Ed Catmull is still a nice guy though, right? I’m not sure my little computer graphics programmer heart could survive the alternative.

Sorry, GRRM is a joy-vampire so everyone else is doomed to spend the rest of their lives destitute, frantic and miserable as a result. We can’t all be winners.

No, Holden! Not the coffee machine!

Not that much of a question: it’s because the GDRP is becoming enforceable in a month, which is the same reason everyone else has suddenly embraced privacy or will be embracing privacy in the next couple of weeks.

Cults initially work on people because the first experience can be intense and positive. Over one weeklong retreat, or whatever, you go from depressed and alone to meeting a ton of new, typically young people who are just like you. Your unmoored life suddenly has structure, you’ve made friends for life, you’ve…

I’m really curious to see what the reaction will be when Blizzard actually release the legacy server(s) for World of Warcraft. I played that game, extensively, leveling multiple characters to 60, raiding up to the middle of Naxx, and I loved it. I also think it was a grindy, janky mess by modern standards and that it…

I burst out laughing when I saw the name of the gas station. And no, american readers, it’s not referencing Roy Rogers, although I get why you’d think that.

Mandatory conscription isn’t necessarily fascist, unless you consider social democratic Scandinavian nations from 1950 to 2000 to all have been some sort of crypto-fascists. I was in one of the last Swedish cohorts to go through mandatory evaluation by the army and while I was lucky enough to not be drafted due to…

If the chef had easy access to the safe with all the jewels, couldn’t she just have stolen the things to raise the $20 000? Staging an elaborate and error-prone golf ball gun murder at your boss’s country club seems not entirely necessary.

Today I learned that the official slogan of Berlusconi’s Forza Italia is “Honesty, Experience, Wisdom”. To quote Made in America: one out of three ain’t bad, I guess.

As someone who’s just reading on Unlimited I’m half a year behind on all these series, but the America one really didn’t catch me so far. Generation X has been great though, real shame to see that go.

The problem is that in this case a good run of the “HTH mod” category would be identical to a run of the any% category. They’d get the critical item at the same place at the same time, then proceed to do the same things on the same route in the same way. It’s just cutting out tedious restarts, not changing anything…

I know. It should’ve been set to the Mike Flowers Pops easy listening lounge version.

I never thought anything could make me feel pity for the absurdly privileged Prince Charles not getting to go to the absurdly privileged Eton, yet here we are. Even royal 12 year-olds deserve better than this.

So ... it’s a Shadowrun movie, as written by a 16-year-old gamer bro who just discovered the existence of racism?

For context, it might be worth pointing out that Josef Fares has had one of his movies (Zozo) submitted to the Academy as the Swedish representative for Best Foreign Film. Being submitted is a far cry from being a nominee, much less a winner, of course, but he is an award-winning filmmaker with a decade or so of…

You can verify transactions in other ways (the proof-of-stake stuff) and bitcoin itself can potentially be leaner. The rate of transaction isn’t directly dependent of the number of miners. The work complexity is automatically adjusted to ensure that the current mining network will produce some N blocks/week. The…

I attend academic conferences on computer graphics, because I’m a professional nerd. I remember a Weta panel where they discussed adding spectrally correct metals to Manuka while working on the Hobbit movies.

Kinda. He has different weirdo fantasy planets in a shared universe and cosmology. Originally this fact just made for very tiny easter eggs with a very minor unnamed character recurring in each of his books and it didn’t matter much. He’s been leaning into it more and more and the second Stormlight book had some major…

I’ve enjoyed the weekly sample chapters, but he sure seems to be falling into the Robert Jordan Overly Epic Fantasy Pacing Trap.