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Babylon Bee promptly started posting 'satire' pieces about Clinton whining about Russian interference the moment the news dropped. The right's response appears to be to connect this to the prior cases, which they already got people to believe a false narrative about.

Kerbal Space Program 2

Similarly, VLC names their releases after Discworld characters. It's a fun way to make major versions feel like more than just a number increment.

It gets called that everywhere. Most people never need to know the actual specs for a screw, so language diverges from the classification system.

I usually keep the corrections to myself, but when somebody else is already correcting someone and they say the wrong thing too it becomes hard.

Flathead is a description of the head profile, like panhead. Slotted is the screwdriver type that is just a single slot.

It might make me smarter, but it makes me feel dumb.

Video games have a very different production flow to film. The same people editing dialog recording are also doing other sound work. The people cleaning mocap also do hand animation. It's not like film where you hit a brick wall for 90% of your crew if your filming isn't on schedule.

Things in the short term are done recording and aren't impacted. Things in the long term can move the resources to other tasks. If a strike goes for six months or a year, they will start seeing issues.

There are various methods, but from a practical standpoint it is gone regardless.

They are trans.

I've been reading through the books and I'm astounded by just how well the authors have thought through the little details.

I'm also even more impressed with the adaptation to TV now that I've read them. The only thing they weren't able to adapt was the difference in tone and mindset between the perspective characters.

Almost done with the Inaros books, looking forward to the unadapted books.

People still sculpt. Go look up Bobby Fingers on YouTube to get an idea of what sculpting looks like.

There are a variety of clays. From what I hear, most sculptors use some form of air-dry, not firing clay like pottery would use.

Nobody ever sculpted in marble. You would sculpt in clay, make a plaster mold, fine-tune the design, then meticulously transfer it to marble.

They have two avenues to make money:

1. Sell commercial services such as customer support bots. They get customers thanks to the massive buzz their free services generated.
2. Milking investors, the real way to make money.