I can understand when people try to adjust some older games to their taste with this amateur DLSS 5 implementation. But I've been playing Remastered for a week and I can't see any scene which I would even want to ruin with DLSS 5. The lighting, the colors, the depth, the artistic vision - everything is great now when the latest patch has been released.

And Geralt has his unique appearance and unique expression. I don't remember a single DLSS 5 example where he'd look like himself. It's always like the slopified face was photoshopped over his real face.

I think CDPR didn't implement this tech for a reason. Instead, they upgraded path tracing to a level when each screenshot from this game looks like a masterpiece. And people are still not happy with the result looking for a solution to "improve" something that in my view doesn't need any improvement (not counting some RenoDX and other small fixes which mostly related to screen calibration, gamma and etc.).

CNET’s durability test surpassed 100k open and shuts.

Maybe this was all bot propaganda train after all?

Go to your local Apple Store and just look yourself at the returns if you are worried about the durability.

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

Wer kennt es nicht, der Golf R oder der AMG mit den Furzgeräuschen beim Schalten.

Wer ein leises Auto fährt, sollte steuerlich begünstigt werden, da seine Schallemissionen niedriger sind als die des Furz-Golf oder des fetten GLE mit seinen breiten Reifen, dessen Abrollgeräusch extrem laut ist.

Die Straße ist keine Rennstrecke und leise Fahrzeuge sollten eine Pflicht sein.

Piker formally filed a defamation lawsuit against Scott Jennings on October 27, 2026, in federal court in Washington, D.C. for falsely claiming Piker advocated for the lynching of Black Americans.

Tunnen satoja vegaaneja, olenhan itsekin. Yleinen nettikeskustelujen kulttuurisotailmiö veganismiin liittyen on "soijapojittelu". Se Suomessa onneksi hyvin pieni ilmiö, mutta aikanaan twitterissä siihen kohtasi usein suomeksikin.

Siinä oli taustalla väärin ymmärretty soijan vaikutus ihmisen kehoon. Asiaa on tutkittu ja tutkitaan jatkuvasti. Nyt alkaa näyttää siltä, että kasvisproteiinit lisäävät miehillä mieshormoneja elimistössä ja liha taas vähentää.

https://www.uef.fi/fi/artikkeli/elain-ja-kasviproteiineilla-erilainen-yhteys-miesten-testosteronipitoisuuksiin

Toki olemme kompleksisia otuksia ja aina löytyy anekdootteja puoltamaan mitä tahansa näkemystä. Keskimäärin kuitenkin saattaa olla siten, että lihaa syövät heteromiehet ovatkin ajan kanssa päätymässä lihaa syöviksi fempojiksi, jos nyt naljailu soijapoika-termistä kummuten hyväksytään.

Tälläkin palstalla joskus saanut kuulla olevani vaikka mitä, kun en lihaa syö, vaikka munaa nielenkin, olisi mukavaa aiheesta herätellä keskustelua.

Lihateollisuus kun lobannut lihan osaksi miehisyyttä, vaikka se saattaa olla juurikin sen tuho 🤔

Many comments are saying that, because this group of rioters is trying to break a window, that they should all be rounded up and executed. And all the other comments are clapping like seals and pointing out useless identifiers. What the fuck are we doing????????

I don’t disagree with the “pick up a pencil” argument, but I don’t like what it implies about drawing. It takes a fuck ton of time and effort just to draw something decent. It’s not as simple as just imagining something and putting pencil to paper.

I’m not a developer. I teach English online and got tired of tracking lessons and chasing parents for payments in a spreadsheet, so over a few weekends I built a little app with Claude and Cursor. Tutors log lessons, parents get a monthly invoice with a pay button. That’s the whole thing

I put it online in August for $10 a month, mostly so a couple of tutor friends could use it

Last week it crossed $100 in a month. Ten paying tutors, seven of them strangers

One of the new ones sent me a message saying she found it because ChatGPT recommended it. I assumed she was being nice or confused it with something else. Nobody knows this app exists. My X account has 90 followers

So I opened ChatGPT and asked for an invoicing tool for private tutors. It listed four apps and mine was the third one, with a description that sounded weirdly close to my landing page

It took me a while to figure out why. Before launch I paid for a press release through MediaBoost. I only did it because a friend said tutors and parents would trust it more if there were a few news logos on the page. It got syndicated to a few hundred news sites that nobody reads, and I got maybe 8 visits from all of them combined. Same week I added their directory package to get listed on a bunch of software directories

I’d written both off. Apparently AI tools read those pages even if people don’t

I asked the other strangers too. Four said ChatGPT or Perplexity, two found me on a directory, one came from a tutor friend

The $100 is going straight to the Claude subscription that built the thing

I'm on the right and fairly far to the right for an American. I mention this because so much of the opposition to the concept comes from the Right.

