I have over 1600 hours in Binding of Isaac.

But where do you draw the line? Sure, microchips in vaccines is one thing, but what about simply warning people the vaccine doesn’t stop the spread of disease? During the pandemic, that would get you crucified, except now it turns out it isn’t as effective at stopping transmission as we were first told.

I was and am pro vax. It saves lives. But I’m also not going to pretend there wasn’t a weird animosity towards anyone saying anything contrary to the official, government sponsored, talking points during the pandemic. People were vilified for suggesting the virus came from a lab. Or that masks weren’t as effective as we were making it out to be. Or that the tests were producing false results.

It’s all well and good to say people shouldn’t spread falsehoods, but sometimes the lines of what’s true are blurred through the lens of hindsight when they seemed so clear in the moment.

Those stupid fucking crabs. They were everywhere for a while and they don’t work. They can’t support a pen, they just fall the fuck over.

I don’t think it’s as removed from skin color as you think. If someone saw the white kids saying it and didn’t know they grew up in the projects, would they still not care? Conversely, if a bunch of black kids who grew up in an affluent household said it, would people be offended?

Proto-chicken laid the egg. It was a proto-chicken egg. The creature that came out of it had enough genetic variance to be defined as a full chicken.

Note, the question does not ask “what came first, the chicken or the chicken egg?” It’s just “the egg”. It doesn’t matter what type of egg, as long as a chicken came out of it.

From that perspective, the egg came first.

My sleep aid is a cold room, soft sheets, a weighted blanket, and a comforter.

the biggest continent

Asia?

Medical patents and approvals are an interesting miasma of red tape. Apparently the new Pixel 8’s have been having some hurdles with them. They contain a temperature sensor which can supposedly be used to check body temperature and monitor for disease. But merely checking body temperature makes it a Class II medical device which requires a ton of paperwork and red tape from the FDA, with disease tracking making it even more difficult. So that’s why the Pixel 8 was released with a temperature sensor which, for now, can only be used to measure external things and is prohibited from being accesed by third part developers.

Another good example is 23andme. When they first started, it wasn’t just genealogy information. They’d give a whole background of genetic diseases and conditions you might be at risk for. Then the FDA found out and shut it down since they didn’t go through the hoops required to give out medical advice. So even though they have the complete capability to gather that information accurately, they are no longer allowed to provide it to their customers, simply due to red tape.

All the characters in my DnD campaigns that I DM have European/American accents because I’m white and I worry doing other accents will seem racist.

What a big brush you’re using to paint. Zero people, huh? Are you including the Coast Guard with that? How about the Army Corps of Engineers?

Wdym cuz? Those water scenes were hella lit, fr fr, no cap.

Like trying to stop a flood with a roll of paper towels.

Even if you’re talking about a “reverse Isekai” (which is such a dumb term), Iron Giant and ET are shit examples. By that logic, nearly every form of media with space travel is an Isekai. It’s a lame stretch.

The most interesting thing to me is both quoted descriptions talk of vermin and worms “springing forth” from the excrement. It was once thought that things like worms, insects, even mice and rats, would just spawn from various kinds of filth.

This seems hella fake. These are not the kind of errors AI generators make.

Jordan accepted Palestinian refugees once. Then they killed their king and tried to take over the country. It’s left a lot of other countries wary of accepting them.

Yea yea, and this newfangled technology called the Internet is so underdeveloped that no one’s gonna use it!

But AI as it exists right now

That’s the fallacy. We aren’t talking about AI right now but rather what AI is going to look like 4-5 years from now. Think about how much advancement has happened in just the last year. Last year, ChatGPT was barely a thing, and image generation was little better than vague, blobby shapes that took a lot of computing power to create.

It’s absurd to talk about “AI as it exists right now” because within months, “right now” will be horribly outdated.

Back in January, I was showing a colleague ChatGPT 3.5. We asked it to design a corner desk and gave it very little input. It came up with a design that had drawers which would interfere with each other. My colleague has used that example ever since of why AI is dumb and will never be successful.

Like, really? You can’t envision progress beyond the current state of this VERY early tech? I see it all the time on here too. People dismissing AI image generation because it got the fingers wrong, or pointing out various chat responses with errors. To me, it reeks of desperate ignorance. People feel threatened by AI, especially groups like artists. So they point and laugh at it in its current state and go “see, it could NEVER replace a human!”

But it can, and it will. It’s like Blockbuster dismissing streaming sites because they couldn’t possibly have enough variety, and who wants to deal with the internet to watch something? Years later, everyone will be scratching their heads going “how the hell could they not see it coming? It should have been obvious!” And it IS obvious. AI will advance and shake many industries to their core; and not only are creative industries not immune, they’re arguably the most at risk.

Who wants to pay a graphics designer to spend over a week coming up with various mock-up when you could get infinitely more options in a few minutes with an AI program? One of the big points of the recent Hollywood actor/writer strike is opposition to AI. But it’s already too late for that. Studios are ABSOLUTELY going to use AI to replace actors and writers, they’d be crazy not to. Why would you want to use a human that can get tired, have their own opinions/interpretation of things, require pay/royalties, and might do or say something controversial in their lives that causes people to boycott them? Hell, we’ve already replaced animals for the most part. Almost no modern films or shows use real animals anymore, it’s all CGI.

You can’t? Look at Disney World or Universal Studios. Sure they have rides, but a lot of it is the experiences involving people’s favorite movies/shows.

I can definitely see people interested if they get that part right.

Imagine getting a drink in a tavern from The Witcher. Or a fancy dinner in a palace setting from The Crown or the mansion from Umbrella Academy. Imagine going through a haunted house based around Hill House. Running an obstacle course from Squid Game. Themed escape rooms or live action shows based off Stranger Things or Black Mirror.

That’s not even getting into merchandising. Sure, people are probably not going to flock to buy a Queen’s Gambit chess set. But Castlevania or Arcane collectibles? Dragon Prince plushies? Literally anything from Netflix’s sizable anime collection?

There’s a lot of ways they could do it wrong. In fact it’s more likely they get it wrong than right. But I’m not going to dismiss the idea right out the gate, I do see the possibilities.