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I cleared the non-Royal Persona 5 back when it came out. Not sure I want to do a replay just to get a bit of cheesy romance with Kasumi.
Honestly thought Nier Automata was a side-scrolling shooter when I first picked it up. Never got past the first big Act. But its definitely worth revisiting. If nothing else, I'll probably check out the anime.
It does feel as though industrialists can simply point at a patch of dirt, shout "Lithium!", and get a write up in any business journal of record justifying the full rape and pillage of the region.
We saw this shit with Bolivia, we're watching anti-China hysteria break out anywhere in East Asia with a Lithium reserve, I can't but hold my breath and wait for someone to think they know about Lithium somewhere in the Urals... If we weren't already igniting conflicts globally faster than we can fight them, I'd be more worried. But as it stands, the lithium fixation feels like another mass marketing stunt that will pass once we're on to the next Wonder Energy Source.
Excited to hear in another five or ten years why we need to bomb Cuba in order to access their abundant supply of wind energy.
Still working my way through the tail end of BG3, but I've got my eyes on FF7 Remake Integrade next.
Also had my eye on Chained Echoes. Not sure if there's a different one more worth my time, though, so interested to hear ideas.
I mean, I think there's a lot of unreported/under-reported violence in the US that's lost amid the police violence, the general school/office bullying, and the general decline in the quality and locality of journalism nationally. And we've seen a ton of that stuff evaporate off the airwaves in the wake of Ferguson/Baltimore/George Floyd. Its all "porch pirates!" and "shoplifting gangs!" now, which I'm sure create their own ambient racial violence as a consequence.
Also can't be forgotten how segregated the US has made of itself. At some point, I simply do not have any minorities nearby with whom I can be mad at. The El Paso Walmart Shooter decided he needed to drive all the way from Allen, TX to El Paso in order to perpetrate a mass slaying of immigrants, for instance.
The tech has been around in a serious material sense for... two or three years at best? In the midst of climate change, rampant spread of war globally, COVID aftershocks, fascism breaking out all over Europe and East Asia, the next election just being an absolute shitshow...
AI seems like such a non-issue in the grand scheme of things.
MLB is getting harder to watch with the amount of ad creep I’ve noticed
That's fair. Whenever I can get a pirated stream, I genuinely enjoy the big blue MLB logo and total silence where the ad-breaks are supposed to be.
I actually dropped watching the NHL because covering the ice in ads started bugging me too much.
Never got into NHL, but I'm down in Texas, so... I do feel like the live games are getting better entirely due to the relative lack of ads everywhere.
it's a vague enough description there were definitely going to be things like all the temperature records that were broken you could point to as the 'worst event'
Fair. Per the old joke, "this is the worst year yet, but on the plus side it'll be the best year going forward".
Also the Canadian wildfires were definitely big enough to qualify as at least 'a big ass fire'.
Ah, pffff. Canada.
Once you get into the pitching, baseball is at least as suspenseful as football from a play-by-play perspective. I'll agree that extra-innings can get kinda rough. But, especially with the intro of the pitch clock, its pretty well paced and compelling.
We peaked in terms of temperature, but I don't recall any particularly large fires. Nothing compared to Australia in Dec of '22 (and rolling that over to '23 is kinda cheating) or California in '20.
On the storm front, the '05 and '17 and '22 hurricane seasons were far worse than anything we saw in '23. Even the Japanese Tsunami managed to wait until the year rolled over.
Nope. Never happened. Must have been a different sport.
The enshittification will be bad, but it will also inhibit large scale adoption.
Case in point, the guy who tricked Chevy into selling him a Tahoe for $1.
Or the Dallas Judge who prohibited AI generated brief in the Fifth Circuit on the grounds that they hallucinated cases.
If only jobs like this could reliably be automated. But as someone who works in automation, I can tell you a whole litany of reasons why they aren't going to achieve that any time soon.
If nothing else, these industries simply aren't set up to interface with AI in a functional capacity. So much of a creative career is predicted on who you know that guys like Zach Snyder will never be seriously threatened by an AI director. So much of a physician's job is social rather than analytical that no amount of WebMD wish casting will replace them.