Can’t say that I have, but he looks *so* pleased about it! 😂

Ordered! 🎉🎉🎉

Honest question: isn’t he just suggesting we stop averaging the risk across the pool?

I went to a comic con over the weekend and met the subject of my first hyperfixation. At four years old, I was obsessed with a TV pilot, and nobody in my life gave a shit. I was just the weirdo. On Saturday, I listened to Baby Ginger and supported her fixation.

And damn, healing feels good. ❤️‍🩹

Just when I thought this looked a little too horror-y for my taste, they throw in “Scooby-Dooby-Doo”. 😂

Especially when articles like this are literally exactly that

I wasn’t, but that does seem the day the courage of men failed. 😂

It’s really both. Obviously they don’t like what experts say, but they seem to think “expertise” is just a smokescreen to lie to people. They’d much rather trust what they learned in third grade, and anything they learn that contradicts that must be a lie.

Oh, and that unreleased feature in Prime 3 that tipped off Nintendo as to how Americans view bounty hunters? That would’ve fucking sucked, and Nintendo 200% made the right call. I already hate when the Federation bosses me around, the last I want is a bulletin board full of fetch quests.

Anyway, it all just mostly makes me want to know who wrote the manual to the original Metroid. That person was responsible for two *hilarious* miscommunications.

It makes me see Metroid Prime Hunters differently, too. The timing of its development suggests it may have been a direct response to this misunderstanding. As if Nintendo was saying “no, *these* are bounty hunters, and Samus fights them.”

I can see how this affected the tone of Other M, but it was still easy to recognize it as Metroid. The plot was clunky, but I chalk that more up the fact that the franchise was never really built on plot, and it’s always felt weird to shoehorn one in.

Also, anybody who’s *shocked* must be forgetting the end of Metroid II, where Samus decides not to kill a lone, defenseless Metroid, which then imprints on her as its mother, she avoids killing it *again*, just before we all wept when it gets killed for helping us. We are all mothers.

First, in retrospect, I don’t really see anything that fill conflicts with Nintendo’s interpretations. We see Samus repeatedly called in to save the galaxy, but there’s not much mention of her motivations for accepting. She basically just responds to requests and distress calls.

Yes, I do, and I've done that. It works okay for some things, but it's not nearly on par with the hosted services yet. And ultimately most of my rant is more responding to a question about corporate motivations than the limits of the technology.

Heck, maybe that shift will also be what it takes to finally fulfill the promise of the internet. If edge AI can take care of the complexities of running a web server, CMS, etc, or simply remove them altogether, we might finally get the democratization of information that we were promised.

Generative AI is a lot different, though, because the interaction model is so simple. Nearly all of it can be configured automatically, and usage is as natural as interacting with a human. So I can definitely see how that would play out differently.

And sadly, I also remember these same promises about the internet. But we're already at the point where computing power and network access is more than sufficient to sustain a shift in power, but ease of use and utility hasn't gotten there (yet?)

But until very recently, creative work was rented from individuals (albeit at a steep discount). With generative AI, that work is now also getting subsumed into the corporate monopoly, and I fear it's going to be harder to tease it back out again.