Google AI overview developer walks into a bar, is careful not to crawl, sidle, limbo, or tumble into the bar, orders only beers on the menu in reasonable quantities, rather than 0 beers, -1 beer, 9999999999 beers, or a lizard.

I genuinely do not understand why I am supposed to want any of this. 

There’s a pretty big difference between “seducing someone” and “expressing interest in someone.”  This is similar to how in every other example of human interaction respecting the other person’s agency keeps you in the clear, but not doing so makes you a gross weirdo and/or a maniac.

So by your logic, as an asexual person I should expect everybody knows this instinctively and thus should expect no one ever develops romantic or sexual feelings for me? It seems like the reasonable way to operate is to let people feel how they feel, and be polite to people if you have to rebuff them.

The Steve Carell voiced character in IF is literally named “Blue”.

Dorsey’s opposition to moderation is straight up idiotic. Nobody wants to be in a community without any sort of moderation, or at least nobody else wants to be in a community with the people who want that.  Like if a physical store didn’t kick people out for crapping in the aisles, then that would be a store that…

Very much looking forward to the episode of Forged in Fire in about 8 years where they need to make knives out of a rusty Cybertruck.

Fair warning though, in Defending Your Life, there’s a scene set in the “Past Lives Pavillion” where people are horrified to find out they were previously not white, along with some weird and gross stereotyping. Good movie, but I think that part is why it’s not regularly shown these days.

Yeah, “Planet of the Apes” as a franchise has fewer bad movies and an overall higher OPS than Star Wars, for goodness sakes. I have more confidence that an unannounced future Planet of the Apes movie that I know absolutely nothing about will entertain me me than I would for a Marvel or DC project I knew just as little…

At the meeting with Robert House, having Big MT being represented by obvious fat cat was an odd choice, since that’s the company that Fallout fans will associate with “scientists who can neither see the forest nor the trees, because those leaves are interesting.”

Like legitimately the thing that makes the Fallout games all-time classics (to the extent that Bethesda was willing to spend a lot to acquire the franchise) is the rare alchemy of that is the tone which combines “bleak AF” and “frequently hilarious.”

I think “we have to make it look exactly like it looks in the videogame or w/e” is the wrong lesson to learn from this. Rather they should make the CG thing look like something I want to continue looking at for like “most of a movie” rather than some nightmare creature I want to look away from. But that’s something…

While Jeffrey Jones was very good in Beetlejuice, the absence of Glenn Shadix will be more missed, who is unable to reprise his role of Otho on account of being dead.

One hopes this movie is a direct repudiation by Phillips to the people who liked the previous one because they saw the Joker as some sorts of edgelord ubermensch role model. Since I’m willing to bet a fairly small portion of that set have even seen the 1953 MGM musical “The Band Wagon.”

I mean, the way we do something about “AI” in contexts like this is not “people aren’t going to see the movie because it used AI” (since by all accounts it’s an excellent movie and most of the people involved had nothing to do with this decision) and more about “LLMs need to license the copyrighted materials they…

I suppose that the nature of child actors is that they age in real time, and that it’s noticeable.  Like the Stranger Things kids were not plausible HS Freshmen in the most recent season.

I suppose that’s why I was hearing ads for it on podcasts that were entirely unrelated to video games (notably HDTGM.)

Yeah, it’s nearly impossible for the show to be more of a deviation from “the essential nature of Fallout” than what Bethesda did with the franchise.

It sure does feel like Stanley, having capitalized on a new audience, would be well-served to make a similar lead-free transition.  Like people who are excited to buy Stanley cups would be excited to buy lead free ones in new colors, I bet.

Like the thing about Fallout specifically is that “pleasing the fans” depends a lot on “which fans”. A whole lot of people like Fallout and their entry to the series was Fallout 3. A smaller, but no less vocal, proportion of Fallout fans *hate* Fallout 3 and have only softened on it because they hate Fallout 4 more.