Did people really just figure out their hate for discs was the hate for resellers and rentals?
Fucking hell man, next you’re gonna tell us they sell consoles at a lost to trap consumers in their ecosystem of expensive games and not out of the goodness of their heart.
If you just fucking realized this, it’s better than not.
But it doesn’t mean you should be listened to, because everyone that actually cares enough to string two thoughts together figured this out fucking years/decades ago.
Serrano did not void the midterm exam, but warned students that the final one, which counted for 50% of the final grade, would be held in-person. He also said that if the grade distribution was not similar to the midterm, only the final exam would be taken into account. The average score dropped to 48 out of 100. Of the 89 students who did the midterm exam, only 59 showed up for the final one. And of the 27 who did not show up, 22 had scored a perfect 100 in the midterm exam.
“The empirical evidence of fraud is overwhelming,” says the professor, who has decided to make changes for the coming academic year. First, the weekly exercises will not count towards the final grade, as these could be done with AI. Second, no more take-home exams, no matter how appropriate they would be.
Bruh…
Long before chatbots people were 100% cheating on “closed book, take him tests” there is no fucking way they weren’t.
If you had told a class 30 years ago the same thing, the same result would have happened.
Saying if you don’t match you only get the worse score, is going to discourage a shit ton of students.
The real problem is “closed book take home”. And professors expecting students to not open the book. It’s nothing about them, it’s the current culture. If you don’t cheat you can’t compete. Elite places like Ivy League schools will always be full of cheaters in this climate, because they’ll out compete people with ethics.
Pretty sure the author nailed it, but I hit a paywall before I could copy it.
Anyways:
The only plausible explanation is they licensed this feature, expected huge sales to cover the license, and now can’t.
I don’t think they have licensed it per use, it was likely a flat fee and now they’re desperate to recoup it. They can’t do it by sales, so it’s monthly fees.
It might not even be this directly, but some other license and this is just where they can squeeze consumers. They might have even just picked what gets used the most
They’re gonna learn all the wrong lessons from bg3 and copy it
The lesson should be to let studios do what they’re good at. They need to find a good studio they trust, give them BG4, and trust them to make a good game even if fundamentally different than bg3 or bg2.
It’s the antithesis of COD or Madden that release carbon copies every year, give people a new game with a familiar setting
To be fair, bg3 is more Divinity Souls 3 than BG3…
They just slapped some BG paint on top of it.
Trying to find a studio that can make a sequel to that isn’t going to work out well. They need to make the tough call of finding another studio that will take the franchise and make a good game how they know how to make a good game.
For a lot of this large scale shit, it’s easier to get it to somewhere in Alaska close to a port than the middle of small town America and definitely in residential areas of major metro areas.
They prefer small towns adjacent to major metros because thats where the bribes are cheapest for tax breaks and property deals.
Again, this is all corrupt capitalism making the decisions. Those decisions won’t be good for anyone except the people paying for them or getting paid to make them.
That’s why it’s “cheap” if we enforced regulations and zoning, it wouldn’t even be an option.
Like, arguing that gas is cheaper than an EV, but you only care about price at pump and not all the gas subsidizes we have to pay because of fossil fuel lobbyists.
Gas is “cheaper” but only because oligarchs are making it the cheapest option.
We can just make environmentally prudent decisions the cheapest via regulations.
That’s literally the point of environmental regulations and why Cleveland hasnt had any rivers catch fire in almost 60 years. It would be “cheaper” to handle industrial waste like that again if it wasn’t for regulations.
Lasher—who no AI company spent big money to elect—had just beaten Alex Bores, a state assemblyman who became the unlikely center of an extraordinary bidding war between rival AI factions. Pro-safety AI super PACs, including Public First Action backed by Anthropic, poured $19 million into supporting Bores. Leading the Future, tied to OpenAI president Greg Brockman and Andreessen Horowitz, spent $8 million trying to destroy him. Lasher won with 39% of the vote (while Kennedy scion Jack Schlossberg came in a distant third place). And then Lasher pledged to pursue the same AI regulation agenda as the man he beat.
Regardless of letter by the name, absolutely no amount of money can buy as many votes as anyone would get by not taking AI money…
No one actually wants this shit except the politicians who have been bribed to make it happen no matter what.
Pushing this hard on one of the only issues that actually has widescale support is going to really backfire. Even people who see AI is inevitable, none of them want datacenters anywhere near them.
What’s fucking crazy, is no one is trying to build out in Alaska.
Cold as fuck, sparsely populated, huge tax breaks for everyone, and I gotta assume there’s major internet connections they could tap into when it crosses continents at the shortest point.
Or like Japan building underseas by thermal vents, but in America they build them in fucking neighborhoods, likely knowing it will crash all surrounding property values giving them easy expansion down the road.
Understanding and treating human diseases requires thorough knowledge of disease-causing molecular and pathophysiological mechanisms. Despite the recent advances in induced pluripotent stem cell techniques, many of these aspects remain challenging to study, especially under physiological conditions in patient-derived material [1,2]. In order to be reliable and valuable, the disease model should recapitulate if not the entire human disease phenotype, then at least the key features of each specific disease under study [3]. For precision medicine, a good understanding of the genetic bases of variation in phenotypes and their interaction with the environment in health and disease are required [4,5]. Thus, animal models, and especially genetically modified (GM) mice, offer great potential to serve as precious preclinical models that facilitate basic understanding of disease pathomechanisms and provide clues for the development of treatment options and novel strategies to follow a treatment’s response.
Also delta 9 is regular thc no? delta 8 and delta 10 and HHC and THCa and all that are the “legal” derivatives that aren’t spice.
Yes…
That’s what I’m saying. It’s not a binary ratio. Even with the same percentage of THC or CBD, that is many different types of THC and many different types of CBD.
And then there are others, which similarly have a lot of variations.
It’s only complicated if you still have simplified Mendelian view of variation. Real life ain’t 6th grade science man, shits fucking complicated.
The same plant will have variation on itself, even clones have variation.
Bruh, it’s not just two, there’s a shit ton of different kinds of both main types, and a few others.
That’s why “delta 9” and the original “spice” shit started out close to real weed, they used the closest chemicals to the main ones. Then those also got outlawed and they used worse ones, to now where I’d assume it’s just bathsalts and kratom.
That’s the maine difference.
Unless you’re smoking insane amounts of flower, like Willie Nelson levels, terepens are just flavor. And by that point you’re too stoned to notice.
Circling back to other methods of terepen consumption.
This is being pushed because it can be stripped from hemp when they make delta 9 shit.
As I’ve said a pine tree is all the terepen a community could ever need.
Terepenes from weed are pretty much pseudo science, and the furthest this goes is “may be beneficial”…
Chocolate is also beneficial, “beneficial” is a very low bar. It doesn’t mean the stuff in them doesn’t work, it means it’s a very inefficient way to get that stuff. Like drinking expensive wine instead of just eating some grapes.
If you actually want to try terepenes, you do what people across the planet have done for thousands of years and make pine tea. A single pine tree provides limitless fresh ingredients year round and you can get a much higher dose with zero other stuff.
Weeds cool and all, but it’s always so stupid when people talk about the expensive chemical way and not the free and natural way.
What?!
You think before Steam people could resell and loan PC games like console?!
Why just make shit up? You know Steam ain’t that old and people remember pre-Steam…
Right?