The paper (linked from the article) has a photo of the actual tablet in question, which was apparently discovered circa 1900.

As a fan of Ms. Marvel, I enjoyed the main campaign well enough, but all the MMO stuff is obnoxious. Luckily you can mostly ignore it and go through the campaign missions single-player. I uninstalled it after getting to the end of the story.

Using it to describe streaming services isn’t new. For example, here’s a Variety article from 2019 that uses it that way.

“Streamer” has been a widely-used entertainment-industry term for streaming companies for years. It’s not a new thing people are making up to be cute.

I think this is a more subtle question than it appears on the surface, especially if you don’t think of it as a one-off.

Whether or not Scientology deserves to be called a “religion,” it’s a safe bet there will be new religions with varying levels of legitimacy popping up in the future. And chances are some of them will have core beliefs that are related to the technology of the day, because it would be weird if that weren’t the case. “Swords” and “plowshares” are technological artifacts, after all.

Leaving aside the specific case of Scientology, the question becomes, how do laws that apply to classes of technology interact with laws that treat religious practices as highly protected activities? We’ve seen this kind of question come up in the context of otherwise illegal drugs that are used in traditional rituals. But religious-tech questions seem like they could have a bunch of unique wrinkles.

I haven’t run into too many bugs in the game, but in combat it’s frequent for the game to have to sit there for several seconds thinking about what an enemy should do next. Hope that’s one of the performance improvements they’re working on.

Your answer touches on something I can’t really relate to, which may be the key to my lack of understanding: people’s desire to get information in the form of videos rather than text. It just seems so much slower to me. I can skim 50 Google or Yelp reviews of a restaurant in the time it takes to watch a single short video review. I might watch one video along the way if I want a sense of the ambience of the place, or some other information that’s hard to convey well in writing, but that’s it.

It does seem like it may be a generational thing, though. I’ve seen the same trend in my work-related searches: sometimes I search for technical information and instead of a blog post that takes me 30 seconds to digest well enough to tell if it’s even going to answer my question and that I can copy-paste example code from to play with, I get an hourlong YouTube video. This is a relatively new thing that has only become common in the last 5 years or so. I used to think it was purely about monetization (videos pay more than blog posts) but I see people, especially beginners, asking for technical information in video form. To me that’s like saying, “Please answer my question in the least convenient form possible.”

Apparently this is my “kids these days, who can understand them?” topic.

More recently, there’s been a shift to entertainment-based video feeds like TikTok — which is now being used as a primary search engine by a new generation of internet users.

I must be an old fogey because I can’t understand how TikTok would be usable as a primary search engine unless all you ever search for is TikTok videos.

If I’m part of the new generation of Internet users and I want to, say, see the menu of the restaurant where my date is taking me for dinner, or check my favorite band’s discography, or see if the reviews for the latest Netflix show are good, how do I do any of that on TikTok?

Someone please explain how this works, assuming that statement in the article is true.

Tunic, but that was kind of the point.

Totally fair! That doesn’t particularly bother me but you’re right that he does that.

My opinion of the second season is mostly thanks to the mini-movies being more creative. I also enjoy Ken Jeong and John Cho.

My intuition is that it’s probably in about the same range as the broadcast networks, but I have no numbers to back that up.

I don’t think it can be significantly higher or lower: if the cancellation rate were significantly lower, “streaming services always cancel after one season” wouldn’t have caught on as a perception, and if it were significantly higher, it wouldn’t be as easy to find multi-season streaming shows as it currently is. But is it slightly higher or lower? I have no idea.

I actually did run some numbers on this at one point and found that the cancellation rate on network shows has ranged from 30-50% for the last 70 years, with the average number of seasons hovering just under 2. Reddit post with graphs and sources.

Running the same numbers for streaming services is trickier, and I couldn’t figure out a reliable way to get a good data set to analyze. But even so, the numbers for broadcast TV are high enough that it would be numerically impossible for streaming services to, say, be 3 times more likely to cancel a show after one season.

It is bizarre to me that people act like streaming services invented the concept of canceling series after just one season, or believe that it’s a new practice. Broadcast TV has regularly done exactly the same thing for its entire history. Streaming services almost always at least release all the episodes rather than leaving some of them unaired.

As I understand it, that’s been the Hollywood jargon for streaming services for years.

Or the flipside of that: the foreigners in “Squid Game” whose English dialogue sounded like it was written by someone who’d taken a couple years of English in high school and never had an adult conversation.

Probably true for most languages. The one that bugs me is when they hire a Chinese-American actor to speak Mandarin but the actor doesn’t actually speak Mandarin fluently or speaks it with such a thick accent that I stop being able to believe the character is from China.

You’ll start to get hints of it later in Heavensward, but I’d say the second expansion (Stormblood) is where you start to really get a strong sense that the story has a destination in mind, and especially that the recurring villains have a more specific motivation than “serve the dark god.”

The next expansion (Shadowbringers) starts off feeling like an unrelated side story, but then you realize that it’s actually tying together some of the seemingly unrelated plot threads from earlier in the game by showing you a different perspective on the lore and some of the characters.

The last current expansion (Endwalker) is where you have to address the reason the villains have been doing what they’ve been doing, and it ties a lot of things together including the part of the story you’re on right now. Without spoiling any details, suffice to say that Ishgard isn’t the only nation that has a history with dragons.

There’s always going to be a certain amount of anime craziness, but the big picture does come together much more than is apparent from where you are in the story right now.

This is a pretty good analogy. You could start watching “Stranger Things” from season 3, and you’d figure everything out well enough to follow the story, but the character interactions would be much less meaningful and you’d miss out on a lot of background details that make the setting richer.

Playing the game, it was clear to me that they didn’t have the whole story mapped out in detail from day one. Minor plot threads get dropped and some of the lore isn’t 100% consistent. But that’s also true of a lot of TV shows with continuing storylines. On the whole, the game does an impressive job tying a decade’s worth of expansions together into a single coherent storyline where each part builds on what came before. It’s definitely too much of a slow burn in the beginning, but the setup eventually pays off and it’s one of my favorite stories in all of gaming. Skipping to the last chapter would rob it of a lot of its impact.

Their track record isn’t that bad, is it? Castlevania and Edgerunners were pretty good adaptations. Dragon Age was all right. And Arcane was amazing, though Netflix wasn’t involved in that one early on. So there’s reason to be at least cautiously optimistic, IMO.

When I first heard AC/DC’s “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap” as a kid, I thought they were singing, “Dirty Deeds and The Thunder Chief” and assumed it was the street names of a pair of Native American hit men. I didn’t learn the actual lyrics until a decade or so later, but I choose to continue hearing it the other way.