I went Audi but to be completely honest Hyundai and Kia make the best EVs.

I did figure out how to deal with them, and I am awash in tungsten! Now I'm shipping tungsten plates back to support my artillery aspirations.

I luckily am stuck on Vulcanus until I can figure out how to kill these worms and get to the tungsten ore, and there's no way I can travel back to the Forgotten Realms until my rocket is fueled.

We're talking past each other.

There are two distinct categories of impacts: carbon dioxide emissions from volcanoes (occurring presently) and supervolcano eruptions (rare even on geologic timescales but possible).

The comment chain I was responding to started with a quip about conservatives claiming that CO2 emissions are volcanic in nature. The follow-up discussion was about the relative magnitude of volcanic CO2 emissions occurring presently, including USGS figures on the magnitude of those emissions relative to anthropogenic sources. All of this discussion pertained to what is happening now.

You are making a separate point that a catastrophic supervolcano eruption would have much broader impacts. No one is disputing that. You could have a long-lasting volcanic winter, decrease in insolation and surface temperatures, widespread crop failures, etc. That's all true. It's also not relevant to the discussion of present impacts that was underway. Again, if a supervolcano eruption actually occurs in our lifetimes, global warming will be the least of our problems.

Well, no. The article is not talking about the kind of catastrophic supervolcano eruption that you are. It's talking about small-scale emissions, 4000-5000 tons per day from a single supervolcano crater in Italy, which totals less than 2 million tons per year or about 0.005% of global CO2 inventory.

You introduced the concept of a catastrophic supervolcano eruption for the first time. That wasn't the topic of the article or the comment chain I responded to.

Brother, if Yellowstone erupted, global warming would be the least of our problems.

You fail the saving throw. The curse takes hold of you, the Bane of Thorny Improbability, which damns its bearer to be eternally plagued by probability and combinatorics conundra in their adventures.

You know that you possess an antidote to stave off the worst effects of the curse, but you have three unlabeled flasks at your belt, all of which have an equal probability of being the cure. You choose a flask at random, but as you seek to dislodge it, one of the other flasks falls to the earth and shatters. The liquid eats through the rock of the cavern, giving off acrid smoke, and you recognize that the fallen vial was a deadly poison, not the cure.

Knowing that the second flask did not contain the cure, do you have a better chance of salvation by drinking the flask you originally chose, or switching to the remaining unfallen flask?

Redundancy is one tell, for sure. But another sign of AI slop is writing like this:

"While STALKER 2 can be a compelling experience even with inconsistent performance and a multitude of bugs, the continued presence of these problems could hinder the game's chances at success."

It reads like a middle school essay. Words for the sake of words, that don't really mean or convey anything. Baby's first thesaurus.

The second you let fly the arrow, you feel the burning in your fingers. The world around you fades as you look down in horror at the crimson thorns that dance on the surface of your hand. You hardly notice that the arrow met its mark - the goblin falls to the ground, pierced deep through its eye - as you, too, fall to your knees. You bellow in pain, the howling echoing through the cavern as the magical vine constricts, the thorns piercing into your flesh.

Roll for wisdom.

Volcanoes release less than 1% of the CO2 of anthropogenic emissions, according to USGS. But they also have a cooling effect by releasing sulfur particles that reflect sunlight. So yeah, volcanoes pretty much a wash, or at least de minimis compared to humans.

Is them mongooses?

"Revive" suggests that this goal was ever dead. Israel has been progressively seizing Palestinian land in the West Bank for half a century.

I can no longer tell whether terribly written articles are written by terrible writers, terrible AI, or terrible writers using terrible AI.

Or at least the Toronto Maple Leafs

Mmm incendiary

Stupid fucking pun

I'd say you can drink a soup but you can't easily drink a stew.

I heard about it for the first time today. It does look pretty cool. Didn't know about Denuvo, tho.

You wanted to go down; I wanted to go up. I was so annoyed when I finally realized there's no way up to those amazing skyscraper walkways in the downtown. Those buildings are just blocks with no entrance.

I figured that as you moved up in the world eventually that whole area would become accessible, but it's just decoration.

I didn't hate it. Maybe a 6.5/10 game with some cool moments. But it felt like the corners they cut would have been the coolest parts of the game.

That's not what it says in the article. The primary factor here is the booming growth of China's auto sector and how it is outcompeting European manufacturers. Global auto sales in 2024 are on track to be the highest of all time. BYD now has over 90% market share in China and is expanding its global exports. I'm as anti-car as you can get but the trends are in the opposite direction.