Why does this look like an asset flip? The character models themselves are just a bunch of basic shapes stuck together and the environment looks like it must've been off an asset store.

This from the studio that brought us untitled goose game, a beautifully styled game?

Well, luckily the two big bad commercial engines, while not open source, are at least source-available, though it requires you to actually ask them for the source access, which might be a bit of an ordeal. You can just point an LLM at the codebase to help you debug this kind of weird shit.

Not really, it'll just mean everyone will be using Alibaba, z.ai and Deepseek models.

You can't really make that judgement based on one year or even a few in one location.

I can also tell you that this was the coldest summer in recent memory for me, felt like one of the coldest summers in my life honestly. I remember it would be near or even above 30C during daytime for weeks in the summer.

Doesn't mean the planet was any cooler though, people in the other end of europe were pretty much melting at the same time. And most summers recently have been scorching hot here, I'm talking about 2-3 straight weeks of 30C.

AIPAC apparently spent 9 million on campaign ads for her to avoid getting a Muslim in her seat. No idea if they've been "paying her" directly in any way.

Alite has very similarly styled reviews and a total of 30 of them, each one with a dash or em-dash in it. Seems legit!

I don't think I'll be ordering from them.

Also a bit of googling told me that is 'likely not very effective against modern ALPRs like Flock and is more effective against older speed cameras. So for privacy it may not really do much unfortunately.

I suspect he wouldn't have kept his job for long if he'd ticketed the other cop for bad parking and he most certainly knew it too.

Sooooo we going to see another live execution?

Will it also be renamed the Donald J Trump family farm or is this one safe?

There's no shortage of oil or oil products tbh. It's just less plentiful than it usually is, and transporting it out of the gulf is quite costly right now, need to pay a lot of danger fees to the ship crews and there are expensive insurance policies that you pay for literally by the hour apparently (because when you're insuring 100 mill worth of crude + a ship and crew in a warzone, well, that insurance is pretty costly).

Rather, people are burning less because prices are up.

Holy shit a good take on the movie!

I like recommending the Emily Wilson translation of The Odyssey, which was recommended to me recently and I even went through the translator's notes. She specifically says The Odyssey was not originally written in a grandiose form, but just rather regular speech for the time and Shakespearean or Victorian or whatever English is just as far from the ancient Greek as modern day English is, so it's actually better to use common English for the reader's understanding rather than some just as anachronistic form of the language that's also stylistically wrong.

So "dad" is just fine. Telemachus was a teenager. Do we think they did not have anything other than official "I'm addressing the king, I must use only the bestest of words" speech to use in their day to day lives in ancient Greece? I somehow doubt that.

There are few common men with names in those poems. Most characters that are named, have intimate relationships with gods. Odysseus can kill 108 suitors with a bow and arrow because for decades he's been making sacrifices to Zeus and Athena and in his current endeavor, Athena herself is aiding both her and Telemachus. But the gods don't just love him for making sacrifices. They love him BECAUSE he's strong and (usually) wise and cunning. They most often bless those who have already blessed.

I'd give it a 7-8 out of 10. Replace Jason Bourne and the stupid ass 70mm film, and it could be much better. I didn't even mind Spidey as Telemachus, Telemachus HAD to be played by someone who's believable as a weakling towards the beginning of the movie and grows up (partially at least) to be a proper man. I'm sure they could've found someone better, but it's not nearly as bad as people make it out to be.

Why would it work in Rambo 3 and not here? Rambo was just a dude, Odysseus is damn near a demigod.

In fact, the fact that he got hit by any arrows at all in that fight means he was actually shown as too weak and vulnerable in the movie (which I just finished watching).

IIRC only the same two servants found out about him that did in the movie. The others weren't considered loyal, especially the women since the suitors had raped them, which Odysseus considered to be an act of treason on the servants' part. Given one's a blind man and the other's a woman... Locking up the place was just about all they could do.

And in the movie, he even had Telemachus to help him. In the poem, Telemachus didn't know it was his father at that point yet as far as I can remember. He almost didn't let Odysseus compete in the bow stringing contest because he was just a beggar after all.