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These things are a bit of bad news. The camel means they can climb right over fences and even 2-block walls. The archers riding in the back seat shoot arrows of weakness. The zombie in front has one of the new spears. When riding a camel they can reach you even if you're standing on the top of a wall 4 blocks high! They're like husks too in that they don't burn up during the day.

Had a few minutes so I took a look at a couple Hytale 'Tubies. People keep saying it's a minecraft clone. The resemblance is there for sure, but it also shares play elements with games like Vintage Story. It's a lot more than just "Minecraft 2.0". The other thing that's obvious from the early-access release is that it's already quite well developed for an EA. One or two technical glitches are evident but mostly it just needs a bit of balance and a lot of content. It even has recording and building features built-in and functional. It'll be interesting to see how this develops over time, especially in view of the devs embracing the modding community.

I'm about the speculative fiction. I'll watch anything for the entertainment value, but to really grab my attention it needs to be real, at least potentially. My favorite genre is science fiction. I'm not talking about Star Wars (rebranded swords and sorcery) or Star Trek (morality play, scientific bafflegab) either. Ideally it should be a 5 or 6 on the SF hardness scale. The science has to be real and a central aspect of the plot and / or setting. It has to be scientifically accurate, or at least explain (as briefly as possible) where current scientific understanding gets it wrong, how that ties in with the plot, and be self-consistent in applying the consequences of the author's alternate theory to the rest of the story. That said, some of my favorite SF authors are people like Niven or Clarke who take science to its limits, and I'm a fan of Clarke's Three Laws. For anime I'm talking about shows like Planetes, Moonlight Mile, or Ghost in the Shell. Unfortunately those kind are few and far between.

I've always liked the idea of being a techie at a science/research center. Been doing this for several decades now so I'm good. Actually I'm looking forward to retirement now. Assuming funds allow. And WWIII doesn't break out. That would suck.

REALLY windy today. Some areas have reported wind speeds of up to 70mph (113kph)! Fortunately we've just had a lot of rain so the fire risk is low.

Clear and cold. Just the way I like it. Maybe a bit too windy to call it perfect, but close enough. So nice in fact that I decided to walk the 1.5 miles to the dealership to pick my car up after having it serviced instead of calling a lyft. Getting a few extra steps in now and then never hurts.

Just reading up on Hytale as we get closer to early access. Linux (and MacOS) will be supported.. https://x.com/slikey/status/2006774600491827296

Southern California here so technically the USA, though I'd forgive you if you considered it another planet.

Welcome!

Decided to go with cachy first. Rufus and I don't get along. Amazon's search has always been horrible. If I'm inputting a particular model or SKU then don't waste my time showing me other crap that I wasn't searching for, or bury it on the 3rd page after all the sponsored links. Rufus was just more of the same. If I asked about a particular feature of an item Rufus would say something like, "I don't see that in the item description". I can read the description myself faster than I can get the answers from Rufus. Rufus is like some pushy salesman that doesn't even know much about the merch he's pushing. Gemini was also horrible. It was one of the AI's that I tried when I was putting together the new computer system. Even just asking about features and specs of various components seemed to be beyond it. I'd been thinking about this build for several months and had already done most of the research so I already knew the correct answers. Google got it wrong so many times. I'd hate to have to trust it on matters where I didn't already know the answers. It couldn't even answer a question like "is X CPU compatible with Y motherboard?" I had a list of parts and I went through the whole list. When I got to the end and asked it to summarize and find prices for the items we'd "discussed", the list it presented even contained items that hadn't been mentioned! Links were broken. Prices were misquoted. Links went to items other than what was shown in the list. Again, more trouble than it was worth. FWIW, the best AI in my test case was Grok. It was certainly more "conversational" in that even when I wasn't extremely precise in my questions it seemed to understand the intent correctly and respond appropriately. A couple times it suggested alternative parts that were cheaper or better than the items on my list, though in the end I only made one change from my predetermined parts list. It also seemed as we went along to get better at understanding the intent of the build and respond appropriately with that in mind when it came to making suggestions. It responded with sensible answers when I told it to give its reasoning behind its suggestion(s). A couple times it even asked me questions about why I chose one part over another. I'd like to believe that it incorporated my answers into its responses. Gemini would say things like, "that's what the people on the reddit forums seem to think". Great. I'm going to trust Reddit to build a $2K system for me?

Played minecraft with my brother in Wisconsin. We found out that if you put knockback on the new spear you can knock a rider off his horse. So we built a jousting arena.