Manticore

@Manticore@lemmy.nz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t exactly disagree, it’s just that bad faith AI games will inevitably use this possible interpretation to excuse using AI much more extensively. If you want to flag AI use for like… googling stuff, then we should differentiate it from those who use AI assets in their final product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m OK with that tbh. If we normalise disclosures for any use of AI, ever, the some AI vibe-code slop gets declared the same way as a meticulously crafted game (but the devs used AI for research/brainstorming), or even ‘devs used Google and they may have been inspired by the search AI’ etc

  I think AI as a tech is pretty cool. I think using AI is less cool, since it is using far more resources than we can afford to give it, so I avoid using AI at all, even if I think the tech itself is morally neutral.

  And I think the way we’re using AI is horrifying. Not just how companies push it, but the common use, too. People are outsourcing their thinking and comprehension to AI, and their own personal development is stagnating. This is particularly terrifying in children and college students. Would I rather than a doctor/social worker/financial advisor that gained a degree through AI and couldn’t adapt to real world struggle? Or none at all? Hmm.

  I think there is a space for devs to use AI and not have it undermine what they’re doing, is what I mean. And so I don’t want to label those people the same as the ones who’ll get AI to do everything. Otherwise, with how much AI is used on our behalf even without consent, the AI label will become the norm… at which point, it ceases to mean anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley Creator Says 1.7 Update Will Contain 'More Character/Social Stuff' and a New Farm Type⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah each times Sean does this shit, forums and chats are filled with people mock-angrily ranting that now they need to f8bd som more friends to buy it for lol

  And that meme of the dad with the belt? There’s a version on the reddit sub of Sean’s avatar “ITS FREE UPDATE TIME” (sometimes they put the update img on the belt), and the cowering kid being like “SEAN PLS NO! I have money”

  Warframe is also the only f2p model game I’ve ever actually felt fairly treated in, they’ve even changed systems when they noticed they were ‘too’ profitable and didn’t feel comfortable with how that was affecting the players paying for them. Warframe is a live service game by design, but it also has a community of players happy to pay for it because they love it and want to show that to devs, rather than being strong-armed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley Creator Says 1.7 Update Will Contain 'More Character/Social Stuff' and a New Farm Type⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s kinda insane what No Man’s Sky is doing, too. They recently pushed an update to design and build your own corvette-class spaceships. NMS isn’t even a live service game! Wtf Sean

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon asks out a girl⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know the study you mean and you’re misrepresenting it. It asks people who identify as lesbian whether they have experienced domestic abuse at all, and concludes they’re more likely to than straight women.

  But remember lesbians often date men before coming out. When asking whether the perpetrator was male or female and separating the data, the stats shifted. Lesbians experienced less DV from their female partners than straight women do from their male ones.

  Women are also capable of abuse of course, but a large amount of the DV lesbians received was still from men.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon finds a bot⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No. It’s definitely not what is was, for sure. But while search engines (especially Google) are so fucking bad, adding ‘reddit’ to your search is still the best way to get answers to your actual question and not just irrelevant sponsors and paid plugs.

  Ofc that’s probably a big reason why reddit has swarms of bots for grass roots advertising… it’s a vicious slippery circle of slop

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*Yawn*⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You read the word Yawn several times in a meme, guess what

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I knew it wasn't Monica⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thats the second living president.

  (Deadass I read the title literally and went looking for the second one, immediately locked eyes with Busty McPresident)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ANTI PEE PAINT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of Europe charges to use them though, whoch i find weird. Imo they should be funded by public budgets the way libraries, school buses, roads etc are.

  Like, of ya gotta pee, ya gotta pee. If you gotta pee and you don’t have any Euros on you, what else are you supposed to fucking do?? Literally what are your options at that point?

  I’m sure some people would do this anyway but I suspect a lot of them can’t/won’t pay for a public toilet and aren’t close enough to a private one. It’s a UX issue

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨eel butts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably doesn’t need as much intestine as we do, so the length of that tube is sufficient. Or perhaps most of the ingestion is done in the stomach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't like AI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AI is propped up by investors. Always promising the.next big thing is just around the corner. The money is pouring in from other wealthy people…let’s be real us common folk rarely if ever pay for AI. Its businesses doing that

  but one day those investors will expect a return, so AI is being shoved in everything in the hopes of finding a use case that is actually profitable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's all a game for them and we are always the losers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the ‘we’ in ‘we allow’ is also congress

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon breaks up⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They were talking about the dangers of negligence. You countered with how guns can be relatively safe if one follows safety guidelines.

