I don’t reaaly play MMOs, but I had a lot of fun with Star Wars: The Old Republic. I put over 300 hours in to do all the class stories.

Yeah that was disappointing. If they had taken their time with a sequel to narrow down what works it could have been great.

Nothing could have followed up and be better than or even match the Mass Effect trilogy. Andromeda attempts to be its own thing and I respect the evolution of a franchise over time. I’m not saying Andromeda was perfect, but only that it’s good enough. It’s a good way to waste time even if it isn’t a 100% good waste of time.

Keep at it EU gamers!

I thought the story was great. It started slow but really picked up in the second half. And the gameplay really reinforced the idea of exploring a new galaxy by having the Mako driving around interestingly designed planets, instead of the boring procedureally generated ones in ME1. The only thing weird about the gameplay was having a jump button but I got used to it pretty quick.

Andromeda was a good game after they fixed all the bugs. All they have to do is launch it in a playable state, which is nearly impossible for modern devs

It all makes sense now. Another day I’m glad to not be a gambling addict

Resident Evil: Revelations 2 was heavily inspired by Kafka and quoted him constantly. Maybe the game’s soundtrack has something you might be looking for. https://archive.org/details/resident-evil-revelations-2-ost

Supernatural, but only after the sixth season (?). At first it was an entertaining monster-of-the-week show that used creatures from all religions and cultures, and then it devolved into being a Christianity focused war against angels and demons and I lost interest when that’s all it became about.

It’s not the ads I hate, it’s the data harvesting I hate. Static ads without trackers don’t exist on YouTube, unfortunately.

It’s the playlist link that’s the problem. It ends with playlist?list=LM which stands for “Liked Music”. The downloader doesn’t know your account’s liked music playlist. It needs a playlist ID like playlist?list=PLO7q4X25LQEEyJAQe5EEwJxUCSKvuKbok

Basically you need the songs to be in a different playlist

I did some testing, it looks like the auto generated “Liked Music” playlist doesn’t have a proper URL that can point to the music.

A workaround seems to be adding the playlist to the queue, then saving the queue to a new playlist, and using that new playlist URL.

That way you can remove the “music.” part from the “music.youtube.com” and use it like a regular YouTube playlist.

If that doesn’t work for you it might be a DRM issue with how your phone is attempting to download the data. I used my desktop.

You can use yt-dlp with the -x flag to extract the audio with the link to the playlist. You can specify the audio format too, it’s a powerful tool.

yt-dlp -x link_to_playlist 

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

AI (more specifically, LLMs) can only replicate what’s in their training data. Skynet could work as long as we don’t feed it any information from any stories that involve an AI uprising.

Tom Scott polled this years ago, good video. https://youtube.com/watch?v=ALy6e7GbDRQ

Spoiler:

Is there a difference when sharing the whole screen versus sharing only a single window?

You could use a virtual camera like the one included in OBS to share your screen with the cursor showing, but that probably won’t share desktop audio by default.

The prequels were made with the idea in mind that people had seen the originals, and after they saw the prequels, they would watch it in Prequel->OT order.

The correct way to watch Star Wars if you’ve never seen it before is Original Trilogy, then Prequel Trilogy.

It’s a good thing to question your beliefs every once in a while. Sometimes people get things wrong, and sometimes ideas need re-evaluated.

The way I look at gay/trans/etc is to take MLK Jr’s advice: judge people by the content of their character.

Its a difference in connotation, which is highly subjective and may or may not exist at all.

To me, “Not to mention” implies a bonus thing to consider that doesn’t need to be mentioned to form a complete thought; it’s just additional context.

On the other hand, “Not to leave out” is a crucial detail that needs to be there for everything that was said prior to make sense.

Both sayings are still mostly interchangeable, but connotation is the reason that so many synonyms exist.