The AIs, Emanuar explained in an email, are “very slow” and have a tendency to fixate on solutions that have worked in certain contexts and apply them too broadly. It’s not uncommon to see them jump against surfaces or spam punches for a while. That said, some of them have have successfully nabbed stars on a…

In the UK Parliament, it’s against the rules to accuse another member of being drunk. There’s also just a wonderful page on Wikipedia about words and phrases deemed “unparliamentary language”.

All great points. To boil it down further:

Compared to an effective regulatory apparatus, they’re slow, expensive, create perverse incentives, and generate bad PR (as you can see in the other threads on this post). They’re certainly better than nothing.

Yep, exactly. The individual plaintiffs here are virtually a legal fiction.

Dumb-sounding lawsuits like this are how our society has decided to enforce consumer protection laws, unfortunately.

New Jersey has a really strong truth-in-advertising law, and the attorney who is representing the plaintiff here has been trying to get a class action going on this for a long time. This is a much reduced version of a previous lawsuit:

It was taken down because all of the companies involved are terrified of pissing off the Chinese government and losing access to that market.

It’s a pretty bad sentence, but what it’s getting at is that the levels were designed so you could observe the AI in action before fighting. The Dam level introduces you to basic alert behavior and alarm buttons. Facility is a good introduction to patrol routes, stealth, and neutral NPCs. You can compare that to…

It’s his hand holding the gun. I’ve never really gotten this image. I can see what they’re seeing, but it’s not a “can’t unsee” kind of thing, because to see it as an extension of his face means that the gun barrel is just sort of floating in air connected to a weird-shaped shadow.

The only version of Snatcher to receive an official English localization was the Sega CD version.

It’s just like poke, except all of the ingredients are different, and it’s from a different country.

That video’s the shot, here’s the chaser:

This would have been so much better if it was cookie varieties rather than brand-name cookies. And why are gingersnaps allowed in that case? This is a mess, and also a bunch of these choices are terrible. The entire first round is a total whiff.

One of the biggest problems with “Metroidvania” as a genre name is that it was coined not to describe a genre but to distinguish SOTN and its successors from other Castlevania games. That ends up actually obscuring some aspects of the true “Metroidvanias” that aren’t present in non-Castlevania games given that…

I enjoyed the superball in the Game Boy game, so it’s cool to see it here. The graphics in that game are so low-res and primitive that I wouldn’t expect to see it as a full theme. It’d basically have to be the SMB1 theme in monochrome, like the Mario sprite in the image above (the actual big Mario in SML is smaller…

Is this a bit, where you respond to articles by saying stuff that’s already in the article (like welsh rarebit having beer, etc.)? Except with a bunch of Mary Poppins-in-the-carpark excrescences?

Tips don’t belong to the employer. It’s legal (under current law) for employers to require employees to pool and distribute tips, but not to take a cut themselves. It doesn’t matter if the employer says in advance that they’re going to steal tips.

They mean that there are some reasons you’re not allowed to fire people for. You can fire someone for no reason, but you can’t fire them because they’re organizing a union or because they protested wage theft or because they’re black/a woman/etc. But it can be difficult to prove a retaliatory or discriminatory firing.

Yeah, sorry, I was verbosely agreeing with you but not in a clear way. I didn’t want to get into it with the people who see Monsanto under every rock.