Out of curiosity I watched half of the AI slop and I can confidently say that fucking *nobody* voted for that shit.

The voice "acting" is so bad that literally anyone could do better. "Hey. What is happening to me." Nothing else about it is any good either.

The map design plays a big role in it, too. A couple squares difference can have a big effect!

I had this same concern in designing Kazzam with capture the flag elements: if you spec your character to be fast as hell, you can score a lot of points grabbing the loot. If you don't spec your character that way, it's hard to do it at all.

Took a few iterations to get it balanced.

Piranesi for sure, best fiction I read this year. Best in several years. I just loved it.

Ghost on the Throne, best nonfiction this year. Very cool how much detail and how many personal stories we know about events over 2000 years ago.

fr. At this point maybe I should just install Windows 95 and go back to using Netscape Navigator.

God fucking damn it. After getting sick of chrome, I was just switching to Firefox. I literally installed it and moved over my bookmarks and stuff. Guess I'll find another option!

I read some of the screenshots and was like "this person is obviously like 14 years old. I'm not going to dunk on a child." Then I went and checked and nope, apparently been in the hobby for 25 years.

I feel like we must be getting trolled here.

The whole idea that you can break this law in an emergency raises many questions.

What if a non-car-owner is in an emergency? Can they also break the law then? Can they carjack someone at gunpoint, for instance? It's an emergency, after all.

We no longer have the power to put apostrophes where we want. The phone has decided it will take over that role.

Going to start adding this to my daily lexicon.

"Oh hey, did you enjoy your potentially fatal bike ride?"

Hostility to AI is here to stay. Gotta learn to deal with it or get left behind!

Make your film 76 minutes and eat up 30% of that with car chases and 15% with sex scenes and your lead actor barely needs to be able to speak a coherent sentence.

Source: the 1990s.

Basically, it's a lesson for action films: beyond a certain runtime, it requires artistic merit to keep going. You can only get by on showing huge steroid-enhanced pecs rippling beneath unexpressive faces for so long before it's boring.

One Battle After Another can be long and good.

Spider-man 7: Webber's Walk, starring former NBA star Chris Webber as Webber the spider-dog? That might be a fun flick at 87 minutes. At 133 minutes, it's for sure a turd.

"For sir, the menu. And for madame, the womenu."

They know that what they need to win elections is $$ from billionaires.

What they need is for us not to alienate the billionaires with talk of equality or unions or civil rights.

So they tell us to shut up. They don't care if we don't vote for them as long as we don't block the money hose.

I watched one video of his and liked it a lot. Then I watched a second one and decided I didn't need to watch anymore.

He talked about how "bro" was being used as a pronoun (true and interesting) and then said gloatingly that it was more common than singular they (not true and he's an asshole).

"IQ is 50% genetic."

Here's a picture of a black baby and a white baby.

No, of course the picture doesn't have anything to do with the text, why would you even think that?!

All of these are good movies, though? (Seen 9/10. Haven't seen the Woody Allen and not going to.)

Like, it's not the same as my top 10, but why would it be?

Is the complaint that they are "basic"? That he doesn't have any niche picks?