Sounds like you’d rather watch a movie or show. Not a knock. I tend to not engage with plot in games unless it’s like BG3 where it’s fundamental. I like that for TV and movies, I just have the director giving me the optimal way to engage with their story and themes.

I am a sucker for a good magic or power system, so will happily explore through skill trees and the like.

Well I don’t mind at all.

Kids these days don’t know how to have a proper brick party in forums anymore.

Yeah, buts it’s just a pot still most of the time, unless it’s raining. Then it’s kind of a packed bed with super loose packing.

I guess snow and hail are something completely different. Dunno what that would be called.

This person was actually convicted of trafficking opioids in an actual court in 2022, so it’s not a random Canadian plucked off the street.

That being said prisoners do still deserve basic human rights like healthcare and with people being arrested without due process now, just coming to the US shouldn’t mean risking your life.

The animals know there is a weird device there, they just sniff at it and keep going. Humans would probably investigate weird out of place things, especially in cities and more dense areas.

I think there’s a useful discussion for why these technologies can be effective at getting people to connect with them emotionally, but they themselves don’t experience emotions any more than a fictional character in a book experiences emotion.

Our mental model of them can, but the physical representation is just words. In the book I’m reading there was a brutal torture scene. I felt bad for the character, but if there was an actual being experiencing that kind of torment, making and reading the book would be horrendously unethical.

I have a preconceived conclusion about my anthropomorphized view of a statistical model with some heuristics around it. People who know what they’re talking about say I’m wrong, but I need an idea for an article to write that people will read.

Yep that sounds like a flying object that no one identified.

So Trump is not acting based on goals he has for the US, he is acting on goals for the global oligarchy, doesn’t matter if you’re a Canadian or US billionaire he wants you to be able to continue exploiting.

If putting Canada under the jurisdiction of a more compliant country like the US makes that easier great, if instead the conservative parties in Canada can be propped up great. You have plenty of MAGAs in Canada, They’re not just in the US, so we all could do some house cleaning. The US is just the cautionary tale.

I don’t think he actually cares about Canada specifically. The point is to alienate the US from its allies and reduce any kind of powerful diplomatic mediators or military deterrents so Russia and similar traditionally colonial powers can just start seizing whatever territory they want.

If they mean AI upscaling, where you take a low resolution image then generate a higher resolution one then sure.

But it will be a while before they have full AI rendering, if ever. AI generation isn’t super precise when it comes to details and for games precision usually matters a lot unless it’s like a narrative game. You probably can’t use an arbitrary but close color for an enemy for example or have health bars look close enough.

Sometimes the fix is to turn it off, take it out back and beat it with a stick.

Nah, not enough flannel.

The Russian oligarchs clearly thought it promoted a desire within them for some kind of relations.

Yeah, depends on the tea too. I have some teas that are done after 3-4 steeps, and some that just never end.

At some point you need to admit you’re just drinking brown water and not tea anymore.

For when you actually want 10 tiny cups of tea.

Do you not add gelatin to your water before making tea?

So give it a quick stir? Also if it’s at a boil, the bubbles are going to mix the fluid well.