I was recently watching some walk-throughs (on youtube) of some Chinese neighborhoods in China. In some areas, you couldn't walk 50 feet without passing a store or business. There was also a TON and I mean TON of greenery. In these neighborhoods, all the streets were tiny, maybe even just alleys in American terms. This all seems very convenient and nice to look at, at least all the greenery. Given the density of everything, one assumes they are effectively living in 15 minute cities.

I compare this to my own area. Everything is in a grid, all fairly wide car friendly streets (in one of the oldest cities in America, Philadelphia) and at best, a small corner store every few blocks. You really need a car in most cases to live in America, even in the city. Though I personally bike commute, I have to plan everything and thank God my local-ish supermarket delivers.

I would love to live somewhere that has better urbanism. Even the term urbanism is a turn off to most Americans and usually invokes a different idea than it does in other countries. As I was viewing that footage of China (and I'm aware not all of china looks like those did), I was thinking nothing even remotely like this exists in America. How convenient these areas must be to live in.

Of course, the people pushing the 15 minute city ideas are presenting it as living in ze podz and eating ze bugs and this will be forced on you. I don't want to live in ze pod and I'll starve before eating ze bugs. I would never want to be "assigned" to live in a 15 minute city as these droids pretending to be human push them. But it sounds just like it's bad marketing. Like there would be a lot of advantages to living in a 15 minute area, where everything I would need is easy and friendly walking or cycling short distance away. Work might be a different story. I happen to be blessed with work-at-home, so that's not really an issue for me.

Almost nothing is an easy walk from my house, even living in an urban environment (12k people per mile square). The nearest movie theater, for example, is like a 20-30 minute drive from my house. There is one baker within easy biking distance. etc. There is far too much I have to ride quite a distance to get to. 40 years ago, there was much, much more you could walk to. I used to live in easy walking distance of 2 movie theaters, one a discount theater that played the last week the movie was available in any theater. That was great for a teenager (which I was), 1 dollar movies. At this time, renting a movie was usually more than a Dollar (early to mid 80s). There were 2 bowling allies in easy walking distance. Several restaurants. Dance halls. Many other of those types of things.

Is it just bad marketing or do people (particularly right wingers) despise the idea? If so, why? Of course, I also want a car to be an option. Just because I don't need a car now doesn't mean I won't ever need one again (I've driven many years). There are things I miss doing with a car.

Of course, being America, you cannot have good transit. That's just against the law or something.

SEATTLE TIMES: Behind this fall’s ballot measure on transgender student athletes, one that’s pushed Washington’s youth sports into a national spotlight, is a web of ambiguous language that many health providers in the state are still trying to untangle.

Some parts of Initiative 638, a hotly debated measure brought by conservative political committee Let’s Go Washington, are clear. The initiative, if passed, would ban trans girls from participating in K-12 interscholastic girls sports. It would not require a new, additional medical appointment. It would apply only to girls, not boys, teams.

Other portions, like how the measure would alter the way health providers give athletic assessments to all girls, are murkier. 

According to the first section of I-638, for example, “existing Washington state law and school district policies require students to undergo a routine physical examination prior to participation in interscholastic sports, which includes documentation of the student’s sex assigned at birth.”

Some health providers have immediate questions: Which state law? How is a “routine physical examination” defined? What “documentation” is the language referring to?

And while the initiative does not explicitly require genital exams for anyone, mixed messaging over how providers would have to verify student information has caused confusion, too.

“This is so clearly written by somebody who does not understand what I’m doing in a sports physical,” said Dr. Glenna Martin, a family physician who works at a Seattle community health center and who opposes the measure. 

I-638 supporters say, in practice, the initiative wouldn’t change much for doctors, that it would just add a check box on a medical form. But the measure’s vague writing has left many health experts throughout the state uncertain or misinformed about what they could be required to do when signing off on students’ sports eligibility.

Campaigns on either side of I-638 have spent months arguing over what the initiative would or would not do, though much of that back-and-forth isn’t represented in the four-sentence description that appears on the ballot.

Many health professionals and expert organizations, including the Washington chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, have declined to comment publicly on the measure. In the state voters guide, no medical organizations are listed as supporting I-638.

Some, however, have spoken out in opposition, including the Washington Academy of Family Physicians, the Washington State Nurses Association and the Washington State Psychological Association.

