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As Stop Destroying Videogames petition verification continues in EU, organisers are preparing to 'counter misinformation and industry lobbying' www.eurogamer.net/as-stop-dest...
Silksong was $20. I don't think it's going to steal too many players away from other games.
Share your favorite cover versions.
Drawing process, using a symmetry tool always feels rather meditative to me
Timeline cleanse. The description really makes it. "Has functioned in the child's play as, among other things, a guitar and a walking stick. Child has carried the stick around since 2018, so lots of emotional value."
"It was claimed"
Finnish newspaper interviewed the neighbors of a man accused of a crime: "Some described the man as odd, a little peculiar and overly positive. For instance, the man "always says hi" and insists that things are going well. "Surely everyone's got to have bad days once in a while," one wonders."
Does Venom count?
Science!
I just want someone in the studio, for every discussion like this, whose job it is to mute the mic of whoever won't stop talking over others.
Teaching is more effective than scolding. Unfortunately it's also a lot more time-consuming and exhausting. A lot of people simply don't care about distant concepts like the imminent heat death of our planet. They need evidence of harm that affects their immediate present, like their jobs.
Companies intentionally obscure the nature of the "AI" types they're using, muddying the waters for these types of ethics arguments. Are there good, legitimate uses for AI? Yes, definitely. Are any of them LLMs? Almost certainly not.
I sure wish the NYT didn't relegate any and all resistance-flavored reporting to the Opinion section while happily propping up the current goings-on in their regular reporting.
Working as designed. Push things so far that people start to look back longingly to previous admins that were *slightly less* awful, so that when a future admin eventually goes back to the slightly less awful ways, it's viewed as an improvement.
I don't know who needs to hear this but "Google is free" means nothing in today's world where the first page of any search is a bunch of SEO-optimized AI slop masquerading as news and telling you to eat rocks. Stop telling people to google shit if you actually want them to learn something important.
I haven't read the book and even I know what it's really about. You have to really *try* to miss the point so hard.
I genuinely can't tell if the author never read the novel because while they seemingly recognize that this version hews closer to the novel, they also argue that's a *bad* thing because people are conditioned to expect adaptations that completely misrepresent the OG story, so it's not FAIR.
"Holy shit you guys, they made Frankenstein the villain and his monster sympathetic! Such a jarring rework of the novel, amirite?"
I thought this review had to be written either by AI or a young college graduate taking their first steps as a journalist. Then I read the author's bio, and not only have they been reviewing films since the 1990s, they've written several books about them.
For science!
I wouldn't say it necessarily seems silly if you consider Chernobyl, Fukushima and Three Mile Island. Yes, society has benefitted from nuclear power but it absolutely needs constant supervision to keep disasters at a minimum.
I dunno, I think the invention of nuclear weapons was always a bad idea and the only thing they've brought into the world is more fear. The moral panic about them has pretty much been proven true. Just because the tech continues to exist doesn't mean it should.
"We shouldn't blame the tech because it will lead to the creators making it even worse" just sounds like blackmail. When people are being hurled through windshields at high velocity, the problem is not the people pointing out the lack of seatbelts.
EikÜs Purra ole edelleen sitä mieltä, ettei Teemu varsinaisesti sanonut mitään väärää? Eli eihän tässä mistään takaumista puhuta.
Fuck Ricky Gervais but this bit with Bowie was class youtu.be/jv6mEv_rDdE?...
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Equating certain words and concepts like emotion and vulnerability with weakness is deliberate. It's bullying. You bully people away from sharing their humanity by telling them they will essentially be ostracized. You make arts and education seem "dumb", and then you kill empathy.
Art is an expression of humanity, our shared experiences and emotions. So you kill that, too. You defund the arts to discourage people from proliferating shared experiences. Make art and literature seem unprofitable, unwise, "impulsive". Equate music and theater with (gasp!) "feminine", "gay".
And another thing! Defunding the arts and education is another direct result of trying to kill empathy. The more people know and understand about the world, the more empathy they have. So you demonize education. You mock it, use words like "nerdy" and "elitist" to make it seem undesirable.
This is, of course, the "socialist hellscape" the ultra-richâthe least empathetic classâkeep warning us about. They risk losing the most if empathy drives the people to demand equity. They can't kill absolutely everyone who has less than them. So they try to kill the whole concept of empathy.
