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Really? Most governments have shown they're willing and able to keep secrets for decades, even a century or more. Here in the UK we're still keeping massive and largely needless secrets about Northern Ireland, decades after the peace agreement, for example.

I mean, where does an 800lb gorilla sit? Wherever it wants. It's the same situation here. You say "No" and they say "Ok" or they try and politely and like grownups make their case to you until you either agree (or agree to some limited form of it) or get bored and leave. What are they going to...

This is a very shoddy argument. You pick one extremely narrow use-case and claim, without supporting evidence, that GenAI is "better" at that, and thus try to say "Well there's one exception I managed to dig up, so your general argument must be bad", which is laughable. Also, you need to detail...

You can't prove a negative. You're asking for the impossible. It's on people like you, who are promoting GenAI, claiming it's inevitable, to say that there is a societal benefit, that it does benefit people. So far we've seen no benefit to people in general, only tremendous and increasing...

They should not have been to remotely the extent they were though. It was a dead-end path that helped destroy the planet, and was pushed solely for money, not because it was actually a good idea. Public transport was the primary path that should have been taken, and individual motor vehicles...

Larian did an AMA on Divinity here: My personal summary would be It's set in the same continuity as DOS2 - this is a very bad thing, imo, because DOS' lore is somehow a worse version of early Divinity games' lore, which is low-grade generic-grimdark orcs and elves fantasy, the sort of thing...

Swen has specifically said it's a bad thing, so it seems very strange for him to be aiming for that. Yeah, because honestly Larian made pretty bad games - I know because I played them - frankly DOS1/2 are themselves ludicrously overrated. What's your point? You seem to be engaging in some kind...

Yeah I think flying in space would be something you'd need to practice for months or years, honestly, to be able to navigate, even within the Solar system. It would be terrifying and dizzying and whilst finding Earth's Yellow Sun might be easy enough, and you wouldn't die or w/e, you might...

I guess this raises the question though - do we have superman's general power set (common to many superheroes), or superman's exact powers and weaknesses? Because it does change things. Once Kryptonite (specifically) and Yellow Sun/Red Sun (specifically), get into the mix, then things are much...

I actually strongly agree. I won't derail the thread with a detailed discussion but it's not just nostalgia or something, but I do think TV has kind of gone down a dead end by only applying big budgets and serious writing to long-form shows, and it's part of why YouTube and so on have been so...

You're talking about policing, though, looking for a guy who stabbed a guy outside the chippy. The hunt for a superman wouldn't be policing of that kind. It wouldn't be "Well we went around to a couple of shops and the council's cameras and one undertrained civilian assistant (not a police...

If Superman is constantly doing mach 9 in atmosphere cities with windows will no longer exist, people will have heart attacks, pets will die and so on. That's just horrible! The US did testing of overflights by supersonic planes on a daily basis in like, the 1960s I think (I forget which city)...

Because I've failed to go to the cinema enough (bunch of films I still have to see which I think might have beaten Sinners for me, Bugonia and One Battle After Another among them), Sinners is also the best new movie I saw in 2025. Most enjoyable new movie I saw? That's actually also Sinners for...

But do they want to? It's absolutely in the interests of any agency that regards itself as protecting a specific nation-state (like MI5/6 or the CIA and other US intelligence agencies) to get someone of that power "on-side" with them. I don't see any situation where they don't bend over...

It does vary a lot though, and when Superman is smart, he's usually "just" a technical genius (and I think sometimes a linguistic genius), as in like, really good at understanding and using/building Kryptonian tech, which, being real, is simply a plot convenience (as is the linguistic element)...

That... isn't true. As far as I know, anyway. Why, exactly, do you think that is true? Do you want to cite an article or something? Do you think security cameras and drone cameras are all IR? Because I can assure you that most non-phone cameras have an IR filter (specifically to block IR), and...

That is a very good point. I think the cameras would still let them track you down, but that would probably prevent any DNA-based approach unless you got into a fight with another super (if there even are any).

If people had hurt my friends/family in order to try and exert control over me? I have no doubt, sadly, that I could hurt them, especially if it was essentially effortless. I don't think that's bravado or internet tough guy (it might be, who knows), it's about personality. I've never punched or...

Yup exactly. And at least in the UK (and I imagine most other surveillance states) if police or other arms of the state try to investigate you they're going to get scary notices coming up on their computers essentially saying "Don't look into this further, don't talk to anyone about it, your...

Not disputing this, but it's interesting that you're stating this as a fact rather than just a reasonable assumption - in general terms, how do we/you know this to be a fact? Like, an article about it in a marketing research journal or Forbes or HBR or something? I used to be in knowledge at a...