I also want to live my life but where I grew up, small town in GA, the expectation seems to be I move in with my parents to physically take care of them, otherwise I’m not a good son.

Oh man, okay so I feel this so hard. I have felt that guilt put on my shoulders and I’ve seen friends and family have that guilt put on theirs. You will need to choose your own path but I’ll say that you will be the only one who cares about your life path.

My friend moved to a place ~500 miles away from home and loved it, was happy to be there. His mother refused to visit. Old world “A mother shouldn’t visit her son, her son should respect her and come visit”. So he did. Then she guilted him into moving back home, giving up opportunities farther away. He is happy in the sense that he’s married and has kids and a fulfilling life, but he will always have the what if questions. What if his now wife and him had stayed, what if they had done this or that. I promise you, if you let them drive your life you will never be truly fulfilled.

Which is what drives my question. If they need assistance in the future, why couldn’t they move to where you are? Because every reason they could give could be equally flipped to you. “We have friends here”. “We have a house here”. “We like it here”. All of those you could say about where you are too. So if you are happy where you are and they need care why couldn’t they come to you?

The funny thing about people who think about things like “good son” or “good <familymember>” is that you will never do enough to appease them. Ever. You will need to grapple with this. You can move home. You can give them spongebaths. You can tuck them in at night and help them go to the bathroom. You will never be a “good son” if you aren’t now - because you are a good son. Just by thinking about this you are a good son. Their expectations of what a “good son” however non-commital and will always change, proven just with the guilt. The sooner you accept that their expectations of a “good son” will never be met, the sooner you can think more practically about how you want to proceed with life.

I had to go to therapy to realize how much guilt there was in my family, and learn some techniques on how to combat it. The most effective one is simply to call it out. They pull that “Well you’re just so far away” or “I wish you lived closer” you just gotta call that out, right there, on the spot. That shit breeds with repression, just letting it get away. “You’re just so far away” -> “You’re always welcome to visit”. “I wish you lived closer” -> “I wish you lived closer to me too!”. Put it right back out there. I’ve just also done the “Mom I’m not doing the guilt trip today. Your feelings are your own, I’m happy where I live and if you have a problem with it that’s your problem to work on, not mine”.

So, I’m sorry for the wall of text, but that last line needs to be called out. You are a good son. There are no expectations that you must give up your life to take care of them. If they didn’t plan ahead for life and expected you to come home, that’s their problem, not yours. Of course help where you feel comfortable, but it should be because you want to and it fits in your life, not because they expect it.

I won’t say everyone. I’ve actually been at a company who was investigated (not for CSAM, but other things that happened). I had no idea it even happened, and luckily was not involved with any of it. So for me no, I wouldn’t have wanted that. That being said 2 things, say I had been in the position. If our scraper was downloading it and it was my scraper, damn right I would have flagged it to legal, HR, and everyone I could have, along with writing some way to prevent it, and written everything down in a complete log (off company computer). If it wasn’t stopped immediately I would either quit, whistleblowed, or happily talked with anyone raiding and making sure any of the decision makers were hauled off. I don’t blame someone for being lowest level at a shit company, been there. (Although I will say, xAI, come on, no one is “stuck” there, but that doesn’t mean that Dave the brand new intern out of college should be hauled off). Who I blame are the suits who were probably told it was happening and chose to ignore it, and any engineer I do blame if they knew about it and chose not to do one of the above.

As an engineer I’ve had my fair share of let’s say… challenges that I’ve had to morally grapple with. Things I’ve been asked to do that may not be moral. However, there’s a pretty wide chasm between “Implement this dark pattern so people won’t unsubscribe” and “host this and don’t tell anyone”

including, I suspect, outright destruction of evidence

If it was trained on it, that means they are in possession of it, which that right there is straight to jail. I have a feeling they’re scrubbing everything they can right now as we chat

Oh I really liked GTA 5s campaign, I replay every couple of years

I think it’ll be a great game, but disappointed they don’t want to release for me. I was so hyped I was going to buy a PlayStation, until PlayStation started their latest BS with discs. Now I’m forced to wait to give them money

Anything that hides you from their eyes will eventually become banned and illegal

some sort of arr stack for models tbh

That sounds about on par for the witcher there, that’s mine too. That stupid riddles in the dark quest is where a lot of playthroughs go to die because of it’s completely wrong leveling.

