luciferofastora
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- Comment on It's already running 7 hours ago:
I think you missed the part where the common user won’t activate the scary feature that allows them to run arbitrary apps. You, as a dev, are in the minority. The point is that you could make a great app almost nobody would (be able to) use because you didn’t pay Apple to let them run it.
And push messages being an advanced feature is wild.
- Comment on If I got in a collision with a car from the 70s with a car today, would not the 70s car win out since it would primarily be metal? If so why don't people buy more 70's cars? 5 days ago:
I think that’s implied by “hose it out”: Your dad’s gone, all you can do is wash out the blood.
- Comment on Real 6 days ago:
A lot of choices in game making are mainly artistic freedom which at first people with a Science or Engineering background tend to shy away from “because it’s not how things are”.
This is a chorus I like to repeat: Entertainment doesn’t need to be realistic to be fun, and I wish publishers / marketers / reviewers / players would acknowledge that more often and stop slapping the label “realistic” and the like on things that aren’t.
There are sims that are grounded in careful study and attempt to model some part of reality as accurately as possible, but even they need to compromise, both to run on contemporary hardware and to balance it against playability. But they’re often complex, by virtue of modeling a complex reality, and not everyone’s cup of tea.
But then you have things like Assassin’s Creed that regularly and heavily fudge history, not always in a bad way, but convey an impression of past societies that seems accurate, but glosses over things like the Spartan inequality and slavery or Viking brutality, painting a more “noble” and “heroic” picture than they each deserve.
Again, there’s nothing wrong with making up interesting stuff, but people should be honest about it (as you are). Pointing out those artistic choices is an opportunity for learning things. Though the scale of an atmosphere is probably less significant than the scale of Viking slave trade, I still find it curious just how thin it actually is.
- Comment on No like really bro I’m just here for the silly shoes 6 days ago:
Karaoke is kinda like improv comedy: You need an easy, quick setup, then a punchline that’s also easily understood, but not too crude. High-brow comedy has a place, but a club generally isn’t it.
For Karaoke, the song is the setup, so ideally you’ll pick a well-known one, while the punchline is the mediocre singing. Singing well is like telling an anecdote: interesting, for the right audience, but not what people go to Karaoke for. Take too long to get to the funny part and the anticipation is gone. Sing too poorly and it becomes unpleasant rather than funny.
You can be good at Karaoke as a form of entertainment without strictly being an actual good singer, if you nail that balance and deliver it well.
- Comment on The Struggle 6 days ago:
Pissing is its own reward
- Comment on Anon reads the ink blot 2 weeks ago:
I’m not a mom, just someone who spent their afternoons after school daydreaming, dissociating, escaping to some place where I was important and could change things.
hug
- Comment on "CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion 2 weeks ago:
CEOs are lauded as visionary and it’s just not as engaging to read about crushed visions. Even if we disregard the whole “corporate talking pieces” and “journalists often stem from the social elite” parts, just the drive for engagement and clicks would explain a slant towards writing about great ideas rather than disappointing realism. How many people enjoy SciFi? How many love pedantic analyses why they’re absolutely unrealistic?
I mean, I love pedantry (as well as the genre itself), but I’m a minority and fine with it – stories can be fun without being realistic and disbelief can be suspended in favour of entertainment.
CEOs spouting bullshit shouldn’t be taken as stories for entertainment though, and much less printed in a serious manner. For them, critical disassembly should be the norm, mandatory even.
- Comment on Anon reads the ink blot 2 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t mixing up Greek loanwords be fucked up Grenglish?
- Comment on Anon reads the ink blot 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know if you’re making up shit for the joke, but if you’re not, can I offer you a hug or my sympathies?
- Comment on Oddly specific. 2 weeks ago:
This looks like an AI summary of the wordnik collection of definitions put forth by a bunch of different sources:
wordnik.com/words/defenestrationAt the time of writing, these definitions do seem to be in there.
- Comment on WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR? 2 weeks ago:
meANALSEX
Subtle as a pounding
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
She did:
- Comment on where? 3 weeks ago:
I’ll stand, thank you.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Better make the best of then while they last then
- Comment on Bernie Sanders spoke to AI agent Claude 3 weeks ago:
LLMs are highly impressive text generators, amazing facsimiles of human writing and wholly unsuited to anything involving semantic understanding and critical thought. You cannot generate facts, and it doesn’t understand how the patterns it analyses and reproduces relate to actual concepts or things, but they’re extremely “knowledgeable” about those patterns.
They’re a technological marvel, relentlessly abused by grifters posing as prophets to scam the gullible.
