The little info (i) box on Billboards website actually cites their data, “The week’s most popular downloaded songs, ranked by sales data as compiled by Luminate.” Which I assume refers to luminatedata.com

Sadly their data (the numbers specifically) aren’t publicly available.

I think it’s worth clarifying that it’s #1 on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales. That’s a specific category.

According to https://tasteofcountry.com/breaking-rust-explained-ai-country-song in order to reach number one would only take ~3,000 purchases.

That’s a shockingly low number, so if anyone can confirm that or has better numbers, I’d love to know.

But last time I brought a digital song, they cost $1. So for a couple thousand dollars any song could be number one in this category.

If I were an AI company swimming in money, that’s a drop in the bucket for some free publicity.

Yes, but that was lazy remake, this one they put effort into, probably.

FWIW I did enjoy this remake, but it did have some janky looking cutscenes.

It’s not “real cheese” it’s “Real Cheese™”, it really tastes like cheese.

Define “walkable”. The side of the road is considered “walkable”.

Paul took the clips in stride, initially putting on a grave voice and decrying that “this AI is getting out of hand,” only to buy into the trend by acting camp in a response video posted to TikTok on Monday.

Proof? That video response sounds like AI.

But his girlfriend, Dutch professional speed skater Jutta Leerdam, wasn’t impressed. “I don’t like it, it’s not funny!” she told him in a video. “People believe it.”

Proof? That video sounds fake. Maybe this is all a ruse by the girlfriend to slander Jake Paul.

I don’t actually believe that, but this article is written based on videos uploaded to TikTok, there is no proof any of the events described took place.

Things are about to get much worse.

Wouldn’t that depend on what you’re watching?

You can watch reality TV on YouTube, or traditional television.

You can watch educational content and documentaries on YouTube, or traditional television.

Hell you can watch some traditional TV shows on YouTube or traditional television.

YouTube is just a platform for hosting content. Now they may have a “better” algorithm compared to traditional television, but that doesn’t really change much.

I mean technically you did “update” the OS. It wasn’t a particularly useful command by going second, but I bet it was fast.

Light travels faster than sound, duh.

I think the run back is fun for some people and I think the game should deliver the best version they can for those people. For me, it’s just not fun. The reward is smaller than the frustration it causes.

It took Silksong coming out for me to identify why I wasn’t a fan of Hollow Knight, and it’s touched on in this video.

It’s the runback.

The Dark Souls series of games have the same “problem”, and it’s why I don’t enjoy them either.

I’m a huge fan of Celeste, Super Meat Boy, the Ori series. When I fail at these games, I’m right back in the action.

I’m not against having to learn boss patterns, I really enjoyed Cuphead because after I’ve failed I’m right back in the action.

And while it’s an easier game by comparison, Shovel Knight was a fun game. The checkpoints were plentifully and I could increase the difficulty by destroying them.

But when I played Hollow Knight I reached a point where I was just running to the boss and dying. Then again. And again. And again. I wasn’t getting better. And the time it took to get back just took too long and wasn’t fun. It wasn’t a rage quit. I was having fun at one point… But then the game wore me down and eventually it wasn’t.

I don’t think the game needs to change. Although I think adding difficultly modifiers would be a good idea. I played through Metroid Dread on normal difficulty and after beating it was having so much fun I immediately played it again on Hard difficulty. If there were a mode with more checkpoints in Hollow Knight and Silksong I might give them a shot.

We’ll just deflect it with another ball of garbage.

True, but this book is the best thing Microsoft has made.

who needs the web?

Generative AI that’s who. For it to spit out information, it needs information. The argument may be that it is better at collecting all that information in one place and returning an answer, although we know it hallucinates responses. But to even begin a response it needs data, it needs the web.

I did some digging.

First, this is not the standard “cowsay”, this appears to be from the NPM version of “cowsay”. (npm install -g cowsay)

Second this is the “meow” cow, so cowsay -f meow "hello" . Also called “A meowing tiger?”.

Third, the fortune is available in the, now commonly removed, fortunes-off, package. I know Debian removed it, I think others did too. But you can install it manually.

And finally the source of the quote seems to be “Jester’s Condescending English Dictionary”.

Meanwhile, Bobby’s outside playing in the tall grass pretending to be a Rattata.

Assuming a single game, Minecraft. It should be a kids museum style where you can build things. You can make each room a different biome or structure.

Pfft, I just eat the entire loaf in one sitting.

Excellent. I was thinking, I don’t know of any Hershey’s issues, but I’m confident someone else will.

Of note KitKats made in the US are made by Hershey, not Nestle. As I understand it’s a legacy licencing deal and Nestle makes no money if you buy a US KitKat.

That being said Hershey’s chocolate is what it is. American’s are used to it, but it’s not great.