The people asking questions are often fans lobbing questions they know fit the narrative. Like the tiktoker who streamed immediately and apparently stole merch from the booth: they were a fan and in line.

I agree with most of the comments in this thread, and I’ll add: there is zero need to purchase Windows 11.

To tell it to say:

Jerkface’s appeal to empathy and non-endorsement.

Mexican and Chinese.

But like the american type chinese takeout with a seventeen page menu of sushi and bubble teas I will never once get. And the mexican restaurants that also serve americanized tacos, so you know everything else has extra cheese and sauce.

Although DS2 gave us a reprieve with despawning enemies eventually, making runbacks feel rather poignant when you’re walking an empty world.

I think it is fine. No one should produce or raise children they do not want.

I still support our society focusing on improving the material conditions for every generation, new and old.

There should not be conflict there.

Painters that don’t mix their own black aren’t real artists. Inscribing words without deference to God is to blaspheme.

Art is not necessarily effort, but effort can be art. While I am agreeable that AI is a tool, it is one that appears to be used quite ineffectually. I’d love for artists to be able to produce their own stylized models. That’d be the legitimate pathway genAI might be able to take to follow the same trajectory as photoshop did for digital artistry.

Nonetheless a digital artist can convey their effort in a manner of the same order as oil on canvas. The problem with genAI is that it is purely derivative. It is limiting to the creative process as a result until the models, checkpoints, and such are entirely rooted into it.

If you didn’t make the model, train the checkpoints, and refine the prompts then you’re just feeding a black hole of derivative work, every time.

Honestly the hallucinations and horrors are the only things genAI have been creative about.

How many rough drafts of 101 Dalmations would you watch before arriving at what is now the final product?

It isn’t just the watercolor. It also is the decision by the artist to use watercolor.

The AI and its user did not know to add those ‘additional prompts’, and for that the result suffered. The result is then discarded for the next iteration which defines it as: slop.

Become younger and get money? Sure.

Oh boy, perpetually recovering from surgery at an advanced age!

DotA when it was a WC3 custom map.

That’s great. I could see it was a 3 but I couldn’t explain how I knew until I scrolled.

The pattern that the 7 above was also clipped revealing the edge of the 3 also was missed made it click.

Neat!

I wouldn’t have caught the 6 over there was clipped though. That’s some analysis right there. Thorough.

It seems as long as its said in Hebrew the ignorance of that media will do the rest.

Well my backlog is over five years old, so these spoilers right out the gate I guess lightened the list for me a bit.

RIP TLOU.

I have two. One, in my office where I work. It rarely, if ever, moves. Mostly it lifts for cleaning.

The other is in the living room. It is always on max height because I have small kids so it stays on ‘out of reach mode’ any time I am not in my chair.

Out of reach mode has paid for itself many times over compared to whatever I get out of standing.

I am more worried there might actually be a Maximum Overdrive sequel.

Not quite the same thing, but the song Corridors of Time have gotten me misty eyed from the nostalgia alone.

They’ve been on social media cheering it on since 2023. Civilians/reservists have been forming human chains to block humanitarian aid that WAS allowed to go in. This isn’t a shocking new development, it is what has been explicitly stated, expressed, and demonstrated for multiple years now.

Two sets of lids were swapped. Those lids can be pretty heavy. Whats inside them usually are valves for plumbing.

So after the 100th set of valves you’ve backflow tested that day and you’re resetting the lids in 100F+ degree heat and you turn around as you’re walking away with your gear that you swapped two lids?

Well, having done this work at two different times in my life: the size of paycheck matters decidedly on whether that’s getting fixed.