HarkMahlberg
People keep asking me, and I haven't really had an answer, but now yeah, I'm thinking I'm back.
member since 18 Mar 2025 02:32
Jacob Geller plays with Expert Controls and So Can You
It removes any creativity I have in the process. Complex decision making is no longer mine, the only say I have is Accept or Reject (and Roll Again). It's soul crushing because entire process now has no soul.
And my coworkers who have bought in completely are now so lazy they don't even call in to meetings anymore, they don't answer questions, they let AI run the entire SDLC. When they get replaced by some MBA who knows how to hit the same buttons, they will be completely blindsided. And they will have nobody to blame but themselves.
Not really? Dubs can change between the original airing and the physical release, for example when a VA is on vocal rest and they need a backup. Clifford Chapin voiced for the broadcast, as heard in this video, and Aaron Dismuke re-recorded his lines for the Blu Ray later.
In this instance, if I had to guess, the latin dubbers made a mistake and needed to redo those lines to match the rest of the international versions. Maybe they were using the manga as their source for some lines, but I doubt it was some principled stand.
Oh hey welcome back Machine. Wanna talk about this again? Or should we wait for Walters and his ad hominems?
Yes, the Japanese dub fictionalized the names of some countries (not even all of them, the screenshot here literally says Japón). Yes, that was a change from the manga. Yes, this probably caused a bunch of confusion for the various dubbing and subbing contractors who were tasked with localizing the show to their language. Is all this really a malicious conspiracy to obscure Israel's ongoing genocide? Or does Hanlon's Razor apply?
I'll give you that on Biden but nuh uh on Yang.
On February 17, 2022, Yang announced the launch of a Web3 community whose membership token fees would be used to fund lobbying work on behalf of Web3, blockchain, and cryptocurrency interests on Capitol Hill.[64]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Yang
Ideologically, Forward is populist and reformist, and a representative of centrism in the United States. It considers itself to be the center within the American political spectrum, although the party has also been described as big tent or syncretic due to its unwillingness on holding any firm stances or positions,[4]
One of the things I misunderstood about this arc in the manga was that Motoko's assassination was more or less planned from the moment she left the courthouse. It just felt like crazy tonal whiplash to see her get sniped, so I was pretty sour on the ending of the manga.
But oh boy did Science Saru adapt this extremely well. I thought they would pull a SAC and end episode 9 on the assassination, leaving open a huge cliffhanger (one of the things that bothered me about SAC). But I'm glad they played the song from the first episode, that clued me in to the plan a lot better than the manga did, and consolidated all the important events into episode 10. I think that helped with the pacing as well as the tone.
What a season, hot damn.
So what? The world does not revolve around Israel. We can make up fictional country names with real world analogs all the time. There's an entire TVTropes entry for it.
I can't help but think it's only a matter of time before they manage to make that limit work on locally installed games, even if you're not internet connected.
This is "just" for cloud gaming right? Like if you install a game locally through game pass, these limits don't apply... Right?
Man you're basically not even playing the game at that point.
I want to make sure I understand this right. The 6X here means that for every one real frame generated by the GPU, the next six frames that follow will be AI generated?
Any opportunity to get a repeat purchase out of them.
The more likely scenario is: What happens if Microsoft also has no discs next generation?
Imma keep it real with you, I've been watching weekly and I don't think this show makes for a good binge. There's WAY too much information moving WAY too fast to watch episode after episode with no breaks. I think I've rewatched at least 5 of the 8 episodes out at time of writing, some I've even rewatched a second time.
There are some callbacks that are easier to spot if you watch them close together, but I would still say you're gonna get whiplash by how quickly the show moves.
MGS4 was the most important war game ever made. No game before or since has tackled the subject of the war economy quite like it.
Stage 5: We pipe money directly out of your savings account for nothing. Thanks for doing business with us!
Check this video from Gamer's Nexus. They don't even need an ethernet cable, they can just install ads/malware directly through Windows Update.
Watching the bouncing logo put a big dumb smile on my face.
