It’s almost as if that cultural/conversational shorthand for “do something more useful” stinks of an anti-intellectualist perspective that says our intellects are interchangeable and the only tasks that matter are those that John Doe on the street can immediately benefit from.

Yes, there’s definitely a disease that requires artificial intelligence building a 3d model of one person’s face based upon facial recognition applied to video samples to animate it based upon facial recognition applied to another video sample. Definitely.

Hayden Panettiere gives me the sloppy mom vibes (where she seems reasonably “together” on the outside but the kids tell a very different story), but I’m absolutely hoping that’s just me projecting something because that kind of childhood sucks.

Breathable fabrics are one of the most germ-retaining materials in human history. Sharing blankets is so dangerous that it is believed to be the start of the smallpox epidemic that decimated Native Americans and the practice was weaponized at least once and rumored to have been a handful of additional times. Many of…

Luke, a good journalistic justice piece might be to follow-up with Apple about when and if the kid gets a bug bounty paid and what Apple is doing to make bug reporting easier. The mother apparently registered as a developer just to report it but their process was too technical.

According to that statistic, not really : It suggests that it is approximately ten times rarer than having red hair. If we assume that there are exactly 300 million people in the US and that the number of minors who wed are evenly distributed, the odds of being an underage spouse are ~.00069 and so per hundred people…

Everything I’ve seen about the Epic game store talks about how much better a deal it is for publishers, but as a consumer there is absolutely no benefit for me.

Right, and as unpalatable as I find that, it’s not as rare as people make it out to be, depending on where you are. Milla Jovavich for instance married at 16. Hell, so did Marilyn Monroe. While I think that’s terrible for the children involved to make such a major decision (or have it made for them, yuck) so young,…

Okay, since you’ve couched this as a microeconomics problem, explain how you think Epic should compete against a de facto monopoly if not third-party exclusives. Nothing is more frustrating to me as a game developer than when people say “I’m all for competition” and then make clear in the rest of their statement that…

Whew, that take is hot enough to scorch. Lady Gaga is no more guilty of putting too little faith in the accusations against R Kelly than any other time than anyone else who had heard some of the incredibly salacious (and often unsourced) claims against famous figures. Sandusky, Jackson, Cosby... when very famous…

They are incredibly rare. I’ve got a collection of about a dozen of them as an art reference for one of the characters in a project and they are virtually all “main characters” or antagonists and half of them have some pretty regrettable blackface elements used by artists who are too lazy or clueless to realize that…

Come on Nissin. This isn’t even that hard. Here, I’ll even help. You stop whitewashing someone like this...

Right. You mean Niji sousake (derivative work doujinshi) which was always illegal but has been traditionally ignored because in Japan, copyrights are only enforced if the copyright holder chooses to do so and almost all copyright holders of anime/manga/light novels choose to ignore the infringement. Without going into…

Don’t. Japan has incredibly strict copyright laws, and it is “unauthorized” because he claimed it to be representative of a licensed character and was not covered under license. It wasn’t a bootleg from what I’ve read elsewhere, it was simply not endorsed or authorized by the company.

Dear God, why? I don’t even like cats but even I know you don’t cover the poor bastards’ ears. They literally have extra muscles just for controlling their ears and use them for balance and communication beyond the standard hearing usage. This is the equivalent of strapping your unwilling kid into a mermaid tail becaus…

Thank you for perfectly illustrating my point — How will I convince others that you lied? Will I ask you to furnish the pictures? Oh, you deleted them immediately? Understandable, if they truly upset you and you hadn’t considered needing proof. Will I ask you to prove that we know each other somehow? Who knows how…

and then investigate which one is true

Yes. Yes, it is. If you create a game where sexuality and romance exist as an aspect of shaping your character’s story arc and push your players to surrogate themselves into that identity with a strong campaign focused on how the hero’s choices are your choices, any attempt you make to later strongarm the character…

Can we start a conversation about how stupid it is to have a weekly authentication for a yearly subscription service? I mean, by all means run an authentication anytime they connect online, but failing that, the value of this part of the service is not great enough to create 52 points of failure for an authentication…

What would you say the over/under is on Destiny 2 migrating or crossplatforming to the Epic Store within the next couple years?