Just my two cents so take it with a grain of salt: Adderall is extremely sought after on the black market, especially among rich fucks. The abuse is probably the worst it ever was so I suspect a lot of it just goes missing before it can get labeled. In other words: Corruption.
Rosé ist in meinem Bekanntenkreis auch extrem beliebt zuletzt. Lillet Berry darf bei keiner Grillparty mehr fehlen, wie es scheint.
Competitive online games have been Valve‘s focus for well over a decade so it‘s in line with their portfolio. If anything, Alyx was an outlier they only did because they have a headset to sell it with. I think they know what they‘re doing. Sucks for you to not be their target audience though because they are pretty good at making games.
Can you imagine the chaos of a veteran Dota2 player being matched with a notorious conga dancer?
Team Fortress th-… 2: episode 1?
I didn‘t know they price hiked an already released game to double it‘s release price from 2011. LOL. Fuck Microsoft.
I think the lowest it ever was is 10 bucks. That‘s what I paid in alpha and in nearly 15 years I‘ve never heard of it being as low as $5.
I mean that's completely illegal at least in places like Germany where people have the right to be forgotten, but unfortunately you're still right. They already commited the biggest heist in human history and got away with it. I guess NFT grifters only got punished because they dared to also steal from some rich people while Altman and his cronies are smart enough to only steal from the other 99.9%. When they have your data once, you can't request it back anymore. Because the worst that can happen to them is a slap on the wrist and the cost of being in the fastest growing business of our times. In other words: World's fucked and shit sucks.
I get that record sessions are a huge hassle and simply paying VAs per AI-generated voice line is easier for everyone, but it somehow makes Paradox look a little careless to me.
Stories like these also set a precident. This is what voice 'acting' will be like for a moment before it becomes effectively eliminated because voice libraries will become diverse enough quickly and there will be no need for a single more voice actor to be included. It seems like VAs are basically forced to sell their voice to AI companies quickly to at least make a quick buck before they never get a job again.
There's probably no stopping it, but that made this read all the more frustrating to me.
I think this is what the surprised Pikachu meme was created for.
They‘re turning the internet into a mutated form of free TV. You only get to see what they want you to see and there are ads around every corner.
Of course the goal is to make you switch to a mutated form of pay TV. You still only get to see what they want you to see but there‘s a bigger pool of crap now.
To put it bluntly: After they cornered the market, they‘re killing the internet.
So ähnlich haben die Nazis damals schon die Weimarer Republik abgeschafft. Mit Einschüchterung, Hetze und Fake news haben sie genug Zulauf bekommen, um die Demokratie auszuhebeln. Natürlich ließen sie wie die Nazis heute nichts unversucht, aber der „legale“ Weg war dann der Durchbruch. Dagegen haben wir heute ein paar feine Mechanismen, aber die müssen erst mal aktiviert werden.
Setting aside what others have said here. I think the article does a lot of framing by suggesting the protests and criticism are entirely directed at Israel's entry. From what I've seen, the whole event itself is in the midst of a crossfire of criticism for letting Israel participate as well as being heavily biased in favor of the Israeli contestant. The Q&A with the contestants yesterday seemed to be very politicized in general. But once Golan was asked something, the organizers felt the need to clarify that she does not have to answer anything she felt uncomfortable with. That rubbed the (now probably former) contestant of the Netherlands the wrong way, asking "Why not?". Well, the Joost situation certainly doesn't help the organizers either. Whether they had anything to do with it or not, it puts the spotlight on them even more.
This exact method is how Microsoft became a giant in the first place. They've been doing it for longer than I live and they'll likely outlive me doing it.
That's kind of like defending monarchy because "surely the future king can't be worse than the current one". They are the same breed. He is them. It's a somewhat systematic problem with these super rich technocrats.
I would never trust someone who surrounds themselves with the people Altman surrounds himself with. I always got bad vibes from Musk because he was close to people like Peter Thiel and it's the same with Altman.
Oh seesh. I watched a recent coverage of him and Gabber literally yesterday. It felt so hopeful... and now this. Kinda feel robbed of my time now. Feels bizarre even though I don't know him.
While that’s all relatively nice, it’s also a bandage on a gash.
Even saying it's "nice" is an overstatement. With how quickly savings and jobs are vanishing and how expensive and stressful it is to raise a child, the population is more opposed to the idea of having children than ever before. Affordable housing isn't the problem. There simply aren't enough resources available to raise a new generation. The government will have to come up with something new if they want to prevent an all out crash of their economy because there is no way in hell the few young people will be able to support the massive aging population in the coming 2 decades.