Unfortunately, the gullible are executives and representatives.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 4 weeks ago:
Me with modern AI all the time:
“This is impressive. Amazing. I love what technology can do now.
Why the fuck did you put AI in this?”
- Comment on Why conservative men repeatedly crash Grindr 4 weeks ago:
It’s the same with couchfucker’s eyeliner. I love eyeliner on men (I have yet to see one who didn’t make me go “I’m probably not entirely straight”), but in my perception, it definitely seems like a queercoded thing that the bigots would hate other men for. It’s the hypocrisy of whining about “weak” men while wearing visible makeup.
(And I do think it looks good on him too, just wish he’d use that mouth for better purposes than spewing hate and toxic bullshit)
- Comment on Anon likes Mario 5 weeks ago:
I also have more in common with a child slave toiling away under horrible working conditions than with a billionaire. It’s really not hard, if you have even the slightest shred of worry about your livelihood and obligations. Even by orders of magnitude, my four-digit bank balance is closer to zero than to ten digits.
- Comment on GoldenEye 007: The Accidental Masterpiece Trapped in Licensing Limbo 5 weeks ago:
Did my upgrade two years ago, didn’t get “top of the line” equipment because monetary constraints. I’ve got a 5600X, 32GB RAM and a GeForce 3060 with 12GB VRAM, so that shouldn’t be too bad?
- Comment on GoldenEye 007: The Accidental Masterpiece Trapped in Licensing Limbo 5 weeks ago:
Any consolation, ShadPS4 can run BB at 4K / 60fps right now, if you want it?
👀
Need a bit of a beast of a PC, but can confirm you can play it all the way through, not too many issues.
What level of “beast” are we talking about? I only need 1440p, personally.
- Comment on GoldenEye 007: The Accidental Masterpiece Trapped in Licensing Limbo 5 weeks ago:
For players who had grown up memorizing Facility spawn points or banning Oddjob in living-room arguments, it was more than a nostalgic curiosity. It was validation that even the most entangled licensing knot can, eventually, be untied.
Bloodborne fans: “Don’t do that. Don’t give me hope.”
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 5 weeks ago:
I guess I…kinda lost the plot a bit when I wrote the second part, eh?
I think I got where you were going, I was just saying that someone trying to find a way around the legal restrictions indicates they’re not actually concerned about ethics, just about not getting in trouble for it. In that context, the problem “How do I do this in an ethically acceptable manner?” is “solved” with the answer “I don’t care”.
Generally, laws are the standard solution to ambiguities. Ethics are a murky and often subjective topic, so it makes sense to form some sort of common agreement on what is okay and what isn’t. And where there are laws, there are gonna be cunts proving exactly why we had to write it down in the first place…
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 5 weeks ago:
I simplified for comedic effect. You’re absolutely right that the “compromise” would be finding some humane and ethical solution, but “The most effective and direct way of finding out is cruel and callous” isn’t quite as snappy.
I guess my point is that sometimes even if it’s illegal you can get away with it if done correctly, with ruling party aligned stated goals…or you have access to a shit tonne of money and powerful friends.
That kinda dodges the conflict by not engaging with ethical concerns at all. I feel like calling it a solution would be morbid, but it does make the problem stop being a problem…
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 5 weeks ago:
Science and Ethics — the age old enmity between “I wanna know” and “I’m not allowed to find out”
- Comment on big facts 1 month ago:
I’ll show you some nice vibrations ;-)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Love that you found something that works for you, and a person to do it with!
Now I wonder what things I might like that others find gross
- Comment on Liminal Space 1 month ago:
Plant eyes in our brain, to cleanse this ghastly idiocy!
- Comment on Why you shouldn't annoy the butler 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t have recognised the guy, nor the context, nor did I know about the heisy or the damaged jewels. This is just a lot of interesting context without which the joke wouldn’t have made any sense.
In such cases, explaining the joke actually makes it funnier. Thanks!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
“I want you to succeed! By selling your body! But only to one specific person, of course, otherwise that would be a bad thing.”
Something along those lines?
- Comment on Video game romances need to evolve beyond lore dumps 1 month ago:
B²G3 romances seem shallow and kind of transactional because it is a mix of characters who don’t know each other having a whirlwind romance in a relatively short period of time.
Add the sense of “we don’t know how much longer we have” and the general dramatisation of High Fantasy and you have one hell of an intense honeymoon phase.
After that, the game doesn’t really cover how your relationship plays out, aside from that short party epilogue. Sure, your shared experience may make for a strong start, but the arguments, the differences, the difficulties adjusting to one another while also grappling with the trauma of what you went through and the challenge of finding your place in this new world… there’s a lot left open that just doesn’t fit in this game’s frame.