Bougie_Birdie
@Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on BLT 6 days ago:
I really hope to, but sadly then I couldn’t afford more sandwiches
- Comment on Do you wish that you could recycle games? 1 week ago:
I would love to be able to gift my unplayed games to others.
I guess you do get into a problem where a group of people might swap the game back and forth to avoid ever having to pay for the game. But people will abuse any system, so I guess that would just be a cost of it
If a game is still within the refund window, then maybe it should have an option to gift it. The devs / publishers could keep their money and Steam doesn’t have to process a refund. Seems like a win-win
- Comment on Maybe, just maybe, a company that refuses to give you time off if you have a bullet inside of you is a really really shitty company 2 weeks ago:
We’re burning the wrong Amazon
- Comment on The funny progression of getting promotions at work 3 weeks ago:
Anybody have any insight into what a “Market People Lead” is?
It sounds closer to an office job, but I can’t imagine wearing a nametag at HQ either
Im leaning towards it being word salad that sounds important, so when people ask to speak to the manager they feel like they’re getting someone above their pay grade
- Comment on if you are a doctor or registered nurse, what's the point of manipulating a patient to stay at your unit even if he wants to leave against medical advice? 3 weeks ago:
I’m not in healthcare, so I’m not sure how valuable my opinion is
If I had to guess, I’d say that there’s a cost associated with a patient refusing care, particularly if the condition is going to be aggravated.
This cost might be financial. It might also mean that the patient returns to the healthcare system and requires more intense care. It probably also means that the patient will suffer more while outside the system.
I don’t know what your healthcare system looks like, but mine is stretched to the breaking point. If someone discharged themselves against the advice of doctors and then later worsened and returned to the hospital, they might die waiting for triage. It’s an extremely bad look for the hospital and erodes the public’s opinion of healthcare. And while the hospital is being raked over the coals for allowing someone to die in the waiting room, the media will conveniently ignore that the patient previously discharged themselves against the advice of their doctor.
Another scenario to think about: just because a patient is cognizant doesn’t mean they’re behaving rationally. While the patient is in care they could be heavily medicated and not realize how bad their situation would be without care: until the meds wear off and their suffering returns. If they got a particularly bad prognosis, then the panicky ape brain could take over and they just want to get out of their, damn the consequences.
Does all that add up to being more important than the patient’s autonomy? Opinions will probably be divided. I don’t personally think so, if I was restrained against my will I’d be pretty angry about it. But I understand the rationale behind the people who want to keep their patient in the system.
Does that mean YOU have to care? Probably not. People should be free to make their own decisions, and you can’t and shouldn’t take responsibility for the decisions that they make.
- Comment on Pictured: 95% of gameplay in Payday 2's Death Sentence difficulty [Day 29] 3 weeks ago:
You don’t see too many Payday memes these days, but I’m here for them
- Comment on I’m Tired of Pretending Physical Media Isn’t Still Better Than Streaming Digital 3 weeks ago:
That must be in case he needs to stop for lunch on the way to delivering that sandwich
- Comment on My Beans :( 4 weeks ago:
Oh, beans…
- Comment on What do we think will be GoTY and which game do we think should be? 1 month ago:
Well of course the victim is going to play the victim. That’s just good marketing - and what is marketing if not propaganda?
Your comment reads as though the invading state’s actions aren’t propaganda. This is the whole reason why I came here to warn people to be skeptical of what they read online.
In an ironic twist, here’s an online source about the Russian disinformation campaign telling citizens that if you play Stalker 2 you’ll be drafted to fight in Ukraine against Russia.
Again, you should be skeptical of what you read online. In a vacuum, I’m inclined to believe the victim of invasion. In reality, I know that the situation is more nuanced - although the credibility of the aggressor is extremely suspect.
For what it’s worth, my impression on the game is that it’s yet another over-hyped game that couldn’t possibly live up to its expectations. The developers are financially incentivized to deflect that criticism through any means available to them. But that doesn’t mean I don’t acknowledge that malicious actors are also trying to discredit the game.
- Comment on If billionaires and CEOs feel like they need to start paying for large security details, would that be an example of trickle down economics? 1 month ago:
They’ll pay you peanuts to protect their gold. The only gold trickling down is a shower
- Comment on What do we think will be GoTY and which game do we think should be? 1 month ago:
I haven’t played Stalker 2 so I don’t really have a dog in this fight, but it’s very politically charged and has Russian state sponsored disinformation campaigns running against it. I’m not sure that you can get a truly accurate read of it online.
