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I would post the letter we Department of Army folks got from GLORIOUS LEADER Pete Hegeseth about how the Department of Def.. er.. War.. is going all in on AI but it is mostly propaganda and doesn't really create a precise picture of the technological insertions. It's one thing to say "we need to make smarter and more dispassionate decisions faster" but how do you implement that in a meaningful way? AI is still software. If you put in dumb shit, it's going to spit out dumb shit. And dispassionate decisions from a machine? Are you fucking kidding me? Is it possible for AI to have bias? Of course it is simply because biased humans programmed that shit. Every coder finds a way to personally tag his creation and I expect AI to be no different. AI is data driven. If that data only comes from certain curated sources, then the output will be tailored as well. I am all for smart targeting systems that grant our forces overwhelming tactical advantages and real time plotting of logistic chains that account for weather conditions and enemy locations, but do you really want this shit providing strategic level conjecture to military leaders on who or when to bomb? I dunno about that. And fuck what you've heard. AI makes SUGGESTIONS~! based on input. Humans then make DECISIONS~! based on the output. Anyone just going along with what a machine says is the most efficient thing just wants to be absolved from assuming risk or suffering the negative consequences of that choice. It used to be that the Devil made you do it. Now it's the AI is the guilty party. Suffice to say that if Skynet comes to life and nukes the earth. you can blame us folks here at the WAR DEPARTMENT~! since we're gung ho about incorporating AI into practically everything. On the plus side, when DOGE was running rampant and forcing all US Government employees to send them a weekly e-mail weekly detailing their five major contributions to the overall Executive Branch effort, Genesis and ChatGPT wrote most of my stuff ("Make me sound clutch. Not walk on water clutch, but occasionally saves the day clutch is fine."). AI probably saved my job so I will have no bad things to say about AI until it becomes sentient like the Geth from Mass Effect and tries to kill us all. Data Centers on the other hand? Fuck those places and what they're doing to my electricity bills and the environment.

THE CURSED HOTEL BELL FROM ODDITY IS IN THE TRAILER~! FUCK YEAH~!

Exit 8 and Hunting Matthew Nichols have finally made it to theaters near me and Lee Cronin's Mummy redo thing comes out this Friday. I'm taking a few days off after being on night duty for the past two weeks, so I think I am going to touch grass and go see some movies over the weekend rather than chasing Major Orders on Helldivers 2. Cronin directed The Hole in the Ground and Evil Dead Rise so I am cautiously optimistic about The Mummy. It bums me out that Cronin didn't come back for Evil Dead Burn but EDB is helmed by Sébastien Vaniček, the man that gave you Infested and that shit was fucking insane so as with The Mummy, I am cautiously optimistic that EDB will not suck.

Video Game Reddit and Pro Wrestling Reddit are depressing places. I hate the people that like the same things that I do. Well, most of them anyway. Horror Reddit aka Dreadit has a very supportive community and for some reason the Joshi reddits like STARDOM and TJPW are remarkably civil. I recommended a good sports bar in Osaka to a guy heading to a STARDOM show there during the Winter Basho and got like a bazillion upvotes.

I am Level 70ish and am working on the Level 4 upgrades to my Super Destroyer. The only standard stratagem I have left to buy is the new tank. I've held off on it for a while but they are now key for survival on Cyborg held planets. I have been blown out of my boots by Vox Engines enough times to know that the devs are not so gently nudging me in the direction of panzer warfare. I've got like five achievments to go before I platinum this thing and *surprise* they are the hardest ones to get. I finally killed a Charger with a Suply Pod about a month ago and had to do it solo because some rando would call in a drop for himself before I spotted a Charger, or I would get the Supply Pod marker on the Charger just in time for a fucking rando to railgun the damn thing. Shooting the arms off of a Brute and then extracting while it was still alive was also the opposite of fun but I got a lot of practice in with the Anti-Materiel Rifle. I'm not a half bad sniper now. I've been trying to get the six orbitals at once achievement for weeks but my teammates do not seem to take the hint and chuck all of their orbitals when I am chucking all of mlne. Either they already have the achievement or they are just dense.

The Helldivers 2 reddit is also chock full of batshit crazy people.

When I first heard about the Kane Pixels project, I just rolled my eyes and said Whatever. Then I watched the videos and saw the genius at work. There is a very solid lore foundation going on there, not unlike other serious analog horror productions or ARG's like Marble Hornets or Genesis Home Video. It wasn't some hack doing random stuff for clicks. TBH, I do feel that PIxel's backstory for the Backrooms borrows a bit too much from the Half Life video game franchise with a dash of Lovecraft's From Beyond thrown in for good measure but if you are going to steal shit, steal good shit. I'm actually looking forward to watching this and it doesn't hurt that it's being produced by A24.

I thought it was either of the Ryder twins that has sex with PB in Zero-G during Mass Effect Andromeda?

I'm going to have to go see Backrooms on opening day after work. My boss scheduled me to work mids starting that Saturday and lasting until the second week of June.

1. I am not dead. 2. I've been playing a shitload of Helldivers 2 lately. Shoot me your Friend Code if you are killing stuff in the name of managed democracy.

So, Nosferatu was really good. So happy to have a proper adaptation of Dracula without sexy vampires.

Hey! The version of Vault of Horror at Creature Features is the British edit, not the shitty US edit!

I believe his daughter would agree with you and I totally forgot that Nastassja Kinski and Quincy Jones were once an item and she had a kid by him. I have two more nights of vampire duty. I have The Vault of Horror queued up on Creature Features to get me through the most difficult time. I watched Torture Garden last night and it helped me survive the night.

HEY~! Back in the 2010's there was a Svengoolie-esque television show called Creature Features. It looks like they uploaded all of their old shows to a YouTube channel and there is a treasure trove of classic stuff there. https://www.youtube.com/@CreatureFeatures3 In addition to a pretty good selection of classic horror joints, they also have rarely seen stuff like Torture Garden and The Vault of Horror in their playlist along with Trilogy of Terror, Tales from the Crypt, and other movies. I tend to FF through all of the schlock. And no, the old black dude that plays Livingston, the creepy butler, is not me.

This is the correct answer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHxFSHuoxfY