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- Comment on Stellaris gets a DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves' 2 days ago:
That’s pretty much Vaudeville. The only things you can do is click on locations and talk to people, each of whom has some bit of information you need to figure out.
It’s basically an experiment to see what works and what doesn’t with the idea. I appreciate that they kept the scope small (no quests, no WASD movement) and have been implementing changes as they discover the shortfalls (like the ones I’ve mentioned). If it ever does get released as a finished game, it’ll be more like a proof of concept for other games to build off of.
- Comment on Nature Valley: 10 bars in 5 packs 2 days ago:
To make them not turn to dust in transit, they’d need to be in a hard shell sleeve wrapped in plastic like Oreos…and they’d still likely get crushed a bit.
I’m not a packaging engineer but that seems like more plastic with little added benefit
- Comment on I this a firm and polite way to tell an opinionated coworker to stop pushing his agenda I don't care about? 2 days ago:
Nah because then you actually have to talk to them at lunch
- Comment on Nature Valley: 10 bars in 5 packs 3 days ago:
Too risky. I’d rather have bite size pieces than try to catch the crumbs in the tiny wrapper
- Comment on Nature Valley: 10 bars in 5 packs 3 days ago:
I’m all for reduxcing packaging but…ewww I’m not eating these from an unsealed box. Bugs love the crumbs…I can imagine they’d love the full bars, too. Not to mention rodents.
The box would have to be fully resealable, too, or they’d be gross so they’d need to replace the cardboard with plastic
- Comment on Nature Valley: 10 bars in 5 packs 3 days ago:
It’s easy. Do what the other commenter said and break them before opening. They suggest in half, I prefer in thirds. Then after you eat the solid pieces you dump the crumbs into your mouth. If they made them less crumbly, I don’t think they’d be as good.
- Comment on Stellaris gets a DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves' 3 days ago:
Ever seen the game Vaudeville? It’s a fairly basic detective game but all the characters have their own LLM and AI voices. I bought it for the reason you described. I just had to see the technology in action and I can definitely see a future with generative text/voices in games.
It’s not perfect by any means but I think it’s a very cool approach to a detective game. There have been updates to it since I played that address most of the problems I had with it like characters forgetting past conversations and giving conflicting info.
- Comment on I this a firm and polite way to tell an opinionated coworker to stop pushing his agenda I don't care about? 3 days ago:
Unless you want to push back (clearly you don’t), I wouldn’t even acknowledge the topic or what about the topic makes you uncomfortable
“Hey man, this is a bar conversation. I don’t feel comfortable talking about stuff like this at work.”
I work in the same office as my best friend and I’ve told him similar - even though our politics are very closely aligned. Yes, I agree it would be funny if Trump shit his pants when he falls asleep in court. But I don’t want people to hear us talking about that
- Comment on Florida shines under DeSantis' leadership. His liberal critics should learn from him. 3 days ago:
Florida is truly the laughing stock of the country. Congrats on your new residents, though. I was worried no one would replace those teachers who left!
- Comment on American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse? 1 week ago:
You’re not fucking with anyone if everyone is either laughing at you or pitying you
- Comment on American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse? 1 week ago:
The American version failed miserably in so many ways.
I like Reggie Watts but he was either the wrong choice for Taskmaster or he just didn’t understand the role. It didn’t help that Alex Horne reprised his role as an assistant and there was just…zero chemistry. The NZ and Aus versions have a different dynamic than Greg/Alex but they do seem to get along. Alex seemed very out of place with Reggie…almost like a British butler stereotype. I don’t know how to describe it.
I thought the cast choice was bad, too. There was no one notable and their personalities weren’t quite as varied as other series. I won’t say who but there was also one who I consider to the worst contestant of any series ever by a wiiiide margin. Didn’t have an opinion on them before but now I can’t stand them.
Lastly, the pacing felt so…off. The episodes were half as long and while you’d think that might make for tighter comedy, I remember being so bored watching it. There was basically no banter at all. You never “got to know” the contestants and I didn’t feel the desire to look them up like I did with a lot of the UK/NZ/AUS cast.
It’s not even worth watching to understand what I mean. I strongly encourage you to just forget it exists.
- Comment on American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse? 1 week ago:
It’s fun to make fun of trolls before they get banned
- Comment on American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse? 1 week ago:
Does your fake son know you’re the type of loser who frequently leaves comments on porn posts?
Nothing you can say hurt me lmao
- Comment on American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse? 1 week ago:
I think your first sentence is fragmented.
- Comment on American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse? 1 week ago:
You guys also have a wayyyy better version of Taskmaster than the garbage we got in the US which is pretty cool
- Comment on Astounding absurdity 1 week ago:
I get what you’re saying but I feel like you’re deliberately missing their point just to shame them…
The supply and manufacturing chain is fucked up for just about everything. OP is realizing that not only is it fucked up, all that effort in the mines and sweatshop endes up in a landfill without any sort of usable product or silver lining.
- Comment on Astounding absurdity 1 week ago:
OP planned on using the device. They would not be complaining if it was crappy but usable…it was manufactured in a way that makes me unusable for 90% of people but marketed to 100% of them
- Comment on Marvel will release "a maximum of three" films per year, says Disney boss Bob Iger 1 week ago:
Wasn’t it the quality as a whole? The cast, the acting, the writing, and the directing, and the VFX?
