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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people like my grandpa so against seeing the whole world and learning a different language?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s likely not that this attitude results from his politics, but that his politics result from the same views that result in this attitude. It’s a narrow world view, perpetuated by propaganda and the american civil religion (not that this is exclusive to the US, but it sure seems prevalent there).

  Ignore him best you can, and do what makes you happy. Not sure if there’s a way to convince him to help you save for it, but if he thinks that murica is the greatest country on earth, it seems unlikely he’d ever support you wanting to leave that - temporarily or permanently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just p2w with extra steps. Pay to get stronger, or pay someone to play for you to get stronger. When games are designed to either make you play a lot or pay to get stuff to make you stronger, some people will gladly pay to either feel powerful, or just skip enough of the grind that they can focus on what’s fun.

  I kind of get it, but at the point where I’s be spending hundreds or make someone play for me, I’d just look for a different game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A product of his environment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  HOA plus calling a priest to have the house blessed certainly point in that direction though. But I don’t think that would be legal everywhere even there. Isn’t much use to you though if the neighbour is the kind of psycho to shoot someone over this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It would need to have an athmosphere, so asteroids and most moons are out.

  Mars might be feasible at some point in the far future, but there’s still the lag problem of 3-20 minutes depending on time of year, so not very useful for anything user facing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I should’ve clarified, with “this” i mean more the general sentiment about regulation of these lootboxes that I’ve seen in other contexts as well - other than the general topic I don’t really have an opinion on this other than it seeming a bit ridicous to reimburse every customer in full.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is one core difference to most other lootboxes, and it’s that the skins you get from them have a tangible real world value. It is actually, in every way, resemblant of a slot machine. Put in money, receive an amount of money that is less than what you put in on average (though I guess it’s never 0).

  I’d have far more support for this if we didn’t have something matching this entirely for decades, completely legal for kids, with the only difference being that you get a physical item instead of something digital. Of course, I’m referring to trading cards. By all means regulate both, but regulating the digital version while not touching the physical one is insane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always acted assuming this to be possible, but it used to require either an unhinged individual or some other reason for a very dedicated investigation. The barrier being potentially that much lower is scary, particularly for anyone with a bit of internet fame that would rather stay anonymous

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're just scanning for the bear...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am nervous walking in the dark by myself. I simultaneously am relatively tall and will be perceived as male by anyone, so I also try to be wary of how I might make anyone else nervous.

  The actual experience that most women have of smaller aggressions even in safer contexts probably also plays a role. I’m probably nervous walking alone at night because of a combination of being physically quite weak in spite of my looks, having experienced bullying throughout my childhood so “unpleasant random encounters” is a concept engraved into my brain, and because I’m affected by reading/hearing about any kind of assault happening to people walking alone.

  Replace the bullying with “random men being assholes/threatening/worse” and most women have all 3 of those factors as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨my bf says sleeping with your balls out is the male equivalent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Women’s breasts are far more sensitive. Also the part where usually they’re in a bra all day probably matters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨she also happens to be best girl⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s because of the major webnovel website having exactly that issue of only the title to go off. Lots of LNs are then based on/republished from webnovels and I guess from there it started propagating a bit to other media. Though the VN mentioned in the title seems to be a case of an extended rerelease, the 2 years older original didn’t have the long subtitle. (vndb.org/v4857 nsfw text duh)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they want to be spammed with gdpr takedown requests sure…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If there is an image scan then yea it’ll be a problem, otherwise rhe server being 18+ is just a setting you have no reason to turn on, and as long as you don’t write nsfw in the channel name, discord won’t know something’s an nsfw channel either.

  In any case still really unlucky this happened right after you switched lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh for that use case this changes nothing, it’s a horrible change for all the usual reasons but it’s only implementing the stuff that was already the case in the UK for everyone. So age verification is needed for servers that set themselves as 18+ and for nsfw channels (and there might be some ai image scanning bs to determine if sent images are nsfw?), but for just talking to people you can supposedly still use it without age verification.

  Still, it’ll probably get worse eventually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ai generated logo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not even artistic ability, that’s just basic tool use.

