I liked healing in MMOs when all I had to do was click healthbars to fill them up. Other people did all the hard work of actually fighting monsters, and I got loot!
Now MMOs want to make healers "interesting" so that more people will play them, and this means I have to contend with actual mechanics and sometimes even deal damage. Sorry, my brain does not multitask, I'm simply not cut out for this anymore. :P
"Real world politics"? Did I miss the news that Undead Demon Margaret Thatcher is running in the next UK election?
Did he? My recollection is that he gave her a 70% chance of winning, which is not at all the same as predicting that she will win.
Oof. Wasn't this the one that was going to have in-depth object customization? I was looking forward to it from a dollhouse-building perspective. Even if it wasn't great, having some competition might convince EA to allocate more dev resources to the Sims, which has ruthlessly embraced the "minimum viable product" philosophy for a long time.
Jenny is very popular but hasn't uploaded to Youtube in a year, so this a big comeback.
Star Wars is a popular franchise but has had mixed success recently, and Disney's perceived mismanagement of it is a popular topic.
It's organized as an Internet-friendly numbered list!
I, and apparently a lot of other people, could listen to Jenny talk about theme parks all day.
If I weren't lazy I'd make a "I'm literally the guy in the photo" meme about this.
[Adams] “And so if you want to play the word police, you could do so. I’m going to play the New York City Police.”
I'm trying to figure out if this is a threat or just an attempt to create a sound bite that didn't really work.
I think it's way more likely that he gets sentenced to house arrest, which he could serve at Mar a Lago. The other option is to have Secret Service agents following him around inside a prison trying to protect him from the other inmates (and possibly the guards), and I don't think either the prisons or the Secret Service want to deal with that.
It's not a generative model running on your graphics card coming up with novel speech to match the gamestate; it would never be fast enough (and you're also using that card to, you know, run the graphics). They're using machine learning to generate speech for their pre-written lines so that they can avoid hiring voice actors. I guess they didn't want to try the old way of having whoever isn't too busy in your office record the lines.
We have only recently (in terms of the length of history) entered an era where we can produce weapons capable of eliminating our own entire species. Wouldn't it be weird if we weren't thinking about that?
I thought our eyes worked by projecting some kind of energy beam that scanned objects, like how Superman's X-ray vision is sometimes drawn.