Is he trying to pressure Europe into a joint action on Iran? Or in their calculus hurting China and Iran remains viable despite the blowback in the US? We don't have the whole picture, of course, but right now this only makes sense if to confuse your enemy you must shoot yourself in the foot first while singing Kumbaya.

It’s to make it so the strait is closed for everyone if it is closed for some. This hurts Iran’s already weak economy significantly but also its allies like China, especially if they’re shipping arms by sea.

US vessels blocking Chinese vessels in international waters would certainly have interesting and very immediate results. I'm not sure Trump realizes how big the cowpie is that he just faceplanted in.

For regulatory capture, of course. They are not fooling me. There may be other motives, and the more ever-doom-looking crowd can find something in it for themselves as well, but you don't have to dig any deeper if you are looking for an explanation for the perspective of the people actually building it.

The Chinese tech sector popularizing cheap and open source models sure did a number on that narrative, too. Llama models, a while ago, too.

Oh, come on, you give me the option the copy paste my run when I lose, but not when I win? Not cool.

https://i.imgur.com/m8jMVNa.png

I mean, the point is that you kinda always will die unless you beat round 10 where you actually win. The point is that its very hard and you only get to share your results after you go as far as you can. Do you think it needs improvements?

Some of Player of Games, too. Use of Weapons has a creative piece of furniture. You gotta excuse Banks, he was also a horror writer.

It's definitely _alluded_ to in Player of Games, mostly as a method of emphasising how unpleasant the Azad society is, but I don't think we ever really _see_ any of it?

(I may just be forgetting; it's probably at least a decade since I last read it.)

If I remember correctly, Gurgeh's internal narrative reveals what he observes in one of the secret channels that are restricted to the upper class. Unpleasant is quite the understatement. lol But yeah, I don't think we actually see it firsthand, it's more disturbing than gory.

Exactly. I very much doubt Israel is willing to entertain the possibility that a new Iranian government won't have any "animosity" towards them.

To give 24 some credit, it showed some Americans as complicit in the terrorism or corruption in the story. ZDT also touched on how torture wasn't as effective as assumed. I agree that the broader themes often feel biased/propagandized, framing the anti-hero, who's basically acting as a proxy for the government, as justified at almost any cost.

I guess Sony was expecting exactly that, since they recently pulled back from releasing games on PC.

I think they know better than pick a fight with this administration.

Of course, they'd do this during the next administration I suppose.

The are no consequences fighting with Democrats, however Republicans are petty and vindictive, and they now know how to weaponize all parts of the government. Also, having zero shame is a huge force multiplier.

Haha, that was fun. https://i.imgur.com/NBFytY3.png (it has spoilers of which shots the game is using)

I don't have many suggestions besides these:

1. Let the user choose between short, medium and long runs, say 10, 20 and 30 movies.

2. To make this more challenging, ensure the selection includes either exclusively black & white movies, exclusively color movies or a balanced mix of both. 12 Angry Men was easy to identify as it was the only one as such.

3. Perhaps create another ranking for "speedruns" (and differently sized runs).

4. Given that account creation can be a huge barrier for some users, state upfront that you are only requiring username and password.

Also, for some reason I couldn't copy and paste these suggestions in the textarea.

Thanks for the feedback!!

I suspect these Chinese models already "struggle" to generate anything remotely similar to that.