theneverfox
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- Comment on If deaf people think by visualizing sign language words, then how do deaf people with aphantasia think? 2 days ago:
I think in thoughts. It boggled my mind to learn this isn’t how everyone thinks
Like, I don’t have a running narrative in my head - words bubble up, but it’s just like muttering, just occasional words. I only try to put them into sentences when I’m talking or imagining talking - like everything I write.
I don’t read like this, which is part of why I’ll terrible with names - if I read a book, I don’t know how to say or spell a character’s name until I try
If I had to describe it, it’s like memories. If you think elephant, you might see an elephant, you might hear the word elephant - but on some level you also probably think about things related to the concept. Like memories of seeing an elephant, elephant facts, other African animals
That bundled concept is elephant to me - the word is how you say it, I can get the impression of looking at an elephant, I can hear their cry - but at the center of this web of details is an elephant
I build my thoughts by chaining these concepts together, and where they fit together is the main thread of the train of thought - I can then move my focus across this thread and the hanging threads to solve problems
Things just click together or they don’t
If you tell me you feel like an elephant (and I have no idea what that could mean) I’d take the two concepts and try to draw threads between them. I cycle through concepts that feel in between them - elephant in the room, large/imposing, unforgiving, powerful - these loosely fit from elephant to your mental state. And from the other side, ugly, isolated/seen as an outsider/problem, or maybe you mean you literally feel like an elephant in a human body
Threads link between them or they don’t, maybe I’m missing an intermediate concept I haven’t yet associated with either and I have no idea what you mean
And that’s how I think. If I had to link it to a sense, it’s like proprioception - I’m moving through my thoughts and linking together connections, but it’s my my own mind I’m moving through and around me
But ultimately, it’s not words - there are concepts I don’t know how to label, although words help me identify concepts
- Comment on Do it 3 days ago:
Crazy fucking robot body in my ass?
- Comment on use it on strangers 3 days ago:
Sure… But now they’ve got these wolves for the next 14 years
They can’t “reextinct” dire wolves or release them, so they’re now in the zoo business one way or the other
- Comment on Why Are Gamers UPSET With The Switch 2?! - The Act Man 4 days ago:
Because ultimately, digital goods are infinite.
They would make more money on a Mario game that costs $30 with no drm then a $90 game impossible to pirate
- Comment on use it on strangers 4 days ago:
I understand that, but the wolves are living things that require expert care. This isn’t some cat they can take home or some mouse they can quietly put down… They’re stuck with them
If they kill them, they’d get death threats (people are already attached). If the wolves escape, they’d get protesters. People will likely come to try to see the wolves, the wolves will try to escape and become extra aggressive if they’re understimulated
Good PR stunts don’t require you to run a zoo for the next 14 years - and whether they allow guests or not, they’ll need a team of people, including round the clock security, to take care of them
So unless they can sell them to someone, every success they have pushes them further into becoming Jurassic Park, but with less cool animals
- Comment on use it on strangers 4 days ago:
And now they have a pack of XL sized wolves… That’s not like making a glow in the dark cat, that’s either the main plan or a very big problem
- Comment on use it on strangers 4 days ago:
Okay let’s play that out… Everyone gets excited, they make big strong wolves and get funding… Now what?
They’ve got a pack of extra big wolves raised under human care. Do they kill them? Do they sell them? Do they open their own park? Do they just keep them for study? Do they just leave the gate open and let them go?
- Comment on use it on strangers 4 days ago:
I’d watch that
- Comment on use it on strangers 4 days ago:
Also, what is the game plan here? To sell GMO exhibits to zoos? To try to do a Jurassic Park, but without dinosaurs?
- Comment on Anon works at a warehouse 5 days ago:
All depends on how much you value your job
If you want to keep your job, assuming the company is omniscient is smart
In reality, most corporations are cutting staff all the time at this point. They might have automated systems looking for porn, but for stupid grug questions? Doubtful. If a human sees it? Will they fire you? Honestly, coin flip.
- Comment on Just go. 5 days ago:
Lol more like when you deliberately mispronounce a word to make it rhyme
- Comment on Your future AI Assistant still needs to earn your trust. 5 days ago:
This is the way.
- Comment on No Weirdos 5 days ago:
And when you need the grip to be able to leverage your full body weight into insertion
- Comment on Just go. 6 days ago:
I appreciate your comment, but holy shit that’s a stretch
- Comment on 'There Are So Few Of Us Left': Even Full-Time Games Journalists At Big Websites Are Feeling It In 2025 1 week ago:
You’re also missing a big piece… You can’t fucking trust the reviews any more. Steam reviews are great, and game reviewers have been trying to insist “no, this trash game is actually great, don’t trust your fellow gamers” for years now
At this point, it’s blatantly obvious you can pay for good critic reviews, and there’s no walking that back… Especially since there’s better, more honest, options
- Comment on Anon calls Domino's 1 week ago:
I have a simple rule - if someone makes me feel something positive, I tell them. It started when I was hanging out with friends downtown and a girl ran up to compliment my shoes, then immediately walked off. It felt great, especially because she left before I could wonder what her angle was
So now, I make a point to speak up. If someone says something funny I overhear, I tell them I thought so. If I think they had a cool shirt, I say so. Then I just go back to my own business
- Comment on Just No 1 week ago:
Well…I mean … That’s fair.
