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- Comment on Is AI progress stuck? 5 days ago:
Stupid title. LLM are less AI than a trivial control loop
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 2 weeks ago:
Well - if people still trust any piece of software coming from Epic…
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 3 weeks ago:
is “easy anti-cheat” a brand name? Or was that just your wording?
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 3 weeks ago:
You’re essentially allowing different game companies to install a rootkit on your computer so you can play a video game.
Put like that, makes it even more obvious how insanely stupid some gamers are, doesn’t it?
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 3 weeks ago:
Only if those other partitions are not encrypted. Sure, it could still wipe them - but that’s something that backups are good for, and something you would certainly notice immediately :)
- Comment on Threw a wrestling watch party, made special food, and was very disappointed in the outcome. 1 month ago:
Well - I thought I’d mention that it could look like that - but of course it really depends on the personality / financial situation of your friends whether that might have influenced them
- Comment on Threw a wrestling watch party, made special food, and was very disappointed in the outcome. 1 month ago:
Is that a tip jar on the table? Even if not, just the association is enough for people to feel like they have to contribute financially for the food. While that isn’t an outrageous thought, for people who are tight on their finances, it might be an uncomfortable situation where they’d rather skip on the food than take it and not pay a share.
- Comment on Happy Birthday 2 months ago:
2+0-2+2 - checks out.
- Comment on Toni Kroos: Germany is No Longer The Country It Was 10 Years Ago Thanks to Mass Migration 4 months ago:
Fuck off racist.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
came to point out the Hitler likeness…
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 4 months ago:
Scandinavia has always been very left side
Maybe from a hard neo nazi perspective. Denmark and Sweden especially have right-wing extremist parties (Denmark Democrats + New Right + Danish People’s Party together ~= 14.3%, Sweden Democrats 17.5%) with a voter base that has been established over a longer time. The German right wing populists have risen to that level only in recent elections, which is frightening. Geert Wilders is not “the new guy” from the Netherlands, he’s been a populist rightwing piece of shit for decades. Unfortunately, the average Dutch person over 40 / outside university towns is also quite racist under the surface - I lived there for 4 years, speak fluent Dutch with a German accent and since they felt “safe” with their bigotry around me, I have heard enough racist and sexist bullshit from “average middle class” Dutch people that I didn’t feel comfortable in that country anymore. The young people in urban centres are okay, but unfortunately those are not a large enough demographic.
As for comparing with the US - maybe not a good idea: Even young US americans see the democrats for the corporate shills they are, and know that they have to vote for them just to prevent a Handmaid’s Tale Season 6 becoming a documentary.
The US are the scary example for Western Europe as “this will happen here if you don’t pay attention”. No one in Europe will be able to say “I didn’t know” when we slip into a totalitarian regime filled with hate and controlled by corporations, because it might be happening in front of our eyes with a ~10 year headstart in the US. I just hope that’s not what is going to happen in the end, but things have progressed far too much into the worst dystopian future thinkable for this century.
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 4 months ago:
I’m a big fan of any country voting against the populist trend, so I may ask for asylum in Finland eventually. Although, despite my motivation to learn new languages, that might be a challenge :)
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 4 months ago:
we’re our own kind of fucked up over here :( Except the Finns, the Finns are cool.
- Comment on Indie games using retro graphics 4 months ago:
The Last Door (1 & 2)
Darkside Detective
Thank me later.
- Comment on This will be YouTube in 2025 5 months ago:
you are definitely overestimating people.
- Comment on Young Women Are Fleeing Organized Religion. This Was Predictable. 5 months ago:
You could also call a volcano a frog. Makes just as much sense, but you could call it a frog.
- Comment on Young Women Are Fleeing Organized Religion. This Was Predictable. 5 months ago:
I do believe these still tell their followers what/how to believe. A belief system is a religion. And there are Hindu and buddhist extremists acting as a group committing hate crimes
- Comment on Young Women Are Fleeing Organized Religion. This Was Predictable. 5 months ago:
Religion is always organized. That’s the definition of it. It’s organized belief. Take away the organization (= rules on how to believe / act), and you’re left with personal beliefs.
