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First my laptop fries. Then we spend $100 on fixing it and accomplish nothing. Then we build a new computer, but the video card is shit and it has no internet. Then we get a wireless adapter, but it diesn't work. Then we order an antenna for it, and it arrives weeks late. Then we get it plugged in, and it DOESN'T FUCKING WORK, because the delivery guy THREW IT at our door like a fucking FASTBALL. So apparently the universe doesn't want me to have an internet-capable computer. Ain't that special?

Hey, remember when The Doctor wore a scarf?

Insignificant respawn

Skip the Use: Nameless World. Don't really know why, but that came up and I'm listening to it.

His sanity is well within acceptable deviations.

An OST from Spec Ops: The Line. eb7Uu6Bz_wM (I love this game. If you've played through it, you know why. If you haven't played it, you won't know until you do. Even the soundtrack drives its themes home. Case in point: This melancholic tune is the main battle theme.)

Jealously starts awwwwwwwfully young. (Another GF comment on my clipboard. I think she's talking about her niece, her nephew, and maybe her nephew's girlfriend? I don't know.)

2056 Uh... My game timeline says we get invaded by alien monkey-dogs and bear people in 2056. That's... That's all I got.

Same as last time. (It's by John Donne, it's the only thing he ever wrote that was any good. At all.)

No man is an island, Entire of itself, Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory were. As well as if a manor of thy friend's Or of thine own were: Any man's death diminishes me, Because I am involved in mankind, And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. (Well. I could've sworn I copied something after this... Guess not.)

BAB-E (Okay. No idea where this came from. I don't even use the word "babe", and neither does anybody I know.)

Can't talk Jeremy. I'm chasing a cherry. (Wow. My girlfriend is, like, 75% of my clipboard. I started recording her texts ages go. Don't remember why.)

Progress! I now have an ethernet converter. The downside is it's so schizo I don't think I can do anything with it. The antenna inside it is broken, so I need an external antenna. Until then I can't really use it because it sometimes browses at 500kb/s and downloads at 150, and other times it browses at 5kb/s and won't download at all, and mostly the latter. Once I have the external antenna I'll put up ESII for you.

Baby=Sakura. Sakura=Cherry. Baby=Cherry? (Something my girlfriend said. Her sister just adopted a 2-year old girl named Sakura.)

Illegal adoption is illegal in most areas. (Well, the wiki is full of shit. The game itself says 2552, plain as day.)

Absinthe, mead if too expensive. (Hey... BTG? You're off by 503 years.)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure the military doesn't have robots with legs. I realise batteries are better. So you know, they still run HOT, but so do humans and if the exterior is soft (as it damn well should be) that's actually kinda pleasant. The only purpose of an engine would be an in-the-field recharge. Out in the middle of nowhere with your robotic friend/lover/child and his/her batteries run low? Get out some liqour (or whatever) and have them drink it. After burning the fuel, they'll have a good charge in their batteries and you can keep doing whatever you were doing.

Okay then. I'll rip my old disk for you, but until I get a working wifi adapter it won't do any good. I'll let you know.

Thanks man. But I just got my new computer to run *at all* yesterday and it can't connect to the internet yet, so I'll try it later.

For starters, stairs are still too much for our robots. Ask ASIMO. As for personality, not really hard. We've got some very convincing chatbots now, game AIs are getting very good, and some more "sophisticated" dating sims fake emotion pretty well, combine the three. Add on lipsyncing (easy) and emotive faces and you're done there. It's not a true intelligence or personality, but it'll pass light inspection and can be freely customized to fit the user's desires. And Asimov's rules are the goal, it's the execution that's the problem. And we need them to work well, not turn out like an Asimov novel. I think making them simply not capable of many things that are too dangerous to allow a robot to handle is the best course. They can't drive, use lethal weaponry, operate heavy machinery, or anything else along those lines. On the energy end... No, not really. A compact combustion engine could power them *today*. So could a could a lithium-ion battery if you don't mind lots of stopping to plug in or keeping them plugged in all the time. The issue is that the former power source needs... Work to be viable (say, a switch to renewable hydrogen or ethanol) and the latter would last *at most* a day, probably a lot less, before needing to be plugged in and is REALLY expensive, at least until Tesla's "Gigafactory" is built.

I'm on 64-bit too, and I tried mainly ESII. ESI acted the same way, Starsiege kinda worked but didn't recognize any controllers. I don't have tribes. I tried to use Dosbox to get around it. Can't get the bloody thing working, it won't recognize the disk drive.

It doesn't work on 7. I've got a copy here and it won't play, says it's incompatible with my version of windows, trying to install it on 7 is a waste of time.

I've been thinking about weird things, do that a lot, and I realised there'd be a HUGE market for robots that could look and act believably as people. I know this idea is so not original there's no way nobody's working on it, and they'd make a fortune if they could make an affordable (read: <$10,000 and <$1,000/year upkeep) model, but how likely is it that they'll manage a passable facsimile in the next, say, 20-30 years? In order to qualify, it needs: Competant navigation. (Hardest part.) Highly competant voice and facial recognition. Convincing artificial personalities. Learning AI. VERY good safety precautions. An appropriate power source (easiest part) and strong, efficient, flexible motorised parts. A LOT of political and religious hurdles leaped. And I mean a LOT. (Actually, nevermind navigation. THIS is the hardest part. Of anything. EVER.)

So do I... Alas, both my old (broken) computer and my new one cannot play it. I do miss it so.