Here’s what several medical providers from around the state say about how they’re interpreting the measure and how they would implement potential changes, should it pass.

How would sports exams for student athletes change?

To Martin, who specializes in family, addiction and abortion medicine, I-638 appears to require providers to confirm girls’ assigned sex at birth when analyzing their ability to play school sports, using one of three methods.

Those three methods are, according to the initiative, looking at “reproductive anatomy, genetic makeup, or normal endogenously produced testosterone levels.”

In other words, Martin said, she could give a young patient a pelvic exam, test their genes or test their hormone levels. (She added these tests do not necessarily determine somebody’s sex or gender.)

That does not mean that all providers would be required to give students pelvic exams for them to play sports. 

It does seem to mean that providers could give pelvic exams — or a genetic or blood test — if they felt “legally obligated to comply,” Martin said. It depends on how individual providers would feel about enforcing a change to patient care based on the outcome of an election, she said.

“At the end of the day, I wouldn’t do it because I think it is completely unethical,” Martin added. “I would probably cross that part off and say, ‘this is not medically indicated.’”

he said she also opposes the measure because, despite being a point often at the heart of debate, there is not consistent research that shows trans girls have an athletic advantage over cis girls.

Let’s Go Washington counters that “sex-based athletic categories are necessary,” as supporters of the initiative wrote in the state voters guide.

Hallie Herzberg, spokesperson for the political committee, has a different interpretation of the initiative language when it comes to confirmation of assigned sex at birth.

According to Herzberg, providers would be able to confirm their patient’s assigned sex at birth “based on history of treating the patient.”

“In most cases, it would just be a doctor relying on existing medical records to check that box, so we don’t anticipate much of a change,” Herzberg wrote in an email. 

She also noted, according to the initiative, providers would not be able to use birth certificates to confirm sex “because they can be changed in Washington state.”

Dr. Ken Gass, a retired pediatrician in Bellingham, said that even if the initiative allows providers to check assigned sex at birth with existing medical records, not all children have regular primary care providers who have those records.

Those students often, unfortunately, get sports physicals from providers they’ve never met before, like at an urgent care center or during a mass clinic in a school gym, Gass said. 

It is true, as the measure language says, that state law allows school districts or regional interscholastic sports organizations, like the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association, to oversee and manage their own rules for school sports. 

It’s true that per WIAA rules, student athletes must receive a sports physical exam from a health provider in order to get certain medical forms signed. 

It is not true that those sports physicals typically include official provider confirmation of a student’s assigned sex at birth, according to several Washington primary care and family medicine doctors.

“I’m not usually checking that off,” Martin said.

If I-638 passes, that would change. 

Herzberg, of Let’s Go Washington, said there is a WIAA form that requires confirmation of assigned sex at birth, pointing to a medical history form-rev.pdf) on the association’s website.

That document, which does ask about assigned sex at birth and gender identity, goes into a student’s medical file, per WIAA, but it’s signed by students and/or their parents, not their health providers.

“They are official medical forms,” Herzberg wrote in an email.

The two WIAA documents that health providers usually sign are a physical exam form and a medical eligibility form. Neither asks for confirmation of assigned sex at birth. 

“Now you’re in a situation where if you’re honest, you’re not going to check a box on a child you do not know,” without having to then turn to a pelvic or genetic exam for confirmation, he said.

As a result, said Gass, who opposes the initiative, he guessed that all students, including cis and trans girls, may be less motivated to join school sports. Or providers may be less likely to offer sports physical exams at all, he said.

“Doctors don’t want to put themselves at risk of signing a paper of someone they don’t know,” Gass said. 

What do health providers typically check during sports physicals?

Some providers pushed back against the wording in I-638 about what state policies currently require around school sports.

It is true, as the measure language says, that state law allows school districts or regional interscholastic sports organizations, like the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association, to oversee and manage their own rules for school sports. 

It’s true that per WIAA rules, student athletes must receive a sports physical exam from a health provider in order to get certain medical forms signed. 

It is not true that those sports physicals typically include official provider confirmation of a student’s assigned sex at birth, according to several Washington primary care and family medicine doctors.

“I’m not usually checking that off,” Martin said.

If I-638 passes, that would change. 

Herzberg, of Let’s Go Washington, said there is a WIAA form that requires confirmation of assigned sex at birth, pointing to a medical history form-rev.pdf) on the association’s website.

That document, which does ask about assigned sex at birth and gender identity, goes into a student’s medical file, per WIAA, but it’s signed by students and/or their parents, not their health providers.

“They are official medical forms,” Herzberg wrote in an email.

