I don't actually care if games are shorter or longer because I rarely finish them anyway, I don't want worse graphics I just want ppl making the thing in the worlds biggest entertainment industry to be valued higher than the sales exec turned CEO parasiting off them
(there's a lot of reasons we hate AI, but it's also... not a time saving tool lol)
Apparently this person hasn't seen the various studies that AI use slows work down even among people who think they are working faster
I'm sorry, they MADE HER WORK DURING HER MATERNITY LEAVE?
Maybe a good writer could make it worth watching, but nothing will ever be the *same* as making your way through Ultima Thule. The stakes are different when you are doing it yourself.
As the Warrior of Light in ffxiv you do not impact the outcome of the game at all; every player experiences the same story, so presumably you could make a movie out of it. But it wouldn't feel the same to watch a character make that journey instead of making it yourself.
Harry du Bois is *only* a delightful character because you are in his head. He would be *awful* as the lead in the TV show they were talking about making. And that's on top of the issue of there being dozens of ways the story can go!
Even in a game where you as the player cannot impact the outcome at all, it matters to the way you feel the story that you are the one making it happen.
Unimportant hill I will die on: video games i love should not be adapted into movies or tv shows, because something fundamental is lost when you change from player to viewer.
tl:dr
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A photograph and Yan in the corner peeking out. Behind the Yan is a pillar with a white outline of a moogle on a trumpet and the Final Fantasy 14 Fan Festival 2026 in Anaheim logo.
Just a couple finishing touches before #FFXIVFanFest kicks off! 🫡
no i'm not bc i don't use that shit. skill issue
my main concern is the harm rather than the output, so i don't really need to hear a product testimonial from someone who found it useful. because i don't care
see also: the 35 years and $32 billion in funding of basic research that gave us mRNA vaccines
Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.
Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics.
The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.
Hey this looks bad! We all have tailored our image posts specifically around the 4 image tile format. Now when you look at my page you get a super different vibe than you used to. This is going to ruin so many posts retroactively.
Ai bros always talk about their ai use like its a brag you should be impressed with. They are addicted to Feeling like productivity sigmas and really really need other people to affirm it in a quite sad and desperate way
Doctor to patient: "Try to reduce your stress level, and if you somehow succeed please let me know how in God's name you did it."
I thought this felt relatable
GOOD POST
lady wearing a shirt that has been badly edited to say "I joined BlueSky and all I got was blocked by the technical advisor who tried to cool his phone off in a pool and also this jpeg of a t-shirt"
(That prof was, at the time, talking about the definition of a mineral, and how yes, even there you could find examples of things that didn't easily classify. Why should we expect *people* to sit in nice discrete boxes if *rocks* don't???)
Fantastic thread
I often think of the prof I had who asserted that nature hates being put in boxes-- that any time people tried to come up with rigid definitions to sort the natural world, there was *always* some exception, no matter how straightforward you think it is.
Imagine how much stupid pointless bullshit could have been avoided simply by not using the spicy autocorrect that is by design literally incapable of not farting out inaccuracies and just, you know, doing the work you were actually already doing a couple years back
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when are journalists in the rest of the world going to express a suitable level of outrage over their colleagues being systematically murdered by israel?
When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it.
Anyway: fund basic research.
A four panel comic. In panel 1, there's an image of a closeup on the head of a yellow morph timber rattlesnake, with text above it that says "Behold the snake: Cunning, cruel, and bloodthirsty, it embodies evil and sin. Who knows what malevolent thoughts lurk in its mind?" In panel 2, the snake is zoomed out slightly, and a thought bubble rises above its head with three dots inside it. In panel 3, we're zoomed out more to see the whole snake curled up on a rock with a colorful background behind it, and there's a thought bubble rising from its head that says "Mmm warm sun." In panel 4, we're zoomed out even more, and the snake is sitting on a rock at the top of a hill with green grass and trees, a vibrant background of mountains and lakes behind it, and a bright blue sky with a golden cloud and birds flying. The snake is thinking "Nice day."
Behold the snake.
The Elden Ring movie has the same opening fight on loop 23 times but the 23rd time the hero wins and the story proceeds
This is fucking stupid. If you *must* make this feature exist, make it an option, not mandatory.