Solumbran
@Solumbran@lemmy.world
- Comment on Google's Gemini chatbot now has memory 1 day ago:
The one that tells people to go die?
- Comment on How far away are we from someone using AI to create an animated TV show by themselves. 5 days ago:
As far as we are from the death of art I guess.
- Comment on Ecosia and Qwant, two European search engines, join forces on an index to shrink reliance on Big Tech 1 week ago:
Qwant went to shit, this is not going to get better.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Ah, amazing, one of the worst parts of the franchise brought into a movie, what’s not to love
- Comment on Having $270 billion dollars and spending the bulk of your time trying to make more money is like weighing 900 pounds and thinking "ooh, I bet I can get to 1000". 3 weeks ago:
And a platform for you to complain about people who complain about capitalism
- Comment on what's stops one from scavenging the best parts of old phones and putting them into a new one? 3 weeks ago:
There were modular phone projects that were killed by google.
But it’s intentionally hard to do it otherwise, to make more money out of broken phones.
- Comment on Japanese firm demos tech that makes any object a capacitive touch surface — stuffed cat on display, works with wood, ceramic, and plasterboard, too 4 weeks ago:
Didn’t it exist since long ago?
- Comment on AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs 1 month ago:
People get milked as AI-training cattle and then get happy about it succeeding
- Comment on What is the best closing scene in the entire Star Trek Franchise, and why is it Kirk, Spock, and Bones singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"? 1 month ago:
Enterprise is the one with the pro slavery comments. And pro human trafficking too. And the weird sibling sex. Cogenitor episode, the moral of the story is “slavery can be a cultural thing and it’s wrong to oppose another culture for that”. And then the horrible episode with orion slaves that says that these sex slaves are not only enjoying it, but are the evil ones, with even the slaver saying that they are the ones in control. For the sibling sex it’s this creepy episode about eugenics and a relative of Soong (if I remember properly) where a bunch of kids who were raised together start fucking and fighting to decide who fucks who. Yeah, they are genetically not related, but in the end I don’t want to see sex scenes of teen siblings, sorry.
- Comment on What is the best closing scene in the entire Star Trek Franchise, and why is it Kirk, Spock, and Bones singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"? 1 month ago:
I don’t get how people can dislike these movies but then be fine with things like Discovery, Enterprise, or even worse, Picard.
At least this movie didn’t have weird sibling sex or pro-slavery comments or rape scenes.
- Comment on Project Analyzing Human Language Usage Shuts Down Because ‘Generative AI Has Polluted the Data’ 1 month ago:
Seems pretty mild and reasonable, to be honest.
- Comment on Do you prefer to buy games on Steam or GOG? 2 months ago:
The inability to remove files from your drive is quite a lot.
And DRM-free games on steam are not that many, most have at least something that closes the game if you don’t have steam running and I’m a bit sick of having to use goldberg every time I want to use a game without starting steam.
Of course GoG has a lot of (pretty bad) issues, but it’s like comparing a cold to a cancer, it’s absurd. Steam is actively destroying both game ownership (by allowing more and more DRM methods, now with games telling you to accept 5 different terms of use all indicating that you are heavily tracked while using the game for example) and game quality by encouraging the shittiest game, with a main page being completely unusable if you don’t filter out keywords such as nudity, nsfw, mmorpg, etc. GoG isn’t to that extent. Other things exist and if for example Itch had a better interface and search system it would unequivocally be the best game platform I am aware of as of now, sure. But trying to say that GoG and steam are the same (or that GoG is worse) is really not possible to do unless you actually don’t give a shit about games.
- Comment on Do you prefer to buy games on Steam or GOG? 2 months ago:
Hm, do I prefer renting games, or owning them for the same price…?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Let me guess, AI generated?
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 2 months ago:
Having fewer nazis and more “enlightened” centrists is considered far left nowadays
- Comment on SDCC: ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Season 3 Has A Lighter Una, More Romance, Genres, And Scotty 3 months ago:
Oh no
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
“Friend”
- Comment on Out of Context DnD - A place for all of your "oh I probably shouldn't repeat that in public" TTRPG quotes. 10 months ago:
More like “oh I should change my GM” quotes from the majority of the content
- Comment on Computer, make art 11 months ago:
How is it polished?
- Comment on Unison | A friendly, statically-typed, functional programming language from the future · Unison programming language 11 months ago:
helloWorld : '{IO, Exception} () helloWorld _ = printLine "Hello World"
I wouldn’t call it friendly.
- Comment on The Left Must Choose 11 months ago:
Bot account or just retarded?
- Comment on Soo, are the Maquis good or bad guys? 11 months ago:
Terrorists fan of torture, mass murder, crimes of war, etc. How is it ambiguous?
