circumstance: the closest waffle house to San Francisco is 10 hours and 55 minutes or 736 miles away
yea guy
Cargodin pointed to one of her favorite characters, Bowler Hat Man, who is "supposed to be symbolic of the British imperial influence over Hong Kong." In the original Japanese dialogue he'll occassionally toss in an English word, so Cargodin reached out to a friend in the UK to give him a "floral, British-as-fuck" localization pass. "Now I'm way more attached to Bowler Hat Man than I would have been, because I know I couldn't have done this as well," she said. "I have relationships with these people, and I'm way more attached to Kowloon's Gate because of that. That's why I'm so sad when a project is like, 'two people worked on it, and [one] was the computer, and the computer's still [visible] in the scripts."
"About the author" section of the Vagrant Story Strategy guide written by Dan Birlew aka President Evil. His wife's name is Laura.
A photo of a woman in white drapey clothes sitting on the bumper of a Volkeswagon Beetle, seemingly at night, her boot propped on the bumper, basically looking swag as fuck
"I know you're here, Dracula, you big fucking nerd. Where my goddamn money?" atop an image of the station from Star Trek Deep Space Nine. TItle screen generation courtesy of https://trek.epicrandomness.com/
Another approach – also from Google researchers – fits the new “Search” much more precisely. It’s called “prominence allocation.” Here, when a user submits a query with commercial intent, the system runs an auction that doesn’t just decide which ads appear, but how prominently the LLM writes about each one. The auction outputs a prominence score for each advertiser, essentially telling the model: give this product 35 words, that one 20, and this one zero. The ad isn’t next to the answer. The ad is the answer. Or rather, it shapes how much space and enthusiasm each product gets within the answer.
GMR mag with Nina from Tekken in purple
the 'wow cool robot' meme except it's with a plane and also the plane is just cool cuz forget about all that war is hell stuff did you see those planes doing the plane stuff
Google blog post: " As people have realized just how much more Search can do for them, they’re searching more than ever before — so much so that last quarter, we saw queries reach an all-time high."
Max von Sydow from Three Days of the Condor where he was a perfectly good guy who didn't do any bad stuff at all
Knock off Vega, Guile and Dhalsim flash the victory sign
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Gromit eating cereal while reading Milton's Paradise Lost. Not quite The Iliad, but, y'know.
A see-through crystal dude with a gold skeleton