I took a crack at Infinite Jest maybe 10-12 years ago and found it extremely tedious to get through the first few hundred pages before I put it down. I’m weirdly edified that LLMs have taken the wind out of this sort of literary masturbation.
I’m sure they are depressing in some ways. I’m also sure they’re better than being on the street.
Feeling a little drunk and nostalgic but this is beautiful. Voxels are chunky (pun intended), but every Minecraft screen is just brimming with potential. I can imagine a thousand things I’d build with this vista.
I have enjoyed it so far. Horror and comedy is tough to mix but this show has gotten me spooked a couple of times and gotten me to laugh my ass off a few times too. Nice balance.
All I know is that Sisko, Bashir, and O’Brien all identify Section 31 as non-Starfleet assholes that need to be stopped at all costs. Discovery has Pike practically saluting Section 31 genocidal Empress Georgiou and revering the black badges in a way I’ll never forgive it for.
I think DS9 did Section 31 right, as the bad guys to be foiled, as anathema to Starfleet’s ideals, but yeah every other show seems to miss the point.
Enterprise established it as a result of Klingons experimenting with human augment DNA and it getting out of hand. It probably didn’t need to be addressed in universe, but I thought it was a fun retcon.
Ugh, Discovery just made no sense in a million ways. My (least) favorite is how Control was sentient AI like a century before Data was a thing, or even M-5. That and every time Section 31 was acknowledged as Starfleet black ops instead of a rogue agency of assholes.
I don’t think it’s misleading, you just have to know that “KDE Linux” is a distro, not the DE. If anything, poor choice on the devs for choosing such an overloaded name.
Haha, Wrobocop is a great nickname.
Bringing your own meal to work/school
And despite the photo Andrew Scott will not be playing him.
Interest went from maybe to fuck no in one sentence.
I rewatched it a few years back and honestly 6-7 are okay. Not brilliant but not terrible. In fact, I sort of stumbled into S8 and was (re-) disappointed in how precipitous the drop was.
Then again, like any rewatch, it ends when you stop giving a shit, haha.
30 fold means 30x not 30%, but I agree the article could use some more raw numbers.
That said, I don’t think it’s in doubt that our education system is fucking up. The current gen of college students, my son included, got their high school experience seriously fucked by Covid and now LLMs are basically devaluing having skills at all. I feel bad for kids these days, their prospects are so much worse than basically any previous gen, even with degrees.
This Shohei guy might even be pretty good at baseball.
I’d watch Keith David in anything.
Hitman wasn’t really a sandbox until Freelancer mode was added. The story mode has always been pretty linear. Same level order, same objectives every time. I’m not expecting my choices to matter to the narrative, but I am expecting to be able to choose between quiet and loud, lethal and non-lethal etc. to finish the given mission which should be a pretty low bar.
If there isn’t a ton of play style variety like Hitman then it will suck. Play your way is the fun part. I’m a SASO type player and that fits into a more realistic sim but Bond also goes loud and wacky a lot in the movies too.
I haven’t watched a single trailer for this, but I’m hyped solely because IOI did great things with Hitman, and being a (movie) spy is similar except your objectives aren’t always assassination.
Couldn’t really care less about the Bond angle, but since it’s a reboot of his story, don’t really think that matters much.
Haha, I have the same feeling for opposite reasons. I grew up in a warmer environment but kept my feet against the cool exterior wall my bed was next to. Now I have to have my feet uncovered and a fan on just to feel comfortable and tucked in sheets feel like I’m trapped.
Being human, eh?