XnView should meet those requirements, as far as I can see.

You brought up specifically HD. I’m willing to watch ads so that YT can continue delivering even lower quality videos as long as those ads don’t interrupt the video.

The downvotes are because what you wrote is pointless. We all know it’s made up and in the end there is no actual, definitive, real answer. That’s not what we’re here for. We are here for the creative exercise of finding an answer that fits the universe of the show and episode. You just shut down that creative process.

So hide the HD stuff behind a paywall. I’m perfectly happy at 720p for the VAST majority of videos. Might even agree to go lower if it means I can watch it without ad breaks.

Get thee behind me, Satan, I shall be strong and resist and wait for the episode.

Not a problem at all, but it does sound curious on the surface, don’t you think? ;)

Notreadingthatnotreadingthatnotreadingthat because I haven’t seen it yet (woe is me). I’m just here to express my amusement about how lately every week we seem to get “the best Star Trek ever” ;D

Edit: Seen it now and daaaang.

True. I somehow expected it to be a different thing altogether, new mechanics and all, I don’t know why. Was thinking more along the lines of No Man’s Sky, FOR SOME MYSTERIOUS REASON.

I mean, I did partake in the “Skyrim in space” jokes but I didn’t know there’d be pickpocketing. Huh. So is it safe to say everybody’s builds are going to trend towards stealth sniping?

I read that wrong then. Thank you for explaining, much appreciated.

Oh so it’s less “this is how they’re trying to win con guests over to their side” and more “we were wondering what they’d be even doing and now we know”, yes?

I know that, but showing the episode?

I don’t understand, how would this affect the strike?

My main machine is Suckup (Second Universal Cybernetic-Kinetic Ultra-Micro Programmer), my laptop is Tuckup (Third Universal etc), my phone is Keitaichan (keitai being Japanese for mobile phone), my tablet is Tabbuchan (from Japanese taburetto for tablet), my NAS is Shinochan (from shinorojii, Japanese for Synology), because I am absolutely insufferable and unimaginative and I crack myself up.

I’m not convinced either way, let me just point out how many people are on strike right now which I know won’t have much of an effect on content immediately this year but might hit hard in the future. I’m interested to hear what this year’s riches would be?

My husband has one flaw and it’s that he doesn’t get Stardew Valley. These people do exist, in the midst of our society, unseen.

Wait, you got to play? Mine didn’t let me do anything without a voice/subscription!

I asked my guide what their qualifications for being a guide were and they ignored me. Then they wanted me to subscribe to I don’t know what and they’re not telling me what. The only answer I got was “//starrekgameblogger1075634829” (yes, “starrek”, [sic]) and now my guide is pretending to not know what that means.

I’m from the 21st century, we’re cynical about technology.

Edit: oooh and now I got a random popup asking me for money.

Yeh, I get that it’s just an example. But wouldn’t it be like that for anything you could ask it? It can only work with what you’re giving it and that data could be heavily influenced by you not wanting to see something. Or exaggerating. Or forgetting. A human looking at your diaries might be able to put themselves in your situation and understand, based on their own experience with the human condition, how you were probably feeling in a situation the diary entry is describing and interpret the entry accordingly, maybe even especially when considering other, seemingly conflicting entries. But they’re using “outside” information which an AI doesn’t have.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying what you’re imagining is completely impossible - I’m trying to imagine how it might work and why it might not. Maybe one way to develop such an AI would be to feed it diaries of historical people whose entries we can interpret with decent confidence in hindsight (surely those must exist?). Ask the AI to create a characterisation of the person and see how well it matches the views of human historians.

I am so very much not an expert on AI and I hate most of what has come of the recent surge. And remember that we’re not talking about actual intelligence, these are just very advanced text parsing and phrase correlating machines. But it does of course seem tempting to ask a machine with no secondary motives to just fucking tell me the harsh truth so now I’m thinking about it too.

At that point you could search your diary entries yourself to analyse the way you talk about her. Assuming of course you’re honest with your diary and yourself and not glossing over things you don’t want to realise - in which case do you really need an AI to tell you?