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Plus, vampires would just break their teeth trying to bite the robots.

If anything, robots are strong against vampires.

I guess we should add that to the chart!

https://i.stack.imgur.com/xgoX1.jpg

Any damsel that's in distress be outta that dress when she meet Jim West Link.

agesboy posted...

the only clifford I know

What about...

https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/prn5-netflix-inc-scholastic-inc-clifford-big-red-dog-1yhigh.jpg

I'm measuring out space for a new TV, and I just used the Pythagorean Theorem to figure out what size TV would work best in the spot I have in mind.

THE MOTHERFUCKING PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM.

I haven't thought about that shit for like 30 years.

It just makes me feel kind of icky.

Who did you think wrote SparkNotes then?

Did you think the Crash Test Dummies wrote the [Insert Subject Here] for Dummies books?

captpackrat posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JVZQhlivnY

Same wavelength.

Yes.

Which is ironic because I hate wings.



I just ordered a burger.

Lokarin posted...

if I remember correctly only ONE person is helped in the entire game, and it's Kelso that does it

Sure, if you completely narrow your definition of "help".

I am surrounded by idiots, but there are far more significant things to be annoyed by than simple grammar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_Quest

PikachuMaxwell posted...

What do you do?

Panic and try to figure out why I'm back in science class when I graduated decades ago.

Then I start checking to make sure this isn't one of those dreams where you're in school naked and unprepared for a test or something.

captpackrat posted...

Of course you'll have a bad impression of New York if you only focus on the pimps and the CHUDs.

Nah, the pimps can be quite charming. And the CHUDs are easy to deal with as long as you mostly stay away from open sewer grates and tunnels.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

i think you're lying

i know the board 8 wiki still exists but potdpedias been gone for years

Most of the data from PotDpedia got archived elsewhere. As far as I know, it's still there.

Unfortunately...



GunslingerGunsl posted...

Let me rephrase for PO. Is there a readable version of it that you can link me to? :)

Nope.

I've seen the site I'm talking about in the last year or so, but I can't remember what the link to it was. And unfortunately you're not likely to be able to find it via search engine because most of the major search engines have become absolute utter dogshit over the last few years as they've optimized to work with things like Siri/Alexa and SEO bots... which means they pretty much can't find shit anymore.

Someone else might know the exact URL and be able to point you at it, but you probably won't be able to find it unless they do. And I honestly can't remember who pointed me to it last time I saw it.

Yes.

rjsilverthorn posted...

I mean, depending on what you are selling, a lot of people

Someone selling an air freshener to cover up the smell of homeless person urine would really make a killing in NYC.

BUMPED2002 posted...

Remember video game instruction manuals?

I still have one of these in my office:

https://i.ebayimg.com/thumbs/images/g/46UAAOSwVYZf0q-y/s-l500.jpg



captpackrat posted...

I liked it when games came with supplemental materials

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Feelies

Revelation34 posted...

Are any of the names real names?

Lucca's a real name.

Frog's real name is Glenn, and that's a real name.

Speaking as someone who has spent a ton of time in NYC, I would never trust the opinions of anyone from NYC.

BlazeAndBlade posted...

https://youtu.be/AnaQXJmpwM4?t=20

https://youtu.be/UYhbiCygCGQ?t=7902

faramir77 posted...

I'm going to replay all the Zelda games in release order this year

You should play them in timeline order instead.

Or play them in release order, and then play them again in timeline order.

HornedLion posted...

Furthermore, we all trace our lineage back to that one being.

And we're all literally made out of star dust.

I don't remember any of the features. You should post what they are.

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

It definitely is easy to believe it's just another wire-fu movie, but the neat twists and turns of the story, and itself being a fictious version of real historical characters and events was cool.

Personally I was really into the color symbolism. And how so much of the visual storytelling really worked perfectly.

Talking about other "wire-fu" movies, I definitely enjoyed it more than Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and House of Flying Daggers, which where the other two movies along those lines that came out around the same time.

But I've got them all (and a few others) in my DVD collection - I've got a foreign film section in general, but the Asian martial arts film section is about a dozen or so deep alone.

Probably Strange World, but no one's going to vote for it because no one has actually seen it.

Yellow posted...

but at least most people would refuse to read a book written by AI (who would do that)

Hard disagree.

People now get pissy over AI art in general, but that's because the controversy is fresh, there's a concerted push, and the tech is still in its infancy. Most people wouldn't read an AI-written book just because an AI-written book would be awkward and poorly written.

But AI in general has make qualitative leaps over the last 5 years, to the point where the AI we have today is starting to border on science fiction compared to the AI we had in 2014. Now imagine where AI will be in 2034, now that there is a strong impetus to fund its development, and people are more able to see what might be possible. Then imagine what it will be in 2044. 2054. And so on.