  The ‘negligence’ part is referring to those that don’t follow guides. By listing all the guides and rules to make guns safe, they probably mean you prove their point by showing the burden of responsibility guns require (and thus the risk when iiresp9nsible people don’t meet them).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hmmm who could it possibly be?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ngl I suspect a smaller brand using sneaky bait and switch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dik Piks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure but that doesnt matter. The point is making insults they thing will hurt or humiliate you, because they feel humiliated. People do that by insulting presumed insecurities.

  Women get called fat ugly sluts, men get called small dicked virgin losers. We’re just calling each other failures at our gender roles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I figured it’s an issue with haggled that haggle for haggling sake, and not about the value of the item.

  If I want to sell something on marketplace, I put the price up, because I know somebody will ask for a big discount for a quick sale. I’m happy to move this faded couch set for $100, then I’m listing it for $200… and selling it for $100 to a person who offers to pick it up, too.

  It’s that kind of reasoning and makes haggling pointless imo, because sellers either don’t take your lowball or they knew you’d lowball and charged high to start with so they have room to negotiate.

  But as that one JC Penny guy accidentally proved, people love the illusion of good deals more than they love good value.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to petty lane⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m reminded of a story somebody shared on reddit years ago.

  An arborist, working with his team. One of his crew had the chainsaw kick and come back and severely main him. He’s bleeding so fucking fast. They need to get him to hospital, and they can’t afford to wait for the ambulance to arrive.

  The woman in front won’t let them past. She’s going slower and slower to make a point. They’re honking at her, but she lines up with another lane to box them in. That car slows down too.

  The guy is fading fast.theyre using his shirt to staunch the blood, but it’s not enough. After several minutes, they finally have an opening they can take. They speed past her little car, throwing the bloodsoaked shirt out the window to slap wetly on her windshield.

  They meet up with emergency services - first, a cop. The woman pulls over to talk to the cop about their reckless driving. While arguing, the ambulance arrives. The injured crew member, and the storyteller, are taken to hospital.

  It’s too late. He dies.

  …don’t fuck around man. You never know. It’s no worth it. Do the safe thing and slow down or pull over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hear thats what European Truck Simulator 1, 2, and American truck simulator are excellent for. Driving around on long roads with meditative scenery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Contributions⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Researchers dont get paid. In fact, they usually have to pay to be published on reputable platforms. Those platforms are the ones charging.

  As for why they publish there if they never profit, academic success is dependant on publishing (“published or perish”), so academics will pay to advance in their field, essentially to get funding for future studies.

  This is why if you contact a researcher directly, they’ll likely be willing to give you the finished thesis for free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It really fucks with my recommendations, but fuck em™⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AFAIK this fucks with artists, not Spotify.

  Spotify doesn’t pay artists a flat amount per stream. Instead, Spotify’s profits are split between artists based on their streams.

  By playing a bunch of songs, all you do is give those artists slightly more, and other artists slightly less – at least in theory. In practice you’re probably not steaming enough to change overall percentages.

  So if anything, you are moving profit to support the artists that Spotify is promoting by putting in your ‘radio’. Which likely means instead of going to small undiscovered musicians, it goes towards popular established ones that Spotify assumes you’ll like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's too hot to think of why or how⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where’s us weirdos that like to eat 1-3 at a time by one sticking to our tongue like a frog

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it means anything, very very few people in this world feel truly attractive, women included. Body image, self-esteem, fashion, fat and muscle; almost every person on this earth is aspiring to standards they can’t reach and feeling distressed at what they perceive to be their failure.

  You believe being a woman means being inherently desirable because you Young women definitely get attention, but its commonly threatening and not validating. It likely wouldn’t be fulfilling for you because it’s people who see you as a prop for their own experience. Your value isn’t part of that.

