Dexter managed to utterly fuck it’s ending up, come back, redeem itself, then utterly fuck the ending again. And now it’s getting both a prequel and another sequel series, the former of which seems to be getting good reviews so far.
I want to see if it can pull off the “fuck it up, redeem, fuck it up” trick for four consecutive shows in a row. I believe it can.
I bought a quite expensive piece of animation software (that cost over $1000) to use professionally. The specific term it was sold to me under was a “perpetual license.” I took this to mean “never ending”, which is the dictionary definition of the word “perpetual.” You can probably guess where this is going.
A few years later, in the middle of a professional project, it stopped working. I contacted support, and was told that they changed the way they were doing licenses so I’d have to buy a new one (at almost double the price) or eat shit. I’m paraphrasing, but that was the gist of it.
So yeah, if you’re thinking of buying a Toon Boom Harmony perpetual license, maybe save yourself a lot of money and hassle and just pirate it instead. Or tell them to get fucked and use their direct competitor. I have done both.
Yeah Charlie Brooker was my first thought too!
I’d also like to see what Sally Wainwright could do with Doctor Who, as well as Charlie Covell who I think is just a great writer in general.
Reading between the lines a bit, I get the sense that maybe because Musk is a big name the corporation that owns the paper may not have given them the option to not post it? The article also describes her as the editor of the opinion section, so maybe not the overall editor of the paper.
I think that the AI industry is particularly harmful to writers, journalists, actors, artists, and others. This is not because AI produces better pieces of work, but rather due to misanthropic viewpoints of particularly toxic and powerful individuals at the top of the tech industry hierarchy pushing AI as the next big thing due to their general misunderstanding or outright dislike of the general public.
I’m a writer and my work is increasingly making me use AI to do things. I’m 98% sure I’m just training this thing to replace me at this point, and am planning accordingly.
Yeah for me the inescapable fact seems to be that humanity is currently facing a series of somewhat existential crises (climate change, looming authoritarianism, a global pandemic etc.) and we’ve utterly failed to meet each one by backsliding into selfishness and idiocy. With climate change especially there doesn’t seem to be any fixing or avoiding it now, it’s just a matter of how bad it’s going to be, and a lot of predictions seem to be pointing towards “worse than we thought.”
So I dunno, for me the logical response to that would be depression and cynicism. We knew it was coming, we had every chance to avoid it, we didn’t, now we’re fucked.
As with most irritating Windows features, I assume there’ll be an option to turn it off hidden in some obscure place, which will either not work, or it’ll turn back on after a random amount of time.
That’s what I do. I’m in a place that really doesn’t give a shit about Piracy (the worst they’ll do is send a letter, one of my friends got one and called up his ISP to complain about it and they told him to stop seeding so much lol) but I still run a VPN 24/7 anyway just to be safe. It costs peanuts and doesn’t slow down the internet hugely so I figure why not.
KDE linux definitely seems interesting, since I run Arch (btw) and KDE anyway. Unless they end up doing something weird with it lol.
I searched “Peter Molyneux NFT” because my first thought was, if any of them are on the NFT grift it’ll be him.
Me: I wonder what Will Wright is up to these days?
Wikipedia:
At GalaVerse on December 11, 2021, Wright announced a new project, in partnership with Gala Games, called VoxVerse. Wright said VoxVerse will be a blockchain game, where players will be able to create areas to explore and interact with and share these with other players of the game, incentivizing creators through the ability to trade or sell their works as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) using cryptocurrency. Wright stated that the use of blockchain and NFTs are mechanisms needed to support the vision he has, but has no interest in selling NFTs directly to players as other blockchain games or NFT schemes have had done in the past.
Me: oh.
If I could download the contents of a single politician’s brain, I think I’d probably choose Mandleson.
Any time something truly shady and corrupt is going on he’s always there, right in the middle of it. For like 3 decades now. And no matter how many scandals come and go he just remains, stuck to the bowl of politics no matter how many times the toilet flushes. The things he knows that we’ll never get to hear about must be fascinating.
I use M+ Fonts for most of my stuff.
This is why we should never go full Tory.
Also I’m pretty sure this is just the newspapers being sneaky. It was sold off in 2013 under the Conservatives, and now it’s being resold to someone else and the media is trying to make it look like Labour are the ones who privatised it.
I don’t really think it will go anywhere. It looks like they’re fully throwing the book at Luigi Mangione and all the news is hitting the propaganda hard, so I imagine there’ll be a lot of talk and memes about Doing The Thing, but nobody will really Do The Thing.
Yeah I know everyone likes to hate on systemd, but I like systemd-boot way more than GRUB. It just does its job and stays out of the way, I never have to fart about with it at all.
I’m not saying NDT isn’t a smart guy, but yeah he does tend to do that thing a lot where you describe a normal concept in a sort of detached anthropological way so it sounds profound even if it isn’t.
I didn’t know any of the specifics of the allegations against Brand, but I remember when he did the crazy Jesus pivot I thought “it has to be something to do with kids.” No scumbag flips that abruptly unless they’ve done something really bad.
Haha that’s like a real “reading a book over someone’s shoulder” kind of setup.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/ted-nugent-threatens-to-kill-barack-obama-and-hillary-clinton-during-vicious-onstage-rant-94687/