Thanks!

Nice.

Not to be a broken record on this stuff: Deep Blue is amazing at chess. But it doesn’t play chess like a human being. It’s not, in any sense, a human-like general AI. Similarly with this program. And when people talk about AI, that’s generally what they mean, human-like AI. This is technically impressive, but once…

Zack McKracken has to be way higher. Original Monkey Island is far superior to the sequel. Otherwise not bad at all.

This is a bizarre string of pseudo-logic, argument by assertion, and non sequiturs.

See, you literally can’t have a discussion about the actual principle; you just keep giggling about the content, which is irrelevant to the discussion in principle.

The (progressive) internet decided that there are literally no issues at all with the restriction of free expression other than if the government arrests you for saying the wrong thing. Common to internet discourse, this opinion is expressed with total certitude and derision at the idea that anyone could disagree. But…

Everytime any issues of free expression or censorship come up at this site, both its writers and its commenters discuss those issues in terms of the particular content — haha, these dudes like nudie games, I don’t like nudie games, ergo there’s no problem here. But that’s not how these issues work. It’s so tiring to…

But you recognize that, at some point, you actually have completely undermined the ability of people to express a particular artistic or political opinion without committing censorship, under the incredibly-restrictive definition that internet liberals use, right? And that should disturb you. It’s not just that you…

Do you think Amazon should feel free to, say, refuse to sell books that have controversial political content?

I have never played a game like this, and I never will. However: if a movie like Nymphomaniac or Last Tango in Paris was being similarly bowdlerized on a major distribution system like Netflix or Amazon, would you really dismiss it out of hand? And Scarface is censored because it’s beamed into your house whether you…

If the films of Lars von Trier or Harmony Korine were being altered for distribution on Amazon or Netflix, would you really dismiss those concerns in this way? And do you understand that putting a word in scare quotes is not an argument against its use?

It can be a really classic example of how to appear to be Doing Something about an issue without really, often, doing much of anything.

I presented at the American Association of Colleges and Universities conference this past week. My presentation was about the corporatism that has totally taken over American higher education — the incredibly vast and hugely expensive administrative architecture that now dominates our campuses. That general story is…

Gonna be a bummer to watch the conversation about this game become about everything but the actual game. (And I freely concede that Blow has directly contributed to that.)

Amazon Fire does lots of different content — if you’re willing to do a tiny amount of work to sideload apps.

Does Tyronn Lue have the ability to teach Kevin Love how to switch defensively in his 8th professional season of basketball?

The song sucks, though.

It’s so frustrating to be playing and be hanging far above my target, having him moving around as normal, and then all of a sudden see that he’s discovered me and is fleeing the scene. For no reason that I can deduce.