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“Jesus how is this not regulated?”

PC in a soundbar would be fun to make too. I just think MacOS looks prettier on a TV than Windows.

Soundbar with a Mac Mini in it? Now we're talking. I always get annoyed with the limitations of the dummy boxes compared to the flexibility I gain from having the full OS connected to the TV.

If UFC fighters and boxers can mostly shake hands before and after half murdering one another, I'd say yah, it's wrong.

Particularly in a finesse sport like baseball. Acting hyper competitive like this comes across as petty and childish, not tough.

The irony is this: he's a teen now and plays Project Zomboid. We have the opposite problem: PZ is too complicated and intense for me to just pick up and play and with competing adult obligations I don't wanna invest 15 hours to get started. So yah... it's still Mario Kart as the shared game for us!

Great piece @ravi64.com! Similar observations when my young kid and I played Minecraft or Valheim. Adults are methodical and intentional. But kids learn by iterating wildly, even with eachother. So sharing Minecraft became more like "hey Dad come visit my server today we built some new cool stuff."

Sounds like you guys are on your way to establishing a sort of non-profit publishing trust to centralize administrative functions. The trust model has kept papers like The Guardian independent while all the for-profits have gone to hell, even the NYTimes. Might help float a indy journo ecosystem.

That said, I'm sure a more intentional approach to the app by the student would yield better results.

But Duolingo is certainly not the complete, guided, success guaranteed program it tends to project.

My preteen kid was proud of her 50 day streak learning Italian in Duolingo.

So I was like "whats "where's the restaurant" in Italian?"

She had absolutely no idea. 🙄

Wasn't surprised. Based on my observations of her using Duolingo, it looked like a mindless clicker game using words.

I'm willing to wager a whole bag of Geoff Keighleys that Helix will more or less be an end point dummy terminal for gaming services streamed from MS cloud.

Hope I'm wrong (because then I can also get rid of this bag of Geoff Keighleys who are all encouraging me to play the last day of Highguard).

Coders have become a priesthood culture with their own lexicon and conceptual idiom, shaped and coddled by corporate structure. In cloistered confines this talk goes unchallenged. So when they talk about social issue they sound like aliens. And they're infrastructure. But don't make the decisions.

Paikin's take on the Tory Affair is like "but we all agree that Madmen was really just a how-to manual, right guys?"

I thought Tory did pretty good as mayor during the Covid state of exception.

But what else did he really do? Dithering John just kept kicking issues down the road for two terms. Chow is gradually cleaning up the mess and is primed for a terrific second term if she wins it.

It'll "play PC games" because it's gonna be a game streaming end terminal.

Headline should read “Geoff Keighley ruins yet another potentially good thing.”

"Our AI target selection systems for missiles generally perform well in these types of challenging theatres of war and we devote significant resources to this, but unfortunately AI models are not perfect and will vaporize an elementary school from time to time."

Probably asked ChatGPT for advice.

Ha! I love that Naylor basically gave you a quote that amounts to the “release your inhibitions” song.

Easiest way to know when Bernie is right is when WaPo goes out of their way to say he's wrong.

CS2 and Civ7 are the biggest own-goals in gaming over the last five years. Two gilded franchises with captive player bases in the millions spending years of dev time to march to the end of a pier and just jump off.

Great piece, you got it.

My take on Phil is bit less polite than yours. He took over in 2014 when the die was already cast. He went through the motions with great branding ("Hello fellow gamers!") at a time when gaming was still growing. But did he move the needle? Nope. He just toed the MS line.

MS released Xbox in 2001 to "own the TV space" back when everyone thought TVs & consoles would be the digital hub of the nuclear family. But after 2010 that family was deconstructed into personal social media accounts. So "Xbox" pivoted to a branded IP, publishing & cloud entity. Cool!? Not really.

@benjedwards.com As I’ve observed as a 20+ yr Ars subscriber you are a great journo and an even better guy. That a mindful practitioner of his craft is so vulnerable to the frailties of AI is a lesson for us all to heed. Get well soon, looking forward to seeing you back on the beat at Ars.

Can I ask about the safety of the person filming this? They're one wild pitch away from taking 90 mph to the nuts.

Whoa there Skooter what's with the projecting? This is clearly 58008 on a calculator but you are looking at it the wrong way.

Awww, no one made the Tiddy Clubhouse seats at Rogers Centre sound as exciting as Bucky.

An artifact that had been accurately carbon dated would appear 20 years too old in a 1970s assessment.

My kid told me this 4 hours ago. Athletic needs to make a Discord account?

Go, shawty, it's your bidet
We gon' party like it's your bidet
We gon' sip Bacardí like it's your bidet
And you know we don't give a fsck it's not your bidet

No worries. At the rate they're going Aftermath will be able to buy WaPo pretty soon.