dustyData
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- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 10 hours ago:
S24 FE. I hate all the recent changes Samsung has been doing but this phone should last me until 2030 at least, probably more. I’m also the only person on Lemmy who likes OneUI, and I’m OK with that now that all alternative launchers are enshittifying.
By the time I need to replace it, the market will probably be in an entirely different place and maybe even some Linux versions could be more viable.
I use Immich, bitwarden, mega, and Tuta. Which covers the backup of everything.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Bad example. Star wars premiered as just “Star Wars”. The episode IV monicker was added in later remasterings of the film. It was indeed episode four of a six part saga Lucas wrote. But it was filmed first, as it was deemed the easier and cheapest one to film. The original script was a mess, and it was Lucas’s wife who salvaged the movie by cutting about a third of unnecessary fluff and bad dialogue that Lucas had filmed and editing the whole deal as a traditional hero’s journey.
- Comment on I was wondering why the €40k printer at work was choking with "simple" Canva PDFs 1 week ago:
It’s not the machine. I’d bet money that it is Canva’s fault.
- Comment on In the English dub of American Dad’s «Aw Rats, a Pool Party!» episode, Avery says he doesn’t speak Spanish. What does he say in the Spanish version? 1 week ago:
Indeed, this is what they did. Same when Steve works cooking meth for an Hispanic gang under the belief he is in Hogwarts learning magic potions. The magic spell “lavate lasmanos” was used as is in the Spanish dub. It means “wash your hands” for those who didn’t get the joke in English.
- Comment on So why are Indian curries so popular in the UK? (interest in culinary perspectives). 2 weeks ago:
Chinese food is a hard one to compare to. Since western Chinese food is not entirely Chinese and more a Cantonese fusion that was invented in new York then exported worldwide. Its main feature being adapting local ingredients to the same base template. So it is always different depending on the region. In China it is considered a form of western fast food and not at all traditional.
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 3 weeks ago:
Isn’t it ironic? The only Microsoft product that makes money consistently is based on Linux.
- Comment on Anon is a PC gamer 4 weeks ago:
Google appropriating the concept to rename it after one if their C suits is the most Google shit ever.
- Comment on Anon is a PC gamer 4 weeks ago:
“We are now modeling the subsurface scattering of each individual hair. Each hair has a unique texture”
- Comment on Anon is a PC gamer 4 weeks ago:
Everyone complains about traffic, yet still buy cars all the time.
An individual’s inability to alter the structural conditions that shape their decision making is not an indictment of said individual position on the matter. Hence why “vote with your wallet” is such a bad thought terminating phrase.
Sure, people can vote with their wallets, but if there are no good options then the point is moot. It turns into a no buy, disenfranchising those without the privilege of previously accumulating a collection of games. It pushes them into the “you are not a real gamer anyway” territory.
Thus, why it is always ethical to pirate video games. It is the only sensible choice for a have not.
- Comment on Why does most American's give shit to the French when if not for them we would have lost the revolution? 5 weeks ago:
The French were part of the inspiration for the Geneva conventions. Due to the massive and horrific destruction the battle of Solferino caused amongst civilians.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 1 month ago:
the devs thought it was ok to put it into their game
That’s the point. They didn’t thought it was OK and didn’t.
They could have just used stock textures as placeholders like developers have been doing for decades.
That is exactly what they did, any texture left in the first version of the game was a mistake that was promptly fixed.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 1 month ago:
They didn’t sneak anything and they never will. Looked into it deeply. They used AI assets as placeholders during development. But everything in the shipped game is human-made. No further use of AI is expected, since the game awards controversy the company’s management published a statement of banning AI use entirely in their company.
The whole controversy around indie game awards was also blown beyond proportions. A company used a new technology at a time when the tech was new and the debate around it’s use was still inmature. Then dismissed it for it was not good enough. They failed at quality assurance and a couple of textures weren’t deleted. They replaced them as soon at they found out. By all intents and purposes, this controversy does not qualify sandfall as an AI using company, and to affirm so is ignorant of the context of all that went down in reality.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
It’s not hard rules, though. There’s a myriad of publishing styles. Each define different rules and guidelines to when and where numbers are spelled out. Hyphen was dropped from several guides, for example. The and has also been optional for certain publishing houses for a while. Academic and literary will differ in how they enforce this guides and exactly what they are. Language is relative, changing and fluid, and this was all different mere 30 years ago. It moves with the expectations of the audience.
Also, it is six seven. Respect the memes guidelines.
- Comment on It's barely a science. 1 month ago:
Don’t blame psychology, in this analogy the whole ordeal was rape. Plenty of economist still try to pass as psychology science a bunch of bullshit that was debunked half a century ago or is straight up pseudoscience from charlatans.
