drmoose
@drmoose@lemmy.world
- Comment on A job's a job 2 days ago:
Doesn’t all tech have serial numbers these days? Is no one checking?
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 2 days ago:
I really like low scale anarchy (town level) but high scale would only work with strong scifi-level decentralization tools where public goods can be negotiated and developed without massive centralized bodies. Alternatively society has to enter a post resource scarcity era - as in star trek replicator level of advancement.
Unfortunately due to game theory and real life power curves true global anarchism with current technology is simply impossible.
- Comment on Truth 1 week ago:
You don’t have 5 minutes and yet here you are commenting?
- Comment on Truth 1 week ago:
Wearing brand name on you is such a bitch thing to do.
- Comment on The difference is real 1 week ago:
Commenting here for a historic inb4. Hopefully we don’t need to wait that long.
- Comment on Anon has anxiety 2 weeks ago:
Caffeine absolutely does something what are you even talkint about. There are thousands of research papers of what caffeine does.
- Comment on Anon likes Mario 3 weeks ago:
Nah all n64 games are spooky
- Comment on Too late 2 months ago:
Nothing beats rye multi grain. Put some butter and cheese on it and I can legit live straight on it for days Image
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Maybe you need a doctor?
- Comment on Chinese Maglev test vehicle sets world record, accelerating from 0 to 318 MPH in 2 seconds 2 months ago:
20-40 Gs for horizontal force.
- Comment on Chinese Maglev test vehicle sets world record, accelerating from 0 to 318 MPH in 2 seconds 2 months ago:
As other commenter pointer out direction of force is important. Horizontal force is much less dangerous as it doesn’t drain your brain of blood as much as a vertical one.
- Comment on Arc raiders is a horrible game 2 months ago:
I really want to like the game but haven’t got a single enjoyable match in like 20 I tried. The graphics and environmenta are stunning I just don’t get the gameplay. It’s like first 10 minutes of a battle royale over and over without the rest of it.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 months ago:
I think it’s fair to leave this thread at that then cause ya hopeless lmao
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 months ago:
I think you don’t understand how world reserve currency works. It has to be at least influencable by other countries. Nothing can influence Yuan - it’ll never be a world reserve currency.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 months ago:
Why use authoritarian currency?
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 months ago:
Lmao give China more power
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 months ago:
Right now the POTUS can shut down the European economy with an EO ordering cloud providers to stop servicing European banks.
That would be a straight up declaration of war though and if that happens broken e-commerce would be the least of our worries.
The real reason to develop alternatives is to simply keep money and power away from US as that’s the only thing US really cares about.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 months ago:
My take is that US is already on massive decline. I’m not an american but I am a big fan of US and I’ve never seen US this weak even if you ignore how ugly it is under current leadership. I honestly don’t know how US will ever recover from this trump presidency and it seems like nothing but down hill from here.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 months ago:
China fundamentally can’t be the world leader as it’s incompatible with the rest of the world it would have to lead. Here we are talking about this on american led internet - not Chinese great firewall. The only thing people want from China is the stuff they make not the Chinese culture or leadership.
The reason why US is so successful at leading the world because it’s basically a giant haven for other world cultures which makes it easy to integrate anywhere.
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 3 months ago:
bananas have more rights and people in Britain apparently
- Comment on American exceptionalism 3 months ago:
I spray my garden with couple of cigarettes worth of tobacco water once in a while - works great as a natural insecticide!
I also used to live next to a tobacco plantation in Thailand once and the plant itself is quite incredible - basically untouchable by disease or insects so completel hands free and the fields are really cozy.
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday 3 months ago:
Just don’t miss payments then. They make money from sales cut not from fees. E.g. Amazon will take 6% loss to get a sale giving Klarna 3% and losing 3% to inflation.
Looking at Klarna for example it’s 5$ late fee and then it gets reported to relevant authorities (credit, collections etc.) and they just block you.
It’s not that tricky like payday loans or similar. The issue at hand is really just people buying more than they can afford because they are not charged instantly.
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday 3 months ago:
Except many BNPL options are 0% interest rate. I just renovated an apartment with ikea stuff and they offered me 0% interest rate over 1 year - it makes no sense to not take this offer.
Many companies would gladly lose 4% (avg inflation) to guarantee a sale especially when dipping on loans are basically impossible today for the average consumer.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 3 months ago:
False equivalence - not even going to entertain you with a reply, it’s absolutely pointless bye.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 3 months ago:
Yes, a consumer criticizing a process they don’t understand invalidates their criticism.
At the end of the day I don’t have much trust in a consumer being a good custodian of market ethics in general, especially in gaming where AI use is really at the bottom of the list of ethical issues. To me this seems like a pop culture fixation rather than a rational decision making.
- Comment on The reason women cover their drinks 3 months ago:
US will never live this period down. These dudes are such losers that it’s a historical event in it’s own right.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 3 months ago:
You’re building a strawman as thats not what I said. Consumers fundamentally don’t understand the process, period.
I make casual games and most of the time you are looking for inspiration by copying stuff - this is a fundamental part of the creative process. But americans are brainwashed by copyright and IP law propaganda into thinking that copying and tool assistance is somehow “impure”.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 3 months ago:
That’s really just scratching the surface of what AI is doing these day in creative workflows. All game tests will eventually be replace with AI and tests often drive new feature development. Refactoring of not only code but assets is also done by AI these days.
Reality is that this label is fundamentally unsustainable and will go away anyway. Willing to bet money on this.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 3 months ago:
I disagree, people fundamentally don’t understand creation and art process if they think it’s an artist in a white room doing everything from the blanks of their mind.
It’s just a vocal minority that’ll eventually grow up.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 3 months ago:
He’s right though it’s not a very useful label in general. The AI process is unavoidable as you can use it as a coop tool or inspiration or thousand different ways where AI is not a direct generator.
Personal anecdote: I do quite a bit of visual design these days and always start with some ai prompt to give me some inspiration as subjects I work with are highly corporate and unheard to me. The final product is made by me in Inkscape with some parts being manual traces of AI generated images but it would be dienginous to say that I didn’t use AI here and silly to say that it some “mindless slop”.
