KoboldCoterie

@KoboldCoterie@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't believe it's been renamed for a year now!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah… “We can’t undo all of the unprecedented shit the previous admin did because it would set a precedent for future admins” is just about the stupidest argument I can think of. Tear it all down and start from scratch, clearly what we have isn’t working.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2 North American 4 you has been created⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I learned about it from a story I heard of someone who traveled from the US to Thailand, saw it on the menu at a restaurant and ordered it, expecting it to be the sort of fried rice you’d get in the US at an Asian restaurant. They were unpleasantly surprised.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2 North American 4 you has been created⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Notably, Americans are not the only culture that does this.

  There’s a Thai dish called ‘American Fried Rice’ for instance.

  American fried rice is a Thai fried rice dish with “American” side ingredients like fried chicken, ham, sausages, raisins, and ketchup.[1] Other ingredients like pineapples and croutons are optional.

  At least in any part of America I’ve been to, this is certainly not something you can get here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't believe it's been renamed for a year now!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s fucking embarrassing, honestly. I hope whomever is president next reverses all of the BS executive orders. Like, day 1. You could argue that there’s far more important things to be doing than changing the Gulf of Mexico back to being the Gulf of Mexico, and you’d be right, but doing it on day 1 (along with everything else - just write one executive order that undoes every EO from the prior admin) sends the (important) message that there was nothing of value done by the prior admin, and the legitimacy of the administration is not even being entertained for a moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whats the best way to clean up 15 years of stuff around the house?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re moving, then set some firm boundaries: You will have 1 moving truck (or whatever you’re using) - if it won’t fit in the truck, you can’t keep it, full stop. If there’s something that won’t fit that you absolutely must keep, you’ve got to remove something else to make room for it.

  Take it one room at a time, or even one quarter of a room at a time. Don’t cherry pick things to remove - just start at one end and remove everything. It either goes in the dumpster, or it goes in the truck, but it can’t stay in the house, and you’ve got to choose one. There’s no “We’ll decide on this later”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Duality of Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The newer monster hunter games try to explain it away as functionality conservation efforts, telling you that the ones you’re killing are throwing off the local ecosystem, but it falls pretty flat when they also pit captured ‘research specimens’ against you in the arena they built explicitly for that purpose…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta patented an AI that lets you keep posting after you die⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, none of that. Around here, all content is valuable, low-effort and shitty or not. As long as it was posted by a human; fuck AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I literally can't even afford dinner everyday in Paris!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s cool. I hate that we have to vote every piece of media through the ‘is this AI?’ lens now, but glad to hear it’s legitimate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I literally can't even afford dinner everyday in Paris!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The colors in the key don’t even match the colors in the graph, is this just AI generated garbage or do you have actual sources to go with it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t speak from personal experience but from what I’ve heard, it’s more about the concept / theme / emotions than the actual act itself. People (at least, the vast majority) who are into it don’t actually want to experience it in real life; just like with many other more mundane fetishes, it’s more about the fantasy and how it makes you feel to imagine yourself in that situation, and more nebulous concepts like the idea of becoming a physical part of another creature, or the imagined feeling of closeness, constriction, warmth, safety or comfort from being inside something’s stomach. Obviously not things you’d experience if it actually happened to you, but that’s not the point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not super familiar with the exact specifics, but my loose understanding is that if it’s ‘soft’, the subject survives relatively unharmed. If they die in the process, it’s ‘hard’, whether that’s due to being chewed, asphyxiation, or dissolved (or anything else). (There’s a subcategory called ‘disposal’ which is… exactly what you think it is, following that digestion.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate that I feel the need to mention this, but…

  “Vore” doesn’t necessarily imply ‘torn to shreds’; it could be as simple as being swallowed whole. It comes in ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ varieties, with the former being non-destructive, and the latter being… well, what you thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A chatbot entirely powered by humans, not artificial intelligence? This Chilean community shows why⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am highly disappointed that that sloth picture is not in the article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Haven’t Quantum Computers Factored 21 Yet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I rarely feel as stupid as when reading anything about quantum computing. The whole field could just be a giant in-joke where none of it exists and they’re all just spouting nonsense technical jargon to confound the plebs, and I’d be oblivious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does this thing work? (wrong answers only)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s obviously a group of very small people trapped inside a hamster wheel style contraption. As the fan structure heats up, the floor of the wheel grows uncomfortably hot, and forces the little people to continuously run to avoid getting burned (continually cycling the cooler top of the wheel down to the bottom). This in turn turns the fan blades.