- Comment on With all this talk about Ai not being profitable why aren't we using it in video games? I dont mean replacing developers I mean in NPCs in the game. I make them more realistic. 1 month ago:
Someone put a connection to an LLM on a Teddy Bear so kids could have natural conversations with the toy. It started making sexual innuendos and creepy political commentaries and suggestions to children almost right away.
- Comment on WAT DA 2 months ago:
It is comparing height paw to the shoulder, not the length. It’s the standard way to measure quadrupeds.
- Comment on bad bitch 2 months ago:
It’s all about composition
- Comment on Choose your Nope Rope 2 months ago:
Entirely different things, and I think the meme actually correctly corresponds to orthopedics. It’s a pediatric specialty, and unfortunately, most of the treatments are some form or another of restraining body parts so they grow straight. Hence the snake tied to the rod in order to remain straight instead of wrapping and slithering around.
- Comment on What do other languages use for "magic" words; or names and titles in fantasy and sci-fi novels or cinema? 2 months ago:
Yeah, I would say I’ve read magic spells, in English and other languages, are more traditionally associated with rhymes than specific words. Latin associated to magic is through catholic ritualist use of Latin. Even then, it was more about repeating prayer phrases, like in stereotypical exorcism or funeral rites. Gothic novels, for example, straight up used catholic prayer in Latin to convey magical intent. But it was not vaudeville magic or modern day superpower magic like in pop culture.
- Comment on How did far-west era US dealt with "Male loneliness" 2 months ago:
Never conflate loneliness with not getting laid. Thereby lies the first in a long streak of mistakes.
- Comment on How did far-west era US dealt with "Male loneliness" 2 months ago:
extreme disconnect between researchers/academic writing and how the general populace interprets the word
This is the bane of sciences communication. No, the way I’m using the word is not the same you use and therefore your interpretation of my research is wrong. Prescriptive arguments about semantics are irrelevant and don’t fix the situation in the slightest, if anything they muddy the waters and worsen the quality of the discussion.
- Comment on Christmas Animals 3 months ago:
I told you, I’m not arguing. I actually agree on that point.
- Comment on Christmas Animals 3 months ago:
Not arguing here. But just want to point out that disability subculture usually arises as a survival response in the face of discrimination and segregation. Everyone has a need for community and a sense of belonging. When broad hegemonic culture rejects you and your presence, belonging is found in the one distinctive feature that it the cause for the rejection. See also gay subculture as a response to homophobia, US black culture as a response to racism, feminist sorority subculture in response to misogyny, etc. So it is not rare to see disability subculture as a response to ableism.
- Comment on I think there's an imposter amongus 3 months ago:
She probably did. But the reviewer won’t know that as the paper (should) get anonymized before review. The author’s own name will be censored all the way throughout the paper.
- Comment on I think there's an imposter amongus 3 months ago:
It’s a catch-22 situation. You are supposed to disclose if you wrote the thing you’re citing, but also cite in third person, and also it should be obfuscated for the peer review. So, what happens is that you write something like “in the author’s previous work (yourownname, 2017)…” then that gets censored by yourself or whoever is in charge of the peer review, “in (blank) previous work (blank)…”. Now, if you’re experienced in reviews you can probably guess it is the author of the paper you’re reviewing. But you still don’t know who it is, and you could never guess right whether it is Ruth Gotian or not. So you’re back to the tweet’s situation.
- Comment on What is this colour? 3 months ago:
Orange, fite me…
- Comment on Thank Goodness You're Here - most absurd & hilarious game what did I just play? 3 months ago:
There’s a couple of raunchy jokes. One implies a fish is a man’s penis, and he orgasms when you slap the fish repeatedly. There’s the cow you milk with a motion that imitates male masturbation. Also a couple of body horror stuff that look like an anus you enter into a fleshy intestine like cavern. Lot’s of sexual innuendo in dialogue jokes. Definitely not a kid’s game. Maybe play it first, it is a short game, and gauge if it is proper for your kid before playing it with them. Since the game is linear and most interactions are not optional. It’s more like teen immature humor.
- Comment on A Gaming Tour de Force That Is Very, Very French 3 months ago:
There’s a story mode that auto-skips all the combat.
- Comment on A Gaming Tour de Force That Is Very, Very French 3 months ago:
It has a very generous and flexible difficulty setting. Plus accessibility options. I started on normal and have been dropping down the difficulty whenever I gets too much, or disabling the skill based parts altogether. Then back up whenever a particular fight seems interesting, just to see how it plays out. It doesn’t penalizes you at all, as it should. It is truly a game designed to be enjoyed fully, it never gets in the way of the player’s enjoyment.
- Comment on How does the private equity bubble compare to the AI bubble if at all? 3 months ago:
Yes, that’s rack space. It is not even half of the costs of a data center. I know because I’ve worked in data centers and read the financial breakdowns of those materials. They are also useless without actual servers and deprecrate their value really fast.
