I_Has_A_Hat
@I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
- Comment on 1 day ago:
I really liked the first 80% of Firewatch. The last 20% though… I guess I didn’t hate it, but I also really didn’t like the switch in tone. Without giving spoilers, the ending left me feeling kind of disappointed with how normal it was. I remember finishing the game and immediately going to look if there was an alternative ending, because certainly the game wouldn’t just end like… That.
Like, imagine working on a big murder mystery where a man was found dead inside a locked room with no windows. You gather tons of clues, interview countless people searching for a motive, spend a lot of time putting together all the clues and… It turns out he simply tripped and hit his head.
Like, there’s still a mystery. There’s still a good story. It’s not even a really bad ending, it’s just not nearly as exciting as where you thought it would lead.
- Comment on covid.gov redirects to lab leak conspiracy insanity 1 day ago:
There’s a difference between an intentional and unintentional lab leak. Asking why they would release it in their own country doesn’t really change things if it was a fuckup they’re trying to hide.
- Comment on covid.gov redirects to lab leak conspiracy insanity 1 day ago:
insanity
If it’s insane to think that it could have come from a lab in the area, that lied about performing gain-of-function research, that has had a history of leaks in the past, that was studying the exact type of bacteria that evolved into COVID-19, that hid their data and records when asked to see them by the global health community, that (if found to be true) would put the blame for the pandemic on one of the biggest totalitarian governments with a long history of avoiding blame; well then call me crazy.
I don’t think we’ll ever know for sure, but to act like the whole thing is just some crazy conspiracy that could never be true just stinks of willful ignorance.
- Comment on Americans Recognize AI as a Wealth Inequality Machine, Pollster Finds 2 days ago:
Why does that photo look so off? I’m leaning toward not AI, but it also doesn’t look like a real protest. More like a stock photo or a staged photoshoot.
- Comment on "Palworld is going to be the survival crafting game everyone always wanted" and "people will be shocked" at how big 1.0 is, says Pocketpair publishing lead 2 days ago:
Abiotic Factor is not a bad game, but holy shit is that such a different game.
Thats like if someone was craving chicken noodle soup and you say “just have chili”.
- Comment on I think this is the first war we aren't hiding by bad guy vs good guy scenario. So lets say the US and allies get control of the oil..how do that solve dependence on it? 3 days ago:
Yep, even in 2003 it was about controlling/disrupting the oil markets a lot more than the US personally wanting more oil. But that’s a more difficult concept to grasp than “US wants peoples oil!” so that’s the message that spread!
- Comment on 79% of smart dash cams we tested had security flaws and concerns, and in some cases they were breaking the law - Out of 28, only six didn't have any concerns. 4 days ago:
I was worried for a moment until I realized they’re talking about smart dashcams.
No shit Sherlock. Why the fuck would you buy a smart dashcam unless you were a fucking idiot who thinks every electronic needs to be connected to the internet?
- Comment on That one time when he made cheese and it broke the ship 6 days ago:
Yep, that’s one of the main reasons I compare him to a 6 year old from the 1950’s.
Tom Paris is the kind of character that would sleep in a racecar bed and think it made him cool.
- Comment on That one time when he made cheese and it broke the ship 6 days ago:
Tom Paris is the worst character on Voyager, fight me.
If you took a spoiled 6 year old from the 1950’s and suddenly turned him into an adult, that child would be Tom Paris. He’s overly childish, and not in a cute way. He character has practically zero depth. He’s like Wesley Crusher if Wesley was an idiot.
- Comment on That's the feeling. 1 week ago:
Got a friend who is way better at tech than I am, he made the switch to Linux about a month ago. Seems like it’s a constant battle between him and his OS. Settings will randomly change with no explanation. Programs will refuse to run. The other day we were playing a game and suddenly his mouse sensitivity shot down to like the lowest setting possible. He didn’t manage to get it fixed until the next day.
Shit like that is what keeps me from moving to Linux. I already get headaches when I have to troubleshoot an obscure issue I have on Windows; combing through dozens of message boards and YouTube videos from years ago with outdated advice or solutions that don’t work. I can just imagine having to do that almost every single day, but having even less resources because there are fewer people using my exact set up and having my exact problem.
- Comment on Glorious cracked out wall kitten returns with more wisdom for the masses. 1 week ago:
Backing into a spot is safer. Not just because you are less likely to hit something on your way out, but because in case of emergency, you are able to get out quickly.
- Comment on rules 1 week ago:
A funny ha ha.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
“YSK that fruit is healthy. Gushers are not real fruit. It’s trash.”
- Comment on I was told it would be a cultural experience 1 week ago:
Very clean bathrooms.
- Comment on An identification key 2 weeks ago:
Yea, but those are like the only differences.
- Comment on I know. Somehow, I've always known. 2 weeks ago:
By the destruction of the Death Star alone, Luke has a higher body count than Anakin did at 22, saved the Rebellion, and became a decorated war hero. And Luke did that within, like a week?
