yes but if Spotify uses its own GenAI music, they don’t have to pay anyone else when someone listens to it.

Spotify’s plans to take money from subscribers but never pay a fucking dime to anyone else , ever.

I love that they have Ultima 4 available for free. I spent SO many hours in that world. The “what kind of person are you” value judgment questions at the beginning were remarkably heavy for introspective teenage me.

How night and day work above the Arctic Circle.

Movies and TV and stories talk about how there’s 6 months of daylight and 6 months of darkness. That does not fucking happen. This is still part of storytelling to this day (I’m looking at you, Sweet Tooth season 3).

Days get stupidly long in the summer, and there’s a while where the sun really doesn’t go down. in the Winter days get stupidly short, and there’s a while where it doesn’t really come up all that much. But it’s not 6 months of one and 6 months of the other.

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yeah but a script that sucks the balls of an executive is far more likely to be greenlit.

It’s great for parsing through the enshittified journalism.

It’s ironic that GenAI is great for solving a problem it caused. It’s like hiring a gangster to take you through gangster-controlled territory.

FTA

Industry groups argued that those museums didn’t have “appropriate safeguards” to prevent users from distributing the games once they had them in hand. They also argued that there’s a “substantial market” for older or classic games, and a new, free library to access games would “jeopardize” this market. Perlmutter agreed with the industry groups.

So as long as someone, somewhere, might make a penny off of them, they can’t be free. Insert your own metaphor here.

it was written in FORTRAN

I guess these are those “the best people” that we’ve heard mentioned so many times.

Even the news is in re-runs.

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This is why The French invented things.

It’s so weird hearing Americans talk like they’ve never watched a movie in their entire lives.

The first movie was actually pretty great for it’s time

Goodness. Did we see the same movie? Even with the better-than-Money-For-Nothing graphics the first one was not all that great of a movie to start with. Plus it tried to cash in on the hot streak that Stephen King stories were on at the time: the movie had nothing to do with the short story of the same name.

Still, I do not doubt your claim that the sequel was horrible.

I don’t care why anyone likes him. Any combination of words that justifies or normalizes anything to do with TFG are neither worth the time to write nor read.

I enjoy using semicolons. They’re very useful. I consider them to be a comma-chameleon.

well, who really says “I’m glad you’re as weird as I” ? Might not be room for an ‘am’.

maybe Americans should start telling The Press that they won’t stand for it.

Chaotic Neutral + laptop screen still open? summon Man-servant Hecubus!

as does everyone