In yet another desperate attempt to make sure people know they are using generative AI for something good, Amazon.com (I’m specifying .com, since I mostly use .co.uk, when I need to use Amazon, and sadly, sometimes you do) decided to roll out some new functionality: You can now see what assumptions the system is making about you, in plain text.
There’s a lot of playthroughs, strategy guides, showcases of mods, and so forth out there. They are an important part of the ecosystem, but they are also kind of boring. How many times do you need to see someone one-shot the final boss? How many times do you need to see someone play the games with the worst possible gear? There’s just diminishing returns there. At the same time, there are people out there innovating in this space all the time.
I don’t talk about these enough. I got into arts through comic books, but I have a distinct memory of when certain walls just broke down and saw a light with the help of music videos.
When I say Borderlands, I mean the franchise, not the game.
Looking at the awards section for this movie on IMDb, it has a lot of them, but they seem to be like best first timer, best female director, best Canadian movie, and such, which really undersells this movie. I had to travel to see it, but I’m glad I did.
For transparency, I’m atheist. I dislike organized religion so, so much, but I do think individuals can find comfort in their spirituality and that has value. Maybe not for me personally, but not everything is about me.
I bought a museum card earlier this year, so I’ve been using it actively. Museum card, in Finland, is pretty cheap at less than 90 euros annually (I don’t remember exactly how much) and it gives you access to hundreds of museums all over Finland. Thus far, I’ve visited 21 museums, so I’m paying less than 4.5 euros per visit. Many of these cost somewhere between 15-20 euros normally.
Here’s an idea I would very much like to credit to the person I heard it from, but I can’t find the video on YouTube anymore. Either my search-fu is lacking or the video was removed for some reason. So, sorry about that. The video was specifically about the Harry Potter franchise, so that might help if you want to give it a try. I think the title was something like “JK Rowling Doesn’t Like Women”.
In a Washington Post article titled “Meet the queer, nonbinary, pansexual characters of ‘Borderlands 3’” (basically an ad) before the release of the game, Lor (who is deadnamed in the article as well as in the game, only getting to use his chosen name in the New Tales From the Borderlands game, which no-one has played voluntarily – which actually means that it doesn’t fulfill the definition of a game) is one of the few NPCs mentioned. He is not the first trans character in the franchise, but he is the most prominent one.
Moomin (or Muumi) are very popular in Finland. It is a Finnish creation after all, more precisely the work of Tove Jansson. On top of a museum in Tampere and some permanent exhibitions at various museums, there’s always a temporary exhibition about Jansson and/or Moomin going on somewhere.