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Arc Raiders Replacing AI-Generated Voices With Human Actors Embark's CEO says 'most' of the in-game voice lines are now recorded by real actors

C-Suite discovers water wet, sky blue and actual sentient human better than box of wires and plagiarism.

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This site needs a break. Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative.

1) D&D nights.
2) Music.
3) Libraries, personal or public - books in general.

...I mean, I feel this, but y'know what? I'm going to write something this weekend. Out of pure spite. I will not let some LLM's hundred-thousand monkeys on its hundred-thousand typewriters outwrite me. So thank you for the spite-motivation. 💜

...DAMNIT, my LEGO wishlist did NOT need to be any bigger!
......*but I'm gonna put it on anyway because Tintin made it to at least Quebec*

Thing is, we don't know if someone else - say, a partner - can access your voicemail. Also, some people listen to their messages loudly on speaker, and if you broadcast your results to half the street, that's still *us* who violated patient confidentiality by letting it happen.

I am so sorry that happened. Not sure if offers of metaphorical hot chocolate are the best response here, or if saying that smug walking power-trip of a supposed human should step on LEGO barefoot every day for the rest of his life would be more appropriate. Both is probably the way to go.

My mother thinks that Reagan saved the USA. Is it *wrong* that I almost want to buy that for her and see if she a) gets the point of it and b) disowns me as a result?

Well, I actually meant pushing it ahead a day so that you're not wasting prime sleep-in time on Sunday, a day when you generally already *can* sleep in.

Yeah, okay, great for when it goes forward, but how would you handle when the clocks go *back*? I mean, I'd personally vote for it being 2am Monday rather than 2am Sunday, because then you get an hour to sleep in on a work day, when it matters.

This is actually a really good one. I played the demo awhile back and it was a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to it.

How DARE you GO TO A STORE and ORDER SOMETHING THAT STORE HAS ON ITS MENU?? Don't you know that you are wasting the VALUABLE TIME of a MAN??? Don't you know that HIS TIME is more valuable than any TINY JOY that you might take from buying yourself a LITTLE TREAT???? HOW. DARE. YOU.

So selfish!!!!!!

(Not anyone who follows my Bsky, though. I'm sure you guys parent just great. I just mean in general.) 6/6

I do not believe that we are letting literal Big Brother-ass censorship and vocabulary erosion in the back door because some parents want to sit their kids in a corner with a tablet so they don't have to parent. Being a parent means teaching your kids, so TEACH THEM, YOU LAZY SODS. 5/

Like that bad things happen and we have to know about them and talk about them to fix them. Like "you can talk to me about anything that bothers you, because I AM YOUR MOTHER AND THAT IS MY JOB". I was a latchkey kid, and my mother taught me what I needed to know, and it helped me be an adult. 4/

They talk about kids exposed to that stuff early being "scarred for life", but my Xennial ass was *fine*. It's the ones who expect the world to be sanitised for their convenience because of this shit who're struggling now. Because my mother sat me down and TAUGHT ME SHIT. Like media literacy. 3/

They don't want their kids to even *know* things, because if kids know, they will *ask* things. So the government comes along and says, "Hey, we'll make sure those pesky kids can't get any information you don't approve of!" and parents are like, "Great! Kicked that down the road!" Except, no. 2/

Currently struggling with knowing that half the reason we're sliding into fascism is because parents don't want to actually parent the children they chose to bring into the world. They don't want to talk to their children. They don't want to have "uncomfortable" conversations with their children. 1/

Pixar Head Pete Docter Defends Cutting LGBTQ Content in Movies Apparently, Pixar will happily spend 40 years playing therapist to anyone about anything, but they draw the line at queer people.

This should be the headline for every single version of this story.
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If Jesus does actually return? Isn't ICE just going to nail him back up again?

I was born in the same year as one of the most iconic films *and* one of the most iconic songs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tJY...

You got to pet a sugar glider; I got to throw axes. I think you win.

So Charles de Lint wrote a novella, which he's released for free, about what happens when ICE run afoul of the Fae. And de Lint writes the Blue And Orange Morality, Eat Nothing They Offer, Be Very Careful With Your Words sort of Fae, so maybe cathartic. www.charlesdelint.com/ICE-Out.pdf

That too, but on a happier note, it also reminded me of you introducing me to Moxy Fruvous, and if I need a pick-me-up, I turn on my mental iPod and select "My Baby Loves A Bunch Of Authors".

Now it's your turn to hit me with the nostalgia bomb, is that it. :)

...So is there any hope in hell that we could stuff his problematic ass in a crate and ship him to ... well, Abu Dhabi's probably having issues I wouldn't wish on anyone, but ... Antarctica? Let Whedon be problematic at the penguins or something.

I have two questions about this particular take. The first is "what". The second is, "the fuck". And I think those sum up all other potential questions quite nicely.

I don't know why all the swearing in my head over this is in Quebecois idioms - maybe because I want to disassociate from the fact that I live in the same country as the TERF-witch. Either way, my brain is shouting "tas de crisse" at this.

Age flex aside, what's supposed to happen? Is it a Logan's Run sort of situation where we have to turn in our modems in exchange for carrier pigeons when we reach our 30th birthday?

Someone needs to teach my office the one about how if the office falls apart when one staff member is away, YOU ARE UNDERSTAFFED.