Brotherhood and Revelations are both continuations and upgrades from 2. I would not recommend playing all three back to back, but if you liked 2 they should be high on your list to play next.

JWO hasn’t shut down. The system got polished enough for them to sell it to other companies, so they don’t need their own test-platform locations anymore.

JWO and similar systems do not reduce labor. The people working cashier become customer service attendants. These systems are valuable when the issue is throughput and sales are being lost at peak times. Airport convenience stores and stadium concession stands, for example, can get significantly higher revenue for the same footprint.

On the other hand, the only way to get good training data is to generate data indistinguishable from the real-world scenario and then have humans mark it up the way you want the system to do it. You might as well have the data actually be from the real world and recoup some of the costs with sales.

He wrote 14 episodes of Alf and created Thornberries. The rest of those were single episodes.

The Simpsons episode was from season 2. Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment, where Homer gets pirate cable service.

I was on the website of a mustard manufacturer ten minutes ago. I was digging through Heinz ketchup pack sizes this morning.

Some of us love a saucy life. Who are you to judge?

This is a international variant of the video. The intention is to have the text rendered as a forced subtitle so that it can be localized without having to serve a different video for every language.

They don’t have the English version doing that, likely because it was assumed it would serve the original video instead.

This was comments, not posts. They were using a model to approximate the demographics of a poster, then using an LLM to generate a response counter to the posted view tailored to the demographics of the poster.

Nobody can make a successful browser that is simpler. The moment a user hits a website that no longer works, they are going back to their old browser.

All these new features exist because websites replaced every single program most people used. Web browser now have to be capable of doing anything pretty well. It’s not some grand conspiracy to take over the internet, it’s providing the features devs want so they can deliver the things they want in the modern multiplatform no-install world.

My wife wanted to go mining for her birthday. We’re sitting in a hotel five hours from home right now after a lovely Day swinging picks and with a bucket of rock to show for it.

Similar with The Expanse. There isn’t a huge difference, but changes were largely for the better. The authors of the books also wrote the show, so they could polish things while adapting it and know where things were going in the future.

I really hope that the adaptation comes back for the rest of the books at some point. In the final season, they included a short story in the show that occurs at the same time, but is only there to set up the last arc of the series. I didn’t get why it was there in the show until I read the later books.

2/3rds adspace, 1/3 article. Media hasn’t changed much…

Fun article. Written in a great voice.

The main hurdle is modern anti cheat. Many old games actually work better on Linux because of fans making dedicated tweaks.

Pretty sure Jason Statham twirling in a leapord print speedo gives him with a big gun a run for its money.

If they had a 50 year old doorbell they could replace it with a better version of the pictured one that is powered by the old doorbell circuit.

Summary: They were seeing a disconnect between Arkham Asylum player stats and sales, indicating a large portion of the playerbase blasting through the game then selling it back to retailers. WB studios were directed to explore ways to lengthen player engagement, preferably enough to keep the game forever.

The nemesis system gives some light procedural flair to an otherwise-deaigned experience. I don’t think it did what they hoped it would, but it was still a great mechanic.

“Recently” being one Reddit post three years ago about needing to manually index the color nozzles on their third-party ink.

A YouTuber hyped it up as Brother turning to the dark side so that he could profit off clicks.

Both combined is $15.58. That doesn’t include the excellent expansions for either game though.

They are the only portal-likes (chamber-based player movement puzzlers) that I’d place on the same level as the Portal games.

Lingo ($6.99/$9.99) is an incredible exploration and word puzzle game. It also has a few excellent custom maps such as Duolingo and Liduongo.

A sequel (Lingo 2 $9.99) just released and is also excellent. It changes how puzzle rules are presented, making them playable in either order. It’s a more polished experience though, so playing the first game after would probably feel like a step backward.

Bananas grow from seeds inside the fruit. Since we bred the seeds out, now it’s a clone-only plant.

Scare us away? Some of us are on instances that make the connection more obvious.