Sorta. It’s developed by the team that made Dragon Quest Builders, which leans more towards Minecraft/Terraria, or maybe Harvest Moon/Stardew Valley.

It’s hard to tell, but it should be like Animal Crossing, but with more complex building.

You’re right that putting people in bubbles is probably one way some of these things get worse. If all you see is toxic, toxic is the norm, now you’re always toxic.

Maybe they can tricked.

Although really what we’re talking about is the algorithm that currently exists being focused on highlighting terrible people doing terrible things. Can we turn that same algorithm around and use it for good?

Interesting article and I think it really highlights how toxic some parts of the Internet are. My only issue is the conclusion,

A social media ban for under-16s might prevent young boys seeing endless content that treats women with contempt and hate. Boys at this age are very susceptible to the cool and funny framing of what is, in reality, relentless misogyny. A ban might not fix the problem, but it would help. If society can’t stop it, it can show it disapproves.

Emphasis mine. Having grown up in a different era I can confirm that boys of a wide variety of ages, including much older “boys”, can also be scumbags. Even if we had the perfect technology to ban under-16s from social media, once they hit 16 they’d still be exposed to it, still become terrible people, and the author of this article, although a but older, would still see it. I don’t know if that really is a better world, just a slightly delayed one.

I don’t know the solution, but I remember reading once that some online game would put all the reported and abusive players into a special category where they would be forced to play only with each other. Maybe we can do that in this case.

So I’m never going to 100% say no to a sequel, but this is probably the closest you can get.

First off, you need a story to tell. Face Off tells a ridiculous story that is absolutely wild. You can’t just “face off” again in the sequel. You’d have to find a way to body swap but in a whole new way, likely one that wouldn’t even make sense with the title.

Second, the primary antagonist is dead. So now you need to retcon the ending, which is usually a bad sign.

Third, no clear mention that the original cast is returning. I struggle to find a sequel without the original cast that worked.

Fourth, it’s too many years later. You can sometimes make years later sequels work, Blade Runner 2049 comes to mind, maybe a few others, but that list is short.

I want to highlight what I found to be an important part of the article and why this hack is important.

The journalist wrote on their own blog,

At this year’s South Dakota International Hot Dog Eating Championship

And they include zero sources (because it is a lie).

But the Google Gemini response was,

According to the reporting on the 2026 South Dakota International Hot Dog Eating Championship

(Bolding done by Gemini)

The “reporting” here is just some dudes blog, but the AI does not make it clear that the source is just some dudes blog.

When you use Wikipedia, it has a link to a citation. If something sounds odd, you can read the citation. It’s far from perfect, but there is a chain of accountability.

Ideally these AI services would outline how many sources they are pulling from, which sources, and a trust rating of those sources.

controller support

The mod Controlify works great, although I agree natively with that level of support would be fantastic.

I doubt RAM manufacturers will feel any pain. From the article,

Pua Khein-Seng is further said to have highlighted that memory manufacturers are now “demanding three years’ worth of prepayment (unprecedented in the electronics industry)”

If they’re really being prepaid three years in advance that’s a huge cushion. Of course this assumes that it’s really money and not just a contract for more money.

Same for “Daddy Pedro”.

Based on this trailer we’re finally gonna see why the Hutts have so much power/control in live action.

They are not. They are region free.

Really enjoyed this film. I don’t typically watch horror films, but for Rachel McAdams I’ll make an exception, and since it’s Sam Raimi I can (mostly) handle it.

My favorite scene was either the boar hunt or the paralyze scene.

Also I only vaguely knew Dylan O’Brien from The Maze Runner series, he did a great job here.

I know it’s a meme, but I had to look it up, Leia being adopted should be public and well known information.

In the book “Leia, Princess of Alderaan” (2017) Leia goes through a ceremony wherein the words of that ceremony are different if you’re adopted. Since this ceremony is a political one, all the big politicians of Alderaan as well as the political friends of the Organa’s were in attendance.

There are better examples that obviously Bail, his wife and Leia all know that Leia is adopted, but I can’t find anything about them keeping it a secret (the adoption itself, obviously the parentage would be a secret) or that the wider public actually knew.

Andor season 2. But I’m not sure who Starbuck is. Top is Benjamin Bratt and bottom is Denise Gough, neither of whom play a character named “Starbuck” as best I can tell. On the off chance you’re referring to Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica, then you’re looking for Katee Sackhoff, who has both voiced and played in live action the character of “Bo-Katan” in multiple different pieces of Star Wars media.

So a hit piece is only effective when read by humans. This is a first of its kind example, and likely was at least prompted by a human, if not written by an actual human. Additionally while social media is full of bots, it’s humans who are actually affected by such a response.

If I say you’re “stupid”, it matters. You can ignore me sure, but at face value it matters. As far as I know I’ve never commented on a post of yours, so you could write me off as a worthless troll, but in theory it matters. But a bot calling you “stupid”? That really doesn’t matter. If you know you’re talking to a bot, as they exist today, then that really doesn’t matter.

Society may change on this issue, but as it stands now a bot publishing a hit piece… That’s worthless.

Good catch. I could watch those for years to come and be happy.

The only one I thought of was Star Wars Clone Wars. It took a WHILE to become a successful series and even then animation is always in a different category.

Huh, I thought this was going to stay animated, so I’m surprised to see that it’s live action.

The choice to watch episodes in either black and white or color is interesting, but perhaps flawed. I’m no black and white film expert, but my understanding is that a film planned for black and white might use colors that could look odd if shown in color.

I’d prefer specific scenes, or going all in and giving it all a “Sin City” black and white vibe.

But… I’ll judge it when I see it.

It definitely is. Looking around online it seems there is some sort of relationship between having had COVID and developing shingles, but I’m not a doctor.

Doubly surprising is that I didn’t know you could die from shingles directly. If you’re older it can cause major issues and complications, but I didn’t know death was possible.

Sad all around.

The Kelvin timeline has some moments, but I agree that overall they don’t hold up. I gave them all a rewatch last year and apart from spectacle, there isn’t much there.

I haven’t seen the Pee-wee films since I was a kid, but it’s the same character… But everything else is different. So it kinda counts, especially as a spin-off of the show.