  I am honestly appalled that you would buy such a thing; it’s cruel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The word ‘terrorist’ has lost all meaning at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Cops Frequently Got Caught Planting Drugs in 2017 | Look. All technology comes with a learning curve.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would even go a step further and say that cops’ testimony should not even be accepted if they don’t have bodycam footage to back it up. When you have a camera that’s able to verify anything you need it to, the absence of that verification should be viewed through the lens that you specifically did not want whatever was happening during that time to be recorded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am looking for a Linux OS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Worth noting if you take this advice: SteamOS (and Bazzite, recommended elsewhere) are immutable distros, which, to over-simplify it to an extreme degree, limits your ability to install things that modify the system directly. This can be a good thing, but it can also make it difficult to install certain things that you might want. There are workarounds, but you might find this frustrating at first.

  If you primarily game, this is probably not an issue for you except that some non-Steam games may require some extra work to run (particularly ones that, for example, require you to install .NET Framework or specific Java versions.)

  Not trying to discourage you from these - they’re great OSes and the ‘downside’ of immutable distros can actually be beneficial when new to linux, as they prevent you from breaking things through inexperience, but it’s something you should be aware of up front. (FWIW I use Bazzite as my daily driver for everything, and it works fine.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Site Lets AI Rent Human Bodies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how long it’ll be until someone manages to create a profile that tricks AI into hiring it at some ungodly rate to do simple tasks. That seems like a completely plausible outcome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Fake it till you make it' insinuates fakers stop being fake, once they make it; reality seems to suggest otherwise⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree; “fake it til you make it” prescribes specific behavior (faking it) for a specific period of time (until you make it) but does not specify what behavior should take place (faking it or not) after that period has been reached.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Gary was 100% the best character in the movie, just wish he’d gotten more screen time. They managed to fit as much body language and expressiveness into his face as into entire other characters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Benefit of the doubt" is a very important aspect of a game's success⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems to be a trend as if you only take into account reviews with 2+ hours of play time, Highguard’s opinions are “mixed” rather than “overwhelmingly negative”.

  People who enjoy a game are more likely to have more playtime, therefore the higher the playtime in the ‘window’ of reviews that you look at, the more likely they are to skew high. This is exactly what you’d expect to see on any game, barring situations like the developers making changes that ruin a game that previously was good.

  So after 2 hours of not having a good time, the game was deemed bad and negative reviews were written.

  Two hours is the window for a refund, so I absolutely make a call within 2 hours. If a game - especially a new / expensive game - hasn’t engaged me within that time, I refund it and move on. I don’t have enough hours in the day to play games I don’t enjoy hoping that they’ll get good eventually. Why should anyone feel the need to do that, whether they’re giving the game the benefit of the doubt or not? It’s the MMO argument. “The game gets really good around the 100 hour mark!” I don’t care. I’m not sticking around for it. There are plenty of other games to play that are fun within the first 2 hours. If a developer expects people to slog through an unenjoyable 2+ hours to get to “the good parts”, they probably deserve the negative reviews.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The rise of Moltbook suggests viral AI prompts may be the next big security threat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If AI agents stick around, I feel like they’re going to be the thing millennials as a generation refuse to adopt and are made fun of for in 20-30 years. Younger generations will be automating their lives and millennials will be the holdouts, writing our emails manually and doing our own banking, while our grandkids are like, “Grandpa, you know AI can do all of that for you, why are you still living in the 2000s?” And we’ll tell stories about how, in our day, AI used to ruin peoples’ lives on a whim.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨furry transfem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Based on general science and tech literacy among furries, probably a statistically significant higher percentage than in the general population.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just say the word⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am firmly of the opinion that babies suck, but kids - once they reach the age that they can engage with you at some minimal level - are great, and the older they get, the more fun they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just say the word⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it has the same energy as the endless jokes about men hating their wives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just say the word⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not wanting to be a stay-at-home dad feels like such a boomer mentality. Like, seriously, what father is so disengaged from their kids that they wouldn’t want to spend more time with them, given the option? Being a stay-at-home parent is a lot of work, no one’s contesting that, but there’s no contesting that it’s more satisfying work than working for some megacorp’s bottom line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think devs actually get quite a bit for that 30%. Let’s present a hypothetical. What if Valve offered an option where you could list your game on Steam with no restrictions and they’d only take a 10% cut, but the tradeoff is, they won’t promote your game at all? Like, it won’t show up in any Steam storefront advertisements, can’t participate in sales, etc. - it’s still there if it’s linked to from off-Steam or if someone searches for it, but it won’t be promoted, period.

  How do you think that would work out for developers? I’d argue not well, especially for small studios.

  The promotion those games get applies to the game as a whole, not only through Steam - someone can see the promotion on Steam, then go shop around and buy it elsewhere. Why should Valve promote a game if they aren’t getting a cut of the sales?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d actually be super impressed if someone managed to find a prompt that would get AI to make this. This seems like the kind of thing that needs that human wackiness element.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TRIMUI Brick Hammer, a weirdly named but beautiful handheld⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This thing looks slick. How does it do with sleeping it mid-game session and resuming later? That’s the biggest make-or-break feature for me with any of these handhelds.