Chozo
@Chozo@fedia.io
Hail Satan.
Using Mbin as a backup to my main Kbin account due to tech issues on Kbin.social. May either switch to this one permanently or abandon it, depending on how Kbin's development goes. All my active fedi accounts are linked.
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 2 hours ago:
Like "vegan" isn't even a century old yet, it was made up in the 1940s by some guy who thought vegetarians weren't good enough, and he set whatever rules he wanted to.
[citation needed]
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 2 hours ago:
Maybe you forgot what community this is, chief.
- Comment on Red Alert 2 in web browser 5 hours ago:
Yeah, at best it's "A framework for Red Alert 2 in web browser".
- Comment on Alberto Mielgo defends the Marathon cinematic as "not AI," denies his team touched Bungie’s plagiarized material and calls the art theft incident a genuine mistake that was "blown out of proportion" 1 day ago:
How does one even accidentally steal a texture someone else made?
One could easily apply Hanlon's Razor to this. For example:
- Bob is a game artist. Bob has a folder on his desktop called "Inspirations", where he saves art pieces he finds online that he likes, and a folder called "Assets" where he saves things he's created for the game. Bob transfers to a new department in the studio, or quits, or is fired; either way, he returns his equipment to the IT office.
- Dave is an IT guy at the studio. Dave takes Bob's computer after he leaves the job, and transfers all of Bob's files to the studio's shared drive. Dave isn't an art guy, and doesn't know the difference between "Inspirations" and "Assets", and dumps them all into the shared drive in a folder called "Bob's Things".
- John is the studio's new artist, replacing Bob. John syncs "Bob's Things" to his computer. John assumes everything in this folder has already been cleared for use by Legal. John starts implementing the art into the game.
I used to be a pretty hardcore Destiny 2 player for several years. In that time, I've seen Bungie fuck up a lot of things. But those fuck-ups were almost entirely caused by somebody in the studio not playing close-enough attention to something, and details getting mixed up in the pipeline. I don't think anybody at Bungie knowingly put Antireal's art into the game. I think the more likely explanation is that there was a lack of oversight, and files that shouldn't have been mixed together, got mixed together.
It wouldn't even be the first time Bungie had something like this happen; there was an instance where a third-party studio that Bungie contracted to build a Destiny 2 cut-scene accidentally used artwork that was not intended to be in the actual cut-scene.
Not to suggest that any of this excuses Bungie for multiple cases of plagiarism. Obviously, they need to have stricter standards in place when transferring files between parties. It's a colossal fuck-up, but I don't think that it was a fuck-up anybody set out to commit.
- Comment on Screw your zodiac sign, tell me.. 3 days ago:
We had mostly 8s, but somehow a few 4s got added in. Here I am now, 30-ish years later, and my roommate has 4s in her kitchen, too.
- Comment on ¿Por qué no los dos? 4 days ago:
Holy shit it just gets better and better.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 5 days ago:
"Having" is not the same as "owning".
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 5 days ago:
But we don’t actually have ownership rights any more, do we?
When it comes to video games, we've never had ownership rights. Buying a game has always been just buying a license. The only thing that's changed is that now publishers have a mechanism with which to enforce it.
- Comment on Not impressed 6 days ago:
I had a teacher in 6th grade who told us that God placed the earth the perfect distance from the Sun; a few inches closer and we'd all burn, and a few inches further and we'd all freeze. I got detention for standing on top of my desk and asking why I wasn't on fire yet.
That kinda shattered my view of teachers being arbiters of knowledge.
- Comment on Yarr 1 week ago:
Yeah but two weeks from shore and it'll feel like the most appropriate song.
- Comment on the future is now 1 week ago:
New Amazon uniforms just dropped.
- Comment on Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games? 2 weeks ago:
Feeding the ducks
- Comment on What are the most popular conspiracy theories? 3 weeks ago:
I like the theory that suggests that JonBenét Ramsey wasn't killed, and was instead kidnapped and secretly raised by her captors to be a singer, and grew up to become Katy Perry.
- Comment on I have been staring at this marquee and cannot figure out what "two dance special means" 3 weeks ago:
We'll tell you when you're older.
- Comment on When did people start saying "have a good rest of your day" 3 weeks ago:
Usually after 4 PM.
- Comment on Retina e-paper promises screens 'visually indistinguishable from reality' 4 weeks ago:
This makes me doubt the author of the article's credibility. What exactly is the "perfect resolution" of a hand painted piece of art?
High-enough that you can't distinguish individual pixels with your eye. At least, that's how Apple defines their retina displays; not sure if these guys are following the same standard for that terminology or not.
- Comment on More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC 4 weeks ago:
It's hard to be critical of something that hasn't been released yet. All anybody had to go off of were statements from the developers, until the product was actually released and people could get their hands on it.
- Comment on Marylin Mothroe 4 weeks ago:
Someone please tell me more about this moth.
- Comment on Carrot 4 weeks ago:
Thumbnail definitely had me expecting something else.
- Comment on Manic Stew 4 weeks ago:
Hyperfixated Sushi
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 4 weeks ago:
Okay, you define "technology" for us, then. Let's see your brilliant solution.
- Comment on Dead Cells 2 doesn't exist because its devs would rather make what they want than listen to external pressures 4 weeks ago:
What about this is clickbait?
- Comment on Why are some many people role playing as animals? 4 weeks ago:
[gestures broadly at everything]
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 4 weeks ago:
From how she describes it in the video, he apparently held the stalker by the arm until police arrived. It doesn't seem like he roughed the guy up or injured him at all. It really seems like Twitch applied the "no touching" rule to the wrong person.
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 4 weeks ago:
"Technology means what I want it to mean."
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 4 weeks ago:
Emiru did a short stream going into additional details about the incident, as well as some other fuck-ups by Twitch staff that weren't mentioned in this article.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_USuIpVAqAw
tl;dw: Emiru calls out Twitch for lying about the situation in their official statements, expresses concern for what sort of response a smaller streamer would've gotten if they were attacked like this, and draws attention to Twitch's lack of security and professionalism. Twitch staffers originally laughed about the situation to Emiru's face, and didn't seem to care until the video went viral. They ran background checks on everybody who signed up for her meet-and-greet event, but the attendees were allowed to bring a plus-one with them, who did NOT have to get background checked. Twitch staff also allowed people to walk around even after their badges couldn't scan properly.
Also, because this isn't anywhere near the first time Emiru has been attacked in public, she points out that she's spent tens of thousands of dollars for her own private security, and wasn't even allowed to bring her preferred bodyguard with her because he's permanently banned from Twitch events due to restraining a stalker during a previous event.
Twitch fucked up big time here.
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 4 weeks ago:
Which posts fit here?
Anything that is at least tangentially connected to the technology, social media platforms, informational technologies and tech policy.
- Comment on "loops", the Fediverse Alternative for TikTok-style Short Videos, is now federating 4 weeks ago:
Loops, the platform, has nothing to do with Meta. Also, that article is over a year old.
- Comment on If a girl asks you if you're big, are you supposed to lie or not? 4 weeks ago:
I usually just sorta hold my hands out in front of me and gesture like I'm describing a fish I caught.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
You should check out Embark Studios' (ARC Raiders dev) other game, The Finals. Literally the most innovative FPS I've ever played, it completely reinvents the competitive shooter genre.