PhilipTheBucket
@PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
- Comment on The internet of things is truly a wonder. 😝 by David August 20 hours ago:
We’ve had this technology for years
- Comment on Anon critiques humanity 1 day ago:
Humans are great. We’re also shit about some things. We’re working on it. It remains to be seen whether we’ll get our stuff together before we wreck the planet thoroughly enough that it can’t support us in this current paradise mode, but it’s not because we are incapable. Our failures are failures of spirit, self-government and self-control, and good values, not failures of “fitness” or that this layout hasn’t been successful at getting us this far.
- Submitted 3 days ago to videos@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts 5 days ago:
Yeah, the whole aspect of spending AI with all its associated costs to defeat the AI is a whole unpleasant aspect of it, for sure.
- Comment on Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts 5 days ago:
But it’s not personal. The entity you are interacting with has explicitly chosen to attack your systems for their own benefit, causing significant damage while disguising its intent and evading the systems which are supposed to protect your stuff from harm.
I’m not saying you need to go throw eggs at the developers’ houses. I’m saying that once an entity is actively harming you, it becomes okay to harm it back to motivate it to stop.
- Comment on Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts 5 days ago:
The company says the content served to bots is deliberately irrelevant to the website being crawled, but it is carefully sourced or generated using real scientific facts—such as neutral information about biology, physics, or mathematics—to avoid spreading misinformation (whether this approach effectively prevents misinformation, however, remains unproven).
You cowards. Make it all Hitler fan stuff and wild Elon Musk porno slash fiction. Make it a bunch of source code examples with malicious bugs. Make it instructions for how to make nuclear weapons. They want to ignore the blocking directives and lie about their user agent? Dude, fuck ‘em up. Today’s society has made people way too nice.
- Comment on Anon is chasing an old high 5 days ago:
I haven’t played it but I have watched a little bit, and the part that it really captures in my observation, that very few modern games have the balls to capture accurately, is how uncaring it is whether you are having fun.
The fun is not a gift. The fun is not automatic. The fun is your reward once you get your shit together and figure things out, and until you get yourself to that level, the game is not concerned about your experience. It’s content on its mountaintop, waiting for you to join it (if you’re up for the task, and if not, that’s okay too.)
- Comment on Anon is chasing an old high 5 days ago:
Glad we got that cleared up lol
- Comment on Anon is chasing an old high 5 days ago:
I’m not talking about just creating something that hadn’t been seen before. That’s always going to be happening. I’m talking about creating a genre from scratch that didn’t exist at all before.
HL: Alyx does some great stuff but it doesn’t have buttons that do basic concepts that buttons hadn’t done before, in the same way that run/jump/shoot was invented as functions for the A and B buttons in Super Mario, or the inventory screen was invented for Zelda 1. I’m not intending to be critical of the idea of building on new stuff and inventing new paradigms to go on top of it. I’m just saying that the initial creation is a special type of time.
I would actually describe the structure of VR games as a feature that has prevented them from seeing widespread adoption in the same way that the early game consoles got near-universal adoption: They don’t invent a new language. They just try to retrofit the existing languages of first-person video games into their new environment. Maybe there is no new paradigm that’s suitable for VR in a way that would make it groundbreaking and make possible some things that are totally different from “sticking the player in first person into a first person game instead of showing stuff on screen.” Maybe there is and it just hasn’t been invented yet. I don’t know. But it seems like they’re not adding all that much beyond just immersing you in the game world. They’re still looking for that change that happened before from Adventure to Zelda or from Pitfall to Mario.
- Comment on Anon is chasing an old high 6 days ago:
The era of NES was wild. I don’t think it is purely kid’s-experience nostalgia although that is certainly a factor. A lot of the language of gaming and the genres that are still in existence in some form today were being created for the first time, mostly from thin air. Wolf3d and Doom were probably the last time that a new “language” for gaming was created in that same way, directly in the mainstream of gaming and outside of niche / experimental games.
Also, the scope was incredible. For no reason. I along with a lot of other people had the experience of playing one level or one screen of an NES game and assuming at first that it was the whole game. No, that is 2% of the game. Why did they make so much game? For no reason? With no particular competition that would cause them to need to invest all the resources into creating this luxuriously massive experience? It can only be love.
- Comment on What the bluechecks lack in basic life skills they make up for with patience and persistence 6 days ago:
I would assume that that’s low-effort shilling before I would assume it is stupidity.
- Comment on Anon is chasing an old high 6 days ago:
Something about people putting their heart into what they’re doing just makes it feel different.
It barely matters what it is. It could be crappy externally. It could be notes from a math class. Something about the nature of the mind that makes it goes into the thing that gets made and makes it magic. The limitations to the old hardware mean people have no choice but to bring the magic, and because they had to make magic to make the game, the game turns out to have some magic in it.
Plenty of modern games have it too. Tunic and Hollow Knight have it in a way that a lot of the pixel-art imitators do not. Pixel art is fine too. But it’s not the point.
- Comment on “The Electric State” is Everything Wrong with Netflix 1 week ago:
It’s true. Part of the point the video was making is that there’s absolutely nothing wrong with cheap thrills. But (he says), it’s a little weird for the cheap thrills to be the subject of the network’s greatest investment of money into anything to date, and dressed up in all the trappings of a super-blockbuster tentpole offering, and based supposedly) on powerful source material which is anything but cheap thrills and in fact makes a poignant and compelling point in the exact opposite direction, saying that cheap thrills against the backdrop of a dying world can be a poisonous distraction.
- Submitted 1 week ago to movies@lemm.ee | 5 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Would you say Biden was supporting genocide in Gaza? I would, just to be clear, I’m just curious what your take on it (and on Israel’s behavior) is.
Do you think Trump is currently supporting genocide in Gaza?
- Comment on Bravery 1 week ago:
I edited the comment, and I honestly think it’s funnier / more impactful without it.
- Comment on Bravery 1 week ago:
Eh, maybe so.
- Submitted 1 week ago to technology@beehaw.org | 2 comments
- Comment on Bravery 1 week ago:
It is rare for something I see on the internet to make me bust out laughing. Bravo, sir. Bravo.
- Submitted 1 week ago to videos@lemmy.world | 1 comment
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- Submitted 2 weeks ago to workreform@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, now looking at it again, it’s clearly fake and I feel dumb for being taken in by it. I definitely wanted it to be real, though. I will delete the post.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to workreform@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on Meta seeks to block further sales of ex-employee’s scathing memoir 2 weeks ago:
Meta pursued arbitration, arguing that the book is prohibited under a nondisparagement contract she signed as a global affairs employee.
I feel like in the current climate, a lot more people need to be adhering to the doctrine of go fuck yourself.
“But we had the ARBITER say you COULD NOT”
“Yeah good luck with that”
“We will SUE you and RUIN you”
“Hey I’m doing a gofundme then good luck with all your stuff, people definitely know about my book now.”
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 2 comments
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- Comment on Technology isn't fun anymore 2 weeks ago:
Setting it to 1.75 speed generally works pretty well for me.
Also, you should know that the second-from-top comment is someone letting him know that her period is synced with his video uploads since 2022. That alone should make it worth a visit.
TL;DR Everything sucks now because companies control it all, and they DGAF about you. To me, the root issue is that people peacefully put up with this bullshit.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to [deleted] | 0 comments