* Player rolls a 1
GM: “You experience bij.”
Edit: You’d think I’d know to check what autocorrect does to what I type by now.
Astronomer & video game data scientist with repressed anger
* Player rolls a 1
GM: “You experience bij.”
Edit: You’d think I’d know to check what autocorrect does to what I type by now.


People spending more time with fewer games is not a reason, in publishers’ minds, to reverse course. It’s the intended outcome.
Having the same number of people (or near the same number) playing fewer games, and filling those games with monetization features is cheaper and easier to maintain than having a broad and growing library of titles.
Remember, the ideal for publishers is to have one game that everyone plays that has no content outside of a “spend money” button that players hit over and over again. That’s the cheapest product they can put out, and it gives them all the money. They’re all seeking everything-for-nothing relationships with customers.
Being able to identify the characters might help some, but otherwise no. It’s a two part capsule episode
No. Especially if you have work experience, doing a MA or an MSc will be taken for the career pivoting skills development you sell it as.
Don’t do a PhD, though, unless you’re specifically trying to get into a job that looks for them. That is, unless you specifically want to do the PhD for the sake of doing it. A lot of employers see it the same way a retail employer sees a BSc - a sign that you’re a flight risk.


It’s litigation around what a machine can freely use in its learning model.
No, its not that, either. It’s litigation around what resources a person can exploit to develop a product without paying for that right.
The machine is doing nothing wrong. It’s not feeding itself.
No idea, but the realGulDukat Twitter account is active on Mastodon: @realGulDukat
You wouldn’t be so smug, with all your fancy shmancy hydrogen atoms, if we had ever found Nemesis!
Here’s a google prompt for you: “raspberry pi police”
Now do 1985.
Never mind, I’ll do it myself: NES games were $50, which today is about $185.
Are they still playing apologetics for the cops? Because if so, no thanks.
Yeah, 4/12 in my astro classes was definitely a significantly better ratio than the same 4 out of 80 in my general physics classes.
Time to go watch Junkball videos all morning.


Glad to hear the explosion has been contained and that you can stand down red alert.


Accurate. I’d like to go home now.


just someone using the term to mean “young people”
Rude. How dare they stop using “Millennial” to mean “young people”. They weren’t supposed to recognize that some of us are in our 40s now!


“Embarrassingly parallelizable” is just the term for a process that can be perfectly paralleled.
Me, noticing Riker: “I don’t get it. Why is Abraham Lincoln here?”
Me, finally noticing Picard: “KILL IT WITH FIRE!”