Indeed, friend citizen. Would you like some Bouncy Bubble Beverage?

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of hard drives speeding down the highway.

Hmm. I wonder what the nature of Owlcat’s relationship with GW is? Was the recent Rogue Trader game part of an ongoing licensing deal or just a one-off?

Pfft, catapults. A trebuchet can launch a 90kg advertisement over 300 meters.

He did specify a large 3D printer. So it might be 2 or even 3 feet in length.

It’s amazing how often things are similar to what they are.

Jojo Rabbit featured Jewish Maori Hitler and was very well received.

I don’t think there’s much they could do to make the environment more interesting, since the setting is what it’s meant to be

The hell it is. According to the in-game book Provinces of Tamriel:

Cyrodiil is the cradle of Human Imperial high culture on Tamriel. It is the largest region of the continent, and most is endless jungle.

Emphasis mine. And when I say in-game, that book was literally in Oblivion.

Oil is corrosive? Doesn’t it usually prevent steel from rusting?

Not exactly what you’re talking about, but LeVar Burton Reads is amazing, too. It’s like Reading Rainbow for grownups.

It’s actually not quite an exception, because cocaine is a Schedule II drug (can be prescribed as a vasoconstrictor or topical anesthetic) and the Maywood plant is the only facility licensed to produce pharmaceutical grade cocaine in the US.

So the coca leaf extract they sell to Coca-Cola is technically a byproduct.

I’m not sure I would trust modern Bethesda to remake Morrowind.

We have the best moose in the world. Because of jail.

Cause fantasy games with dragons are famously known to all contain interstellar travel.

Well, Ultima did, so it is technically an early feature of the genre.

As an aside, I would love to see the concept of “high fantasy space opera” get more love.

Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection.

That said, the bandwidth of strapping microSD cards to carrier pigeons is actually pretty high.

Oxen

Children

Brethren

Regexen

It’s Clarke’s Third Law.

Why is the third one not:

--大文字-と-小文字-を-無視する

?

FNV isn’t a Bethesda game.

Also the first version of a new compiler (the one written in another language) is often skeletal, implementing only the features necessary to compile the full version (written in its own language), which is then immediately used to recompile itself.

That’s the reason that only 15% of Crusader Kings II players have “The Marriage Game” achievement, which is awarded for getting married. In a game about dynastic politics.

Is it just me, or does “we have a proprietary data model that calculates…” sound an awful lot like “we have no actual method of tracking that”?

Ah, yes, the evil bit will solve all our problems.

Ezekiel 23:20

There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

Goodhart’s Law: Any statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed on it for control purposes.

Or, to paraphrase, any metric that becomes a target ceases to be a good metric. Ranking algorithms, by their nature, use some sort of quantifiable metric as a heuristic for quality.

Yeah, she wasn’t even in the photo that went viral. It was of the dress hanging in a shop.

think it’s interesting, for example, that “handicapped” has become a slur in my lifetime

Hell, my mom used to work for an organization called ARC. When I was little it stood for “Association for Retarded Citizens”. The organization still exists, but stopped being an acronym in the '90s.

Alpha Centauri is the best civ game.

Also, weirdly, a lot of people seem to use Discord for things used to be (and I would say should) be on a forum (or community, magazine, etc.)

Trying to follow the thread of a discussion about some obscure point you’re interested in is much easier when it’s in a thread, instead of an undifferentiated chat log with a bunch of unrelated cross-talk.