apotheotic
@apotheotic@beehaw.org
- Comment on Can you? 4 hours ago:
I’m going to raise my kids by (the following rules): If you have something nice to say, say it If you have something nice you can do, do it
Its not particularly difficult to parse and aside from some punctuation issues it sounds like this kid has their head screwed on right
- Comment on What your coffee preparation method says about you 1 week ago:
I was gonna say, how do you know an aeropress/nixos user - they’ll tell you. But Debian works too 😂
- Comment on Foot Fungus 1 week ago:
Number 15 Burger king foot lettuce
The last thing you want In your burger king burger Is someone’s foot fungus But it turns out That might be exactly what you get
- Comment on To appease a Steam user's demands for straight representation, Webfishing added a 'Straight' title that costs 9,999 fish bucks 1 week ago:
I understand your perspective but I guess I just fundamentally disagree. I’d be annoyed, in the same vein as you, if every character was poly (unless they were actually poly and they had other lovers and referenced your other lovers and it was genuinely part of their identity) or if a relationship with them wasn’t different from a close friendship, besides having sex (because sex isn’t the only thing separating a close friendship from a relationship).
I guess, the way I approach the kind of game that we’re both talking about is just different. I’m not interested in exploring 100% of all the content possible, but rather having a rich experience in the content that I do explore. I’ll take an authentically written gay man and an authentically written straight girl who both won’t explore a relationship with me, over the opportunity to have more content that’s shallower. But yeah, again, thats just a different approach we both have to games.
- Comment on To appease a Steam user's demands for straight representation, Webfishing added a 'Straight' title that costs 9,999 fish bucks 1 week ago:
How can you make a character not attracted to men and simultaneously make their relationship not locked for male characters?
- Comment on To appease a Steam user's demands for straight representation, Webfishing added a 'Straight' title that costs 9,999 fish bucks 1 week ago:
I’m sort of the opposite. Give characters sexualities! Make them people! Give them criteria by which they will or won’t find my character attractive! I feel gross when every NPC is pansexual and aggressively attracted to the main character for no reason. Then again, I’m acespec, so.
- Comment on Question me not 3 weeks ago:
Pinghe Teacher Hotel
- Comment on Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’ 3 weeks ago:
I dont often agree with this Tory in disguise, but in this case he’s right.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Seems up to me!
- Comment on AI Seeks Out Racist Language in Property Deeds for Termination 4 weeks ago:
I don’t really dispute that but at least we are able to apply formal analytical methods with repeatable outcomes. LLMs might (and do) achieve a similar result but they do so without any formal approach that can be reviewed, which has its drawbacks.
- Comment on AI Seeks Out Racist Language in Property Deeds for Termination 4 weeks ago:
I never made any “AI bad” arguments (in fact, I said that they may be incredibly well suited to this) I just argued for the correct use of words and you hallucinated.
- Comment on AI Seeks Out Racist Language in Property Deeds for Termination 4 weeks ago:
You said “they literally do analyze text” when that is not, literally, what they do.
And no, we don’t “all know” that. Lay persons have no way of knowing whether AI products currently in use have any capacity for genuine understanding and reasoning, other than the fact that the promotional material uses words like “understanding”, “reasoning”, “thought process”, and people talking about it use the same words. The language we choose to use is important!
- Comment on AI Seeks Out Racist Language in Property Deeds for Termination 4 weeks ago:
The person you’re replying to is correct though. They do not understand, they do not analyse. They generate (roughly) the most statistically likely answer to your prompt, which may very well end up being text representing an accurate analysis. They might even be incredibly reliable at doing so. But this person is just pushing back against the idea of these models actually understanding or analysing. Its slightly pedantic, sure, but its important to distinguish in the world of machine intelligence.
- Comment on Forbidden Gummies 4 weeks ago:
Damn that’s crazy
Anyway
- Comment on Forbidden Gummies 4 weeks ago:
Who’s we
- Comment on Netflix raises prices as password boost fades 5 weeks ago:
*if you’re paying for a TV license
- Comment on Recommend me your favorite linear games! 5 weeks ago:
The Last Campfire is delightful, and feels like being read a bedtime story. God, it’s good. I could listen to the narrator read the back of a shampoo bottle.
