it will never cease to amaze me how many morons eagerly line up to conflate - in full public view of people with functioning brains - “here is some criticism of this person’s opinion” with “this person should not be allowed to have an opinion”. you should be embarrassed to have posted those words. unless you’re 14 or…

the birth of my child didn’t turn me into a fucking feel feels exploitable moron

He’s got 8 of them. That’s how spider bodies work, right?

I actually didn’t mind him too much, but yes, he always carries a certain non-actorly quality to his performances. I think it worked with the purpose of his role, as more of a foil than a character.

I love this show.

Yes. I hate it. Transformers look cool. The Transformers in the movie do *not* look cool. I feel it’s the result of “senioritis” wherein a major cultural property is worked on by people at the top of their game who are more interested in how fucking amazing their hard-surface modeling and ridiculously complicated anima…

“the vehicle successfully identified the animal before hitting it”

speaking of stock, I suggest you take stock of the many life choices that led you to making this post

The phrase exists for a reason. Wrong thinking does not pop out of a magical portal. The most successful way of changing somebody’s mind is to start small on grounds of consensus and slowly move away. Some people may be more predisposed to have their views changed, but nobody except for the crazy dude shrieking on the…

This is a dumb way to look at addiction and you should feel dumb.

Goddamnit Lil Dicky. The dude seems incredibly talented and quick-witted (and intelligent-in-some-ways for that matter) and yet he radiates the kind of unearned intellectual smarminess that is the providence of the majority of white in their early 20s upper middle class dipshits. Rubs me totally the wrong way.

Preachin’ to the choir, brother.

The problem with “they’ll get what they deserve in prison” is invariably people who don’t deserve it also get it. The actual justice system is imperfect enough. People in prison have committed a range of offences. Some of those people are innocent. (Accepting that sometimes the justice system is wrong is a core tenet…

I think you’re seriously underselling how low the bar is on a planet with 7 billion people in a medium that only takes a handful of humans to reach millions of people. Perfect being the enemy of good, I’ll take the “Elon Musk-types” (who I of course loathe with every fibre of my being but recognize have actual stakes…

Often you see in commercials something along the lines of, “Soandso Inc. - We create technologies that empower humans blah blah blah” and all I can think of is with 7 billion people on this planet, I’d really the vast majority of people remain quite unempowered absent any actual human-based meritocratic promotion in…

I was a programmer on a Transformers 3DS game that got a 30% from Nintendo Power (Nintendo Power!) and a different GameCube game that didn’t do much better. (Yes, I’ve been in the industry that long.) But I’ve also been on recent and current gen games that got 80%+. Console game productions are huge ships. Even the…

“with understanding that you make your protected works available for public consumption”

I don’t disagree. Rapid change leads to violence, much the way we don’t mind when the continents drift, but everyone suffers when it manifests in an earth quake. I guess I’d observe that that that’s not really an argument “against” automation in the abstract but against large, rapid changes to society faster than…

Once you’re using real-time voice generation, you can just cook gigabytes of conversation offline. You know what the characters can say - it’s all in the data you put in the game image. But it’s WAY more writing than you could generate otherwise, even *if* you hired dozens of writers. Text is stupid cheap in terms of…

“ChatGPT burns through a nuclear reactor’s worth of water just to cool their servers”