The early films of the Marvel wave still hold up pretty well. I haven’t watched the new stuff but I saw complaints across the board
- Comment on 2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Nominal size is supposed to be 1.5 1 week ago:
Dimensional lumber has negligible variance in width/depth most of the time which is why it’s called that. It’s really the length that’s a crapshoot. Gotta love when you buy a bunch of 10’ planks and a couple are a few inches short
- Comment on 2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Nominal size is supposed to be 1.5 1 week ago:
I don’t think you’re implying this is exclusively an American issue or anything but that’s just the nature of construction unless you’re paying top dollar for accuracy when it matters.
I’ve been on a hundred or more construction sites and I’d confidently wager that most houses don’t match the plans perfectly because of unforseen reasons…equipment changing due to lead times, electricians running their conduit in the wrong stud bays, etc. I’ve had to do a lot of creative problem solving and design modifications are inevitable. That’s the only thing I really miss from my old career
- Comment on Weight 2 weeks ago:
This graphic taught me that unless the weight weighs itself, it does not have a weight
- Comment on Weight 2 weeks ago:
No no, if you don’t measure your weight yourself then you don’t have a weight. Didn’t you read it?
- Comment on Academic Rizzlers 2 weeks ago:
It’s extremely adjacent. The original post is not about individual words that are new to the language being used…they’re talking about quotes and references. How do those get shared nowadays? Through image templates.
- Comment on Academic Rizzlers 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure the music analogy quite fits what I was trying to get across - appealing to the lowest common denominator isn’t a bad thing.
It’s that memes takes no effort compared to making something original and they appeal to the lowest common denominator so they get the most attention (and upvotes/likes/whatever feel good). This does two things: incentives people to make template memes instead of expressing original thoughts and drowns out the original thoughts of others.
I see the value of memes as “conversation starters” (like this thread) so I don’t hate them, I just think it’s made social media worse and a lot more boring.
I totally agree with your point on publications. It’s one thing to have a creative title with a built-in pin but adding fluff just to get laughs…I dunno, I’m not saying they shouldn’t have fun but it distracts from the point.
- Comment on Academic Rizzlers 2 weeks ago:
Autocorrect got me! I meant virality. Like they’re being made for the upvotes. To become viral and be seen by as many people as possible or to be monetized by a meme account on Instagram.
Alternative and in the same vein, people rush to make the obvious joke… Not because it’s a good joke or even one that has to be told. Just because they want to be the first one to say it
- Comment on Academic Rizzlers 2 weeks ago:
The disconnect for me happened when memes started being made for the masses and I don’t mean that in a “I liked them before they got popular!” way. I mean when they changed from being in-jokes to attempts at vitality.
Does that make sense? Genuinely asking because I don’t know how exactly to phrase what I mean. Like a meme made for your group chat is an in-joke and one made “for the public” is…content.
- Comment on Academic Rizzlers 2 weeks ago:
Really if I had to make my opinion more concise, it isn’t just that it “doesn’t feel right” - it’s that it feels like the word choice was used not to better express their idea but to be flashy and trendy. It’s not that a writer used a pop culture reference, it’s why the writer used it.
I’d have a very similar opinion if the trend was to use wacky typefaces or colors for the title. It serves no purpose other than to catch your eye (hence my clickbait analogy) and I think academia should be held to a higher standard than buzzfeed
- Comment on Academic Rizzlers 2 weeks ago:
Yeet is an example of a word or idea that fits the original description of meme, though. My “issue” (using that word lightly) is the overuse of image templates in place of words
- Comment on Academic Rizzlers 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure how to phrase this well but I feel like you’re giving memes way too much credit by comparing them to idioms. There is nothing being added to the message when paired with a generic meme template so it’s not as much a method to express yourself as it is an attempt at giving the reader a dopamine hit when they recognize the image. It’s also different than words or phrases evolving because it’s the image template, not the words, giving the dopamine hit.
I think my issue with them can be described as this: Most memes aren’t made to communicate an idea, they’re made to get attention. They’re the visual equivalent of a clickbait headline and I don’t think they’re adding to or changing our language. If what you have to say is too banal to be said without an image template, why make it if not for those sweet sweet upvotes?
I’m not necessarily arguing here, just trying to find the right words to express my feelings on it.
- Comment on Academic Rizzlers 2 weeks ago:
i’m inclined to side with the initial tweet because I’m not a big fan of memes. I don’t have any data (because I don’t hold this opinion strongly) but it feels like so much more communication today is just references to other things. And I don’t think I believe that memes in academic papers are an “evolution” of the language - I think they’re doing it to get attention.
I’m not saying original statements are inherently better than repeated ones but “meme culture” is just posting the same thing over and over and it feels so…lazy and boring. I really struggle to understand how people enjoy seeing the same joke for the 100th time. As an example, any time a video game or movie introduced a cute animal, you’re guaranteed to see someone oh-so-cleverly add it to the “If anything happens to [name]…” template. Is there really no better way to express that you think an animal is cute? Did you really even want to express it or did you make it for Internet points?
I dunno. I guess I just don’t like the repetition of everything nowadays. It reminds me of a kid I went to school with who could not have a conversation without dropping in several Simpsons quotes…yeah man, I saw the episode and it was funny when Homer said that. It’s not very funny when you say it.