KiloGex
@KiloGex@lemmy.world
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 2 days ago:
There it is again. Have a day.
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 2 days ago:
Absolutely. My spouse is a teacher and I have many friends who are, too. I see it every day. The “good” teachers use technology to the benefit of themselves and the students, using it when appropriate and when best applicable. No doubt there are teachers and students out there who use it as a crutch. Like you said though, we need to be able to switch between analog and digital, figuring out when either is better suited.
I play RPGs. I do all of my characters and planning and stuff with pencil and paper. I do a lot of my GM work digitally. You need to be able to do both today, or else you’re not going to be prepared for adulthood.
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 2 days ago:
The opening of every comment you’ve made. Each one was sprinkled with belittling phrases. Saying I don’t understand nuance, or “spelling it out for me.” Perhaps if you didn’t go complete aggressor and wanted to participate in a discussion, you would realize our viewpoints aren’t that different. But that’s not how you wanted to handle this.
Perhaps that’s how you’ve been talked to, or always talked to people, or you’re just used to immature internet commenting, so you don’t realize how inappropriate or immature it is. In any case, I’m no longer going to continue this conversation. Have a good day.
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 3 days ago:
Again, I don’t disagree. That’s yet another reason why cutting technology out of the learning experience will only hinder development.
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 3 days ago:
You know what apparently you didn’t work on during school? Basic discussion techniques and the ability to be civil.
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 3 days ago:
Computers have nothing to do with it. It’s everything to do with curriculum requirements and the lack of explorative reading thanks to standardized testing. Other countries like China, Taiwan, and Finland have been able to adopt technology with no loss in reading literacy. It’s because they have focused, thought out integration and not just slapdash by whatever corporation gives them the best deal.
I totally agree though. It seems like right now either kids are stuck in front of a computer with no prep or any other supplemental education, or they’re completely unplugged and unprepared for interacting with technology outside of an iPhone.
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 3 days ago:
I don’t disagree. We need better computer literacy programs in school. But removing technology from learning 100% isn’t the alternative. Those parents are still probably going to stick an unregulated, fully accessible iPhone in their kids hands where they’re going on Instagram and tiktok with no media literacy skills. How is that any better?
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 3 days ago:
I don’t disagree at all. However, no kid can go tech free in school and be prepared for any sort of productive existence afterwards. Yes, that sucks. Yes, it also sucks that the majority of our experience is measured in productivity. But that’s capitalism. I wish it weren’t that way.
These parents certainly aren’t going to prepare to prepare their kids for a digital future. Heck, they’re probably falling for the same AI garbage their kids are going to fall victim to. Just like everything else, literacy needs to be part of the school curriculum.
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 3 days ago:
How did I miss the point? You said you didn’t use a computer in school until college, and then you talked about shoving mainstream bloatware into kids eyes. I don’t see how I missed those points. I’m also assuming when you went to college was a different point on time than it is right now. As you know, a lot has changed in the computer and online scene in the last 6 years, and exponentially moreso in the last 3.
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 3 days ago:
And for those people who don’t become engineers? What about those kids who don’t have access to a computer outside of the phone in their pocket? If we want to increase computer literacy, it has to be in schools because it’s definitely not going to be at home in the vast majority of cases.
We don’t need kids going analog unless they choose a career path in a computer-related field. We need schools to be teaching proper computer and media literacy to prepare them not only for a work future, but a media future filled with AI slop and grifters. Not teaching them these valuable skills is how we get kids in their 20s right now getting their news from a fish on tiktok.
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 3 days ago:
Every one of these parents uses technology in their work, I’m betting. They’re seeing their kids up to be under prepared for the future. These are probably the same parents who complain that they don’t teach cursive in schools anymore.
- Comment on "I am going to punch you" WHAT A BOSS! 5 days ago:
If that were my kid, he would not be in trouble for what he did.
