The guy in the video didn’t seem all that interested in his son’s behavior, although it’s hard to tell if it was because he was more offended about the slur. I don’t really see any winners here, they both acted like idiots if you ask me.
It’s not the words that are hurting you in that case, it’s the people with guns who are enforcing them.
Whatever happened to “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me”?
What would you say could have been learned from this?
The article makes it appear as if she called the child a slur for no reason at all. Whether her excuse is valid is another question, but you can’t just leave that out.
It is a fact that she claims that the child was stealing from her.
The article is missing an important fact, namely that the child allegedly tried to steal from her. There is no video evidence of this (as far as I know), but it probably should have been mentioned in the article.
Not saying that’s an excuse for her behavior, but it does provide some background as to why she’s claiming to be a victim.
It sorta already happened before, albeit in Texas, not Montana.
Yeah, I wonder if that’s perhaps the result of basically stapling the old game engine onto UE5 in order to preserve the core gameplay. Back when Oblivion was first released, multicore CPUs were incredibly rare, so it’s likely the engine was not built to take advantage of them. But ever since then, most of the improvements in CPUs have come in the form of adding more cores rather than increasing clock speed, and it’s by no means trivial to convert single-threaded code into multi-threaded. Most likely it would require a complete rewrite, which they’d probably want to avoid in order not to introduce more bugs.
But of course, it could also just be UE5’s fault, since even a single core on a modern CPU should not be slower than a 2006 model.
That’s a good point. I mean Doomguy WAS very clearly visible on the box art wearing a green outfit and a gray helmet, but the outfit appears to be made of cloth rather than steel, and he looks more like a football player than anything.
His modern appearance in full power armor was indeed only introduced with the 2016 reboot.
Possible, but in that case it might have actually helped them to first tie them up in a difficult and potentially expensive lawsuit in order to lower the purchase price. Sounds like something Microsoft would do…
But they generally have blue and gold armor, no?
The protagonist in Halo: Reach wears gray armor with blue accents and he looks just as badass as Master Chief, if not moreso.
It wasn’t necessary for both to be green. Master Chief could’ve had a blue (or a red, or black, or silver) armor and he’d still be the same.
Or, you can just turn Copilot off from the settings panel.
The best part is that it even retains unsaved documents (and unsaved changes in existing ones), which makes it very feasible to use Notepad as sort of an extended clipboard. Surprisingly good thinking for Microsoft.
All of the Copilot features in Notepad require manual interaction. When you click the button, there’s a menu with options like “Rewrite”, “Summarize”, “Make shorter”, “Make longer”, etc., which either operate on the current selection or the entire document. How exactly that’s implemented is obviously speculation, but most likely it will only send your data to Microsoft when you actually activate one of these functions. In fact, none of them even work without an active Copilot Plus subscription (I’ve tried). There is no free tier here, if try to use any of these features without a subscription, you’ll just get prompted to sign up for one.
Also, the entire thing can be easily turned off from the settings panel.
FYI, you can turn this feature off. Click on the gear icon, scroll all the way down, there’s a new section called “AI features”, which has a toggle switch to disable Copilot. Once you flip it to off, Notepad looks and behaves precisely as it did in the past.
EDIT: also, you need to be logged into a Microsoft account and have an active Copilot Plus subscription for any of the AI features to even work. If you try to use them without a subscription, you just get prompted to sign up for one.
I didn’t know this was possible, but according to this comment, you are right, they literally retrofitted the entire game engine into UE 5 somehow, so the gameplay should be identical.
It’s all manufactured outrage if you ask me. They want you to get mad and stay mad so they can tell you who to hate and what to do about it instead of doing something productive with your life.
Without social media and the Internet, none of us would have ever heard about this incident (or others like it), unless it happened to someone we actually know, and our lives would have likely been better for it. Definitely more peaceful.