I think if animals could suddenly communicate with humans, those in power would be driving them to extinction even further as the animals would be very against the destruction of their homes and may hurt the bottom line.
If we had always been able to communicate with them, they might have rights.At least in some places.
I want actual AI, and not even necessarily for anything other than answering the question of "can we make a sentient being that isn't human?"
What is being sold as AI isn't anything cool, or special, or even super useful outside of extremely specific tasks that are certainly not things that can be sold to the general public.
If I help 100% of people that means that science will advance super fast and I can get those gnarly hands from Ghost in the Shell that split into even smaller fingers and allows me to type at 7,000WPM.
Lag. Or he was cheating. One of those two. Never anything else. I am objectively the best player of any game in the world and those who disagree will be fragged. Unless there's lag. Or you cheat. 😤
But seriously: I love Soulsborne games for the PVP. Unless they really are cheating (usually just in the form of using complicated exploits like move swapping), it was their skill over mine or I just completely fucked up. Elden Ring, on the other hand, feels messed up. DS3 has lag, sure, but it's something you quickly get accustomed to and it's pretty consistent. ER's (stock, anyway) multiplayer is straight up garbage. Can't even co-op without rubber banding all over the place. I've gotta see if Seamless Co-op is generally all around better for connectivity because the vanilla game's is horrible.
I asked for a Butterfinger once as a kid and for the next 30 something years, my parents treated it like it was my favorite candy of all time (hint: it's not).
All the new hype about a possible HL3 coming soon™ are more than likely a sequel to Alyx, considering it also coincides with leaks, trademarks and other info about an incoming new VR setup from Valve and/or a new Steam Deck.
It could be a straight up new VR game, or, hell, it could be doing something to show off a new idea in the handheld space now that I am really thinking about it. Maybe the new Steam Deck will have gnarly new gyroscopic motion tech or something they wanna show off.
They've been pretty adamant about not making a sequel for the sake of a sequel; if they have nothing they think is super cool to show off, they're not doing it. So the likely true rumors about them doing something is still exciting to me, even if it's not HL3 itself.
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