Cethin

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t disagree that there are ways to add protections. It’d require strict compliance still though or things could fall through the cracks. Even when using the classic placeholders things have been missed on occasion. The only 100% reliable way to avoid shipping any generative AI content is to never include it in the project.

  Again, I don’t think the usage here was bad. I think the reaction to one piece of generative AI art, which was replaced within a week, has been too severe. I’m just saying that if you really want to make sure you don’t ship any of it, just don’t ever include any. The old methods were perfectly fine, even if they made development look less pretty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They used it to create placeholders during development. It wasn’t something they decided not to use before. It’s just something that was meant to be replaced. Usually these placeholders are a missing texture image or just a magenta texture, but they used generative AI to create something that fit into the world. Because it fit they forgot to replace it.

  Honestly, I’m not opposed to this usage. It’s not like it’s replacing an artist. No one was going to create a placeholder to be replaced. However, it is obvious to see that occasionally you’ll forget to replace items with this technique, like we saw here. The old style of incredibly obvious placeholders were used for a reason; so that you can’t forget to replace them. It’s probably smart to keep doing this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gotta Catch 'Em All⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I got 18/24. I’m pleasantly surprised. That was pretty tough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree that it deserves it more, but I don’t agree that I think they’d improve it. We’d get higher quality models and textures, and maybe an improved lighting solution, but I think they’d mess up the game. They’d simplify it. Also, they’d probably make a unified UI with consoles, like the later games have, and not have the very good UI we have for PC Morrowind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember, most of the Germans who supported Hitler didn’t realize the Jews were being massacred.

  This is not true. It’s a myth. A lot of Germans claim to have not known, but it was widely available knowledge.

  “Nazi policies were widely available to the population.[10] Berlin Radio broadcast the mass-execution of Jews in Białystok and the burning of synagogues in July 1941.[11] Numerous speeches spoken by Hitler in 1942 allude to the destruction of Jews.[12] Notably, on 24 February 1942, Hitler’s speech celebrating the Nazi Party’s foundation alludes to his prophecy of 30 January 1939 in which he foresaw the destruction of European Jews.[13] This speech was then reported the following day in the Niedersaechsische Tageszeitung. Hitler publicly referenced his original 1939 prophecy at least four times in public in the year 1942.[14] Historians such as Confino and Koonz argue that Hitler’s emphasis on this prophecy during the height of the Holocaust meant that it became a shared ideal among the society.[15][16]”

  And we didn’t go to war to stop Nazi ideology, we went to war to stop Germany from conquering the entire fucking world through military means.

  Eh, some of both. Notable, there was almost a fascist coup in the US, known as The Business Plot or The Wall Street Putsch.

  ^Trying to stop an ideology with force only makes that ideology stronger, gives it validation.

  The implication of this statement is that Fascists can never succeed because their method of action is force. If you were correct, anything they do would actually only make what they’re attacking stronger. I think we both know this isn’t true. Nazi Germany didn’t fall from the inside. The Nazis gained almost total control over the nation, through force.

  I’m not one to rule out tools. We should ridicule, we should talk, and we should fight. Yeah, the person fighting can’t really talk, and same for the person ridiculing. That doesn’t mean these aren’t tools that need to be used on occasion. They are there more to show not everyone agrees with them. Discourse is to make people who do agree with them change. They have different goals, so their tactics are different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't stop till brimstone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure it’s positive. Salt is (was, but still is to a lesser extent) extremely valuable. It’s literally where the word “salary” comes from. Every person, and animal, needs salt to survive, and it used to be much harder to obtain than today. It’s only bad in extremely high amounts in a field you’re planning to grow crops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨too soon?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I were one of them I think my communication gear would malfunction and I wouldn’t get the orders to do nothing, if that is what happened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OK, I said I was done, but one last one.

  And NOT being in any arithmetic book means it’s not part of Arithmetic 🙄

  Here is a distributive law lesson for grade 4. Here’s another, and another. My search was just “when is the distributive law taught in schools”. These were the first results.

  It being used in an algebra course doesn’t mean it’s in the domain of algebra. Algebra is also used in calculus, but algebra isn’t the domain of calculus, correct?

  It’s algebra when it’s using variables, and you’re solving for an equation. 2(3+4) is arithmetic. 2(x+4)=0 is algebra.

