brucethemoose
@brucethemoose@lemmy.world
- Comment on How can people with ADHD possibly enjoy movies if they daydream and can't focus on the movie? 1 week ago:
It doesn’t work like that.
I hyperfocus on movies, personally. I literally can’t go to sleep watching them.
When I was younger, and I’d watch movies with a big group of friends, I’d always be the last one to turn it off as the credits roll, and they’re all snoozing away.
Now… if my brain had some other thing it decided to be preoccupied with, focusing on the movie is a forgone conclusion.
- Comment on Modern Monetary Theory: Musk Edition 1 week ago:
I think this is a more global problem of “people now think they’re experts on everything, and shout about it loudly”
Musk is the classic high profile example, but science denialism among the general populace is the low profile one.
And I hear, “well, they always have.”
I dunno… I don’t think the average person in 1926 assumed they were an expert on medicine or physics or whatever. If a doctor is physicist told them something, they’d nod their head.
Now? The notion is offensive, apparently.
And even if I’m wrong there, and people were always like this, the other half is that they weren’t able to shout it into an algorithm that absolutely loves the controversy it generates, and serve it to billions of people automatically.
- Comment on Make it so 1 week ago:
It still violates causality
Orion’s Arm has an elaborate write-up for their wormhole system. to get around this:
www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/48545a0f6352a
When a wormhole is transported to a distant system by linelayer at relativistic speeds, the two ends of the wormhole become displaced in time due to time dilation. In theory this displacement could allow time travel into the past, especialy if the wormhole mouths are subsequently brought close together again or connected via additional wormholes.
In practice time travel into the past is prevented by the so-called Visser effect. The ends of any single wormhole cannot be brought more closely together than the time difference between them; i.e. if one mouth is a year younger than the other, the ends can’t come closer than a light-year without causing a Closed Timelike Curve. The formation of such a CTC immediately generates an exponential flux of virtual particles, which destabilises the wormhole and causes a collapse.
This represents an effective event horizon between the (hypothetical) part of the universe which allows time travel and the part of the universe which does not; this horizon is known as a Cauchy Horizon.
In other words, one can’t place wormholes in a configuration where they’d violate causality; the act of doing so creates a black hole.
And this includes more complex configurations that could indirectly generate a CTC; in other words, for a large networks, one basically needs high artificial intelligence to arrange a wormhole network to avoid a “roman configuration” where they’d explode.
- Comment on Thirsty much? 1 week ago:
Can you edit the post to the original link, OP?
- Comment on Thirsty much? 1 week ago:
It’s real. Published one day ago:
baptistnews.com/…/men-only-gyms-seek-to-protect-c…
The site isn’t what you might think, though. It’s got some good writeups, and spicy ones:
baptistnews.com/…/why-do-we-keep-sounding-the-ala…
baptistnews.com/…/in-3-charts-white-christian-nat…
As the empirical evidence for the threat white Christian nationalism presents to pluralistic democracy has mounted over the past decade, various insider defenders of conservative white Christianity — and even some mainstream white Christian theologians — have alleged the term is simply a cudgel. Those who qualify as Christian nationalists on public opinion surveys, they argue, only want to see a role for their faith in the public square…
Donald Trump is an abuser. He is an adjudicated rapist and predator. Donald Trump is a grifter. He is a well-known con man who gets away with the con because so many don’t want to talk about it. Donald Trump is a liar unlike any liar most of us ever have known. And there are enormous consequences to his perpetual lying. Donald Trump is literally the most dangerous man in the world, and you want to label me with “Trump Derangement Syndrome” for saying that.
- Comment on Where do I go for unbiased news in the world without it having an ulterior motive or kissing ass to the establishment of said country? 1 week ago:
You don’t.
All news has biases. You find sources that are pretty good, and get to know the motives; and just read critically.
- Comment on Nvidia finally reveals what controls devs actually have for DLSS 5, and don't worry folks, there are TWO main sliders to control the AI filter 1 week ago:
I’d bet its just an unoptimized prototype.
This is quite doable on 5000 cards, theoretically.
- Comment on Nvidia finally reveals what controls devs actually have for DLSS 5, and don't worry folks, there are TWO main sliders to control the AI filter 1 week ago:
I’d assume it’s for 5000 series GPUs. And maybe someone will hack it to 4000 cards?
