We need a term for Bethesda-style “do literally everything” adventure games other than “RPG” because people have started conflating “RPG” with a level of customization and player freedom rather than actually playing a role. I’d argue that Cyberpunk and The Witcher are actually way better RPGs than most of the Elder…

I’d also add Watch_Dogs and Watch_Dogs 2. If you played Cyberpunk as a Netrunner, the gameplay will be very familiar, although your ability to tailor your playstyle or influence the outcome of the story is greatly reduced. The driving is also a bit more fleshed out vs Cyberpunk, where cars are basically only there for…

AIM has a whole bunch of artificial mutants with various head sizes. There’s SODAM, MODAM, BRODOK... The cloned Elvis MODOKs from Nextwave, who I guess were made by Beyond. Lots of ‘em.

I think all the abhorrent stuff in the books is mostly a product of her being a really bad writer. Like, she includes devices and plot beats because she knows that kind of story should include them, but she doesn’t really understand WHY. Voldemort wants to oppress Muggles because racist authoritarianism is what bad…

It’s funny - if they hadn’t marketed it as a Joker movie, but just as a movie where a mentally ill guy becomes an anarchist criminal, people would have looked at it and been like “woah, this is kind of like The Joker, cool.” Instead it’s explicitly a Joker movie which feels a little inappropriate somehow. I also think…

Some people get into the limelight and it just RUINS them. They look out at a world that is suddenly interested in everything they have to say and they desperately try to make people happy, just giving more and more opinions until oops, an atomically bad take. And then the narcissism kicks in: I’m a famous person,…

Of all the movies I’ve ever seen, Joker was one of them. Just a totally unremarkable bit of cinema. Good LOOKING movie, though.

It was some kind of sports thing? But it kind of just devolved into complaining about Abraham Lincoln. It was incredibly weird.

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The other day on The Root a writer claimed Lincoln owned slaves, this whole network is full of idiots

The issue isn’t really that fingers are hard to draw, it has to do with how art AI WORKS, which is essentially pattern recognition. From a pattern standpoint, faces are easy, because they contain pretty consistent, predictable elements in similar places. Hands though, those feature recognizable shapes and colors, but…

As an American, my only grievance about the M1A1 is its lack of machine guns. All Americans know that armored vehicles should have a minimum of five 50 caliber machine guns: 1 for each direction and one for the driver to have something to do when they aren’t steering. The Abrams only has THREE machine guns, two are…

Haha they took out the blip about Lincoln owning slaves

Noooooo I love the lame sign jokes, be cool guys

The F-22, which was used to shoot down the Chinese balloon, and the F35, both have cannons. This is in part due to the Air Force’s deeply outdated views on dogfighting, but also as a warning tool to strafe at ground structures and theoretically for shooting down slow targets of opportunity like drones. I’m not sure…

What luck that knowing, or even caring, who this person is, isn’t a requirement to understand the issue!

Even if that doesn’t fly, there are gobs of porn stars - male AND female - who have made careers out of looking like non-porn celebs. What are you going to do, tell some chick who makes porno she has to quit her job or look LESS LIKE Rihanna? Not only that, but we’re maybe a year away from just having AI make you a…

That’s a more specifically offensive tool than we’ve sent previously. I guess the appeal of seeing how the M1A1 does against contemporary Russian assets was too valuable of a research opportunity to pass up. If China were smart they’d float Russia some Type 99s and take advantage of the same opportunity.

Kilmer was mostly a damp squib but he gets perhaps the best MOMENT in the live action films, when Two-Face’s gunmen hold the circus hostage demanding that one of the socialites in attendance declare their identity as Batman, and he DOES IT, instantly and without hesitation. Batman has always been about making himself…