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“I do a tremendous amount of work on various crocodiles,” he says, entirely seriously.

2020 Visions by Michael Guy Bowman is about the insurrection

Someone is peDANTic, but they themselves are a PEdant. Probably why they made that mistake

Damn, the author of Homestuck is dying?

Try Soylent. Their premixed bottles taste really good.

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Honestly, ‘alive’ is doing better than I would have guessed

He’s been in games, but he’s definitely not a ‘video game character’ in the way that Mario, Sonic, and Cloud Strife are.

You do realize there’s a metric ton of non-Nintendo characters in Smash, right? It’s essentially a celebration of gaming as a whole. Mickey isn’t a video game character though, that’s why they used Sora. Same reason Goku and Superman aren’t in Smash.

See lava. I have a trip to Hawaii coming up :D

Thankfully I only have a 2 mile commute through a small town so I don’t deal with road rage. I could never live in a city.

But yeah, it’s really just that people are strung out and road rage is just a symptom. Either way, it’s dangerous for the driver and others.

Whoa buddy, you good to drive? XD

Beef. Starts out as a feud between two drivers. Delves into each of their lives and how dealing with your issues in an unhealthy way will spiral and affect others. Fantastic show.

Yeah, you obviously can’t code for infinite possibility, so it just has to be robust enough. And the first step would be text-based. “I walk into the tavern” “There’s a fight happening / it’s now owned by someone else / bartender asks if you want the usual” kind of thing. Biggest hurdle is having a persistent and cohesive world.

Given the advancement of image/song/code generation, I think it’s not out of the realm of possibility for a game to be truly limitless. Just not remotely any time soon.

I think this will happen in a decade or so. We have stuff like AI dungeon now, so people definitely want this (even though most people use it for sex stuff currently)

I have the same desire. It would be awesome to play a co-op D&D campain with an AI dungeon master in a living world. It generates quests and scenarios on the fly, keeps track of your actions, always able to adapt to the changing landscape.

Just echoing a class I had in high school.

My social studies teacher ran the whole year as “micro community.” There were three different classes per year, and each class was a community. Each student had a role within the community, and performed actual job duties necessary to keep things functioning. For example, I was a banker and had to cash checks. After tests, we got checks based on test scores, so you got (fake) money to spend on stuff. We had to pay a utility bill or he would turn off the lights and not use the projector for notes. The kid running the power company would collect that money.

The best part was the stock market. Each community was also a company whose share value depended on overall test scores. So you could invest in whichever class you thought would score the highest.

Yeah, I still consider it pop music first. Not sure how prolific actual historical works are, but fantasy/period soundtracks might have to suffice. Good luck!

Not exactly what you’re looking for, but the Bardcore genre is the modern equivalent - pop songs retrofitted with medieval aesthetic.

Stuff like this: https://youtu.be/lB9LJJQ8wzw?si=Qw9af_W-IP7rrfZp https://youtu.be/cRIfsFefatg?si=y65PQnev4iGr-1I8 https://youtu.be/u3UVOjiorHE?si=7Pc94vX5Trt9-pKn

Kukaburra, what a great call. Second only to the haunting loon call.

“Why would you keep those dreadful things?” - my wife’s Irish grandmother when we told her we have a hedgehog. Apparently they’re a big pest for gardeners.