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I work in educational publishing / digital course materials and this is an absolute game-changer. I do not say this lightly. Within the past 24 hours I was able to take a .pdf of a chapter of a Modern Physics textbook and have ChatGPT-4 (low temp) create a full Solution and Answer Guide for...

They are being very coy about it. Since we know the 15th doctor will have an Xmas episode as his debut that points to the 60th anniversary itself being possibly the final of the three. So probably three dates in Oct / Nov?

I kinda hope they use this opportunity to retool some of the aspects of the overarching story. The author self-published these books and was in dire need of an editor to control some of the more 'meh' aspects.

Its been awhile since I read the books, but I think there actually are redundancies like that but because they are living in the 'dark ages' they just don't know what they all are/where the controls are. Since they have never shut the generator off in their recorded history its all a mystery and...

AI image generators have been sooo useful when trying to make adventure content. I followed a recommendation about using ChatGPT to compose the MidJourney prompts and ended up with some very nice renders of the party (this was our Dragon Heist crew) Drunken Master Monk -- Divination Wizard...

In the past game balance for abilities and encounter difficulties was done by autistic nerds who created massive monte carlo simulations that took in a plethora of factors to simulate outcomes. I think now they just have some rando making sweeping changes based on their emotions.

After they release Cata Classic so they then spin up World of Warcraft Classic Classic? But this time go full old school and start in Alpha testing with only one race at a time playable.

I hate myself for playing this damn game. So it does appear to be a worthy successor.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/babylon-5-the-road-home-voice-cast-unveiled-1235483312/

Yay! I needed more anxiety and self-esteem issues!

Can confirm that everything in this world explodes. I almost wanna play it with my one buddy who perpetually thinks shooting explosives next to me is the funniest thing imaginable just to hear him jizz all over himself at the carnage possible in this mess.

Well they weren't purple originally... they were completely black. There's also the issue where 'dark' = 'evil' to contend with. As people who were completely underground and couldn't stand to be in the sun at all the Drow should have been completely albino in nature --- but that's not the...

I never played past the first hour or so of BOTW because of the durability situation. It has a direct analog to the pile of 'consumables' I finish every RPG with. I do not like using one-time resources in a game like this. The Horizon series did it the absolute best -- you needed to craft the...

I was getting serious deja-vu vibes the whole of the first episode... until I realized that I had read Wool back in 2020 when it popped up as a recommendation on my Kindle mid-pandemic. The crazy thing is that I had first been looking for a video or a movie as the mental images were so crystal...

I saw an interview that for a few of these studios this project represented 'keeping the lights on' revenue for them. Providing them with both a certain measure of budget and stability as well as allowing them a way to more fully showcase what they could do versus just 'gig work' where they had...

Apparently there is an entire progression system that is baked into co-op play which tracks how you synergize with your buddies? Apparently the NPC AI makes more sense in co-op as well in terms of character focus and such. I'd try this out but I don't think I'll be able to pull my buddy away...

Well the focus this season was on recruiting a wide variety of international animation studios so it's natural that there would be greater diversity. They also said they applied little to no editorial oversight for the different Visions so it's probably just coincidence that so many are...

Just watched "Sith" and the animation style used is just plain stunning. Somehow its both minimalistic and simultaneously rich with detail. Similarly B2 is adorable and badass in a way that highlights the protagonists own duality of illumination and darkness.

Yeah this was a problem with some series in-production during the last strike. Especially ones where the director also has writing credits. It's not insurmountable, but it's far from ideal. Friend of ours had literally just gotten their WGA East credentials last month and was so happy that...

I triggered a bunch of Rook storms last night and just lured him into a safehouse UV area whereupon he promptly got ganked. For a game that is a co-op looter shooter the loot is just awful. Most of the parameters seem marginal at best.

Yeah they made Feyd pasty and bald its certainly an interesting choice, but it is consistent with the Harkonnen visual language in this version.

UV hasn't been effective against the few times I've fought a Rook. Perhaps my UV projector is just shit, or do you run to a UV protected area?

The new no-longer-One-D&D-but-not-still-5e playtest material has some interesting elements. I don't care for what they did to Warlocks and Sorcerers with this new spin on things. Im especially annoyed by the decision to have both of them hold off on subclass until 3rd level. Sorcerer I can...

They wanted to use Drizzt originally but went with Zenk instead. I think it's actually a smart choice.

Was absolutely not expecting this!

ChatGPT is great for 'stone soup' writing. It lets you avoid the numbing terror of a blank piece of paper and provides you with something you can work off of. I've used it myself for some D&D type stuff and while the end result contained essentially nothing from the AI output the stuff it...

There is indeed something buried in this mess. The zerg-rush nature of the setup wherein you get quickly ganked and then run a short distance back to continue fighting is just really weird. It results in almost no gravitas to the encounter and actually causes me to do things like willingly...

One of the players had a work trip so we did a watch party of this last night instead of our usual session. It was really good! I was genuinely shocked at how good it was. Snappy pacing, genuinely funny moments, the right level of authentic fanservice, Jarnathan...all prime stuff.

So after you finish the Redfall map based around the Firehouse (which is essentially a tutorial) you go to a second full town which is a suburb of Redfall with two more 'Vampire Gods'. I'm guessing their season pass will consist of adding in more and more of these maps with new content that...

This game makes Division 2 look like a masterpiece. The movement is janky as fuck, the AI and game balance is all over the place and the core game is just dumb. Here's an example: Health packs. You can carry 5 (initially) and the drop semi-infrequentlt from human mobs. You heal to full when...

It has maybe the worst tutorial in a games in recent memory. I can see a hint of an interesting concept, but it's as if they drew up a design doc and then hired our a Left4Dead modder to do a total conversion.

Doing a New Journey+ now and the optional 0-slot Perks are an interesting way to incorporate different things in that modality. You can choose to equip-or-not three different perks 1) New encounters 2) Vastly increased damage for everyone 3) Randomized cosmetics whenever you die. I am only...

They must have already been working on some of these... the patch approval process is usually a bitch yeah?

This writers strike is gonna be devastating amidst the cooling off of release cadences. I think the golden age of streaming products may be over.

Just finished Act 2 (they don't specify them...but it's clearly the second of three logical acts). I may take a break before I go through Act 3, especially with a ton of skillpoints to be found at the various side-quests and exploration stuff. Minor plot specific spoilers

Dont forget the upgrades you can buy with the various tokens you can find. I seem to have fucked up somehow as I'm running around with 4-slot perks and I only have 3 perk slots... :(

Given JMS's comments about physical media I'm guessing the thing we get this coming week is fully remastered Babylon 5 4k blu rays with all new cast commentary. Possibly with various episodes re-edited with additional footage that had to be cut for time etc.

You actually do upgrade the arm cannon in the side quests