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- Comment on How is Donald Trump able to get away with being part of a child trafficking ring but I get 20 years in jail for littering? 2 days ago:
- Comment on Trump, 79, Rants Incoherently About Robots and AI 5 days ago:
Yes…that’s what I said…
- Comment on Trump, 79, Rants Incoherently About Robots and AI 5 days ago:
Nah, 1.0 was only better because he spent the while time figuring out wtf to do. He didn’t even know he had to hire his own cabinet. 2.0 is the result of those four years of realizing the power and protection of the position, and another four of teams of knowledgeable people working hard to make sure this term would be the last they’d ever need.
- Comment on Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached 1 week ago:
That’s what? A few megabytes of storage? That’s an absurd restriction.
- Comment on Stardew Valley Creator Says 1.7 Update Will Contain 'More Character/Social Stuff' and a New Farm Type 2 weeks ago:
Nah. I’m sure SD had a similar development time, we’re just aware of it at this point, so it feels “delayed”.
It’ll be done when it’s done. Declaring it a lost cause just because the solo Dev hasn’t whipped it up in a year it two is misguided, to say the least.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 3 weeks ago:
It’s not ruining my day or anything, but the gacha game basically bribing their players to vote for them feels pretty lame.
And I mentioned it in another TGA thread, but for a 4.5 hour runtime, presenting roughly 10 out of 30 awards on stage with the rest being rapid fire announcements between walls of ads/trailers doesn’t feel great for an awards show.
Those two gripes aside, I did enjoy it overall. All the winners’ speeches were very sweet and nice to see, though clearly a rough year for most games not named Clair Obscur.
- Comment on Is there a uBlock Origin filter or extension for LLM slop in search results 3 weeks ago:
If there were something in the elements indicating it, it could, but that seems unlikely.
- Comment on Trump threatens ABC News in Oval Office meltdown 1 month ago:
Such a weak, cowardly piece of shit.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Indie doesn’t and hasn’t ever had anything to do with budget.
- Comment on Everyone has a phase 2 months ago:
It’s Swedish, I think.
- Comment on Everyone has a phase 2 months ago:
An actor is not the character they play.
- Comment on Everyone has a phase 2 months ago:
*Radcliffe
- Comment on 2 months ago:
ambitious
no multiplayer paywall
lol, fuck off. Better late than never, but this shit turned me away from consoles a long, long time ago.
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 2 months ago:
Pointing out who is likely to be a fan of hers isn’t “blaming the victim”. It’s being realistic about what she has to deal with. It shouldn’t happen, but bad people exist. Can’t ignore that.
- Comment on Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits 2 months ago:
Shitty? Yes. “Enshitification”? No.
- Comment on Necesse Version 1.0 | Launch Trailer 2 months ago:
Yeah, so “boring” to just not say shitty, denigrating things out loud. Poor you. 🙄
- Comment on Necesse Version 1.0 | Launch Trailer 2 months ago:
So you get it’s a shitty thing to say, but you’re saying it anyway. Thanks for clarifying.
- Comment on The most valuable advertising keywords could be "ublock origin" 2 months ago:
Bookmark it. Or download a copy to have on hand locally.
- Comment on We'll be seeing an uptick in UFO sightings soon 2 months ago:
AI might hallucinate things that aren’t there when used in computational photography when it’s trying to fill in the gaps.
So it’s putting things that “aren’t there” in when it’s…filling in things that aren’t there? This is why “hallucinate” is such a problematic term. It obfuscates the fact that this is what these programs do with everything - they were designed from the start to make shit up. It’s not “hallucinating”, it’s fulfilling its core programming function.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Inb4 it’s just flame wars all the way down.
- Comment on Flashbacks scenes in Movies/TV should be depicted as being more blurry than present scenes, since most people can't actually remember a past event that accurately. 2 months ago:
They’re primarily a tool to remind audiences what happened/is relevant, but it’d definitely be interesting for a show to unceremoniously alter flashbacks in similar ways to how brains alter real memories.
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 2 months ago:
I love containers, but it has a pretty frustrating and unfriendly ui. If something else allowed sorting and categorizing, I think that’d be an upgrade.
- Comment on A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman 2 months ago:
You’ve stated as much already. If we’re just repeating ourselves here, I’ll just copy-paste.
That you can’t see or appreciate the intent of the artist behind those doesn’t mean it’s not there or not important.
- Comment on A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman 2 months ago:
Agreed.
- Comment on A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman 2 months ago:
That you can’t see or appreciate the intent of the artist behind those doesn’t mean it’s not there or not important. Why they were made or how they are used in the end is not important. All that matters is how they were made.
- Comment on A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman 2 months ago:
the how is really quite irrelevant
That’s our point. The how is entirely relevant. It’s what makes art interesting and meaningful. Without the how and why, it’s just colors and noise.
- Comment on A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman 2 months ago:
The impact on livelihoods is important, but it’s ultimately unrelated to defining what art is. My consideration of art is not one born of fear of losing money, but purely out of appreciation for the craft. I don’t think it’s entirely fair to suggest all the criticisms against generated art is solely borne of self-preservation.
In regards to corporate “art”, all the things you listed, even stock images, are certainly not the purest form of artistry, but they still have (or, at least had) intent suffusing their creation. I suppose the question then is - is there a noticeable difference between the two for corporations? Will a generated logo have the same impact as a purposefully crafted on does? In my experience, the generated products I’ve noticed feel distinctly hollow. While past corporate assets are typically hollow shells of real art, generated assets are even less. They’re a pure concentration of corporate greed and demand, without the “bothersome” human element. Maybe that won’t matter in their course of business, but I think it might. Time will tell.
- Comment on A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman 2 months ago:
I made a comment about a week ago about how copying people’s art is still art, and it was a bit of an aha moment as I pinpointed for myself a big part of why I find image generators and the like so soulless, inwardly echoing a lot of what Inman lays out here.
All human made art, from the worst to the best, embodies the effort of the artist. Their intent and their skill. Their attempt to make something, to communicate something. It has meaning. All generative art does is barf up random noise that looks like pictures. It’s impressive technology, and I understand that it’s exciting, but it’s not art. If humans ever end up creating actual artificial intelligence, then we can talk about machine made art. Until then, it’s hardly more than a printer in terms of artistic merit.
- Comment on Exciting bat news!!! 2 months ago:
It’s a cutie, too.
- Comment on Portal and Portal 2 are 80% off 2 months ago:
Two of the best games out there, and they both still hold up, imo. The original also recently got a graphics upgrade to put it in par with the sequel, which is nice.