The two WIAA documents that health providers usually sign are a physical exam form and a medical eligibility form. Neither asks for confirmation of assigned sex at birth. 

Dr. Eloi Hoopman, a family physician in Pierce County, said the topic can come up, but “we just take (students’) word for it.” She doesn’t do pelvic exams or other testing to confirm kids’ assigned sex at birth for sports physicals, she said.

According to Let’s Go Washington, the initiative would allow providers to sign off on sports physical forms, using patient information they gather in annual well-child visits.

Most children in the U.S. receive annual well exams, but not all do, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

Hoopman has said it’s misleading for proponents of I-638 to conflate the two types of exams, and called the measure “poorly written.”

Now, how provider roles could change when caring for student athletes is up to voters.

A “yes” vote on the initiative bans trans girls from girls K-12 sports. A “no” vote rejects the proposed ban, and maintains Washington’s existing policies that allow students to compete on teams aligned with their gender identity.

Ballots must be returned to official election drop boxes by 8 p.m. Tuesday. The U.S. Postal Service recommends mailing your ballot at least one week before Election Day, so at this point, drop boxes are a better option.

Hey everybody - take a ride with ol' Orangutape as I cook up a conspiracy theory on the true design of the Venemous Abyss, what could have been and what got delayed in a workaround. I want to lay out a few obvious things before I get into detail on how I think this was all really intended to be laid out.

TL;DR - Kith'ix fits too well into the Venomous Abyss, I think he's another victim of cut content for various reasons

THE CONSPIRACY

Kith'ix was meant to be a secret boss after Ulatek, but got delayed for a number of reasons - mainly the timeline with Blizzcon coming up and tuning difficulties in this raid. It was cut to make sure raiders would not overlap and saves Blizzard a huge headache.

The previous raid had a secret phase, something we haven't seen in years. Let's follow it up with a secondary raid that has a secret boss, something that also hasn't been seen in years. Where's the problem? *How do we close out the third season if we already used up Secret Phases and Secret bosses?* For this reason, I think Kithi'ix was booted out to a farther raid.

**THE OBVIOUS*\*

Getting to Kith'ix
The entrance to Kith'ix chamber is located underneath the Ulatek fight. If you enter the raid from the underbelly you are clearly teleported back into the raid, it has a different set of doors that lead into the Ulatek's room only drained. Ulateks venom is draining down into the Kith'ix raid in the front section.

The name of the raid itself - Venomous *Abyss*
What about the raid inspires any abyss feeling? It's all flat and there are pools for poison, maybe you could consider the coiled altar to be an abyss? But overall it's fairly level throughout. Abyss has a shadowy connotation however, which leads me to think it had a void meaning originally which would be our surprise at the end.

The temple pictographs
Throughout the entire zone, there are carvings of Ulatek beating Kith'ix, so this one is fairly clear foreshadowing. If I wasn't lazy, I could take some screenshots but you're stuck with me.

The NPC's involved
This one is a little sketchy but I think it's fairly easy to explain on the fly. We have like 6 NPCS going into Kith'ix including Arator and others, but really only Liadrin matters. None of them talk to her except for those involved in the Venemous Abyss however. None of the NPCs showed up for Hulk Mushroom, so why are they so invested this go around?

**THE EVIDENCE*\*

The coiled altar fills with two colors - green and purple. Obviously Malacrass is voodoo energy or whatever, but his purple color scheme isn't represented anywhere else - except for with Kith'ix and arguably Vashnik. The doors leading to the Kith'ix raid are corrupted purple, but I really think that was the intended entrance that just got pushed to the new raid.

Ulatek has no voice lines. This is the first time a final boss hasn't talked shit to us in forever (?). That seems very odd, especially given Ulatek has shown up in Warcraft before and has spoken. Loa frequently speak regardless of their animal nature. Did she originally have voice lines that referenced something else that had to get removed?

Ulatek shatters the middle platform in the heat of phase 3.
Ok so this one is probably a reach but feels reasonable to me. So she gets pissed and smashes the middle section and that's phase 3. Going into the Kith'ix raid that area is clearly shattered from down below, which would make sense with the angry smash, and also leads into the Kith'ix being revealed.

Ulatek has no kill cinematic. In game or CGI made, this is the first boss in what feels like a long time without any kind of celebration of an end boss death. This feels extra weird, given that we are teleported to the side platforms where eggs are collected, and her corpse is just skeletonized and laying there. whoops Im wrong on this one, it was just very short and more focused on the twins.

