Andy Lundell 💭 @apLundell@octodon.social
I'm a virtual reality and game programmer, who's excited about games, technology, online comics. Currently I work for 3dSystems.
I don't understand why, in this day and age, they can't make a car alarm that only goes off if someone actually breaks the window, or forces the door.
I mean, if a cat accidentally bumps into a bank, it doesn't set off the vault alarm.
My dad's native habitat : A store that sells only analog photography supplies. Right down to enlargers and jugs of chemicals. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bgv9LKgDq1a/ https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/vp/77abd643650f449a95ffbfb3a8187166/5B3097A2/t51.2885-15/s640x640/sh0.08/e35/29090198_678361842555087_8965807783031078912_n.jpg
Waiting to see the cherry trees. I think I'm the tallest person in this crowd. https://www.instagram.com/p/BgsW3Lajo4i/ https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/vp/4be96ccac12b9c9f650a4a8036a1205b/5B47A000/t51.2885-15/s640x640/sh0.08/e35/29402877_1775731856056182_6713003870416535552_n.jpg
The human operators are pretty much a placebo to make people feel safer.
Their hands are off the wheel, and their feet are off the pedals.
There's not much chance of them reacting fast enough to take over control to avoid a collision
Of COURSE the first AI Car fatality was caused by an Uber car.
Remember that AI car that was caught running a red light, claimed it was human error, then was seen running a bunch more? Uber. Remember that AI car operating in SF without an AI car license? Uber.
Uber does everything as cheaply and as sleazy as possible.
I'll bet that car AI didn't have 1/100th the testing that competing AI get when they put it on the road.
1) Buy a company on credit
2) Have the company assume the debt you used to buy it.
3) Give yourself and your friends a huge salary.
4) The company won't be able to handle the debt, so just let it go bankrupt. (Tough luck, employees!)
It's the American dream! So long #ToysRUs
@CobaltVelvet
It makes sense to people who want to sell books to kooks!
And in the end, isn't that enough?
"HP and the Goblet of Fire" has got to have the most "child logic" plot ever.
You can just see some eight-year old explaining it.
"His name's on the list, so TECHNICALLY that means he has to compete!"
Even though literally nobody wants him to, and the rules say he can't?
"Yeah, because, if your name's on the list, then you're OFFICIALLY in the game and you have to play. Officially"
This is now how I imagine the future of gaming.
It absolutely has a Japanese influence.
And as people used to western animation, that Japanese influence stands out to us like a sore thumb. But it's still very western, and I'm pretty sure that someone used to Japanese animation will only see its 'westerness'.
Basically, if it's halfway between worlds, you'll perceive it as being in whichever world you're least familiar with. Because that's the part that's not "normal" to you.
I doubt a Japanese person would say Boondocks looks Japanese.
It looks a *little* Japanese, so to someone who thinks western art is "normal", those anime-ish qualities stand out.
There are lots of anime's that Japanese people describe as "western influenced". But again, to those of us who grew up thinking western stuff was "normal", all we can see is that it's still not 100% western, so we label it "Japanese"
Flat shaded characters on a painted background?!? Crazy!
Honestly, in both the original Doom and the remake, the humans are pretty much the bad guys.
The demons didn't ask us to open a gateway to hell and send soldiers in.
Why did we even BUILD a military base on Phobos?
@CobaltVelvet It started as a thing poor people did because they couldn't afford proper glassware. Then it became a shorthand way for movies to signify hicks and hill people.
...but now it's just become a thing people do. It got a huge boost a couple years ago when there was that scare about BPA in plastic, and people threw out everything they owned with a plastic lid.
Now, company that makes mason jars sells lids with straw holes.
@Austin_Dern The whole caring industry is ripe for disruption!
@20excalibur07 I think A square was originally someone who didn't "Get" Jazz.
I've got to assume it's because a square is rigidly defined and old, and not at all free-form and new.
The "around" thing sounds like how you'd explain it to your mom who didn't want you listening to that new-fangled music.
One day I want to own an old mansion so I can individually lock each interior door with a different key, and then hide the keys nearby in insane places.
@bob think of them as liberating interesting content from its bird-shaped prison.
