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- Comment on Final Fantasy X programmer doesn’t get why devs want to replicate low-poly PS1 era games. “We worked so hard to avoid warping, but now they say it’s charming” - AUTOMATON WEST 2 days ago:
Props to this article for actually attempting to explain about how 3d graphics worked
- Comment on People were mad because they lost their AI boyfriend after GPT-4o deprecation 5 days ago:
Ah ok that does look like the same guy
- Comment on People were mad because they lost their AI boyfriend after GPT-4o deprecation 5 days ago:
I don’t think the guy in the first half of the video is one of the mods, doesn’t seem like they mention anything about his involvement and then at around 3:30 introduces a woman as one of the mods of that sub.
- Comment on Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads 5 days ago:
I honestly get it if people don’t want to lose touch, but one thing to do is at least asking people if they can contact you other ways, I’ve asked family members to send me emails instead of facebook messages and they were willing to, it’s obvious at this point to most people why someone would want to quit facebook.
- Comment on What is the maximum number of potatoes you could grow in your house or on property you own before it becomes a crime? 1 week ago:
Maybe you could look up instances of electricity usage based marijuana raids in your area, and if they list the amount of electricity used that triggered the warrant. Then pick out the smallest number.
- Comment on The 2025 version of "Please consider this environment before printing this email" should be "Please consider this environment before using A.I. to respond to this email" 1 week ago:
Doesn’t gmail already do this? I seem to remember there being ‘suggested response’ options before I turned it off in the settings that were definitely AI generated.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 1 week ago:
Supposedly there was a bill a few years ago to ban it that narrowly failed.
At this point maybe the best bet would be for blue states to enter the gerrymandering arms race on a conditional basis; do it as blatantly as it’s being done on the other side, with some explicit clause that it will end when fair representation is implemented nationwide.
- Comment on GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming" 1 week ago:
I mean yeah if you do that, but since it’s free and most people redeeming this giveaway aren’t actually interested in playing all of the games, they won’t have them downloaded.
- Comment on GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming" 1 week ago:
I think part of this is, if later there are takedowns of these games, many people will experience them being removed from their ownership.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 1 week ago:
The precedent setting supreme court ruling I’m thinking of is very recent, and there are other recent significant changes to law that could also be relevant. My guess is that the phone calls didn’t make the difference on their own, but rather prompted an internal conversation about legal liability given the new landscape and how they should be handling it to best avoid potential damages.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 1 week ago:
Or if there is any possible ambiguity in the law. I’m thinking it’s possible this has something to do with the recent weakening of constitutional protections for adult content in the US, where censorship by states of somewhat arbitrarily “obscene” content can be deemed illegal. The quote in the article by Valve seems to reference the concept of offensiveness in Mastercard’s policies:
Payment processors rejected this, and specifically cited Mastercard’s Rule 5.12.7 and risk to the Mastercard brand. See www.mastercard.us/content/…/mastercard-rules.pdf.
the rule including the text:
- The sale of a product or service, including an image, which is patently offensive and lacks serious artistic value (such as, by way of example and not limitation, images of nonconsensual sexual behavior, sexual exploitation of a minor, nonconsensual mutilation of a person or body part, and bestiality), or any other material that the Corporation deems unacceptable to sell in connection with a Mark.
So what I’m reading between the lines here is, there is now doubt among the lawyers of credit card companies or the lawyers of their middlemen that these games are for sure legal, and not in violation of obscenity laws that rely on hazy standards of offensiveness.
- Comment on How did you decide what you generally wanted to do with your life? 2 weeks ago:
I really hated highschool, so avoiding anything remotely like that has been my main guideline.
- Comment on Human civilization won't last forever; someday there will be a last movie ever made 2 weeks ago:
I bet they will keep making movies after we’re gone
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 2 weeks ago:
Kind of inevitable when automated moderation becomes the norm
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 2 weeks ago:
Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/Steam.
Hmmm
- Comment on Petition to tell MasterCard, Visa, and activist groups to stop censoring legal fictional content 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if the real reason credit card companies have been responsive to these groups is the potential for lawsuits that drag payment processors into them, which is a result of various shitty laws that have been passed to generally empower these sorts of regressive trolls to do so. If so petitions from the other side might not be as effective, because they can be sued for providing services to the wrong people but not so much for cutting off service.
