KoboldCoterie
@KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
Kobolds with a keyboard.
- Comment on Is there a place online to ask for Non Money donations? like books, jerseys, or whatever? kind of like go fund me or kickstarter without giving someone money kind of like a gofundme donations thing? 18 hours ago:
Not exactly what you’re looking for I don’t think but you might check for local Freecycle groups.
- Comment on LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy 3 days ago:
I think about this a lot. So many technologies that we have, if we could trust everyone involved to be acting in humanity’s best interest, would be amazing. If we didn’t have to guard our personal data like Fort Knox, there’s so many great things we could do with extensive connectedness. If we didn’t have to doubt the sincerity of everyone who promotes a service or product, everything would be so much better.
We can’t have any of those things, because humans are shitty, and are as a whole just in it for themselves.
- Comment on wild 4 days ago:
Just google it, I’m sure it’ll be fine.
- Comment on wild 4 days ago:
It’s just a video game breeding system. Like you’re trying to make the human with ideal stats by combining other humans’ stats. Funny that Real Life mimics video games like that; good thing there’s no single entity behind it, or Nintendo would sue.
- Comment on Specifically Schnauzer 1 week ago:
Plot twist: This is in the lobby at a Vet clinic.
- Comment on LemmyNSFW and Saidit are dead. Which Platform is next? 1 week ago:
That feels like a weak argument, revenge porn is a crime, so is illustrated csam.
Not everywhere. If it’s legal where the admin lives and legal where the server is hosted, you can’t really make this argument. You could make the argument that it’s morally wrong, but like… the point is that it’s a possible point of contention, and not as cut-and-dried as you suggest.
- Comment on LemmyNSFW and Saidit are dead. Which Platform is next? 1 week ago:
Also the ideology of a nsfw community is a straight-forward issue.
You’d think so, but like… What about disagreements over what type of content should be allowed? Should they allow AI generated stuff? Revenge porn? Illustrated art depicting minors? Specific extreme fetishes?
- Comment on What comes to your mind on hearing the word 'itzretk'? 2 weeks ago:
It’s wrecked.
- Comment on between medicine and this, we do not honour rats enough 2 weeks ago:
#Hero Snot Pests
- Comment on ancient hyperfixations 2 weeks ago:
I initially misread that as ‘gynecological and medical history’ and it put an entirely different and quite unpleasant spin on the whole story.
- Comment on Can't believe it's been renamed for a year now! 2 weeks ago:
Yeah… “We can’t undo all of the unprecedented shit the previous admin did because it would set a precedent for future admins” is just about the stupidest argument I can think of. Tear it all down and start from scratch, clearly what we have isn’t working.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 2 weeks ago:
I learned about it from a story I heard of someone who traveled from the US to Thailand, saw it on the menu at a restaurant and ordered it, expecting it to be the sort of fried rice you’d get in the US at an Asian restaurant. They were unpleasantly surprised.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 2 weeks ago:
Notably, Americans are not the only culture that does this.
There’s a Thai dish called ‘American Fried Rice’ for instance.
American fried rice is a Thai fried rice dish with “American” side ingredients like fried chicken, ham, sausages, raisins, and ketchup.[1] Other ingredients like pineapples and croutons are optional.
At least in any part of America I’ve been to, this is certainly not something you can get here.
- Comment on Can't believe it's been renamed for a year now! 2 weeks ago:
It’s fucking embarrassing, honestly. I hope whomever is president next reverses all of the BS executive orders. Like, day 1. You could argue that there’s far more important things to be doing than changing the Gulf of Mexico back to being the Gulf of Mexico, and you’d be right, but doing it on day 1 (along with everything else - just write one executive order that undoes every EO from the prior admin) sends the (important) message that there was nothing of value done by the prior admin, and the legitimacy of the administration is not even being entertained for a moment.
- Comment on No swiping involved: the AI dating apps promising to find your soulmate 2 weeks ago:
Fate will also coach users through their interactions, if they desire, a functionality Jasmine described as helpful and another user said was “scary” and “a bit like Black Mirror’.
My first thought, too. There were a few Black Mirror episodes that pretty closely mimic this.
- Comment on Whats the best way to clean up 15 years of stuff around the house? 2 weeks ago:
If you’re moving, then set some firm boundaries: You will have 1 moving truck (or whatever you’re using) - if it won’t fit in the truck, you can’t keep it, full stop. If there’s something that won’t fit that you absolutely must keep, you’ve got to remove something else to make room for it.
Take it one room at a time, or even one quarter of a room at a time. Don’t cherry pick things to remove - just start at one end and remove everything. It either goes in the dumpster, or it goes in the truck, but it can’t stay in the house, and you’ve got to choose one. There’s no “We’ll decide on this later”.
- Comment on The Duality of Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
The newer monster hunter games try to explain it away as functionality conservation efforts, telling you that the ones you’re killing are throwing off the local ecosystem, but it falls pretty flat when they also pit captured ‘research specimens’ against you in the arena they built explicitly for that purpose…
- Comment on I literally can't even afford dinner everyday in Paris! 3 weeks ago:
That’s cool. I hate that we have to vote every piece of media through the ‘is this AI?’ lens now, but glad to hear it’s legitimate.
