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Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys comic has been canceled by Dark Horse

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Every new thing I hear about pratchett is how great of a person he was. Literally never heard anything negative about him.

When he heard that trans people were identifying with the dwarves in his novels, he was like "that wasn't the intent but I'm happy all kinds of people are finding themselves in my characters", so just generally great.

To put on one of his plays, you don't pay his estate, you give a donation to a urangutan preservation society.

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The Outer Worlds 2 - Official Story Trailer | Xbox Games Showcase 2025

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While I agree with you, it's a bit unfair to compare the two.

DE is "just" a point and click pushed to an absurd level of quality, meaning that most of the production can go into managing a story.

OW is an fps, meaning you need a gameplay loop, weapons, balancing, environments, etc etc. It's also a dark satire, not a serious philosophical work like elysium. Reading 10 pages of text on the nature of violence before you get to shoot your gun would not work.

This doesn't excuse a weak story, but does explain how it's much more difficult and costly to fit one in there. (yes bioshock, but those games are the exception in fps games).

I would love a better story, with a tightly integrated story, that would be very difficult to pull off in the current game dev space at this scale.

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Indeed. Also the picture is showing fillers or silicone. Botox is mostly harmless as it is gradually removed by the body. It paralyses muscles, which is why actors who use it can't emote, but it does not cause the stung-by-a-bee look.

It is often used for migraines, neurological - muscular conditions, and for delicate surgery where you need a muscle to remain paralysed while it heals or during surgery.

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The first year of free-threaded Python

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6 years of python and I've never really had that problem, also working on larger projects. Use poetry or uv and you'll probably be fine. Unless you're doing something strange with your dependencies. The only thing I would say is non trivial is updating the dependencies. And if a library has a bug or something you have to downgrade for. You can specify dev dependencies for notebooks and such. I've not heard of mlflow having a problem with a manager. Perhaps you're in a cloud environment and don't have access to poetry for example?

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AI art steals from the poor and has no place in modern society

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Or you could pay someone... There's a bunch of starting artists who work for cheap. There, saved you $79.5k Sadly your novel won't sell because it's been buried by an avalanche of ai generated books. (amazon recently limited the number of books you can self publish to only five per day... Your argument works both ways, why should I study and practice for years to learn to write my own novel (or pay you) when Ai can just generate it for me?

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AI art steals from the poor and has no place in modern society

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Gains for who? If Ai does all the art and books and all the artists are broke, the only ones left are the corporations making money, and the ones selling AI/hardware. The rest are left with generic art, and ironically, innovation in art will stall because Ai cannot innovate.

And it's not being used as a tool, you yourself said that you'll use it instead of paying an artist. As I said, there's already a ton of Ai books being churned out, flooding the market. Are you fine with yourself being replaced by Ai because it's cheaper?

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Before and after programming

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You, god, pretty much any Formatter and ide. Black Formatter: "All leading tabs are converted to spaces, but tabs inside text are preserved." Vscode has a command to convert between the two, and non-leading tabs are a simple replace/regex away from being converted. If you mean unorthodox spacing, if you have code with like 7 leading spaces, then that's a matter for a priest.