kazerniel
@kazerniel@lemmy.world
- Comment on one bright second 20 hours ago:
Reminds me of that Kurzgesagt video about Optimistic Nihilism:
“Close your eyes. Count to 1. That’s how long forever feels.”
- Comment on one bright second 20 hours ago:
Nope, I think humanity will be long gone by then, so it doesn’t really matters what happens after that.
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 5 days ago:
Got the same in the UK, had to disable uBlock for Cloudflare to let me through.
- Comment on wax on 5 days ago:
Yea, I’m vegan, so I’m mindful of milk and honey (and yes, they’re disgusting), just never really thought about what process wax exactly came from.
- Comment on wax on 1 week ago:
I never thought about it, but beeswax is kinda disgusting, basically ass-grease :P
- Comment on Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards 3 weeks ago:
I had to as well, until my mid 30-s 😬 (Hasn’t happened in a few years though.)
Still remember when they asked for ID to buy one of those Y-shaped potato peelers 😂 How tf I could hurt someone with that, peel them??
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 3 weeks ago:
The axis makes sense with the label, they just didn’t label every data point.
- Comment on Rogue.site is a new worker-owned, reader-funded gaming site 1 month ago:
I hope it works out for them!
- Comment on Help. 2 months ago:
Even if it’s not actively a scam, there are some bizarre life stories out there. E.g. my mom’s (Central European) friend in her 60s who had a long-distance relationship with a married Turkish guy until recently. They met (and banged) each other a grand total of once, but they were sharing morning tea on video call for years before and after that - they had no common language, only used Google Translate to talk??? And she gathered up her meagre savings to to Turkey every year on the off-chance that she runs into him in a millions-population city??? (No they didn’t arrange meetings. The guy didn’t really seem to want to meet her anymore, probably related to being married lol.)
And somehow this “relationship” went on for like a decade before she finally broke up with him.
- Comment on Help. 2 months ago:
The bizarre thing is, some of them do understand how LLMs work. There was that article about a married woman with an LLM boyfriend. She’s very active on Reddit (edit: or at least was until a month ago), and based on her comments I saw back when the article was published, she seems to know perfectly well that it’s all just a statistical model of smoke and mirrors, and yet continues with the extreme emotional (and financial) investment 🤷
- Comment on Help. 2 months ago:
holy shit, that movie is 12 years old 👴
- Comment on Help. 2 months ago:
This is not significantly different than the therapy model, but the user can fail to see through manipulation compared to “friends/people who don’t actually GAF” about maintaining a strong relationship with you.
That’s why therapists have ethical guidelines and supervision. (Also they are typically people who are driven to help, not exploit the vulnerable.) None of these are really present with those glorified autocompletes.
- Comment on Palestine Action ban coupled with Online Safety Act ‘a threat to public debate’ 2 months ago:
for me it says that a mod removed it
- Comment on Water Snek 2 months ago:
thanks for finding the source, pretty interesting!
- Comment on Fun bites 3 months ago:
thank you, great antipasta <3
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 3 months ago:
- Comment on The scientific method 3 months ago:
- Comment on Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post) 3 months ago:
Ah sorry I misunderstood your comment then, I thought there was another one besides that.
- Comment on Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post) 3 months ago:
Can you link to that other UK petition too pls? :)
- Comment on Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post) 3 months ago:
I’m an EU citizen living in the UK, but only signed the UK one because I’m not putting my passport ID into petitions O.o
- Comment on Hottie without a body 3 months ago:
Thanks! :)
- Comment on Hottie without a body 3 months ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Hottie without a body 3 months ago:
What is the original dialogue?
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 3 months ago:
One of those moments which kinda’ make one wish there wasn’t an afterlife…
Tada, your wish is reality 🙃
- Comment on How do you keep track of what games you have played over the years? 4 months ago:
Obsidian backlinks from my daily notes :) Though I use it more often to track my books, as I mostly play endless live service games 😅
I can sort of use my Steam review date stamps too to track what I played, bc I review the vast majority of games I try.
- Comment on 70% of games that require internet get destroyed 4 months ago:
In a way, piracy can fix that problem too, since pirate servers existing for ongoing games means they’ll never actually die
That happened to Ragnarok Online. Iirc the early server code got leaked by hackers (it seems it’s still being developed on GitHub lol), so all throughout the game’s 20+ years lifetime it has had a flourishing private server scene with hundreds of servers still online, so I don’t think it will die in our lifetimes.
- Comment on Wait, that game is still playable online? 4 months ago:
Guild Wars 1 - last month celebrated its 20 years anniversary :) I only started it in 2018, but it’s a really solid game!
- Comment on Mario Kart 64 got finally decompiled! 5 months ago:
had to look it up, 1996, damn that’s an old game xd
- Comment on Should we boycott games with loot boxes? 6 months ago:
Yeah the problem with boycotts and “vote with your wallet” is that one whale can offset the boycott of thousands of low-spending players 😐
- Comment on Should we boycott games with loot boxes? 6 months ago:
Are boycotts really the best solution to stop this epidemic in gaming?
Boycotts very very rarely work. I’ve never heard of a single successful video game boycott.
How can we best prevent these gambling grey markets and the gaming to gambling addiction pipeline?
Lobby for appropriate legislation with your government representatives. We could have legislation that forces companies to transparently show the chance of specific rewards, and even show the money you have to spend on average to get XY specific item. (I think there is already a law like this in the works in the EU?)
One of the major psychological tricks gambling games (including lootbox and gacha) employ is to obscure the true costs behind premium currencies. Once they are forced to remove this, and you are shown that yes, guaranteed acquisition of a single Genshin character will cost you ~300 USD, it might make you do a double-take before you pull out your bank card. (There are many more psychological dark patterns these developers employ, so it wouldn’t be a single miracle solution, unless of course legislation altogether bans random chance rewards buyable with cash.)
