There’s a wild spread on both pay and the requirements to work as a teacher. Some places require barely more than a pulse. Some places require years of schooling. Some places pay teachers no better than shelf-stockers. Some pay a decent wage and/or have a decent pension/benefits system. It’s definitely not a monoculture.

What’s that squeaking?

It’s a bird!

It’s a rocking chair!

No, it’s…

*bah BAbah BABAAAAAH*

Not to be overly pedantic on the internet, but that’s not a catch 22. A catch 22 is a situation in which the only way to prevent a problem is to already have dealt with the problem. It comes from the concept in the book of the same name where the only way to get out of the draft is to have already served in the military.

Overlap of snoring and door sounds. If you want to choose, snoring is more relevant for subtitling as it shows character state.

As long as the sample size is large enough outliers can be absorbed.

But, but, but da butt…

‘You’re totally right, humanity. How could you have known? The failure of those previous generations to teach you to make better decisions regarding the future of humanity was horrible and irresponsible, but if you need someone to talk with or just to vent, I’m available any time.’

Oh, hey, it’s the kid from that episode of the Psi Effect

Never forget that it isn’t thinking, at all. It comprehends nothing. It’s just a very big, expensive autocomplete. It didn’t understand when it was using the right property, it just rolled its d10000 and got something that fit requirements, but on the time it failed, it rolled outside of the desired range. No thought, just numbers.

I absolutely do judge, because it doesn’t make them happy. At no point during their run on the approval-seeking treadmill of ‘gotta shave off another 0.3 seconds from my time, no wait, 0.4 seconds, no wait…’ do they actually have the briefest of moments where they can feel like they are just okay to be who they are. It’s painful for them to chase the carrot on a stick, vicariously painful for others to watch, and readily turns them into toxic people when they can’t get their fix.

The taco toots can be vicious.

Very much the right comm for this post.

Now I’m chuckling at the thought that the view from these glasses is likely to be used for training AI, so you could have a bit of fun just aiming them at the most horrifying but legal porn you can find and plonk them down aimed at the screen while you go do other stuff.

There are inherent limits to the idea.

Videos are almost never the best medium for advanced learning. That’s why universities aren’t just collections of DVDs. Books remain the best method for the dense transfer of ideas, and are unlikely ever to be surpassed.

YouTube algorithms don’t analyse content, only user behaviour. Someone who likes an in-depth discussion of Anti-Oedipus might also like a Japanese music video. YouTube does not care why, only that they engaged. YouTube also actively fights niche feed curation. Liking A, B, and C, will get you A, B, and C, but also G (because it’s kind of like C, even though a human would know they’re different) 8 (because it’s vaguely similar to B) and whatever the current versions of pewdiepie, the Paul brothers, mr. beast, etc. are (because if they can get you to watch their BS, they can sell more ads for more money) regardless of how disimilar they might be to anything else you watch.

Not a doctor but having a cancerous tumor with a hollow core filled with even dead bacteria sounds possibly worse.

When the first guy who called himself a king’s swordsmen fell asleep. Should have peasant mobbed his oversized hovel and never let anyone do it again.

Yes and no. I’d be amazed if any code from the original was/could be used for the second. One was unity. Two was unreal. C# vs C++.

The other thing is money. It doesn’t get the second dev team paid as well to spend a figurative 5 minutes polishing an old game when they can milk 5 months of pay out of the publisher by making a de-make. If the publisher is paying they might start from scratch just to have it take longer. I can’t say for sure, but I would bet real-life money the contract on the second was much more beneficial to the publisher vs the devs on the second than the first.

Then there’s marketability. Offer people the same game from 2016 and they’ll want to pay the same price as the game from 2016 and many of them won’t want to buy it at all because they still have the old one. Offer them something that looks like an upgrade (‘Look! It’s 3D now, and higher resolution.’) and milk people’s nostalgia for a game they loved ‘in the before times’ and you can squeeze modern inflated prices out of them.

Best answer I’ve ever had for this was ‘find something to support.’ It can be anything. Just find a space where you have people trying to do something for the benefit of others with some bare minimum cost of entry. The group coming from people trying to help others will bias it toward nicer people. The cost of entry, even something small like $5/mo or physically present volunteering, deters anonymous trolling.

The other good option is classes. Doing things to improve your skills in something is generally worthwhile anyway, but it also puts you in contact with other people who share an interest.

Seems like an obvious answer. Changing hands. The original creator of a thing is usually obsessed with it. Someone hired by a publisher to milk an IP is usually just there to work. I’m sliding more and more toward just assuming any game that isn’t basically 100% made before publishers get their mitts on it is going to suck.

The bland-ing of the art and the sluggishness were the things that hit me most. The snappy action and well-matched visual art/hitboxes were key to my enjoyment of the first one. Also, really hate the voice acting. At no point playing the original did I think, ‘man these generic filler text lines would be so much better if they were being unskippably forced into my ears as audio.’