That's the reason why the Writers' Guild and Actors' Guild went on strike and demanded a ban on AI - they're fully aware that AI can't realistically replace them now, but they're also very much aware that it might easily be able to do so in the very near future. So they're forced to try and take a stand on the issue now while they're still have leverage... because once they can be easily replaced, they have no leverage.

Most people wouldn't read an AI-written novel now (other than for the novelty) because AI isn't advanced enough to write something worth reading. But give it 10 years, 20 - and AI may be able to write novels better than most humans can. And at that point, plenty of people would be more than willing to read AI-written books (assuming people are reading at all by then). There isn't going to be a strong moral stance against it if the content is worthwhile.

There are already people who have a very "ehh" attitude towards AI art. The strong "NOT EVEN ONCE!" backlash against it is coming from a very vocal minority in the midst of a very apathetic majority. If we ever get to the point where AI art is relatively indistinguishable from human art, plenty of people will be more than happy to accept it. Especially as people's resistance is worn down over time, and most people feel like it's just not worth caring about all that much anymore.

It's like how in the 60s and 70s there was a major pushback against synthesizers. Music fans would say "No real band uses them!" or "Electronic music isn't real music!" Now you'd be hard-pressed to find any modern artist who can produce a song without synthesizers (or computers). Bands like Nine Inch Nails and Erasure pretty much only exist because of them. Not to mention things like autotune. You can complain about computers making music, but computers have been making most of our music (albeit with human guidance) for decades now.

We've long since accepted that we can produce art with more and more advanced tools - AI is basically the culmination of that trend. When I was a kid most people would likely have argued that art "drawn on a computer" isn't real art, but most illustration and animation is done via computer now. And most people don't care, if they even think about it at all.

A few decades ago people would have laughed at the idea of people using video games to tell stories, but then machinima became a thing, stuff like Red Versus Blue became popular, and most younger people today wouldn't even bat an eye about people using Minecraft to tell elaborate stories. Art evolves as the tools evolve.

Factory workers in the past complained about how no robot would be able to do their job as well as they did, how "the craft of making things" was an inherently human act and how products (especially things like furniture and musical instruments) made by machine would never be as good as the "real thing". And today no one really gives a shit.

That's the inevitable future. People who think that "the nobility of the human spirit" or "the irreplaceable creativity of the human soul" actually matter are going to be seriously disillusioned when reality comes along to kick them in the teeth. If a thing can be done, it almost certainly will be done.

As a species we've reached the point where we've started to go from "tool-users" to people who have created tools that use themselves. The same impulse that led us to build a Roomba that will vacuum your floors for you is going to push towards computers that can write books, compose music, or draw vast open vistas. And future humans will be moved by those things in exactly the same way they were moved by everything beforehand. Possibly even moreso, if computers reach a point where they can far more easily predict and manipulate how humans respond to things.

Especially when most modern human "art" is barely "art" as is, but is "entertainment" or barely "content". AI will probably be able to reproduce those things just fine.

The CIA is sending the signal that is going to activate you as a sleeper agent.

Tomorrow you're going to wake up in a strange city covered in blood with no memory of how you got there,

EvilResident posted...

Probably wont be as good as the first 2

Are you saying only the first two were good, or are you unaware of the other two films and the TV show?







Either way I'd disagree, because the second film was shit.

Yellow posted...

The silver lining here is that if/when it does take over programming jobs, it will be a problem for all of society as a whole. It won't just be the artists or 3d modelers that will be left behind.

Part of why I have a complete and utter lack of sympathy for the artists and programmers who are now realizing their jobs are at risk is that none of them gave a single solitary shit for the last 40 years when it was happening to everyone else.

Factory workers started losing jobs to automation. Tons of phone operators and consumer service jobs have been lost to automated calls and menus. Cashiers everywhere are slowly losing jobs as stores start installing automated ordering and pay kiosks/self-serve lines (and stores as a whole are losing business to online stores). The current push towards self-driving cars and vehicles in general is potentially going to cost a lot of drivers jobs. We've been slowly trying to automate literally everything we can for decades now.

And whenever anyone complained, the rallying cry has always been "Well, at least computers will never replace the human spirit and creativity!", along with "Lost your job, better learn to program then!" There's always been this sense of superiority and disdain from people who thought they were completely immune to being replaced.

Now the people who always said stuff like that have realized they can probably be replaced as well, and it terrifies them. And I can't find it in myself to give a single solitary shit.

If computers can create better works of art than humans can, then I'd rather have them do it. It can't be any more soulless than a lot of the content we've been getting for years now anyway.

5 years is incredibly optimistic. Congress usually takes at least 10 years to even realize technology issues exist, then another 10-20 years to actually understand them.

