urquan
Hold! What you are doing to us is wrong! Why do you do this thing?
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urquan
Hold! What you are doing to us is wrong! Why do you do this thing?
19hr ago
· Edited 19hr ago
I never got into the mindstorms stuff, and robotics isn’t really my thing. But I had followed it for a long time, and it’s genuinely strange to me that Lego moved to the “Spike Prime” thing and then cancelled it, too.
I’ve also read that there’s a big push for “AI literacy” in schools, and Lego may be trying to appeal to this curriculum demand with the new kit. I guess it just goes to show that everything has to have AI in it nowadays.
They’re making money hand over fist in botanical sets and pricey display models, maybe they think the robotics game doesn’t have high enough growth potential for their current business model.
But I’m still stewing over the death of Bionicle, and I think about Lego Universe every now again, so the LEGO Group’s ability to cancel iconic things without remorse doesn’t surprise me.
urquan
Hold! What you are doing to us is wrong! Why do you do this thing?
1d ago
There’s also the “tortured soul” energy of your examples — a werewolf, a vampire, and the beast are all cursed with an affliction that tortures them and separates them from the human. The women in the stories serve as a stabilizing force — in BatB, literally the lifting of the curse itself — that humanizes him.
They’re dangerous, but deep down, beyond the curse, deeply good. A man who gets passionate and heated, but can be calmed by a touch of his woman, is a pretty real scenario couples experience all the time. Everyone knows that guy who will start yelling about something, and his wife squeezes his hand, and he chills out.
For professional or semi-professional writing, that appears sloppy and unprofessional.
For personal writing, it makes no difference. Normies can't tell the difference between ASCII 0x2D (-) and Unicode U+2014 (—). Even when writing dashes with "--", I've been accused of being AI. The assumption among sophisticated audiences is that you AI-generated the text and then edited the characters you used to disguise it. And most people aren't so sophisticated that they're looking at detailed character codes, they see any writing with dash-separated clauses and they presume it's AI.
urquan
Hold! What you are doing to us is wrong! Why do you do this thing?
4d ago
Yeah, the em dash has been destroyed. It's infuriating, because there are so many sentences that are punchier with a dash thrown in.
I'm glad in many ways that I finished my bachelor's in a writing-heavy field before the advent of generative AI.
Everything is AI now. Searching a database? AI. Computer vision? Obviously AI. If-then statement? That sounds like a computer following a chain of logic, it’s AI. Everything and nothing is AI.
I guess when investment pushes into a particular area, the financial incentives push for dressing anything up as the area in question. Generative AI is genuinely a huge deal, but it’s expensive to actually invest in it, and substandard substitutes are eager to parade as the real deal.
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