I've never experienced that, and I've definitely told Google Assistant to fornicate with itself on multiple occasions.
BenVimes
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Octopath Traveller is a game I should have theoretically liked because I have so much nostalgia for SNES RPGs. Unfortunately, it felt more like a proof-of-concept demo stretched to a full-length game than a complete experience in its own right.
I've heard that the sequel is better, but I haven't tried it.
I had never heard of Humane until I read this article. After also reading Engadget's review of the thing, it sounds like an absolute nightmare to use.
Maybe I'm too old-school and impatient, but I've never been able to make voice assistants work for me. It's a feedback loop: the assistant fails to do a task, so I become resistant to using it in the future. Even the thing I've used an assistant for the most, playing music out of a Nest speaker, seems to still be hit-or-miss after years of trying, and in some ways seems to be getting worse.
The gestures also sound awful. As with voice assistants, I've never gotten comfortable with smartphone gestures beyond the most rudimentary. I strictly use 3-button navigation on my phone, and I use Connect as my Lemmy app of choice because it allows me to disable all the swipe commands for upvote/downvote.
I only ever got one ad in RIF, repeated in every spot. I think it was an app for organizing decks in TGCs, but as I don't play any TGCs, I never bothered to investigate. As with every other ad on the internet, I only interacted with it by accident.
The whole thing is tragic, but this part worried me:
"... [Lopez] suggested the presence of Robinson’s DNA didn’t mean DuBoise wasn’t also at the murder scene."
With no other evidence of the innocent man being at the scene, and hard evidence of the presence of another, unrelated man being there instead, she still wants to set the threshold of innocence at "prove DuBoise wasn't there!"
Maybe someone with legal training can clarify, but it seems to me that under that standard anyone without a rock-solid alibi is automatically a suspect, even if their is no grounds for suspicion otherwise.
They harassed the guy's family on the Facebook page they had set up to look for him because he had gone missing.
EDIT: Also, once the actual perpetrators were identified, some users tried to excuse their appalling behaviour by blaming the innocent man for "acting suspicious."
OoT is one of my favourite games ever and I've replayed it countless times. And yet, catching the loach remains the only (intended) thing I've never done. Maybe I'll boot up an old file later and finally do it.
It's the most accessible Paradox grand strategy game I've played.
That still means it's as dense as pea soup, but its nested tooltip system makes learning the game's key terms much easier.
I mean, Traveller's Gate is still good, if a bit unpolished in hindsight. It's just plain fun, especially if you're familiar with fantasy and anime tropes, though I recommend keeping a glossary nearby to make the comprehension of the the various terms easier.
The Last Horizon, the series he's working on now, is also a lot of fun. It mixes sci-fi and fantasy, and all the main characters are already able to bench-press continents (literally or proverbially), so their development comes via different avenues than Cradle, where Lindon's personal growth was tied directly to his power level. I wasn't as enamoured with the second Last Horizon book as I was the first, but it was still good, and unless Will Wight starts writing Nazi propaganda or something I'll continue to read everything he publishes.
I've been reading Will Wight's stuff since the first Traveller's Gate book. He's my favourite living author.
I will never again buy a Samsung product after they refused to honour the warranty claim on my dishwasher. It had a legitimate design defect, I alerted them well within the warranty period, and I provided all the appropriate receipts. They just plain ignored my complaint while putting on a contrite facade in every interaction.