EldritchFeminity
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- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 3 days ago:
This is only one study, but I saw an article a few months ago talking about a study by a major phone company that found that the vast majority of people (80% or more IIRC) either didn’t care about AI features on their phones or actively disliked them.
I think most people don’t really care one way or another but hate that it’s being shoved into everything, and those who know the stats on how often it’s wrong are a lot more likely to actively dislike it and be vocal about their dislike.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 1 week ago:
Yeah, kids shouldn’t be allowed to play Undertale, Armored Core 6, Baldur’s Gate 3, Elden Ring, Final Fantasy XVI, Hollow Knight, or Stardew Valley.
They’ll play shovelware and like it, just like we did!
There are plenty of great games today and horrible games from when we grew up (E.T. anyone?), the trick is to filter the good from the bad and show them what to watch out for.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
And 4chan was filled with bigots. It was a major part of the alt-right pipeline that put America where it is today. Just because it was used ironically doesn’t mean that it wasn’t also used seriously. There’s a whole essay on the furry hate that revolves more around the damage done by that one CSI episode (and I’m pretty sure another similar show a few years later) that characterized furries as sexual deviants than anything else, but the use of the 4chan furfag moniker was also a part of it, and that spread outside of 4chan.
4chan for its part, though, really proved the saying “say something ironically enough times and eventually you start saying it unironically.” Although that’s less related to the furry thing and more to the whole edgy teenagers posting racist jokes growing up to scream about Jewish space lasers creating climate change.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
No, he’s an asshole. I’d punch him in the face and break contact for a while.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Weird that you think that a bunch of 13 year olds being ok with something means OP is lying about not being ok with it…
Holy shit, is Gen Z the new Millennials? Gen Z is commonly agreed to be the generation born between roughly 1995 and 2012, meaning that the oldest of them would be 30.
Existential crisis aside, my real point is that I’ve been around the internet a long time - long enough to have seen the start of hate against furries - and I’d like to take your second part and play with it in that context because I’ve heard it all before somewhere.
For the record, I don’t “hate” furries, I won’t stop talking to someone because they’re a furry, but if you make it impossible for me to look past it, we’re probably not gonna get along.
So let’s start with the good faith interpretation, as furry is a subculture/hobby, so we’ll replace it with something similar:
For the record, I don’t “hate” Marvel fans, I won’t stop talking to someone because they’re a Marvel fan, but if you make it impossible for me to look past it, we’re probably not gonna get along.
Kind of a weird statement, as there’re weird people who take it too far in any fandom, whether that’s Marvel, trains, anime, furries, or whatever else, but not the weirdest thing to say by any means. But, knowing the history of the internet in this regard, let’s take your statement and change it to represent what the anti-furry sentiment actually is:
For the record, I don’t “hate” gay people, I won’t stop talking to someone because they’re gay, but if you make it impossible for me to look past it, we’re probably not gonna get along.
That’s right, the furry hatred was thinly veiled bigotry all along. There’s a reason that they used “furfag” in the old days. It’s been a longstanding thing for hating furries to be “cool” because it was an easy way for bigots to hate minorities openly. Furries have major minority populations in the fandom (I think like twice the size compared to the world? Probably even higher), and so hating on furries was an easy way to hate on minorities - especially LGBT people as the fandom is commonly connected to the LGBT community in the cultural zeitgeist. So when they said that the OP isn’t going to win, I believe it’s in relation to that history - especially the whole “it’s cool to hate furries” thing that still seems to pop up amongst young kids even today.
- Comment on Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases 2 weeks ago:
I knew there was a reason I kept this photo around.
- Comment on YSK: US Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem publically bragged about killing her puppy 2 weeks ago:
I don’t disagree that this isn’t the right community for this, but it is at least more useful to know because this is the head of US immigration, and so people outside the US should be aware of the caliber of people that we’ve put in power over people visiting our country. Like the tourist who got deported upon entering the country on vacation because he had a meme image of a bald Vance.
- Comment on Water Snek 2 weeks ago:
If I understand what they’re saying (I’m not quite sure either), Facebook basically does a Man in the Middle Attack when you click a link that allows them to see what you click on after leaving their page?
