I never had to worry about my cat(s) getting into something they weren’t supposed to while I was gone, but I did always make sure to remove breakable things from anywhere that they might be knocked down.

I think a lot of this goes back to Discovery (which I have generally like) - in 2017, nobody had seen a new Star Trek in over a decade that wasn’t a movie and the TV landscape had changed with a lot of highly regarded, serialized “prestige” shows. And at the time, CBS/Paramount was also trying to start their own…

I don’t think that’s the case for most places though.

Used the heck out of the Travel Medallions when doing the Sky Labyrinths - it was taking too long trying to fly around those and I didn’t want to look up the solutions online, so I just climbed the wall to the top, plopped down a Travel Medallion, ran to the destination across the top, and then just jumped straight to…

It’s interesting to compare modern “Prestige” Trek with the older stuff - while I understand the really shiny ~10 episode seasons, it’s hard not to look at the longer, lower-visual-quality 26 episode seasons that gave us things like Q’s Robin Hood and baseball on the holosuite. It’s a different show in a lot of ways.

Yeah exactly - especially in shrines, they want to give you the freedom to activate a switch using a crate, a metal box, four treasure chests glued together, a bunch of ice, etc, but not Link himself.

I get what they were trying to do with the “every series, every episode” plan, but you also have to remember the history of Star Trek. The original Trek aired on NBC, but only ever got big when reruns started on syndication. TNG and DS9 aired as first-run syndication - most people initially saw these shows on whatever…

It blew me away when I realized as a kid that coloring it gave it different abilities.

Patently absurd to not have FF6 Mog at the top of the list. He’s the coolest one, look at how he’s drinking a cocktail in the official Yoshitaka Amano art!

I’m no expert here, but I don’t think the question is about washing them “separately”. For a long time, you would wash those things separately because you wanted to wash them on the (cold) delicate cycle and your other clothes on a (warm) “normal” cycle, but advancements in washing and detergent technology have made…

Keep in mind the benefits of “overcoming” Parkinson’s law - you can theoretically become more productive, but who is benefiting from your productivity? If it’s you or something you’re heavily invested in, then go for it. But if you’re just at work and they tell you that they expect this thing done in a week, why are…

I’ve heard about the LotR game, but I haven’t played it.

Those were the best part of FF6, but it’s a great point that you’d think they’d take advantage of the idea more.

Your characters are as identical as you want them to be, I guess. You don’t have to give everyone the same materia, it’s up to you.

It’s definitely not for everyone and I get the complaints, but some people never gave it a fair shot.

I think it’s funny, looking back at FFIV, just how HARD they resisted giving you the ability to switch out your party members. It’s a staple in the series now, but conveniently everytime someone new wanted into your party, someone else had just died or left so that you never had more than 5 at a time. Only game…

I put a Bluetooth adapter in my 2012 car several years ago and I’m glad I did. I didn’t want/need to go the full “new screen” route, but just not having to plug into the aux cable whenever I get into the car is pretty convenient.

Any artist who puts their work somewhere for people to see wants people to see it. They want people to absorb it, to feel something, to be inspired by it. They don’t (necessarily) want an AI to chop it up into little pieces and absorb it, ready to recreate the finer points of it at a moment’s notice. It is simply not…

An artist makes a choice to combine things they have experienced, things they have seen, things they have thought of, etc into a single work. They do this with artistic choice and intent and this is not something that a machine can do, they can generate things but they cannot create things. I’m not an artist myself…

I’m well aware of how AI works - I know it’s not like “let’s combine 10% of artist A with 90% of artist B based on what’s on file” but it trains based on the same data and “learns” how to recreate common patterns. You say “give me something that looks like artist A” and it looks at its algorithmically obtained data to…