Planet of Lana is a drop dead gorgeous side scrolling puzzle platformer with a beautiful soundtrack and world building.
Beacon Pines isn’t technically linear, in that you can complete some stuff in an order of your choosing. But the overall experience is quite linear. Its an exquisite experience, I can’t recommend it enough.
If you enjoyed Undertale, play OneShot. No question. Its splendid.
Night in the Woods is a joy as well, it makes me nostalgic for a childhood I never had. Must-play.
Stray - you are a cat doing cat things in a broken future. Splendid experience.
Mirror’s Edge is a game I think everyone should experience at least once. It’s beautiful.
Celeste - it has the best tuned difficulty curve I’ve seen in any game, and it wants you to succeed. It also tells a really beautiful story. God the platforming is good. Its so good. By the end of it, you are doing things you never thought you’d dream of doing. You’ll feel like a speedrunner with all the little movement tricks you’re able to do.
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice is a thought provoking masterpiece and a little spooky.
- Comment on A Queensland student loses case alleging school's uniform policy was discriminatory against females 5 weeks ago:
I dont fucking get it. If you’re going to force uniforms, just let anyone wear any of the uniform “styles”. Let anyone wear the skirts if they want to, who does it hurt. Let anyone wear the trousers, who does it hurt!
- Comment on Players are now less "accepting" that games will be fixed, say Paradox, after "underestimating" the reaction to Cities: Skylines 2's performance woes 5 weeks ago:
QA is part of the game development process and its supposed to happen before it reaches end users. They’ve made some good games but they can’t act all surprised that selling a game and letting users be free QA doesn’t cut it.
- Comment on The British government is transferring sovereignty of an island in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius next week, potentially impacting the existence of the .io domain. 1 month ago:
looks at your instance domain
Carry on
- Comment on u wouldn't 1 month ago:
It turns little black works into scent a pedes
- Comment on gentoo 2 months ago:
Bestie, put a shirt on O.O
- Comment on What are the scariest games you've played? 2 months ago:
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice had such a vivid portrayal of auditory and visual hallucinations and the psychological aspects thereof, as well as being rooted in genuinely spooky themes. Playing it in the dark with headphones was a truly psychologically scary experience and it didn’t really rely on jumpscares for the scary factor. ( which to me is a huge plus )
- Comment on China-linked ‘Spamouflage’ network mimics Americans online to sway US political debate 2 months ago:
Nothing wrong with calling out evil wherever it is
- Comment on I try. 2 months ago:
The dog speaks italian? Impressive
- Comment on Concord is going offline beginning September 6th 2 months ago:
Guild Wars 2!
- Comment on [Discussion] Of all the films you’ve gone into blind, which one truly stands out as your favorite find? 2 months ago:
I had written off The Secret Life of Walter Mitty based on… Essentially nothing. I think I assumed it was just another Ben Stiller comedy flick.
I did finally watch the film and I was blown away. It is astonishingly beautiful and warm and just a joy to watch. The cinematography is stunning and its a film that made me start to take notice of the world around me even more.
- Comment on Big year! 2 months ago:
She had an album called Lover and this bodysuit is what she wears when she performs that part of the show.
- Comment on Big year! 2 months ago:
Translation, I believe:
Jenna Ortega said of Taylor Swift “Taylor’s had a big year” after Jenna accurately identified that Jimmy Fallon lied about an anecdote (that he made up).
The anecdote was that his cardigan had become stuck to her Lover bodysuit almost causing a delay before a “The Eras Tour” show in London in June.
- Comment on The eagerness to grave dance on unpopular games has become a bad habit 2 months ago:
There’s no jubilation at “seeing a big game fail” there’s jubilation at seeing a game fail that is developed by a studio that is doing fucked up shit, or a game that is shovelling some fucked up agenda, or the like.
We dance on the graves of any game developed by Actiblizz, Ubisoft, EA, etc not because they are big games, but because they are developed by evil corporations.