Gyokuyoutama

Currently wondering how many inches is 580 pages.

Which is currently the bigger buzzword: blockchain or machine learning?

I think it's safe to say at this point that I have successfully avoided being dragged to The Last Jedi.

I should really install that and play it. I got all the starfighter games on GoG, but currently I'm working my way through TIE Fighter. (X-Wing unfortunately doesn't really hold up, but oh boy is TIE Fighter still a great experience.)

If you were to intentionally design a discussion system that was guaranteed to lead to the most horrendous discussions and communities possible, what design choices would you make that Reddit hasn't already done?

What's the best anime eyebrow design archetype?

Shadowverse community seems to be of two minds in their anticipation for this new expansion. Not because the expansion will introduce a rotation format which is needed to control degenerate decks, but which also will kill several classic archetypes from haven, forest and shadow. No, it's that Cerebus is finally being added as a leader, but she's wearing shorts.

You know, after thinking over several recent movies, games and TV shows, I think that a lot of modern writers literally have no grasp of storytelling. Movies and other forms of entertainment are so often developed as a series of cool events linked together by the supposed "story", that I think that the current generation of writers may never have encountered notions like world-building, suspension of disbelief, character development and so on.

Why is the color scheme of that book identical to Springer's graduate books in mathematics series.

To be fair, did we really lose a "real" update? We haven't gotten anything significant from the TF2 team since that carnival doomsday map, and that was pretty horrible.

The only thing that really bugs me about an-caps is that they ruined the term "anarcho-monarchism."

It looks like the vote went through to ditch Net Neutrality. Let the doomsday pronouncements and general circlejerkery commenceth.

In other gaming news, if you are interested in Neverwinter Nights buy it soon. Beamdog is apparently going to make another "Enhanced Edition" for it. At the moment the enhancements seem to consist of very minor graphical tweaks and maybe some bug fixes. However, the asking price of this edition is $20, in contrast to the $10 that GoG charges for the old version, and Beamdog will force GoG and other sites to discontinue selling the classic version separately from the enhanced edition once the enhanced edition is out. (They've already done this for Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale and Planescape: Torment). For added stupidity, they will be offering a $40 collector's edition which includes things like the soundtrack and additional portraits to use in game... which are already included in the current $10 classic version on GoG.

Second trailer released:

Major The Last Jedi spoilers:

I used to like PaleMoon a lot, despite the need to constantly tweak everything, and I wish that I could recommend it since it is for the most part Firefox done right. But unfortunately in the past year it has developed a tendency to use 5-20x the memory of other browsers, at least on all of my computers. Currently I'm using Opera for a lot of things and it seems to be working out fine.

Besides Overwatch has to be good if it showed up in this trailer:

Again, that's pretty much exactly what the oscars are, so mission accomplished. Well, that and handing out awards via a complicated system of favors owed (including awards to make up for previous snubs).

What amazes me about zombie shows/movies/games is the fact that they somehow think that "humans are the real monsters" is still a clever and original message.

Gaming awards have done a good job of becoming the video game Oscars. Especially in terms of bewildering nominations and snubs.

After a few weeks of that, you do eventually get tired enough that you fall asleep pretty quickly. I know that's no consolation.