Endymion_Mallorn

Not nearly as much as my wife, admittedly - she’s a scientist and I’m not. But there’s been a few small things.

Trek isn’t amazingly bad, but it’s definitely got low points.

Transformers. Is “energon” a crystal, a liquid, or something more nebulous? Are Primus and Unicron one being? Did the Quintessons create the Transformers? Where do the Go-Bots fit in?

And don’t get me started on the Allspark vs. Vector Sigma…

The comic might be better for that, when it gets away from the show.

Good. There should never be one company hosting half the Internet. If your site goes down when Cloudflare, AWS, Azure, and Google are gone, you don’t have your own website - you’re just making money for a megacorp.

If the guards coming in aren’t just backup for me, they had better have class levels or they’re gonna have issues with the traps.

So your new tactic is the same as the Acrobat from AD&D? Congrats on rediscovering what existed thirty years ago.

Thank you!

The easier way is to do it in your browser.

I would normally say ‘may’, as in ‘must be able to’, especially since the classical senses are a little wonky anyway.

To me, yes. I would be willing to buy a copy of Britannica or another printed encyclopedia.

If it’s a physical object, I do what i need to do. But I’ve developed the policy that I don’t pay real money for unreal things. And anything I cannot experience with all five senses is unreal.

Great, so these people are Dancers?

Dang it, I was coming in to make the joke.

Please explain why the devs care about cheating.

Seriously - what harm does it do to them?

Yup, but he owns it without a mortgage, probably owns the land it’s on, and his taxes are half of mine. So…

I mean, the simple solution is to do the same as curl’s dev: If it’s AI, it’s ignored. If it’s a corporation who hasn’t had recent code published in the codebase, it’s ignored. Bugs and vulnerabilities should be human-reported by the community.

That’s the way forward for FOSS - ignore the corps. Then start rebasing on exclusively non-commercial licenses.

I feel like “ai generated” music when it’s not lyrical isn’t such an awful thing - ambient sound and the like. I mean, music may not be mathematically solved yet, but we’ve certainly had music-generation algorithms for decades, and there’s no real harm in that. There’s a time and a place for a human to create art, and times for artificially created pleasant sound.

A kind voice and a willing ear are always helpful. And it makes you a better person to recognize the pain of another when you’re a teen.

We have clearance, Clarence.