Megaman_EXE

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨12-hour days, no weekends: the anxiety driving AI’s brutal work culture is a warning for all of us⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahhh, my apologies. I completely missed your intended meaning. It seems a lot more obvious reading it the second time. Thanks for clarifying. I agree that it seems our governments have different priorities. I hope every day that people learn from countries that treat their citizens better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨12-hour days, no weekends: the anxiety driving AI’s brutal work culture is a warning for all of us⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not even different priorities. I’m convinced it’s indoctrinated wage slavery. Some who live under it embrace it, and other endure it depending on their perspective. I suppose some reject it entirely, too, if they’re able.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon blames human employees for an AI coding agent’s mistake | Two minor AWS outages have reportedly occurred as a result of actions by Amazon’s AI tools⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It blows my mind that people are going forward with this AI nonsense and that it has infected key infrastructure. I feel like im taking crazy pills here. I could kind of understand if it actually worked. Like if it genuinely worked as well as they said? I could totally understand it. I would still question it, but it would make more sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is boring and dangerous⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I would much rather read someone’s random janky ass writing than whatever chatgpt spits out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Face ID technology should be illegal. Any negatives outweigh any potential positive

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ima be honest here. The last messaging service I used was Facebook back in 2012 prior to discord. And prior to Facebook was MSN messenger lol I really just don’t know what’s available. I’ll have to go do some reading

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord roll out global age verification system, including an "age inference" model that runs in the background⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is going to be such a pain in the ass. They already have had issues with security. This is such a massive can of worms

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I suppose the next question is where will everyone go? If they wanted to keep kids safe this ain’t it because they’ll go somewhere else anyways. So it’s a lose/lose for everyone.

  Possibly a win for companies if they want to harvest data/sell it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Next generation Xbox may launch in 2027⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. I forgot to mention too that with windows 11 microslop has been prioritizing imaginary gain rather than genuine human work. The whole company feels like it’s a mess, and a drastic shift has occurred. Even compared to a decade ago, it’s drastic. 10 years ago, I thought they were iffy on some of their choices, but they seemed to want to fix windows 10 and the Xbox brand. But it’s only gotten worse now it seems lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Next generation Xbox may launch in 2027⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really trust it, to be honest. I have had an xbox from the original to the series X. But for the past 5 or 6 years, they have been extremely radio silent on a future for the brand. They focused completely on gamepass and nothing else. They shut down so many studios. It just feels like its a gamble

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Switch just surpassed the DS as Nintendo's best-selling console ever⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like the DS and 3DS were much more innovative. People are missing out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You Are Being Misled About Renewable Energy Technology [Technology Connections]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I popped that sucker on 3x speed with captions, and it was a great watch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll believe it when I see it lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Witness, 10 Years Later, Still Refuses To Explain Itself⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I liked it! I felt like I was too dumb for some of the puzzles lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG's new subscription program charges up to £277 per month to rent a TV⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol of course thats a thing. Welp there goes my big brain ideas

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG's new subscription program charges up to £277 per month to rent a TV⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay at first I was wondering “who the hell would want to do this?” But then I thought maybe its like…if you need a TV for an event? Being able to rent out a large TV might be helpful? But like thats so absolutely niche.

  But its the only way I could ever see it make sense. If you needed a very large flat screen only for a few days or something you could rent it instead of paying a few thousand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some PCs are failing to boot after this month's Windows Update⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Microslop needs to figure their shit out. I think 11 has been worse than any previous “bad” windows version. I’ve never had such an unreliable experience with an OS before.

  I would swap, but I’m forced/still have reason to use it for various programs/work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI hype meets reality as majority of CEOs report no financial returns⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s not great. I feel terrible for the guy because he lives on his own and has a mortgage to pay. I just hope he can get back on his feet sooner rather than later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI hype meets reality as majority of CEOs report no financial returns⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My job just let us know that they are going to invest about $170,000 into AI subscriptions per year. A few days later, they fired an artist they had hired for over a decade. A chunk of us are pretty upset but the rest don’t seem to care. They’re too busy playing with Ai making it generate “funny” pictures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Man Bought Meta's AI Glasses, and Ended Up Wandering the Desert in Search of Aliens⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the biggest thing is that people don’t seem to understand how AI works. If they understood it’s just predictive text and not like…actual intelligence, I think it would solve a lot of issues.

