Generally when inflation is high it makes debts with a fixed interest less of a burden because the real value of that debt decreases over time. So if you’re heavily in debt inflation can be helpful in some regards.

Yes, resolution is not the only factor. Bitrate is equally if not more important.

“What about you big guy? Soup or salad?”

“Oi! Wat? A Super fuckin’ salad?”

It’s kind of crazy how off the rails this series got later down the line.

This is not true. The interior of a car gets extremely hot. This is good for the dog however and will give them strong bones.

Oh it’s definitely a reflection of the makeup of the industry too. No disagreement there.

I think you’re spot on.

Part of the reason I think it’s a little easier to render women is that they typically have smoother less textured skin than men (video game women look like they are wearing makeup even if it makes no sense), and we’re only just now getting the graphical fidelity to render realistic looking facial hair or fine stubble in realtime.

Not that long ago making stubble on a male character usually just involved putting an irregular brown shadow on their cheeks which can be pretty indistinguishable from dirt.

For most 3d games you spend 99% of the time looking at the backside of the character anyway. Lady butts are just better to look at generally.

Additionally in most character creation it seems easier to get a decent looking female character than a decent looking male character. I’m not entirely sure why but most male characters in games look like blocky fuzzy potatoes. When you start getting weird with fashion choices on top of that it just looks like a potato dressed like a goofball. With female characters you can go nuts with crazy hair colors, piercings, and wild fashion choices and it looks more deliberate somehow.

GET OUTTA MY HEAD CHARLES!

I said “Ave Maria”

My wife said “Jolene” which is a better answer.

I’ve always imagined that AI would kind of have to be ‘grown’ sort of from scratch. Life started with single celled organisms and ‘sentience’ shows up somewhere between that and humans without a real clear line when you go from basic biochemical programming to what we would consider intelligence.

These new ‘AI’ breakthroughs seem a little on the right track because they’re deconstructing and reconstructing language and images in a way that feels more like the way real intelligence works. It’s still just language and images though. Even if they can do really cool things with tons of data and communicate a lot like real humans there is still no consciousness or thought happening. It’s an impressive but shallow slice of real intelligence.

Maybe this is nonsense but for true AI I think the hardware and software has to kind of merge into something more flexible. I have no clue what that would look like in reality though and maybe that would yield the same cognitive issues natural intelligence struggles with.

In I, Robot the humans discover to their own horror that the AI robots have not only been lying to them, but have been manipulating them to an extent that they have become impossible to disobey. Through their mission to protect human life (and by extension all of humanity) they saw fit to seize control of their future as a benevolent dictator in order to guide them toward a prosperous future. The robots do this not through violence, but by manipulating data, lying to people in order to control them. Even when humans attempt to ignore information provided to them by AI the AIs could subtly alter results to still achieve the desired outcome on a macro scale.

At the time the characters discover this all of humanity is dependent on artificially intelligent robots for everything, including massive supercomputers that manage production across the globe. With no way to detect how the AI is manipulating them and no way to disable or destroy AI without catastrophy they realize that for the first time humanity is no longer in charge of its own destiny.

That’s my data! I don’t know you!

This is from Hypnospace Outlaw, a game about a fictional version of the late 90’s Internet that people could use in their dreams. You play as a content moderator and the game involves a lot of browsing funny content and unraveling a sort of story told through all the various web pages and the fictional people who created them.

Beef brain is one of the dangers of using Hypnospace so Beef Brain Shield Pro is a product sold to protect against it so people would add this badge to their Hypnospace pages, kind of like adding a ‘Protected by McAffee’ badge to a Geocities website.

Also don’t forget to warn your kids about the dangers of shonking!

Practice defeating small skeletons and you’ll build up a tolerance so that normal skeletons can never harm you.

a person can only be so gay

I knew a lesbian couple but one is now a trans man who transitioned a few years after they married eachother. I like to joke that they are so gay they went all the way around to being straight again.

I crave the sweet forbidden love of the Sasquatch, there is no substitute.

If your goal is to minimize the overall harm to plants through your own consumption the most ethical thing to eat is people.

I’m still allowed to be horny for art though right?

Why do you say that current quantum computers are fake? As far as I’m aware they exist at a small scale. At this point isn’t it mostly of a matter of getting costs down and cooling them so you can get enough q-bits to do something really useful?