  If what you want is to feel desirable, your odds are better if you’re attracted to women. In relationships, women more commonly value non-visible traits like communication, resilience, consideration, humour, and skill. Attraction is more holistic. I’ve known of at least two men getting married with almost no face at all (one taken off by a grizzly bear, the other obscured by large benign growths). Both had kids, too. In a healthy relationship, holistic desire grows.

  You believe being a woman means being inherently desirable because you are presumably straight and desire women. You believe you must beautiful to get that because that’s what you most desire in women. Neither has to be true of you.

  You are thirsty in the desert, and that’s awful. You fantasise about drowning in the lake because it looks like a solution to your problem, just as the downers desperately wish they could stand on the solid cracked earth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m reminded of someone I know. He felt something similar for a long time. Ultimately he co clouded that, for him, what he really wanted was to feel attractive and desirable. And he’d concludes that only women could have that. And was wondering that wanting to feel beautiful meant he wanted to be a woman.

  After some time around sex-positive people, he had experiences that helped him feel desirable and attractive as a man. He realised that was what he actually wanted, and he’d just been taught beauty was a women-thing.

  Maybe that rings true for you, too. Maybe all you really want is to feel beautiful, wanted, desired. Maybe want you dislike isn’t your gender, but the role society has assigned you for it.

  Only you can really figure that out. I just wondered if my friends story would mean something to you… Being trans is a valid answer, but it isn’t the right one for everybody.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you think freewill truly exists?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It absolutwly can be small talk.

  Small talk is a low stakes way to build rapport without exchanging any information that is intimate, vulnerable, or confrontational.

  Talking about the weather is boring small talk. I hate boring small talk very much, but small talk in general is important for building rapport with people you don’t know well enough to be vulnerable with.

  Talking about pop culture, like [TV SHOW] or [LOCAL TEAM], are also small talk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rule 34 rule⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps majority is the wrong word, rather she is the most popular with horny humans. Im not referring to humans in general but pointing out that I’m saying Lisa is no. 2 on a ranked list. People are freaking out over Maggie when Lisa is also right there and far higher.

  So I suspect they’re both on the list for the same reason, and Lisa is higher because her adult version is used way more often and is more familiar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rule 34 rule⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Would have to be, Lisa is incredibly high also and I find it hard to believe that the majority of horny humans would choose a 9(?) Yr old. But she’s been depicted as an adult a bunch of times

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Standing still in place for a few hours is waaay more uncomfortable than pacing and walking around. Shifting the weight on our feet really helps

  I can’t imagine how awful these would be, especially with how cramped they’d be packed in (otherwise they’re no smaller than chairs). God, you couldn’t even bend down to scratch your knee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When I tell people I don't know the answer but where they can find it and they don't go and read where I told them to read.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s a video. I fcuking hate when I’m trying to find a tutorial, or recipe, or some other help and the results are people recording their screens while they dick around with zero subtitles or chapter headings.

  I can scan text for the relevant part within seconds. I’m not interested in two minutes of WHATS UP LADIES AND GENTS, missing the crucial step because it looks so similar to the irrelevant steps either side, lack of subtitles for my poor hearing, or hard to see on my tiny phone screen etc.

  Videos are easy tutorials/references to prepare because you have all these channels of information you can use simultaneously. They are the hardest medium to find specific information in because they use so many channels of information.

  I think that videos are enjoyable to consume, but they’re not good at passing on information, especially if the recipient is resistant already (because you’re asking them to do extra work to support your point).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gets a call from his past⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh I’d be concerned if he was raped while drunk or unconscious. It is, unfortunately, not so rare. If so, then as far as she’s concerned that’s ‘sex together’. A lot of women perpetrators do no consider themselves rapists because it’s’non-violent’ or they believe theyre doing the man a favour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cash is expensive for stores to manage, count, and sort. That’s the actual reason they want it gone, not tracking. Sure, we’re being tracked, but that’s not the point. Thanks to our phones, our personal lives have already been completely disseminated.

  Cashless is about making things easier for businesses that struggle with handling cash. A cashless society acts like consuming goods from those businesses is the only reason money exists, and that’s wrong.