  Arithmetic: a branch of mathematics that deals usually with the nonnegative real numbers including sometimes the transfinite cardinals and with the application of the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to them.

  Algebra: [A] branch of mathematics in which arithmetical operations and formal manipulations are applied to abstract symbols rather than specific numbers.

  Note: Algebra includes the use of arithmetic. It being used in algebra does not mean it is part of algebra.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you point to some other times in history where the threat of being beaten up has been effective in eradicating an ideology?

  WWII?

  Yeah, it usually doesn’t eradicate it. That’s basically never how we measure effectivity though. Being nice hasn’t either. Again, the point isn’t to change the person being attacked in these cases. It’s to show others that their views are not acceptable by society. It’s to show others that it isn’t a widely held belief and to not listen to them.

  Yeah, unless we go on an all-out war against them it won’t be eradicated through violence. Growth can be slowed though. That’s why I said we need both violence and dialogue. They both can be useful tools.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It probably won’t change that person (unless you kill them). It’s to show everyone else that it isn’t tolerated. It’s to prevent them from going around doing whatever they want as if it’s normal, which will make other people believe it’s acceptable and may start believing the same things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You said “I don’t think you’re right”, and followed it up with “Ill informed”, to a Maths teacher.

  About pedantics, not math. Sorry, your realm does not extend into English. Even if you were one of the great mathematicians of our time (which I suspect your not, but I don’t know you) this still isn’t the same domain. It’s tangential to mathematics, but it isn’t mathematics.

  I know everything about high school Maths - I teach it

  Everything, huh? There’s absolutely nothing you can improve on? Has a teacher ever been wrong (or just uninformed) about a topic in a subject they teach? Does every English teacher know the content of every book? You can be a great teacher and still not know everything. No one knows everything about a subject, even when they’re complete experts. Anyway, this isn’t your subject! This is English, not math. Do you see any formulas, proofs, or equations in these comments?

  You think Maths textbooks use very strange logic??

  What don’t you get? It being in an algebra textbook does not limit it to the realm of algebra. Numbers are in that textbook too, yet they aren’t exclusive to algebra. I’m reasonably confident that your textbook, where it teaches this, does not say “this is a part of algebra, and no other domain.” If I’m wrong, I’d love to see the citation.

  Anyway, unless you provide that proof at the end there, I’m done with this conversation. Goodbye and I hope you have a good time teaching math!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maths teachers are ill informed about Maths?? 😂

  Dude, there are math geniuses, who were powerhouses in the field, who were wrong about some things. Do you think you’re above them?

  Which therefore contradicts your argument about it being part of Arithmetic, which is taught in elementary school, Algebra isn’t

  I don’t think you understood that. Elementary particles are taught in undergrad physics, not elementary school. They’re elementary because they’re fundamental, not because of when they’re taught. Elementary school teaches you the fundamentals to your future education. That’s why it’s called that, not because they teach you everything that uses the word “elementary.” Also, many things are fundamental (elementary) to their fields that won’t be taught to elementary school students. The sharing a word does not make them related.

  What do you expect to happen when you call a Maths teacher wrong about Maths?

  I didn’t say you were wrong about math. I said you were wrong about English that is used in relation to math. Clearly this isn’t a strong suit of yours, and that’s fine. However, stop acting like you know everything, because you clearly don’t. You’re using some very strange logic to argue you’re right, and it doesn’t make any sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re very rude. Also, Ill informed, and you think you’re smarter than you are. For example, this:

  as an example in “elementary algebra.”

  Algebra isn’t taught until high school

  Elementary doesn’t mean elementary school. Do you think elementary particles are the ones they teach you in elementary school? Lol. Elementary means fundamental or basic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think you’re right. The wiki page literally uses a similar equation as an example of “elementary arithmetic.” It also uses a similar one, but with variables, as an example in “elementary algebra.” That implies that yes, this is arithmetic, and the introduction of variables is what makes it algebra.

  It doesn’t matter what course finally teaches it to you. That could be just out of convenience, not by definition part of that domain. It’s been ages since I took it, though I could swear I learned this in pre-algebra (meaning before algebra), or earlier. I could be wrong on this though. Again, it’s been a very long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, and it has the potential to be very effective. I think we need both of these —punching Nazis and talking with them to change their views.

