Gamestop really just needs to pivot hard at this point and just become what they bought: ThinkGeek. Thinkgeek succeeded in a marketplace where their shipping and general site were garbage but it worked because they provided products nobody else did. So of course gamestop got rid of that site, smushed it into…

I’ll quote David Miller, chairman of the board of trustees of Southern Methodist University, “It’s a couple hundred million dollars. I’m not losing sleep over it.” While he has nothing to do with BNSF, it tells you how the corporate world looks at things. In the case of BNSF, fines/settlements/judgments are expenses…

The correct answer is zero. We are decades away from even getting a single human on mars for any period of time, let alone long enough to establish a long term base upon which we can establish our rule of mars. AI and robotics would seem to be much closer to making human analogs that can perform better on mars then…

I’m in a major southern city, and I swear there used to be way more shade around. People think nothing of cutting down a sixty year old tree on their property, and I’m sure any development from the past twenty years viewed every potential tree planted in a parking lot as four fewer parking spaces. The end result is…

This is actual nonsense. Sun Tea is brewed before any sugar - necessary to fuel any bacterial growth - is added. Unsweatened tea is simply not a viable growth media. There is one professor that cites one patent (not even a scientific study) that is regularly quoted here. The patent is public record, there was no…

Fuck the booze industry.

Indeed. Over 30 dollars for 2 beers at a recent concert is highway robbery.

How about concerts are too expensive and people who go to them don’t want to spend money on overpriced refreshments?

If you find there isn’t enough meat in the restaurant serving of chili, just order a plain Jr Burger along with it. Cut up or break up the patty, add it to the chili and have the bun as a side piece of bread for dipping. Adds about $1.50 or so to the price of the chili but worth it.

I realise this is probably mandated, but why is io9/gizmodo covering this? It's incredible DC/WB would put out a major movie with a main character that really should be in jail.

(could also be a lot of places in Australia have perfectly fine and functional public transport, which is convenient to use and a lot cheaper than paying for parking)

I will ask for 1 and only 1: Full Metal Alchemist with Hollywood cast.

$520k only 8 years ago? And they can’t flip it due to what is effectively cosmetic?

It kinda strikes me that something like House Flipper or Power Wash simulator have a lot of potential for enviromental storytelling that’s aside from the main game.

Hands are hard to draw, but you will never come across a character artist who has the level of proportion and rendering seen in that Harley/Joker image who makes that bad of nightmare hands.

Its not really because it learned the bad hands from artists, but rather that fingers are very small compared to the rest of the image and also when the images get downsized for the AI training (64x64-512x512) the fingers will be like 1 pixel wide. Artists arent to blame here.

Every time I look at that hand I see something new that’s somehow more horrifying than the last.  

Oh, that’s an autocorrect typo and should have been “softer features”

Ho boy, as someone who did classical history as their minor. YEP

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/08/eco-wood-burners-produce-450-times-more-pollution-than-gas-heating-report