captainlezbian
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- Comment on what are your thoughts on Bidirectional brain-computer interfaces ? 1 day ago:
So reading what was posted my concern is that medical startups that sell it properly aren’t prepared for several decades of supporting it.
I’m quite supportive of disability assisting technology and the ability to use machines to connect the brain to the body or prostheses are things I’m generally in favor of (when the disabled are consulted and listened to).
Now, Elon’s cyberpunk nightmare version of this where minds and computers are swapping thoughts directly? No, I’m not on board with that. Fortunately it doesn’t seem to be anywhere near the horizon.
- Comment on One US politician wants to add trackers to Nvidia's GPUs so they can be bricked if they go to China 4 days ago:
Or just develop their version.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Oh so we know punishment focused response doesn’t increase rehabilitation so the idea is punishment in a dystopian sci fi way?
We could like, try listening to the experts instead
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 5 days ago:
Those who don’t desire to think will attend university to not think. Those who desire to think will put off studying to discuss ideas with friends, but like they’ll keep doing that shit for life.
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 5 days ago:
I have a dogshit memory and paper exams were largely me extrapolating from fundamentals in the sciences or having to present clear lines of thinking and reasonable interpretations in the humanities
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 5 days ago:
I think you should look at what the luddites actually were and not just how they were portrayed by capital
- Comment on If a gay man and lesbian woman have sex, is that gay or straight? 1 week ago:
Yeah as a lesbian it sounds uncomfortable, awkward, and overall unpleasant
- Comment on I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. I just didn’t expect them to be such losers 1 week ago:
I agree completely and I’d like to add, when we call Trump a narcissist we should remember that what you described there is what narcissism is. It’s self hate manifesting as self aggrandizement.
- Comment on “Bionic Girl” Debuts New Wireless Hands That Even Work When Detached From the Main Prosthetic 1 week ago:
Those articles hit close to home as someone hard of hearing. So much of disability activism is trying to get able people to respect what is comfortable for us to do rather than what is comfortable for able bystanders to see us do.
Like assistive devices are awesome, but they exist for the people they are used by. We consistently want comfortable independent function without being othered for it. Some will prefer subtle devices, others will ask for a fully controllable rgb option on devices that could be hidden easily.
- Comment on Cities Skylines 2, Kerbal Space 2, Planet Coaster 2, Frostpunk 2... What Went Wrong? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I don’t want a sequel for sequel’s sake. If you don’t have an artistic or consumer perspective vision on why a sequel is needed or wanted you should be focusing on something that can be justified like that.
Story and exploration games have this built in. Why do players want a sequel? To have more story, to explore more, to return to this world once they’ve tired of the previous game. Rpgs are expensive, slow, and risky, but you basically never have to justify your next game.
The games mentioned here struggle there. KSP does what it does well. Any sequel comes with huge questions of why people would want another space program simulator, and it’s clear that corporate just assumed that people would buy it because they loved the first one.
And that’s not to say games that don’t feel like a sequel is warranted can’t benefit from one. Roguelikes are about as anti sequel as city builders and there are two roguelike sequels I love. Rogue legacy 2 was the devs reimagining the concept of the first game and making a higher budget (especially in gameplay) game that doesn’t just feel like a cash grab. And Hades 2 is similar in many ways, but different enough to feel warranted and clearly made uncynically. It clearly exists because the leads felt there was more to do with the premise that didn’t belong in the first game.
And there’s the thing, I think that ksp probably did have a sequel in it. Something like a space colony sim where you’re a space station having to build and manage ships and colonies, or something else may have been warranted or good. But it would’ve come from a creative lead wanting to do it rather than what clearly happened of a corporation purchasing the game and deciding that since they owned it they had to make a sequel to use the ip
- Comment on What would this list look like for your generation? 2 weeks ago:
I for one support the educational system refusing to address Oio. Every year people are subjected to delicious and sinful delicacies like Da*ton style pizza, Cincin*ati chili, and *uckeyes. Remember, only you can forget about oio
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s something like i7t12 ie /c/iiiiiiitttttttttttt but it could be just something that looks like that
- Comment on Liz Truss to launch her own ‘uncensorable’ social media platform 3 weeks ago:
Ok 49 days is impressive for a lettuce. It’s also impressively bad for a prime minister.
- Comment on Liz Truss to launch her own ‘uncensorable’ social media platform 3 weeks ago:
Lettuce see how that goes
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 3 weeks ago:
Guns and Republicans
- Comment on If all the money in the world can only make you look as good as elon musk or jeff bezos there is truly some things money can't buy. 3 weeks ago:
See the fact that you have that strength of character is why you don’t have to pull the stupid shit they all do.
I’ve been ugly, I’ve been hot. I’ve been unprincipled, I’ve been principled. I’ve been charmless, and I’ve been charming. Listen, I’m gonna keep aiming to be principled, charming, and hot in that order.
