You’ve never taken a hint in your life.

“… but the trains ran on time!”

What the everloving fuck is wrong with you?

Stallman was right, episode five billion.

Some clickbait recently called Lehrer “the Bo Burnham of his day,” and that’s annoyingly hard to argue with, given such cheerful tunes as “We Will All Go Together When We Go.”

Yes.

Reality is a team sport, to some people. You cheer for the tribe you were born in or you’re an asshole.

It’s not “free.” It’s “have you considered creating a Skinner box that somehow gouges people for more money than any game should cost?”

The Amerikabomber (English: America bomber)

Revolver Ocelot (Revolver Ocelot)

Per Jacob Geller: “It’s a worldview where we base our moral judgements of actions completely on the predetermined morality of the person carrying those actions out.” Claims are not right or wrong… people are right or wrong. A wrong person could repeat facts stated by a right person and still be wrong.

It’s reality as a team sport.

It would also require more optimized builds, leaving little wiggle-room for mistakes.

How?

For any set of stats, it wouldn’t matter if you got there at level 2 or level 20. Mudcrabs built for an optimized level 10 wouldn’t spawn just because you are level 10. They’d spawn when you’ve spent as many points as you would have, had you optimized to level 10.

The real issue would be “the Draugr are training” kinds of builds. If you put half your points into personality… the bandits did not.

you simply get a flat 12 points to spend every time you level up.

… that’s the wrong problem entirely! Complicated leveling was just another minigame to optimize.

If they wanted it to be painless, they could’ve leveled the world according to your total stats. Attack the player based on how much their numbers went up, instead of how often they went up.

The deeper problem in Oblivion was that you could blast goblins with a single fireball at level one, and then when you got stronger and put all your points in kill-stuff-harder attributes, the same fireball against the same goblins just tickled.

Wait what? They even said they fixed the leveling, in the announcement video! This was the one thing everyone agreed was broken, and it barely mattered which mod you chose to fix it, because all of them were an improvement. How’d they fuck this up twice?

Talked shit to some dunmer, didn’t know he was from Maar Gan.

Not including Abigail Thorn.

Training is transformative use.

It’s not like this ends with authors being paid every time a neural network gets used - we’d see a properly open model emerge. Smaller networks, trained on hand-pruned data, already look like the way forward. Generalization from sparse examples is how any of this works.

If people can’t simply let the robot read every book in the library, they’re not gonna pay for every book in the library. They’re gonna switch to some above-board torrent of public domain / Creative Commons / permissively-licensed content. That didn’t happen first because scaling up worked better, to a point. Aaaand scale prevents competition. Also it was a great excuse to spy on as much private data as possible.

When the bubble bursts, the tech will remain and flourish, and there’s not gonna be much money involved.

Hell yes, Coincident! Congratufuckinglations!

For anyone new to classic Doom runs: you can’t save. There are no i-frames. If two rockets arrive at your location, you just die. This map also has multiple platforming segments where falling off means death… in a game where you cannot jump. This map is not Kaizo Mario kinds of cruel, because Kaizo maps have a gimmick you’re supposed to perform. Some of the fights are pure “ha ha good luck.” There’s recently-unearthed footage of the designer personally beating like a fifth of the map, and even he’s just winging it.

For shorter introductions to ass-reamingly difficult maps, consider Zero Master’s speedruns of Sunder. E.g. Hollow Icon.

Hey, what do you think people in the 30s should have done about the actual Nazis?

It’s a reverse cargo cult. Postmodern conservatism. Reality as a team sport.

Their news is propaganda? All news must be propaganda! The facts aren’t on their side? Facts aren’t real! Their wooden helicopters don’t fly? The ones in the sky are a conspiracy! Surely everybody thinks this way, they tell themselves. They are the clever ones for noticing they’re full of shit. We idiots still believe things can be true.

Corn on the cob. Corn on the kabob.