FarceOfWill

@FarceOfWill@infosec.pub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tempest Rising review (PC Gamer: 85/100)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  He had a career spanning dozens of stone cold classic movies, incredible performances all.

  And I will always first remember him corpsing over SPAAACE!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Leamington UK, responsible for development of Star Wars Outlaws and Skull & Bones, officially closed.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shadows is great tbh. Can’t speak about sales figures but it’s the most fun I’ve had with AC in ages. The jumps being ninja roll jumps is perfect.

  Valhalla was far too serious, a schlocky Japanese revenge flick is much more on target.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ninja sword owners will be paid to surrender weapons before ban⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a curved blade I think they’re all already banned, so this law does nothing to you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ninja sword owners will be paid to surrender weapons before ban⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Collecting them isn’t much of a reason to be carrying them around.

  I don’t think the police would let you off if you claimed to have just bought it. I’d expect them to demand some kind of proof.

  The law is so when they raid a gang members home and find five swords they can do something other than compliment them on their awesome ninja sword collection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Network Rail to set up property company to deliver 40,000 homes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But network rail don’t run any trains

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Civilization 7 Outlines Crucial 1.1.1 Update as It Struggles to Compete on Steam Against Civ 6 and Even the 15-Year-Old Civ 5⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It peaked at 4 with the fall from heaven 2 mid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deep Rock Galactic roguelike dev says innovation for innovation's sake is too expensive to survive: "We're a studio of 50 people with bills to pay"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The draw from Skyrim and other ES games is wandering around and stumbling on cool stuff.

  They both removed wandering by having you fly your ship to a planet, and removed the cool stuff by making the planets procgen.

  It’s good fun exploring the cities and space stations but then that’s it. They designed out the entire game in favour of more procgen content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WWYD⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a good virtue ethicist I walk away from the lever and live my virtuous life

  Probably by trying to beat up Persians. Or some other city state. Or slaves. You know, virtuously

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Aside from the unacceptable violence, the story here is far more complicated than that.
  They were just impossible to work with.

  I think PeopleMakeGames did a good YouTube video on it if you’ve not seen it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do not stand at my grave and weep⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The flickering of them in the atmosphere is her so it’s just justified enough for a poem

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The UK must make big changes to its diets, farming and land use to hit net zero – official climate advisers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Subsidise orchards like we do open farm land?

  (I am not good enough at this law to know if orchards get the farming subsidies, happy to be informed by Lemmy people)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh dear no I’m repying to agree. It is all good.

  It’s a lazy Sunday and while I have a dozen better things to do trying to make clear posts about ai in a place where people will agree intelligently is a nice waste of time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The soul thing is very poor ground to argue on yes which is why I immediately spent the time to make a different one :)

  At very best it’s an intuitive understanding of “procedural oatmeal” where the brain spots patterns in the output so quickly it becomes tired of the art and loses interest.

  But I think that’s being generous and I think of lot of the time it’s a purely to stake a position based on identity and a challenge to that identity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Entropy? Never heard of it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The wider issue is you have to generate that energy, and you have to be able to capture more of carbon than that generation released.

  As I understand it doesn’t at all. This is why it’s seen as analagous to a perpetual motion machine, it’s an endless chain of power plants capturing each others carbon to no end.

  You could use solar if course, but then why generate anything with fossil fuels just to capture the carbon with solar? Just use solar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not any of those reasons, it’s because it can only exist by being trained on human authored art and in many cases you can extract a decentish copy of the original if you can specify enough tags that piece was labelled with.

  The ai model is a lossy database of art and using them to launder copyright violations should be illegal, is immorally stealing from the creator, and chills future artists by taking away the revenue they need while learning. This leads to ai model art having not enough future work to train on and the stagnation of the human experience as making beautiful things is not profitable enough, or doesn’t give the profit to those with power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not clicking but if this is the one from a while ago its specifically about plastic glteabags. And, like, obviously.

  If you stir with a plastic spoon you’ll have even more

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Extreme Disconnect between Game Journalists, Developers, and their Audience⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for writing this up, sounds even worse than I’d have guessed from the title.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nom nom⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks I finally understood this thread, kept thinking people were viewing the crocodile/duck/whatever from above

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deadline to record historic footpaths to be scrapped⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Our stalwart guardians of the land right there, we make them work so hard for their tax free inheritance

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study finds young people more likely to spend Christmas alone⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Alone with a mobile and 4 separate communications apps with dozens of chats

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NatWest to hike chief's pay as bank returns to full private ownership⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Something like a 20% loss, before inflation. Figures will come out next year when it’s actually complete. Not sure if the government took money out in that time by dividend but it would be a bit weird to so I assume not.

  But then, the cost of not doing it would have been much much worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blacksky Is Nothing Like Black Twitter—and It Doesn’t Need to Be⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There was definitely a problem at first on mastodon with people buying a server instance for the black community, and then not actually blocking all the standard bad servers.

  Basically giving them a server full of targets to harass.

  I guess you could say setting up an instance and maintaining a blue sky block list is sort of similar, you’re taking it on yourself to see all the horrible stuff, even seeking it out, to protect others.

  The blue sky approach lets people use multiple Blocklists though and masto just has the one of the server you’re on and your personal one. Lots of room for improvement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mitochondria⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Got it. I’ll look out for Targaryen Vs Mitochondria in the next season to learn more

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mitochondria⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What the hell is a “powerhouse” anyway?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Germ Blaster⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair they probably didn’t rub each individual finger over their disgusting body parts while in the toilet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex-PlayStation boss says games should be shorter because development costs are ‘not sustainable’ [VGC]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The playing time isn’t sustainable either

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did just hear libsoftiktok joined and got banned pdq too.

  Great news honestly, I thought they were dumping all this on custom Blocklist but if they’re also moderating themselves it really makes me consider making an account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But isn’t the aim for their blocking to be so good they can serve Nazis and antifa on the same platform without them conflicting?

  Is that really much better than twitter the nazi bar?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dyk, Bobby?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No I agree, it’s mostly useful to fertilize the plants elsewhere in the garden.

  But it seems everyone here is thinking of lawns and I realise late my concept of a garden is utterly alien to what most people actually do. No lawns for me!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dyk, Bobby?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have my books handy, but while they take a lot back this varies by species and the fallen leaves can have a lot of N and P in some cases.

  Though I’ve always seen them shredded and used for making compost anyway rather than leaving them on the ground. Too easy to get rot that way. And you really want to spread them around the rest of the garden if you’ve planted trees that do drop N in the leaves