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Ben Stonick retweeted
Today I turn 88…I’ve seen some serious shit. The most serious of it all is love. I love my family, my friends, and my wonderful fans. The power of love remains.
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GET THE BROOMS OUT FOR THIS TRASH TEAM
RAYS 4
YANKEES 3
DAAAAAAAAAA YANKEES LOSE!!!!!!!
Ben Stonick retweeted
one of the deepest sicknesses in the world are the people who feel personally attacked over other people getting the same rights as them
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says in a new book that he believes the court's landmark decision extending marriage rights to same-sex couples was "perhaps the decisive point in our nation's turn against religious liberty."
Read more: abcnews.link/M860KYr
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Inject Bugs Into Your Weiner #InjectBugsIntoYourWeinerChallenge
🚨 #BREAKING: American hot dog company, W.A. Bean, to begin injecting bugs into their wieners as substitute for red food dye.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Cochineal/Carmine has been used in the U.S. as a red food coloring since before the U.S. was the U.S. The practice started around 700 B.C.
This is not the same as "Eat Ze bugs!"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmine
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Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter captures everything that made the original so endearing while giving it an impressive makeover that enhances its elegant storytelling and charismatic cast.
Our review: bit.ly/46vJa3N
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Youre straight up a farm animal if youre a consumer and genuinely care about how much kojima's game is financially effecting sony or how appealing he is to investors
So Kojima has been dropped twice now for the exact same reasons, missing deadlines and going over budget.
The reason Chris Nolan is so beloved by film studios is he makes certified hits and he comes in under budget every single time. Kojima does neither of those these days so from a financial standpoint what is the point of bankrolling these massive projects in a mature market where AAA costs are already unsustainable ???
I also think it’s in bad taste for Microsoft to bank roll a guy known for inflated budgets while simultaneously laying off over 1600 people and there are still more layoffs to come!!
It’s like “hey devs at ID Software sorry we are laying you off but here ya go Kojima here’s $500 million to make Physint.” 🙄
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OpenAI and Anthropic’s models are so magical and mystical and dangerous, they can do anything! They may even destroy the world! The only thing they can’t do, funny enough, is generate positive cash flow. And that’s where the US Taxpayer comes in!
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Kojima went lean, set the game in a deathworld, scanned as much as possible so CG artists wouldnt have to work like slaves, and delivered each game in 2-3 years of dev time, but people still think it went overbudget because he got the guy who played Mussolini in a streaming show.
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Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter is $29.99/$30.49 on US eShop buff.ly/qXfHcb1
US PSN buff.ly/0cl4owQ
Switch physical $39.91 at VGP buff.ly/gSu5G1G #ad
🤝 Paid partnership
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The AI Race:
AI is probably the biggest prisoner’s dilemma we’ve ever created. Everyone knows slowing down might be safer. But if OpenAI slows down and Anthropic doesn’t, OpenAI loses. If the US slows down and China doesn’t, the US loses. So nobody slows down.
That’s what makes this so insane. You don’t need some evil person trying to destroy the world. You just need a bunch of people making the rational decision for themselves over and over until collectively we’ve raced somewhere none of us actually wanted to go.
It’s a race to zero. Zero cost of intelligence. Zero time between thinking and doing. Maybe eventually zero need for us at all.
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“Soon anybody will be able to make anything they want.” Well they already can do that and they don’t.
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"could the way a character speaks be part of their character" listening to gamers is like watching cavemen discover fire
Interesting detail about Jason’s voice
In Trailer 2, there’s a scene where Lucia teases Jason for mumbling. What’s interesting is that it seems like she’s specifically mocking the way he said something earlier in the clip something we never actually hear.
Could this be a subtle indication that Jason’s mumbling and the way he speaks are intentional parts of his character? It might suggest that his voice, delivery, and speech patterns are more distinctive than we’ve seen so far, rather than the mumbling simply being a one off moment.
