Thank you!
I actually wondered if the article mentioned that and I just missed it. I went back to check and apparently missed it twice.
I’m genuinely surprised they’ve been able to handle the traffic for this long. The numbers are staggering!
Yes I imagine that’s almost always the case.
It would be fun from a chaos perspective to just suddenly limit those who are making too many calls.
Maybe it wouldn’t be that chaotic and builds would fail, but I still like the idea.
Charging is a good idea.
In any case it would not be crazy to rate-limit. If you’re downloading the same 10,000 components a million times, you deserve to be limited.
I have genuinely never understood it.
People heard the horror stories, and not only were they like “yeah I’ll do that,” they wanted to eventually do it to others.
Man, me neither. I didn’t even know who it was until you said “Revenge of the Nerds” and I thought “THAT guy?!” I didn’t even know his name.
Absolutely no idea his brother was the Kung Fu guy.
Yes!! I came here to recommend Xenoblade Chronicles X. It’s the most MMO feeling game I’ve ever played that wasn’t an MMO.
Have you tried tagspaces? It’s not primarily an editor (from what I can tell) but if you want to split file editing from grouping/tagging, it might be worth a shot.
I haven’t tried it but I will, because I really like ways to organize files that don’t require actually changing the files themselves!
Sometimes solving the problems separately (organizing and editing) can be better for specific purposes. on a computer with a keyboard, I like an editor that just edits.
I think it might just be for the sight gag of the snake’s skeleton, but I could be wrong.
It’s hard to think of something sillier than having a snake skeleton as a jumpscare from a closet, while also making it somewhat straightforward to draw.
I genuinely didn’t get it, but the Disqus link helped.
Knut Døsen Lunde (the Disqus commenter) said:
Pack up all your cares and woes
Here I go singing low,
bye bye blackbird.
(Ray Henderson and Mort Dixon)
Bye Bye Blackbird is considered a popular “standard,” which makes a lot of sense for a The Far Side.
What’s fascinating about this franchise is that I always thought it was just a vanity project! It happened to be profitable when it came out because it was kid-friendly.
James Cameron is the king of “why did so many people care about that at the time?”
The public’s obsession with Titanic in 1997 seems eyeroll-inducing now. I remember going to used media stores and copies of Titanic on VHS were everywhere.
I laughed out loud when I finally realized what band was saying this.
Humorously, the lead singer is named Jim (Adkins), but the band’s name comes from the backing vocalist/guitarist Tom’s brother, also named Jim.
The band’s name came from a crayon drawing made after an incident between [Tom] Linton’s younger brothers, Jim and Ed Linton, who fought frequently. Jim usually won, but Ed sought revenge by drawing a picture of Jim shoving the Earth into his mouth; Ed captioned the picture “Jimmy eat world”.
He told Business Insider. “They were pressured to see the movie. Your military superior, that’s not your shift manager at Taco Bell or Starbucks. They have complete and total control over you.”
No shit. Why do you think most people don’t join the cult? It’s been awful for literally generations.
They’re so bereft of ideas again, they’re remaking the awful Uwe Boll movies based on video games.
This was literally the guy who started his entire political career in earnest by calling in to Fox News and talking about how Obama wasn’t “American” because he’s black. Trump found his political fame because he advocated the “birther” conspiracy.
It’s honestly crazy that anyone could be surprised. He’s been up front about his racism for fifteen years now.
It’s important to note that On This Day… 1776 is not fully crafted by AI. The script, for instance, was written by a team of writers overseen by Aronofsky’s longtime writing partners Ari Handel and Lucas Sussman
A team of writers for this crap? Legitimately?
Of all the things to brag about not being AI.
I find the wording of the article to be remarkable. “At the opposite end of the supply chain.”
Eric (not his real name) was no longer just a consumer of China’s spy-cam porn industry, but a victim.
A “consumer” who has admittedly been watching this type of “spy cam” footage for twenty years (since he was a teen, according to the article) and never once thought “wait, what if that was me?”
Then when he grows a conscience in his thirties he contacts the BBC.
This is of course the same game he’s been playing since 2016. His fans are just legitimately too blinded by their cult to realize it.
Literally every time. Now that he’s not running, he’ll just keep repeating it for every election because it works for his idiot base of Christian nationalists.
I’m not even sure they know how to tell the truth.
The song “We’ll Have Our Home Again” was released by the Pine Tree Riots on YouTube, Spotify and other streaming platforms in 2020. Other songs that the group has produced include one with the lyrics, “Well, another Charlottesville wouldn’t do us any harm”
Oh yeah no neo-Nazi shit there.
That’s actually why I looked it up! I was like “oh is he finally going down the drain?”
Not yet. Evil lives longer than good so he seems fine, but we can take comfort in the fact that he isn’t seeking re-election in 2026.
He’s 83, way too old to be a senator. He turns 84 on February 20th and I hope he dies before then.
Yale’s own article about the study:
https://news.yale.edu/2026/03/03/ais-hidden-bias-chatbots-can-influence-opinions-without-trying