Wolf314159

AI slop engagement bots like you.

You can't possibly have any experience with shoelaces because you don't have feet. You're just AI slop.

Do don't do this. You're just a few lines of code.

You're not not pushing 30. You're a bot.

What's up with the ridiculous AI slop picture? It seems to have little to do with the article. It absolutely does not depict what a gator or crocodile nest looks like or would have likely ever looked like. Not how those kinds of nests by cold blooded creatures work. I can only assume the rest of the article is similarly meaningless AI slop too.

I guess the BBC is doing lazy AI slop now. Cool.

Disclaimer, I'm not Gen Z. I've been collecting CDs longer than Gen Z has existed. I'm just really excited for all of you discovering the benefits of physical media.

You can have your cake and eat it too by buying physical media (preferably as directly from the artists as possible), ripping, and self-hosting (Plex, Jellyfin, etc.). I just stopped in to add my new personal favorite kind of physical media collecting, buying vinyl (especially the fancy fun colored stuff or great album art) along with the FLAC digital download. Now I can buy the cool art thing (for that nostalgic playing experience too, not just dead collection weight), get the quality audio in my ears (faster than the physical media can be shipped), and I'm not adding to my overweight CD collection. The multigenerational vinyl collection I now maintain is another matter. I use bandcamp mostly for this, but there are other options out there.

Also, don't be afraid to scour the thrift stores for CDs too. Just make sure to open the cases to check for damage (and verify the correct CD inside). One can usually recover a slightly scratched CD, but if you ever see light straight through the metal layer then pass. I've personally seen loads of great stuff from the last millennium in pretty good condition as other people dump their physical collections in favor of streaming. CDs are now what vinyl was to us olds 20 years ago. Their loss is your gain.

As a bonus, if you're into retro gaming, you can usually find a few PlayStation (One) games and late 90s PC games mixed in with these collections because they all used the same sized cases as music CDs back then. Some of those software and PS1 CDs may also have the audio encoded as regular CD tracks rather than audio files in the data session.

Your comment history doesn't exactly shy away from hyperbole and antagonizing either. If you smell shit everywhere you go, check your shoes.

Sea lioning in my DMs really just proves my point. Sure, there are trolls out there, but your attitude also attracts and encourages incivility. Don't feed the trolls.

King has almost always written his stories in the immediate present. There are a few exceptions, but they are intentional and critical to the plot. In all the others, it is fully in keeping with his style to update cultural references to set the story in the recent past, the now, or the very near future. He is a contemporary writer of contemporary stories, that is fundamentally the reason. King also seems to feel no loyalty to preserving his past works. He is alive. His stories are more about the lives of the characters than fashion or pop culture. I'm not always a fan of his revisions either (The Gunslinger being a good example), but it's part of the total package of his writing philosophy.

I really wish the article would at least attempt to clarify the WHY and the HOW of what I assume is some sort of deed restriction. National Park with residency restrictions? Home Owners Association? Not actually a sale and in fact just a lease? With little to no actual reporting going of in the article past the headline, this feels like either a nothing burger or plain fake/false/misinterpreted reporting to generate engagement. And that, discourages me from wanting to engage any further with my own research.

I still have the floppy disk from which I've played scorch.exe in DOS from some time deep in my childhood, through windows 3.1 to 2000, then later mostly through virtual machines and retroarch on various flavors of Linux. Yes, I still have a floppy drive, so I could probably still play that file directly. I haven't actually done that in a while, so the bits might have rotted. Every copy I have, kept on practically every machine I've made, is from that original floppy that I copied from a friend.

I've tried adding cameras. They never actually showed up on any map outside my own OSM profile.