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  1. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    There's a discussion in the video about floors. tldw; it will look good and repel water and floor finishes rely on the strength of the wood anyway. Don't expect scratch protection. I think Matt Cremona is using Rubio on the floors if his new house? Check his channel.
  2. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    A pretty good roundup of hard wax finishes: (tldw; some of new, cheaper finishes seem like much better values than Rubio)
  3. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    IMO it's the other way around. There's no reason to play S1 because they're very unlikely to add enough content to make that experience more worthwhile than this one. I plan on playing my first character till I get bored and then revisiting in a year or two, unless the seasonal content wildly...
  4. Captain Suave

    Chat GPT AI

    Skim back in this thread a bit. These models are best thought of as really fancy autocomplete algorithms and are not reasoning or calculation engines. At least in the current generation of ChatGPT there is no executive oversight that goes back and makes sure that rigorously factual claims are...
  5. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Exactly this. When I get bored of my first character I don't see myself starting a second expressly because almost none of my work transfers over short of a few skill points. In D2 (and other games) you can be constantly acquiring gear that inspires alt play even if it doesn't help your primary...
  6. Captain Suave

    AI Image Generation

    I like the first one. Very Dr Strange-ish but I think the color balance is better.
  7. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    A Flotilla of Frisbee Fleshlights. All three in one!
  8. Captain Suave

    AI Image Generation

    Adding to what Mist said, they're using the prompt to pull attributes of training images images which were flagged as 4k/8k, etc. It could be as vague an association as "high-res images are generally produced by more competent artists and are qualitatively better along some metric I care about"...
  9. Captain Suave

    You know you're getting old when.....

    It was 7 AM and I was getting up for breakfast. =(
  10. Captain Suave

    You know you're getting old when.....

    I feel you. Last year I tore my hip labrum rolling over in bed.
  11. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    That's what she said!
  12. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    I remember when the only filters in PoE were third party. Such itemization!
  13. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    As a kid. He gets murked 100/100 times by an in-shape trained adult Zuck.
  14. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    They're set to like 10% opacity for other players and really easy to miss.
  15. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    Zuck hasn't been training long but he's doing it for real (MMA more than BJJ, really). He'd murder Elon and not break a sweat. I'd love to see this match. Hopefully the online banter escalates.
  16. Captain Suave

    Fortnite - Epic Games - Team Survival/Strategy/Crafting/Combat

    Yeah, I play no build with my 11 year old son (building is a weird vestige and not much fun IMO). We have enough fun that even my non-gamer wife is talking about getting another PC to join us. The live service aspects only matter if you want cosmetics. Some of them are cool and we play enough I...
  17. Captain Suave

    Parent Thread

    Chinese knockoffs from Alibaba are fully compatible and way cheaper. I think we got a full Death Star set for $90?
  18. Captain Suave

    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    Sorry, I meant NSMB U (Switch), which is is the offending sluggish controls version.
  19. Captain Suave

    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    All the main installments have been 3d since Mario 64. NSMB is the latest side scroller I'm aware of.
  20. Captain Suave

    Chat GPT AI

    Yes, I understand. I don't think the other side of the debate cares so much about the pay grade as the fact that someone deliberately did anything to drive these changes.
  21. Captain Suave

    Chat GPT AI

    I think there's a background mixing of boundaries going on about what is "ChatGPT the neural net" and "ChatGPT the user experience". Mist is correct that the neural net is largely immutable until the next major retrain, but OpenAI is obviously doing some level of ongoing filtering on...
  22. Captain Suave

    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    Any mario in the last 30 years has been crisp enough; I've played all of them. NSB is a significant outlier. I think it's part of the design in order to make multiplayer "hilariously chaotic", but I didn't enjoy it.
  23. Captain Suave

    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    My daughter has been making me play New Super Mario Bros with her, and it's incredibly frustrating due to how sloppy/laggy the controls are. This had better be tighter.
  24. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    And 31% have the email address [email protected], closely followed by [email protected]
  25. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    Classiest bird feeder I've ever seen:
  26. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Yeah. Those aren't there for me.
  27. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    I don't think this is it. I can kill everything almost instantly after spawning and spend half the time waiting for respawns and only get the event to 50%.
  28. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Put me in camp "never seen an aura, slaughtered everything instantly and only got the event to 50%".
  29. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    Being 43 will do that do you.
  30. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Wtf, I just tried this and the game noticably smoother when loading assets, my GPU fan stopped running on turbo, and video on my second monitor stopped playing like a slideshow. Fucking incompetent client programming...
  31. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Good idea. Done.
  32. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Can we get a separate meta-thread for people bitching about the discussion about D4?
  33. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    I was talking about you, among others. Do us all a favor and stop beating this weird dead horse.
  34. Captain Suave

    Homesteading and Hobby Farm/Ranch

    My grandfather was a cattle rancher and he used to plug up all the burrow entrances he could find, except one, and then hook that up to his truck exhaust for an hour or so. Anything that tried to run got shot or chased down by the dog.
  35. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Hardly, but for whatever reason I keep holding out hope that our collection of lunatics would mellow after 25 years, not get worse.
  36. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    What's exhausting is ignoring any hint of nuance and making everything a war to the death between manic extremes. Hard to have a normal discussion.
  37. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Eh. People are both still having fun with the game and acknowledging it's not going to provide infinite fun. That's hardly some kind of wild 180.
  38. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    It's not dogshit, it's just not spectacular. It's better than D3 was at launch, but I'm not sure they took very good notes from that experience.
  39. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread