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- Comment on The Turing test has been inverted. 1 hour ago:
Well that was a risky click, honestly, I expected something much more explicit, more like the wall of Mortys or something.
- Comment on We've done it, boys 1 day ago:
Oh dear god I had not seen that graph updated in some years.
- Comment on The reason women cover their drinks 1 day ago:
I am a dude and this photo reminds me of just generally keeping my eye on dudes like this in bars, back in my 20s, and either getting staff to remove people like them when I see them slip the roofie, or cause some kind of scene and functionally do it myself.
These would be the kind of guys who would think their furtive, shifty checks of their surroundings aren’t easily noticeable, not confident or bold or smooth enough to do it with the finesse of essentially a magic trick.
They’d be the ones too cowardly to actually, meaningfully throw hands, instead just act indignant and screech, all bark, no bite.
- Comment on Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege 1 day ago:
Fair enough, I don’t mean to sound like it isn’t a good thing to do, to try to ween people off, but I’ll freely admit I am way too jaded to try to do that myself anymore.
I spent a decade trying to convince people that if they did not leave, [gestures at current state of the world] is what would happen.
Way I see it, its roughly the same situation as climate change: we passed the inflexion point, we failed, now our possible future timelines are much darker.
… I’m glad you made it out though.
Keep that flame of optimism inside you as well tended and healthy as you can.
- Comment on The Turing test has been inverted. 1 day ago:
Literally yes, captchas trained older image recognition models.
- Comment on The Turing test has been inverted. 1 day ago:
… because I am examining the underside of the tortoise, to try and make out any significant details… because I am utterly befuddled as to how a tortoise came to be in the middle of a vast desert.
Presumably, I am in the American Southwest, but if I can possibly specify the species of tortoise, I may be able to discern whether I am in the Mojave, Sonora, or Colorado desert.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
I’ve done that, and found the same.
But, this person asked for less unethical.
Not ‘and also, of similar competence.’
At this point I really do think we need to be forming something like Mondragon-esque, worker governed co-ops, collectives.
Unions aren’t enough.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Yeah I mean, at this point, I can very easily see someone saying that very genuienly, or very sarcastically.
Hence why I asked.
Glad to know you were indeed doing a bit, but uh yeah, I’m autistic enough that I just ask, because I have encountered a large number of people who would just ssy things like that, entirely seriously.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
No.
We won’t.
We will get movies designed as either patriotic/honorable, wildly unrealistic, aspirational lifestyle glamorization … pure cope/hopium, saccharine, hero/success fantasies for adult children to live vicariously through… and warrior hero stories where the plot is incited by external or seditious threats.
That’s very roughly what happened to German cinema when the Nazis took over.
We will just have machines making the slop, instead of demented sycophants.
… there won’t be any money for things that cause people to think!
Fight Club was not an initial success, and it largely tricked people via its marketing, into making people think it was going to be something closer to Rocky, but edgier… than a psycho-social critique of basically society.
Fight Club is an anomaly.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
You might try some kind of open source non profit.
No guarantees, but likely at least less evil.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Correct.
A person who knows about evil and continues to participate in perpetuating it?
That is the definition of complicit.
You either quit, become a hypocrite and coward, or embrace and justify the evil.
Left, liberal, conservative.
Thats pretty much how American politics/society works.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
“I’m just a willing cog in the machine that produces death and destruction, for my own personal benefit.”
“I’m just doing what I have to do to get by.”
I very much hope you are joking, because if you sre serious, you are a hypocrite and a coward.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
I literally for Microsoft in large part because I could not morally myself justify working for such a manipulative, lying company.
And that was a decade ago.
Yeah, yeah if you work MSFT, you have less moral character than I do, you are certainly aiding and abetting evil; even if you’re not directly doing the super evil shit, you’re helping the gears keep grinding along.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Oh look, its literally everyone who works in HR and Marketing!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
- Comment on Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege 4 days ago:
Its… far, far too late to just tell people to stop.
