We don’t control the sheriff’s budget. We give him X number of dollars, he does with it what he wishes.

Ok then, I’d like to open discussion about the sheriff’s budget. Time to make some cuts.

That’s my hope too. Basically you can’t pretend to use real people if someone would reasonably think they are real people.

But I hope they’ve worded it well.

There are specific carve outs listed in the law to exempt ads for movies, television shows, streaming content, video games and other works that feature synthetic performers in the entire work.

That seems like a pretty big carve out.

Over the years, players generated vast amounts of visual mapping data by scanning streets, buildings and public spaces to progress in the game.

Which I believe refers to AR Mapping . (Note it’s an archive.org link because this feature was removed from the game earlier this month.) I haven’t played Ingress in a few years, but I don’t think it had these tasks.

Basically you take a video of the area you are in, and that data could in turn be used to create a 3D representation of whatever you scanned. So instead of knowing you having a house at a given location, you know how tall it is. Google Maps actually has a feature called “Aerial View” where you can see something similar.

I don’t think that would change anything. The valuable part is the collected data. Even if the way that data is collected is open source or even if the data itself is open source, the issue is misusing that data.

Super Mario 64 DS has new levels & you start the game as Yoshi. It’s a reimagining.

Ocarina of Time 3D just has some QoL changes like making the iron boots an item (and different graphics).

“Switch 2 Remake” to clarify from the “3DS Remake”.

This is why it’s important to isolate your children from life as you speedrun them through YOUR childhood first. You’re not just giving your kids one good life, but two bad ones!

2019 Yahoo

My immediate thought, there is no way Yahoo! Screen survived into 2019.

I looked it up and Yahoo! Screen (which featured Community season 6) was shutdown in January 2016. But Yahoo! View launched in late 2016 (as a Hulu-like replacement), and that did shutter in mid 2019.

So Yahoo! was already dead, but it also died for real in 2019.

“Binging with Babish” made “Lava Chicken” inspired by the Minecraft movie. He went to a college campus where an art professor made a custom device that, technically if you wanted to, would allow you to pour lava into a person’s mouth.

Example of pouring lava on chicken

Exactly. A “gamer” is too broad of a definition to really mean anything if it just means “people who play games”. I watch TV/films, but that could mean anything. Reality? Horror? Non-fiction? They’re all different. I read books, but that could mean anything. Sci-fi? Fantasy? Biography? Poetry? They’re all different.

I do think competitive versus non-competitive is a good dividing point. I hesitate to use the word “cozy” because I don’t think Dark Souls players are playing a “cozy” game.

But even within competitive there are distinctions to make. Children playing the lastest FPS and screaming into their headsets, probably less inclusive. The speed running community, generally very inclusive.

It’s important to differentiate between being a monopoly, and engaging in monopolistic behavior.

Valve, to the best of my knowledge, isn’t doing anything that prevents or stifles competition. As a monopoly it’s important to investigate them from time to time to ensure this remains true. But if they’re just putting out the best product and everyone is choosing to use them, then it’s not really a problem.

Is modded Minecraft better than vanilla? No. Is it different? Yes. Does it have advantages? Yes.

Minecraft is absolutely not boring without mods. It’s a sandbox game and sometimes adding things to your sandbox can be fun. But you absolutely don’t need to add them.

I’ve played lots of modded Minecraft, but I’ve played a lot more of vanilla Minecraft. Sometimes having less makes you more creative. You could install a mod that gives you a “couch” block, or you could use stairs and position them just right.

It’s all about the type of game you want to play. Mods are fine. Mods are fun. But do you need mods? No.

You’re absolutely right about Paris. I’ve traveled to a number of big cities but Paris was the first city that I felt I was in actual danger. The first time was traveling around Montmartre, there were a number of aggressive scammers who grabbed my arm and tried to “give” me a bracelet. The second was traveling near a circus or park and I clearly wander too far off that I felt the need to run back to the train station.

Sure it was 10+ plus years ago, so maybe it’s better now, amd there was much more of the city that I felt fine traveling around. In fact most of the city was fine. But on those two occasions, I’ve never felt less safe, and that includes traveling to LA where I saw a man kicked out of a bar… and then kicked in the middle of the road while a large crowd just watched.

Fuck Paris.

I see now that the circumstances of one’s birth are irrelevant; it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who the fuck you are.

Sure, but it could be done, even if temporarily.

Also would the hair grow back? Isn’t hair dead cells? Or does Wolverine have sentient hair?

It’s a Treehouse of Horror, the one with 3D Homer.

You could have someone like Leech temporary negate his powers.

Listen if I knew what I wanted I probably would have asked for faster horses.

You could definitely make 2e a little more user friendly by skipping THAC0 and just having big numbers be better like everything else.