- Comment on Alternative medicine 1 week ago:
It would hilarious, and sad, if it eventually becomes a controlled substance over abuse concerns.
- Comment on Fallout 5 officially in pre-production, being built on Elder Scrolls VI engine 1 week ago:
Grounded 1/2.
And while Pillars of Eternity isn’t my cup of tea, I know some who swear by it.
I know the reception to Outer Worlds “eh” (and I thought it was “eh”). And it was clearly supposed to be an New Vegas-like. But I think people forget Obsidian released 9 games and some great writing since Fallout 4 came out.
- Comment on Unbelievable that Assassin's Creed never won a Game of the Year award 2 weeks ago:
I mean, Odyssey seems like the next obvious target for a remaster, so maybe it will come back.
- Comment on Unbelievable that Assassin's Creed never won a Game of the Year award 2 weeks ago:
starfield won “most innovative game”
No way…
I’m not a gaming drama queen by any measure, but that’s just silly.
- Comment on Fuck IMDB and fuck Amazon 2 weeks ago:
Actually… I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt there.
With the entire internet flooded with abusive scrapers, putting useful data behind a free login (like text reviews) kinda makes sense. It’d dent bots and review manipulation programs, too.
- Comment on Will the next president of America have to do a world wide apology tour for this administration? Kind of like celebs do when they get their ass in a sling. 3 weeks ago:
Friend, the next President of the United States is either going to be Trump, Vance, or Elon Musk.
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 3 weeks ago:
You know what’s also wild?
Paying for a blue checkmark on Twitter.
- Comment on *inhales* 🖕🙂↕️🖕 3 weeks ago:
You know, I’d argue it’s hard to stop kids from doing that privately. If they want to use some local model to undress Jessica from history class, for only their eyeballs… well, that genie is out of the bottle unless we take everyone’s computers away.
Now, where it crosses another line is spreading those nudes.
Or even worse, selling them.
No one should be allowed to make money off that. Not the financial processors that facilitate it if they “buy” an undressing service, not the social media platforms that advertise it to them; they should all be crushed to dust with liability. And kids should get in deep trouble if they pass it around, just like they would if they ripped Jessica’s clothes off in broad daylight.
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 3 weeks ago:
It totally does. My sister got it to play Pokopia and Animal Crossing. I know of families that have gotten it for their kids, for similar reasons.
I’m not saying it’s a smart buy, but not everyone is a seasoned, mature gamer. If you have a decent budget, zero spare time, no experience with PCs, and your young kid is dying to play Pokopia with all their friends, a Switch 2 makes sense. As a plus, it’s not a tablet where you have to deal with straight up scam apps, or a expensive PC where you need some technical know-how to make it safe for one’s kid.
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 3 weeks ago:
I have a theory.
The “casual” or “mainstream” crowd, the one that used to buy CoD, FIFA, Madden, Sims and such yearly like clockwork, has transitioned to phone apps, or sports betting/fantasy.
Their attention has been robbed from consoles.
Meanwhile, “games as art” gamers that treat them more like movies are less affected. That segment continues to grow on PC, and maybe even consoles, but the attrition of the first group masks that for the console crowd.
I’d postit that a third factor is Steam’s rising market share coming at the expense of other PC gaming storefronts. For market purposes, it is PC gaming now.
- Comment on *inhales* 🖕🙂↕️🖕 3 weeks ago:
I would counter:
Then why are these things okay for adults?
There is nothing normal about mass consumption of troll farms and bots. The user facing internet is broken and unhealthy, and it’s absolutely mad we pretend like it isn’t. Banning it from children is not even a band-aid.
…I’m going to set porn aside.
- Comment on Would it be better to just have a lot of society be underground? 3 weeks ago:
OP, have you ever planted a bush? On a wet day?
Digging. Is. Hard.
Also, studies have shown that “enclosed” living is psychologically problematic, at least for a majority of people. This is why rooms where people live/work for extended periods have windows.
- Comment on I made a full Ai Movie Can y'all Review it 3 weeks ago:
I watched some, and I’m about as “pro AI” as you’ll find on Lemmy, but honestly:
-
Tons of scenes are jarring. Like, right off the bat, the zoomed in scene of walking feet is token. Heads twist around, objects float; it’s creepy. It continues all through the movie, like the scene of the airplane landing.
-
All the voices are robotic and tinny.
-
All the scenes are too short.
