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  • Agree, the video clearly is not meant to win an Oscar, it’s just a tech showcase. If you know what you’re looking at it’s pretty intense what it can do right now, but the amount of frothing hate from the writer of this article is just super eyerolly. They can’t even try to understand why anyone would be interested in it, or why it was made, or what it’s meant to do. Can’t even try to be neutral, just pure hate.

    The initial demonstration clips of Sora were eerie and low-resolution, with bizarre movement and physics. The video generation model was almost certainly trained on mountains of stolen content and sucked up an excessive amounts of power and water.

    Great, good points. Super douchey delivery. Same energy as vegans who just have to bring up the atrocities of the meat industry in the smug “I’m better than you” style. Super job, valid points. Learn how to deliver them in a way that people will actually listen to.






  • Fine, you want me to be explicit?

    If you’re driving and I’ll jump onto the road right in front of you, will you still be at fault?

    Yes. I would be at fault. I’m the one driving a hunk of metal that is capable of easily killing people, you could be drunk, delirious, it doesn’t matter. It’s on me.

    Where in the world would that be the case?

    I say everywhere.

    If I come to a factory and stick my hand into a wood chipper that someone was operating and then say “whoever the hell was operating this 5 thousand pound hunk of steel should be at fault now!”

    Irrelevant. Streets are not supposed to be deathtraps. No one deserves to die simply by wandering into the street. Again, drunk, delirious, or a child - none of them deserve to die because they wandered into the street.

    If someone robbed you, think about it this way - if you hadn’t been there, none of it would have happened.

    Again, victim blaming. It is not the victims fault. It doesn’t matter that they were there, if they had 100 sticking out of their pocket. Still robbery. It doesn’t matter if a woman is revealing “too much”. Still rape. It doesn’t matter why a person was in the street. They’re still dead.

    If you don’t appreciate what you’re capable of when you’re driving, then you shouldn’t be driving.



  • It’s easy. You decided to drive a vehicle, you’re at fault, it’s your job to watch out for pedestrians. If you can’t stop in time, you’re moving too fast. If your vehicle is so large that it kills them instead of simply hurting them (see - large trucks with huge grills instead of safer lower fronts), then you’re at fault 100% because you chose an unsafe vehicle. If you can’t see them because it was at night, still I don’t care, that was on you, you should be able to see them. Feel free to argue it in court, that’s what they’re there for, but duty should on the driver to prove that, they were the one operating the heavy machinery. If that worries you or makes you feel emotions then good. You should feel nervous when you drive a vehicle, it’s quite literally heavy machinery that you’re hurtling forward at 60mph. You’re responsible for it.


  • Same idea, but if a pedestrian is jaywalking across a street, technically illegal and it’s not a safe move - but is struck by a car - the car is still at fault. As a driver you are still in charge of driving a 2-5 thousand pound hunk of steel and you accept that risk when you get behind the wheel. So I think logically, what the person was doing was not the smartest - but that doesn’t mean they deserved death for it - you are responsible.

    Think about it this way - if you hadn’t been there driving would they have been fine? If so, you caused it, you’re at fault.

    Same applies to rape and dressing provocatively. It’s an irrelevant argument because it puts blame on the victim, when no matter what they do they don’t deserve that outcome. The blame is on the person who caused it in the first place.


  • I actually did too - but I had to detach it from the original trilogy - which is why I think it got such negative reviews and why I’m eyerolling at all the negative ones here. Andromeda was a fun game. I’d say a solid 6-7/10. It was not original trilogy good where that was a 10/10 masterpiece, but Andromeda was fun. I’m more mad they left so many cliffhangers.

    For me personally I liked the story in 1-3 because it was so depressing, it made the relationships stronger, and the ending was all the better. It left me with that bittersweet “it’s over, now what?” feeling at the end of the playthrough. Andromeda for me was fine, it wasn’t great, but everyone was so damn happy! There was no conflict to get behind, that was my only real issue, just that the characters weren’t as relatable.

    Which is why DA4 I want to keep separate. I’m not comparing it to previous games, it’s its own game. I’m going to judge it on it’s own merits. Did I have fun playing it? Did it continue the story well? It’ll probably be different from the past games, but that’s okay. If I don’t like it I’ll judge it on why I didn’t like it, not just because it’s different.


  • I am not an expert, so do not take what I say for “should I let this thing bite me”, but in Washington and the UK we have “giant house spiders” that look just like this (to my non trained eye). They are terrifying to find, but harmless generally. Leave very waxy webs.

    If that’s the case, just start putting out some sticky traps in your home, wherever you find one just throw a trap down. Warmer years brings more of them




  • I was hyped so I was watching some old inquisition videos like the gameplay reveal. Original fans were bitching back then too, just the same constant “but it’s not my dragon age”. I’m right there with you. The most fun I had in origins was at camp. The combat was clunky, it was frustrating, there were many things that you were supposed to “just know” about early RPGs.

    So I immediately take their reviews and throw them away. They have nothing actual about the game to say, just dragon age used to be good. K. Received. Moving on.