drislands
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- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
FYI l: That’s the CEO of Arrowhead, who made the game.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 has received 100,000 negative reviews since announcing players must link Steam to a PSN account 1 week ago:
Happy I could help, sorry to hear bad news.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 has received 100,000 negative reviews since announcing players must link Steam to a PSN account 1 week ago:
The ‘official’ reason, as I recall reading it, is increasing security for players. Link to the announcement.
Personally I think that’s a load of hooey.
FWIW this won’t involve a new launcher, to my knowledge.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 2 weeks ago:
You already need a PSN account for cross play
Factually incorrect. I never linked up and have played with at least one person I knew was on PlayStation.
- Comment on #justgradschoolthings 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for sharing the source! I had a feeling it was The Reductress, I love their stuff.
- Comment on Siphonophorae are natures little horrors. 2 weeks ago:
What’s the bottom left one?
- Comment on Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App 2 weeks ago:
He’s my go-to for tech reviews. He’ll happily gush about what he likes, but he isn’t shy about what isn’t good.
- Comment on How RCS on iPhone Will Make Texting Better for Everyone 2 weeks ago:
Okay.
- Comment on How RCS on iPhone Will Make Texting Better for Everyone 2 weeks ago:
A variety of small but useful features. Typing indicator, reactions, read receipts, and larger media limits. I’m sure there’s more, that’s all I can think of off the top of my head.
- Comment on Door hinge pin keeps coming up. How to solve? 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for trying, SatansMaggotyCumFart.
- Comment on Why I ditched Gmail for Proton Mail 3 weeks ago:
…what? How is that related at all?
- Comment on Why I ditched Gmail for Proton Mail 3 weeks ago:
Honest question: how many email-havers do you think know what GPG is?
- Comment on Tesla stops cybertruck deliveries—accelerator pedal may be to blame 4 weeks ago:
My partner suggested “Tesla Tittyflips” as a modern replacement to “punch buggy”. That’s been a fun game on long drives.
- Comment on How disheartening for Snowden to do the right thing and be stranded in Russia. 5 weeks ago:
I think I understand it. It makes sense if his goals were to 1) release this information and 2) survive afterwards. Doing #1 was relatively easy, as he had the access to accomplish it.
But to then stay alive and (relatively) free required being beyond the reach of the US government. Being in the States is out of the question, and by extension so is being in any country with an extradition treaty with the US. I don’t know what all the options were, but ultimately he chose Russia as the place he would live.
If you assume his goal is freedom for mankind in general, it does seem hypocritical to go running to an authoritarian country for safety. But it seems pretty clear he wasn’t motivated by a vague principle, but rather wanting to blow the whistle on a specific injustice he saw.
- Comment on "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and ov 1 month ago:
That’s Cory Doctorow, my guy. He’s not making an ad.
- Comment on El Salvador Will Keep Buying 1 Bitcoin Daily Until BTC 'Becomes Unaffordable' With Fiat Currencies, Says President Bukele – Featured Bitcoin News 1 month ago:
Relatable. In our rush to say the clever thing we’re thinking, we don’t stop to double check that we read it correctly in the first place. I’ve been guilty of that too many times…
- Comment on VR Headsets Are Approaching the Eye’s Resolution Limits 1 month ago:
No worries mate. I appreciate the correction regardless.
- Comment on VR Headsets Are Approaching the Eye’s Resolution Limits 1 month ago:
Y’know what, that’s a fair point. Though I’m not the original commenter from the top, heh.
- Comment on VR Headsets Are Approaching the Eye’s Resolution Limits 1 month ago:
…because they frequently do? Glaring errors are like, the main thing LLMs produce besides hype.
- Comment on AAAA!!!!!!!! 2 months ago:
It’s a joke about how the head of Ubisoft referred to the game Skull And Bones as a “quadruple-A” game. The highest-budget games are often classified as “triple-A”, though people also tend to use the term as a way to indicate size or quality. By calling S&B an AAAA game he was signaling that it would be in a class of its own in terms of quality, most likely.
The game itself has been pretty universally considered “meh” at best, so this meme is making fun of the original claim.
I hope this explanation helps!
- Comment on How A Small Video Game Narrative Studio Wound Up At The Heart Of A Massive, Anti-Woke Conspiracy Theory - Aftermath 2 months ago:
Awesome writeup. I had heard that some very special individuals were trying to paint this company as “pro-woke”, and therefore any game they touched should be avoided – and that’s obviously going to be nonsense, but it’s good to see the full story.
- Comment on Desperate TikTok lobbying effort backfires on Capitol Hill 2 months ago:
Where are you seeing that? Searching the article isn’t showing that text.
- Comment on Study featuring AI-generated giant rat penis retracted entirely, journal apologizes 2 months ago:
I brought it up purely as speculation, as one possible explanation for why the process was not properly followed. I don’t have any experience with publishing companies, whether for science journals or otherwise.
- Comment on Study featuring AI-generated giant rat penis retracted entirely, journal apologizes 2 months ago:
A few things came together for me here.
The paper had two reviewers, one in India and one based in the U.S.
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“…a reviewer of the paper had raised concerns about the AI-generated images that were ignored.”
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…the U.S.-based reviewer who said that they evaluated the study based solely on its scientific merits and that it was up to Frontiers whether or not to publish the AI-generated images…
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"The authors failed to respond to these requests. We are investigating how our processes failed to act on the lack of author compliance… "
They don’t outright say it in the article, but it looks like the reviewer based in India was the one who actually raised concerns about the garbage images. The authors were supposed to respond, but didn’t, and the journal published anyway.
I will readily admit that this is just my own conclusion here, but – I wonder if there was an element of racism that went into ignoring the reviewer’s concerns?
- Comment on India may block Proton Mail 2 months ago:
???
- Comment on Altered Carbon 2 months ago:
Optimistic of you to think people wouldn’t use it as an excuse to be even MORE discriminatory. There would be Ultra-Whites who could claim they were never non-white in the past X years, with seniority by how far back they can trace their reincarnated whiteness. And of course there would be new religions claiming that if you follow them you’ll be reincarnated into the race/environment of your choice.
- Comment on Cisco to lay off more than 4,000 employees to focus on artificial intelligence 2 months ago:
I’m in agreement that this stuff is painfully useless.
But “it couldn’t even find the meeting” sounds more like a configuration problem and less like a comment on the product’s quality.
- Comment on Audacity adds AI audio editing capabilities thanks to free Intel OpenVINO plugins 2 months ago:
What? You must be joking. Really? The entire thing was about opt-in error reporting?
… seriously, that can’t be it, can it?
- Comment on Here's a collection of playable through web browser games. 2 months ago:
This!! flashpointarchive.org
- Comment on The power of Democracy 2 months ago:
Be warned: www.pcgamesn.com/…/anti-cheat-steam-deck