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Yeah. It was actually quite good, just sort of in the uncanny valley of "Wait, is this really Ford?"

Yeah. I don't mean this as a "look at me I'm smaaht!" thing, but I had I think 12 AP credits and could have graduated college a full semester early. The variance in "high school graduates" is huge.

At this point I'd rather keep my time.

Seems to work fine in Antarctica, and beyond a couple feet down it sounds like the Martian soil is well permafrosted. Failing all that we've already build entire cities on pilings. Subterranean is a better bet anyway; a bit of excavation and you've got ready-made radiation shielding.

The almost-but-not-quite Harrison Ford voice throws me a bit, but it looks like it could be fun. Biggest red flag was Todd Howard, lol.

A 2600 wins only 7.6% of the time vs Hikaru at 2788. A 1000 has winning odds so low that they don't register at the 10th decimal place.

Top Gun outperformed Avatar in the domestic market but got stomped internationally. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/world/2022/ If it makes you feel any better, Avatar:WW is not even in the top 10 all time if you adjust for inflation.

Too much talking at the beginning, but if you skip to about 10 minutes in this guy has a pretty cool saw.

No, this was from an announcement of the launch of a new service and call to focus on growth of subscriptions. Link was in TFA. He's rather openly talking about training consumers away from owning games just like the DVD/CD > streaming transition...

I did, actually. I have an MBA and I'm fluent in executive-speak messaging. When you announce a move to something anti-consumer you spend most of your time talking about how it's pro-consumer and increases choice. Then a bit down the road when you've boiled the frog and trained the new customers...

So you think that a subscription gaming executive is not pushing for an increase in subscription gaming, in a business environment where for the last 15 years everything from productivity software to music to TV has been moving to subscription models? Yeah, he's totally just making tautological...

If you ever want a glimpse of the different realm high-level players operate in, here's Hikaru doing puzzles for speed. He solves them faster than I can even focus my eyes on the pieces to start to interpret the position.

That's not going to be exclusive to EVs.

Avast, me hearties! Also, don't support games with this kind of stupid requirement. If the play experience legitimately requires a server, then fine and you know what you're getting into in advance.

I don't care about physical boxes, I just want a permanent license. If I actually think I want to play the game in the future I can always keep a local copy of the data.

Which is why I don't do gamepass. There's an economic argument in favor if your game consumption rate matches up well against the price, but I don't like it on principle. 0% chance he's thinking of this as an option while still running a traditional sales model in parallel. He wants $20/mo...

Yes, but this is a bridge even farther where you lose your game if you stop paying them in perpetuity.

Need middle finger reaction with the Jolly Roger in the background.

Glad to hear that. Post-op pain can be unpredictable. I've had a bunch of orthopedic surgeries (six knee, two hip), and while most were within expectations one of my hip surgeries had me in literal tears on the phone begging my doc for more meds... for six hours after which I was fine with just...

Fine, then take a standard 3/4 isometric and it will be even better, not this monstrosity.

This would make a great show or even game world.

I'd almost forgotten what it was like to deal with small businesses. I saw this shooting plane grip on Rob Cosman's shop and thought I'd give it a try having just jacked up a finger squaring boards. Ordered, and then 15 minutes later got a phone call from Rob himself thanking me for my order. It...

You're not kidding. Jesus, what an awful perspective choice. No idea why you'd want such a high angle and not just go top down.

I don't actually disagree with any of that, except it's not clear this is going to end up legally classified as infringement or how good/useful the output will eventually get.

ChatGPT maybe, but not all models need to be that large and you can run image and audio generation on local hardware no problem with execution times faster than you can get a cup of coffee. I've done it.

I doubt it's that much, but either way it's only got to be done once and then scales at basically zero marginal consumption for output in perpetuity.

And that's where I disagree. That future is coming, and fast. I don't think intelligence is actually required to generate dramatic voiceovers with whatever you think of as "human connection", just some more targeted training on more curated data and secondary modules/features around the main...

While the math is old, the engineering of it is new because we haven't had computing power or data scale to execute on this level until very recently. As far as whether it represents any kind of actual intelligence or pegs to some metric of "smartness", I don't think that's relevant to whether...

And it may still be what you actually want to get in terms of output. The goal of a tool is to produce the desired result, not maximize generalization. Never is a very strong word. I'm not sure what in the history of human technology makes you think that these tools in their infancy represent...

Of course they will, if for no other reason that someone will train one on higher quality reference material.

Maybe I'm deaf, but I typed a few lines into that site and got responses that were quite a lot more pleasant to listen to than wooden human voice acting I've heard in major commercial titles. Is it going to replace actors in AAA dialogue-heavy RPGs right now? No, of course not. Could it create...

I'm playing The Messenger now after Sea of Stars and the reverse easter eggs are great. Whole zones and musical scores, monsters, etc, made it over to Sea of Stars.

Dunno about that, the quality of the newer stuff is increasing very fast. This is just a free one and it provides a perfectly serviceable "narrator voice" with natural inflections. If there aren't now, I'm sure there soon will be products where you can direct the voices as to tone and delivery...

Played enough of this to be impressed. Some cool ideas and very well-produced aesthetic. Going to save it for release.

Dropped on his head during a throw with his opponent landing in him is about the only way to generate that much force. Suplex gone wrong, etc.

It's a separate test, usually.

Steroids are fucking awesome. About a decade ago I had a weird inner ear inflammation that was in danger of pinching off my cochlear nerve and leaving me deaf in that ear. Doc put me on a heavy course of prednisone and it was AMAZING. Every ache and pain I'd accumulated over my life just...

If the alternatives are 5.25% cash or 24% in the S&P (or even the 8% historical returns), then that math should be pretty easy. Especially if that doesn't take into account that the 401k contributions are pre-tax. IMO always prioritize maxing tax-advantaged savings. In the past when my income...

I think this is a fair compromise, at least as far as the faction splitting. I always play ssf and have no interest in spending my gaming time trading. If other people enjoy that, more power to them but I get why the drop rates would need to be differentiated in the interest of providing a...