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- Comment on Great business idea, tbh 6 days ago:
I was curious too, so did some searching. His name seems to be Calimar White (based on this Tiktok page) , and the company is called OCDA (Occupational Cares Diversity Affairs). The website, which also has YouTube videos, is at https://ocdaofficial.com/
- Comment on Enroll Now · Welcome to Starfleet Academy 2 weeks ago:
Curious too. Maybe they don't like the Scottish Football Association.
- Comment on JSON Statham 2 weeks ago:
Well, I definitely will now. Even though I've always been more Shaun-inclined.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel - Kurzgesagt 2 weeks ago:
The ways they say they are going to use AI is exactly what they said was causing harm.
I disagree. The examples of traffic not going to websites and the stealing of content to train models are two things among several that they state in the very beginning of the video, as an introduction to how AI slop is invading many different sectors of the internet.
While this is sad and frustrating, what's even worse is that generative AI truly has the potential to break the internet irreversibly. By making it harder and harder to tell what is true.
The beginning part stands out to me as things that they think are too bad, but not really what they consider the worst thing about AI. To me, their main concern is the fact that AI hallucinates and comes up with stuff, so as you say, they won't use it for research and writing. But they will let their animators use AI programming tools to for example speed up writing expressions for use in After Effects.
However, their added in line at the end of them using AI as a "faster google alternative" is very open-ended and gives me pause. I'm very curious what exactly they mean by that, because at first listen, it could sound like a slippery slope into not fact-checking things. So I checked out their sources link that they always have in the video description, emphasis theirs:
One key driver in the development of “AI Slop” is a lack of oversight. Whether intentionally (to save money, or to mislead) or unintentionally, if generative AI is put on a task and the results are not checked for quality and factuality, low-quality content is the typical result. But the good news is that we can oversee it, and check/change/edit the results before we share them with the world. And then the output quality can be much improved, turning an AI-slop generator into an amazing tool for humans.
TL;DR - But this is still pretty long:
What I take away from what they say in their video is that they think misinformation is what will contribute to the end of the web and the end of their channel - People using AI to pump out misleading and untrue content at a pace and scale that no human content creator or educator can outpace or even keep up with. Essentially, I believe that the way that they see it is that the tools are already out there, and won't be going away, and so they are going to try and use it responsibly in order to help with mundane tasks. I don't know if I would consider it ethical, but I disagree that ' The ways they say they are going to use AI is exactly what they said was causing harm.' - Comment on Have you seen it? 3 weeks ago:
For anyone else curious, here's the commercial in question.
- Comment on 100% free - The Leviathan's Fantasy (on Steam) 5 weeks ago:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3376080/The_Leviathans_fantasy/
Recently, we have been in continuous communication with Steam Support regarding the duration of our game's free promotion. The support team has also walked us through the potential drawbacks, advantages, and disadvantages of the free offering. Additionally, they assisted us in enabling the free access permission this past Monday morning; however, this free version remains hidden—as we still need to confirm the official launch time, it is currently not visible on the store page.
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It seems even the Steam team was unaware that, with the hidden free version active and the paid version not yet fully removed, users could still claim the free version directly via their Steam Wishlist. I only discovered this issue today myself. Immediately after learning about it, I sent a follow-up email to Steam Support to inform them of this situation and requested that they process refunds for players who purchased the game recently (after the unintended free access became available).To clarify: The original purpose of our free promotion is to ensure that players who have already purchased the game can continue to access the game’s ongoing updates. There are no hidden agendas or "conspiracy" behind this decision. We simply hope new players can enjoy the game, and existing players can benefit from sustained support.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
I personally like it a lot more than Satisfactory currently, but that's because my life is pretty stressful right now, and managing the conveyor belt spaghetti and machine connections is too tiresome for me at the moment.
With The Planet Crafter you are striving to unlock buildings by raising your Terraformation Index, which is comprised of pressure, oxygen, heat and biomass. You do that by crafting and placing down various machines and buildings, but none of them are feeding each other like in Satisfactory. Instead you are out exploring, finding ores in the wild, in old bases, scattered crates, and raiding old, abandoned, crashed spaceships for resources and parts. There are no enemies in the game, so no combat and no weapons. Instead the challenge is to manage your oxygen, hunger, thirst, and various environmental hazards like meteors and weather events.
