Lol, this DLC description:

With the DLC, you will have 50,000 coins in Holy Clash Cards and this coin allows you to open all cards. It also gives you in-game privileges. You receive priority in error reporting

Kind of in awe of the guts to ask people to pay for the privilege of having their bug reports read.

Yeah, I think it’s a particular server. Kagi has been working normally for me this morning, and I use the Firefox VPN that resells Mullvad access.

This is tough to answer, because a lot of pirated stuff is literally priceless, i.e., can’t be bought at all.

I’d be happy to pay for the recent Ace Combat 5 and 6 upscaled ports, but they were only available briefly with preorders for AC7 on consoles I don’t have. They haven’t been sold outside of that brief window several years ago. Even if you tracked down unopened copies from 2019 and bought them from third parties, the license codes they contained expired long ago.

Fortunately, the Ace Combat community has put a lot work into making emulation work. The older games are playable, just not in a way you can pay money for.

No, not least because almost nothing in this area is self-evident due to the state of caselaw at the moment.

Putting aside for the moment the question of whether “generative” implies “transformative” in the specific sense under discussion in copyright law, the definition of “transformative” in this context is highly contentious, and courts have avoided defining it in an unambiguous way. Even here, the courts will probably avoid answering these questions if at all practical.

This is a big part of why fair use is in such a bad state right now: no predictability in how courts will rule on it as a defense, plus no way to keep you out of courts in the first place.

The Art Deco Bob Semple

It sounds like there are different biomes and air piracy now, but I haven’t yet had a chance to see how different this makes it play.

Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television: the Graphic Novel

“I’m done with being a man of infinite jest and most excellent fancy!”

We can ask this question from the other direction: why doesn’t everywhere else have a flamethrower helicopter?

OpenAI and Microsoft recently redefined “artificial general intelligence” as OpenAI making $100 billion profit.

Defining intelligence this way means that virtually no human who has ever lived qualifies as intelligent, either. That’s one way for machine intelligence to reach parity with human intelligence, I suppose.

Then again, Sam Altman has lit enough of Microsoft’s money on fire that he especially doesn’t count as intelligent according to this definition. So maybe it has some merit after all.

“It’s a safety feature to reduce spalling!”

For sure. It’s kind of fascinating, in a grim way, to contrast Haiti’s revolutionary course with the US, where basically every major power was cool with them a few years after their revolution.

One wonders how history would be different if the nations of the world had spent centuries screwing the US with debt and propping up their worst leaders and left Haiti to do its own thing.

Right? Most of this stuff was already the case in 2012, so it barely even counts as a prediction.

China’s lead in rare earth production doesn’t exactly come out of nowhere, nor does Haiti having a crisis of some sort or terrorists being called freedom fighters. And having AI do the targeting work in place of humans has been floating around as an idea since what, when The Forbin Project came out? 1970 or so?

It’s a good idea, but we can go even further. Just think of what we could fit into a spinal mount!

If we go with the Robert Florence interpretation of Batman, this kinda checks out.

God may or may not play dice, but the Novikov self-consistency principle definitely doesn’t.

I wouldn’t characterize it as a horror game at all, tbh. It’s a first-person survival game in an eerie, hazardous, open world setting. There’s nothing quite like it, but if you like open world games, it’s worth checking out for sure.

The one place untouched by capitalism!

tfw the ride was too wild

While this is clearly popular, I can definitely see why Wonka Pharmaceuticals decided to work on an oral formulation before bringing it to market.