FarceOfWill
@FarceOfWill@infosec.pub
- 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 days 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" 1 week 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 2 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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. 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 2 months ago:
Thanks for writing this up, sounds even worse than I’d have guessed from the title.
- Comment on Nom nom 2 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 2 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 2 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 3 months ago:
Got it. I’ll look out for Targaryen Vs Mitochondria in the next season to learn more
- Comment on Mitochondria 3 months ago:
What the hell is a “powerhouse” anyway?
- Comment on Germ Blaster 3 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] 3 months ago:
The playing time isn’t sustainable either
- Comment on European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X 3 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 3 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? 3 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? 3 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
- Comment on rollin' deep 3 months ago:
Ankles and knees are a complete con. I want my money back evolution.
- Comment on Tough news for protesting farmers: Labour doesn’t actually need their votes 4 months ago:
Pissing off farmers is more likely to gainn support in rural communities than lose it.
- Comment on How a post on Reddit accidentally kickstarted the revival of Angus Steakhouse 4 months ago:
The customers they have are getting absolutely rinsed
- Comment on On Mushrooms 4 months ago:
The fungus grows
- Comment on malicious backdoor found in widely used game mod by Low Level [YouTube] 4 months ago:
There were rumours about one for rimworld but I’m not sure if it was real or on steam.