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- Comment on William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending 4 days ago:
What does the amount of episodes per season have to do with anything? The creator knows how many episodes they’ll have to deliver and that they need to make it compelling enough to get the S2 renewal. It doesn’t matter if you have 8 or 28 episodes to do that.
Additionally, the UK has been able to make very memorable TV shows for decades and they get 6 episodes total.And what type of excuse is “TNG was legit pretty wonky for the first 20-30 episodes”?? So because that show took a while to get its footing 89 years ago, shows today are also allowed to take a couple years before getting good? Are we just not supposed to expect improvements?
I wholeheartedly agree with the statement “if it takes two whole seasons for a show to “just get good” it was a shit show.”. We should have higher expectations.
- Comment on Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions 4 days ago:
There’s definitely a lot of nuance in this topic. I think discarding the whole thing and saying “And if your grasp of the language isn’t good enough, you can edit a page in your own language” is a bit naïve. English is the lingua franca of the world, so if you have knowledge about something that should be in Wikipedia but isn’t, adding or appending to a English page will reach the widest audience. Ideally you’d then do the same for your native language as well.
As long as there are humans at the beginning and end of the pipeline I at least hope that this won’t negatively affect the quality.
- Comment on Epic Games just laid off over 1,000 people 5 days ago:
This is a really unfair comparison imo. Second Life is all about expressing yourself. And you’re not buying Linden Labs approved corpo collaboration bullshit feat. DJ Music. You’re buying stuff someone else made, and they get paid for that. You build a character that is a digital representation of your inner self.
In Fortnite you buy a skin which is just the current hot flavor of the month. But also: It’s a action game. The goal is to shoot other people, meaning that you obviously do not spend any significant amount of time looking at yourself. And when you look at others, you do not admire their skin, you use your neurons for tracking them.
But also also: Every skin is the same. So when you come across Hatsune Miku, it will always be the same one. These skins aren’t a representation of you, they only signal that you like whatever media they were collaborating with at the time and had $20 lying around you didn’t need.Naww give me Second Life all day any day.
- Comment on Epic Games just laid off over 1,000 people 5 days ago:
Honestly the skin prices is what confuses me the most. I don’t get how a company can remain in business with these prices. Welp… guess they can’t?
And the worst part of it all is that even if Epic closed doors tomorrow, the damage is done. I’ve seen $20 skins in a bunch of games now. Paid games even. These absolute fucks normalized this shit, and now the poor devs get to reap the rewards of fucking consumers up the ass. - Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘I think we’ve achieved AGI’ 5 days ago:
>You think you’ve achieved AGI
>I know you haven’tWe are not the same
- Comment on Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions 5 days ago:
Eh I think this sounds ok. If you prompt an AI to improve your text, you submit that, and another human reviews that (and maybe asks you to make changes) it should be fine. I can see this giving more people the ability to make edits (e.g. non-native speakers)
- Comment on self-hosted KeePass database in the cloud, what are some good options? 5 days ago:
Well ideally having it on a VPS would give me on-the-go access to the most recent copy, which might not be as important if continuous background sync between my home PC and iOS really works with syncthing.
Having someone steal my keepass database file would be suboptimal, but not the end of the world. I don’t think (or at least I really hope) that current tech can’t brute-force keepass databases. - Comment on self-hosted KeePass database in the cloud, what are some good options? 5 days ago:
Thanks everyone. Syncthing does seem like the ideal option for me and what I’ll be going with.
I’d just like to hear opinions if I should also run syncthing on my VPS as well or just on my home PC?
