inb4_FoundTheVegan
@inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
- Comment on Trump confirms plan to declare national emergency, use military for mass deportations 2 days ago:
There are dark days ahead.
- Comment on Warcraft Rumble, Blizzard's first new RTS in years, will finally shed its mobile shackles and come to PC in December 4 days ago:
Look I wouldn’t be excited for a Clash of Clans PC port, so why should I care about a knock off clone getting a port?
- Comment on Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 3 weeks ago:
Google would therefore have to find more money than exists on Earth to pay Moscow
Well to be fair, I do think it’s plausible that one day Google will indeed control all the money in the world.
- Comment on Elon Musk Fans Are Losing So Much Money to Crypto Scams 3 weeks ago:
But they weren’t talking with Musk, of course.
😆😆😆😆😆
- Comment on Has Dr. Strange ever given a diagnosis mid fight? 3 weeks ago:
Maybe. Who am I to judge?
- Comment on Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns 3 weeks ago:
I’m nerdy enough to use bitwarden and lemmy. But not nerdy enough to truly understand this.
Can someone explain it like I’m 5?
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 5 weeks ago:
We gave a mosquito gender dysphoria?
- Comment on Everybody who ever voted for trump is a cunt. 5 weeks ago:
“Democracy’s on the ballot”
You’re doing fake performative outrage about primary voters while Trump is literally saying he would end voting.
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 1 month ago:
I just finished playing it for the first time and I was blown away right from the start! Guess I’m glad I waited for the polish, but the world design, voice acting and overall storyline was absolutely fantastic. I couldn’t help feel bad for all the artists that clearly put a lot of love in to the world only to be overshadowed by bugs and poor implementation.
- Comment on Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it 1 month ago:
Oh sure, everything new becomes old eventually, that’s just how time works. I’m more poking fun at those who let their nostalgia determine what is worthwhile.
- Comment on Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it 1 month ago:
“music was better when…”
Any version of this makes the speaker sound suuuper old and butter. 😂
- Comment on If the Olympics and presidential elections only happen once every 4 years, why the hell are we not doing them on February 29th???? 1 month ago:
There are other people pointing out all the pratical reasons why this isn’t the case.
But I like the spirit and vibe of this idea, good shower thought.
- Comment on I've always wanted to see Seattle. 1 month ago:
Couldn’t agree more about the weather, I love the PNW “nice day” of cloudys, mist and fog. If you have time, go take a silly picture with the Fremont troll, it’s near Gasworks which is also a spectacular view.
- Comment on The Swapper; A neat little puzzle game from the mid 2010's, which was just yesterday and definitely not 10 years ago. 1 month ago:
Oh goodness that takes me back, I remember enjoying that one a long time ago. Super unique mechanics and puzzles but you’re right, on the shorter side.
Will absolutely second your recommendation.
- Comment on Do all there former Republican leaders endorsing Harris do her any good? 2 months ago:
Can’t hurt.
However I don’t really care what Republican leaders say at all, hopefully Republican voters probably do.
- Comment on Last day for Star Trek Day sale on Steam (Sept 8-15) 2 months ago:
Are any of these games worth caring about?
- Comment on Hasbro CEO Says AI Will Become Core Part of Dungeons & Dragons 2 months ago:
Well that’s dissapointing. You don’t want to discuss this, but act superior and name call.
- Comment on Hasbro CEO Says AI Will Become Core Part of Dungeons & Dragons 2 months ago:
In terms of human perspective with digital tools AI’s difference of scale is a difference of kind. Photoshop fundamentally didn’t change the process and concept of producing images. It’s still a human sitting down with tools and producing art based off their ideas and rendered with their skill.
But AI removes that human process, now a string of keywords will mash up existing art to make a facsimile of something unique. AI doesn’t make anything new, it fundamentally can’t, therefore not really art. All of human culture is standing on the shoulders of historical giants, you and I can have this conversation because of someone else inventing computers, which exist because of someone utilizing electricity, which was only possible by the wheel, etc.
However I don’t think there is much to gain in criticism of an artist buying their paints from a store just as there isn’t any in artists using a mouse. Their perspective, skill and talent will produce something new, inspired by others undoubtedly, but not copy pasting brushstrokes. That’s just high level plagerism and intrinsically not unique.
I mean this is all philosophy of existentialism, what IS art and when does it become something else? The artistsy of the writers, painters and editors is what produces a compelling end multi generational international product like DND. Which is different than an end user using AI to spice up a character sheet inside the privacy of their own home.
