You do not have to be a genius to be a great chess player. Also, thats not how you properly set up the board.
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Aliens connect their nanoprobes to your the main character's PC and download the Internet so they can judge humanity.
Even if they had magic tech to do this, they're still constrained by the MC's shitty 10Mbit DSL. Somehow they can download everything humanity has ever done in 5 seconds, and all while pictures of it are showing up on the monitor for no good reason.
Not necessarily, if they have "magic tech", they could be uploading a virus that rapidly spreads across the entire internet, making every machine broadcast its data through electromagnetic waves or something like that, picking up all those transmitions with said magic tech.
It would still take longer just to read the data off off all the storage, but theoretically not DSL
I would like to see ONE person depicted as playing video games (M&K or controller) and have their hand inputs look believable, not just randomly flailing at the device. I would die a happy man if the inputs corresponded to what's displayed in the game.
I spent my life as a game dev.
This is the gamer equivalent of when you hear music and see someone playing an instrument in a show/movie, and nothing they are doing matches the music.
Good parallel. I don't even need it to be perfect, I just don't need to see a person holding a controller when it's obvious they have never touched one in their life and they're just randomly thrashing at it like a curious monkey
Honestly, movies and shows should stick to showing people playing racing games, because then you only need to instruct the actor to move the left stick around and hit the right trigger.
Perfectly believable gameplay with just two inputs.
But they almost always need to show them playing a shooter because then they get to talk about how hard they are killing everybody while doing their best impression of what their 13 year old nefew talks about on Fortnite or COD or whatever, but as a 30 year old actor. Lol
And the director needs to be shouting instructions at the actor... Move your head more, like you're dodging real bullets
Movies: "What? You're making robots? But what if they become evil?"
Me: "No, actually you can prevent that easily by..."
Movies: "Ghost in the machine! Bugs! Hackers! Robot becomes self-concious and disables its safeguards! Evil!"
Me: "Our robots are not even that advanced. Also you can easily add an off switch and..."
Movies: "They've bridged their off-switch! Terminators kill all humans now. All robots become evil!"
Me: "Whether they become evil or not depends on how you implement it and also ... "
Movies: "Evil robots! More evil robots! The downfall of humanity!"
Every. Damn. Movie. For once I would like to see a movie with robots that don't turn into mindless "cuz evil" killing machines. It's really annoying how widespread the fearmongering about robots is in movies.
Also, why the fuck do all robots have the worst possible speech synthesizers ever? Heck, even the announcements in subway trains and buses have better natural sounding computer voices than robots in movies.
lmao is that Ubuntu?!
BAZINGA!
LAUGH TRACK
My first and only exposure to that god-awful show as a small snipped my GF at the time insisted I watch.
"I'm playing games. On an... emulator"
11 SECONDS OF WILD LAUGHTER
I wish I could hack into infrastructure in real time.
There's more to sideshow than sword swallowing, there's more to fire performance than fire breathing
- My car doesn't have a cigarette lighter
- My fridge has food in it
- There is/isn't a guy named Ivan at work
Accountants actually spend hardly any time doing tax work. And in most countries tax returns are automatic anyway, so no, AI isn't going to destroy all the accountant jobs.
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