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They are redoing all of the discworld books like this, and personally I can't stand it.

What, no way, they did not replace Steven Fry.

Usually I agree with this with the exception of hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy where the audio drama is much better than the audiobook version.

They still don't understand the context of what they're reading though so they can't apply tone correctly.

Couldn't we just stop using it. I can't imagine deleting the account will have any measurable impact because I don't trust them not to just retain the data like Facebook does.

most people use it for PORN anyways

Damn, there's erotic tweets?

Surely the actionable end state for Microsoft is to cease their AI support in Palestine? Of course they won't so functionally this doesn't really matter, but I agree that it makes sense to have a stated goal even if it's just for the purposes of explaining the boycott to other people.

The German language's ability to communicate meaning simply through word length is impressive.

Brizlet is probably fine, but Viornzirgizuetunkuszt probably means resource extraction with nuclear bombs or something.

Honestly audible are terribles. They are constantly doing things that annoy me, like they must have a team somewhere that spends its days going, how can we kill this golden goose?

They are going through and replacing audiobooks recorded in the 1980s with new ones which in theory should improve their quality but they're getting rid of the classic sounds of those books.

My experience is these systems never get the intonation and stresses right. It drives me nuts and I can't listen to it.

That's because the founding fathers forgot to put in the Constitution don't be corporate dicks because they thought it was obvious.

Isn't that the point though it wouldn't have occurred to a random member of the public because a random member of the public isn't a politician.

I'm completely confused about what you're mad about. There was public outcry Boris Johnson ended up running away because there was an investigation that would have ended badly for him.

Also you seem to be mad at Starmer despite the fact that I don't recall him having personally done anything ever. I don't particularly agree with Labour's current direction but that's a whole party issue.

That's what she said.

It's not a bug, the swing sits in New York just do that.

I'm taking bets on whether we'll get GTA 7 before GTA 6

What universe are you from where it's coming out next week.

Even if they got it right the first time if they introduce new characters later on they have to rebalance everything.

Game seasons are not really the same thing as live service games though.

I'm really not into Tekken but there are games I play that have setup. Of course probably the most famous of all been Foxhole.

Anyway the point is that without "seasons" (simply called that because it harkens back to TV not because there are necessarily four in a year) there isn't really any natural conclusion to the game, so you have short tournaments and people rank up within those tournaments, but obviously you don't want the tournaments to go on for too long because otherwise there's no way in for new players as they'll start way down the rankings and not be able to compete. The solution for this is to reset everything every season, but then you've got the problem that people learn the meta and are able to rank up to high ranks almost immediately, whereas newer players don't stand a chance so you haven't really fixed the problem, the solution to that is to change the meta every season. That way everyone has an equal chance of working it out for themselves and ranking up.

I'm pretty sure they even did this with OverWatch back in the day.

Got to love how a game that is centred around crime can be "woke".