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With no disrespect, when you were doing your PhD they were probably still using punchcards to run the computers - can this meaningfully...

Going through my backlist and having a crack at Mechanicus. Pretty cute squad-based tactics game in the 40k universe. Your squad gets...

Useful for what? Making uncanny valley images? Writing bad cover letters? Humans can already do this handily.

Pay people when you use their work? It's not like companies like Meta are hurting for cash, they're just choosing to create their tools...

As the video points out, at this stage the many lawsuits around the world currently focus on the output--the infringing images--rather...

Final Francetasy Je Suis'koden PersHONa A J'RPG A game for oiubs I'll stop

Quarter of two or a quarter to two? I think I use them both.

We give ourselves infinite benefit of the doubt while giving almost exactly none to people who disagree with us. There's a long list of...

I agree that Doctor Who needs that quintessential Britishness. As an American, I want at least one thing a season -- other than nonsense...

A soda jerk is someone who gets too worked up over the correct use of the term “soda jerk”.

Nice to see the BBC finally got a decent budget.

I'm not arguing against genre classification. I think there's a tendency to go too deep into taxonomies, but I think there's a lot of...

Eh. To each their own. Genre and other modes of classification are quite useful distinctions to me as it at least roughly outlines what...