And this makes sense.
Most TTS isn’t integrated with LLMs; it’s just interpreting text, so it can’t convey any emotion.
Video models are only good at ultra short scenes and are honestly still pretty bad.
Its one strength seems to be generating consistent, attractive faces in short bursts. Which makes sense: the primary use case for these things is influencer bots, impersonating real humans, for attention farms or marketing campaigns.
…Look. AI is just not good for this format. I doubt it ever will be without some serious cinema scaffolding to just hold bits in place.
-
- Comment on Sony 3 weeks ago:
^
I see a whole lot of theoretical “what if platforms did this or that,” when GoG is already doing it right.
- Comment on Early Steam Machine user mourns "red line of death" following GPU failure 4 weeks ago:
From OP in the Reddit thread:
Got five minutes of No Man’s Sky in, then I installed the update the machine had available and it bricked itself. If you’re still in the queue, look on the bright side: they’re presumably going to iron this crap out. Edit: To be more accurate, it’s giving the error light code for GPU failure.
Anticlimactic and somewhat embarrassing update: as some people suggested, I left it unplugged for about half an hour last night and then tried plugging it back in… and it didn’t work. So I left it unplugged for a couple of hours and then tried it again before bed… and it didn’t work. Same error light despite multiple power-cycling attempts. So I left it unplugged overnight and plugged it back in today to try some of the BIOS stuff that other people suggested… and it booted up immediately without issue.
I feel stupid about even posting this now, especially since it blew up a bit, but I was tired and irritable after a long day of work, and an ominous GPU error code wasn’t exactly the seamless plug-and-play experience I had hoped for. But I guess if anyone encounters the same error, don’t panic like I did, just let it sit for a few hours and it will somehow sort itself out.
It sounds like a firmware issue that bricked it. Perhaps Valve pushed a fix while it was “on” overnight, or they reset something in the BIOS.
What I’m getting at is the specter this raises: The Steam machine seemingly relies on Valve for firmware support here, I think. Not AMD directly, like with the normal Linux firmware shipping.
That’s an interesting can of worms.
It’s not bad or anything, I’d trust Valve more than HP, Sony, or past OEMs who were notorious for wonky “custom” hardware support. And I suppose their track record with the Deck speaks for itself. But still, that’s something I’d keep in mind before buying one of these things.
- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s mostly newer indie or “AA” games I’ve been into.
On the pricing: blog.subimpact.net/…/valve-allegedly-threatened-t…
But in a nutshell, the allegations is that Steam threatens to delist games if they’re priced lower than Steam on other storefronts, similar to what Walmart or Amazon are accused of doing.
- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 4 weeks ago:
Also, I have a pet peeve:
I see a lot of people claim to want discs, but they haven’t actually used them given the choice.
Or buy DRM free. And they don’t.
For what it’s worth, I try to buy games from GoG first, first party storefront second, but that hardly even works anymore. It’s almost always only available on Steam. Maybe rarely on EGS, but then it’s not clear if the download is even DRM free, and it literally cannot be cheaper if it’s listed on Steam too, so that’s not really an option.
- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 4 weeks ago:
Nah. The hardware for discs is gone, and rather slow anyway. USB/SD cards are too expensive.
And digital key reselling? That’s a whole can of worms for grifters to squeeze.
Not that it doesn’t suck. I want to (legally) archive and resell my games.
…But I don’t know a good alternative.
- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 4 weeks ago:
That’s not really true. Most recent games I’ve bought, I tried to buy off Steam. But they weren’t available anywhere else.
It also hardly even matters as no one on Steam is allowed to price below Steam. So they effectively control pricing power, like Sony; the screws just aren’t so tight yet.
- Comment on "Profoundly Disappointed:" Companies Respond To Sony's Decision To End Disc Support 4 weeks ago:
iam8bit, a company known for its physical gaming collectibles, which said it is “profoundly disappointed” by the news.
GameFly
Video Game History Foundation director Frank Cifaldi
…Well, to be fair, these companies would obviously complain.
I’d “buy” this headline more if bigger studios spoke up.
- Comment on Videogames: Then and Now 4 weeks ago:
“Remember. No Russian.”
Pulls down mask.
Rips off shirt, flexes.
- Comment on Videogames: Then and Now 4 weeks ago:
This is a quality shitpost.
Not sure it even belongs in this sub; it’s too accurate.
