You can still get it for free through Xfinity Rewards if you’re a diamond member (status is solely determined through “how long you’ve been an Xfinity customer).

It’s still a mystery to me why so many people involved in the games industry, a place where you know you can sell people completely digital goods that exist only in your database, decided to expose their whole ass to jump on the “you can ‘own’ this jpg of a monkey” bandwagon.

If nothing is done, there’s never going to be another cult classic movie ever.

I think as long as you need to be invited by someone else on bluesky you have a chance of keeping this stuff under control. If one nazi gets in, well that’s going to happen but if they start inviting all their nazi palls, then you can ask “how are all these nazis getting in” and trace it back to one person who is…

Like it seems reasonable to use things like “machine learning algorithms to make the character animation pipeline more efficient” in making your game (like lip syncing with spoken dialogue.)  It also seems reasonable to ban “this thing was created by a learning model trained on a corpus of copyrighted works” since…

I think Bluesky might really have the juice, since it’s close to hitting the critical mass of “cool people from different fields” that made twitter interesting to begin with. It doesn’t work great yet, but twitter doesn’t work well either.

I’m pretty sure we shouldn’t believe Tarantino when he says he’s going to stop after this movie.  After all, nothing is keeping him to “making only ten movies” except for a comment he made in a 2012 interview.  If he doesn’t want to make any more movies after this, that’s fine- nobody ever *has* to make a movie, but…

Considering how good Clue was as a movie and how good Barbie appears to be, I see no reason to be less sanguine about a Magic Eight Ball movie or a Rock Em Sock Em Robots movie (though “Real Steel” already exists) than I would about something like “Yet another Ant-Man movie.”

“Limiting how many posts you can see in a day” for a site that sells advertising is so incredibly ridiculous that this has to be just covering for “we’re in the middle of migrating some infrastructure and need there to not be so much twitter for a bit” or something like that.

Yeah, I’ve always found the “plain chicken sandwich with pickles” to be a remarkably unimpressive sandwich, particularly you compare it to like “every kind of sandwich in existence.”  The CFA one in particular is bland (even the spicy one).

My go to response in an informal service industry context is “thanks, have a good one” in order to pivot immediately from the social nicety to “wishing the other person well” (a thing you can do to anybody whenever you want at no cost.)

I mean, both Pathfinder: Kingmaker and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous were 100+ hours, so I think that’s more or less just the standard of the genre.

I mean, one of the main problems with Endgame is that they tipped their hand regarding basically everything that was going to happen in the Finale in the previous one.  It was a thoroughly unsurprising movie, which I think hurt it in the “spectacular” department.

Black Flag in the style of Odyssey or Valhalla would be probably the best Assassin’s Creed game.  But I wonder why you would bother “remaking it” when you could just do a second game in the Caribbean.  We had two in Italy, after all.

I can tell the difference between like 1440 and 4k, sure.  But I for the life of me cannot tell the difference between 30fps and 60fps.  I suspect this is a me problem.

Congratulations to Anheuser-Busch for running a campaign that’s so disastrous it has not only enraged the astroturfed blowback to the original campaign, it has also made everybody else mad at them for not at least like “Checking on on Dylan to see is she’s okay.” 

It just genuinely feels like if you are a bigot, you just shouldn’t work in a field where your job requires making personalized expressive work for your client. This should just be a given like how people who are uncomfortable around children shouldn’t be schoolteachers or people who are uncomfortable around blood…

Even a mile down there’s all manner of sea life that is happy to consume whatever organic material comes their way, and they probably literally can’t tell the difference between a dead whale, a dead fish, and a dead billionaire.  Oceanic scavengers got there way before the coast guard did.

I’m still waiting to witness the beginning of a dark universe.

I’m not opposed to bubbles, I’m just annoyed how seltzers generally have “homeopathic flavor” like “someone waved a strawberry at the bottling machine.” Plain water with no bubbles or attempt at flavor is at least not taunting me.