Trainguyrom
@Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
- Comment on Following accusations, James Pond Legacy devs say no generative AI was used in creating artwork 2 weeks ago:
Body, flame jets and electric textures can be explained as they’re not part of the 3d model but effects applied to it in-engine.
The missing horn though screams AI and I have a hard time imagining a human artist forgetting one of the horns when making the 3d model and submitting the work as completed
- Comment on Following accusations, James Pond Legacy devs say no generative AI was used in creating artwork 2 weeks ago:
I’m not going to claim to be good at detecting AI generated content, but for visual content there’s clear vibes that AI generated content give that I can never specifically point out, but when I spot them there’s usually at least one other person calling out the slop. Yes 3-4 years ago diffusion models would make errors like mangling hands and mushy details, but while newer models get images technically correct, they leave clear vibes that are easy to spot
- Comment on Hard times for furries in Moldova 2 weeks ago:
Bro it’s a parody account. Anyone can make one
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 2 weeks ago:
I’d assume an extreme situation of executive dysfunction combined with some amount of mental illness. Anon’s parents are most likely middle class and don’t want him to be homeless, and may have not engaged enough with him as a kid/teen and left him to his own devices too much leaving him socially and emotionally stunted compared to his peers.
It’s really a challenge that compounds on itself. You feel stunted compared to your peers, so you interact with them less thereby getting less chances to build those social-emotional skills. You pull in more and spend your time isolated and slowly your views of the world get warped by whatever media you consume instead of spending time touching grass and talking to real people in the real world. This then makes it harder to get a job which then makes it harder to go out into the real world to course-correct. As you get older it becomes a bigger and bigger red flag that you’ve never worked or lived independently, so people are less likely to connect with you. You become more weird and off-putting, and it’s just a death spiral that ends with a sink or swim situation of some sort unless the individual happens to connect with someone with the patience to help them build those social-emotional skills they missed out on years before (most commonly a romantic partner or a real life friend)
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 2 weeks ago:
Do you believe that having a roof over your head is a human right? I certainly do. Yes even the most detestable people in the world deserve a roof over their heads, with a place to sleep, and a functioning toilet and shower and some space to store their belongings.
This should be the bare minimum that all people are guaranteed by society but apparently that’s a very high bar
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 2 weeks ago:
There’s a definite difference between renting below market rate from your family and being a 37 year old who’s never had a job, can’t drive etc.
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 2 weeks ago:
Plus being a shut in that lives at home and relies on your parents for literally everything is a recipe for severe mental illness.
The Internet isn’t real life, so when a person spends literally all of their time at home on the computer doing nothing of value they can easily find themselves with a very warped sense of reality that can only be broken by going outside, touching some grass and interacting with some real people.
There’s also quite a few life skills that can’t really be taught and have to be learned by working a job, living on your own and managing your own finances
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 2 weeks ago:
Eh it worked 10 years ago as well, but I’ve not been in retail/entry level jobs for about that long. Just walk in or visit the store website and fill out an application. Turnover is so high in these shitty entry level roles that they’re always looking for new blood
Heck a recruiter I talked to 8 years ago is still including me on mass texts about immediate openings at warehouses and factories for laborers with the most recent just a couple of days ago
Do these jobs suck? Yeah, but they’ll hire anyone with a pulse who can show up sober, and oftentimes sobriety is optional. It’ll get the person out of the house and earning some money which should help their mental state as well since staying inside 24/7 and having no structure to your life is a recipe for depression
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 2 weeks ago:
My last played game was Railroader so I guess we drivin trains today!
- Comment on I need a break 4 weeks ago:
One of the best quality of life changes I made for myself was keeping my phone out of reach from my bed, and reading once I go to bed instead of watching or scrolling stuff online. Disconnecting from the world and just reading a book (be that a physical book or on my e-reader) is such a nice way to wrap up my day. It’s quiet and solitary and it’s purely my time and I love that
- Comment on There's always money in the banana sta... Flock cameras 4 weeks ago:
The town of 10,000 people I live in had 8 of them and there’s a town of 500 people my wife grew up in that has one. Heck the rural county I live in had one of those ex-military armored vehicles which the sheriffs looked half-tempted to try to hook up at the tractor pull when they were showing it off.
