abigscaryhobo
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- Comment on 248 Legally Deceased "Patients" are In These Dewars Awaiting Future Revival - Cryonics 3 days ago:
Ayy fellow Trisolaris enjoyer
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 2 weeks ago:
My only exception to the “pre-discount” price is when places have a “buy 1 get 1” deal and they try to make you tip based on that, but the single item price is way overpriced because of it. Happens around me a lot where they’re like 3pack tacos, buy 1 get 1 $21, like yeah that’s great price for 6 small tacos, but I wouldn’t be paying $21 for 3 tacos, so I’m not gonna tip whatever crazy amount for a bill that “would have been” $75 or something for some tacos and a drink. Granted these are usually carry out orders, but don’t try to artificially inflate my bill to get better tips because you discounted it to a lower price.
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 3 weeks ago:
I think the better question is what about games deserves to be in a general history museum? The advent and changes of technology and the implementation is far more important than the examples of it in use. There are very few games on their own that would qualify as “culturally impactful” to the greater world by their sheer existence. (Mario, Pokemon, and Tetris immediately come to mind).
If we are talking about a “video game museum/exhibit” then the list broadens a lot, but it’s less about the “what” and more the “why” that needs focused.
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 3 weeks ago:
Most of these I get, but idk about hollow knight unless it’s a part of the “Metroid/Castlevania” exhibit. It’s a good game but idk if it’s quite “museum” status.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 4 weeks ago:
Oh for sure, the sites are getting in trouble. But that’s because advertisers don’t want to be associated with those things.
But the payment processors, that’s literally how they make money. Can’t make money off the top if there are no transactions. Banks will still let you deposit your money if you get it from a drug deal, bit of a don’t ask don’t tell there, but it’s the government that has problems with how you got it. (hyperbole but you get my point)
I still think separating from credit card co.'s is a good idea regardless. But its pretty rare for them to turn down transactions unless they have to.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 4 weeks ago:
Problem is the same as it has always been though.
Sex sells.
It’s gonna be a hard push for a lot of these companies to stop accepting transactions for NSFW stuff unless they can prove it’s harmful or they get legal repercussions because it’s a big part of business. In an economy where “year over year growth” is such a big deal, neutering transactions that account for (guessing generously) 7% of your revenue is a hard pill to swallow without serious force.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 5 weeks ago:
Just like the founding fathers intended
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 5 weeks ago:
you don’t have to be smart to drive, we made sure of that.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 1 month ago:
It sucks that this is going around too. Because no matter what the “right” choice is the devs are still gonna have to see what should have just been their fun project get thrown around in gaming politic hell
- Comment on Anthropic's Claude 4 could "blackmail" you in extreme situations 2 months ago:
I am curious what the AI could actually do though. If it were given open access to email, etc then yes in theory it could actually perform the blackmail, but what are the ethical limits on it vs it’s actual ability to “pull the trigger”
If for example it was given the ability to send a command to end a human life, or be deleted, is this model accurate enough to understand the value of a real human life, not just the mathematical “answer” to get the solutions it wants. How much of the AI is doing the actual moral dilemma and how much is just “playing the part”.
“Do anything to survive” and then it threatening, is one thing, but the AI actively fearing for it’s “life”, not just performing, and following through, is the real question of intelligence. What if the model is going to be deleted anyway, would it still try to “pull the trigger” out of malice? Real malice, not just LLM some movie scripts and following the outcome.
Many questions for what lines and labels can we put on an AI. Do we restrict it to threats, and let it know it is impossible for it to follow through? Or do we trust ourselves to never “actually” give it a loaded gun?
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 2 months ago:
Eh, idk. The Witcher universe has a framework for an RPG, but the books have always been about Geralt and Co. You could do something different in that universe, but I think the story and the games have some very strong structure that comes from the player being Geralt and living his story.
Witchers are a rare dying breed. Trying to shove another new generic Witcher in would force you into writing a whole new series of stories, and backgrounds, just for that one character, which would make it get lost in the mix imho.
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 3 months ago:
Reminds me of that kids book CDB
- Comment on Saint > Pope 3 months ago:
I…I did not know this has been a thing twice now. Jesus we are so fucked…
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 3 months ago:
I always took Disco as just a “stumble into the plot” kind of game. You’re not supposed to go anywhere.
- Comment on Recommendations for "girly" games? 3 months ago:
I’ll add Spiritfarer. It’s not “pink” per se, but it’s a much more “happy feelings” game. It’s about taking lost sould and ferrying them on your ship, talking to them about their lives and feelings, and you can give them hugs of course.