  Another big issue that goes with this is a lot of people will say that if their were bigots once then they should be shunned. This is very harmful though. If we do that then their only reasonable option is to double down. If they lose their group and also can’t be accepted by the rest of society then they’re never going to do that.

  I think this problem is much larger than only this right now too. People make their opinions equal to them as a person. They feel if they change their opinion then they’re failing as a person. This isn’t true though. Changing your opinions when you’re shown new information is a sign of strength.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know that he didn’t get it. He just hadn’t a different method of fighting back. Not everyone is going to be able to go around knocking them out. The vast majority of people won’t in fact. There are still other tools they can use to stop the spread, or, in rare cases, reverse it. You have to be careful to not legitimize it though if you’re doing something like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone needs to make a monument, like that woman hitting the nazi with her purse. Maybe, until then, some graffiti to make the location to people passing by? Or maybe some other cheap temporary display.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Latitudes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shit, you’re right. Too much EU5 playing as Castile, and then Spain, capturing Portugal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Latitudes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The US is fucking huge. A lot of our weather up north is closer to yours, but we’ve got deserts, rainforests, Florida is just outside of the tropics, etc. There’s a huge variety of climates here. The US is larger than all of Europe, by quite a margin. East to west it’s wider than Lisbon, Spain to Moscow, Russia. North to South it’s pretty much identical to Europe. (Technically Europe is slightly larger with the Scandinavian countries sticking out pretty far north.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For the setting point, I agree three is more classic post-nuclear-apocalypse, but also that’s a big negative. Fallout isn’t just post-nuclear-apocalypse, it’s post-post-apocalyptic. The radiation should be a lot less prevelant and there should be societies rebuilt.

  Three feels like it should be set very soon after the nukes fell. A lot of the narrative and environment don’t make sense with the timeline they wrote. There’s speculation this is because it was originally supposed to be set much earlier, but they pushed the date back late in development to make the story BoS VS Enclave, which wouldn’t fit earlier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s better than NV as a whole, but there are things it does do better. Probably the biggest is the random events. They have a lot more variety and interaction then NV. You might end up with a BoS Remnant group spawn and a Deathclaw, and they’ll just start fighting. NV doesn’t really have this. It’s much more contained and scripted.

  In this way, 3 is closer to 1 and 2 than NV is. A large part of the first two games are the random events as you travel the world. NV is almost entirely predictable, with the same things always being at the same spots. 1,2, and 3 are fairly unpredictable while exploring. Landmarks will be the same, but what you see along the way usually won’t be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨same shit every day, on god⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to be this person I guess, but the defining trait of steampunk isn’t the use of steam alone. It’s that energy is transfered by delivering steam to where it’s used, rather than using it in-place to crested electricity. This means that steampunk machines operate off of some kind of kinetic energy, rather than electrical energy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically not algebra, right? Algebra is where you move things around and solve for variables, and that kind of thing. This is just arithmetic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anti-cheat is not heading toward more support without the intervention described in the article.

  I don’t know how many times I have to say this, but one more time: The vast majority of games work on Linux just fine! That number is only increasing.

  Whatever that results in. Valve is talking about potentially a SteamOS-specific fix

  Source? You say I need to provide sources. Where’s yours for this. This isn’t how Linux works. You can add and remove kernal modules at run time on Linux. This will not be OS specific, and it also won’t realistically address any actual issues that may exist and aren’t already solved.

  It’s not most games, nor is it most publishers, but between those games and publishers, it represents most players, most dollars spent, and most time spent playing video games (at least non-mobile, anyway). It is an enormous hump to get over if you want to make a gaming device appealing to more customers.

  It is not, on PC at least. The most played PC game is CS, and second is Minecraft, according to this. I’m not saying it’s nothing, but also it’s far from everything. The vast majority of hours played by people are on games that work on Linux.

  Sure it does. As an example, let’s say there are X players for a game in a month, and 3-7% of those are on Linux. If, as Facepunch says, more than half of that 3-7% are cheaters, then including them is doing more harm than good to your cheating problem.

