The aim is alright, but it ignores the fact that plenty of working actors (voice acting or otherwise) would gladly accept the job because...it’s a job.

My issue (as a black and gay man) is the sense of vocal essentialism that this technology seems to be playing at. Sure, there might be slight vernacular differences, but what pray tell is a “black” voice, or a “gay” voice, or an “Asian” voice, that doesn’t intrinsically dive into the various stereotypes (often…

What better way to show the perils of wanton hookups to your potential burgeononing bank account than to hear it from someone who, quite openly, will tell you about how easy it is to have a wanton hookup negatively affect your burgeoning bank account.

Companies hire former hackers to form the backbone of the IT…

The only way that a revolver would fire by simply pulling back the hammer and releasing it is if 1. The person is holding down the trigger at the same time or 2. You have a defective revolver. The slightest pull of a hammer (in the case of the SAA, the 1st click or “safety position”) wouldn’t have enough force to…

It’s definitely possible for someone unfamiliar with guns (especially older revolvers), and who assumes that they aren’t using live rounds (or the gun is empty), to have their finger resting on a light trigger on a revolver and pull the hammer back leading to an accidental discharge.

I also wouldn’t be surprised if the…

Based on the situation, he has to center himself on the narrative because he’s the one who was holding the gun that fired and killed his colleague. To distance himself from the situation would come across as needlessly callous (as well as illogical), because it’s not as though the gun was floating in the air under…

Perhaps they thought the people were shooting BBs and not legitimately deadly ammunition?

Not for nothing, but even in this country, there’s plenty of people who have never been around any sort of firearms above BBs and airsoft guns, let alone ones being actively fired, so there’s a possibility that they simply thought…

There’s also the reality that for the SAA, people using them were told to only load 5 chambers in a specific way in order to prevent an accidental discharge even while the hammer was uncocked, due to a hard blow to the hammer potential causing the hammer to hit the primer.

If a live round was loaded, it’s quite…

Three counterpoints.

It’s de facto broken because the very best players are using moves first sussed out by computers who simply possess capabilities that far exceed our own, which is why the very best players have to make a mistake (as in, a true error and not simply a less powerful strategy/tactic) in order to lose a game/match.

I was about to mention the common refrain in poker is that strategy and tactics used by a good player is most weak against a player who has no idea what they’re doing.

The really sick part of what she said was the casual mention of adoption being the cure all to the need of abortion.

It ignores the fact that she was in a financial position to adopt two children (which most families are not). It ignores the reality that the US already has 400k children in the foster care system, and…

Square-Enix is a much larger company than Respawn (they’re roughly 16x as big in terms of revenue and employees) and can actually afford to actively produce multiple games at the same time. It’s not merely “Do we have enough cash flow to produce another title,” but rather, “Do we have that cash flow, and can we hire…

The issue with the High Republic era is that it’s too far removed from a time where there was a general parity between Jedi and Sith (along with a strong Mandalorian caste) like in the Old Republic era and before, and too close to the OT where it’s difficult to make many of the characters interesting without turning…

There’s a significant chance that he thought Andrew was going to come out of this still in the governor’s office. Unfortunately, Andrew ran into a very talented (and very ambitious) AG in Letitia James, the fact that he didn’t have a lot of allies in Albany, and the fact that Democrats are, in general, more apt to…

The issue is that for most people, their only interaction with any sort of vaccine was back when they were babies and toddlers, and the fact they didn’t get (insert whatever common illness here) is evidence that either a vaccine is 100% effective, or it’s completely worthless.

This, of course, ignores that the reason…

My ex had an i8, and it was genuinely one of the most amazing cars (from both a visual and performance standpoint) I ever had the opportunity to ride in.

Pain to get in and out of (I’m 6'3"), but once inside, you had plenty of space, good luxury and technology, and more than enough performance for anything short of…

I always thought the Bangle-era BMWs looked nice (save for perhaps the 5-series, which always appeared ungainly compared to the 3, the 6, and the 7-series), and the Audi’s of that era, even after the introduction of the single-frame grill, looked aesthetically pleasing, if very...German (which isn’t a bad thing for a…

The Big 3 definitely had similar styling in the 80s and 90s. I was speaking specifically about the 2000s, where there was a significant difference in styling between the 3 main models within the respective lineups (namely in the front and rear ends, which seemed to do a good job of making the sheer size difference in…

There has been a general trend, at least with the big 3 Germans, to where all of their offerings have started to look the same so long as you’re not side-by-side with them.

It’s not just that the A8 looks like an A6 (or an A4). Rather that they’ve all decided to make the compact, midsize, and luxury models carry many…