There's a really fantastic YouTube comment that I don't know if I'll ever find again but NewPipe made it easy to copy it's content, so here it is.
When I left high school 27 years ago, all I wanted to do was be a pilot. I went to flight school and got a commercial pilot's licence just in time for 9/11 to happen and end that career before it started. In the years since, one of the things that I've studied is the cultural phenomenon of cybernetics (which is a relatively new term for a positively ancient human behaviour).
Humans have an exceptional ability to concieve of our self extending past the physical matter that makes up human biology; it's probably the most critical tool we have as a species to develop and use complex technology. The whole idea that "the sword is an extension of the swordsman's arm" isn't a bit of fiction or flowery metaphor; it's exactly how humans psychologically and neurologically process how we use technology. The glasses that I wear aren't a piece of plastic and glass external to my self, they are as much a part of my system of vision as my eyeballs or my visual cortex. Remove them, and I feel their absence like a lost limb.
It isn't computerized implants under the skin that makes a human into a cyborg, it's the psychological process that incorporates human-created ideas and objects into one's identity. I sit behind the wheel of my car, and I don't percieve of myself as a lump of flesh within an external machine. The machine becomes an extension of my will, my mobility, and my interactions with the world. I don't percieve the vibrations of the seat against my skin and bones, I feel the friction of the tires against the road. I don't think about turning the steering wheel to change directions the same way I don't think about the microflexing of my abdominal muscles to maintain ballance as I turn my head while walking. The line between the biochemical mass and the mechanical machine blurs in my consciousness untill I literally feel the pain of a tree branch scraping against the paint on the door.
The human consciousness is incredibly plastic and can (and regularly does) embody things beyond it's biological self, usually without our awareness or explicit intent to do so. Loosing your phone feels like you're loosing the fingers on a hand. Getting disconected from the internet can make you feel like you've lost a physical sense, like suddenly being blind or deaf. It would be an absolute "boomerism" to say that this generation is weak without their technology, but approach someone from an older generation and take away all their writing utensils and say they can never make a mark on paper ever again and watch them panic. It's not a weakness, it's how human psychology has evolved to maximize and optimize our use of tools: to make those tools the extension of the self.
And Ace Combat and video games are not the first time we have made these tool-extended selves for purely entertainment. This is the same psychological mechanism behind all sport. The plane is an extension of yourself in Ace Combat, the same way the bat is an extension of the baseball player's arms, the same way the football player's pads become a second skin, the same way a thrown ball or stick becomes an extension of the ancient olympian's self. It's the same way we feel the thrill of victory or the sting of defeat when your favourite professional sports team does or doesn't get a higher number on your TV screen. Selfhood and identity are complicated things, and they don't end where your skin meets the air.
Ah yes, every GITS adaptation's favorite scene: the think tank. I love how they handled it here, showing how outclassed Major and Togusa are this time.
This episode in particular has some excellently timed humor given how serious the tone is. Motoko just finished explaining how horrific her wet work was, and they let that sit just long enough to create that tension and let you absorb some of her past, just before we get that "who meee???" look on her face. That joke arriving too early could have very easily faceplanted, but it was timed just right.
Same thing with Motoko and her BF revealing to each other that they ran background checks to be safe. They don't need to say anything to show how they both feel their trust has been violated, they just let that soundtrack play in the background for a bit. Then, boom, Batou drops a car seat on the ground. Perfect way to relieve that tension.
Actually the soundtrack this whole episode was beautiful.
They were going to meet a military commander from another country, Aramaki can be seen talking to him right after the bombing. The hair color may have been a disguise, in case he couldn't be trusted. He did say his military has all kinds of unsavory ties with drug cartels and mafia.
Yuru Camp, I can put on in the background and trust that I can fall asleep to it in less than one episode.
I love that Bocchi got some love itt but that's my rock out anime, different strokes for different folks. 😀
I'm surprised these two never got into a trademark dispute...
Will you accept a $20,000 a year salary without dental and vision?