If you woke me up a year ago to ask my opinion on the last three months, you’d have to spend an hour filling me in on details and then give me a few minutes to myself before I finally asked you to repeat what you wanted to ask me
You can definitely do it with prompt breaking - it could be as simple as phrasing the conversation at a hypothetical or as nuanced as convincing the llm you’re an AI expert testing the capabilities of the AI to reason using new information
But in all fairness, this timeline is beyond absurdity, the AIs reaction seems reasonable
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
My top pick right now is fedora silverblue, I’m running it on my test bed/server and I’ve been impressed
I’m running bazzite on my main one, which is related but geared towards steam and maximizing game support, it’s pretty good and closer to “just works” for any kind of gaming device, it’s less polished but it’s still pretty good
- Comment on Made one deadly slip 1 week ago:
But like… You can just trigger your reaction yourself. It’s like when you sit there trying to learn to wiggle your ears or shake your eyes… You just have to try flexing muscles you don’t have in the right area until you get it right
I guess I’ve never really talked to anyone about it, but you can program your own reactions. Then you can tell your body to do it - not move, but tell your body to do the sequence.
I have an airsoft gun I use to practice it sometimes even, holding it at my side I tell my body to pick one of a few cans, snap it up and fire. I look down the sights, but not consciously - i get a flash frame of the view down the sights, but I’ve already heard the hit before i can process it
It’s like when a martial artist breaks a board - they line it up and run through the motion, but sometimes they pause for whatever amount of time… You don’t move your arm, you execute a punch, and not even you know exactly when you’re going to move
- Comment on Just No 1 week ago:
It will if you define it properly - you have to scope the interaction properly though - the models are fine tuned to be the expert in the interaction and assist the user, they won’t take the users word as truth unless you break the dynamic or present part of the input as if it came from someone else
- Comment on I have an announcement. 1 week ago:
History doesn’t repeat, it rhymes. Global production has never been this specialized and interdependent
What does a company town look like with electronic access control and monitoring systems? What does a victory garden look like when the soil is polluted? What do you dress children in when plastic is the only common packaging?
This is unprecedented… No one knows how it’ll shake out. But historically, things got very bad
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
Steam runs natively and uses proton for game compatibility, similar idea to wine but it’s geared for games
It’s pretty good. Most games will run, sometimes with a little jiggling to get it to work, although performance isn’t quite as good (some games are particularly rough)
I’m technically dual booting, but I haven’t launched Windows in almost a year, and there’s only been a handful of games I passed on primarily because of support
- Comment on How does one snap their fingers? 1 week ago:
Press your middle finger against your thumb. Pull the middle finger down, but barely stop it with your thumb. Play with that hand movement
- Comment on Even the most successful indie directors can’t make a living. why? 2 weeks ago:
My friend asked me today if global trade really benefits the US so heavily, why is it so hard to afford things?
Rent. Healthcare. That’s it - it’s so insanely expensive to survive in this country that it doesn’t matter that games are cheaper than ever - the switch 2 is cheaper than the Nintendo 64 adjusted for inflation, the games too.
Food is cheap, entertainment is cheap, tvs and computers are cheap… But that means nothing when you have no disposable income
Luxuries are cheap now, but it doesn’t seem that way because living is unaffordable
- Comment on Switch 2 mouse mode (such potential) 2 weeks ago:
I mean…gyro support is such a niche thing. The PS3 controller introduced gyro support - what used it? There’s examples, but not many, because most games are made to be multi platform, and programming in gyro controls is a lot harder than most other controls
Nintendo is an exception because they have a lot of exclusives - gyro support is a lot more appealing to implement if all of the devices have it, plus they probably encouraged it
I wouldn’t worry about it too much, the incentive for exclusives to have it remains, this is a tool for porting to the switch and exploring new control schemes more than anything else
- Comment on Know the difference 2 weeks ago:
There’s so much to unpack in such a short statement
- Comment on Stardew Valley Baldur's Gate 3 mod back online after D&D owners "mistakenly" send a copyright strike 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’ll never forget these fuckers hired the Pinkertons to threaten someone because they mistakenly shipped out prerelease cards
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer 2 weeks ago:
If I hadn’t just seen an announcement about gpt-5 that ended with “I guess I’m retiring” this probably would’ve got me
- Comment on Studios are making money off of fake AI trailers on YouTube 2 weeks ago:
Yes. It’s all over the place, no clear lines really
- Comment on HOLD ME BACK 2 weeks ago:
Her skin is actually very rough, like sandpaper. You’re thinking of sharks, they’re very smooth