HawlSera
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- Comment on Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze 2 hours ago:
That seems to be what everyone involving with a political party or major corporation did… Make a big show of “We resisted him once, and we’ll do it again!” then go “Okay, everyone it’s time to line up and kiss Orange Man ass! Biden will you please get the ball rolling with some more of that high road crap?”
- Comment on Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze 2 hours ago:
To be fair, knowing Disney’s track record it probably would have been as embarrassing as the short-lived super hero duo of Snowflake and Safespace…
or the Transgender Unicorn Powerpuff Girls episode
or the “Quagmire’s Dad” episode of Family Guy
or the Women’s Prison episode of “Lost Girl”
…Look I don’t trust big name mainstream companies to touch trans voices with a 69 foot pole in a way that makes me give any reaction other than “Can you just call me a slur and be done with it?”
(Though Indie platforms are a lot better at this given things like Celeste being an entire game comparing the trans experience of coming and transitioning to climbing a mountain and Helluva Boss’ actually having Millie’s Sister be a likable character who is openly trans but not on a soapbox nor a punching line. Implying her existence is valid and not worth mocking OR apologizing for.)
To be even farier, choosing neutrality in times of oppression means you side with the oppressor.
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 2 hours ago:
I’d have done it just to conclude the story, but then agian, I like stories…
- Comment on Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze 7 hours ago:
Balls, they aint got em
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 3 days ago:
FNAF
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 4 days ago:
Always have an emergency tool in your car to break your windows in case this shit happens to you. Even if you’re in a car not designed by a god damn moron.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 4 days ago:
Shouldn’t an electric be programmed to open if it finds itself undergoing powerloss? Isn’t that like a very basic failsafe? One so basic it’s the plot to an indie horror game that wasn’t intended for children but found an audience there anyway?
- Comment on lab toys 1 week ago:
Our magical thinking is going to pay off when we finally discover magic’s real.
It’s gonna happen… eventually
After all, any science that is differentiable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
- Comment on Quantum 1 week ago:
I thought I knew what quantum was, but… then I realized it was time to stop listening to Spirit Science because if QAnon isn’t a good enough sign that this shit isn’t leading to enlightenment, nothing this,.
- Comment on Tiger Predators 1 week ago:
Adaptation is bullshit? Well that’s a new one…
- Comment on Tiger Predators 1 week ago:
Yes, they did though
- Comment on 🍃 🐑 1 week ago:
RIght? Was literally in the middle of calling it a Pokemon when I saw this.
- Comment on 🍃 🐑 1 week ago:
This is a god damn Pokemon.
- Comment on Mushrooms 1 week ago:
Popular myth
- Comment on Mushrooms 1 week ago:
Isn’t there a conspiracy theories that the shrooms are a hive mind secretly guiding humanity’s evolution into godhood?
- Comment on She-Ra Lives! 2 weeks ago:
Yeaaah… the whole “We were matriarchs!” myth…
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
There’s an area where blockchain makes sense!?!
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
The only time I’ve seen AI work well are for things like game development, mainly the upscaling of textures and filling in missing frames of older games so they can run at higher frames without being choppy
- Comment on Clever, clever 2 weeks ago:
At this point I’m convinced these detectors are looking for the usage of big words and high word counts, instead of actually looking for things like incorrect syntax, non-sequitur statements, suspiciously rapid topic changes, forgetting earlier parts of the paper to only reference things that happen in the previous sentence…
Too many of these “See, I knew you were cheating! This proves it!” Professors are pointing to “flowery language”, when that’s kind of the number one way to reach a word count requirement.
When it shouldn’t be that hard, I used to use ChatGPT to help edit stories I write (Fiction writer as a hobby), but then when I realized it kept pointing me to grammar mistakes that just didn’t exist, ones that it failed to elaborate on when pressed for details.
I then asked what exactly my story was about.
I was then given a massive essay that reeked of “I didn’t actually read this, but I’m going to string together random out of context terminology from your book like I’m a News Reporter from the 90’s pretending to know what this new anime fad is.” Some real “Cowboy Bepop at his computer” shit
The main point of conflict of the story wasn’t even mentioned. Just some nonsense about the cast “Learning about and exploring the Spirit World!” (The story was not about the afterlife at all, it was about a tribe that generations ago was cursed to only birth male children and how they worked with missionaries voluntarily due to requiring women from outside the tribe to “offer their services” in order to avoid extinction… It was a consensual thing for the record… This wasn’t mentioned in ChatGPT’s write up at all)
That’s when the illusion broke and I realized I wasn’t having MegaMan.EXE jack into my system to fight the baddies and save my story! I merely had an idiot who didn’t speak english as a writing partner, and I’ve never
I wish I hadn’t let that put me off writing more…
I was building to a bigger conflict where the tribe breaks the curse and gets their women back, they believe wives will just manifest from the ether… Instead the Fertility Goddess that cursed them was just going to reveal that their women were being born into male bodies, and just turn all who would have been born female to be given male bodies instead. So when the curse was broken half the tribe turned female creating a different kind of shock.
