I was definitely a bit cynical going in after the trailer with its grim-dark version of the theme tune. Thankfully it had none of that energy, leaning into being a kids movie, rather than a super serious reimagining for the adults.
Mario movie was great. You can see the love of the series that everyone involved had shining through, utterly joyful, particularly with a nine year old who’s grown up with the games.
Deeply amused by the choice to set this series of Race Across the World in Canada. Firstly, it’s called Race Across the World, not Race Across Canada. Secondly, there’s no public transport, so the whole thing is just people at gas stations trying to hitchhike or hiring cars. Occasionally you’ll get another scene of people establishing the one bus a week left yesterday.
Valheim update: We have defeated our first trolls, and are now wearing some fetching troll trousers.
Bwahahaha. This conspiracy theorist just delivered the line “if he heard anything he didn’t like he simply ignored it” with a completely straight face.
This was clearly made in the 90s, on a budget of about £3.90, and shot in a National Trust building while they tried to dodge people asking them to stop.
Not sure why, but I’m watching a 50 minute “documentary” about how the Titanic didn’t sink, it was an insurance scam because the Olympic was a write-off. It has dramatisations, which really make it.
@simon I think there's a big difference between the occasional things slipping through of human published stuff and the utter fiction LLMs will come up with such as "sure, you can interact with me via Telegram, here's a random person's phone number".
Things I would like include, but are not limited to, an eSport that’s not a massive commitment to follow. I’d like to follow Rocket League but it’s all seemingly run as occasional tournaments that run 8 hours a day for four days.
Finally getting to the point at work where I’ve built enough low level libraries that I can start quickly throwing together higher level tools.
I have been playing Valheim with the nine year old (and also without, I just spent 2 hours recovering our gear after an unfortunate incident with a troll). It’s a wild ride, one minute I’m having a chilled trip down a river, the next I’m being mobbed by creatures capable of near instantly killing me.
@gsuberland Super curious on this, I have a CO2/VOC monitor on my desk which is basically useless while I’m working
The main discovery I’ve made so far today is just how bad I am at selfies.
Heading into London for a day of being a tourist. I'm going to see how many different forms of public transport I can use along the way, so far I've used a bus and a train, and I haven't even arrived yet.
@simon@fedi.simon@simonwillison.netwillison.net as much as it pains me, AI. I think it’s less clear on exactly what it is than LLM, but the ship has sailed on anything involving machine learning being AI.