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Dude types in "Was the moon landing faked?" to ChatGPT, which, to its extremely small credit, replied with a very polite variation on 'no, you idiot, you utter moron'. He stared at it for a few moments, then said "Well, of course it would be in on the conspiracy, it's run by the government."

Brazil actually has some great video game companies. I've really been enjoying @hellclockgame.bsky.social , a roguelike aRPG set during the Canudos Rebellion: store.steampowered.com/app/1782460/...

Hell Clock on SteamForge powerful builds with endless loot in this relentless combination of Roguelike and ARPG. Blast through dungeons and unleash inhuman powers in a dark fantasy twist on Brazil’s War of Canudos.store.steampowered.com

Any opportunity to watch Billy Crystal go full ham is S-tier content.

Howl, tho, as you allude to, is insanely fun, and one of the rare examples of an anime where the sub and dub are both different /and/ excellent.

Thematically, Nausicaa is my favourite Ghibli, but I think I'd say Mononoke-hime is my pick for 'best crafted'. It does an amazing job of having everyone in the cast have conflicting but comprehensible and even sympathetic motives.

I'd add Mao to the heuristic; and maybe also Andrew Jackson - though he's harder not because he didn't clearly commit a massive genocide (he very much did) but because he's further removed from living memory.

Hatsune Miko; she's been keeping busy after inventing Minecraft.

What percentage of that crime drop is accounted for by Eric Adams moving to Albania?

See also: all of American agriculture.

It's a good place to go to be 'left alone'. This also attracts queer people - hence why I'm here.

The big island of Hawaii is much the same way; a mixture of far-out hippies and wackjob libertarians, with more than a few cults mixed in for good measure.

I guess he's just gonna keep announcing he's quitting the party until somebody gives a shit? That might take a while.

...good. I'm not in fact having a stroke: www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

‘I’m Done, I’m Not in That F*cking Political Party’: James Carville Freaks Out After Progressives Win Big in Democratic PrimariesDemocratic strategist James Carville called for a "schism" in the Democratic Party, stating that he wants nothing to do with the likes of three candidates who won their Democratic primaries in New Yor...www.yahoo.com

Am I having a stroke, or did he officially quit a couple months ago?

Yah, was just typing basically the same thing. LLM slop has changed how audiences view media. Doubly so if you /admit it's an influence on your work/!

One of the frustrating things about the AI era is the way it's changed how I look at art - it's always viewed with skepticism/suspicion, now... Sometimes that suspicion is validated.

But then the narrative in question was LOL SO RANDOM in ways that, again, suggested AI design. The eponymous 'Asbury Pines' the game was set in, for example: there was a revolutionary war battle there, so definitely East Coast. But there are repeated references to the Rockies. So West Coast?

Right? Like, this game actually had an interesting core mechanical concept: a narrative-heavy game that unfurls via interconnected vignettes unlocked through incremental/idle gameplay. First I've seen like it.

But check out these pics from the 'religion' tech tree and tell me that "AI-gen" isn't the least embarrassing explanation!

I pointed this out in my Steam Review of the game, and the devs got very angry at me about it: steamcommunity.com/id/kalil_che...

Steam Community :: Kalil :: Review for Asbury PinesI like the idea of the game: basically an incremental visual novel that unveils its plot as you progress its various systems. The problem is, uh... There's just a lot of narrative nonsense in the game...steamcommunity.com