until my new controller gets delivered, which could take a bit with the snow we are getting.

It's okay to take a break from the constant battles and just sit down with a nice cuppa tea and learn how to grow things instead of destroying them.

Really. It's okay.
It really is.

Time to go nap, wait to see what t's like when I wake up.

If the borough responds like they did with the 3" snowfall we had not long ago- we'll be snowed in for a few days.

And we are all fine with that.

*hot cocoa weekend*

Guys, seriously. We've known about this for days and days. Why do you all wait until the day of the storm to go get rock salt and non-shelf stable foods?

We're good. Just got back from delivering produce bags to our people, and 4 snow shovels ) bags of salt to 4 families that needed them.

Would be a Beary nice holiday present...

That's an amazingly good way to describe the feeling- spot on.

I get that feeling for a very different reason- onset of hypoglycemia with no other symptoms (Type 1 brittle IDDM). It's terrifying- something really bad is happening, but I don't know what yet, or why. And my doctor still doesn't get it when I describe my symptoms. It's often the only one I have.

Absolutely adorable!
*except to the small rodent whose snow tunnel it is about to crash through*

"Platform interaction!" baybee.
Sigh.
Feels a whole lot like social media, doesn't it?

a tool that they company owner put in to try to make more money for themselves, despite already having more money than they and their entire family could ever spend.

The greed is amazing.

I mean- stop calling everything that is computer assisted "AI". Like mammograms with "AI" tomography- it's not AI. It's computer assisted image enhancement to allow radiographers to see tiny things that the human eye can't see well enough.
This upsell tool at the dealership is just that-

It's "AI" and it hallucinates constantly, and its only function seems to be to try to sell you stuff you don't need."

I guess the owner of the company needs a new yacht?

FFS.

And thank you to the good people who work at places who know what a crock it is and choose to ignore it.

top off all the fluids, check the tires for leaks and fill them if they need it. Your car only needed a new battery because the one it had was super old. And after replacing it and testing the electrical system again- the AI said your car needed a new battery. Which we already replaced.

The Service Department manager handed me the list of suggested parts or maintenance, and told me to ignore it all- the AI seems to be programmed to try to upsell *everything*.
His words- "Just ignore it all, like we do. We do what we always do and give everything a once over, do all the testing,

every car needs new tires (like it did with Tati's car- which has tires that are only 4 months old). And it tells them they need new radios, new computers, new alternators, new radiators- for cars that are fresh from the factory. Brand new cars that have less than 10 miles on them.

so we took it in for a check and a new battery- basic maintenance shit.
Meanwhile, the company decided to implement an "AI Assistant" in the Service Department.

An "AI Assistant" that the people that work in Service told us that they have to completely ignore because it keeps telling them

Figured that out afterward, and I will blame missing it on lack of coffee and sleep. But I still stand by my dislike of AI slop.

This does look really beautiful, with an interesting twist on survival and helping the world to heal with your unique abilities.
Thanks for posting this- I probably would have missed this one on Steam if you hadn't.

This looks really interesting!