On the one hand, it sounds crazy, but on the other it doesn’t sound outside the realm of possibility based on other things they supposedly do like create shadow accounts of people you and other people know/talk about to build a data profile on them and people they may know so that if they create an account, Facebook already knows what people are in their area and likely in their social circles (and the stuff that they actually do right out in the open where it’s obvious).
Still irrelevant to the issue anyway, but weird to think about. More to the point at hand, I wonder if your issue is caused by Facebook opening the picture in some kind of container instead of the actual page/link itself, like how Reddit opens images on the Reddit page when you try to open them directly - it won’t let you view the image as a source file if you try to open it from a search engine.
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 3 weeks ago:
What they’re saying is that you said that the bubble has kinda already popped because (insert description of the middle of the dot com bubble here when smaller companies began to join in). Based on that, the bubble hasn’t popped at all, small companies are just able to buy in as well before the collapse hits.
- Comment on They even got their own island 4 weeks ago:
Yep, and that’s one advantage Lemmy has over other social media. Don’t like the way an instance is handled? Make an account somewhere else and you most likely won’t even lose the content from that instance.
- Comment on They even got their own island 4 weeks ago:
Exactly. If it bothered me enough to care, I could easily just set up on another instance, or even have multiple accounts on different instances. That’s one advantage Lemmy has over other social media platforms.
- Comment on They even got their own island 4 weeks ago:
There’s a post explaining it somewhere, but IIRC, the reasoning is that due to the population and purpose of creating the instance in the first place, it’s to help protect people from brigading and the like.
Personally, it’s the only thing I don’t like about having an account here. The idea behind the choice is solid, but it does make it difficult to actually know what people think of a comment or post.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 5 weeks ago:
Our core value is taking necessary services and pricing them like a luxury.
Spread everything out really far, get rid of public transit, and, since everybody still needs a license to drive your expensive cars, make the driving test super easy to pass so almost everybody can drive. Boom, 1.2 passengers per car and nobody can actually drive them well.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 1 month ago:
One of the original goals for KSP2 was the use of a new engine to get rid of the technical debt from the first game that caused issues like the Kraken…but then the publisher forced them to use the KSP engine because “it would speed up development.”
It was doomed from the beginning.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 1 month ago:
And I and the other guy just said that you misunderstood the original comment. You’re the one who doubled down after the first guy.
Me making a sarcastic comment because you doubled down on the first guy by just posting a quote of the original comment isn’t white knighting. It’s just a conversation. If that’s white knighting, then 95% of all internet communication is some form of white knighting. And I can think of much better words to describe the YouTube comments section (and I bet you can, too).
Anyways, hope your Monday wasn’t as hot, humid, and disappointing as mine and I think everybody in this thread can agree that Larian isn’t Ubisoft or Activision, the world is a better place because of that, and the “live service industry” can go suck a big one and keep shaking in their boots.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 1 month ago:
Totally agree but the person they’re responding to implied they were some scrappy indie production. Ex33 (there are caveats/asterisks here but still) is a much better example. I think at its peak the whole team was like 40 people with hired hands.
Jesus you white knights need to calm down and let them respond for themselves.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 1 month ago:
Show me on the doll where that comment said Larian is an indie developer. Saying that they lack corporate interference does not equal claiming that they’re an indie team.
There’s this neat thing between indie devs and AAA corporate studios called AA. Big enough to fund larger projects than indie devs while being small enough to usually still be private companies that aren’t beholden to investors and therefore can take larger risks than the AAA devs are allowed, letting them make the games that they would want to play. CD Projekt RED and FromSoft both fit into this category as well, though all 3 companies are getting big enough to potentially start being considered AAA studios.
- Comment on PSA for those in America 1 month ago:
I live in a vacation town where fireworks are illegal and I can hear them basically every weekend from Memorial Day to Labor Day.
- Comment on School legend 1 month ago:
Yep, and I’d add family to the list. A lot of this stuff comes from how parents act around their friends as well, both in public and private.
It’s the original definition of memes: information passed on outside of genetics.
- Comment on School legend 1 month ago:
While this is an old saying, misogyny and disrespect like this are learned behaviors, not naturally occurring.
