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STORM CLOUDS, FIRE AND STEEL
DEATH FROM ABOVE, MADE THEIR ENEMY KNEEL
SHINING ARMOR AND WINGS
DEATH FROM ABOVE, IT’S AN ARMY OF KINGS!
STORM CLOUDS, FIRE AND STEEL
DEATH FROM ABOVE, MADE THEIR ENEMY KNEEL
SHINING ARMOR AND WINGS
DEATH FROM ABOVE, IT’S AN ARMY OF KINGS!
I’ll bet Ada Lovelace had some somewhere.
Or the original plot of The Matrix, before the studio execs decided audiences were too stupid.
“Boy, I sure wish some megacorporation would dump a massive codebase on me to maintain without any financial assistance!”
I’m all for rules of engagement, but when the enemy seems to be gunning for genocide, I’m pretty sure everything’s on the table.
This reads like an ad written by an LLM, wtf is it doing here?
Cats make for pretty poor insect control. They mostly kill spiders, not “pest” insects.
I am unironically saying that, as a career software engineer, fixing bugs and adding new features to an existing product is about 80% of a programming job.
The cost of a game getting patches and updates isn’t the same as the cost of making the game in the first place.
Tell me you’ve never tried to maintain/update software without telling me…
Was not prepared for the Diablo II reference lmao
Yeah, I’d like to see a source for this. There have been many proposed theories for why cats vocalize to humans, especially because “meowing” is not common between cats except for kittens. How do we know that it isn’t a request for food or attention?
“Allow us to introduce ourselves”
(He even “decreed” the construction of a bridge or tunnel between San Francisco and Oakland on the other side of the bay, predicting the existence of the Bay Bridge and Transbay Tube!)
As long as I don’t have to maintain it.
(Who tf downvoted this? The “legacy code” lobby?)
Sigma Star Saga for the GBA. Really creative mashup of an RPG and a side-scrolling shooter, with a cool weapon-configuration system thrown in. Definitely suffered a bit from platform limitations, but there’s absolutely more that could have been done with the core concept.
Shockingly good writing, too.
Good lord yes. Overwatch is just a corporatized TF2 ripoff, but Battleborn was a creative, unique game with a soul.
Anyone who hasn’t seen it should watch the game’s intro cinematic, which gives a great sense of just how much character the game had.
FYI, “anthropomorphizing” doesn’t strictly mean “viewing as human”. I never meant to imply that people see a spoon as a human being.
Anthropomorphization is the act of associating human qualities with non-human entities.
My point is that humans are remarkably good at doing this, even as far as, e.g., ascribing “unhappiness” to a spoon simply for being unused.
This kind of behavior is why we must be extremely wary of the Turing test and other measures of machine “intelligence” - humans may see intelligence even where none exists simply because it’s our nature.
Yep, this is the major flaw that’s becoming clear about the Turing test, and why people are so hyped over LLMs: computers don’t have to be good at imitating people, because people are so good at anthropomorphizing computers (along with everything else).
This joke is much simpler if you’re bisexual.
You’re just Bismuth.
Instant sub, cheers.