InEverQuest IIthere was the great December downtime, where the game was offline for more than a day when the servers wouldn’t come up after an update. Iwrote up a bit about that a decade later, but you can find some contemporary commentaryover at Terra Nova. Anarchy Onlineintroduced a ...
I was just hoping I would not be gored. I felt quite giddy as I let everyone rush past me – as I had a ticket. They did not. They made us form two lines. The line to the left was for ticket holders. The line to the right was for those found wanting. Now I felt like I ...
You will purchase your print(s) via secure server provided by PayPal; you can use your credit/debit card and do not need to have an account with PayPal. The funds go to Peter Zack. At the end of each week Peter will take the donations to his local Red Cross branch. The receipt(s)...
And while there was a sense of dread as I watched the cancer steadily peck away at my red blood cells, in a way there was also this mix of “OK, cool, cancer is back baby! Hero time!” This sounds dumb. Hell, it is dumb. But in a way, I look back at the spring of 2014 ...
Mike Andronico is Senior Writer at CNNUnderscored. He was formerly Managing Editor at Tom's Guide, where he wrote extensively on gaming, as well as running the show on the news front. When not at work, you can usually catch him playing Street Fighter, devouring Twitch streams and trying ...
The cultural trope is the hard-working father coming home to drink a few beers or the tired business woman pouring herself a “well-deserved” glass of red wine. Drinking has become a social event, with bottles of wine appearing at weddings, social gatherings, and nearly every big holiday....
Because we were going to be so high up I’d brought opera glasses – we had his and hers from the Royal Opera house in red velvet bags and I gave Dee’s to Daisy as a gift which she received with some emotion – they were great friends too, In the event, the stairs proved ...
finds that 10 prominent open-sourced VLMs struggle with the red teaming in different degrees and have up to 31% performance gap with GPT-4V; also applies red teaming alignment to LLaVA-v1.5 with SFT using the proposed red teaming dataset, which improves model performance by 10% in the test...
A word of warning: I finished a rather long play session with a comically large red indent on my forehead, so you might want to make sure your Meta Quest 2 isn’t too tight before you dive in. Or consider some of the best Meta Quest 2 accessories to ensure the most comfortable fit ...
LIAM: A giant red hand comes down and goes claws in. Now there's half of that left. Give or take. SAM: I'll take the bow. Are there any arrows? LIAM: Not here in this pile, but you do see a quiver, like something out of the goddamned Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe ...