Which could have been the weirdest tangent on a Wikipedia page. Jim Henson, Muppets, Sesame Street, retired characters, Big Bird, oh was that an early version of Abelardo?, Challenger shuttle dis-- what. What? What the fuck?!

When the guy who played Mr. Hooper died, they worked that into the show. The cast, sincerely grieving, had to explain to a seven-foot-tall canary that he wasn’t coming back. That’s not really he same kind of intrusion from reality, as acknowledging the same giant fowl fucking exploded on national television.

The only possible comparison would be if some show had a gimmicky live episode that happened to be scheduled for 9 AM, on a Tuesday, in September of 2001.

Same. I think that episode was shown in-class, too, so I came alarmingly close to the XKCD.

This thread has been fucking great for blocking people who would have insisted, whatever this new Auschwitz thing is, it’s just as bad as something Hindenburg did.

No. They weren’t.

Generic percentage increases to immigration enforcement are not the same as Kristi Noem tweeting about SIXTY-FIVE MILLION PEOPLE, no matter how strongly you feel about the shit we were doing before.

The Idiot is talking about stripping natural-born citizens of that citizenship, and sending them all to cat-food factories in Sudan, and y’all still wanna bicker about Obama catching people crossing the border. Like you can’t figure out there’s a difference between a little over a million people, across eight years, and every Hispanic in America facing a no-trial black-hood flight to fuckoff nowhere, as soon as practically possible.

Oh right, I’m on ML. Where whatever a building is used for now is the fault of whoever built it.

No difference between fighting human trafficking and separating all children from all parents.

No difference between having immigration laws and shipping random brown people to Sudan.

Same same same nuh uh always same.

They weren’t planning to round up an entire fifth of the US population and put them in concentration camps.

I feel like that alone counts for a lot. Sorry you seem to disagree.

This is just “both sides” with more steps.

The confusion of products and services has been awful in general. Publishers demand continuing revenue. A fixed subscription is at least an honest economic exchange, for customers - unlike any form of “microtransactions.”

‘This systemic theft is against adults.’

‘Yeah, man, voluntary extinction.’

???

Fuck them kids. Children aren’t why these bastards are offering financing for this industry-swallowing abuse.

AI tends to be distinct, because things move so fast that we’re exposing programmers’ stupid internal names.

What an obviously terrible name.

Bu-si-ness mo-del.

Not: genre. Not: content. Not: players. We are talking about corporations committing systemic abuse for profit.

Abuse that’s gouging so hard, you might need FINANCING… to play a VIDEO GAME. How big a hint do you need that something has gone wrong?

Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.

Ban the entire business model.

Well yeah, Perl is write-only. Larry Wall asked the monkey’s paw for a language that works on the first try. What’s onscreen are your raw brain patterns.

Thank god it runs like crap. Optimized C isn’t pretty, but any project that compiles proves someone looked at it more than once.

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Hmm.

It’s easy to mock the Xbox brand like it lost a fair fight and is on its last legs.

But this is Sony acknowledging that consoles don’t matter anymore. The war is over. Who won is irrelevant. There’s just color-coded interchangeable platforms now, like releasing on both Steam and EGS. This was always the purpose of the Xbox project, from back before DirectX had a proper name… though admittedly Microsoft assumed they’d still control the PC gaming market.

Whoops.

… right, and the reason nobody’s done that, despite the aggressive availability of local models, is that even a few static assets lead to shrill backlash. Like this article. My man is frothing at the mouth because a complex systemic city-builder used a program to draw the “you can’t cut back on funding!” guy.

We can assume the same people would screech that any game with generative dialog was “written by AI.” Like a text parser being able to respond to insults means the whole plot came from a ten-word prompt. It’s not a rational environment for selling studios on a multi-million-dollar investment.

“Lose.”

Huh, it’s almost like this new tool is fine for placeholder art, and placeholders can be good enough to ship.

Did you know The Rolling Stones’ “Satisfaction” was supposed to have a brass section? That driving riff with the fuzzbox guitar was a placeholder. They released it as-is, the song hit #1, and distortion became mainstream. At what point do we stop lamenting all the horn players who were robbed?