HarkMahlberg
@HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth
People keep asking me, and I haven't really had an answer, but now yeah, I'm thinking I'm back.
- Comment on [Episode] Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Season 2 • Sousou no Frieren 2nd Season - Episode 4 discussion 1 day ago:
I've always felt that the author dropped the ball by writing Sein out too early. For the chapters and episodes where he's in the party, he's like the salt that brings out the flavor of the other characters. Any time Sein is having a one on one chat with Frieren, Fern, or Stark, they open up and reveal a lot more about their qualities and character. Sein gets plenty of development of his own in this short time.
But having him for only 4 episodes just seems wasteful. If his departure was written, idk, 10 episodes out, then it would have felt like we actually spent good quality time with him. And his journey would still be but a fleeting intersection with the others'.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
@Unboxious heard great things about SAC, but I've only seen the original anime.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
@mkmusic22 Oh, and if you need a site to track everything you've watched or read: https://anilist.co. I'd recommend it over MAL at this point.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
@mkmusic22 I mean, it's your list. People can argue for their favorites, but at the end of the day, the list reflects your opinions, not theirs.
As for recommendations, I have a few I think you may enjoy!
CITY The Animation - A slice of life featuring a medley of characters. High production value and a unique, vibrant color palette. Chaotic Good.
Ghost in the Shell - A staple of cyberpunk literature. Stands up there with Blade Runner. See also: Psychopass, Cyberpunk Edgerunners.
Baccano! - An ensemble cast-driven romp through Depression-era America with light fantastical elements.
REDLINE - Speed Racer on crack cocaine. Nuff said.
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 1 week ago:
Wow that's pathetic. You can just smell the desperation to turn a profit, they baked their agita right into their dashboard. And it's quite the dark pattern too, in showing the administrator adoption rates, it singles out the team with the lowest adoption for harassment.
Welp, there's still value in fucking with them I suppose. Send Copilot a "write me an email with no intent to send" request every so often, and you can bump your numbers up.
- Comment on Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse 1 week ago:
brain in a box so he doesn't have to think anymore
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 1 week ago:
👢😋
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 1 week ago:
Here's the secret: talk a big game about being pro AI in the interview, then just don't use it on the job. What are they gonna do, grab your hands and put your mouse cursor on the Copilot button?
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 1 week ago:
We had all of those things before AI and they worked just fine and didn't require 50 Exowatts of electricity to run.
- Comment on GOG accused of using AI-generated art to promote sale, as job listing indicates they're keen to adopt "AI-assisted development tools" 1 week ago:
The Slopper Nintendo
- Comment on Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse 1 week ago:
Even Chinese SA's have access to VPN's, proxies, etc. It's not like they would tie their own hands behind their backs to spread the good word, ya know?
Russia only needed a small number of inroads to influence the 2016 US election, and now? Pff, they hardly need to do anything, we're completely self-sufficient in propagandizing ourselves. It's entirely possible China's already created their own army of Overseas Useful Idiots.
- Comment on Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse 1 week ago:
ML stands for Marxist-Leninist, that's more or less the Tell. They're not merely socialist, but authoritarian. Like MAGA, they treat dissent as hostile.
- Comment on Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse 1 week ago:
Don't worry OP, you could always move to a different instance. You've already done the hard part, figuring them out lol.
- Comment on With the current situation with Tiktok, it's time for the Fedivers to rise. 1 week ago:
In that sense, I hope they do. I would like to follow official communications from, say, the WHO without needing to type in xcancel every time.
- Comment on With the current situation with Tiktok, it's time for the Fedivers to rise. 1 week ago:
The way I understand the ActivityPyb protocol, it is Publisher/Subscriber paradigm. That means when you federate with another instance, you receive (Subscribe to) the things they Publish, and they subscribe to the things Hexbear publishes. So they don't "reblog" Hexbear just because they receive Hexbear content. Their users would have to deliberately reshare the content in some way (on Kbin/Mbin, this is done by Boosting, on Mastodon it's Resharing, etc etc).
