Anxious, but in a titillating sort of way.

Bonus! She’s totally done it too, and we all know it.

Ah yes. That’d be luck. And sometimes, just seeking refuge in audacity. Just stare the doctor right in the eyes and say: “What? Don’t pretend you haven’t done it too.”

Doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. He’ll pretend it is - if he knows what good for him.

Okay, I’m gonna be honest here: That’s one thing that’s never happened to me.

Lots of other… things, yes. But not that one.

While I don’t mind laissez-faire in principle, that not my favorite anarcho-flavor and I don’t wanna :)

Hell, why even have organic search results at all? Just rank results by how much each site owner is willing to bribe pay. A protection racket for the 21st century.

“That’s a nice website you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if it got no visitors.”

What a waste of bandwidth, energy and time.

I used to boycott Tesla. I still do, but I used to, too.

Well, that was… Profoundly disturbing in a way I haven’t seen since dodging a Reaper on foot in ME3.

“…and a great deal of patience as you wait for each NPC to formulate their replies. In the meantime, they’ll just be standing there looking at you with glassy eyes, smiling.”

Thing is, I really don’t see how that’d work for any useful scenario. Even in this very limited case, natural language processing and response generation is definitely off-loaded to a remote server farm. It certainly isn’t running on the console. TTS for a single characters voice could - but likely isn’t - be done on the hardware, but as I mentioned elsewhere, the voice models for modern text-to-speech synthesis are very, very large. Typically gigabytes of data - per voice. Completely unrealistic for any meaningful game.

Even if all those trained models existed (they don’t - and making one is considerably more work and expense than having a voice actor just deliver a fixed set of lines), I doubt any consumer would be amused by a multi-terabyte download.

Even as it is, the response latency is hilariously bad. I imagine players having to wait seconds for each NPC response would fly as well as a lead brick.

Interesting point, although I don’t see how you’d manage to run modern TTS (the models can get very large, and that’s per voice; as an example Parler-TTS’s mini model is 800Mb, the HQ model is 2.3Gb - for one voice) + a LLM for content synthesis on any personal hardware, console or not. The storage requirements alone would make that grossly infeasible.

Does anybody actually want that, ever?

Clearly those cartridges must’ve been made by some merry band of maritime robbers. You know, the kind of criminals who’d force you to give them your money, but give you nothing of proportional value in return.

Could be that the problem isn’t the firmware per se.

“Oh no. Our automatic door seems to have suffered a unfortunate malfunction while you were trying to leave the premises.”

I’m fine right here, thanks. Although I’d been using Reddit for some time at that point, I permanently left Digg as part of the Great Exodus. I don’t see any particular appeal to going back to a centralized service, especially in the current climate.

I’m currently using Sayonara, but Rythmbox is perfectly fine too.

You… grinds teeth may… have a point.

I have a confession to make: Unless shell script is absolutely required, I just use Python for all my automation needs.