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.
- Submitted 1 month ago to games@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on OpenAI warns people might become emotionally reliant on its ChatGPT voice mode 3 months ago:
I didn't say you accused them of having mental health issues. I said that you targeted a group of mentally unwell people to insult them. Those aren't the same thing.
But I DO think that having an ai girlfriend is pathetic. And saying that made a bunch of people mad.
What's pathetic is getting so worked up about it and starting multiple arguments about it. At least the folks with AI partners aren't being assholes to everyone about it; what's your excuse?
- Comment on OpenAI warns people might become emotionally reliant on its ChatGPT voice mode 3 months ago:
Yes.
- Comment on OpenAI warns people might become emotionally reliant on its ChatGPT voice mode 3 months ago:
Even in this thread I got downvoted for digging at people who have AI girlfriends. lmao
Probably because you're being mean and picking on people who clearly have some mental health issues. What, were you expecting a round of applause for punching down?
- Comment on Thoughts Around KBin's Current Status and the Importance of Community Migration Features 3 months ago:
Kbin is dead. Long live Kbin.
For those who enjoyed the Kbin experience, Fedia.io has been fantastic! It's running Mbin, a fork of Ernest's Kbin. It's stable and online reliably!
Hopefully Ernest is able to take care of himself. I've only ever had limited interactions with him, but he seems like a good guy, and I hope he's able to get back to work on fulfilling his vision for the project.
- Comment on Bitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji (blog post) 3 months ago:
I wouldn't think Bitcoin has, or can, be trademarked or copyrighted, as it is an open-source protocol/technology where even the creator is unknown?
It's still the name of a specific product/service. The issue is partly trademark/copyright, but also party a matter of neutrality. The Unicode Consortium want to ensure that they're not directly or indirectly endorsing any specific products. If they added a Bitcoin logo, then you'd see every other crypto lining up to get their logos permanently installed on every person's devices, too. Free advertising for life on 99.99% of phones would be hard to pass up.
- Comment on Bitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji (blog post) 3 months ago:
I don't mind there being an emoji for cryptocurrency. It's a relevant thing in modern society whether we like it or not, so there's no reason it should be excluded. But just not Bitcoin, specifically. Even though Bitcoin is the one that kicked off crypto, it's still a brand name, which would result in auto-rejection according to the Unicode Consortium's guidelines.
If there was a more general-purpose icon/symbol that could represent cryptocurrency in general, that'd be more appropriate. But it can't be Bitcoin.
- Comment on Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled 3 months ago:
Yeah, it's strange just how readily the blinders go up wherever Mozilla is concerned. They're a corp, just like any other; if they had the money and leverage, they'd be just as aggressive as Google.
- Comment on Why is there no sense of "camaderie" in the workplace? 3 months ago:
For me, I just don't have any interest in making friends at work. If we happen to get along, then great! Gimme your number and I'll text you memes about this week's House of the Dragon after work. Daemon needs to get the hell outta Luigi's Mansion, am I right hahaha
But outside of those one-off friendships, I just don't have the emotional energy anymore to maintain any meaningful connections with somebody just because we happened to apply to the same LinkedIn listing. Life is too stressful to be thinking about even more people and their problems.
Maybe it's just because of my line of work, but nobody does this job because we want to, we do it because we're competent at it. We're not here because of some shared vision or dream, but because the hiring manager accepted "some college" on the applications. We're only sharing this space as a matter of consequence, not intention. That's not enough for me to form a bond on in a lot of cases.
Maybe if I worked in a field that I was passionate about, things might be different and I might be more open to connecting with people. But otherwise I'm just here to do what I need to pay my bills, and that's it.
And yeah, it can be lonely. That part can suck.
- Comment on Why is there no sense of "camaderie" in the workplace? 3 months ago:
The true office family are the ones you hang out in the break room and talk shit about everybody else with.
- Comment on I wonder how many US babies have been named Donald in the last few years and may live to regret it. 3 months ago:
Thanks for that clarification!
- Comment on I wonder how many US babies have been named Donald in the last few years and may live to regret it. 3 months ago:
It's even worse, because my understanding is that "Khaleesi" doesn't actually mean "queen", but would more accurately mean "concubine/wife of the king/khal". I believe the queenship is only implied after the death of the khal.
- Comment on what happened to kbin? 3 months ago:
Thanks for the insight! I'm not super familiar with how the development cycle goes, so my thoughts are coming from the standpoint of a user experiencing both platforms. I'm sure that a lot of the back-end stuff has probably had a lot of improvements, but the end-user experience between Kbin and Mbin are still largely identical, I feel.