- Comment on With the current situation with Tiktok, it's time for the Fedivers to rise. 1 week ago:
Which to be honest? Is totally fine with me. Re-diversifying the Internet is a good thing.
- Comment on With the current situation with Tiktok, it's time for the Fedivers to rise. 1 week ago:
Just checked my blocklist to remind myself and... yep. Yeah that's a big blindspot for us, the pruning and curating of the space has to be done by hand. New users, and especially younger users, are often used to that being done for them by the platform itself.
The fediverse is like a massive yet untamed garden filled with various species, some beautiful, many poisonous. They don't see gloves and shears and see opportunity, they see a chore.
- Comment on With the current situation with Tiktok, it's time for the Fedivers to rise. 1 week ago:
Everything you said was spot on, and all of it is by design. The engineers and operators of the fediverse intentionally built their systems to be community-funded, algorithm-free, oriented around the tech-savvy, and otherwise deliberately eschewing the design principles behind corpo social media. None of that was an accident, it was the whole point.
So for people asking "when is the fediverse gonna create a competitor to tik tok" the answer is "never" because it was never its intent to do that. The friction is a feature, not a bug.
- Comment on r/Silksong joins lemmy! (And a new lemmy instance) 2 weeks ago:
Any word on a release date yet?
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 VR modder doesn't rule out releasing it for free after DMCA, claims there was "no negotiation" with CD Projekt 2 weeks ago:
RPCS3 is funded by voluntary Patreon supporters, but they still offer the emulator for free and its open-source. They were hit with a Cease and Desist (or DMCA, idr) by Atlus because they showcased Persona 5 being emulated. To comply with the order, they removed all screenshots and videos of the game, removed it from their games database (it is known as Unnamed), and they don't support anyone asking for help with it. But that was enough to satisfy Atlus, so RPCS3 is still going strong today.
This guy, from all that I've read, has a perfectly good role model for funding his efforts, and CDPR is probably not nearly as trigger-happy than Atlus, and yet he just keeps digging down.
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 3 weeks ago:
I hope you find the mental health resources and remedial English classes you need.
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 3 weeks ago:
Hey I have some pretty screenshots too!
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 3 weeks ago:
experimental/medicine
You use AI for literally its most dangerous possible use case. And I assume you used a mediocre translator for everything else. Try DeepL, I found it has good results most of the time.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
You might be happy to learn about Misskey, which has a Japanese instance (it's flagship) in misskey.io and an Italian instance in misskey.social. :)
- Comment on A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad 3 weeks ago:
Your usage still gives them justification to continue being global parasites. "Our daily active users is (X + you)."
- Comment on A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad 3 weeks ago:
I wanted to make this joke but didn't want to downplay the breakthrough they had. But man I wonder what her argument was... How did she manage to convince him?
- Comment on A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad 3 weeks ago:
I don't think you deserve this many down votes for this take, but I'll provide a counterpoint. Not being able to afford a real artist is not as large a barrier as you think.
Balatro's music was created by Spanish musician Luis Clemente, known online as LouisF, after developer LocalThunk hired them on Fiverr in 2023.
- Comment on A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad 3 weeks ago:
"Ethically, [the] only logical reason is to delete the game from Steam. The girl I've been dating for a month made me realize this."
Make like 38 Special and hold on loosely brother. Keep it up.
- Comment on A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad 3 weeks ago:
The developer gives a pretty decent reason for the deletion, imo:
"I have realized the AI is not actually free, and it has a major effect on the economy and environment," Rakuel wrote. "Some AI companies can use this game just existing as a reason the get more investment for their AI companies, that benefit[s] no one, but rather suck resources from the economy from hard working people," he continued.
There's nothing he can do about Arc Raider's success, but taking ownership of what he did, I gotta say, respect.
- Comment on The Votely Political Quiz - Most Accurate 3D Political Compass 4 weeks ago:
Nice data collection scheme.