Pikachu not missing an ear? Real missed opportunity there.

This company should have gone out of business years ago. A ridiculous YouTube channel and a bunch of gullible people managed to keep it alive for an extra few years. Just put it out of its misery.

You realize your advice is for them to become exactly like another retail company that went out of business.  I don’t see how that’s productive advice.

And because the show is progressing at a glacial pace, and Stevenson has passed away, we’ll never find out what his actual story was...

One core problem with Star Wars is they have never established any rules to travel (I’m talking about the cannon movies). So there is zero reason that any location is “Remote” from any other location. Hell, they haven’t even really established if it takes longer to go someplace further away by distance.

I really think the core weakness is he’s trying to stretch this thing out to 3+ seasons. The amount of stalling is really really obvious, and frankly a little annoying now that we know that Stevenson is gone and it’s going to blow a hole in the entire story.

Hint: She will.  (Which is ridiculous)

This is arguably where we should have been at episode 3. Bits of the show are good, but it is being stretched out way to long.  And with Stevenson now gone, I’m a little pissed that we probably aren’t going to get to the heart of his plan until after he’s gone (because it was planned for Season 2).

I think the best route is for Paramount of make a Strange New Worlds movie and show it in theaters for a few weeks before releasing it on the streaming service.

Is Loki the only good thing to come out of the MCU post Endgame?

This has been equally rough on the writers.  They were not anticipating the strike lasting anywhere near this long.  And even after this, Hollywood still massively undervalues writers.

He’s just anti-union.

It’s not going to be long before you can train an AI on a character in a script and have them continue to speak in that “style.” It would involve taking your standard LLM and then training it on a small set of dialogue. I frankly am dubious that LLM approaches could really do it with such a small sample (a few hundreds…

I’ve worked with these next-gen tools at a big studio. 100% agree. Even putting cost aside, the speed, flexibility and nearly instant feedback is worth it just in itself. There are things you simply cannot do with voice actors that designers and gameplay engineers have been dreaming of doing for decades. AI voice…

I’ve worked at a big studio with the next generation of AI voice tools. Voice actors (with the exception of some marquee movie names that help with PR) are going to be obsolete very soon. Even putting aside the costs, the ability to combine next-gen text to speech with much richer simulations are going to open up a…

Gross.  F him then.

Honest question: Were they minors? The articles just says “Young.” Seems like a huge difference. I haven’t been following it much (I lost interest in Rick and Morty a few seasons ago) so I don’t know.

The more we can disassociate voice actors from the characters they play in games the better. As an industry we really do not want to go down the road that the Star Wars games have gone - elevating a voice actor to be the heart of the game. That way leads to a person or two sucking millions of dollars from the salaries…

That was the exact right length for that level of joke.  The fear is that Lower Decks would have done it for 8 times as long.

An S is less than twice as powerful as an Xbox One even on paper.  In real world terms they are very very close.