voracitude
@voracitude@lemmy.world
- Comment on If someone dies unexpectedly, how do you find out? 3 days ago:
Search their name and where true from, I guess? Add “obituary” to get specifically death notices.
I don’t know if it works or how well, yet… but I’m sure I’ll find out sooner than I’d like.
- Comment on How far away are we from someone using AI to create an animated TV show by themselves. 6 days ago:
Not too far, or its possible right now depending on jow you want to define “animated”. I feel like there uses to be really low-budget cartoons on air which were really just still frames with some shake added, couple soumd effects, and voice acting. A lot like SolidJJ on YouTube now. Those wouldn’t even be too hard to do, if the AI were just one tool in the set - could probably crank out a few a week, anyway.
If you’re looking for twenty minutes of animation that doesn’t shift around like a fever dream while you’re watching it, maybe six to eighteen months. I do think human voice actors would be required, but you could do the music with Suno.
- Comment on Where to start? 1 week ago:
I’ll throw my hat in for DS9. I’m just finishing the final season with my partner now - her first watch - and it’s really cemented why its my favourite Trek. It holds up incredibly well.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I have never heard it called that, but IT is a big field - plenty of room to accommodate stylistic differences.
- Comment on Is Andrew Yang involved at all in Harris's campaign? 4 weeks ago:
If you knew why you got downvoted you wouldmt have had to ask. But you asked, and you got an answer, so what you think isn’t really relevant here.
- Comment on So bad it was actually entertaining 4 weeks ago:
Must have been run by those parrots
- Comment on Proud globohomo 4 weeks ago:
Oh, don’t you worry, they’ll identify themselves for you without any additional encouragement.
- Comment on Satan throws a hell of a party 4 weeks ago:
The real Satan was Ticketmaster, all along!
- Comment on Anon gets trolled 5 weeks ago:
Just a little Kanchō? As a treat?
- Comment on mullenweg, founder of wordpress, claims that the apostrophe we type is actually a prime mark and talks about how he always manually inputs U+2019 instead 5 weeks ago:
Everyone talking about how octopi is incorrect and at the time of this writing not a single comment contains the correct plural:
octopodes
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
The equipment for making paper pellets includes hammer mill, dryer, pellet making machine, pellet cooler and pellet packing machine. For small-scale production, the dryer, pellet cooler and packer are optional.
So convenient!
- Comment on What happened to the turn based RPG and RTS genres? 1 month ago:
Check out some trailers for Falling Frontier, it looks like it has a lot of potential at least.
Also, Star Sector: fractalsoftworks.com
- Comment on Steam does the opposite of forcing Arbitration on its users 1 month ago:
Accurate. In order for this to stop the punishment needs to be more than the cost of doing business. Thankfully, Valve seem to be hell bent on doing right by their customers, in most cases at least (just to leave room for scandals I haven’t heard about or forgot 😅)
- Comment on Steam does the opposite of forcing Arbitration on its users 1 month ago:
If you think that an arbitration company isn’t going to end up sympathetic to the people signing their cheques after some amount of time in operation, I’m afraid I have some bad news for you.
I don’t assume arbitration wraps up in any arbitrary amount of time (🥁). I say it’s quicker than litigation because it is, every single time. Because it is quicker it is also cheaper, every single time. Small claims court is different again, and not at question here, just to head that off at the pass.
You however do assume a lot like my location and the location of the suit I brought though, based on my vernacular, and I’d recommend against that. “Mate’s rates” could put me in the UK, or Australia, or New Zealand, or even some places in South Africa and other former colonies. None of those would be accurate.
- Comment on Steam does the opposite of forcing Arbitration on its users 1 month ago:
If you push everybody into arbitration, you’ve already got the arbitrator in your pocket and your costs will still be less than litigation in 99% of cases - even class action. I don’t think you understand just how long and expensive and unpredictable litigation can actually be, but I’ve brought suit before so I do. It took four and a half years to get an initial court date from first filing the complaint. Not the trial, just a date so the judge could hear the facts of the case and opening statements from attorneys. Four and a half years of paying my attorneys, as a private individual, with a lot less money than you might think. And they were giving me mate’s rates; I’ve worked with companies where the legal work billings were in the tens of thousands per day for a single participating law office.
