CarbonIceDragon
@CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
- Comment on When life gives ya lemons. 10 hours ago:
When we give life lemons, what is life meant to do?
- Comment on In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen 1 day ago:
Like, just a fan, or like a combo microwave and convection oven? Because the latter is something I sometimes wonder if would be a good idea.
- Comment on THE FEAST IS NEVER FINISHED LADS 1 week ago:
Spore pear spotted.
- Comment on AI Art. 1 week ago:
I’d argue it depends a lot on exactly how the AI is used. Just putting in a text prompt and accepting the output with minimal or no edits doesn’t seem much different from essentially commissioning the computer to make something for you, but I’ve also seen some people use some of the AI tools for modifying images (like the ones that “expand” them by generating stuff the AI thinks fits around the edge, or that let one add something into a selected area or fill an area in based on what’s around it) a great many times over to shift an image towards a desired result in a way that at least from timelapse looked like it would require some time and familiarity with the tools. A bit like how asking someone to take a photo for you doesn’t make you an artist, but selecting a bunch of photos you didn’t take and using them to make a collage or something arguably might.
Honestly I suspect that once this whole AI bubble dies down, there will be a shift in generative AI from just trying to make it create art entirely on it’s own towards finding ways for humans to make art out of whatever becomes of the tech, partly because artists are nothing if not creative, and partly because in addition to just knowing the muscle memory and physical mechanics of making art, an artist is also going to have a sense of what does and doesn’t look good that develops as they learn, and can try to shape an idea to fit, while the machine might just give you whatever it calculates fits the prompt even if following the prompt won’t look very good without some tweaking.
- Comment on Oh yes... 1 week ago:
I really ought to cause my work has me getting up super early in the morning, but rarely does my brain actually let me fall asleep till like 11
- Comment on Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content 1 week ago:
I think the reasoning is something like this: these companies employ such call center employees for a reason, either they legally have to for one reason or another or they’ve determined that in some way, it is more profitable to have the capacity for people to call them than not. If the call centers are swamped, then they still cost the company money, but their benefit to the company is reduced, because the “real” calls can’t get through in a timely fashion. As such, it’s in the company’s interest to avoid having people spam them, and if the policy those people want changed won’t really cost the company anything to change, then just doing that might be the most profitable option for them.
- Comment on chained 1 week ago:
Its a little funny how many conservatives out there will hate on furries and then unironically make memes calling themselves “lions” or “wolves”.
- Comment on See their point 1 week ago:
Tbh I don’t think I actually listened to music at that age, of my own accord rather than hearing what someone else around had on anyway.
- Comment on Would you rather unionize or buy some videogames? 2 weeks ago:
Unions would be useful even then, and if american history over the past decades is any indication, strong unions might be necessary to keep those laws too, lest capital use it’s influence to erode them without an organized force to counter it.
- Comment on well? 2 weeks ago:
Why would the universe being a black hole invalidate religion, any more than, for example, the universe being really big already does? Don’t most religions focus more on some entity or entities they think made or govern the universe more than what physical processes are “used” to do that, or what the ultimate shape of the universe is? Even when a contradiction is found, it’s easy enough for a religion to just say “well, that was metaphorical”, or “just the limited understanding given by (insert deity here) to our ancestors” or something along those lines to make it fit.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The one person I’ve met IRL to have a Wikipedia page (as far as I know anyway) got one from writing books and arguing with people (as in like formal debate type ones), so maybe becoming an author? It’s not exactly easy but it’s not unattainable for the typical person either I wouldn’t think.
- Comment on I'm sorry... the last place I want a surprise is while using the toilet... 2 weeks ago:
Maybe the surprise is there to scare the shit out of the person using it.
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 2 weeks ago:
It was more like hyperbole on my part, I was using as a catch all for whatever kinds of things a business could abuse it’s position by doing. I didn’t want to just say “be able to do businesses or not do business with whoever they want”, because I wanted to say something more broad than just applying to payment processors, even if choosing not to do business with someone and thereby shutting them out of much of the economy is the way a payment processor would do this .
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think that businesses, not being individuals, should actually have the same rights as individuals I guess. I don’t really agree with the idea that a corporation should be able to do whatever it likes by default, simply because I think corporations in general have too much power to be trusted with such.
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 2 weeks ago:
I mean, when your service is fundamental enough to the economy, and centralized enough to make just going to an alternative a major hassle, if an alternative without a similar policy even exists, then why should they get that say? The power to effectively ban the sale of certain types of thing, or force media platforms to censor certain types of content, is the sort of power we generally reserve for governments, not private entities that can do whatever they want. Honestly they’re important enough these days that they should basically be treated like some sort of public utility in my view.
