It can’t parse the math either. It’s not a calculator, it’s a word-prediction engine.

It can output the statistically most likely answer given the sentence it was fed, which is generally going to be a correct answer, but only if humans also give a correct answer.

Don’t worry. Once RIF shuts down, I will. A lot of mods will. And there will be a lot less to sell ads on.

IMO if you can tell why a reviewer disliked something, and they clearly articulate their criteria, that’s a good review.

Publishing a memoir where he explicitly stated that the intent was to punish Disney and its employees for exercising their 1st-amendment rights may also have been a whoopsie-doodle.

Jedi: Survivor distinguishes them:

It’s an almost un-solvable problem, IMO.

They do if they have investors!

One of the inherent flaws of capitalism is that in order to see return on their investment capital, the investors need to be able to liquidate their holdings. To do that, someone else needs to want to buy them. Then they expect to get a return on their purchase.

“[Kehe] should not be attacked for sharing his feelings,” Sanderson wrote. “If we attack people for doing so, we make the world a worse place, because fewer people will be willing to be their authentic selves.”

Pokemon Sleep™ staffs dozens of Drowzee, Hypno, and Cresselia to track your sleeping habits safely and confidentially.

And I think this use-case is a great example of where it makes sense.

“Bynx’s poor opponent certainly didn’t, because they snapped midway through the match.”

Wheel of Time author Brandon Sanderson

“The way the game is currently is very unrewarding,” one Reddit user one user replied in a thread debating if Axie was “worth playing for money.”

I would play the hell out of a Kojima take on Powers. Like seriously, please, right now. Put it directly into my veins.

Also, decentralization isn’t resistant to centralizing economic attacks.

You’re kinda missing the point here. They’re saying that the online features, while nice, aren’t mandatory and shouldn’t limit your ability to pause most of the time.

Right, except it’s my boss calling with a late-night emergency, and saying “hey sorry I was playing a video game and needed 5 minutes to kill these wolves” isn’t realistic. Or someone is knocking on my door for something important, and if I don’t go now they’ll leave.

I can see a benefit to having both. Like I kind of enjoy the community that forms around the messages and in-jokes they require.

It’s entertainment targeted at the “achiever” and “killer” quadrants of the Bartle taxonomy of player types. Those types of gamers find enjoyment from accomplishing something difficult, and see their improvement in terms of skill development and perfect play vs. others. They’re the same kind of people who (outside the…

The intent is to prevent people from releasing a game at a “full price” of then immediately marking it down to create the illusion of a deal.