He wants to be the next Goebbels so badly.

Dungeons & Dragons: Honour among Thieves was done by fans of D&D, and it really shows.

Well, the UX Design Team has to justify their existence somehow. And if there’s one thing they’re good at, it’s wowing management with snazzy presentations.

Making a snazzy presentation about the necessary overhaul of the data structure of the ingest system architecture is also just generally harder then just showing a flashy, colorful click dummy of the new homepage.

For example this: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/08/disney-reportedly-creates-task-force-to-explore-ai-and-cut-costs.html and this: https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/sag-aftra-amptp-studios-contract-artifial-intelligence-details-1234877093/ The second article details how due the strike the actor can consent to digital copies of themselves or not and reimbursed for their use but those digital actors are still coming.

Oh I know, that’s what I was refering to.

It doesn’t work like that. It will soon if Disney has their way, with actors selling away their likeness rights for perpetuity with their contracts.

Yes, because that’s what happens when a narcissist has way too much money. A person capable of self-reflection would realize that it’s much easier and safer to trust people around you that know more about their respective areas of expertise. That’s what good leaders do, they delegate. Musk is incapable of that. The companies he owns are not yet bankrupt despite, not because, of him.

Welcome to the mind of a narcissist.

That’s actually not a bad analogy. Politicians are rarely versed in topics they talk about and instead are just reiterating stuff experts told them. That’s why lobbyism works as well as it does.

Dito.

You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.

I think you mean where rich people rigging the system exploit people who have to follow the rules.

15 percent for banner ads is actually pretty good.

They are trying to create the narrative that Biden is helping Putin too because Trump so obviously does it. It’s whataboutism.

Which is bullshit for obvious reasons. Humans are no eels.

Needs a “darling” at the end but I absolutely read that in Astarion’s voice.

And this, children, is why we don’t give deeply personal data to companies.

Which is a terrible app. I made the mistake of buying a HP printer and that app crashes more than it works (and the printer doesn’t work without it, of course).

I don’t think even that would faze the real Elminster much. He’s as close to a god that a mortal can get in the Forbidden Realms I think, the champion of the living embodiment of magic itself. I mean, he didn’t even consider an Elder Brain to be worth his undivided attention.

Best thing about this is when you attack Elminster, he’s actually just a construct. So he didn’t even bother to turn up personally.