Been a while since my last Machinae gig. Turns out they got a pretty different sound from the last time I listened to them, which was admittedly around the time Redeemer was released.

Microsoft exec suggests AI agents will need to buy software licenses, just like employees Are AI agents employees or tools? A Microsoft exec suggested they're new paid "seats," a shift that could reshape SaaS pricing — and spark pushback.

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Microsoftilla ollaan jo ajatuksessa edellä. Nyt kun ai-hypessä on korvattu työntekijöitä agenteilla ja siten vähennetty lisenssien tarvetta, aletaan laskuttamaan jokaiselle tekoagentille kuukausimaksullista softaa erikseen.

Photo of a cuneiform tablet with some dark spots on it.

We therefore learn from this learned commentary made by a Babylonian scribe over 2000 years ago, that in the Akkadian language, the word shitti means "shit"

Cat being engrossed by Pokopia

But the dog party offers free beer.

A rather round about way of telling someone to be a family man.

Tulee mieleen ne HUSin kiittelykortit mitkä piti tulostaa itse.

I'm turning 28 this year.

Protip: if you ever start feeling old, count your age in hex instead.

How many of those puppies would I need to fit Deedlit's Wonder Labyrinth into em?

My favorite shit has been things like Arika announcing new projects on April Fools. Haven't done too much of that lately as I assume they're busy helping the Tekken team keep the lights on.

I've been eyeing Erra Exordium for a while now and now that it's on sale...

Tämä oli siis vastauksena linkattuun otsikkoon jossa työnhakijaa rankaistiin karenssilla... ootas kun katon... videohakemuksella töihin hakemisesta.

The subprime crisis of infinite datacenters.

Oh sweet, it's the data center version of the subprime crisis.

I'd still rather play CvS2, 3S or even Idol Showdown but if a friend insists...

I think this is corollary to acknowledging that being ok at something already means you're in the top 5% at hobby.

I came to the conclusion that while I don't enjoy current games, I'm still better at Tekken than most of the local fgc and can gatekeep on a good day... and being ok with it.

"I got good, now what?"

What comes after getting (kinda) good? This one is about understanding your place, celebrating your successes, and deciding whether to go for broke or just enjoy gatekeeping.

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I kinda miss the full screen Install Shield installers...

To be fair, a good percentage of Gen X and older still think that getting a job just requires you to head over to a place and give the CEO a firm handshake.

one of the many good reasons to use 'qazaqstan' as the spelling of the country rather than kazakhstan is that the h in that transcription is /entirely/ made up

A cuneiform tablet drawing of a fragment shaped like an irregular diamond with two lines of text enclosed in a red box to draw attention to it.

In this ancient Babylonian dialogue, one friend asks, "Why are you so gloomy about many things?"

Let's do some dead languages together for a sec. The word translated here as "be/become gloomy" (qatāru) can also mean "to billow with smoke".

How might we get from smokey to gloomy?

I'll play two dozen games like the original YIIK before a Call of Duty is what I'm saying.

To be fair, I'd rather play a truly awful dud than a mediocre game. The first gives me an interesting topic to talk about, the latter just makes me go "it's a game I guess".

They truly have lost the plot in creating identities for characters. 6/6

Now, checking the patch notes, that's been the "easy" way of adding moves to characters. Take a move, add a stance transition. And since pretty much every character has a stance of some sort now, it's going to be a compounding issue. 5/6

So now time something gets changed, she gets a new stance transition. With season 3, the buttons that got a transition don't even make sense: I guess I kinda get that her f1+2 has been a dead move since it stopped being a bound but turning that into a backturned frametrap move is a weird change. 4/6

Her "mixup" was a very basic one. Do I move, do I challenge with a small move or a big move? The push to make the game more "aggressive" however means that an increasing amount of buttons lead into her backturned stance, which has been turned into a full blown mixup stance. 3/6