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- Comment on The Votely Political Quiz - Most Accurate 3D Political Compass 14 hours ago:
the nordic systems are based on popular sovereignty by proportional representation, which lies in opposition to separation of power.
- Comment on The Votely Political Quiz - Most Accurate 3D Political Compass 15 hours ago:
no, not every democracy. every government performs those roles but they are not all split the same way. the nordic countries are single-branch and he chinese government has many more than three.
- Comment on Anon has his special day 17 hours ago:
bear witness
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 17 hours ago:
because it’s full of yes men?
- Comment on The Votely Political Quiz - Most Accurate 3D Political Compass 17 hours ago:
No branch of government should be allowed to accumulate too much power.
tell me you’re from the us without telling me you’re from the us. what’s a “branch of government”?
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 19 hours ago:
only if all actors are working in good faith.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 1 day ago:
doesn’t necessarily need to be short for North Atlantic, could be Not America’s no. 2
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 1 day ago:
as far as i understand it, nato does not have any democratic principles in its rules because was assumed that everyone in it wants the same thing, so everything needs to be done with full agreement. that’s why sweden and finland were blocked from entering for multiple years, turkiye would not allow them in.
so basically, as long as the us wants to be in nato, it will be in nato. better to scrap it and start again. i propose the name na2.
- Comment on Best recent homebrew games for GB/GBC ? 3 days ago:
i have the physical release of lösningen, which is a fun little inverse mystery game based on “true speculations”.
- Comment on shoutout to finland 6 days ago:
probably a finn
- Comment on shoutout to finland 6 days ago:
i think the food use is older, it’s been used at least since roman times.
- Comment on shoutout to finland 6 days ago:
i sent my canadian sibling a bag of [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrkisk_peber](turkisk peppar) as part of a care package and they thought it was a prank. then when i wisited i ate all of it myself. love me some salmiak
- Comment on Are hierarchies inherently bad in all aspects? or are there domains where heirarchies are good to have? 1 week ago:
filesystems
- Comment on ublock Origin can get rid of Cookie Banners 1 week ago:
it’s mostly the interface, the layout, the clickbaityness the format encourages, and the fact that no useful information can fit in that short a video.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
the heritage foundation penned the “project 2025” document, which is what donny boy has been following to the letter since day one in power.
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 1 week ago:
they’re ass because they’re inconsistent, have aliasing issues, are obviously stretched/squashed, are put against a noisy background, and in some cases are just wrong.
and no, if the name was not on it i would not assume that the ps4 was a ps4. it looks like a modem. and the 360 has a keyhole for some reason.
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 1 week ago:
the graphics are ass
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 1 week ago:
maybe i do then because i just keep staring and thinking “how in the world did anyone sign off on this mess”. if it’s not ai, that makes it even worse.
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 1 week ago:
for the asymmetry on the switch i was mostly referring to the silhouette. should havj clarified that.
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 1 week ago:
ok so theyre just bad at it.
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 1 week ago:
the proportions are off and the lines are crooked. there’s also the typical latent noise on places like the controller buttons.
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 1 week ago:
the buttons on the switch and ps2, the asymmetry of the ps1 and switch, the logo on the ps4, and the lack of pixellation and strange proportions of the 360 and ps3. also the fact that only some of them have controllers depicted.
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 1 week ago:
oh great, ai generated pixel art.
- Comment on We'll probably never see a Grand Theft Auto set in a futuristic city like GTA 2 because the team "hated it": "People didn’t connect with the game or its city" 1 week ago:
gta2 is still my favourite of the series. the first game was so damn janky that i could barely play it but the second one is smooth as butter, and with the artstyle they chose it looks really unique.
- Comment on Word. 2 weeks ago:
because people who don’t know computers can’t learn to use the right file format.
pdf is a container format for code that is run by printers. it’s like editing a printed page.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 3 weeks ago:
most procedural algorithms don’t require training data, for one. they can just be given a seed and run. or rather, the number of weights is so minimal that you can set them by hand.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 3 weeks ago:
generative ai is a subset of procedural generation algorithms. specifically it’s a procedural algorithm with a massive amount of weight parameters, on the order of hundreds of billions. you get the weights by training. for image generation (which i’m assuming is what was in use here), the term to look up is “latent diffusion”. basically you take all your training data and blur it step by step, set your weights to mimic the blur operation, and then when you want an image you run the model backwards.
- Comment on GitHub - scallyw4g/bonsai: The procedural generation voxel engine 3 weeks ago:
no apology necessary, i find it an interesting question. i was aware of things like worldedit but using a pure voxel editor for terrain work is new to me.
i think the relationship is probably reversed here though, it’s more likely that tools like avoyd can be made to export things for use in luanti and/or bonsai.
- Comment on GitHub - scallyw4g/bonsai: The procedural generation voxel engine 3 weeks ago:
but those tools are built for minecraft right? this is a different system with (presumably) a different format, and from what i can see, no builtin terrain generation algorithm. it would be easier to just build one in luanti.
- Comment on GitHub - scallyw4g/bonsai: The procedural generation voxel engine 3 weeks ago:
how?