That could be, but in a quick look I couldn’t see the scene the way I remember it. It is definitely the same style. Thanks for trying to find it though!

No, it wasn’t starship troopers, I love that movie. It was a kinda realistic monster-horror movie, in other words based in current time planet earth. The only unrealistic thing was the size of the spiders as far as I know.

I don’t know the name and it was only one scene I saw passing by, something about giant spiders, and one dude was getting into the car to escape and a spider was inside waiting. It probably was in the second half of the 90s and it was on TV, so probably released in late 80s or early 90s. And I don’t think it’s arachnophobia, at least I haven’t seen any scene that reminds me of my memory.

I’ve had phobia to spiders ever since.

If we consider watching the full movie, it did haunt me for so long and I still remember it with dread, critters. Fucking hate those puppets they used.

From my very basic cis position and trying to learn as much as possible of the right ways to name each, this graphic is actually quite nice, but it confuses me that things like hobbies, roles, jobs, personality traits are treated as part of gender identity… Is it just me and my autistic ass that considers those as completely independent from the gender identity? My gender identity is really clear to me, but I don’t let that define what hobbies I may have or like what movies I should watch or something like that.

Well, both main parties, center right, PP (the one referenced in the news) and center left (the opposite and current government) are a nest of rats taking all they can, nepotism, fraud, thieves… I’d say they both are center slightly leaning to each side just enough to divide the voters.

This kinda makes me think of the episodes of the Simpsons of who shot Mr Burns… Now just waiting for someone to shoot the cheetoh

Now? X)

That may be what you want but that’s not what stop killing games is about. You can’t ask for the life plan of some software because companies will simply say that they plan to keep it up forever and then later say “we can’t keep it up anymore! Too expensive! We go bankrupt uwu”

You can’t demand either from them that they upkeep a game fo as long as players exist.

The initiative is about making companies guarantee that if (when?) the games EOL arrives, then they release whatever resources are needed for players to continue using what they have paid for.

Definitely number 4, I’m tired of map applications overusing the directions marker. I feel the compass is an improvement in that sense.

If they don’t do this we’d not know it doesn’t change ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

NVidia is a hardware company. I guess that would put it closer to the PC in your question than AI. But neither is a proper description, PC is the whole thing you go to buy somewhere, and NVIDIA doesn’t sell PCs, they sell PC pieces. They don’t develop AI either as far as I know. The hardware they design and build might be more aimed to one direction or other, but no matter the usage, what they do is create hardware.

AI, graphics cards… That’s just the marketing to sell what they build.

I’ve gone to check the account, seeing what I saw, I’m leaning on the fact that this might actually be a real person. In fact I hope it is an AI account to create engagement, because such real people make me lose more faith in humanity than any AI would.

Just see his job description, it’s such bullshit chain of nothing:

Empowering B2B Sales & Marketing Teams to Scale with LinkedIn™-Driven Lead Generation & Brand Building Services ▶ Boost Your Sales Pipeline ▶ LinkedIn™ Consulting, Training, and Management Services ▶ LinkedIn™ Top Voice

People are so happy to blame AI and LLMs for all sorts of stuff that it looks like they forget what the real problem is. The real problem here is not that it may be written by an AI, but the fact that there are actual people that write like that. That think they sound profound and careful while not scared by change… In general a whole layer of management and wannabes that try to sell an image of being something they are not.

That account might be full of AI generated crap, I didn’t even bother to check it, the problem is not that it is AI, it’s that there are people that really are just like that. Even without LLMs, LinkedIn was already like that. Notice how Hatchins doesn’t say its an AI bot, he just says “this truly shows the LinkedIn experience”.

And I could rebute to that, that if someone is interested enough to check it with AI then they were likely to try and check it anyway without AI, maybe it would take longer, it would be harder to find… But they’d be the intended audience that now are redirected elsewhere.

To quote myself:

It’s a really complex topic that no simple straight answer would solve.

We could rebute again and again and again, and get nowhere because either option is hard to discuss as it is simply impossible to give proper data to prove anything. And worse, when defending the use of AI for it can lead to being told you are allowing it in the first place and that’s not even telling how many people still believe that AI needs real sample images to produce those (whether the algorithm is trained or not on CP is irrelevant on this particular point, as it is not needed to be created)

Hmm… In my mostest most humblest of opinions, no, you didn’t get carried away. You explained it in just the right amount. Maybe even stopped too soon, would have loved the version for Mac.

I’m not the kind to hate on nuclear power itself, but let’s not assume it’s perfect either. There are good reasons against nuclear power, its just not the usual reasons raised by people.

The cost and time effort needed for building one plant is one drawback.

The fact that you can’t say “let’s turn off the nuclear reactor now that we have enough renewables and later today we start it again when the sunlight is over”. It’s a terrible energy source to supply for extra demand needed without perfect planning.

Nowadays, nuclear is not so worth it in general, not because of fearmongering about the dangers (an old plant badly upkept is a danger, independent of what energy source you use, but specially for nuclear plants). Ideally a combination of different renewables would be best, with some energy storage to be used as backup, plus proper sharing of the resources between different places. There’s always sun somewhere, there’s always wind somewhere, …

So after half a century of being alive you have just decided there’s nothing else to learn and nothing you could be mistaken about. No reason to talk things out and hear others’ opinions. Because you are the oldest wisest human being ever.

I (not the person you answered to) do believe I am right on the opinions I hold, but I’m not certain of it. So I read, and I discourse, and I consider other points of view, in case my opinions could have been mistaken. That won’t mean I will suddenly consider “hey maybe the Nazis were right killing all those people they hated”. There will be some aspects where I won’t budge in my opinion, but most things are nuanced and harder to draw a line for than the nazi example.

But then again, why would what I say matter, all arguments opposed to you are garbage and wrong.

As a counterpart, the fact that it is so easy and simple to get those AI images, compared to the risk and extra effort of doing it for real, could make the actual child abuse become less common and less profitable for mafias and assholes in general. It’s a really complex topic that no simple straight answer would solve.

Normalising it would be horrible and should be avoided, but there will always be some amount of people looking for that content. I rather have them using AI to create it than having to go searching for real content. Persecuting the AI content is not only very inefficient, it might also be harmful as the only other content left would be the real one that is much harder to catch those who make it.

Since you have experience DMing games for different ages than yours (or I expect that’s the case since you talk of birthdays and after school programs), what would be your advice to lead a game with kids that you think it’s different from just a bunch of friends playing specially if they are old enough that no theme is out of bounds.

Like I mention in some other comment, I want to start a game and DM both my kids and my wife using the Adventure Time RPG books based on 5E. My biggest issue is that both kids are quite far apart in age, 4 and 8 and I’m inexperienced being a DM so handling both and making the game fun for all feels like a daunting experience. So as an extra question, have you ever been the DM of a game where players had meaningful difference in age?

Man this all is amazing. I have never DM’d but I want to start soonish. Long ago I grabbed the pathfinder book and the master guide to start some group locally, but that never actually happened (got kids, no time or energy left for much (: ).

Now kids are growing up and I would want to make a small game with them and my wife to teach them about RPGs. Waiting to get the adventure time RPG from kickstarter based on 5E to make the game with them. All your comments are amazing to read and prepare mentally :)