- Comment on Waffles shaped like genitals 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Stigma or Glory Hole? 3 weeks ago:
Assuming the picture isn’t edited or generated
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 3 weeks ago:
No? Im saying those factors should be understandable, they just need to do the relevant testing to figure it out before building something the public could visit. Hence mentioning due diligence.
- Comment on Get yourself a real man. 3 weeks ago:
Between the pink color, two arms and rounded face, I guess it does kinda look like one of human-descended “All Tomorrows” creatures.
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 3 weeks ago:
I’ve long found the notion that the lesson of Jurassic Park, if a fictional story like that must be taken to have one, should be something like “science/genetic engineering is bad” or “you can’t control nature” to be a bit silly, given that, well, it’s a zoo. With pretty big animals, to be sure, but dinosaurs were animals still, not kaiju or dragons or whatever other fantasy monster, and some genetically modified to be somewhat bigger and lack feathers would still be such. It’s a story about some people building a zoo badly because they didn’t do their due diligence about the animals they had and cheaped out on staff and the systems they had for containing the animals, and somehow people get the take away that “these animals are special and can’t be safely contained” rather than “letting rich people cheap out on safety is a bad idea”.
Were one to write a broadly similar story where someone cheaps out on a park containing elephants and tigers, and they get out and maul some people, it’d be obvious, but give the tigers scales and make them born in a lab and suddenly it’s a monster movie.
- Comment on My mouth suffers for the noms 3 weeks ago:
I feel like I’m the reverse, I used to find salt and vinegar a decent flavor if not the best, but can no longer stand it.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 publishers Krafton accuse ousted bosses of abandoning duties, and now those ex-leads are suing 3 weeks ago:
Honestly this whole situation seems fishy to me (no pun intended) on all sides.
On the one hand, I get where the sentiment I’ve seen all over that this is just the publishers attempting to screw the devs over to avoid bonus payouts comes from, and it may even be true, there’s basically no reason to trust a big company and the ones in the entertainment industry are notorious for trying to avoid paying the people that actually make the stuff they sell.
On the other hand, the 250 million number I see thrown around is a huge amount of money, even if distributed evenly, and if not distributed evenly, would be a huge amount especially for the people at the top (which sound like the people that were fired for the most part?). I could easily see that creating a strong incentive for those in charge of the studio to release something even if it wasn’t ready. And it wouldn’t really surprise me if it isn’t, just given that virtually every major release of late across the industry seems to arrive both after delays and in a seemingly unready state, even the ones releasing in early access. Were that the case, then the move the company made to delay the game and remove people at the top pushing against that would make sense.
The trouble I have is, both these notions (that the publishing company might be delaying the game without need out of financial motivation, thus screwing over the devs, and that the leadership of the development company might be resisting a necessary delay out of financial motivation, which would presumably screw over the customer) seem self-consistent and plausible to me. The publishers claims are probably a bit more suspect given that from what I hear they have a history with scandal like this, but that isn’t really enough to make me feel confident that they have to be the ones being untruthful here, so jumping on a bandwagon feels premature until we have some information that rules out one of the two sides claims.
I’d make some statement about how this whole incident demonstrates the pitfalls of combining capitalist profit seeking with art, but between how many times the gaming industry has been burned by that already and how anti-capitalist lemmy tends to be, I suspect everyone here probably would be familiar with that anyway.
- Comment on He is cooked 3 weeks ago:
I know these are generally fake, but they always grind my gears a bit. Literally just screenshot the full message with the “not delivered” part and resend the screenshot until it goes through.
- Comment on Can you guess, chat? 4 weeks ago:
“It is imperative that the graduated cylinder not be damaged”
- Comment on Which one are you? 4 weeks ago:
What about “didn’t use a cart in the first place”, or “brought own cart”?
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Virtually nothing in politics or economics is ever permanent.
- Comment on Lost dog 4 weeks ago:
I have been known to not get humor, I thought the joke was in sharing someone else documenting a stupid decision of theirs unwittingly, and therefore if it was itself fake it wouldn’t have the same impact
- Comment on Lost dog 4 weeks ago:
Would a wild (I think coyote?) even let someone wash it? I suspect maybe a tame one that someone used a picture of to make a funny story.
- Comment on Mages be like: 4 weeks ago:
What happens if you put the cursed forbidden knowledge book through a photocopier and just read the copies rather than the original I wonder
- Comment on Mages be like: 4 weeks ago:
Also known to more modern, less superstitious cultures as a proctologist
