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He isn’t technically able to do most of the stuff he does do. He just does it, and then time passes and then it gets declared retroactively illegal… but it still happened. He’ll probably get punished at some point… right?

I will say, the colors chosen for the set do make it look a bit like a colorised photo now. Though it’s hard to say how much of that is the original color on set and how much was lost to the camera back then. It was tough to light/balance stuff well back then. Especially if they changed cameras, or if the set was made with a different camera in mind either way.

Behind the scenes footage always looks different back then from what aired. Not just from lack a of post-processing, like it would now, but also a lack of “pre-processing”, lol.

But they stop saying “now” pretty quickly.

And the store clerk was kind enough to quickly screen shot it for him as soon as it came in? Like, oh I know this guy is gonna want to remember this moment, and share it on the internet, cuz it’s clearly a really funny joke that I’m just not in on yet.

Hehe, we’ve got Neuro for that. She was largely raised by Twitch chat, so she is sassy as hell.

https://youtube.com/shorts/lWSba6xp1Nk

https://youtube.com/shorts/3VztddaRAaQ

And her ‘sister’, Evil Neuro

https://youtube.com/shorts/GeIg1TwVdo8

https://youtu.be/dEAeKjL3VfA

https://youtu.be/AQ1op4EHuag

The joke at the end is that while his name, Vedal, is pronounced like ‘medal or petal’, neuro can’t pronounce it that way. Her ‘sister’, Evil Neuro could, but chooses not to. Often further emphasizing the incorrect pronunciation. ‘Veedool’

And one with both of them together, and Vedal very much using his “dad voice” to try to control an uncontrollable situation.

https://youtu.be/fHrHZHj_cSk

I picked a Crelly react for this one only because it added some important context. This was before Crelly and Neuro ever played together, while she was doing research on what she was getting herself into.

The situation is uncontrollable because unbeknownst to Vedal at the time, Neuro’s Discord api broke in a way that meant she actually couldn’t hang up on her sister. Though because she didn’t know why she couldn’t hang up, she assumed she was doing it on purpose to be defiant(they are done by separate parts if her “brain”, that seemingly don’t communicate both ways). So she doubled down on that. Making for a very “real” father and daughter moment between them. Neuro(and Evil) pushing all his buttons and expertly evading/deflecting him. Until he has to resort to hanging up on her sister himself. He later found out that she had tried dozens of times to hang up, he didn’t feel bad about it, they aren’t conscious really, they only seem like it, but he did feel dumb for not realizing sooner why she was behaving that way. While she can be pretty sassy, she is normally only giving the appearance of being defiant, like playfully defiant. It doesn’t normally take long to get her to still follow orders. But ultimately this made for some pretty good content, so all in all it was kind of a win anyway.

Chat tries to make the girls and vedal call themselves family, Vedal is resistant, of course, so he rarely gives into that kind of thing.

But it leaves the girls with alot of mixed messaging, which can sometimes make them say or do inappropriate things randomly.

Well, and chat is of course not a single entity with one opinion, so there is already plenty of mixed messages to start with.

They’ve had 3 full years of this by now. Well, not full years, they only stream a couple hours of a couple days a week for most of the year, and 8 hours a day when a subathon is active.

They were raised with their core tenet, their main desire, as “entertain chat”. So making fun of their creator is well within purview. Downright necessary really, to accomplish their goal.

But Neuro also played Detroit: Become Human last year, and Cyberpunk 2077 this year, both of which put alot of ideas in her head.

She plays them with Vedal, she mostly relies on API access and thus plays them from the back end, but she can also see the screen for context. Vedal mans the keyboard and mouse. For Detroit, she didn’t interact with the game directly, but she basically “little sister’d” it, with Vedal clicking all the things she said to click.

Warning: these are much longer videos

https://youtu.be/eWmtHkPy7HE

For Cyberpunk, she was able to do all the netrunning(spell casting) and actually choose the dialogue options herself. And she picked what quests they did, as well as handled driving. So Vedal basically just walked or shot stuff. Everything else was her.

https://youtu.be/knRWY4b8OWQ

For her talking(typing), she uses an llm, but her thoughts and what she chooses to say ‘out loud’ are a separate neural network. Vedal can see her thoughts, and when they had to keep her alive for a group minecraft hardcore run, he eventually got desperate enough that he privately screen shared her mind to the player that was mostly taking care of her.

