At least it’s just us.

… oh.

It’s not ideal, but we’re pretty fucking far from ideal.

And NOTHING HAS CHANGED in twenty years - yeah? Not a fucking thing that should shift how they release games. Consoles are still sooo different from PCs, with their AMD x64 CPUs and AMD RDNA GPUs.

Sure, we’ll take it.

And it’d sound like they’re literally phoning it in. At that point, no, the artists and writers would just do it themselves. Like old times.

What this tech makes possible is hiring Nolan North to do everyone. Men, women, children, cats, dogs, stuffed toy dinosaurs, everyone. It’s mocap for your vocal cords. You don’t have to look like David Hayter to move like Snake, and you don’t have to sound like Michael Shapiro to talk like the G-Man. What people will hear and see is the performance.

Using AI to recreate a real person’s voice is the dumbest possible use. It’s like drawing a cartoon that can only resemble a real living actor. Just… make something up. How does this character sound, in your head? Generate that, and then use style transfer, so anyone can do that voice.

Because the text-to-speech version is only the voice… not the character. You still want real human actors performing the character. The AI part is just a costume for their throat.

Moist.

In the UK it’s mandatory, ostensibly to prevent deliberate overdoses. You can’t buy a big bottle of acetaminophen.

In part because they call it paracetamol.

Solipsists unite!

Fuck off trying to describe anything as ‘a metaverse.’ That’s like trying to own ‘an internet.’

If there’s more than one, there are zero.

Ensuring no legal recourse for your crimes will never ensure there’s no recourse.

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Those labels, they really work.

So would images of dog extrement.

Turns out, slapping /b/-grade traumatic imagery onto consumer goods has an impact on the human brain. Whoda thunkit?

RIP bash.org.

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Do people want me to post 4chan gore here? Maybe some goatse and blue waffle and tubgirl? No? Then maybe you understand.

Forcing people to see that shit if they even stand near a legal-but-icky product is not worth these excuses. Tax it more to reduce consumption. Don’t deliberately traumatize people, for any reason.

Because it’s traumatic imagery being shoved in people’s faces. I don’t give a shit whether it works.

I already don’t smoke and never will - but I have to be exposed to that shit, just looking at the wrong part of a shelf. You could probably put pictures of exploded rat carcasses and starving children on there, apropos of nothing, and yeah no kidding it’ll impact sales!

No practical goal justifies putting this Rotten.com gore and shock content on commodity consumer goods. You wanna reduce sales? Tax it more. Don’t commit psychological warfare against anyone who glances upward at a gas station.

If you mean more traumatic images in people’s faces, fuck off.

mtsw on Bluesky:

Since JD Vance just converted to Catholicism 5 minutes ago, he might not know this: the Pope authoring a letter where he goes out of his way to correct you, specifically, is considered “bad” in the Catholic tradition

We get:

• Nothing

You get:

• Less than nothing

What a fucking great deal!