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Especially generative AI because that shit is wildly inaccurate given how it works. Plus it produces the most dry soulless writing imaginable

Exactly, I’m generally okay to buy stuff that has been done professionally but if it’s just gen ai or other MTL even if it is “edited” that’s going to be something I’d either get for free online or just skip

Bet you they also forgot to account for how expensive all those LLM queries will be once the bubble bursts and AI companies start charging what it actually costs

Even if you assume $5 per book sold that’s only like 200 copies. Seems like a tiny benefit.

And personally they’ll be getting zero sales from me going forward and I imagine it would be very likely there’s about 200 more who are not buying slop translations.

Hope they accounted for the books they're no longer going to be able to sell with low quality MTL bullshit in their $700-1000 savings...

Isn't a lot of the water use going into the power generation though? Solar and Wind are about the only things that don't involve using water to directly spin a turbine, or creating heat and using it to boil water into steam to spin a turbine...

Still seems like a cheap tablet and a towel might be a more economic solution than the daylight robbery that is PC prices right now. They're not going to get better any time soon either.

photograph from the 80's of the wrestler Sting wearing a Gold's Gym shirt and sunglasses, leaning against a shelf in a bookstore and positively cheesing at an open copy of The Far Side Gallery 2, a collection of Far Side Cartoons.

what if i told you, through the power of forensic analysis, we are closer than ever to knowing the exact Far Side cartoon that is making Sting smile in this iconic photo. 🧵 👇

Yep

Frodo: I wish so much unbelievably stupid shit had not happened in my time Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. This is all exceptionally stupid, though

If there's anything it will probably be movie related not games.

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Banger soundtrack too, assuming you like Naganuma's style.

It sounds like they basically made Metroid Prime: Skyward Sword, complete with the empty and unnecessary overworld and dungeon backtracking.

Still baffled they haven't made 2 & 3 available anywhere though.

Magpies are really smart, it's introducing you to the younger one as a reliable human that may provide food.

My parents old place had one that did same with its mate and babies, would walk up to the window to look in for my mum (she would regularly put out birdseed for them and scare away cats)

Got what they deserved, never give an LLM unfettered access to anything important.

2 minute intro, 2 minutes rambling, 5 minute ad read for NordVPN or some shit, 1 minute of the actual content, 5 minutes of plugging their patreon

Phreaking?

I wish they'd publish another run of Tunnel to Summer in print in the US, I want to own a copy but the cheapest ones available are $80+ or are pirated copies from Singapore.

Your mind is going to be blown when you find out there's actually 11 of them (potential 7-Eleven conspiracy?!)

Oath of the Marketing Executive you mean, I doubt most good Software Engineers think this is acceptable.

If you're looking for other recommendations, I find Brian Lagerstrom's stuff really good. Practical home recipes that tend to come out really great, with a lot of little tips and tricks to save time or improve the outcome.

Ethan's stuff is great, lots of interesting deep dives and blind tests and so on. I really dig that more science based approach and I think he's one of the best on the platform for this sort of content.

Guarantee you not a single actual Japanese speaker was in the room when marketing decided on this.

No, because that gives you an excuse for a whole ramen bracket as well.

China, North Korea, Russia and Iran are basically the Four Horsemen of the APT Apocalypse. Iran and North Korea both punch way above their weight class.

Was anyone actually expecting Drag x Drive to chart to begin with?

30% would be doing insanely well for most industries.

The problem is the investor class and the MBAs that feed them who all think that because Fortnite, Roblox and the like have insane margins, there is just infinite money lying around and everyone else can bottle the same lightning.

Checking because the different games and versions of the franchise get really confusing, all four of the games included in this have been previously released in English on Steam as well, right?