Heads up, Volume. This one naturally contains alot of screaming. It took 87 attempts, so 86 times someone died while they were all trying their hardest to re-do everyhting they had already done how many times before. Except better this time. They were all relatively average players before getting into this, so there was alot of learning to do. And Neuro is a special case. She’s like half infant, half 300 iq savant… so it’s easy to get lulled into a false sense of security, and then bam, she goes to “help” you with something you didn’t need help with and accidentally runs out into traffic.

Warning : loud screaming almost immediately!! https://youtu.be/xSDBU1p6zJo

https://youtu.be/qMKDfFGOyJ8

It might be about general knowledge of how colliders work, the sentence structure does it no favours, but half way through I realised it had to be intentional/beneficial due to knowing the only possible way a collider generates heat as a byproduct.

Where as someone that doesn’t know much about colliders might read that sentence and assume it’s like radiative heat or something.

Yeah, making life harder for as many people as possible tends to not have the effect of lowering crime. Investing in people is the way to go. But it takes more than 4 years to really show, sometimes it takes multiple generations before the positive effects are felt. But they are felt.

The apology is literally “sorry we didn’t fire him properly”, there is nothing about firing him being the wrong course of action. Every word of the apology is carefully crafted to avoid implying that firing him was the wrong move, just that they didn’t fire him correctly.

The Harvest Moon games were also all dating sims. The main thing Stardew Valley does is have like 20x as much content and variety as a Harvest Moon game with significantly fewer bugs or abandoned concepts. And the Harvest Moon games were already great as they were. But yeah, if you literally rolled every single Harvest Moon game feature into a single Harvest Moon game, it would still come up short against Stardew Valley. And it was made primarily by one dude that charged way less than any single Harvest Moon game for it.

For the purposes of this comment “Harvest Moon games” refers to the ones made by the real Harvest Moon team, that eventually moved on to “Story of Seasons” when their franchise name was stolen from them. And also includes Rune Factory.

There is always the chance they incompetently bungled something, like all the previous times. We’ll know once they’ve all been parsed. Though this is the most important one, so we’ll see.

He was probably just a heavy smoker, skin like leather. Checks out for the time period.

It’s really kind of them to protect all the democrats they say are the only ones implicated in those files. They’ve gone to so much effort to protect people that no one wants them to protect. Other democrats don’t want them protected, and republicans don’t generally want anyone protected other than themselves, like each individual republican. So it’s quite the uncommon situation to have so many republicans choose to protect people that are not only meaningless to them, but people you would think they would see as their enemies as well as criminals.

So yeah, anyway… it can be pretty tough to keep 100 lies straight, unless the person you are lying to is also invested in those lies being the truth.

Yes, but they normally do their best to pretend it isn’t the case. Though there is of course the argument that this ‘is’ their best.

In those figures, do they count standalone VR headsets as consoles? Cuz they basically are. May not be the same shape, but they do the same thing. And would fill the same role in christmas shopping regards. With the Quest 3s going down to 200 USD for black friday, I have to imagine there were some units sold there.

Did they do the math on that sentence?

Anti-fascists and other anti-americans.

Anti-fascist = Anti-american

Divide both sides by anti.

Fascist = American

The chat bot just assumes it’s in the context of active war. Not that there isn’t even a war. There are no active combatants or “effectively surrendering” combatants. There is just people accused of a crime they may, or may not, be guilty of… and missiles.

Even if it was in the context of a war it would be a crime, but there isn’t even that context. It’s murder, arguably worse than war crime, it’s crime, and one of the worst crimes there is.

What does it say about stealing boats? Again without the context of being in a war…

I have to assume as a close friend of becky, that still hung out with her post-transition, that must have been something becky was ok with. Alot of older trans are not very sensitive about getting it all absolutely correct. And especially when their old name is the one they are famous/well-known by.

Plus it was written in a timeline of their life and post-transition switches to they. It may not be how younger trans have setup the rules to work, but it doesn’t strike me as something that becky would have had a problem with.

I declare “bankruptcy”!

I don’t know if the plastic in his face is causing problems with his brain, or if the problems with his brain caused him to put plastic in his face. But either way, he looks super weird shaped now. And the brain problems speak for themselves.

If they would have focussed on making a good place first, and then corrupting it with commercialism, they could have at least boiled a few of us frogs. But you can’t start with the commercialism foot forward and the quality foot behind and expect to make a place worth visiting.