gcheliotis
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- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 1 week ago:
Very well said. I wish I could articulate this as well as you have here.
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 1 week ago:
FYI, the manosphere is replete with non-white males, and that is not even including the inherent male chauvinism in other cultures. I’m sorry but the critique on whiteness is a little lazy intellectually.
- Comment on F.D.A. to Use A.I. in Drug Approvals to ‘Radically Increase Efficiency’ 2 weeks ago:
I can absolutely see that. And I don’t think it’s AI-specific, it’s got to do with relegating responsibility to a machine. Of course AI in the guise of LLMs can make things worse with its low interpretability, where it might be even harder to trace anything back to an executive or clerical decision.
- Comment on F.D.A. to Use A.I. in Drug Approvals to ‘Radically Increase Efficiency’ 2 weeks ago:
Or maybe that is part of the allure of automation: the eschewing of human responsibility, such that any bias in decision making appears benign (the computer deemed it so, no one’s at fault) and any errors - if at all recognized as such - become simply a matter of bug-fixing or model fine-tuning. The more inscrutable the model the better in that sense. The computer becomes an oracle and no one’s to blame for its divinations.
- Comment on 1st time Demon's Souls Player 1 month ago:
First souls game I played was demons souls and nothing came close to that since. You never forget your first etc. Maybe bloodborne. I know most people loved the dark souls series but to me it always felt like a rehash of much of the same that was truly novel and captivating in demons souls. Of course happy that many more people got to experience souls games with the move away from the Sony IP. Yet still for me the best souls games are those that were made exclusively for PlayStation, for better or worse.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2 1 month ago:
I struggle to connect with any of those characters. I did like Niko Bellic, he was a “character”. Maybe it was his accent, his immigrant’s take on things, don’t remember, it was a while ago.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 hits 500k sales in one day 2 months ago:
Review scores for this are shockingly high for a new RPG entry from a small team. Seems very Persona/FF-like, which isn’t exactly my kind of game (I tend to find most JRPGs a little stale in the game design department), but I think I will give this one a try. I’d rather support a new effort in any case than play yet another Bethesda remaster. Hope it will continue to sell well and get the attention it seemingly deserves.
- Comment on Man, I really slept on Days Gone (mini review) 2 months ago:
I wish they made a sequel already. Also so rare to have motorbike riding specifically as a mechanic woven into the protagonist’s story and not just an alternative to driving a car.
- Comment on Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains 2 months ago:
Such a shame that Coppola’s movie was bad. He was onto something there.
- Comment on The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst 2 months ago:
I remember liking GTA4 but getting burned out on its archaic in my view mission design.
- Comment on Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains 2 months ago:
Zuck puts out this weird “pick me” or “me too” energy lately, trying to fashion himself as one compatible with Trump’s world. His interest in Rome may precede Trump’s ascension to power, but his coming out is not a coincidence in my view. And yes, a fascination with Rome started as so many other things as an “innocent” meme and became a fascist dog-whistle.
- Comment on Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains 2 months ago:
Thanks for the correction, it’s Augustus Cesar. Still, what an odd connection. Good article btw.
- Comment on The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst 2 months ago:
I still haven’t played GTA5. Does it hold up (single-player) all those years later?
- Comment on Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains 2 months ago:
Zuckerberg wears t-shirts comparing himself to Julius Caesar? Why is that every time I think I’m up-to-date on the latest weirdness there’s more of it?
- Comment on Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta 4 months ago:
Huh had no idea. I still wonder how accurate this is though, like whether it can be used forensically as the word “fingerprint” suggests to identify a specific person/private machine. It’s kind of fascinating as a topic. I would think that given that most people use similar setups, similar hardware and software, similar routers and settings, it would be impossible, but perhaps with enough details of a particular setup, a specific machine and user can be identified with decent accuracy.
- Comment on Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta 4 months ago:
Usually fingerprint plays a supporting role for example when you do those “click here” captchas that’s actually just giving the browser time to fingerprint you and evaluate your trust to decide whether to give you a full captcha or let you through. So fingerprint is always there in tbe background these days tho mostly for security and ad tracking.
I’ve been wondering about those “click here” captchas and their purpose 🤔
- Comment on Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta 4 months ago:
So… how effective is it? The fingerprinting. I’m guessing there are studies? Also don’t know whether there’s been legal precedent, ie whether fingerprinting has been recognized as valid means of user identification in a court case.
- Comment on As Kingdom Come Deliverance II releases, what are your memories of the first title? 4 months ago:
Nice storytelling, but clunky combat that I got burned out on fast :(
- Comment on What games did you complete in 2024? 6 months ago:
Oh wow veilguard got so much flak that it’s refreshing to hear someone so positive on it.
- Comment on Many dictators were democratically elected 7 months ago:
I too read Wikipedia in the shower
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 released in December 2020. Almost 4 years later, what is your opinion on it? 7 months ago:
Still waiting for the ultimate all-in edition of this one
- Comment on PS5's 'Resume Activity' Feature Apparently Gone for Good - PlayStation LifeStyle 8 months ago:
Never used this. Never cared for it 🤷🏻♂️
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 8 months ago:
Well with an average in the eighties on metacritic one would assume it’s a very decent game. But user reviews tend to be a lot harsher indeed.
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 8 months ago:
Thanks for the review. Disappointing to be sure. I was hoping to play it at some point and that it wouldn’t suck as much as people say it does.
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 8 months ago:
Sometimes I wonder whether Starfield truly deserves all the bad publicity or whether people are also still upset because it became an Xbox exclusive and that is clouding their judgement. I know it does affect me for one. I got a ps5 for gaming and I’m automatically much less interested in anything that isn’t on the platform. And I was of course very disappointed when Microsoft outright bought all these huge IPs and made them exclusive to Xbox.
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 8 months ago:
I’m waiting for the ultimate edition that will include everything here