“Not Sure” coming in second in that poll, because what the fuck does that statement about being white even mean?

Bleh - I meant it’s non-deterministic, but too late to edit.

At this point, AI seems less to me like an artist’s tool and more like a particular kind of search prompt. If I go to Shutterstock and type in “a pretty girl in a yellow dress holding balloons,” it’s going to return images to me that fit that prompt with various degrees of accuracy. But even though I crafted that…

but you can probably copyright the prompt of “a large warty toad sitting on a lily pad in a neon yellow pond during a pink sunset”

It is the same cover artist, Chris McGrath. Both Butchers are published at Penguin Random House, so I’d say it’s a deliberate marketing choice to make junior’s work easily mistaken for his dad’s.

I thought the Luke cameo at the end of S2 was worth it, to finally see that character in his heroic prime at least once. But that should have been it, for Luke and for nostalgic callbacks and even for Grogu. Send them off to do Jedi stuff and let Mandalorian be its own thing. When BoBF dedicated time to Luke teaching…

an profession

The Survivor special edition set comes with an official Galaxy’s Edge take on Cal’s new lightsaber, so I’d be surprised if it didn’t do that.

Fallen Order itself even has a hand amputation in one of the boss fight cutscenes. I have no idea what made it okay to add dismemberment there, but against every other enemy your lightsaber is a glowing baseball bat.

Jump to 2:40 if you want to see it:

Well, I thought I was dead, but I was just in Nebraska.

Does every MCU superhero need a child now?
...
But every superhero suddenly, almost simultaneously spawning a mini-me

I’m trying to decide if that’s legit gray hair she’s rocking or if that’s something funky she had done to match her dress...

Well aren’t you special. I got the vax like all the so-called experts said to, and I was dead within a month!

If people are talking/writing articles about an ad campaign, it did its job. I’ve heard more conversation about m&m’s just in the past year than I had in entire decades.

For me, it’s the other way around. This is the first DCEU film I’ll bother to see in the theater, entirely because I have such good memories from experiencing the 1989 film. I swear, every third person you met was wearing a Batman shirt that summer. That said, it is very overtly nostalgia bait, and the line doesn’t…

That line is taken directly from Keaton’s first scene in the ‘89 Batman film. I’m hard pressed to think of a more fitting callback to his turn in the cowl...

If you hate being the guy that mansplains vulvas to a woman, don’t.

Yep, probably sometime in the middle of that year, as Turok and Doom had just come out in the spring.

Microsoft’s comment about Sony isn’t a ‘self own,’ it’s a deliberate framing of their primary market opponent as the dominant entity in the face of an anti-competition suit. MS is going to argue that the Xbox-ActiBlizz merger can’t be a monopolistic practice, because Sony’s PlayStation has bested them for most of two…

And hopefully it runs okay on the aging Switch hardware.