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FIFA 23 Proves Unexpected Bargain
EA is honoring a pricing error that meant players in India could buy FIFA 23 for the equivalent of six cents. The mistake had even been taken advantage of by some customers outside the country.
Exactly how the pricing error occurred is a mystery, though the mathematical mechanics behind it is clear. The error was with the Ultimate Edition, which allows three days early access and points for using towards the FIFA Ultimate Team mode.
The correct price in India is 4,800 rupees, but it was listed at 4.8 rupees for around 40 minutes. Not only were customers able to check out at this price, but word quickly spread to people in other countries who found they could get the price by changing their location settings.
Given it’s a digital product with nothing physically dispatched, you might have expected EA to simply cancel the orders and refund the rupees, safe in the knowledge that even if some customers wanted to turn it into a legal dispute, it probably wouldn’t be worth their while financially.
However, it appears the “loss” is small enough that EA has decided to let it slide and keep goodwill. Sportskeeda shared an email from EA saying “A few weeks back, we scored a pretty spectacular own-goal when we inadvertently offered FIFA 23 pre-purchase on the Epic Games Store at an incorrect price. It was our mistake, and we wanted to let you know that we’ll be honoring all pre-purchases made at that price.”
Today’s Hottest Deals: Save Big on Crucial Internal & External SSD, Blue Yeti Nano USB Microphone, Panasonic LUMIX G7 4K Mirrorless Camera, and MORE!
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The Fury of… [Comic]
The Story of the Pathetic Dragon Who Only Had One Gold Coin in Her Hoard
A wonderful story by writing-in-the-grave about a tiny dragon who only had one gold coin in her hoard.
[Source | Via MC | Fan Art by artfromthevoid]
Better Call Saul Tutorials: Iron a Shirt With Gus Fring, Make a Taco With Lalo Salamanca, Tie a Tie With Saul Goodman
An amusing series of tutorials from the cast of Better Call Saul!
HOW TO IRON A SHIRT? Ft. Gus Fring
How To Make A Taco With Lalo Salamanca
How To Tie A Tie With Saul Goodman
Gimli’s Gift [Comic]
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A Bunch of Black Strokes [Comic]
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Wednesday Trailer Promises Mystery, Mayhem, and Murder [Video]
Watch the official teaser for WEDNESDAY, an upcoming Netflix series from the imagination of Tim Burton. WEDNESDAY — starring Jenna Ortega in the title role, alongside Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzman, Gwendoline Christie, Christina Ricci and more — is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Snap snap.
[Netflix]
Mourners Question Deceased Woman At Funeral Thanks to the Power of AI
Screenshot via Storyfile.com
A woman who died last June has answered questions at her own funeral. Although Marina Smith’s “responses” were pre-recorded, a chatbot-like system selected them to fit the spontaneous questions asked by mourners.
Smith was the founder of the National Holocaust Center in the United Kingdom and campaigned to educate on the topic. Her funeral “appearance” was created by StoryFile, a company that had previously worked on interactive holograms representing Holocaust survivors in the US.
Rather than use AI to generate Smith’s responses, the company interviewed her over two days before her death, covering a wide range of topics from her life. At her funeral, the system processed questions from mourners and used AI to decipher the meaning and pick appropriate clips.
According to Smith’s son, she likely opened up more in the recording, knowing it would be seen only after her death. The question and answer sessions revealed previously unknown details of her childhood and religious beliefs.
StoryFile is turning the system into a commercial operation, tailoring interviews from a bank of 250,000 questions. Its website has a demonstration of a recording in which William Shatner answered almost 600 questions, though it says some answers involve information about his Star Trek work that he does not want revealed until after he died.
It has to be said the results are somewhat mixed and depend on the serious of the questions. Asking whether he watched the moon landings prompts a lengthy relevant tale, while asking who is the smelliest actor he ever worked with prompts a confident-sounding response about Marlon Brando that appears to be about physical presence in a more wider sense.