Jesus_666

@Jesus_666@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon was bullied⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They did everything you hate back when you said liked anime. They still have bonkers shit today. There’s variety. It’s not like the entire extremely prolific animation industry of an entire country is moving in lockstep to deliver exactly the same product across the board.

  Sure, there trends like the onslaught of bland isekai shit we had for a while but even the worst seasons of that had their gems. Heck, even that genre has gems; there a reason KonoSuba is well-regarded (and it’s full of people who would be utterly unacceptable in Japanese society).

  You probably have the same problem that gets people to think that all music became shit approximately 20-30 years after they were born: They mainly remember the hits of their youth and forget that 80% of airtime went to shitty music back then as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perhaps the only appropriate use of AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  An LLM trained on the PoE ingame chat would try to solve all my problems by asking to buy my Kaom’s Sign Coral Ring for 1ex.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨irony is pressing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That has happened to me… twice. Once they sent spam to abuse@<domain> and once to postmaster@<domain>. Both of those are “well-known” addresses that received one spam mail each.

  Having your own domain with a catch-all address is rare enough that spammers don’t seem to try to target it.

  Meanwhile I set up straight-to-spam rules for a handful of companies that leaked my email address. Very useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how things become science⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s known that AI companies will harvest content without care for its veracity and train LLMs on it. These LLMs will then regurgitate that content as fact.

  This isn’t a particularly novel finding but the experiment illustrates it rather well.

  The researchers you consider to have acted so immorally did add useless information to the knowledge pool – but it was unadvertised, immediately recognizable useless information that any sane reviewer would’ve flagged. They included subtle clues like thanking someone at Starfleet Academy for letting them use a lab aboard the USS Enterprise. They claimed to have gotten funding from the Sideshow Bob Foundation. Subtle.

  By providing this easily traceable nonsense, they were able to turn the generally-but-informally known understanding that LLMs will repeat bullshit into a hard scientific data point that others can build on. Nothing world-changing but still valuable. They basically did what Alan Sokal did.

  Instead of worrying about this experiment you should worry about all the misinformation in LLMs that wasn’t provided (and diligently documented) by well-meaning researchers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get Your Freak On⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also the less self-empowered variety where the transferred person not only looks and behaves like an exaggerated Barbie doll but is supposed to become that airheaded. Like so often, the lines between these varieties are blurry.

  By the way, I find it rather telling that bimbo fetish is becoming more popular at a time when all of the MAGA women are doing their best to look like mass-produced plastic dolls… Exposure does a lot to drive preferences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Traffic Lights⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Traffic circles are. Roundabouts are okay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My kind of Doctor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps they were thinking of an American doctor.

  The bowling pins are for hitting the patient on the head because that’s the only anesthesia they can afford. The ducks are the little birdies circling the patient’s head after the anesthetic bludgeoning has been administered.

  The first gun is there because America and the second gun is so you can double-tap the patient in case you suspect they might be an immigrant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're going to accept art this horny please pay someone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  RoboCop did. So this is just like RoboCop; a pro-constitutional reform spokesperson was killed by a counterreformist gang and got most of their body replaced by a soulless megacorporation to help them privatize proreformist publicity work. The difference is that this one didn’t have any robot parts so they used a snow leopard instead.

  Obviously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon makes a wish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I got it as soon as I got a GPU that could comfortably run it… because it was bundled with said GPU. I did activate the key but never bothered to actually install it. Maybe later in case the handful of modders actually make something cool in there.

  I was kinda interested before launch, hoping that this would be the game to finally force them to meaningfully overhaul the engine they’ve been carrying around since Morrowind (with some bugs dating back to then). Of course it wasn’t and of course they didn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s called group exercise. You’re welcome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨every time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember: If you’re not part of the solution you’re part of the precipitate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨every time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My girlfriend got herself a pair and taped them to corners of her desk. She doesn’t want to turn on the light when she gets up at night but she also doesn’t want to bump into the desk. Tritium vials fit that use case well.

  Could we have gone with dimmable lights or something homebrewed with low-power LEDs? Sure, but tritium vials are affordable and don’t need a power supply or much in the way of setup; they’ll just keep doing their thing for about a decade before you have to even think about their light output.

  They’re a solid choice if you have the specific use case of wanting something to be easily located in (near-)complete darkness but you don’t want to use electricity for some reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happens when you always think the worst of people⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that dog driving a car?

  Nope, Chuck Testa!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The size of Portugal compared to Spain⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, they’re trying. Not very successfully as of late but they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh. They had options. With something as crazy as the Saints Row franchise they dissolve basically done anything.