Fuck all religions :)
- Comment on POV: Iceland 5 months ago:
underrated.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 6 months ago:
each to their own :)
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 6 months ago:
Namibia, Kenya, Mauritius, Ghana, Botswana, The Gambia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Equatorial Guinea.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 6 months ago:
There’s a bunch of African countries I would rather live than the US, although maybe not exactly South Africa or Congo…
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 6 months ago:
No, sorry, eating meat is not the same as murder, it’s just nature.
You can acknowledge it’s murder while accepting it’s also a part of nature (at least in the original hunting context). Breeding defenseless livestock in captivity, in order to slaughter them for food, that’s murdering a social creature.
I occasionally eat meat, but at least I am not lying to myself about what it means for the creature whose meat I eat.
If you tell yourself that animals have no capability to enjoy life, to be happy and play, and therefore have a right to live, then you need a reality check,
Eating any kind of animal is not wrong in terms of our nature and how our planet works, but if we have options without suffering from malnutrition (and by now we do), I applaud every person who chooses to go meat-free out of empathy.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 6 months ago:
Eating meat is murder though. Just of a different species, and a normal thing in nature, hence not objectionable per se. But killing for meat is still taking a life of a living and feeling being. If people choose to avoid that, and alternatives are available, that is great. For those who wish to continue eating meat, it must be transparent where it came from to make an informed decision, and we would need regulation / legislation that forbidsalll those livestock factories that cause suffering for more profit.
- Comment on Anyone else? 6 months ago:
I think the connection to the cast that the viewers had at that point was exactly what made the scene so impactful.
It would have had the exact same type of storytelling impact (obviously not that of disgust) to show the bat swing, show the shocked looks, but cut away for the gore.
Taking it out on the whole team seems a bit much, though.
It’s not like I can do anything about it. They’re not likely to care that I consider them despicable human beings.
- Comment on Anyone else? 6 months ago:
I disagree. I despise everyone involved for not distancing themselves in public from that torture porn. If they didn’t know it before, they did afterwards & chose to roll with it.
- Comment on Anyone else? 6 months ago:
an example of a extremely well done surprise/twist.
By committing a non-punishable act of abuse against the audience? I don’t think so. What this was to the regular viewers was what it would be to expose kids to whatever PG-18 content in the middle of their favorite animated cartoon.
- Comment on Anyone else? 6 months ago:
yeah, as I argued, it wasn’t the gore per se, but about the emotional violence and disrespect towards the viewers that made me despise the team of that series. Gore is shown in splatter movies (Halloween, Scream, …), but in those you don’t have an emotional build-up to like a character. Protagonists are killed in thrillers / movies / series that build them up first, but then there’s no direct gore. The crossover is what makes the director and everyone complicit a piece of shit.
- Comment on Anyone else? 6 months ago:
I don’t hate, but I honestly despise everyone of “The Walking Dead” team, regardless of whether they were actors or production team, who were complicit in the emotional violence against their viewers when Neegan brutally murdered protagonists that the audience had grown attached to for seasons.
And I do not object to the killing of the protagonists, if that’s what the writers wanted. I object to the way in which it was portrayed, breaking the rules of the genre and the unspoken agreement with an audience that there are different ways in which violence is portrayed depending on context:
The rule that was broken here is that the actual gore happens off-camera and is only implied, maybe the after-effects are shown. Gore on-camera in the zombie genre is only allowed between humans and zombies. Zombies are by definition subject to their instincts, whereas a human killing another human is cold-blooded murder in this scenario, and it is not needed for the story / suspense to show the actual gore - only the lead-up and an aftermath, or maybe an “artists depiction” - like “screen goes blurry” similar to the first murder.
The second murder in said scene caught me off-guard and made me (and a lot of other people) quit watching forever. Fuck AMC, fuck the producers, and fuck the cast for exposing me to that snuff shit.
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 6 months ago:
That letter is way too polite for the “go fuck yourselves” that I had in mind… I honestly think we should start actually spitting in the faces of managers of that kind that we happen to know in private life, be it family or neighbors, just show them disdain and disgust coming from people whom they have no power over.