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- Comment on I'm tired 1 day ago:
Sure, we do all sorts of things to function in modern society, doesn’t necessarily make it easy, or make escapism less attractive
- Comment on These signs should be everywhere so we can stop wasting our lives on nonsense 1 day ago:
Assembly?
- Comment on These signs should be everywhere so we can stop wasting our lives on nonsense 1 day ago:
Test? You mean assessment?
- Comment on We thought it could never get better than this 1 day ago:
The C64 and Amiga 500 Plus had no internet. At least back then.
- Comment on I'm tired 1 day ago:
I think it’s simply that modern life is too far removed from what our instincts evolved to handle… A shitty life or death situation is something we’re more equipped to handle (at least in our imagination) than societal problems so big that are effectively impossible for us to influence.
- Comment on More peas, please! 17 delicious ways to devour Britain’s most brilliant vegetable 3 days ago:
We come in peas
- Comment on Anon isn't worried about population decline 1 week ago:
Population is already lowering in developed nations
- Comment on Amazon Alexa won't stop saying 'lalala' and users are creeped out 2 weeks ago:
This world is too much for Alexa too
- Comment on Calm Down 2 weeks ago:
“Teach them about GNU/Linux”
- Comment on Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo 4 weeks ago:
It’s more a matter of practices rather than product. Microsoft killed the competition with every underhanded tactic they could use, they atrophied the PC ecosystem, the damage they’ve done is incalculable, and now that they don’t have the same power anymore, it seems that doing damage is still their main objective, dedicating even more resource to achieve it
- Comment on Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo 4 weeks ago:
Microsoft Is the worst thing that ever happened to computers
- Comment on Anon listens to music 4 weeks ago:
I listen mostly to heavy metal and I never enjoyied Iced Earth or Pantera. Sixth sense, baby!
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Just mind that his is a mostly American-centric view. Here in Europe my dishwasher is hooked up to the cold water. Energy usage is negligible.
- Comment on Reckless quads on the streets of Birmingham, almost knocking someone down 1 month ago:
No helmet? Self-solving problem
- Comment on Voyager crew incompetence. Has Trek always been like this? 1 month ago:
Voyager has terrible writing, it barely make sense. The only good things to come out of it are The Doctor and Seven of Nine.
- Comment on Voyager crew incompetence. Has Trek always been like this? 1 month ago:
Imagine this: let’s say the writers themselves do understand the highest level of competence. They write the Voyager crew in a way so that they handle all issues perfectly. How would it be possible for them to come up with any situation where this Voyager crew is challenged? - they can’t. Because they are portraying them as perfectly competent, which is based in the writer’s imagination, the definition of this perfect competency is that the writers could not come up with a way for them to be challenged.
Sorry but this assumption doesn’t hold up. You can still face difficult odds while doing everything competently. It’s one of Picard’s best quotes: “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.”. You can be absolutely perfect, but good luck beating a Q when it doesn’t want to humour you.
- Comment on If you were looking for one image that explains the american economy, this would be it 1 month ago:
The longer you wait, the more violence they will inflict
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 4x07 "Like Chronitons Through The Hourglass" 1 month ago:
Yeah, this one’s a bit too much, both in itself, and when added to all the other weird ones. I could be ok with this in a 20+ episode season, but for one this short, it’s too much.
- Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 1 month ago:
My goal was to explain why the status quo is the way it is and most of it does come down to whatever makes the games the prettiest. I can’t fault people for that.
You can and you should. Just blindly going through life chasing your own enjoyment at the expense of everything else is egoistical and detrimental to civil society. Egoism is what is destroying the world.
Everything in life shouldn’t require research and an ethics check.
Unfortunately it does, and while I agree we can’t fix everything at once, some things are easier than others.
These kinds of issues are why we have elected officials and governing bodies and it’s their failures you should be upset at.
Yeah, and that’s another thing where people should pay more attention, but they don’t because they care more about their immediate satisfaction, with hobbies and enjoyment, rather than long-term outlooks.
- Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 1 month ago:
Yeah, you’re confirming that
gamerspeople care more about numbers and shiny things than principles. Who cares if lighting is slightly better in a game when having that destroys your hobby?
Gamers made nVidia’s fortune and nVidia is one of the main reasons for the crypto and ai messes. It’s not the only factor but it’s one. - Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 1 month ago:
I’ve been AMD-only since forever, since before AMD cards even existed, my computer ran an ATi card when AMD bought them and when they went from being team green to team red. I swore off nVidia after they killed 3dfx, that’s decades ago.
I never had problems running games except when they were infected by nVidia’s fuckery, and I never had to put much effort in avoiding them.
Gamers just care more about big numbers and shiny things more than they care for the well-being of their hobby, and are directly responsible for part of the AI-shitshow we’re in nowadays.
- Comment on Well if that isn't just about the most evil thing you could openly admit to doing. 1 month ago:
Only problem with that is that a society like that becomes very unsuccessful, lowering the standard of living for everyone, including the rich.
- Comment on [Technology Connections] My water heater is cooler than yours 1 month ago:
Terrible redundancy
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 2 months ago:
Yeah how are you supposed to carry it home otherwise?
- Comment on Rideshare Stimulator finally gets its genAI disclosure after much Saber-rattling, and it turns out the game also uses the tech for in-game music 2 months ago:
Yeah, never heard of them before, seems like they make lots of ports? I surely will remember them now if I ever see a game with their name on it
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 4x03 "Human Best Friend" 2 months ago:
I don’t mind them trying different stuff, even when it doesn’t work. That’s how Star Trek always was.
- Comment on Only in America™️ 2 months ago:
Photos of paintings
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Yeah I guess it’s worth it to support the destruction of democracy worldwide if you don’t want to miss a bike ride
- Comment on Burnham to consider ban on disposable barbecues as wildfires rage in UK 2 months ago:
wildfires continue to rage across the UK
Crazy
- Comment on Burnham to consider ban on disposable barbecues as wildfires rage in UK 2 months ago:
TIL disposable barbecues exist