spankmonkey
@spankmonkey@lemmy.world
- Comment on Almost a third of developers think generative AI is a negative for the games industry, says new survey 6 days ago:
Games and movies have already used algorithms for background crowds and hair movement, AI would just be a continuation of that kind of thing. One reason to be against it for that purpose is because of the concern of how it will be implemented, since those old algorithms were seen as a tool for professionals to use instead of something to replace those same professionals.
The main concern with generative AI is the ‘replace your workforce’ mentality that is associated with it.
- Comment on Politics content to be pushed on all Instagram and Threads users 2 weeks ago:
Full on propaganda machine, and as usual they blame ‘most users’ for what they force on all the users.
- Comment on Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old 3 weeks ago:
But what’s the alternative?
Posting the information on an official page and creating links with summaries on social media.
- Comment on Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old 3 weeks ago:
Just put it on the platform most people are using and don’t add extra steps to see what’s needed.
Most, but not all people should be a deal breaker for a public service announcement.
- Comment on How many games do you manage to play at the same time? 3 weeks ago:
I can play any number multiple repetitive/nonlinear games that don’t require keeping track of a story or events. So racing games, most FPS, etc. Right now I can switch between Helldivers 2, Call of Duty, Forza Horizon, Valheim, Tekken, and so on at the drip of a hat. I do end up customizing controls so they are similar within a genre, so HD and COD get trmapped to my standard first person shooter control scheme.
But I cannot stay engaged with more than one game that has a storyline/things to rememeber like the Witcher, Red Dead Redemption 2, or Horizon Zero Dawn even if they have handy in game reminders for what to do. Switching between stories is my dealbreaker for playing at the same time. I also have trouble sticking with a story long enough to complete those types of games which is a bummer because I like the idea of them.
- Comment on Is it possible to design a social media app or service that rather than focuses on farming engagement, it tries to promote quality content? 3 weeks ago:
No, because a focus on quality would require defining quality and then curating the content through some kind of process that would not end up being ‘social media’.
Quality will never be defined by popularity, which is the entire focus of social apps.
- Comment on Hermen Hulst: Sony Will Continue To Make Live Service Titles, As They Are “Learning” From Helldivers 2 3 weeks ago:
Sony is most likely learning all the wrong things from HD2. For future projects I forsee the normal trends:
- They willl force PSN requirements ip front (already in progress)
- Benefits of monetization will most likely be dialed up.
- Content releases will be spread over time, but not for in game reasons or to allow time for fixing QA issues like with HD2.
- Crossover with other media will be a mix of overpriced ceap with a small numbef of freebees because they don’t understand the free stuff was in response to fucking up in the first place.
- Sony will most likely think that a buggy release is fine because people put up with it.
- Comment on What is the origin of aliens looking like humans? Why and when did it become the norm? 3 weeks ago:
In written media, including scripts, it is just easier for readers to understand sci fi aliens as ‘human but different’ which is along the same lines as why robots are mostly bipedal human shaped. It also allows for stories about humans, since that is the basis for a lot of sci fi stories as well.
- Comment on Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, AI is making the same practices worse, but tryijg to destroy the concept of the minimum wage goes back to at least the early 80s if not before.
- Comment on Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour 3 weeks ago:
I think for even the shortest delivery of a place 10 minutes away with a 2 mile distance is supposed to tip at least $5. and if the delivery is done in 30 minutes, that’s an effective wage of $15/hour, that is, if they get orders back-to-back.
Since these shitty companies don’t provide vehicles or gas money most of that $15 is going to vehicle costs.
When I delivered for a pizza place in the late 90s in a midwest college town with my own car I got 15-20 per hour between base pay, gas and car use subsidy, and tips. That business was 90% deliveries, so the delivery was baked into the cost.
- Comment on Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour 3 weeks ago:
I’ve never used the third party delivery apps because it was clear their business model was going to screw over the deivers from the beginning.
- Comment on Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour 3 weeks ago:
Food delivery only made sense as an operating cost of the business, so third party delivery would have only made sense as something that the businesses subsidized. It also only makes sense if it is structured around the busy times of day as well.