Being ugly sucks but you can easily get past it. Being off putting sucks, but people who know you know you. Being unprincipled seems great until your reputation is terrible and you have to live with yourself
- Comment on Zuckerberg’s 2012 email dubbed “smoking gun” at Meta monopoly trial 4 weeks ago:
"Attempted murder? What next? The Nobel prize in attempted physics?
- Comment on i can’t tell if this is edginess or mental illness? i hope she’s doing okay 4 weeks ago:
She has serious issues and you can’t save her. She can hurt you pretty badly on accident if you try
- Comment on Straight people, do you know what the Grindr notification sound is? 4 weeks ago:
Dude, lesbians don’t either. Ya cool. Though i imagine some straight women in poly relationships with bi men may recognize it
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3’s biggest mod team now has hundreds of devs working on its huge custom campaign in an impressively professional production 4 weeks ago:
I don’t either. But if they’re joining an intramural league, I oppose it. Because its a league defined by amateurism in which nobody’s really seeking to profit.
When we talk NCAA or Olympics then I think that as people are starting to profit off of it the athletes should profit. Though I ask why we’re endorsing the everyone profit model rather than the “college sports teams should more resemble high school ones and we create a minor league instead” model.
Lets go to a form of labor I’ve done: open mic nights. Comedians should be able to make money off their craft, but open mic nights shouldn’t pay because that creates conditions that ruin the point. It’s a space where anyone can go up, try their hand, and with minimal judgment perform. You being good is a nice surprise to the audience, unlike when you’re being paid where they have reason to expect it. It’s a different environment, one more focused on the human desire to create and perform and share it and on the development of skills to a level that they can be sold.
That’s what amateurism is about. It’s about keeping it low key, keeping the expectations reasonable, and keeping the vibe of “people are selling their stuff here” out. It’s the same reason that as a former nudes poster who has dated nudes sellers I’ve wanted to keep those communities separated.
So yeah, it kills the vibes and for us supporters of amateurism we know we’re losing out on highly skilled people’s contributions to our communities when we say we’d rather them not engage in commercial works in those realms. Thats OK.
And I’d like to add that I do purchase art from former amateurs when they move into professional realms. Tamsyn Muir is my favorite author and her writing drips of her fanfic history. But her fanfic is for her and under a name idk if shes even released, and I wouldn’t buy it if she were to sell it wholecloth, because that kills the vibes.
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3’s biggest mod team now has hundreds of devs working on its huge custom campaign in an impressively professional production 4 weeks ago:
Being paid to compete in professional sports vs being paid to compete in intramural sports. It’s the same industry is it not?
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3’s biggest mod team now has hundreds of devs working on its huge custom campaign in an impressively professional production 4 weeks ago:
Labor is labor, and copyleft is great. Hell copyright has massive issues. But also if youre going to participate in amateur labor where it would be illegal to profit, something wonderful and fulfilling for many people, then you don’t get mad when you don’t get paid. If you decide you’d like to make it something you get compensated for you can file the serial numbers off as has become a common practice for fanfic writers who achieve a certain level of popularity.
But also, the exchange of money changes the nature of labor. Labor done out of love and a desire to create and act and give to one’s community is deeply human and quite satisfying and it’s why amateur communities develop culture of amateurism. And it’s why many people who don’t want to do these things for a living choose to do them for a hobby
- Comment on Ex-PlayStation exec argues 'only the dog can hear' differences between consoles and gaming PCs: 'They're all quite similar' 4 weeks ago:
Temple only runs family friendly games. And the entire doom series, which has been deemed sufficiently holy
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3’s biggest mod team now has hundreds of devs working on its huge custom campaign in an impressively professional production 4 weeks ago:
Defending amateurism in amateur fields is reasonable. Especially when amateurism is a legal defense of the practice such as modding. Professional mods without official license are copyright violations.
This is similar to fanfic communities. The amateurism of the field gives it part of its charm and community, and it also makes it easier for people to come in, develop these skills, and move into creating and selling original works if they’d like to move in that direction.
- Comment on Should visitors to a country (tourist / visa-holders / people staying temporarily) have the right to criticize the government? When should an immigrant have the right to criticize the government? 5 weeks ago:
You say that but I was a student protestor a decade ago and it wasn’t this bad. And regardless just because our government is violating the law and our nation’s fundamental ideology (liberty and democracy) and has been for some time doesn’t mean we shouldn’t call them out on it
- Comment on Should visitors to a country (tourist / visa-holders / people staying temporarily) have the right to criticize the government? When should an immigrant have the right to criticize the government? 5 weeks ago:
That depends on if we consider Thomas Paine a founding father or a criminal speaker.
Free speech means you can speak freely
- Comment on I lost 6 to 10 years of my retirement last week! 5 weeks ago:
Then bury gold in eagleton
- Comment on The left went too far - time to move things right 5 weeks ago:
If society would see that as the goal of every company and to do so in a way that doesn’t discourage investment I suspect things might be better ovv
- Comment on Benefits of ADHD medication outweigh health risks, study finds 5 weeks ago:
These articles are less for you than to increase willingness to reduce barriers to diagnosis and prescription
- Comment on Genius 5 weeks ago:
“Tortitious sandwich with beef”