My take has more to do with how accessible the methods of violence are. Most kids playing GTA aren’t (dog willing) going to have access to an arsenal of fully automatic weapons or sporty cars. At that point, they might as well be using wizard magic. I think even a young kid can recognize that it’s fantasy.

But I remember in GTA3 (or maybe Vice City?), you could use a screwdriver as a stabbing weapon. That’s kinda fucked.

I personally remember trying a move from Mortal Kombat on one of my friends when we were rough housing when I was like 7. While he was on his back, I jumped (off his bed I think?) and landed with my full body weight on my knee on his sternum. Probably could have cracked a rib. Certainly knocked the wind out of him. Learned that day that even the non-stabby bits of MK should stay in the pretend realm.

To some degree, I know kids will try to emulate what they see. If what they see is fantasy, nobody gets hurt.

I remember one review commenting on how the controls were mapped to only need one hand.

Yeah, actually this is a bad meme. From a recent comment of mine:

9 officers were surrounded by like 300 angry Bostonians who were wielding clubs and other weapons and goading them to fire their weapons while throwing shit at them. The fact that the only punishment for the officers who killed five people following their trial (in colonial court defended by John Adams) was that two had their thumbs branded indicated how two-sided the situation was.

Paul Revere’s famous engraving depicting the incident was intentional anti-British propaganda used to advance the cause of the revolution.

Who needs that when you’ve got Dead Or Alive Xtreme 2?

I’ll stick with my dog. She’d never snitch on me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bimetallic_strip

The ad was people doing generic AI stuff. I think it was even showing Copilot.

Either way, the marketing for AI is far to nebulous for it to matter. Just looking for the ad, I found plenty (like this one) that explicitly mention “on-device AI,” but show people just searching for shit or doing nebulous office work. This ad even shows generating images in MS Paint which offloads the AI shit to the cloud.

I’m talking about an ad I saw on broadcast television during a football game. I don’t think the broad market of people are downloading models from huggingface or whatever.

What kind of consumer-facing software runs on that NPU?

WTF even is an “AI PC”? I saw an ad for some AI laptop. To my knowledge, nobody is running LLMs on their personal hardware, so do these computers have like…a web browser?

In my experience, batteries aren’t really targets. The folks in Seattle just want the tubing that they can fence it for cash.

Yeah, there are a bunch of AI images in this style. It was all the rage with the Harry Potter cast for a while.

Yeah in this case, he dropped dead in a university lab. Nobody else was with him. Fucker was a marathon runner. Nobody knows what happened, but nobody suspects foul play.

As much as everyone loves to hate printers, the fact that a printer can grab a single sheet of paper off a huge stack even semi-reliably is more impressive to me than 14nm photolithography.

A friend of mine dedicated his life to birds and wildlife. He spent six months in Argentina weighing and banding penguins, worked to design autonomous buoys that track ocean data, and his personal birdwatching species count was over, 10k.

He passed away suddenly last March at the age of 33. He just got married the month before.

As tragic as his death was (especially for his widow), part of me thinks that there was some mercy in him dying so young rather than potentially living a long life of watching everything he cared about and worked to save get destroyed.

The old joke “what was the tallest mountain before Mt. Everest was discovered?”

“Mt. Everest”

Don’t forget there’s a Ram truck recall going on now, so you might get a free Yeti cooler.

I mean I was the Time person of the year in 2006, and I was still in high school.

https://youtu.be/tjdYmQBonew

Venezuelan Presidents are free. You can just take them.