The studios need to stop making movies with methods that cost so much. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: If you get a quality script for, as an example, a Star Wars movie, you could literally film it in someone's grandma's yard on a Betamax camcorder with a bunch of kids enacting it with the toys and action figures, and I'd turn out to the theater for that. Especially if you pass the savings onto me in the form of ticket prices. Obviously I'm exaggerating a little, but you take my point, I'm sure.

I'm thinking she did. ;)

https://britneyspears.ac/laser...

Can't speak for the person you're replying to, of course, but there's a condition (at least one I know of) that causes people to be particularly susceptible to fungal infection. As you what you do to get it or avoid it, that's probably not a thing aside from maybe doing everything you can to boost your general immune system (diet, etc) and hoping that compensates some.

Hello, Sailor!

I'm a bit of an obsessive Infocom fan, including having run a multi-year RPG that, among other sources, uses all of the Infocom games as source material. And I don't know of anything in any of it that says that the postal services on Zork have the exact same rules and regs as the USPS, or that rule in particular. Admittedly, other materials in the games would probably lead one to believe that, if anything, the rules and regulations there are probably even MORE restrictive. But we have no proof of that, either. The *only* thing we really have to go on is that AFGNCAAP (the player) takes the leaflet in Zork I with no apparent negative consequences.

I find myself spending a lot of time with old consoles and computers that I still have from before games started having online components, lately. They were fun then, and they still are.

There might actually be an argument to be made that for *classical* compositions, AI or other technically "perfect" computer driven instrumentals are closer to what the piece *should* be than when it is played by humans. Bach wanted what he put on the paper to be what was heard, not that damned clarinet player that insists on bringing their own "charm and style" to the way they play it. ;)

I'm actually fine with the results possibly being "hallucinated"... but that's because I'm mostly using LLM to help me flesh out details in the Dungeons and Dragons game that I run. Doesn't matter much if facts are inaccurate if they're about something that was imaginary in the first place, as long as I make sure they're used in a consistent way and they help me make the game fun.

I guess it was just you... but hey, a happy audience of one is better than an angry audience of thousands. ;)

Author to LLM: "Edit this for spelling, punctuation, grammar, general clarity, and punch up the tone a bit so it's more interesting for the reader."

Reader to LLM: "Distill this to the briefest form you can that will allow me to still absorb all of the facts presented."

LLM: "Hey, it's a living."

...but the freaking doctors that did my colonoscopies over the last year did a job they *could* have done in a single procedure in three separate procedures in part because the insurance companies changed guidelines for how much anesthetic can be given for a single procedure. In other words, doing it in 3 was the only way they could keep me from waking up in the middle of it, and there was no *medically* necessitated reason for that. Like I said, anecdotal, but if it is in any way typical, those statistics on the number of those procedures may be skewed.

They say it's about reaching Mars. And I guess it is. But I'll tell you a "secret", that you can easily see is true from what happened when we first sent humans to the moon: It is a LOT more about the things we will learn and the technologies we will develop in the attempt, which will then be turned around for application here on Earth. You're literally kvetching about a "wasteful" space program using technology developed in part because of it.

Your style looks sharp. It's going to be a real problem if we start having to make our own writing less perfect in order to avoid being accused of it being AI generated.

Maybe we refuse to own it... because it has never been ours to own? You yourself just pointed out that there was a concerted effort by polluting companies and politicians to hide and obfuscate the truth - seems like there are some known targets that should be facing scorn and justice, not necessarily an entire generation that could also mostly be regarded as victims. You think I *want* the world that it is becoming clearer is being left to the kids? And I was one of the ones that actually listened to the BS we were being fed about ways we could individually help and tried to comply as much as possible.

This got modded "funny" but it really is worrisome how strong (powerful in our government) they actually are considering how utterly and often willfully ignorant they are.

We will no longer need to fear the banana.