In countries in which it’s harder to obtain a weapon legally, it is harder to obtain a weapon illegally. This is a real blind spot in a lot of Amerians’ reasoning about gun control laws, which amounts to a claim that “there would be the same number of murders whether or not murder is illegal, because people who murder…

Yes. One might say .... Lilith fair.

Why that is, I’ll never understand

“They will be provided 60 days severance”

It’s a society that’s economically and socially constructed around the ideal that if you have the money, you should be able to get what you want, when you want it, as soon as humanly possible.

It’s not a ******* FPS. Frankly, I think it’s a big reason why it resonated with so many players, many who might have bought it out of marketing obligation, and then came to terms with the fact that it’s .. Metroid, all the things that makes it good, but in 3d. An exploration game with shooting mechanics, 2d or 3d,…

“I walked out of my Marvel general [meeting]”

If physics IK (for producing reasonable animated simulations of movement in games given arbitrary surfaces and attachment points as in AC climbing) is AI, well .. I dunno, everything is AI.

I guess that’s one way to try and establish a position that he’s 0.006% less of an asshole

The thing is, AI doesn’t draw hands. It draws parts of parts of parts of datasets. There’s no top-down decision making that says “this is a hand, let’s draw one”. It’s merging content together from multiple sources of data in a non-trivial way. It’s mapping text you enter to tagged data and applying mathematical…

A website is not a person.

Fuck me. De La forever. This fucking sucks SO MUCH.

Man, I disagree with a lot of people. This was funny. Not top-shelf Iannucci but it was funny. A constant stream of Malcom Tucker-esque exasperated putdowns. Yeah, some of the supporting cast wasn’t as strong as they could have been, it felt off in some way. But it was still funny as shit imho. Laurie being great goes…

I was a programmer on the engine that shipped Spider-Man: Friend or Foe.

maybe, but they make it up by having the animals say “no ... I am your fauna” every time he lightsabers them so you can really feel the emotional weight

That was deliberate.

Kind of a weak point considering you appear to be implicating that a place you still give business to (I mean, it wouldn’t stop me either) had a serious issue cleaning their slicers a few years ago. It’s also a concern for all the other subway places *not* getting hammered into obscurity.

Of the galaxy? Not very good guardians then.

“Area Man says Guy Who Stubbed Toe Perfect Example of Trump-level Willful Ignorance and Stupidity”

There’s nothing inherently good or bad about artists changing source material. Sometimes it’s for the best, sometime it’s for the worse. Or sometimes they don’t change it, and that’s good, or sometimes they don’t change it, and that’s bad. Books are one medium. Putting it in any other medium is adapting it to another…