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I should have bought The Outer Worlds 2 instead of Arc Raiders. But I'm past the refund window... fuck.

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The Spiderman meme where he's talking to the pterodactyl scientist villain, but with the text replaced with quotes from Microsoft. Pterodactyl says: "The vision that we have is: let’s rewrite the entire operating system around AI, and build essentially what becomes truly the AI PC... The magic unlock with Copilot Voice and Copilot Vision is the ease of interaction. Using the new wake word, “Hey Copilot,” getting something done is as easy as just asking for it." The first part of that quote comes from Tom Warren at The Verge. The second part comes from the Windows blog. Spiderman (who uses his computer like the rest of us) says: "Every time you make a version of Windows with less bullshit in it, people love it! Can’t you just let us use the Start menu?" To which Pterodactyl replies: "But I don’t want to make a version of Windows with less bullshit in it. I want you to scream at the computer."

well maybe Windows 12 will be a banger

It is an echo chamber. It was made as a refuge for people sick of the nazi takeover of Twitter. If you can stomach that shit, then you could stay on Twitter. But I couldn't.

I mean, there's nothing that can be done now. Laws are being broken all the time by the current administration but nobody cares. There's nobody to hold them accountable.

BorderIHardlyKnewHerLands4

For me, all these tools are so overwhelming. There's actually limitless possibilities. But if you're creative enough and have a vision, there's hardly anything stopping you from accomplishing it.

Except crashes. But other than that, nothing :P

#borderlands4
Just about wrapped up with everything until there's new content. But it's fun and super pretty.

Wow, that's surprising.

There are some funny side quests. Definitely do the one for the mob boss that's looking for his mask, lol. The whole quest chain.

I'm happy you're in the Terminus Range zone now. Totally different vibes from Carcadia Burns, but the tones are fantastic.

Everyone has different motivations though. Most games look good these days so "good graphics" aren't even a draw for me anymore. After this game I'll probably fall off the face of the Earth again.

My head is not in a good place at all. But that's a whole other can of worms.

For me, I've always felt compelled to showcase game art that I feel deserves a closer look (or a different perspective). I enjoy the Borderlands art style and they put in a lot of effort into making this world interesting

#borderlands4 more randomness

Well, sorry. It's probably going to stop again. Already feeling like it's pointless. Deleted every platform where I had any followers and nobody gives a shit about screenshots.

Need to find something more productive to do with my time. Like... anything that would get me a job.

#Borderlands4
Loving the Mad Max/Rage vibes here

Yes it is. I can't seem to stop taking pictures of it. I don't know why I'm doing it. Anything to not listen to the thoughts in my head I suppose.

Yep. This is PC. Captured at some wonky ~8K ultrawide resolution and using UUU for the photomode.

Good luck on the official PM. Hopefully soon 😉

#borderlands4 randomness

Some days I get by ok. Others I just wish I'd get hit by a bus out of nowhere. I wish I could find something I enjoy doing that paid money.

#borderlands4
@fransbouma.com unlocked the secret to thinner outlines. So now I'm very happy with how shots turn out :)

Oh, that looks sick :)
Relight is fun. I need to play with it again.

#borderlands4

The game looks legitimately better with outlines on, but when I try to take a screenshot with good image quality, the outlines just get TOO thick and ruins the shots. We need a way to configure them or something. I'll show a comparison next time.

#borderlands4 couldn't help myself. Couple screenshots with UUU5.

For some reason, when you play at higher resolutions, the outlines get even thicker. BL1/BL2 did not do this. For high-res captures in BL4, they are too thick. So I turn them off sometimes, even though I'd prefer not to.

#Borderlands4 is very fun, but man the performance is such a let-down. It runs worse than path-traced cyberpunk. It looks beautiful but not anywhere near justifying the hardware required to run it. And I refuse to use frame-gen as it makes me feel like I'm playing with dial-up internet.

This is such a good article. One of the best in a while 👍

I tried that for a while. Now every day I get a little bit closer to just... giving up 😔

Still searching for jobs. Still nothing. I don't think I'll ever get a webdev job again at this rate. At this point I'll take anything that pays better than "glorified climbing gym janitor."

WTF BlueSky.
Sorry. Is there a way to report that?

Yes, 16 years as a frontend web developer. 8 years specializing in React development.

My family needs income. That's the source of my stress and anxiety. I'm just a drain on our funds as long as I'm alive right now...