As you raise your Terraformation Index you'll start seeing your planet change in flora and atmosphere, which is such a cool experience! New areas will be unlocked by you heating up the planet, which will introduce new resources. I just can't recommend this game enough. I think it's definitely worth the full price, but based on previous sales, my guess is that it'll go on sale again within a month, around 40% off, if they stick to the pattern. I also really appreciate their pricing structure for DLC, which is just a new planet to start out on (Base game has 2 different planets to choose from as your starter), at 8 euros. I ended up getting it, since only the player hosting the save file, needs to own it, in order for everyone in multiplayer to join in.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
The Planet Crafter. I can't believe how much fun my girlfriend, my friend and I are having with that game. When we first picked it up, I expected we might play it for a couple days, maybe enjoy it for a couple of weekends. But it has really turned into one of those obsessions that you get from games like Satisfactory, No Man's Sky, Favtorio, etc., where the whole world just disappears around you, and a 7 hour session feels like 3 hours at most. This game has just perfectly straddled the line between challenging and relaxing for me.
- Comment on Clock logic 1 month ago:
I can't believe this is the first I'm hearing of 24-hour analogue clocks! That's so cool. But yeah, I see your point about it now allowing for very much precision at a glance.
- Comment on Subscription models like Xbox Game Pass are "not properly valuing" developers, says former Bethesda exec 1 month ago:
Agreed. From reading OPs replies to my questions, it seems they have different definitions for "albums" and "Albums". But as their claim slanted their entire comment for you, I would also say that our whole exchange sets the rest of their comment in a different light for me.
- Comment on Subscription models like Xbox Game Pass are "not properly valuing" developers, says former Bethesda exec 1 month ago:
Me not agreeing with you is not arguing against you. I'm only talking from my own experience, and not insisting that what I'm experiencing is the absolute objective truth. At no point did I say you were wrong or that what you're saying doesn't exist. Just that I can't make sense of your viewpoint. Anyway. this is it for me. Have a good one.
- Comment on Subscription models like Xbox Game Pass are "not properly valuing" developers, says former Bethesda exec 1 month ago:
I really can't see where you're coming from. I'm discovering and listening to loads of new albums every couple of months. Spotify is even pushing albums with their "pre-save" feature, where artists start a countdown for their album that's about to drop, and you 'pre-save' it to your library, so you get a notification and have instant access, once the album drops.
Your specific point about Hayley Williams also doesn't make sense to me. I haven't listened to much of her music, since it wasn't really my cup of tea, but I have family members who love her music, and look forward to every album of hers.
I agree that singles are more important than ever in a marketing sense, and that there are probably some artists that focus more on putting those out, than creating albums. But to say that albums are incredible rare is just straight up untrue in my experience. Plenty of artists are still making thematic albums and/or albums that tell a story.
- Comment on Subscription models like Xbox Game Pass are "not properly valuing" developers, says former Bethesda exec 1 month ago:
I don't really have my finger on the pulse of most of this, so I don't have anything to add to everything you said. But I am curious about your statement regarding albums:
It is incredibly rare to see an Album anymore because people don't listen to music as albums. They listen to them as singles in a playlist.
What genre are you listening to, where artists used to come out with albums but aren't anymore? As a listener of all kinds of music, like rock, metal, blues, kpop, reggaeton, EDM, country and many other genres, that has not been my experience at all.
- Comment on winter fans 1 month ago:
That's a true winter fan right here.
- Comment on [Spoiler] Day 410 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing (The Last of Us Part II) 1 month ago:
I just tried with my lemmy.world account too, but it was the same result. So I guess pixelfed just doesn't federate with lemmy and mbin in that way. Looks like it's more akin to mastodon. I need a phone app and a desktop solution, where I can just plug in all my fediverse accounts and then have the option of seeing all content from all of them in one place.
- Comment on [Spoiler] Day 410 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing (The Last of Us Part II) 1 month ago:
I really enjoy these posts of yours. I take it your Pixelfed account is at @MyNameIsAtticus? Linking it here, so I can hopefully just click the link and follow through my fedia.io account.
- Comment on Youngest actor ever 1 month ago:
This is accurate, OP. If you scroll down and look at Thorpe's acting credits, you can see that she was in the show for 12 episodes between 2000 and 2002 The show started in 1973, but it's still airing new episodes to this day.
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 1 month ago:
And seeing as it's his grandkid, he can even just say, "Ask your parents.", if he wants to be a real coward about it.
smh, why does it have to be everyone else's problem that people don't want to talk to their (grand)kids?