Maybe Valve did this to fuck their customers, but they don’t really have a track record of that, and since in the majority of cases arbitration is without question an anti-consumer move, I’d say that if your aim is to paint Valve to be the villains for this then it’s going to be an uphill battle.
- Comment on Steam does the opposite of forcing Arbitration on its users 1 month ago:
Arbitration is always cheaper and faster than the courts, because the courts are very backed up especially since the pandemic, and there’s a lot of admin cost which doesn’t exist in arbitration. That is why almost every other company is trying to force arbitration. So if the goal was to save money, forcing court would have the opposite effect.
- Comment on Anon attends school online 1 month ago:
“Free Taco Bell” is the name of the GoFundMe for your legal defense after protesting the war after class
- Comment on Anon attends school online 1 month ago:
Follow it up with
Thanks, Taco Bell
And lean into Taco Bell being your new nickname. Easy.
- Comment on Reminder: Sly Stallone’s name is Sylvester 1 month ago:
Meanwhile the cat will kick the thuckerin’ thuccotash outta anyone who looks at him cockeyed.
- Comment on How do you set up wake up alarm and not miss it ? 2 months ago:
There are alarm clocks that have a lamp built in, and instead of a loud alarm they play things like birdsong and rushing water at increasing volumes while brightening up the lamp to simulate dawn. I much prefer that to a nuclear launch siren, when I have to use an alarm. I don’t like to post shopping links because I’m not an ad machine, but if you search around for “gentle wakeup alarm light” you’ll definitely find some.
- Comment on Games industry layoffs not the result of corporate greed and those affected should "drive an Uber", says ex-Sony president 2 months ago:
Perfectly reasonable statements made by an individual very much in-tune with the video game development community and its members.
- Comment on What are your thoughts on Warframe? 2 months ago:
With Warframe, the grind is very there but it’s not the point. The point of Warframe is to learn how to slide and float around the level like an anime protagonist with everything falling to ribbons or exploding into gory mist around you, and to look good doing it. The unlocks and currency and quests all serve to open up different places and ways to do that. I saw someone saying the story is great; I dunno, it didn’t make a lot of sense to me, but that just means you can ignore it if you want. I put in over 800 hours because that bulletjump traversal feels so damn good (and I hate grind, WoW made that happen years ago). My wife has over 1000 hours; we didn’t have a clan, we only played together.
That’s a lot of hours, for free.
- Comment on Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford says his hopes on Epic Store were 'overly optimistic or misplaced' 2 months ago:
Yes, and at wholesale rates it’s a pretty good bang-for-your-buck, as an advertising scheme. I know I actively check for free games on the Epic launcher most weeks.
- Comment on literally nobody: 2 months ago:
Sometimes, a shitpost is so shit but also so very post that I get trapped in a whirlpool of whether or not to upvote it. Congratulations?
- Comment on Amazon Contractors can't even sing in their cars now. Unions protect against this micromanagement. 2 months ago:
I love how the solution is to cram people into smaller and smaller boxes instead of just I dunno not monitoring your fucking drivers like they’re fucking inmates in a maximum security prison you fascist-lite fucks
- Comment on Would it count in basketball, if a player found themselves directly under the hoop, threw the ball up through the hoop from underneath, and the ball fell back down, again through the hoop? 2 months ago:
maybe if they added flame traps
I think you might be thinking of Orcs Must Die!, but basketball.
- Comment on Second-Largest Diamond Ever Found Is Discovered in Botswana 2 months ago:
Quite a ways behind the largest diamond ever discovered, though!
(I know, I know, technically we don’t know if the carbon is diamond, just let me have my fun)
- Comment on Anon becomes Butthead 2 months ago:
- Comment on Lichens are things 2 months ago:
And I thought mushrooms were complicated…
- Comment on The problem with sleeper ships 3 months ago:
In practice, though, the actual sleepers would be so happy to arrive to find a nice McDonalds and a charming small town instead of shuttling down into the middle of uninhabited Arrakis with a 3D printer and a prayer.
As a guy who sometimes gets told “Hey, don’t worry about that work you had to do, you can skip it”, hard agree. No better feeling in the world. And after thinking you’d have to build a whole civilisation from scratch? Yeah, nah, sign me up for the generation ship please.
