You want a Miranda Lawson? Cos that's how you get a Miranda Lawson. The daddy issues are included.

I think you're confusing Google customer service with Amazon customer service. They are world's apart.

Oh no. They've been breeding?!

If we're going to mention BioWare, then I would put Anthem rather than Mass Effect: Andromeda.

If ME:A didn't have the McLargeHuge shadow of the original Mass Effect trilogy to crawl out from under, or was in fact an entirely unrelated IP, it would have had a forgiving and reasonable entry to the games market. I bought and played it about 16 months after its debut. The game was fine.

Anthem on the other hand was a hot mess. The number of times I managed to get onto the servers was in the single digits. It continuously crashed to desktop when the server request timed out.

Any video game developers able to chime in here? How is this possible?

Does this mean the object or asset that represents "Miles" is the same class of objects that represents environmental litter? So push through the wrong Guid and it will work?

If you find yourself choosing between a pig in a jumpsuit and a cape-wearing duck in 1950s sci-fi schtick, go with the pig. Trust me.

I had some tracks disappear when I did the transfer from Google Music to YT Music. Like you, I kept the weirder, leftfield music on there while Spotify provided anything mainstream. The tracks that never made it were some random tracks from Japanese indie rock and jazz bands. The tracks that got lost didn't follow any pattern either. They could be a single middle track in an otherwise happily transferred album.

First time that happened I set myself a reminder to try the transfer process again 2 weeks before deadline. Still no win sadly.

All my English language music went across fine, so you might be onto something with some background matching going on and Google kicking out stuff based on esoteric criteria.

The Pixel 3 XL has a 3,430 mAh battery. The Pixel 5 has a 4,080 mAh battery. The biggest battery the Pixel series has ever had. WTF are you talking about?

Great to hear but also unfortunate that soybean farming in Brazil itself has downsides like rainforest destruction, clashes between farmers and natives over that land, water and pesticide use, links to organised crime etc.

This sounds suspiciously similar to GEMA in Germany. Curious what deal they made with YouTube now....

Seriously though, are we really that far away from an AI application that will write the perfect summer blockbuster movie just from some key words and a bad sketch on a napkin?

And to film it, it just dips into a huge library of derived or totally artificially-generated actors, each one perfectly tuned for the emotional effect their physical appearance, voice and body language will elicit?

That creepy Black Mirror episode is not that far away when anybody with a decent PC and the patience to study and try out the instructions can create their own DeepFakes.

Wait wait wait....wouldn't your titanium wire weapon essentially seriously degrade if not destroy the entire satellite ecosystem we have up there?

GPS fucked, Telecoms fucked, Meteorology fucked, Science fucked, the ISS fucked.

That's not shooting yourself in the foot. That's blowing away one eye, one ear, the entire jawbone, an arm and a leg.

That's you-fucked-the-global-economy-and-everyone-loses-bad. I just can't believe that would even be considered. War is for profit. You don't do anything to jeopardize the bottom line.

That white highlight will fit well in bright dens that took interior design tips from Apple using IKEA products, with a Roomba mooching around and an Alexa trying to converse with a Pixel tablet. Would probably fit in no problem with dens decorated for someone who loves their comics, toy collection or anime.

Then there's the guys like me who prefer the dark Nordic-inspired Death Star interior look.

But that's OK. Exercise a little patience and I guarantee within 12 months there will be a "special limited" edition of the PS5 that looks like Megatron's schwanstucker. And Sony will charge you for the extra production cost.

Funny that you mention malicious complaints. They do happen, without a doubt. There was an article posted here on Slashdot about bodycams on police officers. They don't just reduce the incidence of police acting unprofessionally. Unexpectedly, the number of malicious complaints decreased by the same percentage. When your typical "Karen" realises they are also being filmed, their behaviour changes as well.

Here's a link I could find.

We have next to zero information about any of the adults involved, so any speculation is shaky, but the grandmother's behaviour could believably be framed as a power-play tactic by someone with traits of narcissistic personality disorder.