A plagiarism machine is as sentient as a dummy is in a ventriloquist act.
Could we have sentient AI in the future if we don’t slip into neo-fascism while char-broiling the planet?
Yes, but not yet.
Gargle + blaster = Gargleblaster
A plagiarism machine is as sentient as a dummy is in a ventriloquist act.
Could we have sentient AI in the future if we don’t slip into neo-fascism while char-broiling the planet?
Yes, but not yet.
The original Twilight Zone.
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If Israel did that, and don’t see what motive Hamas would have, then Netanyahu should be arrested if he sets foot in the EU.
And did you say Russia was just saber-rattling back when they invaded Ukraine?
Night of the Lepus
Look at what you’re defending.
Finished Divinity Original Sin 2.
Now trying MW5.
And, conversely, when Disney horks some small artist’s work, Disney will out-lawyer them.
I see this turning to shit in a year or two. Maybe less.
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Is the song Brain Damage?
Baldur’s Gate 3 is certainly the latest and most prominent example, but Elden Ring, both Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. The Witcher 3. The Last of Us Part 1 and 2. No cash shops, substantive DLC, if there is any.
And what do all those games have in common?
They’re solo games.
It’s PvP and MMOs where you can purchase an advantage, show off your bling, or purchase expansions to get a head start on the competition. That is where the microtransaction infestation occurs.
Kbin.social and mastodon.social
Spend most of my time on Mastodon.
Guild Wars 1
Having a character of one main class and a secondary class that could be switched at any time between any of the 9 classes.
8-slot skillbar with one heroic skill that could only come from your main class.
400+ total skills in the game.
Plenty of room for you to make your own homebrew builds, and some classic builds that were outside the box:
The assassin that used a staff (assacaster), the ranger that used necro skills to touch people to death (touch ranger), and the 55 monk, which had almost no hp but so much healing it was hard to kill.
It will always be my MMORPG because of the character design.
The Chinese Civil War ended without Mao being able to capture Taiwan, where the KMT moved its Republic. No secession necessary. It was part of the ROC before the war and never part of the CCP.
Put your propagandized version on the bookshelf next to the story about your tanks running over your own youth to preserve your authoritarian system.
And you talking about indigenous people while you try to eradicate the Uyghurs in Xinjiang is another book on that shelf.
‘There is broad consensus among experts that the early 2020s shifts in social media populations were what has come to be called asshole-driven.’
Scraping Assholes-A History of Social Media from 2006-2056
R. McDonald (2069), published by McDonald’s Textbook Division, Schaumburg, IL, USA
Threads, where you can live in a pretend simulation that your ass isn’t owned by Captain Facebook.
So the purpose is to protect them if someone overclocks and fries it, meaning they know if you take it in under warranty and say you want this faulty part replaced?