At the same type you qualified Dukat as respectable, so yeah.
- Comment on The horrible morals of a show supposed to teach them 1 year ago:
Strong.
- Comment on The horrible morals of a show supposed to teach them 1 year ago:
Having the knowledge and memories of Jadzia should be enough for her to know better, especially after a life of a few centuries. A 300 years old trill that actually acts like a 20 years old does nothing apart from eliminating the interest of trills. If they learn nothing from one life to the other, the symbiot is meaningless and so is the concept of trills.
- Comment on The horrible morals of a show supposed to teach them 1 year ago:
The main interest of science fiction is to explore the moral and social effects of current, past or hypothetical events and technological discoveries. It could be basically called “philosophy through futurology”, and sci-fi without morals is just that, futurology.
Star Trek from the very beginning was like that, with things as simple as explaining that peace, unification of humanity, democracy and elimination of poverty and starvation are all linked and necessary to have a good world.
I guess you’re one of those “stop making shows political” people? Sci-fi shows are by essence here to teach morals, and even if it is unintentional the concept of imagining a future where humanity grew implies applying morals to the show. It’s not avoidable.
- Comment on 1 year ago:
The legend that defends rapist pedophiles, sure. Get the fuck out.
- Comment on The horrible morals of a show supposed to teach them 1 year ago:
Sisko was shown as “morally dubious but the end justifies the means” as in the end no one even scolds him for basically destroying a planet, and Odo was shown as “poor lonely changeling who wants to find his origins” and everyone forgives him no matter how much shit he does, because “they are my people” or something.
- Comment on The horrible morals of a show supposed to teach them 1 year ago:
The show, shows them like that, with Bashir literally getting recruited after playing James Bond in the holodeck many times and that’s actually one of the arguments that Sloan uses to justify why he should join. Malcolm Reed, who “surprisingly” is also a british character feeling like he’s the coolest guy ever, who is too cool to even answer when someone asks if he likes the food, turns out to be from section 31 too. And in discovery, a certain emperor joining section 31 after showing a lot of “cool moves” and high-tech gadgets that are probably possible to find in some James Bond movie.
As for starfleet, if it is a military organisation under a democratic regime, then it has to follow the same laws and regulations. I am not aware of any military group that can blatantly ignore the law and face no repercussions, in any (pseudo) democratic government. And Discovery doesn’t portray it as illegal at all, explaining that it is at the center of almost all of starfleet’s decision (if I remember properly, an admiral explains that all decisions are first processed by a computer owned by S31, to get an automated suggestion of the decision to take). Such a central element cannot be simply hidden, it has to be allowed by the federation.
As for science fiction, I do not agree. Science fiction is about taking another time/place/context to put the focus on current problems, whether by exaggerating/worsening them, removing them, or isolating them. If you show earth in 300 years and nothing changed, it’s not science fiction, it’s just a fiction that does nothing except change a date. By not showing any difference in how illegal groups like that are handled, the show doesn’t say that it is bad, but instead implies that it is something that never changes. And it is said directly, that S31 existed for a very long time and that it is still here, which implies that it will never leave. Which in turn, encourages apathy on the subject, telling the viewers that it is useless to fight against such groups, they’re just a “constant of the universe”. It is probably not the intended message, but it is the result.
- Comment on The horrible morals of a show supposed to teach them 1 year ago:
Ezri was a weird thing, most of the toxicity was with Jadzia. But Ezri still chased Worf even though he was avoiding her, started things again then stopped everything for one of the most ridiculous reasons I’ve ever heard. On its own it might not be toxic, but since it sort of still is Dax, it adds on top of Jadzia’s crap.
- Comment on The horrible morals of a show supposed to teach them 1 year ago:
The difference is that the problems of the older shows were in other times where the concept of discrimination wasn’t as well defined as now.
The original show tried fighting against violence, racism, sexism, but lacked the objectivity to do so, yes, but it was at a time closer to nazis than it is to us (and let’s not kid ourselves, at a time where americans were much more friendly with fascists than leftists). And TNG was visibly trying to keep a moral aspect to the show, and while often failing they were also often succeeding in surprising ways, to the point of even questioning things like genders, 30 years before the question became a more public one. I have a lot to criticise around it, but the good overweights the bad; this is not the case with recent shows where it’s hard to find a single episode without a dubious concept or production choice.
When Discovery decides to show rape scenes, it is a conscious choice, someone had to say “go on, pretend to be raping him”, it’s not a small mistake. The only similar one in TNG is the early racist episode that even Frakes described as “a racist piece of shit”, but it was what, 40 years earlier? I don’t apply the same judgement on something produced now, where the problems of discrimination, objectification, rape culture, etc, are much more known and defined. It was never good, it was never excusable, but now it is not even acceptable.