I’m with you tbh, on the characters. Jennifer Hale did so so much better than Mark Meer in Mass Effect. Mark did great, but Jennifer just brought it to another level. Then cyberpunk. Holy shit, female V was so good right? I honestly have never played as male V because as soon as I get to the character creator I remember how good it is to play female V and I just can’t. The raw emotion she brought for that whole game was just perfect. That game was so great, could have you beating up a guy for catcalling you with a baseball bat to 5 minutes later you’re tearing up over the next gut punch. I’ve never played Saint’s Row, but I might just for Laura Bailey

yeah fully agree. They may go more underground, thinking if govs try to block them, but they’ll still be there.

We need to get models into a distributed distribution. Huggingface is way too central.

Yeah it’s technically the second if you count white orchard, which you can or could not, it’s a small starter area. Velen is the first real actual area you’re in. If you dealt with the witches you’re actually pretty close to being done with Velen, I’d push through to Novigrad.

RDR2 is interesting. I agree my first playthrough I played about to Chapter 2 and put it down. Didn’t get it, everyone told me it was amazing but did not get it. About a year or two later I picked it up again, and played more, and it picked up, and then up more, and then holy shit. RDR2 is now just absolute perfection, I play it probably once a year now! I actually amend my first, I think it might have over taken ME, which is really hard for me to say but it’s just such a spectacular story.

Personally I don’t have the issue of playing as someone else. Usually I play as the opposite sex in games anyway. However I’m also very empathetic, and so I really feel what the main character is feeling no matter who it is. I think the trend of all of those games is that they’re all absolute gut punches, they really hit you in the feels in the good way, and shows what happens when you let writers truly write.

Oh good! The trailer made such a big show about only being on Xbox consoles I just assumed they meant no pc.

you know honestly, I could see that. I see several posts all the time about “was wrongly banned”. Reddit went to shit, and I know I was banned for my fair share and they love throwing around the ban hammer. But… I’m guessing not everyone was completely wrongfully banned.

I’ll say that W3 starts horribly slow. White Orchard is one of the most boring training zones I’ve done, and Velen is rough. It’s needed for sure, but it doesn’t hook you very well. I highly recommend pushing through to Novigrad where you start meeting your friends like Triss, the story really picks up, the side quests get more involved, and it helps carry it through.

I love story rich games, Mass Effect is my #1, then RDR2, and then probably Cyberpunk 2077. Witcher 3 was very good, but to me the story just never quite gripped me like the others. The world however is phenomenal, and that’s what kept me playing.

Complaining about a free upgrade to a game you personally didn’t like is weird. What, you have to go out of your way to let us know you don’t like it? Dude you’re literally a meme.

I always love how the scammer always looks the same, like a true con man. Every time wall street just eats it up even though everyone says hey, he’s a scammer.

But maybe this time it’ll be different

Yeah anytime I see code that I use that interacts with a third party I mirror it to be safe. Repos are small. Especially if the third party isn’t a tech company, like most home assistant things. They are incredibly hostile and letigous against open source projects that have the audacity to make their products better.

always remember to clone/mirror repositories in other places folks. Lawyers got onto Github and Github happily takes things down unless all of the internet comes to push back. Mirror your favorite projects to codeberg, forgejo, gitea, wherever. You never know when someone will be forced to take that project you love down.

Yeah I have no care for their annual marketing rebrand. 6 broke most of the things I used even, I had DLCs that didn’t even work. Dovetail has no interest in going back and fixing anything.

That should worry them, as I spent probably 4-500 dollars a year on their content, happily I might add. I love the routes and the simulation. Last year I didn’t spend anything on it.

This looks honestly really good. Gears always looked like another shooter at face value, but it always had a great story and a lot of heart. They had a great trilogy, and then they lost that heart for 4/5, so much that I didn’t even bother with 5. E-Day here could be exactly what the franchise needs, a reboot of the gut feelings we had when playing the original, and the added benefit of it being a prequel so it could pull in new fans. I’m hopeful for it.

That being said it’s xbox exclusive and I’m linux-only so no way to play :/