- Comment on revenge 6 days ago:
Correction: Step-Sister (hopefully?) Fucker.
- Comment on revenge 6 days ago:
Adult babies exist, and they throw temper tantrums too.
Just because someone is a parent doesn’t mean they’re qualified to be one.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Yep. Everthing had at least doubled in the past ~ two months, because Nvidia’s AI bubble must not be allowed to pop.
- Comment on The story of a crazy Half-Life 2 bug, as told by former Valve dev Tom Forsyth (Mastodon thread) 1 week ago:
I believe that’s correct, you can… VR melee enemies, it will cause some kind of animated response, but it doesn’t do any actual damage to them.
- Comment on The story of a crazy Half-Life 2 bug, as told by former Valve dev Tom Forsyth (Mastodon thread) 1 week ago:
At one point, Valve accidentally broke blinking in HL2 era versions of the Source engine.
Like uh, there was originally, for all humanoid NPCs with visible eyes, some kind of timer and functionality that would cause NPCs to blink, at semi-random, semi-regular intervals.
Somewhere around approximately 2010-12… they broke this, and no NPCs would or could blink anymore.
… Last I checked, roughly a decade later… they appear to have fixed it.
But I remember this being broken for like, years.
- Comment on 3rd-person shooters optimized for controllers? 1 week ago:
You may also consider a vertical mouse.
There are cheap but decent ones on Amazon, Kysona and Nulea (I think? sp?) make some, and there are also rather expensive ones.
Basically, you hold the house as if you are holding a cup of soda.
They were basically mainly marketed as ergonomic, for carpal tunnel sufferers… but when you think about it, a very long gaming session, everyday, all the time, whatever… yeah the ergonomics do actually make more sense, they’re fairly close to the same grip and shape of many trackball mice.
Alternatively, get a new Steam Controller when they come out in a few months.
Its a controller; sticks, buttons, pads triggers, also has two little uh, kinda like laptop track pads.
Its basically a Steam Deck w/o the screen in the middle, but lighter and more ergonomic.
I play older shooters (often emulated) with sticks, newer ones with a pad.
As far as a third person shooter that works well with controllers?
Uh… Splinter Cell Chaos Theory?
You can get that on Steam.
Metal Gear Solid V?
Those are both probably narrative driven though, MGSV has multiple open worlds, basically?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
As the saying goes:
It takes two to tango.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
A bunch of people have already pointed out that, generally, most men are not simply looking for a fleshlight with legs attached, they’re looking to have a very enjoyable time with someone who is also having a very enjoyable time with them.
Personally, as a queer dude, nope, I could not do a serious relationship with a literally 0 sex drive guy, gal, any other gender / trans status, etc.
Even if you had a sex schedule that actually matched with hypothetically my sex drive, nope, I would know that you having sex with me is literally a chore for you.
Nope. Doesn’t work for me. I aim to please, and knowing that’s impossible for me to do with you?
I’d end up leaving, due to not being able to satisfy my need/desire to feel that I am satisfying someone else’s need/desire.
The good thing here is that you are honest and upfront about your 0 sex drive.
You would probably, I would imagine, have the best luck finding a mate who also has literally 0 sex drive, and is also as upfront and honest about that as you are.
Also… I have a question.
So, you have 0 sex drive.
How would you view, or feel about, if you did have a long term partner, with a sex drive, and they just slept with other people?
Would you view that as cheating, intolerable, or would you not care at all, or maybe somewhere in the middle, or something more nuanced?
Like uh, say they live with you, come home from work to you every day, you two cuddle and snuggle and go on dates and figure out bills together… but they just take that sex schedule idea you’re proposing, and instead take those timeslots to uh, pencil in somebody else.
How would you fedl about that scenario, or something approximating it?
Would that be like “Great! More time for me to do me stuff!” or … not?
