Thankfully I had space to just sit it on the top shelf next to my tv.

Its certainly possible. I’m just saying from a visual standpoint, my current model vs that disc model... I guess the drive looks more awkward, if anything?

I know the article says 30% smaller, but as an owner of the current disc drive version, just looking at them visually, it really doesn’t look significantly smaller at all.

This doesn’t really appeal to me, tbh. Certainly not enough to bring me back into the series. Valhalla was a big turnoff for me, just overstuffed and dull, and not at all what I was looking for with an AC game. And while I realize this is different, there’s another reason... I’m just exhausted with them mining the far…

You did make it clear, but what I also took away from your post was that you also think it is at least in some way ok or at least excusable because people are too old to learn or just don’t have the time. I was saying I don't think that's a sufficient excuse, but if I misinterpreted your argument, I apologize.

Those skills being difficult to master later on is not, to my mind, an excuse for shortcuts. Plenty of us have ideas for “the next great novel” in our heads, doesn’t mean we get to call ourselves authors because we spent 20 minutes fine-tuning a prompt so ChatGPT or whatever can spit out a short story. If you really…

We really need to stop calling these generative engines “AI”. They aren’t. They’re glorified search engines that spit out an average of all the stolen work they’ve been trained on.

Right, it couldn’t possibly be that the tech provides an avenue for increasing amounts of lazy, mediocre trash to be pumped into the system or for lazy hacks who couldn’t be bothered with all that pesky ‘practice’ and ‘learning’ and ‘study’ to actually learn how to draw or write as opposed to fine-tuning a prompt for…

AI ‘art’ is trash and so are the people who support it.  Short pier, long walk; you have your assignment, get to it.

It only takes a single example (out of many) to demonstrate how garbage CD’s position is: Thomas Was Alone.  I formed an “emotional connection” with a load of fucking rectangles.  I don’t need Cloud to look like Final Fantasy Ken to form an “emotional connection”.

An hour of finished dialogue is considerably different from the amount of time spent recording it.

It’s reductive to talk about what their pay works out to per hour / per day because while it sounds great in the abstract, it is considerably less great when you consider that VA employment is inconsistent and the gap between work can be significant. $1200 becomes considerably less impressive when it’s your only job…

During the credits sequence, the camera seemed to linger on a file about something called "The Zartan Contingent"? Now assuming they aren't about to work in a GI Joe crossover, anyone have any idea what that is?

I mean, I'm fairly sure I'm not speaking for myself when I'd say I'd be just fine with going back to "100 shows a year".

Similar to every time I see some MAGAt accusing someone of “TDS- Trump Derangement Syndrome”; like nah, that’s you freaks worshipping that entirely unappealing orange sex pest goblin of a half-man.

I know Rian Johnson said that Ed Norton’s character in Glass Onion wasn’t specifically based on Musk, but... c’mon. He strikes me as a guy who throws every dumb, pot-fueled idea he has at people much smarter than himself and the few ideas those smarter people manage to spin into half-workable gold, he takes credit…

Have honestly never done the dark side route in kotor. Tried once and it was just.... boring. The morality in that game just isn't that interesting, it's basically a choice between being a normal, decent human being or kicking sacks full of puppies.

The ‘no-kill’ options for the main targets often seem a good deal more brutal than just sticking a knife in them.  You basically send Lady Boyle off with a stalker/rapist, and the Pendleton twins are sent to a gulag.

Certainly would bring a new edge to "You Ain't Never Had a Friend Like Me"

I always get sort of vaguely annoyed at the whole “I’m a part of a military structure but it’s ok that I disobeyed orders and went off to do my own thing because protag armor or whatevs” trope. Yes, Hera had good-if-vaguely-defined reasons. Yes, in the end, her suspicions and actions will be borne out as correct. But…