No publisher is going to pay a professional to narrate their audiobooks when they can have AI do a shitty job for much less.
A shitty narrator can get me to hate a book I like. A great narrator can bring the characters to life, enhance the experience, and turn me from a listener to a fan. I’ve searched for books by narrators like Nick Podehl and Jeff Hayes and bought audiobooks I wouldn’t have otherwise.
I wouldn’t support it even if the author couldn’t afford it otherwise. There’s no test to confirm that and knowing profit margines, all publishers will use AI for all their books.
Yes, I’d want smaller authors to have people listen to their books, but without oversight, it’s going to ruin all audiobooks.
If you make a redstone PC and don’t consider the requirements to run Minecraft… Probably (in-world it wouldn’t be using electricity)
Not gonna play the “carry all the groceries in one trip” game greater than 100 yards (1 football field (514 bananas))
I’m still waiting for the stable release. Mostly because I’m not prepared to lose another 200-300 hours.
I was worried about this. The game has so many hotkeys, I have no idea how a controller would handle them. Lots of contextual button mappings.
It’s a digital good, just a bunch of 1s and 0s in a particular order. The manufacturing cost of making a copy is near 0. There are license fees, but those are almost always pencentage based. Valve takes 30%, the publisher takes a percentage, and so on.
Then it’s a balance of volume vs price. If you can sell 10,000 copies at $10, vs 1,000 at $15, ($100,000 vs. $15,000), it is more profitable to sell the game at $10.
And human psychology is manipulable. Seeing the original price at $15 will influence them to value the game around $15, and so $10 would be a good deal. If they want it, they should buy it on sale. Where as seeing the original price at $10 would influence them to value the game at $10, which could mean it’s not as good as a $15 game they can get for $10 on sale.
The developers need to make enough profit to cover the development costs’ debt. Then after that, the rest of the profit goes to the next project and maybe bonuses… Probably to the executives. Part of that is also to cover the cost of past and future non-pofitable games. Not all games make a profit and developers and publishers need to offset the cost of past and future failures.
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Well yeah, they get their information from the Internet. Garbage in. Garbage out.
Okay but 🍒 shouldn’t output 🍉. This is inconsistent and confusing. We have standards.
Mazda’s Laputa translates to “the bitch” in Spanish.
There’s also Ford’s Probe…
But yeah ID.EVERY1 is a mediocre name.
I can’t officially support this fork 😝
What if you don’t have a favorite programming language? I’m a firm believer that each language offers a specific set a features that makes each one uniquely suck and I often find myself at the crossroads of continuing to use this garbage or to learn a new language only to find it sucks in a different way. (/s another way of saying each language has its niche… (but sucks outside of it))
The “reasonable” moderate Democrats are hoping to win votes with: “We’ll undo a few Republican initiatives and put our friends in offices, but otherwise keep everything the same.” Can’t imagine why that isn’t getting them votes. In 2024 they ran out of Republican initiatives to undo and their platform was just: keep our friends in office and keep everything else the same. If they had other planned initiatives, few people picked up on them.
Google and Apple have different versions of maps depending on what your country recognizes.
For example, it will shows territories claimed by China as part of China for Chinese IP addresses, but may show them as independent territories for other countries that recognize them as such.
I saw instafops.net was an options when I was browsing servers. idk anything else about it or even if it’s popular. Not my kind of server, but figured I’d share since it’s something I saw and you’re looking for.
I give 1% to my union. My pay is ~10% better than it would be if we didn’t have it, and management gets in huge trouble if they mistreat workers. And by trouble, I mean they fired a manager when they scheduled a worker over their lunch break.
It’s probably more cost effective to run Azure Services on Linux machines than Windows machines.
I have an USB hub with a Type C to HDMI output. I switch with my laptop, Steam Deck, and Switch 1.
Additionally, when I’m traveling, I prefer to take the small USB hub over the chunky switch dock.
My biggest gripe is how petty it is to disallow it. That’s like HP levels of petty… Actually, they’re really starting to adopt a lot of shitty HP policies.