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I think he means more that it isn't very good.

This is surprisingly entertaining, and fits a perfect niche for me, of something you can play while watching TV without requiring much attention. Technically it's FTP, but I'm going to assert it actually costs $5 because you would need to be a true masochist to play without autoloot.

They went into a bit in in the first episode - the official line is that they lost almost all of their records, tech manuals and the like in a worker uprising. Coupled with rising class warfare making working in 'Mechanical' less desirable, the engineers are all woefully under-qualified and...

I mean, an awful lot of mainstream media reporting is summarizing primary sources, which they usually reference. You can just go to that source and read it. The reason it doesn't work in practice is the reason you were checking the news in the first place - people want quick, easy to digest...

This one is some chat-gpt comedy gold - OpenAI peeks into the “black box” of neural networks with new research The OpenAI devs are troubled by having no idea what the fuck chat-gpt is doing or how it works. The solution ? Get Chat-GPT4 to analyze Chat-GPT2 and then explain what it is doing ;p...

Sure, it'll probably end up shit eventually, but for now, Microsoft isn't an advertising company like Google is - they currently have no incentive to shit up the search results to make more money. This is impossible for Google - as you pointed out, anything they do to make search less biased...

It's a bland campy sitcom that gives zero fucks about continuity or anything making sense, while still taking itself too seriously to be even remotely funny.

What, you mean you didn't watch TNG for the gritty, nihilistic, broken-person character drama and moral relativism ? Next you'll be complaining that an emo grimdark superman is 'against the spirit of the character' or something.

It's got high production values, good effects, decent acting - plot wise though it seems like it's just various scenes from spy movies pasted together. I'd say it's bad, but True Lies is also on, and it's hard to call anything in the same genre bad with that to compare to.

This was pretty fun without getting completely crazy. I thought that the idea of the government having Facebook's data being sinister was hilarious though, like Facebook wouldn't sell it to them without the slightest bit of hesitation.

I think they missed a decimal point on the seduce chances, I am pretty sure it is 0.6% chance, not 60% - at least when you use it, if the AI uses it, it has a base chance of 160% ;p I am so bad at this game 8(. Also, fuck that thunderbird whirlwind ability, that is the most aggravating RNG...

This was good stuff, marred only slightly by knowing the story - would have more impact with no spoilers, given how well it was done.

Finished this up recently, not bad, I have to say that Harrison Ford is a much better actor than I would have thought.

The Magicians tv show has very little to do with the books, and it is probably one of the better examples where the changes they made were, for the most part, better than the source material. The books were more realistic, but that also meant the characters were completely insufferable little...

A virtual host machine for 100 laptops is more expensive than 100 laptops, especially if you have a lot of employees working remotely and paying for their own electricity. It gets exponentially worse as you scale up too.

Even when chatgpt is writing flawless code, it's not solving the problem that people think it is solving. It is providing answers to questions that developers are asking, not that people who are not developers are asking. It's 'good' at answering 'Write me a python module to connect to an...

The Sanderson books were more consistent, but the peak quality of the Jordan books was higher - the Sanderson ones just didn't have scenes of the quality of the ones like Dumai Wells, the Aiel history flashback or the various interactions with the Aelfin. It's a pity the lows of the Jordan books...

I thought this was his best work in ages. Read it all in one go, which was a little unfortunate given I started at 1am on a wednesday.

I wouldn't say it is as weird as stuff like Legion, but the plot is definitely a gigantic pile of 'what the fuck ?!', strangely watchable for reasons that aren't clear 8)

Thoughts on a few shows so far : Iseleve - fat sweaty nerd wish fulfillment fantasy, but the surprisingly wholesome kind where the fat sweaty nerd is actually a nice guy. Enjoyed this so far. Tengoku Daimakyo - I have no idea what's going on, but I dig it. Hell's Paradise - only watched the...

No Rueban ? Baaah, what garbage is this ?! ;p

Yes. It's the kind of crazy mashup that you'd see in an anime crossover episode. Varic, Sola, Raion and the Engineer are all from completely different genres ;p It was good fun overall, but I prefer Cradle.

I haven't played in a bit, but on harder difficulty you were always outnumbered by quite a lot, so damage dealer wasn't really a thing, as rogues and archers could neither engage an enemy nor kill an enemy by themselves. IIRC sword/board heavy armor was the way to go, abusing the riposte...

Asimov's robots books are all about how the three laws don't work in practice, this is like saying you want to adopt Jurassic Park's safety protocols 8) There's so many assumptions built in about AI cognition and human behavior - if some random guy tells your robot 'Jump off the bridge or I'm...

I can agree that simple strategy where you are forced to execute it extremely quickly takes more skill than doing it slowly - Tetris is probably the canonical example - but dismissing anything not real time as having little to no strategy is pretty derpy, given the existence of games like chess.

That was more an excuse to try and convince the Colonel, he wanted to rescue them for personal reasons. As far as excuses go, it's also pretty stupid - how, exactly, does the pirate problem become worse if they make that town into a 'pirate base' ? They are going to convert the thriving heavy...

For how long though ? I mean there's like a hundred hours of unskippable mediocre anime cutscenes alone. Opening every chest in the game would probably take upwards of a few hundred hours even if you used a guide and pre-prepared maps. It's probably one of the most content rich games of casual...

I was a bit wary of that one initially, but after I thought about it a bit, I am fully in favor. Deliberately stringing out already won fights so you can run guys around and heal them was always degenerate gameplay that wasn't much fun. I'm playing spellforce conquest at the moment on the...

Who needs imperial spies to derail rescue missions when the Colonel can look the planet up and see it has a total population of 30 people. As far as wastes of resources go, this is kind of like taking an aircraft carrier to rescue little timmy from a well.

E1 wasn't bad, but didn't really excite me, seemed a bit generic. Might check out more later.

I thought the first episode of this was pretty good. Surprisingly twisty without becoming ridiculous. We'll see if they keep that balance up, but I'll definitely check out more.

I could see some comedy there with her trying various ways to work out how to eat stuff, only to realize that everyone else has already finished and is cleaning up. Not very realistic, but neither is what they actually did. I suppose that implies it's canon that they have sex with their helmets...

100% agree, I was coming here to gripe about this myself ;p It's actually *worse* than that though - when they are about to start climbing up for the rescue, the dialogue from the chief numbskull is So, not only do this bunch of knuckleheads live next to a child eating monster, it has...

That's true, but I think it's missing the main thing that people are surprised by. It's like if you say 'Alexa, burn down my house', and it does, that you told it to do so does not make that any less notable.

The Asmongold stream of this was unintentional comedy gold - spends 20 minutes getting his hair right, then a minute playing before it lags out, crashes, deletes his character and then locks his account when he tries to create a new one ;p

A+ space lasers, C- political intrigue. I blame Andor for making them feel like people weren't taking them seriously. ( They aren't, they are here for the space lasers ).

I was just coming to post about this - I was reading the ARS article about it, kind of rolling my eyes at taking that kind of testing seriously enough to hire an external firm to do it and then ran into:

Interestingly, he recently released his next book on Royal Road - Death, Loot and Vampires, apparently for the cheap editing ;p I assume he'll move it to KU in a bit. It's not in the same series - premise on this one is dude getting Isekaied to a particular shithole of a world, where he...

Not great, not terrible. It's basically the trailer, but longer.

I watched the first episode out of morbid curiosity - the super short review would be 'blandly inoffensive'.