When you break it down there’s a lot of parallels despite those elements being used in different ways: big battle on an ice/salt planet, chase through space, Jedi mentor on a distant planet, betrayal by a new character in/met in a glitzy planet, reveal/non-reveal of parentage, but on top of that you have Luke’s arc going from disillusioned mentor to learning from failure and facing your mistakes, and the ‘force is for everyone, not just a few genetic lineages’ with the casino planet epilogue.

It’s about the same amount of plot advancement (maybe slightly more) than Empire Strikes Back, though.

The Last Jedi had some really powerful messages and was incredibly well made, but sadly it hurt some people’s feelings a bit so it’s seen as a bad movie despite commercial success and critical acclaim. And sadly that vocal minority made them backtrack a lot of the choices from that movie in episode 9, so yes, as a trilogy it became completely incoherent.

I do think they have a point: there’s not many other engines I can think of that are quite as ‘tangible’ as theirs. Every object has its physical place in the world and can be picked up, manipulated,… in a way that’s unlike other engines where the world just feels more static.

That honestly seems pretty low for friend.com

Although the fact they’re developing hardware on less than a million dollar budget is bananas, let alone the other whack ideas

Unpopular opinion because it’s so recent, but I think Starfield is/will be in this category

The problem with the Turing test and current AI is that we didn’t teach computers to think, we taught them to talk.

Which makes water lava, technically speaking

Well, Xbox and PC exclusive.

Oh god, that’s not even unrealistic

Wouldn’t it be Divinity 7?

But to build on your analogy: we don’t make regulations based on a religious doctrine anymore in most countries. If your religion says no one is allowed to wear mixed fabrics or eat pork, that’s fine if you’re not doing that, but we’re not banning those things for all of society.

There’s about as much proof for an existential AGI threat as there is for a deity, so let’s not make policies based on either, and focus instead on real potential and already proven harms of AI

I have to disagree here. Disclaimer: I work for a bank but not super into the core financial stuff. Firstly, banks are already super heavily regulated; anti money laundering, terrorism financing, know your customer, etc. The reason crypto takes minutes for international transfers and banks can take days isn’t because of technology, it’s all of those checks on fraud happening. All the money leaving a bank account is, barring very advanced fraud, with the user’s consent, but in fraud cases this is often done via social engineering (calling someone to get their codes from their bank card reader, or pretending to be a family member in need).

Yeah, this feels like coming home. I tried the other options, but none felt as smooth or as customisable as this.

Which games are you considering to mod? 3, 4, New Vegas, older?

Those play to earn games, unless there is some weird magical source of outside revenues, are all convoluted ponzi schemes, though. The only money coming in is from new players (it takes hundreds or more dollars to join Axie Infinity, for example). You can earn real money while the game is growing, but as soon as growth stops, the whole system collapses