This doesn't make those policies any better, of course, but at least they make more sense. If the underprivileged represent solidarity and understanding towards other humans, they have the potential to dream of better things. A world where everyone has some is better than one where some have none.
Fear and suspicion of your fellow man leads to isolation and stagnation. To being content with your lot and trusting authority to solve your problems for you. If killing empathy is the goal, even seemingly nonsensical economic policiesâsqueezing those who have nothing leftâstart to make sense.
Thinking about the Lindsay Ellis video and empathy. The underprivileged are consistently the class with the most empathy. Those who have little to give still give more to those who have none than do the ones who have it all. Killing empathy is the goal because empathy powers hope and change.
Yes, it did! Thank you!
Fantastic video. Difficult but necessary.
Is there any other link to donate? Donating through YT is not possible yet in my country. Thank you for this video. I've been despairing lately at the general lack of empathy. Started to wonder if I was the weird one. This gave some perspective & reminded me why staying true to my values matters.
Rohkenen väittää, että suomalaista hyvinvointiyhteiskuntaa uhkaa akuutimmasti Ükyrikkaiden rikastuminen kÜyhien ja sairaiden kustannuksella. Siis se, jota hallitus nimenomaan ajaa takaa.
Organised by Haaz Sleiman. Yes, THAT Haaz Sleiman. gofund.me/68956be9
Things in the US are this dire because this has been the Dem strategy for the past 40 years or so. It has never been more important to demand better from your leaders.
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Fascinating seeing your process in "real time", so to speak. Thanks for sharing this!
Love this style! Feels like a "dream sequence" in a story where an old villager is telling children about the Legend of Yasuke.
Yasuke from Assassinâs Creed Shadows, in his best outfit. đ¸ I love this big soft boi and think his animations in-game are SO endearing when heâs trying to do assassin things. AC Shadows is BEAUTIFUL, as is our boi Yasuke đ¸đ¸ #acshadows #yasuke
Slightly diminish a band: Strongly Worded Letter Against the Machine
Not sci-fi but Animal Farm might be a good gateway drug.
But I don't have anything to play it on. đ
Are these things easy to do? No. But if you own a media/entertainment platform, you have a responsibility over the kind of content you produce. The behavior that you encourage, and that which you discourage. You can't fight authoritarianism using the same playbook. /thread
So how do we start to unravel the problem? Give people back their time. Allow them to slow down, to think, to listen. Discourage countdowns in debates, discourage audience reactions, discourage pump-up music. All things that force people into a fast-thinking, aggressive state of mind.
The 24-hour news cycle was invented to keep people in a state of constant uncertainty. Fear and uncertainty leads to engagement with whomever you perceive as the voice of reason. And the most reasonable person speaks with authority, certainty. That is what bite sized entertainment is built upon.
This is why "engagement" is the word of the day. We talk about attention spans as if it's people's own, innate fault, but capitalism has created a world where we genuinely have less time to think. And I think it's by design.
This leads to communication becoming a contest for who has the sharpest wit; the snappiest tweet that "eviscerates" one's opponent. The resulting public humiliation leads the opposing side to respond in kind. And now you no longer have a debate but a race for views.
Efficiently, in this case, meaning without all the "fluff" - words we use to soften our delivery, that open the ways for true empathy and listening. The Orwellian efficiency of "double plus ungood".
This leads to the rise of snappy, bite-sized content. The idea that your time is precious, so you need your news and entertainment delivered quickly, efficiently.
As poverty increases & people have to do increasingly more to hold on to their jobs - even get 2nd or 3rd jobs - their free time shrinks. Less time to unwind = wanting to spend that downtime productively. No more mindlessly watching TV for 3 hours - cut down the content to bare "essentials".
Back when the economy was more stable, TV and entertainment was geared more towards letting people unwind after a long day. Mindless, vapid entertainment meant to put your brain at ease. (Not saying it was necessarily *good*, but it was... stable.) A relaxed brain makes less hasty decisions.
The article stops just where I think it should start. What is behind the rise of these divisive formats? Can we predict where they're headed NOW instead of "ask me in 5 years"? I see a connection between people's shrinking free time and the rise of bite-sized, engagement bait entertainment. 1/?
"I found myself feeling stretched thin. Lighter, somehow. As if I had been transported from the three-dimensional world into... two-dimensional?" (Title reveal: Alan Wake: Re-Animated)
My fave was always the one about the kids playing at a glitched out abandoned yard.
