(William, if this hasn’t already been an AV CLUB Q&A, make it happen)

But, what they made was just that, a fragment of tech, that could be applied in certain contexts. Not a completed act of art, nor even art in progress. A tech oddity.

...i could have cobbled it out of the letters i dropped!

well said, EdKed.

Because there’s more to art than the mere creation of “that which is pleasant”. Or, if you want to make an AI that can draw like a human, then it had better be able to draw all sorts of things. It sounds like Miyazaki conflates Art with Craft, and Beauty with Art. Okay, but it’s not everybody’s conflation.

Season 6 comic book.

This is why i call myself Squunkamungus, and not my other, much more famous internet names.

Huh. How to hate Lewis. Can’t see it. Why hate?

Poor kids. I mean... they didn’t make a real zombie, did they? I feel like they’ve been reprimanded as if they’ve created an actual contagious zombie.

Some of us got your point, dude. We get it.

Cenac and his facts! Win.

i used to love the typical non-plussed internet reaction when confronted with new statistics, new facts. Because nobody can read and everybody is parroting, anything new was immediately met with 1) a pause as they tried to Google their Team Reply, 2) panic, 3) something vague and neutral like…

banana slugs are much more charming than slug bananas.

“scratch kitchen” makes me think of communal cooking, hippies, and scabies

“What’s this “over-” prefix mean?”

When i see an animal whose closest analogue is of a severed tongue slime-crawling its way towards my ruccola, if i think ‘cute’... i know i’ve been reading too much tentacle porn, and it’s time for something wholesome.

Hm, still cheap-ish near the growers in India. International prices in Delhi, though.

dam it!

They could do a show in the future of Westeros, AKA our modern day world. It would Westeros with cars, the Internet, and TVs. I know that sounds like “Barney Miller,” but I’m thinking it would a version of “Barney Miller” that’s actually good and not just a shitty show with lazy “let’s just slap a bunch of…

Pac-i-Fist? Sounds violent. and racist.

That’s cool. See you Monday