There is apparently an action scene in which ice cube needs a thumb drive, so orders one via Amazon drone delivery. The drone goes down in all the chaos, and our characters have to barter with the homeless man who found the downed drone by offering him Amazon gift cards. The man is a conspiracy nut who thinks the government is tracking him, but a $1000 Amazon gift cards convinces him to risk his life for the characters.
So yes, it is worse than Borderlands.
“He’s not that bad, he’s only actively choosing to be a nazi in order to reach his own selfish goals”
I would argue this would make him worse than he seems.
Musk isn’t taking you to mars with him, no matter how much you try to fellate his ego.
I see the counterargument that “I only use gay as an insult because that’s what would offend them. I’m not homophobic, I just say homophobic things to offend homophobes.”
Nevermind the young men and women out there who are being told that their identity is just ammunition to bully people, we got to be mean to someone on the internet!
“Scientists are still racing to understand the causes of devastating marine heatwaves.”
It’s a real head scratcher.
The issue becomes: if they used Gen AI to create background filler text, can we be 100% certain it wasn’t used elsewhere in the production of the game?
If they really wanted background text, they should have paid someone to write some, or use Lorem Ipsum if they didn’t want to spend the money and no one would have cared.
Nobody who is mad at this situation thinks that taking inspiration, riffing on, or referencing other people’s work is the problem when a human being does it. When a person writes, there is intention behind it.
The issue is when a business, owned by those people you think ‘demonised’ inspiration, take the works of authors and mulch them into something they lovingly named “The Pile”, in order to create derivative slop off the backs of creatives.
When you, as a “professional”, ask AI to write you a novel, who is being inspired? Who is making the connections between themes? Who is carefully crafting the text to pay loving reference to another authors work? Not you. Not the algorithm that is guessing what word to shit out next based on math.
These businesses have tricked you into thinking that what they are doing is noble.
No I don’t, but we’re not talking about a single copy of one book, and it is grovellingly insidious to imply that we are.
We are talking about a company taking the work of an author, of thousands of authors, and using it as the backbone of a machine that’s goal is to make those authors obsolete.
When the people who own the slop-machine are making millions of dollars off the back of stolen works, they can very much afford to pay those authors. If you can’t afford to run your business without STEALING, then your business is a pile of flaming shit that deserves to fail.
You’re right, each of the 5 million books’ authors should agree to less payment for their work, to make the poor criminals feel better.
If I steal $100 from a thousand people and spend it all on hookers and blow, do I get out of paying that back because I don’t have the funds? Should the victims agree to get $20 back instead because that’s more within my budget?
“Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” “Israeli and US support”
My nose started bleeding, trying to unify these concepts in my mind. Its like the “Bird and Small Mammal Support Foundation”, run by house cats.
You just got your answer: Because it is agreed that it helps all of us.
Don’t want to pay taxes? Stop drinking tap water. Don’t turn on your lights. Stop driving on the roads. Don’t seek any medical care ever. Don’t catch the bus. Don’t even look at a public park.
If everybody pays a fraction of their income, these things can be funded. If we all went it alone, do you have the money or skills to maintain the roads you drive on? If you don’t, do you think the other guy is going to do it for free? Or cheap, knowing that he has skills you don’t?
EDIT: it can be argued about the proper use of tax funds in any particular country, eg an excessive ‘defence’ budget in the US.
These are my feelings too. I loved the trilogy when each came out, and return to them at least once a year. But nice graphics aren’t enough to make me support Konami.
As much as I wanted to support this film in cinemas, I am so glad I missed it until it hit streaming. My wife and I spent 80% of this movie in tears because it was so touching and emotional. A beautifully made film about love and protecting those that you call family.
Finding out that the writer was also responsible for How to Train Your Dragon and the original Lilo and Stitch makes a lot of sense.
Doom Eternal? The game with a soundtrack that was made up of butchered parts of Gordon’s work, welded together by a novice, at the command of an egotistical dickhead who slandered Gordon after the fact?
https://medium.com/@mickgordon/my-full-statement-regarding-doom-eternal-5f98266b27ce
Eternals original OST was very poor compared to Doom 2016. Big reason I never bothered with the game.
I would like to know the plan here. They mention following in Australia’s footsteps, but as far as I can see, Australia is still trying to figure out how to implement this ban as well
The best they seem to have come up with for determining age without requiring an onlineID is letting AI look at your hands (NPR link.
Also, what is a social media? Because if you lock it down to specific sites and ban ‘Facebook’ and ‘X’, Musk or Zuck will just launch MashFace or Z, and get around the ban for a little bit longer. If you make it too broad, then kids could technically be excluded from text messaging.
All of this also assumes that a simple vpn won’t bypass all of this, the same way you can still watch pornhun in Texas that Ms to this weeks sponsor: SurfAtlus VPN.
At least it gives people who are using their switches a chance to buy one, instead of them selling out in seconds to a network of bot accounts before winding up on eBay for $300+ the following week.
It’s not the perfect system, but I can understand why they are doing it.
Sex can be more than just the physical act. There are often feelings or misconceptions (good and bad) that can come up during the act, even if it is only being acted, and especially if it is going to be filmed in front of a crew of any size. An intimacy coordinator helps all parties involved (actors, directors, sound, lighting) feel comfortable and not work outside their own safe boundaries.
There has also historically been people who take advantage of others based on their perceived power in the film industry. An intimacy coordinator is there to stand up for the safety and rights of people on set when they are at their most vulnerable.
White, cis, and male has been the default for hundreds of years. When a piece of media presents an alternative, some white cis males consider it an attack on their very being. They see faces that are not their own and think that this ‘correction’ of centuries of oppression means that the media is saying that being white or male is inherently wrong.
It’s narrow-minded and selfish, but in a way that’s akin to a toddler who has never had to share their toys before. Hopefully they will eventually grow up and understand that the world does not revolve around them. They’ve just never had to experience that fact before.
This guy is systematically eroding the very foundations of this community. How can NoStupidQuestions and this stupid question exist at the same time? I can feel the very threads of reality beginning to unravel from this stupidity paradox.
Is DuckDuckGo still the best alternative at this point, or has Bing been toiling away in the dark to improve itself?
Always a bit of a shock to realise that Bob is still chucking along, angry as ever.
Might have to catch up on 15+ years of comics.