I can see Congress starting to discuss it sometime around 2040. And then passing tons of stupid flawed meaningless laws about it for a few years that only make everything worse.

Maybe by 2060 they'll actually understand it well enough to react to it in a worthwhile way. But if we're lucky by then it'll be the AI running the country anyway.



Lokarin posted...

I think AI would be better than the current government, and cheaper too

And based on current standards, would probably be producing better entertainment content - scriptwriting, acting, music, graphical art - than most of what the current generation of humans is putting out there.

I for one welcome our new robot overlords.

Jen0125 posted...

I guess I'm asking where is it being felt?

New York City. It's a huge fucking deal there at the moment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_migrant_housing_crisis

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

Hero is very underrated. But fucking great.

My gf dragged me to see it in the theater when she was going through her artsy phase. She kind of hated it, but I loved it.

That sort of happened with most of the artsy pretentious movies she wanted to see - she'd always sort of wind up hating them and apologize for making me watch them, but I usually enjoyed them. Lost in Translation was the other major one I remember from that time.

Ironically, when it was my turn to pick a movie I'd always pick something like Blade or Resident Evil or Atlantis: The Lost Empire and she wound up loving all of them.

Genesis barely had any RPGs to judge.

For the SNES, I'm going to say Chrono Trigger just to piss people off.

For the NES I'm going to say Mother just to piss the hipsters off.



Sahuagin posted...

technically something like Dragon Quest 1

He said worst, not best.

Pound because I'm not a Millennial.



Sahuagin posted...

I would probably say "pound sign" since I think that is the term for the keyboard key, but I don't really know why it's called that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign#History

Why did they name him Crono and not Trigger?

The title is Chrono Trigger, they should've called him Trigger.



Revelation34 posted...

Why not?

Because he's Serge, not Crono. Duh.

Inferior.











Superior:

https://youtu.be/CCHdMIEGaaM?t=32

Metalsonic66 posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/15675d33.jpg

http://memes.ucoz.com/_nw/4/77015925.jpg

I'd judge you more for having sex. It's disgusting. All those fluids and smells, all that icky human contact. Ugh.

https://youtu.be/wTSLRbm8L9E?t=75

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJAU3K60wIk

Your topic title question and your poll question are in conflict.

What if I dislike tomboys but like that specific girl? Or dislike that specific girl but like tomboys as a whole?

Your deceptive polling practices have been noted. Further violations may result in you being banned from Poll of the Day for anti-poll behavior.

BUMPED2002 posted...

Yeah I suspected the all digital content only but that also raises the question for storage because some of the games I have download on my PS4 and PS5 exceed 70GBs so that eats at space.

That would just be their justification to push for full cloud storage and streaming play. Don't have to worry about storage space when you're not storing anything locally.

It's what the publishers already want - "In the future you will own nothing and be happy."

It's also the thing that will basically lock me out of gaming forever. Because fuck that future. Fuck it in the ass with a rusty fork. Sideways.

Why don't they just call him Kronos.like in the original Greek?

Or better yet, ?

Or I suppose you could call him Krono or if you still want to drop the s...

mario2000 posted...

funny I remember being told the same thing when I was a kid

Because it was true.

But it's also true today.

Studies have shown attention spans getting shorter for decades now.

Arguably, it started with the advent of TV and has been snowballing ever since as technology gives us more and more data streams constantly fighting for space in our brain. Each generation now seems to have slightly less attention span than the one before it, because each generation has so much more to pay attention to.

I feel like someone made this topic about a month or so ago.



...anyway, I usually buy Francesco Rinaldi. Mostly for my gf though, because I don't really eat spaghetti sauce all that much (because I have a tomato allergy). Usually if I'm eating pasta I'll either eat it with a butter or cream sauce of some kind.

I swear I've had multiple times where I talked about something in a room with no computer, no smart phones, no Alexa or anything, with the only possible piece of technology that could potentially "listen" being my TV that isn't actually hooked up to my network.

And then shortly after I'd start getting YouTube videos recommended to me that related to the thing I was talking about in some way. Or YouTube would start showing related ads (like the time I needed a plumber and I started getting ads for local plumbers). Where it should have absolutely no idea that I need that thing even coincidentally.

What makes it even worse in my case is that I deliberately don't use an account for YouTube and I don't use Google for anything else (I even avoid Chromium-based browsers), so I can't even assume that YouTube is somehow reading my Google searches or email or whatever and then linking that data to my Google/YouTube profile.

Dragonslayer

I pick up a weight maybe once every 7 months or so.

joemodda posted...

SBAllen isn't in charge anymore, I'm gonna lay the blame on Fandom.

They probably took one look at the mess he left and said "Fuck this, there's no way we're trying to fix that."