I was gonna load up Kbin to try to do a live comparison but, uh... Yeah, who knows when that'll be possible again lol
- Comment on what happened to kbin? 3 months ago:
I believe that currently, Mbin isn't making any drastic changes, and relying mostly on Kbin's existing code as its base. As far as I'm aware, the Mbin team are mostly just doing maintenance-level development; fixing things as they break and making optimizations, but not so much in the way of developing new features. Mbin is currently just basically a copy of Kbin, without much distinguishing the two.
Since Kbin doesn't seem to be moving much at all, I think it might be a good idea for Mbin to start flexing their own muscles a bit, and making it into its own separate project. Otherwise, having a copy of a stale project just leaves you with two stale projects.
- Comment on what happened to kbin? 3 months ago:
Ernest, the lead dev for Kbin, has had a lot of big events happen in his life recently, so he has a tendency to just kinda disappear for weeks/months at a time while the project gets put on hold. He'll usually come back, announce new plans for development, maybe push out a few updates, and then inevitably go radio silent again.
I believe he's got a few people assisting him now, but development has definitely slowed to the point of becoming concerning. I think it might be time for the Mbin team to start getting a little more free with the fork.
- Comment on If malls continue to shut down and decay over the next twenty years, someone should turn them into retirement communities for GenX and Millennials. 3 months ago:
How will shifting away from cars result in more people going to the mall? How are you supposed to get there?
- Comment on m/Polyamory is LIVE 3 months ago:
swing on by for a chat
I see you.
- Comment on Zuckerberg responds to Musk fight invitation: ‘Are we really doing this again?’ 3 months ago:
"Again"? You never did it in the first place.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Where would we ever find something like that?
- Comment on Waymo Is Suing People Who Allegedly Smashed and Slashed Its Robotaxis 3 months ago:
Good.
- Comment on Could President Biden fully legalize cannabis before he leaves office? 3 months ago:
These hemp-based highs are every bit as potent as those derived from the marijuana available in legalization states.
How I know the author hasn't tried either product.
- Comment on CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft 3 months ago:
So, those numbers all account for about 54,000 of the 8.5 million devices. Using fairly generous of rounding, that still leaves approximately 8.5 million more devices.
A million is a lot.
- Comment on LAPD warns residents after spike in burglaries using Wi-Fi jammers that disable security cameras, smart doorbells 3 months ago:
Those aren't always options for renters, hence why wifi security systems are so popular.
- Comment on We might see Microsoft adding ads to BSOD 3 months ago:
I remember back in the day before browsers had much in the way of protection, and ads could do basically whatever they wanted on your computer. I distinctly remember seeing ads back in the 2000s that would go fullscreen and emulate a BSOD, with a number to call a fake Microsoft Support.
- Comment on Does voting for Biden change anything if I live in a deep red area of my state? (Ohio) 3 months ago:
It won't happen until a third party can offer a convincingly distinct platform. Right now, all our potential third party options are basically just piecemealed mix-n-matches between the two major parties.
- Comment on Halo on Paramount+ has been canceled after only two seasons 3 months ago:
They knew enough to include a first-person fight scene, because that's what gamers wanna see.
- Comment on It’s never been easier for the cops to break into your phone 3 months ago:
I don't see why it wouldn't be. It just checks that the shape of the fingerprint is there, it doesn't check for a pulse or any sign of life. If you have a high-enough resolution image and printer, it's actually rther trivial to bypass most optical fingerprint readers.
- Comment on It’s never been easier for the cops to break into your phone 3 months ago:
Without knowing how they got into his phone, this is a non-story that is just a retelling of older stories. For all we know they just took his dead finger and put it on the reader. Or maybe he used the same 4-digit PIN for his debit card or lock box or something else that they were able to recover. Maybe some detective just just randomly entered the shooter's birthday, only to say "Hey sarge, you're never gonna believe this... first try!"
There's nothing useful that can be taken away from this story yet, until more details come out.
- Comment on Who could pass up this ballin' opportunity? 4 months ago:
I've not read PA in ages, and saw that and thought "Oh wow, the new art style looks pretty good!" Then I saw this was from 2012, and decided to see what the art actually looks like nowadays.
What the fuck happened? Tycho looks like Handsome Squidward with encephalitis, and Gabe looks like every Nickelodeon character in the last 20 years merged into one. I'm curious to know what PA fans think about the style these days, since I've not followed it for a long time, myself.
- Comment on Borderlands 2 improved on everything I liked from B1 4 months ago:
If you haven't already, you should also give the DLCs a try. Each of them are really good, though the Tiny Tina DLC is easily the best of them.