Never underestimate the questionable spends of police departments with little oversight on new toys that are of dubious ethics, efficacy and legality
- Comment on Anon overdoes it 5 weeks ago:
Death grip should be enough of a reason for dudes to normalize sex toys. Sure you can develop plenty of other unhealthy habits with sex toys, and you can have a perfectly healthy approach without sex toys, but sex toys make it a lot easier to continue to have normal sexual habits once you are sexually active with a partner again
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
How about they just put a latch on the door. No energy, internet, apps or data required. Just a $3 latch that anyone can open
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
There’s like a dozen of the little free libraries within a half mile of my house and I love it
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Why do you have to use an app to unlock it? There doesn’t seem to be any functional reason for it
- Comment on Black coffee 2 months ago:
Literally every time I talk about the black coffee problem, assholes show up to deny
You bring up a generic boomer fantasy that doesn’t happen in the real world, using conservative boomer verbaige when you complain about it and people point out that it sounds fake? Say it isn’t so!
I hope that this mild inconvenience is the worst thing that happens to you this week, and I’m sorry that you subjected yourself to anything that comes out of a McDonalds
- Comment on Black coffee 2 months ago:
Apparently the “you can’t order a black coffee anymore” thing is a common conservative fantasy
I honestly was blissfully unaware until I stumbled across the above video
- Comment on Day 716 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
I’ve been playing on the live server of 2009scape off and on for a couple of years now. The community is awesome and the team that maintains it has made (and kept) and oath to provide your character data should you ever find yourself banned and they promise to do the same should the server ever shut down for any reason
- Comment on Day 716 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
There were some followup games to Myst that were in 3D as well
- Comment on Email came out of nowhere 2 months ago:
Nah it’s the new email marketing meta. So many emojis and ASCII symbols. It’s the new play to try to stand out from all of the existing ad industry noise in people’s email inboxes
- Comment on Mr Incognito 2 months ago:
Is there any way to prove that some service like that is actually trustworthy?
This is the right question to ask and the ultimate reason why I don’t use a commercial VPN service. Ultimately a commercial VPN is just moving the trust from the Internet service provider to the VPN provider (or in Tor’s case to the exit node provider)
Personally I just block all ads across everything, select more privacy friendly software, avoid known privacy invading services where feasible and otherwise generally just enjoy not knowing the scope of adtracking because I never see the ads anyways!
- Comment on Title 2 months ago:
It gets wonky with a non-cash windfall though. A couple of years ago my wife and I won game tickets valued around $3k which of course you have to pay income tax on which was ultimately around a thousand dollars (I don’t remember exactly, but it was something like 30-50% of the winnings) for just those tickets, which of course since they’re game tickets you then spend more money going to the game. Ultimately we could afford it and enjoyed the experience but I do not want to imagine how that goes for folks who win for example a $40k car and don’t take the cash equivalent option
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 2 months ago:
That video of the truck driving over the Ferrari in a parking lot that recently went viral occured because the truck driver literally could not see the vehicle and did not realize there was a problem until their vehicle could not longer move. At least that’s what the truck driver said, but it’s somewhat believable given the sheer height difference between the notably lifted truck and the notably low to the ground Ferrari
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 2 months ago:
It is completely unfeasible for cops to try to do anything to curtail that on an individual basis
It’s actually very easy to do and some municipalities actually invest the traffic enforcement time in doing so. The police simply need to ramp up enforcement. Bring a half dozen squad cars and pull over anyone going over the posted speed during rush hour and repeat this a few times and the visibility of multiple cars being pulled over at a time slows traffic down pretty immediately
I just play zebra and enjoy blending into all the other people going 15 over.
If you’re going 15 over then you’re going 15 over. Doesn’t matter if others are doing the same thing, you’ve joined into the unsafe, financially irresponsible and illegal behavior
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 2 months ago:
The speed limit in most states isn’t a hard limit
The speed limit is the maximum speed allowed by law. Doesn’t matter if you’re passing, delivering a baby or have gone over that speed a million times and never been pulled over, if you exceed the posted speed limit you are breaking the law. It’s one of the few extremely cut and dry traffic laws
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 2 months ago:
Not an excuse for following at an unsafe distance
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 2 months ago:
They never said anything indicating anything about what lane they’re driving in. How do you know they’re on roads that even have a left lane to camp in?
- Comment on New Polycule Just Dropped 3 months ago:
Nah this is just ageism. Now, I do think there might be a conversation to be had about once medical power of attorney goes into effect if the individual should no longer be permitted to vote, but there’s no set age where everybody lacks the mental faculties to vote.
I’ve had relatives knocking on deaths door by age 60, and I have a 100 year old relative who drives the Amish around as his retirement gig
- Comment on Anon is standmaxxing 3 months ago:
I’m on the side of the line that was too old to get super into pokemon/SpongeBob/Harry Potter
Please explain that to my genX parents who need to read some new books and watch some new shows…
- Comment on Anon is standmaxxing 3 months ago:
I saw some graffiti that simply read “DEATHMAXXING?” and I still think about that pretty regularly