CileTheSane
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy 3 days ago:
You haven’t met a pre teen. You’re also ignoring the problem of false positives.
“It doesn’t matter how strict the punishment is, only criminals will be punished” only works if only criminals are punished. There’s plenty of stories of accounts being banned when no rules were broken.
- Comment on Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy 3 days ago:
Right, children are known for being well behaved and following the rules…
I remember as a child playing 2 player Tetris on the original Gameboy, which required a cable connecting the two devices. I figured out if I watched my opponent’s height indicator on my screen and saw it drop suddenly I could unplug the cable from my device and not get sent the extra lines. It was a cheat and an exploit that I stumbled upon because I was curious what would happen. That “I wonder what would happen” attitude can now apparently cause Nintendo to purposely brick the device.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 6 days ago:
patenting, copyrighting, or trademarking concepts or mechanics in video games shouldn’t be allowed at all
It’s not allowed at all in board games. There’s a known issue that someone could completly copy the mechanics of a board game, and as long as they don’t copy the art or the exact text of the rulebook there is no legal means to stop it.
Boardgamers are aware of this, and agree that it is better for development of future games than if someone could own the idea of “rolling a dice”, so if knockoffs do come around they tend to quickly get called out and not purchased.
I don’t know how videogames managed to get different rules.
- Comment on Satire, I think 2 weeks ago:
As far as I know, There Can Only Be One Pope.
- Comment on ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it 3 weeks ago:
If my tool sucks, I will tell it so
So thanking your tools: dangerous on a humanity level scale
Telling your tool it sucks: Normal behaviour
- Comment on ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it 3 weeks ago:
I open my door, the warning goes off, and I say “thank you car.” It’s better for me mental well being than saying “oh fuck.”
- Comment on ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it 3 weeks ago:
And you FEEEEEEEEL like it doesn’t matter. What’s the difference?
- Comment on ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it 3 weeks ago:
I thank my car when it alerts me that I left the lights on or my keys in the ignition. I’m not anthropomorphizing my car, I’m practicing appreciation for the benefits my tools provide.
- Comment on This ICE-snitching app is actually promoting a meme coin 4 weeks ago:
How’s it feel to live in the cyberpunk prequel?
- Comment on Elevated 4 weeks ago:
The FDA has rules for how much rodent shit or insect legs can be in your food.
And these rules are for asthetic reasons, not safety, because the processes used kills any bacteria on them already.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 5 weeks ago:
Men on the left are capable of empathy, and caring about people other than themselves. As such they are willing to do something for the benefit of their partner because they are capable of getting joy from their partner’s pleasure.
These men literally can’t comprehend why someone would care about making their partner happy if they don’t directly benefit from it.
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 1 month ago:
As someone who played Fallout 2 as a teen it’s not your age, the first 2 have a lot of little things that end up having a big effect, and they are difficult. They do not pull their punches and will happily smack you around.
I restarted Fallout 2 many times when I was first playing it trying to figure out a build I liked.
- Comment on Tesla is banned from Canada EV rebate program, gov freezes suspicous $43 million in rebates 1 month ago:
Trump calling this “Domestic Terrorism” and threatening Tariffs in response in 3… 2…
- Comment on IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts 1 month ago:
Fiscally Responsible George, who does 86400 fiscally responsibles a day, is an outlier and should not have been included in the data set.
- Comment on Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives. 1 month ago:
Did the LLMs tell you that? It’s not hard to look up on your own:
Data centers, in particular, are responsible for an estimated 2% of electricity use in the U.S., consuming up to 50 times more energy than an average commercial building, and that number is only trending up as increasingly popular large language models (LLMs) become connected to data centers and eat up huge amounts of data. Based on current datacenter investment trends,LLMs could emit the equivalent of five billion U.S. cross-country flights in one year.
…umich.edu/…/power-hungry-ai-researchers-evaluate…
Far more than straightforward search engines that have the exact same information and don’t make shit up half the time.
- Comment on Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives. 1 month ago:
Because we have better methods that are easier, cheaper, and less damaging to the environment. They are solving nothing and wasting a fuckton of resources to do so.
It’s like telling cavemen they don’t need fire because you can mount an expedition to the nearest valcanoe to cook food without the need for fuel then bring it back to them.
The best case scenario is the LLM tells you information that is already available on the internet, but 50% of the time it just makes shit up.
- Comment on Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives. 1 month ago:
Because it’s not AI, it’s LLMs, and all LLMs do is guess what word most likely comes next in a sentence. That’s why they are terrible at answering questions and do things like suggest adding glue to the cheese on your pizza because somewhere in the training data some idiot said that.
The training data for LLMs come from the internet, and the internet is full of idiots.
- Comment on Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options! 1 month ago:
I’m on the fence about which is better. Portal 2 is an improvement, but also has its flaws.
Part of the reason I would argue Portal 1 was better is because it was so unexpected. I went in expecting “interesting puzzle game” which it is, but I did not expect to also get “excellent humor with strange horror vibes and incredibly good personality.”
If someone didn’t know what a Glados was I think the first one is better. I also recognize that many people who have never played Portal are well aware of Glados.
- Comment on Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options! 1 month ago:
Ender Lilies
It’s a mechanically strong Metroidvania with branching paths, hidden areas, and exploration, but what I love about it is the atmosphere and the juxtapositions is uses.
It is a crumbling decaying kingdom full of monstrosities, and the main character is an innocent little girl in a pure white dress. Lily does not attack, some of the monsters she is able to purify to restore their mind at which point they help her. So when you attack a monster appears to do the attack animation, while lily cowers a bit behind it.
One thing I love is when you are in a boss fight and shit is going down hard, the sound track is extremely chill piano music. The soft and beautiful contrasts against the harshness of the situation is a very compelling way.
The sequel Ender Magnolias is good as well. Mechanically there are some improvements, but I don’t feel like the atmosphere or world building is as good. That may be because I played Lilies and was used to it. If your haven’t played either I’d suggest starting with Lilies, and if you like Magnolias is worth your time.
- Comment on Controversial question 2 months ago:
And 40% didn’t think it was important enough to even vote
- Comment on Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system. 2 months ago:
Okay, so start boycotting Amazon now and don’t stop.
- Comment on FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights 2 months ago:
Anything that brain of yours can think of can be found
- Comment on FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights 2 months ago:
I agree, fuck those headlights, but I don’t understand the point of a community for it.
Somewhere for me to go and make myself annoyed? - Comment on That explains a lot 2 months ago:
It’s only a black hole if it comes from the black region of space. Otherwise it’s just a sparkling dense mass.
- Comment on Let's talk...wait... No! Not like that! 2 months ago:
Another confession?
- Comment on Let's talk...wait... No! Not like that! 2 months ago:
I didn’t accuse you of anything
Do you know what the word “accuse” means? You accused me of 7 things in this comment alone.
- Comment on Let's talk...wait... No! Not like that! 2 months ago:
What have I done that’s “unhinged”? Asked you a simple question?
This is an “every accusation is a confession” situation isn’t it?
- Comment on Let's talk...wait... No! Not like that! 2 months ago:
I’m unhinged? You’re the one complaining that there was no “real convo” and now you get all upset and aggressive when I ask a simple follow-up question to your statement. I thought you “knew what you are afraid of” but here you are immediately trying to deflect.
Are you afraid of direct answers and making clear statements?
- Comment on Let's talk...wait... No! Not like that! 2 months ago:
I also know what I am afraid of
Okay, what specific chemicals are you afraid of?
- Comment on Let's talk...wait... No! Not like that! 2 months ago:
