Phen
@Phen@lemmy.eco.br
- Comment on Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World 1 day ago:
Niantic always announced itself as a data company.
- Comment on What is stopping a scammer from HTTPS certificating a "nonsense.ReputableBank.com" 4 days ago:
Something in the way of “an apartment key is useless if you can’t get into the building”.
- Comment on I would personally just treat whatever direction I'm facing at the time as North and go from there. 1 week ago:
I only started remembering which side west is (relative to north) when I started thinking of “the wild west” and then thinking of where the wild west was. Still can’t use it in the real world for anything though. At most if I’m at my own town I know approximately where north is, but anywhere else I’ll quickly lose the sense of which direction is which.
- Comment on Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 will NOT have Denuvo on PC 2 weeks ago:
Two games I was looking forward to, both launching on the same day. One has Denuvo (civ 7), the other has not (KCD2). Guess which one I’m going to be playing.
- Comment on Is it offensive for me as a man to dress as a male version of a female fictional character for Halloween?' 3 weeks ago:
Rule of thumb:
- are you making fun or otherwise mocking someone?
- are you doing it for any “bad reason” whatsoever?
- are you doing something that is/was primarily done by others for “bad reasons”, historically?
- are you doing something that other groups started doing as a replacement for something else that they were not allowed to (that you are)?
I’m half asleep so I may have forgotten something but if I didn’t, then answering No to all of those should be the minimum thing you do.
- Comment on Oxbowin' 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know much about rivers but based on the floods we had here in Brazil early this year, I don’t think that house will be there by the end of the century.
- Comment on I'm tired of every game being live service 1 month ago:
That’s not my experience with steam at all. Only one or two options of the steam store tend to show AAA games over indie games. If you browse by category or using the dynamic recommendation you’ll see plenty of good games.
- Comment on Peter Molyneux thinks generative AI is the future of games, all but guaranteeing that it won't be 2 months ago:
I mean, if someone creates a game with all the options there and you just use AI as a replacement for a complex UI, it could kinda work. A game like scribblenauts could theorically implement an AI based stage creation option with the current tech already. The problem with that is that the AI wouldn’t be able to guarantee that the stage has a proper challenge level (or even that is possible to complete it), so it would also need to implement an AI that tries to beat the level as well and then keep iterating over the two until a proper stage is found.
In short: doable, for very niche cases and probably taking a very long time to complete a prompt (possibly hours).
- Comment on Is "disk" just a different spelling of "disc" or are they actually different words? 2 months ago:
Round things with antennas
- Comment on Parents outraged at Snoo after smart bassinet company charges fee to rock crib 2 months ago:
Pretty bad business decision. Even with the subscription in place they could give a year of it for free on new purchases and then just charge 2k instead of 1.7k. They would get the same money, people would be ok with it as it would be free for the time they use it and the company would even make some money out of resold units that would require the subscription.
- Comment on Let's discuss: 8-bit Era Games 3 months ago:
My favorite 8 bit game was The Little Samson. So few people know about it but it was an incredible game for that time.
- Comment on How do you rank sums of single-digit numbers ? 4 months ago:
I would switch 6+8 and 6+9
- Comment on Do other languages have similar acronyms to 'tbh', 'imo', 'smh', etc? 4 months ago:
I’m Portuguese we don’t use many acronyms, but we have shorter versions of words with the vowels removed or things like that. When people tried to use acronyms we ended up with “fds” which some people read as weekend, others read as “fuck it”. The only other acronyms I can think of right now are all for offenses such as fdp (son of a bitch) and cdf (“ass of iron”, very old term for calling someone a nerd).
- Comment on Mythbusters 4 months ago:
Curiosity is the best trait nature ever gave us.
- Comment on Paradox Interactive has completely cancelled "Life By You" 5 months ago:
I wonder how that’s going. When the devs started they were clearly overpromising things that they thought would be cool to have without any idea of how long it would take to implement them. I always suspected it would remain in development for many many years, but apparently it’ll be playable next year.
- Comment on When did a movie misrepresent the country or city you live in? 5 months ago:
Brazil is always misrepresented everywhere, but two funny cases come to mind:
There was a House episode where Dr. House was treating a CIA officer who had been to Bolivia and had eaten a lot of nuts. At the end of the episode House realized the officer has actually been to Brazil and not Bolivia and then figures out that he ate Brazil Nuts, which could cause all the symptoms he had. In reality Brazil Nuts are much more common in Bolivia than they are in Brazil (or anywhere else).
The other case was Westworld, Vincent Cassel speaks perfect Portuguese while playing an American character, talking to a Brazilian character whose actor speaks it incorrectly and with an extremely loaded accent.
- Comment on I was always there and you forget me like this 5 months ago:
It might be my adhd+aphantasia brain but I don’t get the idea of enjoying a color.
- Comment on I was always there and you forget me like this 5 months ago:
People actually have favorite colors and stuff like that? What makes a color become one’s favorite?
- Comment on Anon figures out how dieting works 5 months ago:
For weight, yeah. It’s still unhealthy for many reasons but if you only care about weight that’the thing that matters
- Comment on Anon catches her boyfriend in a private moment 5 months ago:
I would have tried to scare him as the hand reaches him.
- Comment on Ripperonis 6 months ago:
I think they just did some camera trick to cut out most of the travel time and not make the movie longer.
- Comment on damn this rocks gay. good for them. good for them 6 months ago:
Duckduckgo didn’t make it funny, I had to actually Google.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 6 months ago:
Sending an SMS as an operation is just as expensive as checking for signal. Which every phone is constantly doing.
- Comment on Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Official Announce Trailer 7 months ago:
I played it last year and got soft locked in the main quest about 15 hours in, but only realized after another 10 hours of side quests. Usually I wouldn’t start over but in the game I gladly did.
- Comment on kingdom come: deliverance II reveal 7 months ago:
Yep, though the combat is very hard to get used to early and it may feel to hard - only to feel too easy once you master it.
- Comment on What are the other 6 Ds? 7 months ago:
That sounds awful to experience as a customers, but also sounds like an awesome challenge to pull out convincingly for whoever created it.
- Comment on I'm guilty, lol 8 months ago:
I try to write the extended “Lots of Love” now instead of shortening it to “lol” every time.
- Comment on dataisbeautiful 8 months ago:
Too bad it’s rounded to one digit, it’s so hard to find more detailed data about that period.
- Comment on Kinda wanna try this now 10 months ago:
I’m brazilian and that just gave me another pizza idea.
- Comment on Why would someone openly say that they oppose human rights? 11 months ago:
Because they have been lied to about what it means.