hoshikarakitaridia

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3073: Tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone had to do it lmao

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BACK OFF FELLAS, SHE'S MINE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  *the three of us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 GameCube controller will only be offered to those who pre-order the console⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
  • Periodically killing mods and fan projects
  • going after palworld
  • using last-gen hardware in their consoles
  • never decreasing prices
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden King⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  5 star anime imo. They perfectly capture the vibe of speed runners. How as a pro you do the werdest shit to increase efficiency, but it’s second nature to you, and how you get that love hate relationship with a game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds like you might have missed some parts of my comment.

  Wages: yes you can claim everything is affected by the relatively low wages. That includes video games. But if you need to save up because of that, video games will be one of the things you need to skip, because it is a luxury good. And that’s sad. That’s why this sticks out.

  Price dip from 1980: I made a case for why the costs for video games in 1980 were very high, and probably for a variety of reasons. now quite a lot of those reasons disappeared over the net centuries. So the price increases do not correlate with that, and that’s why using the prices from 1980 might not be a great comparison.

  Complaining about a 20$ increase: because everyone has the absolute right to complain about everything. We are the consumer - judging prices is one of our ultimate rights, because we need to make sure it’s worth buying something. Now I don’t think it’s entitlement given all the things I listed before, but if you wanna call it that, go ahead, although I think trying to understand my perspective would decrease your presumptions about people like me.

  We have it objectively better by every metric: and this is precisely where I disagree, respectfully. You do not have to understand why, but I feel like painting crowds of people in broad strokes is always unhelpful for perspective and learning. But I guess in the end you do you, I can’t force people to understand someone else and why they’re saying what they’re saying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean tbf complaining that less people can afford it now because prices have increased but wages haven’t is fair. Everything needs to be looked at relative to all the other values. If you wanna go even more in depth I guess you would need to add popularity of games, reputation of a brand or game series, value of the currency, and other factors.

  I generally agree with you that prices for video games haven’t kept up that well, although I would also point out that due to multiple factors anchoring the video game price at 1980 might not be the best if you want a fitting picture. Games were much more rare baack then, the market was smaller, small production volume meant physical costs per unit increase, there’s things like way higher shipping costs to think about because globalization is a more modern phenomenon and a lot more stuff. Imo using the 2000s as an anchor to extrapolate from would be more fitting, as the market was well established at that point and thus prices would appear more stable.

  I’m not doing that because I am literally a little gremlin who can’t be arsed to put the time in rn but these are my two cents of criticism against your methodology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone looking for a open source project to get involved in? If so, this might be for you: MediaWolf - a Media Discovery and Download Hub.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m very new to open source but I’d love to get involved but is there a discord or something to get up to speed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Husband needs proof news is censored⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I second this.

  Proton is alright as well but mullvad seems to be stuck at #1.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean blocking specific countries is stupid anyway. Historically China has been playing games with the EU and the US on a geopolitical level. But: Chinese, European as well as American researchers have been at the core of research on current topics like AI, security, etc. Btw. ironically the scientific landscape is very collaborative and borders on a federated model, it’s actually pretty neat how much researchers don’t care about country of origin.

  What I’m saying is introducing geopolitics into open source development or research is one of the most stupid things to do, because it punished both your and the other country and only benefits uninvolved third parties. It’s literally shooting yourself in the foot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who created AI will be replaced by AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a very interesting perspective.

  Although I do think if we don’t have a gigantic leap, AI will never replace programmers, but it sure as heck will make some stuff easier and faster for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video game characters should swear when they get hurt⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like that idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Keeper

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the point of the Nicole spam?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I already asked 2 scammers on discord for bathwater and they never took me up on it :( it’s a cruel world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any other way to interpret these comments (convo between a 20 year old and 14 year old)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What was the calculation again?

  20/2 + 7 = 17, he’s literally below the date range calculation.

  And arguable you change so much between 15 and 20, I always hated the thought of dating a 19yo at 23. This is way off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any other way to interpret these comments (convo between a 20 year old and 14 year old)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What she is requesting is sexual depictions of a minor. Depending on how it’s drawn that is probably illegal in the US.

  She could request anything, but she requests a sexual depictions of a minor, even though she probably knows that it’s most likely illegal.

  If it’s unethical, there’s room for argument I guess. But this goes further, and usually if something violates a law, in most cases we’re past the ethical debate and straight into criminal prosecution territory.

  TL;DR there’s no other way to view this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 232 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This game is beautiful.

  I remember when I played it the first time, I sat on the ship, fishing, and I realized how the water changes colors with the weather, and it was the prettiest game I’ve seen, and I was just in awe. I never had that with any other game.

  If the gameplay was a bit more complex, I would’ve spent years in this game I’m sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A cute lil story⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah HRT as a hazing ritual goes hard

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They exist, but there’s an equally high chance you encountered a troll.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosted Personal Finance Suggestions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, been using that to track my bank accounts and stuff and it’s really helpful, although I had some trouble understanding how to use it since I’m a layperson xd

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hello,

  Let me chime in as someone who would probably fall under your definition of an AI defender.