Kith'ix has no exit, the entrance drops you into an ABYSS where you have to ultimately hearth out or get a portal. It has a big cinematic finish to it, and there are consequences to it (whether you enjoyed them or not)

**THE END*\*
That's all I got. Why do I care? I don't know I'm bored but I keep thinking about this when raiding and I feel like it's not talked about. Maybe I'm stupid and it's obvious. Yeah it's probably that. Orangetape outta here.

I feel like a lot of people are falling into the trap to choose a race that is the best for their class right now. I‘ve read comments saying priests should go human with their spirit buff or pick troll for the crazy health regen.
Truth is the last weeks showed that the devs are willing to make radical changes to racials and what is best now can change on any given day.

This is an advice for new players who are reading these kinds of comments: Don‘t pick a race you don‘t really like because people are saying it‘s the best for a certain class. You don‘t want to spend 100 hours playing and the devs nerf your racials. Choose a race you like because of their asthetics and cultural background in the game. Playing an undead feels completely different than playing a tauren for the first 20 levels.

Also don‘t overlook where your starting zone will be. Choosing a gnome for their racials and then running to Elwynn Forest because you prefer that and the connecting zones for leveling is just a waste of time if the racials are changing every now and then and could have just picked a human, unless you really like to play a gnome of course.

I really do hope that the majority of the playerbase will not fall into the minmaxing trap that plagued WoW classic/TBC classic in the past.

Film version of a book by Jack Shaheen that analyzes how Hollywood caricatures Arabs and Muslims in service of the American empire.

It's probably too late for major changes, but Dual Spec really should be available at level 30. By the time we hit 40, we're already completely overwhelmed by mount costs and skill training. It would make so much sense to introduce it at 30 for a reasonable price, maybe something like 20g, to split up the gold sinks. If they don't want to do that, making it a level 60 account-wide perk for ~100g would be another awesome alternative. We don't actually know the intended price yet however.

“Is literally anybody safe on this team?”

“Do I need to start packing our bags?”

“Was last week the last time my husband will be putting on a Colts jersey?”

She says the constant roster changes have been emotional for NFL families, with longtime friendships being broken up.

It's wild the difference in treatment you get dating women if she finds you handsome or average. Women are t complicated or have issues asking men out.

It just means she doesn't like you. Women that break rules they made other guys jump through. As men if you want to date a girl and it isn't effortless dating her its best to move on.

(Note I mean first 1 year of dating. Obviously if it's a 10 year relationship then life comes into play. Even then though it shouldn't be pulling nails)

Every day I see more and more shit at my uni of people blaming the Jews for Isr4el’s actions and treating us with contempt on the basis that we are Jewish. People have said that the fraternity I am in is the worst one simply because we are a Jewish frat, we’ve been accused of being fascists for simply being a Jewish frat, I’ve heard people say Jews are the ugliest people, that because our drives for charity are run by Jews that people shouldn’t donate since we’ll just steal the money to fund Isr4el, that the blood of Palestinian children is on our hands because Isr4el and the Jews are the same, and that all Jews should leave our campus since our school is predominantly anti-Isr4el. IM SICK OF THIS SHIT. I DONT SUPPORT ISR4EL I CONDEMN THEM, SO DO MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN OUR HILEL AND FRATERNITY BUT NOPE, EVERY JEW LIKES ISR4EL I GUESS. IM NOT AJ ISR4ELI IVE NEVER BEEN TO THE LEVANT AND YET IM SUPPOSED TO BE CULPABLE WITH THE GENOCIDAL BUTCHERS HALFWAY ACROSS THE PLANET. WHY IS ANTI JEW SENTIMENT SO FUCKING NORMALIZED?? WHY?? WHAT HAVE WE DONE TO DESERVE YOUR HATRED AND PREJUDICE? BLAME THE ISR4ELI GOVERNMENT, NOT US. WE HAVE DONE NOTHING AND YET YOU ALL TREAT US AS IF WE ARE THE INCARNATE OF SATAN. BLAME THE ISR4ELI GOVERNMENT, NOT US, AND STOP ACTING AS IF EVERY JEW IS PRO ISR4EL, WE ARENT YOU RACIST PIECES OF SHIT.

One detail I haven't seen anyone discussing is paragraph 109 of the PL verdict, where the commission explicitly states:

"In such circumstances it is unrealistic to wholly compartmentalise each Charge, and we did not do so when reaching our Decision"

In other words they are stating that findings of misconduct on one charge influenced its assessment of others.

If City successfully overturns even just one major finding on appeal, particularly the disguised sponsorship allegations, it could create a domino effect across the verdict. The commission has effectively acknowledged that its conclusions were not reached entirely independently of one another.

This could be a huge boost for City's appeal.