These things are very different, and imo not a valid comparison.
Sure someone might die by suicide no matter what cultural or social inputs they’re exposed to, but it’s equally possible that they wouldn’t, and only did so because of constant pressure and personalized conspiratorial fantasies fabricated by an unthinking and unfeeling algorithm.
Video games, though we might personally identify with them and their characters, are not actively refining and tailoring themselves to infiltrate our psyche like some LLMs are. I’d go as far as to say video games are passive when compared to LLMs. You play a video game that exists as a single piece of work with predictable outcomes based on your inputs, in a completely fictional space. LLMs are essentially the opposite. LLMs play you and tailor their responses to achieve outcomes they predict you want in the real world, without actually understanding or caring about the potential consequences. Still not necessarily a 1:1 cause and effect, but the incentives are super different.
Same. I played shortly after release, with worse specs than you, and I had nearly no issues. A little bit of stuttering on rare occasion, but honestly not much more than other games. The hate against this game’s performance has been way overblown in my experience.
Well NYTimes, now you know. So maybe change your coverage to stop favoring “moderate” (read: right) voices that nobody trusts anymore?
There was some typical wishy-washy group-think in the panel, but for the most part it was incredibly clear that there is no patience for spineless moderation or both-siding. Bernie, AOC, Crockett, and Mamdani are the politicians that stood out to them as speaking their minds and representing the people with clear visions of forward progress. It’s no coincidence that they’re some of the most left politicians we’ve got.
I’m frankly shocked the NYTimes went through with publishing this, since it basically goes exactly against their approach to journalism.
It’s pretty rare, but it happens. I got shingles when I was 18, and that was after having a natural case of the chickenpox at age 5 or 6. Still have the scars, it hurt like a motherfucker.
More importantly, why would you want to unredact the names of victims? The victims have been through enough, there’s no reason to further risk their safety or retraumatize them.
I agree Apple TV with Infuse is a bit expensive, but it’s worth it for the seamless experience imo. The quality of the Apple TV hardware means you’ll never have to deal with transcoding, and the local caching is spectacular. If the Infuse subscription is what’s stopping you, there are other cheaper and free apps for the Apple TV that support DV via Jellyfin (Swiftfin and MrMC are pretty solid) but the Infuse interface is hard to beat.
Everything? Really? That’s bold. I’ve been around for a while, and I personally can’t remember a time when 3000 armed, masked, untrained and unaccountable thugs were let loose by the federal government on individual cities to openly terrorize, incite, and murder the general population.
Nah, frequent sandstorms (multiple times a day) destroy everything if you don’t keep your base shields charged, and keeping your shields charged requires constant resource farming and crafting.
I absolutely loved the game, raved about it, spent months finishing the story and building my perfect base, kitted out my ornithopters with shameful amounts of resource farming, then life went on and I got too busy to think about it. A few weeks later, I logged back in and BOOM, all my shit’s gone. They eventually added a way to save your stuff if you know you won’t be playing for a while, but it was too late for me. I was genuinely gutted.
It’s an unforgivably shitty way to reward players who sink months of their lives into your game. I’ll never touch a game like this again.
Banshee was phenomenal. Such an underrated show. There were a couple of episodes where at the end I was fully stunned and thought, “shit, that was some of the best television I’ve ever seen.”
Ugh this just gave me a flashback to Wyll falling down into the spidery depths of the goblin camp. When it was his turn the camera absolutely fritzed out because he was the lowest character on the map (which is three levels, each with huge verticality). I had companions up in the rafters, the ground floor, and the depths. I sent Gale down after Wyll to try to keep him alive and help him get back up, but then I had two bugged cameras. Had to target magic missiles on the enemy icons, that was the only way they could do anything from down there.
The camera is pretty much my only criticism of the game. It’d also be great if third person view was enabled on PC without mods…
The sheer number of unacceptably loud neighbors I’ve had above and adjacent to me makes me wish this wasn’t true, but it is. If I can hear you peeing, that means you can hear me peeing. So of course you’re keeping me up at night with your booming subwoofer and random 1am furniture rearranging. People are assholes.
I’ve come to believe it’s not always intentional, but that doesn’t make it any better, it just shows a distinct lack of empathy and disregard for other people around you. I fucking hate living in apartments…
Oh, and if you live in an upstairs apartment with hard floors, and keep your shoes on or walk around in heels all day, stop doing that. Your downstairs neighbors definitely hate your guts.
I recently rewatched it to see if I would come away with a different feeling, but no, I agree with most of this. I didn’t know about the nepotism, but that tracks.
Sol was the worst. His motivations were creepy, his emotional attachment and paternalism to Osha was unhealthy even for a non Jedi.
The more the story of Osha’s “kidnapping” was fleshed out, the more frustrating the whole thing became. Sol was selfish, presumptuous, and motivated by personal feelings.
The big lightsaber fight was devastating. It was incredible action and for sure some amazing cinematography, but
killing all the padawans
was a huge swing that was a bit too blunt of a tonal switch for me. But I get why they did it, it had impact.
Composers write the music, musicians play the music, and conductors wave around a stick to keep the musicians playing the composition at the right volume and tempo, and to make sure the different sections of the orchestra (the different groups of instruments) come in and out at the right times.
Try coordinating all that without a conductor and it’d be a crazy cacophonous mess…
Fun fact, if you’ve ever watched a string quartet performance, the first violinist basically conducts the other three with their body and bow while playing. Most people have some natural tempo, but keeping multiple people on track usually requires visual queues and well-timed breathing.
Not unprecedented, but still very strange, doesn’t make sense to me either.
From the article:
North Carolina is one of a handful of states that allow jilted spouses to sue for “alienation of affection” to seek damages from a third party responsible for the breakup of their marriage.
It’s very weird to me that some states let spouses sue a third party for their partner’s infidelity. Sinema is clearly a morally bankrupt asshole, but this guy cheated on his wife.
Scoop: no fucking shit.
So exhausting.