I can’t help but wonder how much facebook’s stigma might be stifling enthusiasm toward the Quest.
I can’t help but wonder how much facebook’s stigma might be stifling enthusiasm toward the Quest.
I watched a bit of the presentation. The Quest 3 was like 5m at the beginning then the rest played out like an AI infused dystopian nightmare. Facebook is building AI “personalities” with real faces and predetermined personalities for people to go to for advice. They’re giving people tools to train their own AI characters for whatever purpose they want. Furthermore, they’re encouraging businesses to use custom versions of these AI characters for use as a customer service front-end on the internet.
After that, they showed off ray-ban glasses with cameras hidden in the frames and AI built into them.
It’s never about creating a better society, just oppression and exploitation. The more criminals you easily fabricate, the more indentured servants you easily get.
Gamers worldwide think game prices are already too high.
I’ll be waiting until you have an actual argument to make. Until then, maybe reconsider where you get your “information”.
You probably don’t even know what an actual school looks like.
I was gonna say… I already have an “everything” app called a web browser.
Assassin’s Creed always seemed like a perfect game for VR on paper, but I couldn’t have imagined it actually being very playable. I’m definitely interested, but I’m still getting more of a limited VR “experience” vibe from this than an actual AC VR game.
I am playing the trails series for the first time, and I’m doing it by order of release. I’m at the finale chapter of Trails to Azure and I’m super excited to finally reach the cold steel saga, but should I play Nayuta first? (I kind of think I should, but I don’t know if it’s related to everything else.)
Dialects aren’t the actual language. They’re just wilful ignorance.
Say everyone bakes a potato. If your neighbor baked theirs differently than you, would that mean they’re ignorant?
And, again, vocabulary isn’t grammar.
Good for you? No one said it was.
Just off the top of my head: In some US dialects, rather than a single word changing between negative and positive form (e.g. “I didn’t take any pictures”), instead an entire sentence is shifted into a negative mode (“I didn’t take no pictures”). Traditional grammar rules would dictate that as a double negative, implying the speaker did in fact take pictures, but only an idiot would actually choose interpret it that way.
Next, we have the impact of the internet. “lol” might occasionally be spoken aloud in many circumstances as a substitute for “that’s funny” or something similar. Colloquial written English is all over the place. We now not only use “lol”, but “fwiw,” “afaik,” and many others.
Then there’s emoji. We’re basically using glyphs to express ideas, not unlike how kanji works, and traditional rules of grammar don’t always apply when you’re expressing an idea through pictures, though it’s interesting when it does. Animated GIFs and memes often butcher grammar rules without sacrificing any understanding of intent.
A simple google search turns up many more examples than I could possibly be aware of.
Now it’s your turn. Feel free to explain why you think using “they” as a singular pronoun applies as a grammar rule violation in the 21st century. If you can’t use more than a typical snarky one or two-liner, you should just consider this argument lost and rethink your life.
Well, I hope we get a list of businesses that comply so hopefully I can just uninstall those.
I don’t know about those other shows, but I think that’s a perfect approach for One Piece. It’s just silly kid fun from start to finish.
I mean, the absurdity of your argument that a sci-fi space rpg can’t meet your standards of “reality” because of a mere ignorable, pre-existing and commonly used pronoun aside, I’m going to have to step in on this particularly low-hanging morsel…
The rules of English grammar are objective.
If English grammatical rules were objective, we’d all still be talking the way people did way before Shakespeare. Actually, Shakespeare’s writings wouldn’t exist today if English grammar wasn’t at all subjective because he flat out made up a ton of words and phrases we still use today. Also, you’ve heard of poetry, right?
“It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” (Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5)
One fun thing about kbin is that websites that get posted frequently can be followed or blocked like their own magazine. This means if you’ve got a bunch of bot accounts posting links to the same dumb site, you can just go to the magazine of that site and just block that instead of playing whack-a-mole with bots.
I don’t know anything about One Piece other than the fact it’s really long and super popular.
I heard the Netflix show was pleasing fans so I threw it on when my wife was around and we both ended up getting into it. We haven’t finished the whole season yet, but we will.
It reminds me of watching power rangers back in the 90s as a kid. The dialog is really elementary and clearly targets kids, but the character acting is endearing, and it’s fun to look up the original illustrations because the casting and costumes are so spot on.
I’m particularly fond of how each episode goes through some kind of story and character development, but always climaxes on some big fight scene, just like in the old power rangers shows. It’s like soul food for me.
Couldn’t they just make it look like something that isn’t an ad? Such as a fake video or false “download” button?
If you read most of those articles, though, this narrative is unfortunately not usually emphasized.
I really like that the pro models are allowing “special video” now. I’d want that, except by the time I can actually afford a “pro” iPhone, that feature might be built into the non-pro models.
I appreciate the candid reply. Any stand-out AA or indie titles out there that really stuck with you?