  Part of this, though, is how AI companies keep pushing to personify their AI and keep making them sound better than they actually are. It makes people think its this magical thing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sincere question: why play long video games?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on the game, but i like long RPG’s. Sometimes, it can start to wear out its welcome. But for the games where it works well it’s cool. You get to experience this big world, usually going from a weakling to a strong character by the end. The stories can be really interesting (or bland too).

  I recently decided that I am going to take on a game that could potentially take me hundreds of hours to finish and it’s daunting, but if at some point if I start to hate it, I’ll put it down and Google the results of the story and feel content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The sound of this one specific bird from Age of Empires keeps haunting me through pop songs, movies, and across other games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I always think of the rooster call that’s used in Ocarina of time.

  There’s also a laser beam noise that gets used in a couple n64 games and various other media. And a couple sounds from golden eye that I’ve heard used.

  I can’t say for certain, but I think the popularity is probably due to a lot of these reused sounds being part of sound packs and compilations from the 80’s and 90’s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD and Nvidia are talking about local AI, good news for PC gamers and memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah thats true! I hope that the world shifts towards that rather than what most people have been doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD and Nvidia are talking about local AI, good news for PC gamers and memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The only way I would be comfortable with Ai is if I could craft it myself, run it locally, and prevent it from feeding bullshit results, prevent it from phoning home, AND if it wasn’t built off of stolen data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France seeks to ban social media for children under 15⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  First I think it depends on what we are considering kids. I was online from age 8 but didn’t get into online games or communities until about 10. But in the case of the law, they’re often saying anything below 16 or 18 etc. It depends on the country/jurisdiction.

  There are lots of places kids can find community. When i was a kid I was playing on neopets, club penguin, old school runescape, guild wars. I made friends with people from all over the place. One of my best friends in my youth is from across the continent, and we have been friends for 20 years now.

  I think the bottom line is parents should parent. When I was a kid the PC was in the main room. My parents spoke to me frequently about staying safe online and asked me about what I was doing on the PC. They made sure I was only accessing kid appropriate sites and that I wasn’t getting myself into trouble.

  Could I have gotten in trouble? Yeah possibly. I also could have gotten kidnapped at the local park

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Foreign tech workers spurn US as if it were a rabid dog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish union work was more common place. It seems where I live unions are mostly for blue collar work and less common than I would hope to see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IDC warns PC market could shrink up to 9% in 2026 due to skyrocketing RAM pricing — even moderate forecast hits 5% drop as AI-driven shortages slam into PC market⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I just got a new pc back in February and I’m kicking myself for not buying more storage and ram

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France seeks to ban social media for children under 15⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Whenever this comes up, it feels like a play to harvest people’s data and / or to slip additional laws into place under the guise of “protect the children”.

  On one hand I don’t think it’s terrible to try to guide kids more. I think parents should be doing more parenting tbh.

  On the other I think it runs the risk of preventing kids from accessing information online, finding safe spaces online, and isolating kids more than they already can be. It also limits things like teaching kids about technology and how to use it safely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Playing Final Fantasy XI in 2025 (or 2026)?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I appreciate the offer, but I likely won’t be able to play it for a while. I don’t have the time that I would need to dedicate to it at the moment!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Playing Final Fantasy XI in 2025 (or 2026)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been wanting to play this game for a while. But I think in order to have the best experience, you probably need to get a group together that is willing to play at the same time as you

  . I convinced a friend to play a bit(like 4 hours) with me years ago and I thought it was fun! But I don’t think he enjoyed the slower grind of the experience and he dropped off.