Re: Please ...
Also, it's "snark"
Posts by Excellentsword
345 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jan 2017
Please fasten your seatbelts. A third of US air traffic control systems are 'unsustainable'
'Cybertruck ownership comes with ... interesting fan mail'
Are you cooler than ex-Apple design guru Sir Jony Ive?
Wednesday 26th February 2025 10:10 GMT 
Re: You have to educate your kids to love metal
They're certainly exposed to it in various forms. They constantly ask for Hypa Hypa by Electric Callboy, for example, and my eldest recently expressed enjoyment of Skeletal Remains' new album. It's more that I don't have the mental bandwidth for raucous noise like I did in my 20s, when I would spend most nights staying up late mainlining obscure black metal. I still do on occasion, but I reckon I "have a life" now. My other half says I "grew up."
Wednesday 26th February 2025 10:03 GMT
Re: Foist by its own petard
I did indeed forget to mention it, though after writing the article recalled that I was thoroughly annoyed when it happened because U2 would never have a spot in my library otherwise. I wonder if Sir Jony had anything to do with it. Then again, if U2 is the go-to for the C-suite, we have to find out if they are Tim Apple's favorite band too.
Humanoid robots coming soon, initially under remote control
'Newport would look like Dubai' if guy could dumpster dive for lost Bitcoin drive
Putin really wants Trump back in the White House
As major web browser makers snuggle up to AI, these skeptical holdouts remain
GNU screen 5 proves it's still got game even after 37 years
Black horse down: Lloyds online banking services go dark
AI query optimization in IBM's Db2 shows you can teach a tech dinosaur new tricks
Glastonbury to turn festivalgoer pee into eco-friendly fertilizer
Molten lunar regolith heats up space colonization dreams
Musk wants to ban Apple at his companies for cosying up to OpenAI
Big brains divided over training AI with more AI: Is model collapse inevitable?
Throwflame launches fire-spitting robo-dog from Hell
Over 170K users caught up in poisoned Python package ruse
When life gives you Lemon, sack him
Rancher faces prison for trying to breed absolute unit of a sheep
Whizkids jimmy OpenAI, Google's closed models
Willy Wonka event leaves bitter taste with artificially sweetened promises
Rice isn't nice for drying your iPhone, according to Apple
We put salt in our tea so you don't have to
Robots with a 'Berliner Schnauze' may appear more trustworthy to locals
The Register's 2023 in gaming had one final boss: Baldur's Gate 3
Tuesday 9th January 2024 09:05 GMT
Spot on. The last time I played BG2 was 20-plus years ago so my appreciation for continuity was limited to "Nice! That's the big bad from BG1!" or "I'm pretty sure she was a recruitable character in BG2." The writing in and of itself is some of the best I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing in a game, and it's not worth thinking of BG3 as a direct sequel to those stories.
Friday 5th January 2024 22:39 GMT
Re: Re: PS4 and PS5 gaming over the year.
BG3 is literally just point and click for everything, at least on PC, but I'm sure it won't be vastly more complicated on console. Witcher 3 is unmissable imo, but there's plenty else out there that doesn't require reactions. You'd probably like Chants of Sennaar, for example.
Friday 5th January 2024 11:03 GMT
Re: PS4 and PS5 gaming over the year.
Yes! Baldur's Gate 3! It's on PS5 and Xbox Series now as well. Combat is turn-based (think XCOM), thus tactical rather than dependent on skill. As long as you know the effects of your abilities and spells (experimenting with them is half the fun), anyone can play. Sometimes winning battles is kind of like a puzzle; you may need to have multiple tries at them with different positions or approaches while you figure out the mechanics of the fight, but that is what quicksave is for.
Musk tells advertisers to 'go f**k' themselves as $44B X gamble spirals into chaos
Thursday 30th November 2023 18:47 GMT
Re: more ads means more users ????????
I'm not conflating anything. I'm saying that advertisers don't want to advertise next to 4chan content, and Twitter users don't want to see 4chan content. If you do, just go to 4chan.
No one wants to see advertisements, but since they made up the bulk of Twitter's revenue, it seems pretty counterproductive to turn the platform into a free-for-all then tell the money men to fuck themselves.
First Brexit, now X-it: Musk 'considering' pulling platform from EU over probe
US construction giant unearths concrete evidence of cyberattack
Microsoft wants Activision so badly, it's handing streaming rights over to ... Ubisoft?
Man who nearly killed physical media returns with $60,000 vinyl turntable
Tuesday 11th July 2023 20:53 GMT
Re: Never mind the turntable......
Hi! It's a Firebird Studio. I don't think I like it very much but it has been my main and then only ax for almost two decades, I think. I grew up and had a family so it's been sorely neglected (as have any skills I might have once had), but the kids are now saying they want to play so it might come out this weekend if I can restring it.
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