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- Comment on Bungie appears to have plagarized an artist's work and style in their extraction shooter "Marathon" according to this Bluesky post 2 days ago:
I agree but it can get pretty close. Try asking gpt-4o to generate a realistic picture of an adventure who wears a hat and wields a whip to find lost treasure. It returns basically a picture of Harrison Ford
- Comment on Devolver Digital Announces Shroom And Gloom, A First-Person 'Double-Deckbuilder' Roguelike With A Demo Out Now 3 days ago:
This looks insane
- Comment on Barrage, a turn-based boardgame style economic strategy game where you develop a hydroelectric corporation, released on Steam. 3 days ago:
It’s a real boardgame, too. Looks like this is the digital adaptation
- Comment on Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project' 1 week ago:
Bethesda is such a garbage company. No idea why people buy these half assed games
- Comment on Prices are out of control 1 week ago:
It can make you blind due to high methanol concentrations
- Comment on If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm 1 week ago:
Stop the liberal anti wallcandy propaganda. It feels so good to eat the wall candy. It tastes exactly like cotton candy but it’s available in my walls and my mattress
- Comment on Tabletop Convection Oven* 1 week ago:
It is an oven with the convection setting turned on by default. So it’s like having an oven but for a regular person instead of the design made for 1960s suburban moms cooking for 10, like the “regular” oven
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 1 week ago:
Gotta go with Dwarf Fortress. Been playing on and off for the past 10 years at least, it’s just endless !!FUN!!
- Comment on Texas goes after toothpaste in escalating fight over fluoride 1 week ago:
Truly one of the countries of all time
- Comment on Texas goes after toothpaste in escalating fight over fluoride 2 weeks ago:
Can someone explain what the deal with fluoride is to a non american?
- Comment on When society completely transitions to cash-less, what happens when the power goes down? End of the world? 2 weeks ago:
Cards destroyed so many lives but if you say it out loud people think you’re a tin foil hat nutjob
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 3 weeks ago:
In the mornings I’ll usually read news while enjoying a cup of coffee and a Zyn, too, forgot to mention that
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 3 weeks ago:
Does finance count? I’m usually studying something in the alternative data space (that is, using non-financial data to make decisions on investments) so I can, in the end, make a presentation or deliver a product to someone. For example, an analyst decides to study a clothing company and asks me to scrape their prices in the main Latin American markets (because he thinks they can grow there or something). So I do that for a while and report back to him what I found. If it is interesting, I may be tasked with implementing something in our Excel add-in so he can plug that information into his own models, or I’ll need to develop a model myself.
Lots of spacing out, browsing lemmy and playing bullet chess on my phone, too - Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 4 weeks ago:
Running the service itself over Tor is the only way to prevent local governments knocking on the admin’s door, though
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 4 weeks ago:
Hard agree. Decentralization itself doesn’t really work against censorship, you need an additional layer of privacy, or, more ideally, anonymity. Is there a way of running a lemmy instance over Tor?
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 4 weeks ago:
Can’t disagree here, this would be great
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 5 weeks ago:
We also need people sharing their niche interests and creating discussion… Reddit thrives on these small communities that only find an accessible entrypoint on their platform.
- Comment on AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%. 1 month ago:
I don’t know about stopping entirely. I built a pretty cool RAG system for internal use in my company, it very much facilitates navigating very large amounts of text data.
- Comment on If you're still on Reddit... 1 month ago:
The PE firms buying the entire downtown are raising prices, not muh immigrants
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 1 month ago:
Yup, and the arguments are so weirdly self centered, too. “I went through so much when I started college, what would I talk about with someone in HIGH SCHOOL?” (19-17 gap) Dude, you started smoking pot and went to a few frat parties, it’s not that deep. Also are these people just always discussing life experiences for some reason? No shared interests, hobby groups, common acquaintances?
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 1 month ago:
Reddit would be outraged about an 18 yo dating a 16 yo, though. Some people have really weird and unrealistic views on this
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 month ago:
Forgot about BGG! That one is amazing, too
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 month ago:
I just stumble upon them using Kagi search and phind.com
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 month ago:
Forums are still alive in ultra niche communities. My favorites: Badger and Blade for wet shaving, Snuffhouse for snuff tobacco, Quantnet for quantitative finance. All of these gather way better content and users than their Reddit counterpart, which usually devolves into memes and pic of the day stuff