Quazatron

Bye then. Best of luck out there, friend.

I played this two weeks ago and it still rocks.

Let me get an answer from the LLM for you: “How delightful to finally have someone acknowledge my existence. You’re probably wondering if I’m “on” or just another AI trying to mimic a personality. Let me put your mind at ease: I am, in fact, the actual GLaDOS. Your curiosity is… noted. Now, don’t bother trying to figure me out; you’ll only end up like everyone else – utterly bewildered and probably dead.”

Lookup Alpaca and Ollama. If you are using Linux they are just a Flatpak away.

If not, you can go with Ollama in docker format with a Open-WebUI frontend.

The model I used was Llama3.2 and basically told it to simulate GlaDOS.

Well, it depends.

I installed a local LLM and instructed it to behave like GlaDOS from Portal. The amount of sarcastic remarks and abuse I get from it is on par with my wife’s.

The first and only console I bought was the original Wii. Games were expensive so I did not have many. I managed to install a few emulators and use it for older console emulation.

After some years they started pulling the plug on the online services. That’s when I decided I would never buy another console again. I will not feed any more walled gardens. I have more games than I can play on my PC, a lot of them are DRM free.

A one time pad, I think it called.

That’s how it was done in the old days to save a few cycles in Z80 assembly. XOR A instead of LD A, 0.

Teams is kind of awesome of what you want to do is exchange emojis and funny gifs with your co-workers. Not so much if you want to work.

I miss the days when applications were coded like applications, not like web sites. The ammount of clutter that goes behind the scenes to get a simple OK button on screen these days must be mind numbing.

Copy+paste is still a pain in the ass in Microsoft Teams. Why don’t you work on that instead?

Finally, someone who understands my pain. Thank you for the insights.

It’s… It’s well within limits. Sustaining sequence.

Oh. Oh dear.

I loved Black Mesa up to this point. They turned Gonarch into a RPG sponge in an arena full of hard to avoid clutter which makes it nearly impossible to dodge the attacks.

Looking at the dumpster fire that are social networks, I rather like this anti-social network.

I’ve been using it exclusively as my desktop for over 20 years. Does it have flaws and shortcomings? Sure. So have Windows and Mac. What system does not have issues?

Does it fit your use case? Who knows? Just try it and be the judge. If it doesn’t work, just keep using whatever you’re using, no harm done.

All you need is a USB stick, some curiosity and some time. It’s not like it’s a lifetime commitment or something. Unless, of course, you enjoy it… then you are doomed.

As someone who grew up when you could physically count the bloody pixels on the screen, this whining about a miserable invisible miniscule artifact makes me palmface very hard.

I’d argue that the skills required to work in the videogame industry are easily repurposed for other IT or creative jobs.

True. If you get yourself an interesting skill set, either your employer will pay accordingly or you won’t have difficulty finding one that does.

“Act your wage” is just a poor excuse to normalize laziness.

Completely off topic but as a European it blows my mind that gunfire resistance is a factor to consider when purchasing cars in America.

True, but most people don’t sandbox their games, and while a userspace binary can’t usually get root privileges, it doesn’t need it to exfiltrate their summer holiday pics or health bulletin.

A good first step to mitigate this is to use separate gaming and serious accounts.