Before Judy Hopps there was Lola Bunny, and before Lola Bunny there was Maid Marian; and before all of them there was Bugs Bunny in drag.

Maybe as a sweetener?

Language and region can be set manually.

But not separately. You can’t have the interface in English while on a non English speaking region.

And you can only set one language / region. I’m interested in results in a number of languages (ordered by priority), untranslated unless I fucking ask for a translation, and from a number of possibly unrelated regions (also ordered by priority).

And my region / language isn’t an option anyway, so it’s either the wrong, English speaking, region, or the closest region but the wrong language.

The whole concept is so profoundly imperialist and ignorant it makes me sick. Whoever perpetrated it is so tragically miseducated they can’t even conceive the notion that their users might be able to understand more than one language, or be interested in more than one culture or region.

This one’s coincidentally accurate, though (relatively; 8 should be in the negatives, or dropped off the chart altogether like ME, and 98 and 98SE should be split).

It’s basically equivalent from a culinary standpoint. You can even make meringue with blood instead of egg whites.

1. Tetris.
2. Planescape: Torment.
3. Wing Commander 1 and 2, plus Secret Missions.
4. The Secret of Monkey Island.
5. This is a hard one, but let’s go with Crusader Kings II with all main expansions, as long as you can get it on sale; SIm City 2000 otherwise, though there are many contenders.

First one is from Final Fantasy 6, second one from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.

I mean, sure. But even this little 4’’ “pocket” thing, for instance, still weighed 1.2Kg… that’s a damn dense (and expensive) brick to drop on a toe…

TVs, maybe¹. CRT monitors, though? They were great. And mostly didn’t care about what resolution you threw at them.

1. It’s a big maybe, though. Live TV? Sure, but that was more on the extremely low resolution signal than on the screen (HDTV would’ve looked great on a CRT). But games? They were fantastic for games, though. Artists designed their images with CRT’s natural blur on mind, and now we need complex filters and at least a 4K monitor to replicate the original look.

Yeah, but you could use them as a shelf.

Put stuff on top of them (just be careful when watering the plants).

beam of electrons

Let’s say it cooler: they were particle accelerators you pointed at your face.

Also, massive glass vacuum bottles that could implode if mishandled.

And with massive capacitors that could electrocute you if mishandled.

And heavy enough to seriously crush your foot (and possibly implode and electrocute you) if mishandled.

And the static electricity felt really neat on the back of your hand if you put it close to the screen.

They were so fucking cool, and we took them for granted, and now they’re gone, and life is significantly less cool without them.

It’s very simple: a computer controlling a human as a flesh robot instead of the other way around.

Think Amazon drivers, for instance. No autonomy whatsoever, no thinking, no decisions, just eyes, feet, and hands for the machine.

Late stage capitalism existential / body horror, and a wet dream for corporations.

I have no doubt our generation and later will never retire. They’ll just plug a chip into our nape and keep our corpses working until they fall apart. 40K was off by 38 centuries.

It’s fearmongering intended to push regulation to ban foreign models (i.e., competition) and locally run ones, and to prevent new AI companies from gaining traction, thus guaranteeing a monopoly for the current subscription based ones.

Also to “place limits on how powerful the models can be”, so they have an excuse when they reach the limits of what LLMs are capable of or model collapse starts making them worse, whatever comes first.

In both cases, futile attempts at ensuring their survival once the bubble bursts.

Also, astroturfing. Marketing. Making their models look more powerful. Dangling forbidden fruit in front of their customers and their competitors’ in order to entice them, feed their AI psychosis, and strengthen their addiction.

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French people seem to be extremely hostile to anything and anyone remotely not French.

In their defence, though, they also seem to be extremely hostile to anything and anyone remotely French.

Maybe it’s not much of a defence, now that I think about it.

Fucking birds

Should’ve gone extinct sixty-five million years ago with the rest of their misbegotten ilk.

Yeah, but they were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.

We’re reaching dot com boom era levels of absurdity.