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Cream of the Cool

Boomer shooter is a sub genre of First Person Shooters which deliberately eschew more modern shooter elements in favor of older designs. It also includes the games that these shooters are based on. As with most things labeled with boomer it's actually more related to Generation X and early Millennials but if you're going to smear something as old that's the word that gets thrown around. Modern FPS have a distinct vibe and while the exact point of departure is

The Lifecycle of Software Objects is a 2010 novella by Ted Chiang. It's about Anna, an animal trainer turned software tester, who is hired to train and/or create digients. A digient is a digital pet sort of thing; except that pets can't learn to talk while the digients can. They can also scamper about, pick up objects, and otherwise interact with their digital environment. They can also think; but not well. The digients Anna meets are like

Where to begin? Let me start with some reasoning, before proceeding on to the Ad Hominem part.

There is a logical fallacy called the base rate fallacy, that says that when dealing with a specific case, you also have to look at the base rate. That involves lots of math, so I will just refer to it by another term: the waving a metal pole during a lightning storm fallacy or the I am going to smear myself with salmon and wander around in bear territory fallacy. Do you know how many

  1. Acquire a bass. Ideally the bass should be either the acoustic variety, the upright variety, or the electric variety, but it should not be the aquatic variety. If you acquired your bass by pulling it out of a body of water, it is probably the wrong sort of bass, and you should take your searching farther inland.
  2. Acquire one or more string suitable for installation on a bass. These are found through vendors of musical