  How do I defend AI? Well, I think AI really flips the world on it’s head. Including all the good and the bad that comes from it. I still think the industrialization is a good metaphor. Things changed a lot. A lot of people were pissed. Now we don’t mind as much anymore, because it’s the new normal, but at the time, most people weren’t happy about it.

  Same with AI. I think overall it’s a plus, but obviously it comes with new pitfalls. LLM hallucinations, the need for more complex copyright and licensing definitions, impersonation, etc. . It’s not entirely great, but I totality, when the dust settles, it will be a helpful tool to make our lives easier.

  So why do I defend AI? Basically, because I think it will happen, whether you like it or not. Even if the law will initially make it really strict, society will change their mind about it. It might be slowly, but it’s just too useful to outlaw.

  Going back to industrialization metaphor, we adapted it over a longer period of time. Yes, it forever changed how most things are made, but it wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. It’s just a thing. And even though lots of logistics chains are streamlined, there’s always gonna be handmade things and unique things. Ofc, not everything is handmade, but some important things still are. And for both of them, there’s some stuff that’s totally fine to be automated, and then there’s some stuff that just loses it’s value if we just gloss over with automation.

  Now I don’t want AI to just roam free (ofc not, there’s some really bad stuff happening and I’m not pretending that it’s not) but what we need is laws and enforcement against it, and not against AI.

  Imagine if most countries outlawed AI. It would make all AI companies and users move operation to that one country that still allows it, making it impossible to oversee and enforce against. So we better find a good strategy to allow it for all the things where it doesn’t do damage.

  Now let me address some specific points you brought up;

  In the near future no one will “need” to be a writer

  But isn’t this already how it’s going? Only people who wanna be a writer are one, anf it’s good that way.

  Also, AI can only remix the art that’s already there, so if you’re doing something completely unique, AI won’t ever be able to replace you. I find that somehow validating for the people who make awesome and unique art. I think that’s how it should be.

  Do these people not see or feel the human behind the art at all?

  I do. And that’s the exact reason I’m not concerned. Everyone who puts in the work to make something very particular to them should not be impacted in any way.

  Now there’s an argument to be made how consent for training data is given (opt-in / opt-out) and what licensing for the models can and should look like, but this is my very basic opinion.

  Are these really opinions you have encountered outside of the internet?

  I may have about one friend out of 30 who thinks like me.

  I mean I am living proof we exist, but I can’t say this is a popular opinion, which is fair.

  I don’t want people to mindlessly agree, I want them to come their own opinions because of their own research and presumptions.

  I also don’t expect you to agree with me, but I hope some people will understand my perspective and maybe this brings a bit more nuance to this bipolar conversation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with male loneliness?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a video about it, which I think takes a very sobering approach to it. Her humor tends to be very dark, but if you look at the comment section, she seems to be hitting it head on.

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQv8VuLpKN4

  Now for solutions, I don’t know anyone who talks about it beyond the basics of “listen to men” and “give them a healthier and less judgy space to develop social skills”. But that’s probably because this is such a complex issue and there seems to be no simple solution.

• Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon Follow Packs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Awesome, thanks for the info :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite 1000+ hour games?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have fun playing :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite 1000+ hour games?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Warframe. Inching closer to 3.000h currently.

  It does come in waves, but every once in a while I go all in again and lose myself in the infinite things you can do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hate needs justification⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I think hate is a draining and destructive emotion.

  There’s situations where it should be used, but it should be used wisely. For example, it takes an insane amount of shady behavior to get under my skin, but when people do, they earn my hate and that makes me set very solid boundaries. But it would be bad to destroy friendships for hating someone because we got on each other’s nerves for a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if you quit a job you didn't like or was toxic, didn't the financial hit scare you?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this really depends on how you quit. If you do it on an impulse, that’s gonna really roll the dice, but if you already have another job lined up and you know the financial hit can be dampened by savings or another way, you might feel a bit safer.

  I just heard that my contract can’t be renewed and it runs out in March, so I’ll have too look for something. I have enough time and I already took care of everything else so I don’t have to panic anymore, but the anxiety will be there until I secured another job I’m happy with, and I just gotta deal with that.

  My current job is not toxic but it does keep me on my toes and one of my bosses I can’t get along with; he is always suspicious of me and I can’t really deal with that. I just wanna do my job and not appeal to people lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You'll end up in a van down by the river" if you do drugs, don't go to college, etc. advice never includes the warning: "Don't suffer major Depression that gives you complete apathy for existence."⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “alcohol makes you act without thinking and pot makes you think without action” is so gonna be stolen for future use. Yoink.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people make and save kaomoji art?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On windows, there’s an ascii/unicode char lookup table, which you can use to search and copy special characters. Just FYI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 42 year old new hire at your job confesses to you that he has had 48 different jobs in his life. What is your opinion on that?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that’s a lot of information framing.