There’s a lot of links to fairly unrelated stories, other than under the general rubric of “teachers abuse students”, often on words or phrases that one wouldn’t think would imply a hyperlink to another story. I’m gonna guess it’s a dumb mandated link quota and, benefit of the doubt, we have a little bit of malicious…

It’s also worth noting that Nintendo Online, especially with its family and friends options, is the cheapest subscription between the big three. It’s half the price of Xbox Live even before the ability to split it between friends. A “family” of 4 literally pays something like $8 each a YEAR.

Yet people think Nintendo…

No, that’s factually incorrect. Let’s be clear. Millions of artists put those creations out with specific licenses and intentions that were data laundered using academic institutions into a willfully twisted misuses of public domain and academic fair use. This includes artists with CC-licensed works, a license you…

Everyone gets that AI art is a tool that can be used for good or ill. But what a lot of us have a specific problem with is some big corporations that seem to be using it quite specifically for ill on an extremely large scale. They’re hoping that the popularity or simple lack of regulation of their monetization plans,…

No, AI art is nothing but product. A result divorced of narrative or inspiration. Which could be interesting from a post-modern perspective in the same ways as the Piss Jesus you refer to elsewhere, but that’s clearly not Adobe or Meta or Google’s intents in this matter. We have to remember that this is in the context…

“We”? You vastly overestimate the American educational system, as well as the lack of entropy in history.

You literally just All Lives Mattered someone thanking their grandma.

It is until it isn’t. There’s also two other things worth noting:

1) Stock bonuses in a company under scrutiny by the FTC and undergoing myriad lawsuits aren’t reassuring or immediately accessible, and DoorDash cards can’t pay rent.

2) It’s also a Kafkaesque false choice: “Accept these gifts and voluntarily work…

Sure, but I’ve also seen folks donate thousands either directly or through subs just on a lark on Twitch, ostensibly straight men donating to straight men. There are just a bunch of people who make 100k a year and up programming from home, and they have the wherewithal to do so, and the free time to become attached to…

Buried the lede, there: Bob Odenkirk wants to do Jackie Chan-style action comedies. MAKE IT HAPPEN HOLLYWOOD.

Ish. I think she and her agent just had bad luck picking a lot of wannabe blockbusters that didn’t bust. I mean, Sphere was a Michael Crichton film also starring Dustin Hoffman and Samuel L. Jackson and directed by Barry Levinson. It just also happened to be boring as fuck. And Antz, while actually pretty ok, just…

Sure, but said hyperbole is also in the article, which diminishes journalistic respect. Most of the game’s bugs aren’t actually bugs, but an intentionally undertuned game engine: there is no way that frame rate reducing as a function of distance-from-camera was not a performance goal. Describing the game slowing the…

To be fair, most of Brendan Fraser’s early work is transitory action or genre fare. Of all of his films, that Sink mentioned School Ties being her favorite makes a lot of sense, because it’s less disposable (even if hugely enjoyable). I mean, as we were growing up, I’m sure a lot more of us were aware of the Godfather…

Lets take your argument seriously, as if there is a “huge” problem with people of color “taking” roles from white people. Your argument, if taken seriously, is akin to a child screaming that just because their brother got a cast for a broken arm that they should get one too. When people are *underrepresented*, fixing…

The thing is, Ghost In The Shell is the PERFECT setting to discuss the philosophical and cultural implications of a Japanese-born woman using technology to *choose* to have the skin of a Caucasian woman. That they didn’t shows how completely ignorant (or perhaps even callous) to these issues they were.

The rage isn’t mostly coming from white people, its coming from Asian Americans, who have to deal with a different culture, history and power structure than Japanese folk in Japan.

“we’ve found that the Smash World Tour has not met these expectations around health & safety guidelines and has not adhered to our internal partner guidelines.”

See, this is the part that caught my attention: the specific mention of health and safety. I’m guessing SWT were gonna try and run something in a state like…

Other than, you know, the actual boss levels in 3D World that involve you chasing Bowser’s Mad-Max-style vehicle. And, you know, Mario Kart.

It’s referencing the games, and pretty much everything in the trailer can be found in the games. Granted, the games themselves copy from pop culture and tropes, because Mario is…

I just leveled a Tinkaton, and Gigaton Hammer and Play Rough are way fun, hehe. Mostly filling in low level gaps in the Pokedex now (got wild Chansey and Lilligant before Hapinny or Petilil, and it's infuriating) before doing the "post game" gyms.

Yeah, I had a Ceruledge, a Bagon/Shellgon/Salamence, a Magnezone, and a Bronzsong extremely early (or at least it felt like it), all around level 25. I was astounded how early the game gave me Steel types. With that set, I only felt I actually had to try in battles after getting all of the badges. My Quaquaval still fe…