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This was so foreseeable (indeed my early prediction when ChatGPT came out) but a lot of tech people have a hard time understanding that the hypothetical enriching use of a tech loses out to the lazy corner cutting use 99.9% of the time theguardian.com/technology/2โฆ
See that's not how I read that. 'executive vice president' is not a 'tech person'. This feels like the executive/management class lamenting they can't make the monkey dance any more. Skilled people will reach for AI do to anything perceived as corporate word salad/busywork. 1/2
It's disrupting a corporate class barrier. Obviously everyone rightly worries about AI's effects on the skilled lower echelons, but the upside is stuff like this, IMO. 2/2
Been quiet on the design front for a while as IRL has taken over a bit, but I'm currently working on a free web app that OSR/D&D folks may find useful. Watch this space!
C.S. Lewisโ family has issued an official statement supporting Greta Gerwigโs Narnia and praising her lifelong passion for the books. bit.ly/4Buu39d
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MAN OF TOMORROW will reportedly be a massive DCU event film, with its scale even bigger compared to AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR.
The movie is also have a runtime exceeding 3 hours.
Yup. You've got a studio thinking it has to play catch-up to have some sort of parity of relevance, when that's just not how people consume media; movie, comic or otherwise. That said, DC stuff tends to be epic in scale as a default, excepting Batman.
Got a penalty notice from Bristol Council for driving in a bus lane last week. Neither of us was in Bristol last week, our car has never been in Bristol and the car in the picture isn't ours. But the registration on the car in the picture is ours. Fuck, fuck, fuck.
I was trying to figure out why I don't have the same level of affection for Ocarina of Time that other people do, but then I remembered that the same year saw Unreal, Half-Life, Baldur's Gate, Thief, StarCraft, and Commandos on PC.
I always felt that way about Halo. Never understood why people were losing their minds over it when Half-Life had already done a better narrative FPS and Quake 2 death match was still unrivalled in multiplayer. Everyone has THEIR Zelda though, right? Mine is LTTP.
THE THREE BILLY GOATS GRUFF (1968): Ladybird books were famously safe, cosy fare for toddlers and preschoolers. But this adaptation of the classic Norwegian fairy tale features a troll that haunted their nightmares...