For reference, this is what Maya reminds me of, Merle Dandridge, VA for Half Life 2's Alyx Vance.
I've skipped to some slower commentary, just so that you can kinda see what a human and AI can sound like with similar pacing while reflecting on a question:
Wow, Jesus. Maya has the same conversational style that Merle Dandridge has in the Half Life 2 commentary tracks (in commentary mode).
That is, even for AI, eerily good. Honestly, I'm not sure if I could always tell them apart if I was fed a bunch of voice clips blind, and asked which ones were human, and which were AI.
This is giving me PTSD over my Comcast router/modem combo. It had no venting, so it suffered from overheating problems, despite having a fan (it would cause the internet performance to degrade dramatically). Eventually I just shucked the entire thing and ran it without it's plastic chassis. It ran perfectly after that.
https://corporate.comcast.com/media/img/1000w/2021/12/corporate_comcast-wifi-6e-gateway-press.jpg
It would be hilarious if it weren't for the 75m Americans being sacrificed because of these idiots. If it just affected morons who FAFO, it would be a bit more lighthearted.
It looks unrelated at first glance, but this basically sums up 2010-2023 in a nutshell for the crazies.
All the terrible shit I was predicting would happen when I knew he was going to run again has come to pass. Worse than my predictions, actually. But this was one of the ones I feared. :/
The nappies, lmao. They're really throwing everything in there. Still not sure why it's so expensive, though. They could have done the whole thing for $80k and still had a fat cut.
I agree, the last genuinely pretty game was Emerald, imo. Diamond and beyond is where 3D assets started weakening the art direction, imo. Either keep the beautiful pixel art, or do proper cel shaded graphics, like windwaker. Personally, I'd stick with pixel art for the strongest possible art direction.
Can confirm, especially the smaller sailboats like lasers and such. You can get going insanely fast on a windy day on the lake :)
My only wish is that we had all done this sooner. We could have given Ukraine the tools it needed two years ago. Hundreds, maybe even a thousand tanks, APCs, AA, artillery vehicles. As many fighter jets as we could rearm and train people on. Cruise missiles to penetrate and take down Russian supply lines. We waited too long, until Ukrainians got their armies ground down and America turned isolationist again.
It's not too late, but we really shouldn't have waited and drip fed our allies. :/
Trust us, we know. The educated ones, at least.