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- Comment on If a TV series you loved from the 90s, 00s or even early 10s instead came out today - how different do you imagine it would be? How would the writing be different? Who would be casted instead? 2 weeks ago:
Generally, I suspect it would have much better VFX and inversely proportionally poorer plot and / or acting.
- Comment on Showing your ID to get online might become a reality 2 weeks ago:
Agreed. The sentiment was fine, the execution terrible.
- Comment on Suicide is cringe 2 weeks ago:
Clearly you’re a person of great refinement and culture.
- Comment on Showing your ID to get online might become a reality 2 weeks ago:
The following:
If companies are indulging in abusive use of cookies (or index DB, local storage, plugins or other things) then ban those abusive use of cookies and fine companies that transgress until they stop. The EU essentially caves to industry pressure and put the burden on the individual visitor, which just allowed the companies to make it very, very annoying to opt out. Have you noticed how ‘allow all’ is always a single click, but allow none isn’t, if the option exists at all? Regardless, those settings? Guess where they’re stored: Cookies. Which means that those of us who were already preventing local storage of data are now having to deal with those lovely “choices” over, and over and over. Every visit to youtube, every newspaper article we try to read.
This was not an improvement in my quality of life. And I doubt the practical efficacy to boot. Can’t track user behavior and Internet usage patterns by way of cookies anymore? Fingerprinting to the rescue.
- Comment on Showing your ID to get online might become a reality 2 weeks ago:
Hey EU? Do you remember when you forced every website to ask for permission to store cookies and made the entire web immeasurably worse to use without in any way having a positive impact on people’s right to some fucking privacy?
Yeah.
- Comment on Suicide is cringe 2 weeks ago:
You know what they say: If it looks stupid but works, it’s not stupid. Or as I say: No, if it looks stupid and works, you got fucking lucky.
- Comment on Openings (Monster Hunter) 2 weeks ago:
“Why would you go for that opening?! What’s wrong with you?”
- Comment on The $900 Massaging Shoes! 2 weeks ago:
Sure, I’ll just sell my car so I can buy a pair of fucking shoes.
- Comment on pee was stored in the balls 1 month ago:
I honestly would’ve thought that an orifice to release waste products came first, but I’m not an evo-devo-nist.
- Comment on happens every single time 1 month ago:
Anxious, but in a titillating sort of way.
- Comment on happens every single time 1 month ago:
Bonus!
- Comment on happens every single time 1 month ago:
Ah yes. That’d be luck. And sometimes, just seeking refuge in audacity. Just stare the doctor right in the eyes and say: “What? Don’t pretend you haven’t done it too.”
Doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. He’ll pretend it is - if he knows what good for him.
- Comment on happens every single time 1 month ago:
Okay, I’m gonna be honest here: That’s one thing that’s never happened to me.
Lots of other… things, yes. But not that one.
- Comment on Trump’s Team Calls Europe ‘Pathetic’ in Leaked Signal Group Chat Messages 1 month ago:
Well, yeah. Except in the sense that they’re shit at it. Like everything else.
- Comment on Trump’s Team Calls Europe ‘Pathetic’ in Leaked Signal Group Chat Messages 1 month ago:
I suspect the wanna-be autocrats in the country where nothing can seemingly get the populace off the couch might be projecting a little bit.
- Comment on You'll only survive the scorching wasteland of Hello Sunshine by walking in the shadow of a giant robot 2 months ago:
Well, that was… Profoundly disturbing in a way I haven’t seen since dodging a Reaper on foot in ME3.
- Comment on Leaked video shows PlayStation toying with Aloy from Horizon as an AI chatbot 2 months ago:
Thing is, I really don’t see how that’d work for any useful scenario. Even in this very limited case natural language processing and response generation is definitely off-loaded to a remote server farm, and isn’t running on the console. TTS for a single characters voice could - but likely isn’t - be done on the hardware, but as I mentioned elsewhere, the voice models for modern text-to-speech synthesis are very, very large. Typically gigabytes of data - per voice. Completely unrealistic for any meaningful game.
Even if all those trained models existed (they don’t), I doubt any consumer would be amused by a multi-terabyte download.
Even as it is, the response latency is hilariously bad. I players having to wait seconds for each NPC response would fly as well as a lead brick.
- Comment on Leaked video shows PlayStation toying with Aloy from Horizon as an AI chatbot 2 months ago:
Interesting point, although I don’t see how you’d manage to run modern TTS (the models can get very large, and that’s per voice; as an example Parler-TTS’s mini model is 800Mb, the HQ model is 2.3Gb - for one voice) + a LLM for content synthesis on any personal hardware, console or not. The storage requirements alone would make that grossly infeasible.
- Comment on Leaked video shows PlayStation toying with Aloy from Horizon as an AI chatbot 2 months ago:
Does anybody actually want that, ever?
- Comment on Atomfall Hands-On Preview: Rebellion’s New IP is More Than Just British Fallout - WGB article 2 months ago:
I don’t disagree, but my problem is the ways in which is clearly isn’t Fallout. Specifically, FO has some deep lore that justifies the existence, mannerisms and internecine postures of the various factions, but here it’s apparently just… Waves of nutters take the first opportunity to move into a radiological quarantine zone and set up shop as conveniently thematic gangs for… reasons.
“Just think about it lads! Not only can we live in a place that’ll kill us on the cellular level, but we can wear theatrical facepaint - don’t ask where we’re getting a steady supply of that - like a 24/7 Kiss revival concert! It’ll be awesome! There’ll be matching top hats for everyone. Millinery is a real growth industry in here. Mind the mercury.”
But other than that, it looks fun enough.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Well, that’s true. It’s driving us all straight into the ground at velocities more typically associated with railgun development or orbital mechanics.