There was this set up that the main character was a warrior for the tribe who had a chauvinistic overly macho jackass for a rival… and the payoff was going to be that the lead character was going to be one of those “Women cursed with masculinity”, so when the curse is broken he becomes a woman and gets both courted by and bullied by the rival over it, who eventually learns that your close frenemy suddenly having a vagina is not a license to bang her, no matter what “TG Transformation Story Cliches” say about the matter…
Lot of
“Dahl’mrk, I swear if you replace my hut’s hunting idol with one of those fertility statuettes while I’m sleeping one more time, I’m going to shove both up your bumhole.”
Energy…
with a dab of
God I should really get back to it, I had only finished chapter one… and the mass gender-unbending doesn’t happen till chapter 3.
- Comment on Clever, clever 3 weeks ago:
I wish more teachers and academics would do this, because I"m seeing too many cases of “That one student I pegged as not so bright because my class is in the morning and they’re a night person, has just turned in competent work. They’ve gotta be using ChatGPT, time to report them for plagurism. So glad that we expell more cheaters than ever!” and similar stories.
Even heard of a guy who proved he wasn’t cheating, but was still reported anyway simply because the teacher didn’t want to look “foolish” for making the accusation in the first place.
- Comment on World of Warcraft adds $90 mount to in game store 3 weeks ago:
That’s a cool as fuck mount…
And it’s not worth what I could spend to get one AAA game and two decent quality Indie Games
- Comment on Meta has suspended several Threads and Instagram accounts that track the private jets of celebrities such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian, and Donald Trump 3 weeks ago:
Not baffling, infuriating, we’ve all gotten lazier over time and we want everything in one place.
Thing is, when we were on forums and IRC, we only had to play by the rules of the admins… Now we’re under the thumbs of corporations…
- Comment on Meta has suspended several Threads and Instagram accounts that track the private jets of celebrities such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian, and Donald Trump 3 weeks ago:
We must all collectively, start using Forums again.
“Well my Discord server is…”
I SAID FORUMS!
- Comment on Meta has suspended several Threads and Instagram accounts that track the private jets of celebrities such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian, and Donald Trump 3 weeks ago:
Or if you make a self-deprecating joke about being white and get banned for 3 months… Like I did once (Yet oddly the various reports I made about death threats against me on the basis of me being trans “Do not violate Facebook’s terms of service” according to the automated responses)
I actually stopped using facebook to protect my META Account since I… used to do VR before I got too lazy to do VR… and developers got too lazy to make games for VR…
- Comment on ... 3 weeks ago:
Ah SoleInvictus, he is an average [Insert Career Here], but he was a BRILLIANT Scientist!
Memes aside - (youtu.be/F_DFJ-OXTzQ)
This is such a common problem that it’s lead to the phrase “Science progresses at the march of funerals.”, what with all the people so attached to their pet theories they can’t humor anything that contradicts them…
- Comment on Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Team Disbanded After Critically Lauded Platformer Fails to Meet Expectations - Report 3 weeks ago:
At this point that’s the video game equivalent of “We only opened our movie in like 3 towns for two weekends despite not being an indie studio, and somehow that didn’t sell gangbusters, guess the movie is crap.”
- Comment on Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Team Disbanded After Critically Lauded Platformer Fails to Meet Expectations - Report 3 weeks ago:
Or they’re morons who are only familiar with the Games As Service model and completely forgot that’s not the only type of game they sell.
- Comment on Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Team Disbanded After Critically Lauded Platformer Fails to Meet Expectations - Report 3 weeks ago:
Don’t sequels actually cause new audiences to show up, who then go back and play the first game?
- Comment on Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Team Disbanded After Critically Lauded Platformer Fails to Meet Expectations - Report 3 weeks ago:
Didn’t even know this existed, sounded like another case of “We made a game and didn’t do any marketing for it, made absolutely no effort to let anyone know this even existed. I guess this means this genre and IP are worthless.”
- Comment on Cognitive Biases 3 weeks ago:
But then I can’t tell my friends all the ways Fox managed to fuck up Dragon Ball: Evolution.
I mean to be fair, I think everyone knew that was going to be shit going into it.
Although to be fair to Dragon Ball Evolution it did bring Toriyama out of retirement for Super and his Swan Song Daima. (No joke, he came out of retirement because the thought of the American movie being the “Last ever new Dragon Ball content” pissed him off that much., and he knew that after GT the studio wasn’t going to do anything without him…
Course now the brand is so big that he has a successor (Toyotaro) and there’s a wing of Toei that does nothing but Dragon Ball that allegedly has ideas for the next 20 years.