"âI think my control over Tesla should be enough to ensure that it goes in a good direction, but not so much control that I canât be thrown out if I go crazy,â Musk told investors in a briefing call." IF?!
"It's ok, honey. The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout won't hurt you!" The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout:
"Elämä on tässä ja nyt" Sehän on se kaikkein masentavin ajatus. Ainakin heillä, joilla se tämänhetkinen elämä on nälkäpalkalla kituuttamista päivästä toiseen eikä jaksamista tai terveyttä tahdo riittää parhaassa iässäkään. On lohduttavampaa ajatella, että joskus on toisin.
And Gary the Snail on the right side.
It has taken me, a Finnish person who's into horror, language, Finnish culture, mysteries and layers of meaning, this long to play #AlanWake2 because I just knew I would be completely obsessed with it. Thank you, @remedygames.com
Sure, ChatGPT may be bad for the environment. But is it a good tool to help people advance in their careers? No. But does it provide useful and unbiased information? Also no.
I think we're past the point where social media shaming works anymore. The racist M*GA lady whose GFM made bank proved that. Starving them of attention (and money) is the better strategy.
In fact, OP joined in and said "still trying to find them!". Tired of this culture of vagueposting and hounding people for drama. The perps will only benefit from the engagement and others will get dragged in thru no fault of their own.
Someone on TikTok talking about an influencer who ignored their kid all day while filming a day-at-the-beach video. Comments were full of ppl guessing "is it so-and-so?" with many different names and OP having to clarify no, it's not. OP never told them to stop guessing and going after ppl though.
I disagree that Superman should always be able to save everybody. To me it's more interesting to ask what choices a literal god would have to make if they were real. Supes being something of a stand-in for the Christian God seems to give filmmakers cold feet in seriously exploring that question.
If Twitterâs built-in AI spouting anti-semitism while calling itself âMechaHitlerâ wasnât enough for you to leave the platform, I have many questions.
Batman is easier to file away as morally grey; he's clearly disturbed. But Superman being invariably described as a "good man" when his godlike problem-solving skills mostly manifest as punching people through buildings...There is something very American about it, but I wouldn't describe it as good.
As a non-USian, it's not Superman's "boring" personality that turns me off but the glorification of his violent methods. For decades he was equated with "the American way", before Americans woke up to realize that maybe the rest of the world had a different understanding of the phrase than they did.
Every time these Boomer comedians say "you're not allowed to offend anyone these days", they always mean the gays, the transes etc. Maybe Mr. Gilliam could try to be original and make a movie aimed at offending billionaires and MAGA cultists instead of another "silenced by the woke!" routine.
"The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien is a 3-volume epic about people walking to a volcano to drop a ring into it. Written in 2033, the book was widely praised for its depiction of Klingon, the lost language of the mythical Irish race."
A coworker alerted me to the fact thatâstarting this weekâyou now have to buy credits from Adobe to use the generative AI tools in the professional software we already pay a subscription fee to access, even if it generates something worthlessâŚthis isnât a productivity tool, itâs a slot machine.
Probably without Nazis as the bad guys because the US government might object.
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Beyond parody.
Fucking cowards.
It's the logical endpoint for people who idolize hypermasculinity: the idea that you can build yourself up into the "perfect" man (always a man), an impenetrable fortress of muscle and strength. And that anyone unable or unwilling to buy into their image of healthy is simply too weak to survive.
Double-plus ungood.
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40 years ago, the Love Boat featured a transgender character, and it turns out the character ends up treated better by the media then than a lot of what you see today. No calls for cancelling the program, no conservative media outcry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgkW...
When an anomaly happens every time they try to launch one of these things, can it even be called an anomaly anymore?
Yes, of course. It's just giving "Study confirms: Bears shit in woods".
Is this confirmation bias? 'Cause every time one of these studies comes out it just feels like stating the obvious.
There were many, but probably Mel Brooks' movies. History of the World Part I is the one I most associate with my dad, so that was probably the first.
"Leae-blower" I can see being a genuine mistake but I can't imagine anyone mistaking K for an M, so that might be a joke.
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Thereâs a Pratchett for everything
AI still can't create human hands with five fingers but sure, it'll build a completely working BotW.
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