- Submitted 5 days ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 19 comments
- Comment on "If you raise the effing hot dog, I will kill you. Figure it out." - Jim Sinega 2 weeks ago:
Omg they are. Makes me think either the artist isn’t good at drawing hands and decided to comp in 3D hands, or hand fetish.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
True and it’s a vicious cycle. 2 albums, 1 game, soundtracks for a handful of games, and a bunch of videos, all of which struggle to crack the 2 digits, making stuff is very demoralizing for me so I don’t make as much stuff as I’d like etc etc
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
No but I had a mastodon account and I have like 12 subscribers on YT so it checks out
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
You don’t get to 47 followers without making enemies
I don’t get to 47 followers at all
We are not the same
- Comment on [News] Dandadan Hits 1 Billion Milestone Ahead of Anime's Season 3 4 weeks ago:
People having watched it duh /s
- Comment on Simple analogy 4 weeks ago:
Some people really do be homochondriacs
- Comment on Which game have you been most patient for? 4 weeks ago:
Similar boat here. I own all RE games (cept Requiem) and I really wanna play Village but omg it’s hard to get started. Took me a long time to get started on RE7 too. And I still got RE4make too but I wanted to finish RE4 first but also dropped that one ugh (tho technically I finished it on release already I want a fresh perspective).
But like holy hell the series has like 4 different entry points and my ADHD brain can’t handle it. - Comment on We're just scanning for the bear... 5 weeks ago:
Yeah I’m a hard ground starer too. But def scanning periphery when not looking down. Especially at night when it’s most dangerous but I’ve always avoided going outside at night as much as possible.
- Comment on EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko 5 weeks ago:
- They said they were never gonna paywall parts of the map. 2. It’s not DLC. It’s a 24 hour lease. 3. The game is early access and all early access games paywalling features get slammed. Most do it thru DLC but I guess EA found a way to make more money than selling a one time purchase.
- Comment on Spray n Pray 5 weeks ago:
NOBODY woulda thunk we be doing this shit 6 years later so if it’s unmarked this is from the optimistic past where we thought this shit would blow over so no need to indicate the year
- Comment on What's wrong with my dishes? 5 weeks ago:
Fun fact, if I didn’t just jinx it, Mel Brooks will celebrate his 100th birthday this year.
- Comment on The Highguard Website Is Down As Players Brace For The Worst 5 weeks ago:
Some games need TPM2 and secure boot to ensure you don’t load cheats at boot time. It’s very invasive and doesn’t even protect games for more than a few days (Battlefield 6 cheats bypassed it during the beta phase)
- Comment on Meta could make social media posting immortal — and we should all cancel our Facebook accounts right now 5 weeks ago:
Don’t do it. I have an orphaned FB account too that I can’t log in to because they want video verification. So I just set the password to a keyboard smash and left it as is.
It’s kinda comforting to know that even if you had my email and pw you still couldn’t use my acc.
So it’s just stale data rotting on their servers that they can’t link to anything. And giving them more info just to delete my acc knowing they prolly aren’t gonna delete the verification data doesn’t make sense imo. - Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
Haven’t gotten far into it but the max0r viddy made me go back to Pirate Yakuza
- Comment on Death Stranding 2: On the Beach - PC Announce Trailer (March 19) 1 month ago:
Was really doubly excited to see it’s coming and coming soon. But nope, I won’t ever buy $80 games. With Nioh 3 I can somewhat understand it since it’s new, but this isn’t even a new game they just squeezing us.
I’m really pissed because the amount of $80 games is rising way too rapidly for my liking. - Comment on now aren't you glad we bought all that RAM? 1 month ago:
Plus, in my imagination Snoop can sing about how all he wants to do is smoke and fuck some hoes, which ChatGPT prolly won’t allow
- Comment on posting this has me conflicted 1 month ago:
Putin 67ing right in front of me would have me shit my pants too tbf. Can always blame Obamna or eepy Joe tho
- Comment on What is the definitive way to play certain games? 1 month ago:
OK well that just makes sense. Cosmetics are so dumb. $25 to look different? Do you know how many games I can buy with that?
- Comment on What is the definitive way to play certain games? 1 month ago:
The chosen one!
Keep your talent hidden lest everyone side-eye you like this - Comment on What is the definitive way to play certain games? 1 month ago:
For League of Legends the definitive way to play is to not start. I swear I do not know of any other game that has such addictive properties while being so absolutely fucking awful. You don’t stop playing this game, You take extended breaks.
Friends don’t let friends play League - Comment on Meta's latest subscription move is an attempt to offset its AI bets 1 month ago:
Unfortunately yes