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 2 weeks ago:
I don’t buy it, I think they’re going to betray those people too eventually
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 2 weeks ago:
Disappointing but not surprising that the chosen solution to increasing swaths of the population no longer being supported by our economy is concentration camps. I honestly don’t think it’s that far fetched that the endgame here is they literally kill us all while acting like it’s our own fault, and the America of the future is just robots and genetic clones of billionaires.
- Comment on well? 3 weeks ago:
What’s wrong about it? It seems like the obvious assumption that running into intelligent alien civilizations would be extremely dangerous.
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 3 weeks ago:
What are the criticisms? Genuinely curious, have no idea what problems anyone might have with it, other than some quotes from the Ubisoft exec trying to act like implementing user run servers is borderline impossible
- Comment on Types of Smart People 4 weeks ago:
Someone can lack education but be pretty mentally sharp in some cognitive tasks regardless
There is absolutely a difference between education and being smart.
These statements aren’t in disagreement
- Comment on "Quell your rage" must be lesson 1 in how to internet 4 weeks ago:
Never read the article—why bother when the title is all you need to fuel your righteous fury?
Unfortunately you can’t even really blame people when it’s all paywalled and you have to know the extra steps (or be rich and subscribe to 100 online newspapers) to be able to actually obtain the text.
- Comment on YSK about StopICE.net to send and receive alerts about ICE raids in your area 4 weeks ago:
Does this website have an onion mirror?
- Comment on This column does not express support for Palestine Action – here’s why 4 weeks ago:
This is why, as a legal principle, freedom of speech can’t be contingent on things like the definition of terrorism. Governments must be prohibited from shutting up protestors.
- Comment on YSK Texas Officials Feared Flood Risk to Youth Camps but Rejected Warning System 5 weeks ago:
Also we’re talking about a life-critical system here. What kind of testing and certification are offered by this software. What about the assembly of the hardware?
All irrelevant if the alternative is nothing at all.
- Comment on YSK Texas Officials Feared Flood Risk to Youth Camps but Rejected Warning System 5 weeks ago:
Even then I don’t see why something like this wouldn’t work. If not, you could spend 100x more money and still be nowhere close to a million.
- Comment on YSK Texas Officials Feared Flood Risk to Youth Camps but Rejected Warning System 5 weeks ago:
flood warning systems are often simple networks of rain gauges or stream gauges that are triggered when rain or floodwaters exceed a certain level.
The gauges can then be used to warn those at risk of flooding, whether by text message, which may not be effective in areas with spotty cellphone service; notifications broadcast on TV and radio; or sometimes through a series of sirens.
It doesn’t seem like a basic solution should even cost nearly that much.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 5 weeks ago:
Sure, but this is more addressed to the people who do not intend to go vegan, but are considering replacing the red meat in their diet with other meat for ethical reasons.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 5 weeks ago:
the conditions of meat chickens living in cages is the reason why bird flu spread so much
There is actually a bad epidemic in wild birds recently, and there is a big risk of it transferring from them to chicken flocks when they have access to the same space.
One cow with a low quality of life imo is less ethical than a bunch of chickens with a decent quality of life, even if we consider numbers.
I guess that makes sense, if you can make an animal’s life good overall, in that situation maybe it wouldn’t be a net negative to farm more of them. Though realistically I think it’s going to be very difficult to have any confidence you’re buying such meat at the grocery (if you can even afford the stuff claiming to be more ethical) and you’d probably have to raise the animals yourself for that.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 5 weeks ago:
but it’s a lot easier to have free range chickens than it is to have cows doing the same.
I don’t know about that, it’s pretty difficult to keep (what I would consider) genuinely free range chickens because of predators and various other factors, and the commercial definition of free range doesn’t necessarily guarantee a good quality of life. There’s also how meat chickens are mostly all a specific type of crossbreed that is perpetually hungry, prone to cannibalism and health problems, and not meant to live longer than a few months.
But even if you could say that the average chicken raised for meat is better off than the average cow raised for meat, there’s still how you need vastly more of them for the same amount of meat, so if their lives are still a net negative and you’re weighing it by sum of individual experiences, it could be considered worse from a utilitarian perspective because of the numbers.