There are definitely a couple of bits of the trailer that are pretty jarring, but the starter Pokémon feel like a welcome return to form - they’re clever and distinctive.

The bits that stood out to me as really weird in the trailer:

• The art style of the drawings changes in the beginning.
• The arm opening the door seems weirdly realistic.
• The Pokéball stays in mid air instead of landing on the ground after capturing something.

None of those things reflect on using AI to create the actual game, though.

Another touch typer here. I cut my teeth on online MUDs in the 90s - literally a type-fast-or-your-character-dies situation.

I noticed a lot of the players doing that neck grabbing thing in the World Cup this year.

I get a visceral reaction every time I see it. It’d be a massive red flag if someone tried to do it to me.

Is it a new Andrew Tate/alpha male kind of thing? It’s weird and I don’t like it.

It’s not used for marking, obviously.

Just talking about my field specifically, but LLM agents are used in educational institutions to support students with both the course and admin sides of things. They’re doubly handy because they’re also used to collate all of the interactions and identify common blind spots and flag students that are at risk of failing.

This took me too long before I realised it was probably an accent thing. Is “dew” pronounced like “do” in the US?

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Two ways to read “a new age verification setup”.

You assume it means:

a new “age verification” setup

But then find out if means:

a “new age” verification setup

Two starches can be magnificent - it’s hard to beat a good chip butty.

Is this really true? (Answer provided below)

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I think it mostly depends on the community. There are people from all over the world on here, and different groups have different demographics.

Unless you’re using a server that’s super-picky in its federation, I can’t see that the server makes much of a difference.

Honestly, with the state of many questions posted here, I’d be surprised if there wasn’t a fair number of bots posting here.

One user in particular, has a posting history that is highly sus.

You include car safety features in your list of reasons that you think the EU is going to collapse?

I hate to tell you, but you might be onto a losing battle. It’s been a mandatory safety feature on all new cars in the EU for a few years now.

Black Books (s1e4). It’s a daft Father Ted / IT Crowd style comedy.

The main character’s posh friends are angry at him for being extremely drunk at a dinner party and traumatising their son, who has been walking around with a shocked open-mouthed expression ever since walking in on him going to the toilet in their kitchen. He tries to downplay it by saying that’s how children normally look.

“What? What? He looks surprised. All children look surprised. Everything’s new to them.”

FWIW, the UK currently has a bill in place that will lower the voting age to 16 before the next General Election (so, before Aug 2029).

I think it’ll be a good thing. Young people are a good deal more aware of what’s happening in the country than old people are. I mean, the current arrangement has stripped away the housing and career prospects of young people and brought us to the verge of fascism again.

For information based things, absolutely.

Something that people don’t seem to understand is that there’s a difference between AI and GenAI.

And that within GenAI, there’s low cost stuff like text and graphics, and high cost like video and audio.

And that with tools developed with GenAI often do not use GenAI when it is run.

AI is super useful and you use it in a bunch of applications already without even realising it. The camera that interprets speed signs and displays them on your dashboard = AI. Spam filters = AI. Google translate = AI.

I don’t know what you think my greater point was, maybe you’ve accidentally conflated me with another poster.

My point actually is that these are not unprecedented rates. These are entirely precedented rates. This is gross capitalism destroying the world as gross capitalism always does. What you’ve lost sight of, though, is the respective scale of things.

As I said, the US alone needlessly wastes vastly more energy and water than the entire world’s usage of AI consumes. For energy, it’s several times more, for water it’s orders of magnitude more.

You make out that solving these massive problems is impossible, so instead you’re railing against AI. Which of course is your prerogative, but just remember that there are much bigger wins out there.

There is a point there, though.

American cars are much less efficient than European ones.

The amount of water required for AI data centres worldwide is more than an order of magnitude lower than the water required for just corn in the US alone. Only a small fraction of which actually gets used for food.

The average energy usage per person in the US is nearly three times higher than someone in the UK.

The environmental cost of data centres is absolutely a concern, but we shouldn’t forget the US alone wastes more energy and resources than are used by data centres worldwide.