TheObviousSolution
@TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee
- Comment on wtf 3 days ago:
They are running from existential dread.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 4 days ago:
At least there’s no way they won’t turn AI against each other and extinction themselves in the process.
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 1 week ago:
Jokes on you, YouTube, my Chinese phone rolls their ads over yours!
- Comment on ...📉 2 weeks ago:
Good times create weak men who think those good times came out of nothing and want an easy excuse of why they are being deprived of something they thing they are naturally entitled to.
- Comment on An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house" 2 weeks ago:
What’s wrong is that officers of the law are allowed to lie like that, yet still want to be respected.
- Comment on TIL a single 25kg bag of flour now costs $1000 in Gaza. 2 weeks ago:
That’s no what it costs, that’s a portion of the survival fee Israel has imposed on Gaza’s Palestinians now.
- Comment on ICE thugs pounced on a man right there in the courthouse, mere minutes after his immigration case was dismissed 2 weeks ago:
It’s also as a consequence of states that no longer share the same values. While I’m sure NY has its fair share of assholes working under ICE, how much do you want to bet most of that ICE staff has been brought from places like Texas? They are literally targeting states like NY and LA with military vehicles.
When will the US realize that people no longer hold the same values across state borders and that the only who will win out are the ones who exploit it? This isn’t because of the people but because of control of the media and culture, like how Sinclair has been buying up local news stations selectively.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 2 weeks ago:
No time like the present to begin creating a European alternative, given the geopolitics of the times.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 2 weeks ago:
No offense, but have you ever read EULAs? Even Windows EULA has a lot of “cut off a finger” provisions. It’s invasive, and people are right to complain, but this is nothing new in the world of gaming, and to the scale of affecting over 50% of the score of a game for a provision that is often included in other games they have no problem with is what’s revealing. People might cry Linux, but when their job requires them to use Windows and abide by that EULA, most will crumble. Pitchford has given his explanation, that it is a matter of the 2K EULA Gearbox has to adopt.
Let’s try this logic on other things. Are all 2K games that have this in their newly updated EULA’s being boycotted? Hint: Civilization is a 2K game.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 2 weeks ago:
… Do you really believe I am Randy Pitchford? Whow, so that’s the bar for IQ around these parts …
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 2 weeks ago:
People do complain about rootkits, but a reaction on this scale means it might be more fitting for you to reply to the mirror.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 2 weeks ago:
Because of a single comment? No need to hold a class about your criteria.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 2 weeks ago:
So 50% score loss because of a permissive EULA, got it …
I’ll just leave this in the “Pitchforks against Pitchford” and “Woke series, must downvote” folder. Call me back when they do actually include a rootkit in their games. If only there was some way to get statistics of the people getting outraged because of posts in a subreddit community and the people who don’t have a problem with rootkits installed by their favorite MMOs.
- 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" 4 weeks ago:
The thing about them is that they are loud, directed, and often affect the first impression a game gets. If this wasn’t with The Witcher fame, the effect would be more notable, and oftentimes they don’t admit why they really have a problem with the game directly.
- Comment on AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented 5 weeks ago:
It seemed to tangent off so I had to circle back around.
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 5 weeks ago:
If people need to be warned that they might be scammed by someone with an indian voice asking them for gift cards, I think that they should be reclassified as AI mounts instead of people at that point.
- Comment on We gonna fight 5 weeks ago:
There’s a reason the American revolution wasn’t just a group of people known for just peacefully protesting and criticizing until a new king rolled over.
- Comment on We gonna fight 5 weeks ago:
The bigger problem is that politics today isn’t BS association to what “left” is versus BS association to what “right” is, it’s becoming those that are willing to work within a system versus those that are just willing to exploit it. Of course reasonable people that disagree are going to have more disagreements than an echo chamber masking a defrauding scheme.
- Comment on We gonna fight 5 weeks ago:
Fun fact, I once alluded to this on reddit’s worldnews and they associated me with Hitler because apparently trying to say there is more than one dimension is trying to whitewash Nazism.
Troll factories can get defensive, don’t touch what they work with.
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 5 weeks ago:
I am used to listening to streams while walking, but I’ve been noticing the most annoying ads pop-up when I’m interested in something they are saying. This isn’t going to make me pay attention to those ads, it’s going to drive me to the plethora of other services I can use. The worst thing about it is that it doesn’t even pause and cache the stream, meaning that if I was listening to something interesting, the ad just causes me to miss it. Google just keeps eating its own tail.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 5 weeks ago:
If you see Netflix as part of a bundle, get the bundle without it. You having no choice to get out of the subscription is feeding into this.
- Comment on GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill - Ars Technica 5 weeks ago:
What I can’t get around with is people expecting AI that was developed by not respect IP rights to suddenly begin respecting their presumed IP rights (not that most are not just accepting them away through the associated EULAs) with what they generate using them.
- Comment on AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented 1 month ago:
Just because something isn’t going the way you want it to go doesn’t excuse any and all behavior. Most parents are able to teach their children this.
- Comment on AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented 1 month ago:
I was stuck in traffic the other day, and waiting for the traffic to move wasn’t doing anything so I just took my rocket launcher out and started blasting.
- Comment on People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies 1 month ago:
Futurama predicted this.
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 1 month ago:
The reason this is “The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation” is because it has exposed what Cambridge Analytica’s successors already realized and are actively exploiting. Just a few months ago it was literally Meta itself running AI accounts trying to pass off as normal users, and not an f-ing peep - why do people think they, the ones who enabled Cambridge Analytica, were trying this shit to begin with. The only difference now is that everyone doing it knows to do it as a “unaffiliated” anonymous third party.
- Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules 1 month ago:
You can tell when a tradition was set in by the hidden undertone it allowed to play for it. “Time for your circumcision… Whoops! Guess you are my eunuch surrogate now, totally didn’t mean to eliminate the competition / your genes from my gene pool of surrogates!” Yeah, probably looking too much into it, it’s not like it’s a practice associated with a culture heavily associated with a god’s chosen master race ideology or anything. Totes just a coincidence that it was fabulously sported by the slave loving Egyptians and cultures famous for their obsession with slave land owners of the times as a “rite of passage”. ^/actualshitcomment^
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 2 months ago:
Game companies can get my sympathy when wages begin to keep up with inflation.
- Comment on Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. 3 months ago:
The only thing you’ve argued is that you are choosing one particular definition of smart, ignoring the one I was using, and going all Grammar Nazi into how that’s the only possible definition. As I’ve said, if am grateful for one thing, it is that I am not one of those people whose ego has to be jizzing everywhere, including their perception of things.
- Comment on Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. 3 months ago:
They are. Unless you can translate what I’m saying to any language I tell you to on the fly, I’m going to assume that anyone that tells me they are smarter than LLMs are lower on the spectrum than usual. Wikipedia and a lot of libraries are also more knowledgeable than me, who knew.