Did one of the babies look at you, Will?

Real tired of and from being sick, y'all. This cold just won't quit.

Well, there is one example currently playing out in central Europe. Only it's Russia saying that Ukraine has to demilitarise itself and the West is, generally speaking, not super supportive of it.

That might have been preferable to the actual implementation of the book though.

I get this, but the real problem isn't "writers" who don't understand negative space or imagination - it's the corporate ghouls who are filling space on a release calendar with "content." What the content consists of is a secondary concern.

Ah yes that would be it. How could I forget such a distinctive title! Cheers.

What was that Amazon show where people were living fully online? Kind of a comedy with darker undertones. Online world was like a country club situation. Might have had a currency on your wrist sort of account a bit like Gattaca...?

Oh here goes Brendan inventing language again goddammit.

I suspect there is a character that has big robot fists, and another that has a giant zappy hammer!

Oh, I mean I "didn't" know their names

I just hardly watch any tv! I mean I no preexisting LoL investment so just taking it as a show, not adjacent to a game I like.

No, in all seriousness, this is a great series. I have zero investment in LoL and don't even know character names. It's very good.

I'm a little under the weather so taking this bed rest time to catch up on Arcane. How come now one hyped this show up when it came out?

Feudalism: obsolete relic of the past or framework whose time has come again?

Just wrapped a historical 'what is the web' lecture, and have now added this to my course discussion forum. Amazing artefact!

So, I unironically love rain, but I would kindly request that it keep things to a gentle susurrating hiss tonight rather than the apocalyptic roar that it was much of last night. Yours truly needs a few hours of sleep, all right?

I said "actual" value above. I should probably have said "human" value, since we just make up what we value. Even "social" value works there - something other than speculative economic value.

Closely related to measuring "traffic" in lieu of exchange, interaction, or day I even say, sales. Everything is a second-order representation of the original goal right up until the original goal disappears entirely.

This is really it, the logical conclusion of "content." The focus has shifted to creating enough content to fill infinite digital buckets rather than communicating or recording anything of actual value.

Trying to figure out what might cause a narrative redesign of this generally anti-capitalist, anti-objectivist game about the perils of authoritarian egomaniacs in the year 2025.

The willful blindness on display here is very sad.

Long past time for some juicy and delicious steak I guess...

None of those people are going to call themselves "AI experts" though.

Look, Aussies. We're friends and I love you. But is it just always Hottest 100 time?

Beat the new Mech ending in Rimworld's recent expansion. This will mean little to most of you, but it was an epic, pyrrhic victory which cost me several pawns. We limped back to the surface, starving and dying even as we landed. Mental breaks across the board, pigskin raid immediately... amazing.

I agree, although it hurts to say it. There's no 'working up' from this. If you really love writing about games (or anything) this much, do it for free, for yourself, on your own (free? low-cost) site, and enjoy it as such. Don't let someone else profit from your servitude.

Ah there's a lot of good work that goes into any success too.

Really happy to hear this, hope it goes well. I got close to a teaching role there myself, in the dept I did my bachelor's degree in...

Oh shit that's excellent! Very big congrats. What area in particular?

While I am surprisingly sad about this, I am profoundly happy that he got back into music after the stint in reality TV, and especially glad for the Back to the Beginning reunion show. That's how he should be remembered.