If it's the only option, then the democracy is already dead and voting for Biden is pointless. Democracy entails that the government represents the will of the people. And you're suggesting that because some old fart decided to cling to power, everyone should stop demanding that their will is represented and start kissing that old fart's ass. "That's the only person you can vote for to preserve democracy" is a self-defeating statement...
They increased players' attack and defence a little, probably by 10% or something. They didn't remove any bosses or even bosses' attacks, they didn't replace standard dodge with Bloodhound step or do anything drastic. I don't understand what you are so mad about
And this is exactly the message of the comic. Yet you disagree with the comic...
I also live in Russia, and in my experience certain VPNs just get blocked by the ISP. Like, I just can't connect to certain VPNs, the connection either gets stuck in an infinine loop or fails with an error. But some other VPNs still work without any problems.
Plus, since the beginning of this month, it's prohibited to promote/advertise "means to avoid blocked internet resources", i.e. proxies/VPNs/etc, so it can be called "partially restricted"
I meant that these things aren't as noticeable from outside of the country. Like, foreign news outlets probably won't report on it much. Plus, eggs are more of an exception because of sudden shortage and prices rising rapidly. For most of the other goods the price grows more gradually and isn't as obvious. Like in that metaphor about slowly boiling a frog.
Another problem that is noticeable from inside the country (at least by those affected by it) is that certain medications are vanishing from the pharmacies because they are no longer imported and they were never produced locally, or the local production is insufficient to meet the needs. I don't know the full list, but the stock of ADHD meds is definitely low, and I've heard from friends that they had to switch to a different antidepressant due to shortages.
Does this suck? To my ears, it doesn't. Not unmistakably human by any stretch, but still pretty good. And that's 9 years ago
And by "AI singing" do you mean "a famous voice overlaid on another singer's performanse" or something closer to text-to-speech (text-to-song)?
Vocaloids are far from perfect, but they can be damn good in hands of a good producer. Plus, isn't that the original point? "AI VA were invented so soon all VAs will be AI"?
And to produce the example you provided, it required a big voice bank from people who are very experienced in voicework. Top Gear/The Grand Tour have over 200 episodes where the hosts have basically the same characters throughout the show spanning like 20 years. And it still ain't perfect. It's damn good, but there are hiccups here and there.
So to produce a good AI voiceover, you'll need experienced people doing a lot of work. And to get experienced human actors you will need humans acting. Hence, my point
Well, I meant it more like "can you imagine how horrible such a world is?" Not just "can you imagine it?"
Because yeah, you barely need to imagine it at all
First four episodes of Frieren are already out btw. Aired yesterday as one big 2hr episode but it's four episodes on Crunchyroll
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To summarize:
There was a dude called Igor Girkin, he was in the Russian military. His crimes include, but aren't limited to:
- Shooting down Malaysia Airline MH17 in 2014
- Torturing and executing Ukrainians
- Terrorism in Eastern Ukraine under guise of separarism
- Involvement in the annexation of Crimea (at least illegally crossing the border as a part of military force and threatening citizens)
is arrested in Russia for saying that the Russian army is performing poorly in Ukraine and Putin and Shoigu (minister of defence) are not managing the situation appropriately.
It shows that in Russia, showing honesty about war is more of a crime than murder and terrorism. Combined
And your solution is, let me guess:
Step 1) make up a situation to be mad at.
Step 2) get mad at it.
Step 3) ????
Step 4) allow police to hunt homeless people for sport.
Now, to be serious, step 2 in your example is a lie fed to you by the police state in order to manufacture fear of homeless people and justify its own existence. Therefore the rest of your post is bullshit as well. And when your neighbor has a mental health crisis, you should call social services and doctors, not the police. The fact that your first instinct is to punish and incarcerate mentally unwell people instead of helping them to get better says a lot about your current mindset actually.