  This number is bullshit probably. If their AC can detect cheaters then they wouldn’t have this issue in the first place. You’re trying to tell me you believe they can accurately count cheaters but are also incapable of stopping them? Yeah…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Their story doesn’t make sense. The one thing they always say is how few users are on Linux. If that’s true then most of the hackers can’t be. It doesn’t make sense. It does nothing to actually solve the issue. An actual fix wouldn’t matter what OS someone is on.

  If you use Linux, and game on it, then why are you saying things are going the way of not supporting it. Clearly you must see what way the wind is blowing. Damn near everything works fine. It’s only EA, Riot, Chinese games, and a tiny number of other games. Everything else usually just works.

  It’s going to prevent a more potent vector, which is exactly what they said.

  It prevents exactly zero vectors on Windows, which is where the problem is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your explanation is bordering on conspiracy theory, so yes.

  So the only thing that’s allowed to be speculated is that the companies are perfectly honest and never lie? Yeah, maybe you’re not that reasonable.

  Rust cited why they cut support, as did Apex Legends, as did GTA Online.

  They didn’t “cite” anything. They gave a reason, sure. It’s not honest though. If less than 5% of players were on Linux, how many hackers do you think they stopped? They didn’t cite any statistics or anything, and I’d wager that they increased the number of hackers as a percentage. All the script kiddies are on Windows, not Linux. Sure, they can’t control Linux as much, but it’s also not a significant source of their hacking issues.

  The rest often don’t even bother with supporting it in the first place because of how it always plays out.

  The rest support Linux. You’re obviously a Windows user. You don’t know what the hell you’re talking about. Damn near every game works flawlessly on Linux.

  The existence of hackers at all doesn’t mean that Linux anti-cheat is equally effective, and you’d know that if you read the write up from the Rust team.

  That is not what I claimed. I claimed their team hasn’t done shit to prevent hackers. The insane number of hackers in that game proves that most of them are on Windows. If they can’t stop the hacking on Windows then what the hell is blocking Linux going to do? No, they saw it was a small portion of users and decide to just block it to make a show. It didn’t solve anything so why did they do it? How is it that this game, with such a large hacker issue, has the problems but not the thousands of games that support Linux? It’s because Linux isn’t the issue. Teams that can’t actually build real anti-cheat solutions are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to cite sources but you don’t? One example is Rust, a notoriously hacker filled game.

  Of course they’re trying to make money. I literally explained that. The executives see Linux as not providing value, and it’s extra effort to support it. They’d rather instead use it as a symbol of how they’re actually trying really hard to fight hackers, but it’s a lie. It’s just a convenient excuse.

  You haven’t heard an executive say almost anything. They run companies. They don’t publish their every decision. They are the ones making the calls. They’re the ones responsible. They’re also largely technologically innept. They probably don’t even know what Linux is. They just know what they’ve been told.

  You’re only going to be surprised when this continues to happen even though the answer is right there.

  There are like two major companies doing this. There’s EA and Riot. There’s a tiny minority of minor players, like Rust. There’s also a lot of Chinese companies doing it. (China is infamous for having hackers, so yeah, didn’t solve that problem did it?)

  I can’t tell you the last time I booted up a western game and it didn’t work on Linux. (I think it was Squad44, which then added support, and support in the main Squad game has been in for a long time.) Everyone is moving toward supporting it, not away. The only places it’s an issue are large slow companies where the executives have too much control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason they do it usually is because some executives hear the Linux is less secure and that it’s only a small segment of users. It isn’t because it’s effective. The games that blocked Linux are almost all some of the games with the worst hackers. Guess what happened when they blocked Linux? Nothing. The number of hackers that were on Linux were near zero.

  The issue is they cant be bothered to put the actual money/work to create a solution that’s effective. Instead they signal to their audience that they’re doing something by removing Linux, which doesn’t cost them anything and makes a show that they’re actually trying. It doesn’t fix the problems, but they get to make a show out of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would doubt it. I don’t even know if that’s a reasonable thing to do on Linux. I don’t see how it could work. Presumably they’re trying to work on something like they did for Easy Anti Cheat. That has a kernel module on Windows, but it doesn’t on Linux. I would assume they’re trying to work with EA, Riot, and maybe some Chinese companies to have their AC option work with Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In case this is serious, kernel-level AC has been shown to not be particularly effective. There were people with hacks for BF6 before it released, for example. Them blocking an operating system doesn’t prevent cheaters. It only prevents consumers from having options.