Im pretty sure I saw this as a visual gag in a Muppet Babies comic book in the 80s! I think it was issue #13… I might still have it packed away somewhere

Original sin: AI edition

My understanding of the concept was that it was something like multiple channels of data being sent along the same wire. So long as the frequencies are the right kind of different they’ll essentially exist completely independent of each other.

Maybe this requires a minimum of two time dimensions so that the variance can result in the different beings following time along different “tracks”?

I took Troi’s awareness of the beings to be a result of the intermittent overlapping bits of time where they did overlap. Like, it happened too quickly to perceive visually, but enough for the empath to have something to pick up on.

Timothée Chalamet will have the slightest a hint of a British accent

I was really sad when I saw the initial release was PC-only. Looking at all the optimization problems it has, I kinda get it now.

Hopefully the plan with the delayed console release schedule is primarily to address those issues, and extra-hopefully that means it can be made available on the Mac before next summer.

Ah, sorry. It stands for “Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price.”

In the U.S. the law doesn’t allow a manufacturer to require that retailers sell their product at a particular price, but they’re free to “suggest” one so that’s how we ended up with the MSRP.

It doesn’t carry any real weight, but it generally serves to anchor consumer expectations for a product’s value. (It also gives retailers an easy metric to compare sale prices against.)

I’m guessing that if you have the right kind of Pal, you could figure out a way to Pay them to help you figure it out…

• microwave ovens
• speakers (especially battery-powered Bluetooth, since they aren’t connected to anything)
• LEDs (light without noticeable heat)