The developers are Ukrainian, and development had to be paused because their office literally turned into a warzone. The fact that the game came out at all is extremely based, and that certainly adds to the mythology around the game. But again, I haven’t played it, and gameplay-wise that doesn’t actually indicate anything about the game.
I want the game to succeed because of the developers’ existential struggle. The people causing that existential struggle want the game to fail. Neither of us have actually played the game, so again, there’s all this bias around it and we haven’t even looked at gameplay yet.
Be skeptical of anything you read online
- Comment on Spotify suddenly cut off app developers from a bunch of its data 1 month ago:
Spotify has vaguely attributed the need for the API changes to improving security:
- In its blog post, Spotify says that it rolled out the changes with “the aim of creating a more secure platform.”
- In a community forum post, a Spotify employee says that “we want to reiterate the main message from the blog that we’re committed to providing a safe and secure environment for all Spotify stakeholders.” The post has many pages of replies from frustrated developers.
- In a statement to The Verge, Spotify spokesperson Brittney Le Roy says that “as part of our ongoing work to address the security challenges that many companies navigate today, we’re making changes to our public APIs.”
This is fairly disingenuous. The affected endpoints are all GET requests, which are read-only requests that provide some data about the track/artist/playlist/etc. There isn’t really very much potential to do anything insecure here.
The only thing they’re securing is their hegemony.
- Comment on 'Dark Patterns' became normalized: When asked to build web pages, LLMs use manipulative design practices they learned from web pages generated by humans, study says 1 month ago:
I learned it by watching you, dad!
- Comment on This is you tomorrow 1 month ago:
God, that’s a mood and a half.
When my depression advanced, I was hopeful that not having feelings would mean not being sad anymore. I was disappointed, turns out feeling something is better than feeling nothing. Talk about a devil’s bargain.
Good luck out there, stranger. Tomorrow’s another day
- Comment on I just watched the wrong version of Drive (2011), and didn't realize until the last 10 minutes. Any similar stories? 1 month ago:
I spent longer than I care to admit waiting for David Bowie to show up in Pan’s Labyrinth, does that count?
- Comment on Hackers breach Andrew Tate's online university, leak data on 800,000 users 1 month ago:
“Hustler’s University”
I’m sure the intention is a play on Hustle culture and it’s supposed to teach you that grindset mindset, but it wasn’t too long ago that “Hustler” meant “con artist” and, well, it’s his university
Surely that’s not what paragon of humanity and alleged sex trafficker Andrew Taint meant when naming it. He’s got the ego, but I’m not sure he’s clever enough to flaunt it
- Comment on Whomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productive 1 month ago:
Lack of familiarity with AI PCs leads to what the study describes as “misconceptions,” which include the following: 44 percent of respondents believe AI PCs are a gimmick or futuristic; 53 percent believe AI PCs are only for creative or technical professionals; 86 percent are concerned about the privacy and security of their data when using an AI PC; and 17 percent believe AI PCs are not secure or regulated.
I guess we don’t have to worry about our data because the people selling us the machines tell us that our concerns are a misconception.
Also kind of the manufacturer to tell us that their gimmick is not, in fact, a gimmick
- Comment on Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die." 2 months ago:
Sure, but underestimating the scope is how you wind up with a Scunthorpe problem
- Comment on Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell 2 months ago:
Pepe has been sensationalized for a while now in the media as being a hate symbol. I think it’s because you see it largely on 4chan which traditional media demonizes.
I’m not on 4chan, but it seems like it has similar problems to Steam: a large userbase and poor content moderation gives insufferable people a platform to spread hate from. These problems aren’t unique to either platform, but the news likes to latch on to them.
I hate that some people consider Pepe to be a hate symbol. He’s just an expressive frog, dang it
- Comment on Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die." 2 months ago:
I don’t disagree, but it is a challenging problem. If you’re filtering for “die” then you’re going to find diet, indie, diesel, remedied, and just a whole mess of other words.
I’m in the camp where I believe they really should be reading all their inputs. You’ll never know what you’re feeding the machine otherwise.
