Me neither. And I… have it on Steam, apparently?

Very cool! Sorry I have nothing to add to it, but this is a great idea, and radicle is a great fit for this.

This author is bringing up one of my biggest concerns about AI adoption, which is that it’s allowing people to come off as an expert while just skipping the learning process entirely. The learning process is where personal development happens. It’s where you become a better person. And I don’t just mean in college, I mean in all things. And professors are supposed to somehow make sure that students are going through that process, while also being told to adopt AI in the classroom.

Also, I first skimmed the headline as “It’s time to teach ChatGPT to know pain,” and…YES.

dooooooo dooooooo DOOOOOOOO…

That is great. :D

Oh wow, Meryl Streep from fairly recently, I’m surprised I hadn’t heard about it. I’ll check it out.

That’s a great-looking turntable!

Wow, that is amazing, thank you for sharing!

A play called Souvenir, late last year, put on by a local theater company. (Incidentally, their theater is in the building that used to be the gym when I was in college. It looks really nice inside now, and you would never guess that it was the most divey, stanky gym you had ever seen for like 60 years beforehand. I loved that place.)

Anyway, the play was about a famously bad singer who gained fame for how off-pitch she was. It was funny, heartwarming, and very well done. I didn’t know it while watching the play, but she was a real person, too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Foster_Jenkins

If you want something physical to read, Glenn Fleishman (@glennf@zeppelin.flights) wrote a book called How Comics Are Made. https://howcomicsaremade.com/

From the description:

This covers the whole ball of wax of how artists, knowing their newsprint medium, drew their comics and marked drawings up for color reproduction; how printers put that work through the most arcane and impossible-to-believe operations to get them onto paper…

I think it’s mostly focused on comic strips in the newspaper, but I’m guessing the process is mostly the same for comic books.

Haha, yeah the title originally made me think that he was known for cheating, and then was being celebrated on a postage stamp anyway for some reason. But I’m guessing most people who follow the game competitively would know the name Faker.

Just saying “esports competitor” (and then “competitor” thereafter) always sounded like a completely reasonable description to me. Not calling them an athlete, while also not belittling their skill or accomplishments.

I noticed it when I was going into the bathroom that morning. There was no dirt, it was an indentation in the rug.

I did. I didn’t notice anything out of place, the front door was locked, and I live on an upper floor, so getting in through a window is not possible.

Large footprint on the bathroom floor mat that didn’t match any of my shoes. I live alone. Still can’t explain it.

That does look like a Bugout, and maybe the mini, too. That looks really nice.

Ah, so she’s keeping an eye out for ceiling cat.

Well tell him happy almost birthday from us!

Definitely; the first track on Power Windows, The Big Money, somehow manages to have every 80s riff in it within the first 45 seconds. And the lyrics are about the most 80s subject matter, Wall Street. Love it.

Probably, if the music was released as a track on the game’s soundtrack. Those get included in music databases like MusicBrainz, which is what a lot of those music detection services use.

Some level themes are popular enough to have covers made of them, and if the cover is close enough to the original, it may get recognized. Some are popular enough to be cataloged on their own. For example, Chemical Plant Zone from Sonic the Hedgehog 2: https://musicbrainz.org/recording/cb389ab1-b08e-4042-ab73-8ff63e8a6205

I wouldn’t count on every level from every game being cataloged in a music database, though.