I worked in a few businesses in the late 90s that offered delivery. In every case the delivery drivers were basically kitchen staff who went on deliveries OR the business itself was primarily delivery based in the first place and they still had the drivers do some other work around the place during downtime between meals. Both approaches spread the cost of the employees over more than the literal time delivering, because otherwise the cost per hour would be ridiculous. They also delivered food that held up to delivery times, so the food waiting 10-15 minutes before being delivered wasn’t an issue.
There was a reason that pizza places and Chinese restaurants frequently had delivery even in smaller towns while things like McDonald’s did not. The food held up to delivery and was frequently of a volume that made the restaurant subsidizing the cost of delivery feasible.
- Comment on 2025 trailer be wild 3 weeks ago:
Nope
- Comment on What are the current most common symptoms of Covid? I was told about two years ago that a fever is no longer even really a symptom. Yet when I look it up on the CDC website, it shows fever is a sympto 3 weeks ago:
There was a clarification that people were still contagious even without a fever and that not everyone who gets covid also has a fever or even any symptoms at all. That would be to address the people who were going to public events because they didn’t have a fever or other symptoms.
- Comment on This is in a small convenience store where you can buy food things and heat them up while in the store 3 weeks ago:
The whole legal system is designed to make non-wealthy people fail to rehabilitate.
- Comment on Why do airplanes have big front "headlights"? 3 weeks ago:
Why pretend, we both know perfectly well what this is about. You want me to have an abortion.
- Comment on I'm just a 20 year old guy, AMA 4 weeks ago:
How old are you?
- Comment on Day 1 Reddit Refugee 4 weeks ago:
Happy cake day!
- Comment on Happy New Year! Thought I'd share my new year's resolution to the people here 4 weeks ago:
I can’t tell if you got down voted for explaining the joke or before those people don’t understand the joke.
Probably best to assume they are morons.
- Comment on US farmers fret over Trump's deportation plans 4 weeks ago:
What’s old is new again!
- Comment on Thanks mom, I don't want any 4 weeks ago:
That’s flaked tuna, it says so right in the ad.
- Comment on I could be friendly... *for money*! 4 weeks ago:
Have you ever met a shitty person?
- Comment on Would "god cum" be correct? 4 weeks ago:
Mark should have kept his mouth shut!
- Comment on SAD 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Thanks mom, I don't want any 4 weeks ago:
Recipe calls for four waffles. Image shows the concoction poured over two waffles.
Apparently two people will be eating off the same plate.
- Comment on Will Republicans try another Federal Right to Work attempt? 1 month ago:
Missouri voted to amend their state constitution to enshrine abortion rights, and also voted in Republicans into national seats and the white house which is most likely going to result in a national abortion ban that overrides the state constitution.
People are morons.
- Comment on Will Republicans try another Federal Right to Work attempt? 1 month ago:
The way I try to remember it is that it comes from the employers perspective:
- Right to Work employees to death by ignoring unions
- The employer has the right to fire workers At Will
- Comment on Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay 1 month ago:
That’s what I do.
Not surprisingly, the Republicans are always the worst and the only local opposition that has a slim chance of winning are Dems so I end up voting a straight Dem ticket despite refusing to register for the party. If there was an independent with a chance of winning I would consider them, but haven’t seen any on the local positions.
- Comment on this town has been well known for a long time 1 month ago:
probably tastes close to dipping a grilled cheese into tomato soup
It does not.
- Comment on Subway lovers posted 1 month ago:
I am pretty sure that the test was badly done and the whole 50% thing was the result of shitty sampling. Yes, they have soy protein additives but fake chicken is more expensive than real chicken and the tests were never confirmed by a second lab.
A lot of fast food does end up having meat that is significantly lower than 100% meat just by doing seasoning and preservatives. Taco Bell for example has a crazy amount spices and filler ratio which is partially due to the fact that meat volume is reduced as the moisture is cooked out. They are still excessive though.
Subway gets picked on the most both due to how it has the most locations (or did at one point) and it brags about the food quality. Nobody picks on KFC for how fatty their fried chicken is because we know it is fatty. Subway played themselves.