AI is a wonderful tool, but only if the end use doesn’t really matter. My players and I don’t care about 11 fingered elves, but I’d be pissed to see that in a book I paid $50+ for. Just as I would be upset to read flavor text that recruisve of past writing or game mechanics designed by a machine incapable of actually running a session. If you are charging for a product, human artistry should be involved, anything else is free so who cares.
- Comment on Hasbro CEO Says AI Will Become Core Part of Dungeons & Dragons 2 months ago:
“I’m probably more excited though about the playful elements of AI,” he said. “I play with probably 30 or 40 people regularly. There’s not a single person who doesn’t use AI somehow for either campaign development or character development or story ideas. That’s a clear signal that we need to be embracing it.”
So as a DM and Player, yes, there are uses for AI. Generating a good character portrait as opposed to scouring search engines is the obvious one. But I also had good useage with putting my loose outline in to AI story generators, while it only produced garbage cliches that I didn’t use. It was a good way to brainstorm and see different angles of my original idea.
Having said all that, I super duper don’t want AI to become a core part of DND/MTG, art in products should be ACTUAL art by ACTUAL artists. Not my 8 fingered free placeholder nonsense. I truly struggle to think of a good way that hasbro could be using AI that would help the game.
- Comment on Why are people on the internet (and Lemmy) so quick to say someone "deserves to die" 2 months ago:
2004
There is a pretty decent chance I saw that on the day it was posted. I feel old. 😔
- Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills 2 months ago:
I’m thankful my father was so insistent on teaching me to type properly. At the time I was super annoyed at him putting a cardboard cutout over the keyboard so I couldn’t see keys. But touch typing has been a boon ever since, I doubt dad was prepping me for typing quickly mid-game but it sure is nice!
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 level editor is cracked open by modders, bringing homebrew campaigns one step closer 2 months ago:
It’s not 100% clear why Larian didn’t include these features in the toolkit to begin with, but it may be a case of protecting certain copyrighted assets being scraped easily from the game, or from being altered in a way that is unpleasing to DnD’s intellectual property overlords.
Super duper cool that this was done, I just worry that WoTC/Hasbro will mandate this sort of thing needs to be squashed. The new DND system is focusing heavily on a virtual tabletop system under a subscription plan. While standalone BG3 isn’t a threat, a modded full custom campaign could be seen as one. I wouldn’t even bring this up by between sending Pinkertons to collect MTG cards and the attempted OGL crackdown, seems like any scummy move could be possible.
Hope I am worried about nothing tho.
- Comment on How many squirrels do you think you could take in a fight to the death? 2 months ago:
As someone with mobility problems, honestly. I think one could finish me.
- Comment on 2982: Water Filtration 2 months ago:
Well said. But… I gotta ask…
sincerely, a professional vibe-checker (like, actually).
Yeah? Is that some degree of hiring manager?
- Comment on Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to keep using it? 2 months ago:
The people that care about ethics and thus would answer yes, already left.
So now it’s just everyone else.
- Comment on Interesting to see how dead the MMO genre has become. Are there still players around? 2 months ago:
So they have a couple servers and I had charcters on all of them. On most, yeah GSF was kinda dead. But omg on Star Forge? You can chain pop matches all day. It’s by far the most populated NA server and much more active than the others. Would highly recommend heading there if you wanna scratch that dog fighting itch. 😉
(after ARR at least - especially Shadowbringers and Endwalke)
Oh yeah, those were the best storylines for sure. And I am absolutely not here to say the story in FF14 is bad, I’ve played most of the FF games and the story is always solid. But the amount of choices, variations and alignment options really seals swtor as my favorite in this regard. Absolutely no shade for anyone that disagrees, just my personal opinion. ♥
- Comment on Interesting to see how dead the MMO genre has become. Are there still players around? 2 months ago:
Star wars the old republic is pretty great, not perfect but super solid story, essentially just Kotor 3. I played it reguarly for last few months and truly enjoyed it like how I used to enjoy WoW back in the day. I know certain fans are going come at me with knives for saying this, but imp, it has much better story content than FF14.
- Comment on Steam reaches 37 million concurrent-player record with help from Black Myth: Wukong 2 months ago:
Would anyone like to discuss feminism and coivd?
- Comment on Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1,000 miles from California to Seattle office instead of relocating 2 months ago:
Niccol can live in his home in Newport Beach, California and commute to Starbucks’ head office 1,000 miles away on a corporate jet
Replace all the Taylor Swift memes with this fucking guy.
- Comment on Twitter 3 months ago:
Corporations are not people. They do not have a sense of identity. They do not deserve the same rights as humans. They are not capable of being affected by things like gender dysphoria. A corporation does not have feelings and is only a word we use to describe a collective form of actions made by ACTUAL humans.
You literally can not deadname a company. But Elon should understand the hypocrisy none the less.