This right here. In all the smoke and mirrors of the US right now, it’s hard to remember that people like Kimmel, despite the public support when the government steps in to try and quell their speech, are still not on the side of the people. They are owned like every other famous person.
Thank you for doing the lord’s work.
I love that physical media is getting new life, but CDs are not archival in nature. It’s a drastically different problem from not owning anything, but I don’t want unreadable CDs to push people back to streaming.
I’ll also mention that a major benefit of vinyl records – despite cracks and pops and quality turntables being generally expensive – is that they are so dirt simple as to be effectively immune from similar issues. Not trying to sway opinions at all, but as physical media goes, it still exists for a reason.
Personally, I have both CDs and vinyl. And tapes!
Tbh I don’t use it every day. But also tbh, if something doesn’t play in another player, I know it will play in VLC. Mad respect.
Cow in Japanese is 牛 (ushi), and 7 is either shichi or nana.
Shichiushi is kind of cute and flows nicely. Nanaushi is not quite as good.
From a technical standpoint, this is fantastic. The Steam Deck is not terribly powerful in the grand scheme of things. The fact that it runs at all is great, and signals that PS5 emulation on PC is actually pretty far along.
Didn’t like being used as a decoy on Air Force One, eh?
It’s one battleship, Michael. What could it cost, $10?
Maybe, just maybe: not everything needs a sequel.
I know the corpos like it because it tends to reduce their risk. But movie shovelware is one giant reason why that industry is in crisis, so maybe it’s time to put on the big boy pants and take the risks on new IPs.
It feels like this guy has done nothing but Avatar for like half of his career. I get wanting a franchise that makes it easy to push boundaries in visual effects, but holy hell he needs to move on.
Put the water and the fire and whatever into films with better plots.
Don’t be evil profitable
Too much credit. It’s like waiting for a monkey with a typewriter to come up with the next great novel.
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Pretty neat! Some details from the Spezifikation:
The indefinite ein is also invariant, and adjectives always take -e, so you get things like: ein alte Frau.
Put simply, it’s still highly inflected, but various idiosyncrasies have been removed, and inflectional categories have been flattened.
Fascinating as an exercise, though I suspect it won’t get much real application.
And it totally stopped him from doing it this time.
Yeah, this is a result of no one at the theater knowing how to properly set the levels. It’s not always automatic and it doesn’t surprise me given the state of movie theaters.
The “quality” of the content should have been a clue here.
Vote with your wallet. So far *no one *is. It’s maddening.
(Yes, I know, you did. If you’re about to comment that you did you aren’t the intended audience of this comment.)
I use MPV, mostly because I like the simplicity of the on-screen interface.
But both are great players. No issues with VLC and it is a go-to if I ever have a file I can’t play otherwise (which is a vanishingly rare occurrence).
I don’t understand why these articles treat this kind of film as having a single income stream (i.e. box office ticket sales). In fact, one could argue that these articles themselves serve to market the film. We know, for example, that movie theater viewership is declining rapidly. Given that Disney will have multiple income streams planned for any given movie, the box office will only be some portion of the total, and you can bet that The Mouse has done the math. The linked article even alludes to this:
(the two Moana animated movies have sold $22M in toys, generated $26M in music streams and have clocked 1.5B hours watched on the streaming service)
But crucially, that 1.5B hours watched on the streaming service is hard to quantify in dollars – for the public, but not for Disney. They have a number of subscribers and a dollar amount that time corresponds to. They are folding those numbers into their calculations.
Disney knows that people aren’t going to the movies, but their stranglehold over them is such that the film is shown widely anyway. Terms for showing movies in the theaters are famously pro-studio. It’s almost certain that the box office isn’t even the key factor for the studio heads here. It’s likely that they didn’t greenlight yet another flop; rather, they have more data than we do.
Then people read these articles, and they say “damn, it sounds so bad! We’ll have to see how bad when it comes out on streaming.” And the cycle continues. Movie theaters should not be the yardstick by which anything is measured. There is a reason why seemingly every studio is losing money at the box office: it’s because they actually aren’t losing money overall, or at least not as much as these kinds of articles would have you believe. Even if they did have numbers available, streaming income, like toys / music / etc, do not come in until well after a film’s release.
A meta Meta joke. I like it.
No no no. This is the wrong approach.
If corporations are people (in the US: supreme court decision on Citizens United) then the outputs of these AIs are speech. We may not like it, but it’s where we are.
It’s kind of wild to me that we watched the whole AI development cycle, but when it started getting squirrelly in terms of output, now we have to hedge. And, somehow, doom and gloom is the paid diversion.
Maybe this is a massive failure, and people calling for caution because of the doom and gloom are marketing. It is designed to make people stop hating on the corporations who mindlessly pushed this anti-human trash.