Meanwhile Anakin had been building up to that point for years, and was only a General because all Jedi were Generals. Other than becoming a Jedi, it’s not like he did anything specifically to earn that position.
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 2 weeks ago:
19th century rural life consisted of you and your family living on barely more than subsistence farming and not seeing or interacting with anyone outside your family or immediate neighbors for months at a time.
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 2 weeks ago:
In 1980, John Lennon was shot by a mentally ill man who was convinced to kill Lennon by reading Catcher in the Rye. If he had never read Catcher in the Rye, he most likely wouldn’t have killed John Lennon.
But it is not the fault of Catcher in the Rye. We don’t ban the book, or call the author irresponsible for writing it, because we recognize that the fault lies in the mental illness of the shooter, and that anything could have set him off.
The people who kill themselves because an AI Chatbot told them to are mentally ill. It is their mental illness that killed them, not the chatbot. You can make the claim that if it wasn’t for the chatbot, they wouldn’t have gone through with it, but again, you can say the same thing about Catcher in the Rye. Getting rid of the trigger does not remove the mental illness.
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 2 weeks ago:
There is a lot to hate about AI. A lot of dangers and valid criticism. But AI chatbots convincing people to kill themselves isn’t a problem with chatbots, it’s a problem with the user.
I get it, grieving families will look for anything and anyone to blame for suicide except the victim, but ultimately, it is the victim who chose to kill themselves. If someone is convinced to kill themselves from something as stupid as an AI chatbot, they really weren’t that far from the edge to begin with.
- Comment on Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket 2 weeks ago:
Paper tags arent as easily damaged.
- Comment on Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket 2 weeks ago:
I’ve gotta wonder… How expensive are these little networked e-ink displays? Probably not super expensive, but they’ve gotta be more than a paper price tag. Definitely more of a hassle to replace when someone breaks them by running into them, accidentally snapping them off, etc…
- Comment on It was always my favorite spot to play golf and then I see this new sign that they put up 2 weeks ago:
You might think he was joking, and maybe OP was, but I’m certainly not. Graveyards are a massive waste of space. Respect for the dead is a really fucking weird and pointless thing our society does.
They are dead. Dead. They deserve as much respect as the ground beef you have in your freezer. There is no point in preserving their remains, or laying them in a multi-thousand dollar casket, or having a spot in the ground that will become unusable for other purposes. They. Are. Fucking. Dead. That’s not them anymore. It’s dead meat. It’s fucking asinine to waste so many acres of land on dead meat.
- Comment on ..? 2 weeks ago:
The fun thing is your statement applies to both the US and Iran.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 2 weeks ago:
Yea, I can just imagine OpenAI is really struggling with their business decision.
On the one hand, they have multi-billion dollar contracts with the US Military that will make them all fabulously wealthy beyond their wildest dreams.
On the other, they have a handful of individuals leaving that might amount to a few thousand dollars of lost revenue.
Gosh, it must sure be a tough decision for them.
- Comment on Uncolored kobold :) 3 weeks ago:
Aww, I love this. I have a soft spot for Kobolds.
I made a series of one-shots that I DM for my group between main sessions that focus on an all Kobold party and their neverending quest to become real dragons, with each of them having a different plan on how to actually make that happen. They all have different dragon ancestry traits (tiny wings, breath attack, thicker hide, etc.) and they constantly bicker about which one is the “most dragon”.
All the sessions are more silly than serious and typically revolve around their own ignorance of the world at large. Like plotting to attack a “dragon” that was really just a large puppet used in a festival. Or planning an elaborate heist to steal a treasure hoard, but it’s just a bunch of coins from a fountain. Once they successfully hijacked and took over a fancy ship (because it had a dragon on the sails) only for them to quickly give up when they realized none of them knew how to swim, much less sail.
My players all really get into it and play them as horrible little monsters. I love them so much.
- Comment on Is spreading. 3 weeks ago:
Then you open the bottle and find it’s filled with different types of pills of various sizes, colors, and markings.
“Umm… So which one of these do I take?”
And then you get 20 different answers.
- Comment on Is spreading. 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 3 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, are you under the impression that animal husbandry doesn’t occur in non-capitalist societies?
- Comment on Lemmings, please give us your info dump. 3 weeks ago:
For people who think they’re winning by fucking with scammers, unless you are tying up hours of their time, you are doing the opposite by engaging with them. And even if you tie up hours, they aren’t really losing.
Obviously, falling for the scam is their ideal outcome, but ANY engagement beyond silence, a generic VM, or a disconnected/fax line marks your number as ‘active’ which can then be sold to other scammers.
So they still get a profit, and your number winds up on more scamming lists.
We are also getting close to the point where it won’t even be an actual human you’re talking to, it’ll just be some AI, making engagement even more useless.
If you get a call from an unknown number and you don’t have call screening, answer and SAY NOTHING! Not hello, not “may I ask whose calling”, mute your phone so they don’t even get background noise. The only numbers they can’t get anything out of are the ones that are brick walls.