However I have no illusions that they’re not cutting corners to save money
- Comment on Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die." 2 months ago:
With the sheer volume of training data required, I have a hard time believing that the data sanitation is high quality.
If I had to guess, it’s largely filtered through scripts, and not thoroughly vetted by humans. So data sanitation might look for the removal of slurs and profanity, but wouldn’t have a way to find misinformation or a request that the reader stops existing.
- Comment on I ❤️ Plants 2 months ago:
Mother-in Law’s tongue looks like a plant that I know of as Snake Grass
They must have named it after my MIL
- Comment on Now is the best time to start that thing 2 months ago:
…I guess I better go do that thing I’ve been putting off.
No wonder people hate Clippy
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 2 months ago:
Ah, I’m still waking up, so I must have misunderstood.
I hadn’t considered political spending, but I didn’t get the impression we were talking about super PACs. Those are abhorrent, and undemocratic.
My stance was that if a person wants to buy something that’s stupid, ineffective, but gives them some small degree of hope and doesn’t harm others, then they should be able to. However, I’m also of the opinion that regulators need to remove those products from the market because they’re lying to people about their efficacy.
Ideally we’d be teaching people that snake oil doesn’t work. But the current political climate suggests that Big Snake Oil has captured the regulation, so I don’t see that happening either.
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 2 months ago:
Are you defending snake oil? The pseudoscience con so uniquituously used to deprive the desperate from their money that it became the term used to describe “harmful bullshit sold for profit?”
Freedom of choice or not, I suppose you should be able to spend your money however you want.
But if someone is selling people lies under the promise of medical miracles, we need to throw the book at them.
- Comment on AI slop animal abuse 2 months ago:
Isn’t chemistry all a matter of scale though? I admit it’s not my field
I mean, if the cat pees on the rug and you clean it up right away, that’s probably not a big deal. I imagine it’s a different story if you’re cleaning out a hoarder’s cat colony in a poorly ventilated area and don’t dilute the bleach because you wanted something stronger
- Comment on AI slop animal abuse 2 months ago:
Friendly reminder that using bleach to clean cat pee can fucking kill you and your cat
I mean, I’d be kind of surprised if it did kill you, but ammonia and bleach mix to make an extremely toxic gas
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I haven’t played the game, so I’m not sure how accurate my help would be. It would be helpful to be able to look at some tooltips from these skills. But to my eye this looks like a talent / build system that’s fairly common in ARPGS.
My most basic assumption is that every so often you’ll level up and be able to pick one of these skills. They’ll provide some kind of effect which is tied to an active skill (Red, Blue, and Purple appear to be likely), or a passive bonus (Orange, Yellow, and Green I’d guesss).
The arrows are throwing me off a little bit because sometimes they point in both directions, and other times they appear to loop. Usually these might mark a pre-requisite skill, so if it shows [A] <-- [B] then that implies that before you can acquire A you must first acquire B.
If I had to guess, [A] <–> [B] implies either you can freely choose between A and B, or perhaps once you select A you must select B before you can select A again.
The loops feel weird though (notably in the yellow block). I guess that means that whatever skill you start with, you must then select clockwise from there.
There’s a great variety in how games will implement this sort of thing, but in general there’s usually a way to get a tooltip with a more complete description of what each thing does. Usually that would be by hovering over the icon, but some games include an encyclopedia of effects if they’re particularly involved.
The order in which you acquire these skills often influences your playstyle. Some people are going to prefer to get abilities that seem powerful quickly, and other people like to strategically synergize their build. For my part, I tend to prefer acquiring passive bonuses that increase my experience/luck/currency to more easily game the system.
- Comment on If the EU uses online signature for European Citizen's Initiative, why isn't voting online for elections or policies not allowed? 2 months ago:
Yes, because surely all adults know better, that’s why they so frequently swallow propaganda and vote against their own interests.
It’s controversial and it has its own problems with enforcement, but it often seems like there should be some kind of civics and media literacy test before voting. Of course, whoever is administering the test is going to have their own biases and agendas, so it’s no magic bullet solution.
There’s a vast gulf in maturity between children at different ages, and everyone develops at their own pace. Some thirteen year olds are more mature than many eighteen year olds, and some forty year olds needed more time to cook but they still graduated anyway.
- Comment on New frog just dropped!!! 2 months ago:
He does not look happy to be discovered
Can we put him back?