This kid is, what, 12? And he’s publicly talking on social media about how he thinks he’s got the charm to get in his teacher’s pants. Call it what it is: this kid has been groomed by “influencers.”
- Comment on School legend 1 month ago:
This is what happens when you try to sanitize the internet for
advertiserschildren. - Comment on :-) 2 months ago:
I believe it’s a hormone thing because otherwise nobody would have a second kid. Apparently the hormones kick in and make you forget the pain while also giving you a big hit of dopamine so that you connect having a kid to being happy.
- Comment on Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets’ Addresses 2 months ago:
Should’ve gone for the thermite, then at least we could call him a “hot” boomer.
- Comment on Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting 2 months ago:
I would disagree with this sentiment on a basic game design level. I don’t know about the Zelda games, I didn’t care enough about BotW to play more than a few hours, but designing a large map that incorporates multiple biomes in a believable way is much more difficult than creating a bunch of smaller levels that don’t have to have any relation to each other in the slightest. You can get away with a lot more in terms of map geometry and set pieces when you load into each level individually.
This is obviously different when you’re talking about Bethesda-style load into every building style environments vs Elden Ring “You see that castle in the distance? You’ll be going in there eventually” design, but the fact that Bethesda makes their interiors separate from the rest of the world is how they cheap out on their games. It’s less hardware intensive and you can cheat a lot more in your design. And on a gameplay level that goes for Ubisoft-style collectathon map objects (and Zelda shrines in this case), but that’s not unique to open-world games - it’s a lazy cop-out that game devs have used forever to pad out their games. Collecting all the secret skulls in Halo is the same thing, but because it’s implemented well and doesn’t drag on forever with no reward like most open-world collectibles, it feels totally different.
- Comment on Meta rolled back protections. Now hate is surging. 2 months ago:
Honestly, probably both. The fact that stuff isn’t being deleted anymore and that they make carve-outs in the rules for hate against specific minorities would embolden people to post more hateful content.
- Comment on Menstrual tracking app data is a ‘gold mine’ for advertisers that risks women’s safety – report 2 months ago:
Personal responsibility only gets you so far when the big money actively fights against it. I think the answer lies in both holding companies like Google to higher standards as well as improving access to the knowledge we need to navigate what the world has become. It doesn’t help anybody when the FBI has recommended people use an ad blocker for over a decade but nobody has ever heard them say it.
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 2 months ago:
I think this law requires you to upload a photo of your ID and says that it’s the website’s fault if underage people use it and they face a hefty fine. It’s a lot more than the standard “click to pinky promise that you’re definitely 18” because PornHub already has that.
- Comment on 'Her screams…': Horror as innocent Chilean tourist in New York snatched by NYPD, 12-year-old daughter left alone on streets 2 months ago:
I guess us LGBTQ and black/brown Americans should just put a bullet in our heads right now, then.
- Comment on YSK about the GI Rights Hotline 2 months ago:
Buddy, where have you been the past 20 years? The kids who were boots on the ground are now in their late 30s and 40s, and many of them are staunchly anti-military thanks to their experiences.
The US military runs one of the largest propaganda campaigns in the world, from Hollywood movies and TV commercials to Raytheon funding colleges and recruitment officers walking the halls of high schools. Their entire thing is tricking impressionable young kids into doing the dirty work for the wealthy. When I was in college, the seniors in the game design program were working on a VR boot camp scenario in Second Life that the army wanted to take with them to schools as a recruitment tool.
But no war like the culture war, I guess.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 2 months ago:
It can in the sense that many forms of generating power are just some form of water or steam turbine, but that’s neither here nor there.
IMO, the graph is misleading anyway because the criticism of AI from that perspective was the data centers and companies using water for cooling and energy, not individuals using water on an individual prompt. I mean, Microsoft has entered a deal with a power company to restart one of the nuclear reactors on Three Mile Island in order to compensate for the expected cost in energy of their AI. Using their service is bad because it incentivizes their use of so much energy/resources.
It’s like how during COVID the world massively reduced the individual usage of cars for a year and emissions barely budged. Because a single one of the largest freight ships puts out more emissions than every personal car combined annually.