- Comment on We all do this 1 week ago:
Hope you find something you fancy!
- Comment on We all do this 1 week ago:
Unfortunately no, I don’t have a playlist that I could share or recommend in good faith, not at the moment.
But if you mean more generally, just, what do I listen to, to help concentrate?
Hrm.
Various chiptuny, melodic beep bloopy music… sometimes things with rolling or constant bass or drum lines or something… ‘Conga Fury’ by Juno Reactor, ‘One of These Days’ by Pink Floyd, or ‘Tick of the Clock’ by the Chromatics…
But, sometimes much more laid back and chill stuff, lounge background music type stuff, ambient electronica, Boards of Canada type stuff…
Sometimes various classical songs.
Sometimes literally Mongolian throat singing, which I guess does not register to my brain as speech.
It depends on my mood, lol.
And also the … level of instensity of what I’m trying to do, whether or not its very physical, very mental, or both.
Going even further, a decade ago now, I actually tried to see if I could find some kind of actual… threshold, where my brain, or I, whatever, can’t really decide if its ‘vocals’ or not, in terms of 'does this mess with my ability to concentrate.
And that is how I ended up finding TOBACCO / Black Moth Super Rainbow.
… Nobody really sounds like them.
The way they make their sounds, you’d think its digital, but apparently its all analogue… they have a very strange way of … making, and then using, some kind of vocoder.
… I would basically describe the music as what a good LSD trip … sounds like.
- Comment on We all do this 1 week ago:
I have an internal monologue.
(I say this because this is apparently somewhat uncommon)
Music with lyrics tends to make it more difficult for me to focus on my own thoughts, whereas music without lyrics tends to be much more effective at helping me focus on my own thoughts.
Of course, some music without lyrics is… just too jarring or loud in some way… but whenever a song has lyrics, those lyrics are basically taking up the same … memory channel, bandwidth lane, as my own thought process.
Same with any background conversation, actual people, TV, whatever, doesn’t matter.
Human voices throw off, to some extent, my ability to literally think through a complex process.
- Comment on I hope so :D 1 week ago:
You can also view that sort of… tonal dissonance, as intentional.
Nowadays many people say we live in ‘clown world’ because of the ludicrous and absurd situations and contrasts.
Like that old copy pasta of the Anarcho Capitalist private detective.
That kind of overwhelming contrast that becomes absurd… thats part of what an actual hypercapitalist hellscape actually looks like.
- Comment on A community dedicated to 30+ gamers. 1 week ago:
To all 3 points: Fair enough!
Yeah, Caravan is the card game from New Vegas, it probably would not be too difficult to replicate its AI for playing against NPCs.
Its… kind of like comepetetive, 2 player Solitaire, if that makes any sense.
Played with standard cards, not like TCG cards, you try to build 3 different ‘caravans’ of between 21 and 26 total… but, face cards can be played on either your caravans or your opponents, and they do special things.
The other element of Caravan is that you can play with custom decks, but you have to have a card from a different art style of deck to be able to have duplicates.
So… its… played with normal cards, but each player is playing their own deck.
In New Vegas, this integrates with the rest of the game, as it incentivizes exploration.
If you have a decent deck and know how to play Caravan, its basically an infinite money cheat, you can clean out many NPC Caravan players.
For a card game only version… maybe you could make it so that you can just win certain ‘prize pool’ cards, sort of like how Pokemon works.
Maybe instead of anteing up caps, you could mix in anteing up some of your own cards, and the NPC has to match in kind.
- Comment on A community dedicated to 30+ gamers. 1 week ago:
TeamSpeak and Ventrilo still exist, Mumble does too, and Tox.
Trade offs for features and functionality with all of those, but I’m fairly sure those do all run on both Windows and Linux, at least, the latter 2 are open source.
Hell, back in like, 2009, me and a friend group just had an eternal Skype group call, used that for gaming voice comms and general chat.
