This was one of my first horror movies and it scared the shit out of me lol

Isn’t the point of AI to make up for our own shortcomings? If you can excuse it for not understanding something because you don’t even understand it, why does the AI exist at all?

Casual use of the N word with hard R and Nazi jokes

I encourage you to look up Lamorne’s Instagram or podcast. He has Jake on often and they constantly joke like that with each other. They are very good friends.

I understand that, but I would imagine there would be a way to have the default be to mute everyone if you know no one else needs to talk. That way no one feels singled out, and you wouldn’t be interrupted at all.

I don’t use Zoom, Teams, etc. But I’ve seen quite a few posts that suggest people hosting the meetings have to ask others to mute themselves or turn off their cameras. Do the people hosting meetings not have the ability to mute the people joining them? Sounds like a no brainer to have that feature.

Yes. Some people even do no bonfire challenges

Aside from being in the middle of combat you can turn off the game from anywhere and you’ll load back exactly where you left off. Bonfires aren’t checkpoints, you don’t have to be anywhere near one to save your progress and leave the game. Your point about losing momentum is dependent on the person playing the game, not an issue with the game itself. I’ve never had an issue with loading into a game for 10 minutes at a time. Someone else responded that boss fights are too long, but I cant recall one that took more than 5-10 minutes.

Strangely, your experience with Dark Souls is my experience with many rogue lites. You generally cannot leave in the middle of a run without losing all progress for it. You either have to win or die for it to count. And if you’re set on winning, then those games can last upwards to that 45 minutes you mentioned. The games I play (Spelunky and Vagante) do not allow you to resume your current game when you shut down and return later.

It seems to be a popular belief that Souls-Like games require players to have “too much time on their hands”. If I have 15 minutes to kill and I want to boot up a game, most Souls-Likes are a great option to kill the time. They are really designed to be picked up and put down at any moment.

I won’t try to change your mind on these genres, but it is kinda wild to me that people have these strong negative opinions about games they have never played. I’m not saying you need to try a game to know if you’ll like it or not, but it seems your understanding of these games is very uninformed.

I feel that souls like games are 100% the same. I can boot up, swing a sword at a few enemies, then log off and do whatever else. It seems a lot of people think they require your attention for long spans of time. Couldn’t be further from my experience with them.

Funny that Club Penguin made it into the picture. It’s one of the earliest games I can remember that pushed subscriptions and micro transactions and was aimed heavily at young children.

The financial equivalent of showering them with gold at this point.

On another note, why the huge difficulty spike between that question and the next one lol

That was only half of your comment.

Wikipedia and Google still are enemies.

Here’s where I disagree. All together the two sentences read as though you’re second sentence is the reason for why you believe the first sentence.

The point I was trying to make with the library analogy is that although you wouldn’t list "the library " as a source of information, you probably wouldn’t consider them to be enemies of education.

Much like a library you would use Google and Wikipedia to find information, not use them as sources themselves.

I understand what the user I replied to said. Now ask yourself why don’t published papers cite Google or Wikipedia? I know you know the answer because we already agreed on it. Despite that reason, I don’t believe that makes Google or Wikipedia “enemies of education”. This is where my library analogy comes in. Just because you wouldn’t cite “the library” doesn’t mean libraries are the enemy of education.

Do you want to point out where I said something wrong or silly? I’m still not seeing it.

The user I replied to initially said Google and Wikipedia are enemies of the education system because you shouldn’t cite them as a source of information. They contain sources of information, like a library. No reasonable person believes libraries shouldn’t be utilized in finding credible information. As you stated, you wouldn’t list a library in a citation. You cite the sources found within the library. By saying Wikipedia and Google are enemies of the education system, you’d have to make that claim for libraries or any other aggregator of informstion and data.

If I did say something wrong or silly you will have to point it out for me.

Agreed. Does that mean there are no credible sources of information in the library?

They also do not cite libraries. Are libraries not a valid place to find information?

Calculators dont give wrong answers. But the problem with “You won’t always have a calculator to do math for you” was that it ignores the requirement to actually learn the math. If a student is tasked with learning multiplication, using a calculator won’t teach them how to multiply. The best math teachers grade based on the work shown, not the answer. AI is being used how calculators were being used. Students aren’t doing any work and therefore are not learning how to do anything. Producing answers alone isn’t the point of school, even when the answers are correct.