  …but yea that still applies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on the project, I think. If you require hundreds of pieces to make the concept work (and such concepts have floated in my mind) even hiring an amateur would get pretty expensive. If it’s just small scope art (and for most games it will be) I agree, it can be relatively cheap. Though I’m still privileged in being able to afford that, some people couldn’t even really spare 200€ for a project that, statistically, is unlikely to make even half of that back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Great way to make sure your kid gets bullied and socially excluded, resulting in lifelong trauma.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would never judge anyone for using AI to fill in the parts they need to realize their project vision that they otherwise simpy couldn’t (without putting in a lot more effort into a thing they probably don’t really enjoy), but doing this is still a statement and pretty cool to do.

  Not that I’ll ever be motivated enough to actually finish a project, but I’ve thought about the art aspect of making a game, and eventually figured if I’d need to commission more than I can afford, I’d be morally fine with genAI if the game is either free or I use a large portion of profits (if there are any lol) to hire artists to gradually replace the art.

  Though I also refuse to give a single cent to all the companies profiting off this so any image gen I’ll ever do will be local on my pc (or for free on some service, I guess).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if this might not be exactly the correct approach to teach them, though. When there’s actually someone to tell them “sorry that AI answer is bullshit”, so they can learn how to use it as a ressource rather than an answer provider. Adults fail at it, but they also don’t have a teacher (and kids aren’t stupid, just inexperienced).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the year of the linux desktop⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there anything at all surprising about teenagers using what might be their only computer outside of their phone to access porn?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the year of the linux desktop⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s relative change and not percentage points, from quick mental math that seems to add up. Very weird choice, maybe trying to inflate the perceived increase in linux users. So it would be a change of a bit more than +1 percentage point for linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dynamic difficulty is the game adjusting the difficulty based on how well you’re doing, e.g. in the mentioned l4d (or maybe it was only l4d2 idk) if you have more health and healing, it will spawn more/harder enemies, and vice versa.

  It’s sometimes also used in other ways, e.g. boss fights get easier after failing them a bunch, which I really don’t like because I want to decide myself whether I want to make the game easier. Though roguelite progression systems like in hades in effect do a similar thing, but the player is actually aware of it (though this is why I don’t really like roguelites).

  Mainly I think whether this is a fine feature or shit will just depend on the ability to choose if you want the AI to beat the boss for you or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cheat codes and difficulty settings have existed for forever. Dynamic difficulty is common, and used to great success in beloved games like left 4 dead. Just a different option to get past the part you’re stuck in is really nothing bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People just eat the “nuclear waste isn’t a problem actually ignore that in some places we’re already seeing it wasn’t stored safely aftet all” propaganda from the nuclear lobby right up.

  And forget that just because nuclear plants are pretty damn safe when everything is done properly, people are notoriously great at not doing things properly, hence why 2 of the things have melted down so far (though i should say the same applies to hydro, except I only know of 1 disaster instead of 2, and the financial damage is less because water doesnt contaminate the ground for forever. Killed a lot of people though).

  I’ll take it over fossil fuels still because co2 is also a huge problem, and having nuclear waste at all is a bigger problem than adding slightly more while we transition to full renewables.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've always thought THIS was unfair⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting that it’s that low, the hotels I went to in japan were all above 10k jpy (~600€) for cleaning fee if you smoke in the room. It makes sense though with how persistent smoke smell can be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are a guy living with a woman you know THIS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not so fun fact: the microscopic bits of poop just spray to different places if you close the lid, but there’s just as many.

  Second not so fun fact: mythbusters tested this as well and found that there’s microscopic poop bits everywhere anyway, and they will get on everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are a guy living with a woman you know THIS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some old ones do. And yes the smell before you flush is as horrible as you’d expect. The combination of diarrhea and one of those toilets made me almost throw up once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Visual snow is when you see it with eyes open afaik. But yea, still not terribly abnormal on its own. Visual snow syndrome is a thing though, but it’s more than just seeing an abnormal amount of visual snow (the normal amount seems to be when looking at unicolored surfaces and in dim light).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Physical retailers have been taking 30% before steam was even a thing. And no, the physical storage does not mean they should be paid more, because steam provides hosting capabilities that also cost money.

  Epic takes less because they operate the store at a loss in a desperate attempt to gain market share.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Complaining about the 30% is insanity, that’s how retailers work, it’s not an unusual cut for an online store.

  I fail to see how steam is anti-consumer, or how it ever actively tried to monopolize anything.

  Selling broken, unfinishedband shovelware games was just them giving in to the demand to let everything on the store, after people (rightfully imo) hated greenlight.

  Fuck the gambling though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I forgot where but some time in the last 3 hours I read that the goal for steamOS is to be supported on all PCs, though it’s an ongoing effort.