- Comment on I literally can't even afford dinner everyday in Paris! 3 weeks ago:
The colors in the key don’t even match the colors in the graph, is this just AI generated garbage or do you have actual sources to go with it?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Can’t speak from personal experience but from what I’ve heard, it’s more about the concept / theme / emotions than the actual act itself. People (at least, the vast majority) who are into it don’t actually want to experience it in real life; just like with many other more mundane fetishes, it’s more about the fantasy and how it makes you feel to imagine yourself in that situation, and more nebulous concepts like the idea of becoming a physical part of another creature, or the imagined feeling of closeness, constriction, warmth, safety or comfort from being inside something’s stomach. Obviously not things you’d experience if it actually happened to you, but that’s not the point.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’m not super familiar with the exact specifics, but my loose understanding is that if it’s ‘soft’, the subject survives relatively unharmed. If they die in the process, it’s ‘hard’, whether that’s due to being chewed, asphyxiation, or dissolved (or anything else). (There’s a subcategory called ‘disposal’ which is… exactly what you think it is, following that digestion.)
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I hate that I feel the need to mention this, but…
“Vore” doesn’t necessarily imply ‘torn to shreds’; it could be as simple as being swallowed whole. It comes in ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ varieties, with the former being non-destructive, and the latter being… well, what you thought.
- Comment on How does this thing work? (wrong answers only) 3 weeks ago:
There’s obviously a group of very small people trapped inside a hamster wheel style contraption. As the fan structure heats up, the floor of the wheel grows uncomfortably hot, and forces the little people to continuously run to avoid getting burned (continually cycling the cooler top of the wheel down to the bottom). This in turn turns the fan blades.
I am honestly appalled that you would buy such a thing; it’s cruel.
- Comment on I am looking for a Linux OS 4 weeks ago:
Worth noting if you take this advice: SteamOS (and Bazzite, recommended elsewhere) are immutable distros, which, to over-simplify it to an extreme degree, limits your ability to install things that modify the system directly. This can be a good thing, but it can also make it difficult to install certain things that you might want. There are workarounds, but you might find this frustrating at first.
If you primarily game, this is probably not an issue for you except that some non-Steam games may require some extra work to run (particularly ones that, for example, require you to install .NET Framework or specific Java versions.)
Not trying to discourage you from these - they’re great OSes and the ‘downside’ of immutable distros can actually be beneficial when new to linux, as they prevent you from breaking things through inexperience, but it’s something you should be aware of up front. (FWIW I use Bazzite as my daily driver for everything, and it works fine.)
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Gary was 100% the best character in the movie, just wish he’d gotten more screen time. They managed to fit as much body language and expressiveness into his face as into entire other characters.
- Comment on "Benefit of the doubt" is a very important aspect of a game's success 4 weeks ago:
This seems to be a trend as if you only take into account reviews with 2+ hours of play time, Highguard’s opinions are “mixed” rather than “overwhelmingly negative”.
People who enjoy a game are more likely to have more playtime, therefore the higher the playtime in the ‘window’ of reviews that you look at, the more likely they are to skew high. This is exactly what you’d expect to see on any game, barring situations like the developers making changes that ruin a game that previously was good.
So after 2 hours of not having a good time, the game was deemed bad and negative reviews were written.
Two hours is the window for a refund, so I absolutely make a call within 2 hours. If a game - especially a new / expensive game - hasn’t engaged me within that time, I refund it and move on. I don’t have enough hours in the day to play games I don’t enjoy hoping that they’ll get good eventually. Why should anyone feel the need to do that, whether they’re giving the game the benefit of the doubt or not? It’s the MMO argument. “The game gets really good around the 100 hour mark!” I don’t care. I’m not sticking around for it. There are plenty of other games to play that are fun within the first 2 hours. If a developer expects people to slog through an unenjoyable 2+ hours to get to “the good parts”, they probably deserve the negative reviews.
- Comment on Adobe Animate is shutting down next month 4 weeks ago:
This is no longer accurate.
We are not discontinuing or removing access to Adobe Animate. Animate will continue to be available for both current and new customers, and we will ensure you continue to have access to your content. There is no longer a deadline or date by which Animate will no longer be available. These are changes from what we shared in our original email.
Adobe Animate is in maintenance mode for all customers. This applies to individual, small business, and enterprise customers.
Maintenance mode means we will continue to support the application and provide ongoing security and bug fixes, but we are no longer adding new features. Animate will continue to be available for both new and existing users - we will not be discontinuing or removing access to Adobe Animate.
We are committed to ensuring Animate users have access to their content regardless if the state of development changes.
- Comment on Naughty birds 4 weeks ago:
The elites don’t want you to know this but the waxwing birds at the park are free. You can take them home. I have 458 waxwing birds.
- Comment on furry transfem 4 weeks ago:
Based on general science and tech literacy among furries, probably a statistically significant higher percentage than in the general population.
- Comment on Just say the word 4 weeks ago:
I am firmly of the opinion that babies suck, but kids - once they reach the age that they can engage with you at some minimal level - are great, and the older they get, the more fun they are.