- Comment on No Man's Sky Remnant Trailer 1 week ago:
And that’s great! Me personally, I enjoy that I have all of those things in a single game that has a really cool setting that I enjoy. I can hop from one thing to another to another, or intermingle them as much as I’d like. You prefer to have immeasurable depth in each of your areas, preferring specialized games instead of a more generalized yet vast experience.
That doesn’t mean NMS is a bad game. It just means it’s not your game, and that’s totally fine. I have zero interest in any of the games you mentioned, but I still see the appeal to them and accept that they’re probably great games in their own right.
- Comment on No Man's Sky Remnant Trailer 1 week ago:
There’s a disconnect there though. People have dedicated their time to this, and without at least a decent amount of depth it wouldn’t be able up keep their attention that long. If you’re not able to find the depth, or it’s just not your style of game, that’s totally fine. But clearly many people have.
Look at corvette building, as an example. If you just take it as surface level, you can bust out a ship and come up with a pretty okay design in an hour or 2. So that a few times and you’ve pretty much done everything you can. However, if you start messing around with glitch building and really diving into the excitement of recreating your favorite ships from sci-fi, or just seeing how far you can push things, you can spend dozens upon dozens of hours just building ships.
This same thing goes for base building, farm building, settlement development. And this is all on top of the story, expeditions, daily quests, etc. So yeah, it’s a sandbox game without one specific thing driving it, but that’s what a LOT of people really like about the game (including myself).
- Comment on No Man's Sky Remnant Trailer 1 week ago:
The important thing for me is that they didn’t just shrug and move on to something else. The devs take the issues and suggestions and work towards a better game each time. What other company has completely overhauled a game like this?
- Comment on No Man's Sky Remnant Trailer 1 week ago:
The great thing is that you don’t have to interact with it if you don’t want to. And I’m not sure you can call a game who people have played for over a thousand hours shallow.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 1 week ago:
I’m going to have to look into this more. I was under the assumption that you needed to host your own server from all of the info I’d read.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 1 week ago:
I would really like to, but I don’t have the ability to host my own server and set all of that up. So for now, centralized it is.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 1 week ago:
I’m going to Root. Already set up my server.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 1 week ago:
Downloaded Root, exported my server. Just waiting for all my friends to transition over.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Really wish Loops had an Android app.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents' 5 weeks ago:
I’m fine with all of these CEOs giving me even more reasons to not support AAA companies and give my money to indies.
- Comment on Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud 1 month ago:
My boss used to sell on Amazon, until one time they royally screwed him over using this method. He had a product where he was given exclusive online rights to sell. Somehow it disappeared in the Amazon warehouse, but at least they provided a refund. Less than a week later, the same product showed up back on Amazon under a first time seller.
- Comment on Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud 1 month ago:
Working for a small business, Amazon has absolutely allowed for the collapse of local retail. But let’s be real, people put local retail out of business. People chose convenience over community. They’d rather have it delivered to their door, or to their trunk, instead of actually taking the time to walk into a store that’s not a Target or Walmart.
- Comment on Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud 1 month ago:
Don’t order from Amazon. Easy fix.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 month ago:
Looks like. Board games are pretty awesome. Heck, you could become a game designer/developer!
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 month ago:
It’s not a bubble though. That’s like waiting for the internet bubble to pop back in the 90s. AI will be around from now on, just not as such an in your face way. It will eventually become ubiquitous, just like many other pieces of tech.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 month ago:
There were no artists who would have been paid to create placeholder textures. They would have used textures from open source sources, or from previously used textures.
I agree that AI should never replace the job a person could do, but in this instance the user of AI caused no loss of income.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 month ago:
The reason they didn’t disclose it as being used in the creation of the game is probably because no AI was used in the ultimate development. It’s an artist who uses AI to generate concepts and inspiration using AI in their artwork, even if everything in the end is hand crafted and doesn’t resemble any of the generated images?
One thing we need to take into account going forward too is that AI will inevitably be used for things like texture maps and environmental generation. Things that have been randomly generated with algorithms. In a year it’s going to be nearly impossible to say no game can have any AI used at all, unless you want the pool of potential to be incredibly small.