In all fairness it seems like it would work. Being a complete background character doesn't get you close to anyone, and might even be suspicious. Meanwhile a weird order is a conversation starter, and why would a spy be drawing attention to themselves like that?

Plus it does paint a sort of nouveau riche character, explaining how they might fit in a posh area while not being recognised: they're new and they just made it to those circles. They're someone who might not be committed to any specific factions or could potentially be more easily manipulated.

It's a good persona to approach and be approached while explaining away any oddities. Yeah, it's also a suspicious position, but that's where you trust your agency to have the background checks pass.

I can't believe I'm asking this: do superheroes with super strength get enhancements to all their muscles? Which would mean this is less of an issue?

Actually, would that extend to bowel muscles so they never get constipated due to the pressure they can exert?

What the hell is this post doing to my brain?

Got any evidence to back that up?

Oh yeah, we definitely want to be buddies with Russia. Fuck off with that. Won't address that any further.

Moving past that: lots of things you could say about the Greens, but they've been vocal about their ideals and are seemingly committed. That includes being pro-Palestine and trying to help the working class and other minorities. Now that might change in the realities of governance, but writing them off as equivalent to Labour is pessimistic to an unwarranted degree.

Where is the "Steam states" part of this? This looks to be a specific game's EULA, it even mentions Klei specifically.

To be clear I don't disagree that Steam has the ability (physically and legally) to remove access to games, I'm just confused about what the picture is showing.

They did, but things were different. Obvious main difference being that we didn't have centralised store apps with launchers that already do the functions you need: download, setup, updates, news, etc. (well Steam does, with workshop integration for mods and everything)

Nowadays people see launchers as an extra unnecessary step, usually requiring another account for no good reason, and, importantly, a data harvesting tool. That last one is the reason I usually see people hating a launcher. The other issue is I've seen a lot of complaints about is launchers simply breaking stuff for some people and not letting them play their game (especially on Linux).

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Oh how horrible, civil servants trying to reach out to people through familiar and comforting media.

And holy shit, the Telegraph still presents GTA as some sort of ultraviolent game that idolises crime? I thought we'd have moved past that by now, but I guess their readers haven't been exposed to pop culture in decades then. Better not watch John Wick guys, you might be tempted to become hitmen for a crime family.

Well that's a pretty extreme statement. I'll admit World and Wilds are obviously different from the older games in some ways, but how is Wilds "garbage beyond belief"?

I'm genuinely curious, because so far I've seen quite a few people here claim it is somehow awful, but no one says why. Most of the negative reviews I've seen before have been about performance. I've also seen a few mention the game being too easy, but the end game has been spicy enough after they released some new monsters. I could see complaints about content initially, but it's not like Tri had many large monsters on release either in comparison, it's always the expansion that brings in a bunch more.

That, and it had significant performance issues for many people, along with some texture glitches. That's why I added that little parenthetical bit about the games not being perfect on launch. World was a big shift and also had some launch issues.

I would say that's not down to some "design by committee" art/design choice though. I'd very much agree with issues around Capcom's monetisation (character edit vouchers, a million cosmetic packs) and their launch model (e.g.: wait another year and have all those title updates already in). But I disagree with them being pure cash grabs that are somehow artistically stunted by some corporate process to some major degree.

Maybe they should bring back the mandatory "gather 20 mushrooms" quest though for completeness I guess.

See, this would resonate more of the recent Resident Evils and Monster Hunters weren't, as they seemed to be, also loved by old fans.

I'm specifically a Monster Hunter fan since Tri, and I think World, Rise, and Wilds have all been fantastic entries that took the DNA of the franchise and allowed it to evolve. World and Wilds have moved the franchise to finally being able to show it takes place in a real living, breathing world. To me that shows the artistic vision is very much there.

I'm not saying the games are perfect (especially on launch) or there aren't changes people (including myself) will disagree with, but there's no way I'd call them "barely purchase-worthy". Especially not because of artistic constraints (and I'm very much including game design in that).

I wish that was the case for me. Unfortunately, even when I get internal emails about AI in science events at best it's unclear. But often it's generative AI. At this point I'm kinda just forced to assume it means genAI unless stated otherwise.

Though I guess part of that is that most research groups will specify the kind of machine learning they use. So if it's left as AI then it's usually generative.

Outside of that though it is true that (as seen in OP) most news articles will just label any model as AI, diluting the term entirely. And it's probably a neural network if it's from a reputable research group (such as in this case: a University of Cambridge group running actual human trials).

I could've launched the game, but I had to go to the original Reddit post to see the rainbow pic. I don't actually know if I would've noticed that if it wasn't pointed out. "not-so-subtle" indeed. /uj