Shawshank Redemption was a book. The Godfather was a book. Lord of the Rings, Forrest Gump, Fight Club, Goodfellas, Silence of the Lambs… That’s just from the first 25 of IMDB’S top 250.

The Thing is a remake. The Fly was a remake. Scarface, The Departed, The Mummy… all remakes.

The problem isn’t remakes or adaptations, the problem is they’re shit remakes and adaptations. Nobody cares that The Batman was the 75th adaptation of Batman, because it was good.

Uh, the last time we heard this it was the Russians in Ukraine and the ICC finds those claims credible enough to investigate.

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We tried not censoring the internet and it hasn’t worked

If it makes you feel better, think of it as Europe defederating from Twitter

The same reason NY and California can make a law and the entire industry shifts to comply? If you get banned in Utah it won’t be long before the rest of the US.

People celebrating dead Israelis because west=bad is not offensive to you?

Communism good, therefore China good, therefore West bad, therefore Israel bad, therefore dead Israelis good!

What a fucking worldview

Obsidian seem to be doing better than before they were acquired too

“Hey Israel called and they asked about when we’re going to delete all the posts celebrating dead Israelis? Sorry Linda are you still there? You’ve gone silent. Linda???”

Only 2 people were killed in Arrival, I don’t want to get all Stalin but is that a huge number?

But the internet told me this was going to be shit

TFW instead of a console and VR headset you get Valve’s worst reviewed game since Artifact

What’s the current version of SteamOS

Guarantee you the FSR-DLSS gap will be filled shortly after AMD has competitive AI coprocessors on their cards. People say a lot about all the training DLSS does on NVIDIAs cloud blah blah but the real reason it’s better is because it runs on hardware that is otherwise idle and so can just do more without eating into latency or performance. It’s the same reason XeSS on Intel GPUs is better than FSR.

What would really be impressive is if AMD can get FSR to leverage the AI cores on all three cards. If the goal of being “open” is trying to nullify NVIDIAs advantage then that would go a long way to killing DLSS as a point of distinction.

Wait, there’s a University for Rice?

Why does Mr. Vader not just simply login to the droids to find the rebels?

Yeah and so it’s not simple for them to provide the necessary logistics while taking into account their other priorities.

It wouldn’t have gotten nearly as much visibility if gamers didn’t know who the dude was

Which is what a malevolent AI capable of mass misinformation operations would say

The problem is we’re not treating it like an emergency.

During COVID world governments provided basically infinite resources to promising vaccine candidates. We developed brand new types of vaccines for a novel virus in a third of the time it takes us to make existing vaccines for well known viruses. We are not doing the same for promising battery technologies.

We could also be regulating the market for smarter use of the lithium we have. Lithium batteries for stationary mass storage (“big batteries”) are completely pointless, except maybe as part of virtual power networks. Subsidising and incentivising recycling and recovery of lithium from waste is another low hanging fruit we seem to not be bothering with.

Absolutely it’s true for a global emergency threatening to destroy the global ecosystem, a local ecosystem and cultural site is a sensible sacrifice (not withstanding that we shouldn’t be in this scenario in the first place.)

But we have barely scratched the surface in terms of alternative options and it’s fair to be frustrated when you’re the one expected to sacrifice when other options have not really been tried.