Dancing with the Stars has been on for more than fifteen years?

Just a bizarre business decision. The show wasn’t going to attract new Trump loyalist viewers, and Bergeron is spot-on that people watch a show like this to just turn their brains off and be entertained. I don’t care what side of the aisle the person comes from, it’s going to be polarizing.

I say exactly the same thing about AirBnb. At least in terms of using it as a hotel room substitute. It makes a LOT more sense if you are looking to rent a whole house for a vacation rental - but even then, I would prefer to work with a local agent or directly with the owners. But cars are a LOT riskier than houses.…

It’s almost wild to say it but if you want to play... let’s call it a “US Army FPS type game” on Xbox or PS5, there are very few options. That sounds sort of crazy considering how ubiquitous games like Call of Duty and Battlefield are in gaming, but if you really step back and think about it, that’s basically all…

It’s not the old console games I’m worried about - look at the always online games. Once they’re dropped they’re gone. Not hard to access, or requiring an emulator - just straight up no longer extant. You can’t play Battleborn or Marvel Heroes anymore, not even on private servers.

Seconded, AAA games have long been in the mindset of bigger games, bigger budgets, bigger payout...but it’s been killing the diversity of the market...most of these massive publishers will be lucky to put out 4 games in a year now instead of EA and Activision during the PS2 / Gamecube / Xbox era where both were…

South Park has been exhausting for well over a decade, ever since they leaned into the “having opinions about things is dumb and for losers” schtick.

The best critique of South Park and one that’s come the closest to explaining why it rubs me the wrong way is that they always take the side of “not caring”. The end result is always that caring about anything is dumb and “both sides” are bad if either of them actually care. 

Listen, if anyone can be trusted to deliver a script about media pandering, it’s South Park, the ancient franchise that’s been pandering nonstop to mediocre edgy white dudebros for a quarter century.

Keep the left turn arrow, but during off-peak hours (i.e. not rush hour) instead of it going red, it should flash yellow to allow cars to go through when there is no oncoming traffic.  Or always keep it red when sight lines are garbage.

Another thing based on something I’ve seen here.

It always amazes me how many studio leadership/directional teams seem to think “We can do X just like Y but without the same resources as Y.” It’s like... it took X amount of resources because that’s the amount of resources it takes. Yes, some teams can do better in some areas and some learnings can shave time; and…

Considering the AI misspelled the name of the very game they were apologizing for, I'd say the context does matter some. That should be something that would get caught if they have even the slightest bit of human oversight to their application of AI.

>Nacon

Eliminating the left arrow? So one car can turn per light cycle at a busy intersection? Ever been ninth in line in the left turning lane? That’s a recipe for road rage.

I will defend the left turn arrow. No it’s not warranted at every single intersection, but it is really necessary in certain spots where you would probably need to sit through 4 or 5 light cycles before you could even hope to get a gap. 

Doing Cloud was a terrible idea in the first place because it’s not even supposed to look like a human person, it’s supposed to look like an anime character. Run a face filter over that and you end up with a re-run of that Photorealistic Homer Simpson nightmare.

The AI one has some resemblance, and looks like a human being. The original looks like a bad potato carving of a LEGO man.

Those aren’t “upscaled”, they’re changed/generated. They’re new faces. (and they’re almost uniformly terrible. I mean, holy crap, those three samples in the middle of the article are awful.)

I mean youtube has a huge audience of people who ruin things because they’re morons. Look at all those wankers “upscaling” film and animation to 60FPS because they have terminal gamer brain and treat a high frame rate as some kind of inherent moral good.

“Look I improved this movie by adding 400% more smear look how smo…