maximally profitable game
See, it really is just an algorithm that can be nailed down perfectly, and I've got an entire floor of statisticians and market analysts that agree it'll make me berjillions!!!1!!
Lpt: they're also telling me more statisticians and market analysts will help boost my numbers too! Jackpot!
-an executive, somewhere, in nearly every corporate office
But one day they might be the one on top! And it will be because they worked hard and deserve it!
My favorite thing is seeing attempted memes of "this is the future the left wants with socialism/communism/anticapitalism" and.... It's literally just a picture of regular old capitalism making sure certain people get the worst of it. Usually houseless camping hotspots, and slums that supply larger wealthier areas with their luxuries and labor.
I haven't heard of her, but I'm tossing the popcorn in the microwave as we speak!
They stated they didn't break piracy laws because they downloaded a shitload of books for their LLM and didn't seed any.
Torrents are downloaded by "leeches" and put out for download by "seeders"
A proper ratio of what you downloaded to what you allow others to download should be 1:1 if you're not a dick. (1gb downloaded means you need to upload 1gb to other users for 1:1) but if you don't seed at ALL or if you only seed bare minimum to keep downloading things, you're called a Leech, and derogatorily. Because you didn't seed.
So they're stating "we didn't break the law, we're just leeches!"
Okay so I stopped reading at "unmanned ground vehicles" because I'm an RC nerd and wanted to see the cool robot.
Took me a second to realize those aren't normal wheels.
My mother always said RC cars can be dangerous...
Shhhhhhhhhhh
If I don't know my master plan, then THEY certainly don't either!
Also I do intentionally leave some things a bit more vague, with ideas of what I want to do, but I'm hoping the players will start theorizing amongst themselves so I can incorporate their stuff into the game.
It gives them a nice sense of accomplishment to have "predicted" something, and I think they feel more engaged in the campaign.
Or maybe I'm just a bad DM...
Boring anecdote ahead!
I remember watching a Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) video about Capo Fero while singing some Skallagrim videos, and immediately I went "hey wait a minute that sounds familiar" and racked my brain trying to figure out who's voice I was hearing in my head saying "capo Fero"
Of course once I realized it, I had to watch the entire movie, because one does not simply watch clips of The Princess Bride...
Anyway, that led me down a huge long road of videos all about sword fighting in movies and how realistic (or laughably unrealistic) they can be.
I was actually surprised to see halfswording in Season of the Witch when someone fights Ron perlman. That movie isn't amazing cinema, but it's fun and doesn't deserve it's 10% RT score. It should be at least 15%.
I knew of two other people on lemmy who lived in my state, and then following the tradition of so many astronauts before us, one of them left due to governmental persecution and fled to another country.
Shout out to all the people stuck in these states without enough funds to leave for a better life.
But that isn't the criteria they're working with in any news report or court case, is it?
If I draw up some plans on a napkin with crayon, make my thing based on that, and "QC" says all the parts are to spec, and it fails and looks like shit in the process... I would say that is FAR more improvised than the guy making a pipe bomb out of hardware store supplies that's set off by a complex electronic custom timer/signal receiver.
I do get your point, I'm just being slightly ridiculous for humor's sake.
It's all entirely "did someone make this in a factory with government approval or not"
Y'know... In this hypothetical news story/court case...
The slime mold growing up the side of a seasonal creek down the road is more important than good relations with the USA...
I will happily shake hands with a pineapple-on-pizza-er, if it means we can make sure this evil never hurts anyone ever again.
I'll wash my hands afterward, but it's the gesture that counts, right?
(pls wash your hands anyway, sanitation rulez)
We know how to handle fascist nazis.
A lot of the developed world rallied together to do it around the 1940s.