  For example, have the Saints go back in time to prevent the destruction of Earth, overshoot and end up preventing their own founding. The test of the game consists of them trying to prevent themselves from being erased from existence a la Back to the Future.

  Or, if you want to dial back the craziness, declare the plot of IV to be a movie the Saints produced, which flopped and somehow ended up bankrupting Ultor.

  They had options.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't know the reason why.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because most banana varieties aren’t very transport stable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two sides to every story⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “…you see, it was actually considerably worse and I refuse to keep getting undersold by her like that.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a PC gamer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  1983. The video game industry effectively collapsed entirely.

  There were something like 14 major console systems on the market, all incompatible with each other. None had decent quality control for the games. At the same time home computers were starting to be a thing so the hobby money started going in that direction.

  In sum that caused an effectively total collapse of the industry in the USA. It took until the late 80s for the market to start to recover when Nintendo released a new console. Notably, this console was not marketed as a game console – it was the Family Computer in Japan and the Nintendo Entertainment System (with a shell deliberately styled like a VCR) in the West.

  Several major companies left the market (like Magnavox or Coleco) or were unable to compete when the market recovered (Atari).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pls?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If the show had been made in Germany it would’ve been called Just Send Saul A Fax.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone who has a dog does this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been to the park with a dog with no name
  It felt good to be out of the rain
  When I make passwords, I can remember his name
  'Cause there ain’t no one for to give me no pain

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is crazy. Why don't you just take their car ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or you could go for a tiered scheme where the device is free if the owner’s income is below a certain level. There’s always options; whether or not they’re taken is another question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is crazy. Why don't you just take their car ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Both options are potentially bad for low-income earners. If you force them to pay for a speed limiter they lost the money for that, which they might not able to afford. If you take away their license they will have difficulty getting around and might lose their job.

  So from that perspective the speed limiter might be the less dangerous choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the definitive way to play certain games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I could argue that experiencing the Groundhog Day bug builds character but… no. Nobody should have to deal with that.

  Admittedly, a few tactics like filling your base with laser rifles to make attacking aliens spawn unarmed no longer work. But honestly, an experienced player treats base attacks like bonus levels anyway so it’s not like much of value was lost. Besides, you also now get all the loot from big missions and not just the first 128 items.

  Also, UFO now actually remembers your difficulty setting and doesn’t revert you to Beginner after the first mission. That’s different but better. I probably should’ve mentioned that separately in my first comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the definitive way to play certain games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OpenXcom for the first two X-Com games (UFO: Enemy Unknown and X-Com: Terror From The Deep). This reimplementation is insanely good.

  • It fixes all known bugs of the original X-Com engine.
  • It works on modern systems, including Linux, macOS, Windows, and even Android.
  • It has support for modern resolutions and aspect ratios.
  • It allows you to use soundtracks from other versions of the game (e.g. look at the website’s “Extras” tab).
  • It has mod support including a basic mod manager. And some of those mods are damn good.
  • It runs flawlessly.

  There’s really no reason to play the original DOS versions anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My friends are by my side⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The one in the middle is a floater. The ones on the top right and bottom left are psychedelic fractals that are very much not floating around in people’s eyeballs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It typically doesn’t. Most countries don’t care about where your ancestors came from. Being fluent in the local language and culture will generally give you a leg up if you already qualify for immigration so I hope your family kept those alive (and not Americanized versions like Irish-Americans wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day). But your ancestry is usually completely irrelevant.

  Those genetic test results absolutely don’t mean anything. If you’re culturally American with an American passport, you’re American and that’s it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love Dune!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that LSD takes away your ability to ignore things. That applies to things around you, hence the feeling of enhanced perception – your brain no longer filters out all the things cracks in the sidewalk that you normally ignore. This is independent from the hallucinations, of course.

  But it also applies to all those thoughts you’ve been ignoring. Hence the life-changing insights people report having; in your case I think you were subconsciously aware that you should quit drugs but didn’t want to confront that thought. LSD made you confront it.

  (By the way, that’s also why I think people with unresolved trauma should be very careful around LSD. Being forced to deal with your repressed shit all at once can go very badly depending on what you’re repressing.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks, Google. Very cool.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do get pestered about mine, including full-screen popups about it. If I do agree to view it I get an error system because they couldn’t collect that data due to my privacy settings.

  You’d think they could check for that before bombarding me with disruptive popups. (Then again, Discord is 50% disruptive popups these days so it’s part for the course.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YOLO⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, poppers are various alkyl nitrites. Hydrofluoric acid is a different thing altogether. It has no psychoactive properties but will give you nasty chemical burns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's this ram price surge thing going on in the memes? Is this gonna affect pre-builts, laptops, tablets, phones, and other electronics?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what happens when you get distracted while posting. Thanks for the correction.