If they told you work from home is no longer allowed, then yes, they are paying you to be on premises.

If they are paying you to be on premises, so if you are “on duty” so to speak.

Hours you would normally be working.

If you’re on the clock, they have an obligation to keep you as safe as possible, same as like in a fire drill where they have everyone leave the building.

I was released from major invasive surgery on 2/23 and had a bleeding event that night followed by a 2nd event where the bleeding had stopped.

So I gave the details to chat gpt to see if there was a concern and it went HAM mode. “Call 911! This is not a ‘best of three’ thing! You could bleed out! Call 911!”

I did not call 911, the bleeding stayed stopped, I’m fine.

They actually wanted to release SOONER. They wanted to do the whole shadow drop at the game awards and go “AVAILABLE NOW!” But it wasn’t ready yet. 😥

Then they went dead silent until the launch a few weeks later.

But that would give players a sense of, gasp, ownership! Can’t have that!

https://thegamepost.com/sony-cracks-down-concord-custom-servers-dmca-takedowns/

Hard to do that when you decimate the staff.

One of the jewels in my collection:

Some reviewers are just stupid people. I remember seeing a review of a game where they continually complained about the camera… the camera that was 100% player controlled on the right stick.

Did they just, not once, ever, try to move the camera? Yeah, that would be a bad experience in a 3rd person game…

They bury the lede with all the stuff about Sappho, which is cool and all, but the article doesn’t get on topic until about 1/2 way down.

Have you considered seeking professional help?

Are they communists because they are red or because they have seized the means of production? 🤔

Next on my reading list:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/588857/toms-crossing-by-mark-z-danielewski/

1,232 pages.

“The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station. We had sampled almost everything else, and now— yes, it was time for a long snort of ether. And then do the next hundred miles in a horrible, slobbering sort of spastic stupor. The only way to keep alert on ether is to do up a lot of amyls—not all at once, but steadily, just enough to maintain the focus at ninety miles an hour through Barstow.”

Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

The best one I’ve found is the New Jerusalem translation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jerusalem_Bible#%3A~%3Atext=Substantially+revising+the+JB+and%2Cintroductions%2C+written+by+Henry+Wansbrough.

Here’s a comparison:

New Jerusalem Ezekiel 20:23-26

23 Once again, however, I pledged them my word that I would scatter them throughout the nations and disperse them in foreign countries,

24 because they had not followed my judgements but had rejected my laws and profaned my Sabbaths, their eyes being fastened on the foul idols of their ancestors.

25 And for this reason I gave them laws that were not good and judgements by which they could never live;

26 and I polluted them with their own offerings, making them sacrifice every first-born son in order to fill them with revulsion, so that they would know that I am Yahweh."

King James:

23 I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;

24 Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.

25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;

26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the Lord.

NIV:

23 Also with uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would disperse them among the nations and scatter them through the countries,

24 because they had not obeyed my laws but had rejected my decrees and desecrated my Sabbaths, and their eyes lusted after their parents’ idols.

25 So I gave them other statutes that were not good and laws through which they could not live;

26 I defiled them through their gifts—the sacrifice of every firstborn—that I might fill them with horror so they would know that I am the Lord.’

AI is a little bit more complicated than that due to the flaws that pop up in generating.

For example, here are some AI comic books that were created. What the author did was write the overall story, then used an AI prompt to create each panel of the comic.

Each panel took dozens to hundreds of attempts, out of which the author made the artistic decision to choose the best one.

https://aicomicbooks.com/

“The Lesson” is probably my favorite of the bunch, but they’re free to download, check them out.

https://aicomicbooks.com/book/the-lesson-book-by-steve-coulson-download-now/

Computer based art was being used to sell books in bookstores 40 years ago.

They didn’t really sell well, and now, barely anyone remembers it was a thing.

In the 80s, comic book art was produced entirely with computer based art tools. It didn’t raise an eyebrow beyond “Oh, that’s neat!”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatter_(digital_comic)

https://totally-epic.kwakk.info/2020/01/15/1988-iron-man-crash/

We’ve survived another 308 days of Trump, which is a big deal. But I don’t see us being truly thankful until 11/23/2028 and even that is only a maybe.

I am! Thanks!