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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

When a Nintendo Direct shows one more thing

So much of "cancel culture" discourse is a re-description of the normal functioning of a democracy and public discourse by people who didn't like the results of one, or both, or how it made them feel.

The Logitech T-CD2-6F TrackMan (1991)

so much of the Bible takes place in Egypt and yet there's not a single mummy attack during any of those arcs, in case you were still under the illusion that prophets care about what the fandom wants

Some Final Fantasy Tactics Advance dudes shredding in a skate park.

Tony Hawk's Pro Tactics Advance

i feel like this discourse is 500% worse with video games. gamers -- but specifically, those who primarily play AAA titles -- are the most entitled consumers in the universe.

YouTube video by S P A R K S Sparks - When Do I Get To Sing "My Way" [The Grid Radio Edit] (Official HD Video)

R.I.P. Dave Ball (The Grid, Soft Cell).
Thank you for the music.

youtu.be/gqH-HpqZsYQ?...

wow, Austin's really making a "splash" with his 💩 team

do not fall for "your starter must be your best friend" propaganda

Detective Columbo stands behind a wooden table with two irregular cow tools in it. He holds a 3rd cow tool and looks at it with his other hand scratching his head. He says, "Gee these tools are really something, aren't they? Y'know, my wife, she says they lack sophistication. But I just think that adds to the charm... Say... Don't they usually come in a set of four?" Caption below the panel reads, "Cowlumbo tools."

POV: you've committed the perfect crime, disposed of the weapon and and hidden the body, but now you arrive back at your pasture to find you are well and truly fucked.

This also indicates the essential dishonesty of saying “it’s just a tool.” A hammer is a tool. Nobody writes about the “inevitability” of hammers. Nobody has ever studied the harmful effects of hammers on learning and concluded that teachers must all hit their students with hammers “responsibly.”

Monster Kids: How Pokémon Taught a Generation to Catch Them All Amazon.com: Monster Kids: How Pokémon Taught a Generation to Catch Them All: 9780762479504: Dockery, Daniel: Books

If you enjoyed this thread and I want to know more about the Pokemania...ummm...Poliwhirlimania era of Pokémon, please consider picking up the book I wrote about it! www.amazon.com/Monster-Kids...

Every once in a while, I see people wonder why, out of all of the available Pokémon to choose, Poliwhirl was so often shown front and center. Especially in the case of Pokémon's marketing in America.

Well, I'm going to do my best to answer that question now.

The media has also published far too many essays by these "autism parents" who hate their autistic kids. This has increased the vilification of autism IMO.

Pokemon games have gotten bigger since, but none have improved on the feeling you got in Red/Blue that the land you were travelling through was almost infinitely immense.

One of the greatest video game surprises of my childhood was finally seeing a full map of Saffron City and realizing that it was only this big, instead of the size of a massive real-life city like I'd originally assumed.

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

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We Will Reclaim This Land: Thoughts on Fire Emblem Path of Radiance Recently, I’ve been playing games in what are basically little “syllabuses” where I’m playing either a specific genre or series in bulk. This allows not only for myself to get a really up close look.....

Embargo is up! Let's talk about tactics! No, not *those* Tactics...

I recently played Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. A blind spot for me as a fan, I found the best writing in the series and one of the few systems that really makes you *roleplay*

Read more: transgamerthoughts.com/post/7955940...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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In early 2025, beaver activity in the Brdy Protected Landscape Area, Czech Republic, contributed to the restoration of a wetland ecosystem. A family of beavers constructed a series of dams that coincidentally accomplished environmental goals of the Czech government, which had delayed its proposed project since 2018 for bureaucratic and financial reasons. The beaver-built dams saved the Czech government approximately US$1.2 million,

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

In Metal Gear Solid (1998), when fighting the Hind D helicopter, you're advised to keep track of its location by listening to the stereo panning. But if you've set "Sound" to "Monaural" in the Options menu, you get this exclusive addition. . .

(could be wrong, of course- I haven't read Nealuchi's supports at all and it's been a decade since I played RD)

(no quote, just wanted to respond to the ep)

I've always read the Nealuchi-Naesala relationship as Naesala and his former caretaker, not literal father and son. Think Marcus-Roy. "My hatchling" = the birdman equivalent of "my child" as a pet name for anybody 50 years younger than you.

"Go touch grass" My brother in Christ i can't Grass is 4x super effective To water and ground