And I always get them mixed up

YouTube continuing to advertise to children while claiming otherwise

I think Tuvok probably had security clearances that might have been problematic to duplicate. Not that that would stop Janeway. I think it just means Tuvix would end up joining Section 31 after they get back to Earth

We have been trying to reach you about your law’s extended warranty

The report said Musk sent Fong a direct message asking if she wanted to have his baby despite never having met her in person. Fong confided in friends about the advance, and once Musk found out, he unfollowed her, and her X earnings reportedly nosedived. At the peak of Musk’s engagement with her posting, she apparently raked in $21,000 over a two-week stretch on his platform.

Coercion is rape.

Billups no! Stay away from that Horga’hn!

“I’m an accountant and I use a calculator, so all artists should have to use photoshop.”

The other people interviewed answer those questions if you keep reading

“It really weighed on the creativity of my role, and again, spat in the face of my expertise”, [Ricky says]. “It wasn’t just this though; the tool itself lacks the intent, context, and limitations of what we’re doing. It doesn’t have other aspects of the project, influences, references, or personal experiences in the back of its mind, because it doesn’t have a mind. Whenever we design something for a game, it’s drawn from somewhere, influenced by other things, and filtered through our own experiences as a human. These AI ideas lose ALL of that…"

“What follows from these discussions is me explaining why, usually over hours rather than minutes, that these tools have no place in a professional game development pipeline or production and actually hinder the development of visuals”, Francis says. “I also find myself explaining to them how the iteration and ‘idea’ phase of a project is where the best stuff happens, how exploring things through artistic labor is where your best ideas come to fruition, and why would we want an AI (that we don’t even own) to do that for us with art that isn’t ours to use?”

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Per to the report, three games led the way for the growth of microtransaction revenue: Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Roblox, and Fortnite.

The 58%, or $24.4 billion, represented a slight 1.4% year-over-year (YoY) growth in that area.

So, nothing new. Fortnite continues to make bank. Not a surprise.

I’d be interested to see what kinds of other games the people making the majority of these purchases play

If he’s not arguing to improve it, he’s arguing that it shouldn’t exist at all, which is worse.

We must move away from binary tales of catastrophe, not towards naive utopianism that ignores problems and risks that comes with change, but hopeful solutionism that reminds us we can solve and mitigate them…

I don’t like Black Mirror, but I would never say that there’s no place for it. It obviously resonated with a lot of people, and it was probably an entry into the genre for a lot of new sci-fi fans. Very ‘Old Man Yells At Cloud’

It definitely reads like a criticism of Black Mirror to me

Black Mirror fails to consistently explore the duality of technology and our reactions to it.

Absent is the plot twist of Pandora’s box that made it philosophically useful: the box also contained hope and opportunity that new knowledge brings.

Black Mirror didn’t fail to do those things, it wasn’t interested in them

I don’t like Black Mirror. I think it’s generally lazy and sensational. But what this person is saying is not a valid criticism, it’s like saying the Bee Movie would have been better if there had been an extended car chase. Louis doesn’t want to improve the show, they want something else entirely.

If you want a contemporary forward-thinking scifi, check out author Becky Chambers!

I work for an ISP, and this is a common practice among my peers

Maybe I’m just an old man now, but it’s been years since I was interested in a game with lootboxes. I think the last one I played was Overwatch, back when it originally came out

This is what I thought of when Musk was crying on Fox lol

Halfway through season 4 with a friend right now, taking her through it for the first time. My fiancee left the room for this episode. She claims it’s one of her favorites, but couldn’t watch it lol

The Romulans are definitely trying to mess with time to keep humanity on Earth

I have procrastinated the switch this far, I’ll be damned if my laziness gives in now! Lol