Recent content by velk

Fucking around with the timeline like they wanted to be Westworld was certainly a choice. It's probably money though - the anime financing world seems murky and incomprehensible even by hollywood accounting standards, and how good something was/how many people watched it don't seem to have any...

but the feeeeeeels ! This was mawkish self-indulgent rubbish, if they just left it at the end of the previous episode that would have been fine.

I don't do audiobooks, but that sounds like a great idea. Particularly for chrysalis actually, author made the rookie mistake of using adjectives instead of numbers in mutations, so it gets increasingly ridiculous as the MC picks between things glowing-hyper-dense-ultra-compact-compound-plating...

S2 seems pretty on par with S1 - spots of amazing giant monsters and interesting story, interspersed with painfully pointless family drama. It did set a new low bar for unintentionally hilarious casting though when their 'elite hacker' wasn't able to use an ipad because her fingernails were too...

That bugged the shit out of me. Not to mention what the fuck the reactor cooling towers had to do with the main doors being open or closed. The 'oh if there's low O2 then the doors will automatically open' I can buy sort of ( though this 'feature' is pretty pants on head in a sealed bunker...

They did, but they never successfully sued anyone over it. Although I guess 'success' there should be 'patent was challenged and upheld' rather than 'opponent ran out of money defending against our lawsuits'. The latter they managed pretty effectively.

You can't patent game rules and mechanics - adding 'on a computer' shouldn't make any difference. That's one thing going for US patent law I guess. I'll agree that changing that is stupid, and will end up in disaster when no-one can make anything without getting 300 separate licenses from...

I have no clue what's going on with Daemons of the Shadow Realm, but I am all in. I am a big fan of the apparent genre (spoilered in case you were like me and had no idea what it was about going in) and the execution seems pretty good.

In fairness, 'start with something simple then scale it up a lot' is the leading explanation for human intelligence. I agree it is unlikely though, but despite grandiose claims from Altman, I doubt anyone is seriously expecting or wanting AGI out of the LLMs. 'Why should I do anything for you...

No, the approach for coding tools has changed quite a lot - they don't work the same way that the chatbots do anymore. Individual steps do, but there's a much larger shift in terms of orchestration and mixed-in non-llm tools, as well as changing ways that context inputs work to avoid the...

Nah, the 'it's just a chatbot!!' is not even remotely accurate. In the coding 'game', it is now a fantastically valuable tool. Is it replacing expert humans ? Not yet at least, but most people drastically underestimate the amount of expertise in any given field. Is it replacing offshore...

I don't think you need a more sinister explanation here than 'money'. Why sell someone something when you can rent them something indefinitely instead ?

A dirty secret of the stock market - no-one has any idea what the fuck is going on either, it's bullshit all the way down. The winners are the people who correctly predict how other people who have no idea what they are doing are going to react to things.

So I have mixed thoughts on the ending for Territory Defense -

There's not much of a common theme with that list, so not sure on similar to the existing ones. Hmm - the other ones by Blue Core author are pretty good if you haven't checked out Paranoid Mage or Systema Delenda Est, both of those were good and are finished. Similiar to Chrysalis - Syl maybe...