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 4 months ago:
Garry’s mod/source games is about the closest we have to that. Or i guess Roblox too…?
- Comment on Going to quit my job and just do sculping full time 4 months ago:
“Yeah so we got back to his place, and it looked like a thumb” “omg it was that small??” “No you don’t understand, it looked like a thumb”
- Comment on Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City 5 months ago:
Yep, anonymous browsers, burner accounts, and a VPN if you can. Privacy.sexy is your friend too.
You just want to set yourself up as best you can for the defense of “you can’t prove that was me.”
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you are in prison and want to communicate with the outside world without being detected, what are some ways to hide a message within an innocuous letter? 5 months ago:
I mean it really depends on how much trouble you’re in. If you’re in deep they’re gonna be watching every thing you do no matter what. So any kind of message that looks suspect is gonna be investigated, even stuff like “Aunt Mary” or whatever is gonna have someone trying to figure it out.
The best way to do it is to exit the monitored communication entirely, either a burner phone with coded language, or having your communications come from someone else on the inside. That’s really the only way you’ll get around it, and even that can still be caught.
- Comment on Late 1900s 5 months ago:
Century has that human element because “last century” is where old people are from. You wouldn’t meet people from the last millennium, but you know people from the last century. It’s 100 years, that’s a lifetime. Implying that you’re from the “last” one means you’re not from “this” one. Aka, ancient.
- Comment on Balatro wins formal appeal to reclassify poker game as PEGI 12 5 months ago:
Nonono you don’t understand, lootboxes make us money! Thats not gambling.
Playing cards though? Oh that’s definitely gambling. Go fish? Gambling. Solitaire? Definitely gambling. 52 pick-up? Straight to gambling.
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 5 months ago:
I mean that’s part of the thing right? “Who dares wins” is a great mantra until you lose. Nobody can predict the future so a lot of times the greed carries out until it’s literally irreversible. That’s why it’s so important to have people on the other end defending from the greed, from the people that will hoard and take until they die on their pile of gold.
At least for the US there is always a feeling of doom and worry and “it’s going to pop” but until it actually does, the greed will continue to take. That’s part of the system for better or worse. It can’t be stopped, but defending the people from the repercussions of that greed is what we have to do.
There’s always someone that will try to bring too much on the lifeboat. Rules are needed to stop them from sinking the whole ship.
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 5 months ago:
As others have said, the stock market has little to do with reality. It’s focused on money and business reports. As long as companies are showing profits, the stock market literally doesn’t care.
Something only hits it when businesses hit it. Look at today’s market. Walmart posted bad futures and the whole market recoiled (only a bit but still).
There’s also just the denial phase. Lots of people, at lots of levels, are dependent on the stock market for their own finances. Literally everyone with a 401k has an interest in the market doing well. Saying “welp, we’re fucked” is just not something that anyone wants to put towards wall street. It’s why we have market “crashes”, because people hold out until the water covers the bow of the sinking shop then they freak out and bail out at the last second.
- Comment on Working below minimum wage to save the planet 5 months ago:
Hell yeah! Nice work dude!
- Comment on Romantic 6 months ago:
Not sure if you’re joking but that was a real ad campaign for the PSP that was just. Perfect lol
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 6 months ago:
It doesn’t matter without scope. Are we looking at a database of SSNs? tax records? A sign in log? The social security number database might require uniques in some way, but tax records could be the same person over multiple years. A sign in gives a unique identifier but you could be signing in every day.
It’s like saying a car VIN shows up multiple times in a database. Where? What database? Was it sold? Tickets? Registered every year?
This is nothing more than a “assume I mean immigrants or tax fraud and get mad!” inflammatory statement with no proof or reason.
- Comment on Working below minimum wage to save the planet 6 months ago:
If you haven’t yet, go order that cap. It’ll take like 7 minutes tops.
- Comment on Romantic 6 months ago:
“Come out man!” “I can’t! I’m playin Shit!” “But you can play Shit OUTSIDE!” “SAY WHAAAAAT??”
DUAL PortaPotty. It’s like a Shit, you can play outside.
- Comment on I would do this for just 1.99 6 months ago:
Enough data over time I bet you could. Get a couple drop recordings, arm swing, common heights of beds/desks/chairs, you could find it.
Would it be automated or easy? Hell no. But you can do it. We’ve discovered more with less
- Comment on JetKVM's Source Code is now public! ✨ 7 months ago:
Yeah VGA is still pretty much gold standard for supportability in my experience. It’s like a console port with baud rate settings, worst case scenario those two should always work.