Chozo
@Chozo@fedia.io
Hail Satan.
Using Mbin as a backup to my main Kbin account due to tech issues on Kbin.social. May either switch to this one permanently or abandon it, depending on how Kbin's development goes. All my active fedi accounts are linked.
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 3 days ago:
Welcome to Lemmy, where everything is wrongthink.
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 3 days ago:
Search engines haven't worked reliably for several years now, the top results for almost any search are from social media pages that you can't even read without an account. The Internet is broken.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 5 days ago:
Only if I've already beaten the game legitimately before, and usually only to skip something that's tedious.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It's basically an infinite money glitch! All Google has to do is make sure not to have the project run by the guy who botched the Xbox 360 launch and it'll be unstoppable!
- Comment on Not to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate? 2 weeks ago:
The character jesus was not a real person
I think it's generally accepted that Jesus did exist, as his baptism and crucifixion were documented by third parties at the time.
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 2 weeks ago:
The concept is much older than the word we use today.
One of the earliest known vegans was the Arab poet al-Ma'arri, famous for his poem "I No Longer Steal From Nature". (c. 973 – c. 1057).
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 2 weeks ago:
Like "vegan" isn't even a century old yet, it was made up in the 1940s by some guy who thought vegetarians weren't good enough, and he set whatever rules he wanted to.
[citation needed]
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe you forgot what community this is, chief.
- Comment on There should be a "last used combination" faucet handle for sinks so you don't have to balance hot and cold everytime during winter 2 weeks ago:
My kitchen faucet does this. It's a 2-axis lever. Y axis is the temperature adjustment, X axis is flow. As long as you leave it set to the same Y position when you turn it off and on, it'll be at the "last used combination".
- Comment on Zork I, Zork II and Zork III are now officially open source 2 weeks ago:
It's a ton of fun. Honestly, I suggest you play it the way I did as a kid, and bring out a bunch of paper and pencils and start drawing your own maps by hand. There's something magical about that process, imo.
- Comment on Red Alert 2 in web browser 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, at best it's "A framework for Red Alert 2 in web browser".
- Comment on Alberto Mielgo defends the Marathon cinematic as "not AI," denies his team touched Bungie’s plagiarized material and calls the art theft incident a genuine mistake that was "blown out of proportion" 2 weeks ago:
How does one even accidentally steal a texture someone else made?
One could easily apply Hanlon's Razor to this. For example:
- Bob is a game artist. Bob has a folder on his desktop called "Inspirations", where he saves art pieces he finds online that he likes, and a folder called "Assets" where he saves things he's created for the game. Bob transfers to a new department in the studio, or quits, or is fired; either way, he returns his equipment to the IT office.
- Dave is an IT guy at the studio. Dave takes Bob's computer after he leaves the job, and transfers all of Bob's files to the studio's shared drive. Dave isn't an art guy, and doesn't know the difference between "Inspirations" and "Assets", and dumps them all into the shared drive in a folder called "Bob's Things".
- John is the studio's new artist, replacing Bob. John syncs "Bob's Things" to his computer. John assumes everything in this folder has already been cleared for use by Legal. John starts implementing the art into the game.
I used to be a pretty hardcore Destiny 2 player for several years. In that time, I've seen Bungie fuck up a lot of things. But those fuck-ups were almost entirely caused by somebody in the studio not playing close-enough attention to something, and details getting mixed up in the pipeline. I don't think anybody at Bungie knowingly put Antireal's art into the game. I think the more likely explanation is that there was a lack of oversight, and files that shouldn't have been mixed together, got mixed together.
It wouldn't even be the first time Bungie had something like this happen; there was an instance where a third-party studio that Bungie contracted to build a Destiny 2 cut-scene accidentally used artwork that was not intended to be in the actual cut-scene.
Not to suggest that any of this excuses Bungie for multiple cases of plagiarism. Obviously, they need to have stricter standards in place when transferring files between parties. It's a colossal fuck-up, but I don't think that it was a fuck-up anybody set out to commit.
- Comment on Screw your zodiac sign, tell me... 2 weeks ago:
We had mostly 8s, but somehow a few 4s got added in. Here I am now, 30-ish years later, and my roommate has 4s in her kitchen, too.
- Comment on ¿Por qué no los dos? 2 weeks ago:
Holy shit it just gets better and better.
- Comment on How would I make a HVAC simulator to see what a thermostat would do if the indoor temp was 400°F 2 weeks ago:
I used to work as a PQI contractor at Nest, and we actually had test setups like this in the office that were just a circuit breadboard mounted on a plate behind the thermostat. The thermostat doesn't really "communicate" with the HVAC control system at all (all it does is just send ~3V along the circuits based on its current mode), so as long as you have the circuits routed properly on your board, the thermostat will think it's connected to a real system.
The stock firmware doesn't let you go above a certain temp (like 80F or something, I forget the exact limit). But if your custom firmware allows it, the only thing that would realistically happen is that it just runs a 3V circuit to what it thinks is the heater, infinitely, since nothing is actually causing the ambient temperature to raise at all. The ambient temp reading comes from a sensor on the thermostat, itself.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 3 weeks ago:
"Having" is not the same as "owning".
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 3 weeks ago:
But we don’t actually have ownership rights any more, do we?
When it comes to video games, we've never had ownership rights. Buying a game has always been just buying a license. The only thing that's changed is that now publishers have a mechanism with which to enforce it.
- Comment on YSK: How to perfectly seal a bag of chips (or anything similar) without any clips or ties. 3 weeks ago:
An AI wouldn't have made as many grammatical errors as OP.
- Comment on Yarr 3 weeks ago:
Yeah but two weeks from shore and it'll feel like the most appropriate song.
- Comment on Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games? 4 weeks ago:
Feeding the ducks
- Comment on Ernest is alive 5 weeks ago:
I hope he's doing well. Thanks to the code he started, I'm on the Fediverse in the first place.
- Comment on Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings 5 weeks ago:
DEI isn't intended to be "colorblind", it explicitly suggests that employers give consideration to applicants from disparaged demographics, who may have otherwise been ignored during the application process. It doesn't imply hiring quotas.
Many people seem to confuse DEI for Affirmative Action, as evidenced above. This article explains the differences pretty succinctly: https://natlawreview.com/article/dei-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-v-affirmative-action-they-are-not-same
- Comment on What are the most popular conspiracy theories? 5 weeks ago:
I like the theory that suggests that JonBenét Ramsey wasn't killed, and was instead kidnapped and secretly raised by her captors to be a singer, and grew up to become Katy Perry.
- Comment on Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings 5 weeks ago:
Rocks are woke now.
- Comment on Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings 5 weeks ago:
Neither of those are DEI.
- Comment on Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings 5 weeks ago:
I feel like you may not understand what DEI actually is. What, precisely, do you think a "DEI hire" is?
- Comment on I have been staring at this marquee and cannot figure out what "two dance special means" 5 weeks ago:
We'll tell you when you're older.
- Comment on When did people start saying "have a good rest of your day" 1 month ago:
Usually after 4 PM.
- Comment on More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC 1 month ago:
It's hard to be critical of something that hasn't been released yet. All anybody had to go off of were statements from the developers, until the product was actually released and people could get their hands on it.
- Comment on Marylin Mothroe 1 month ago:
Someone please tell me more about this moth.