rayquetzalcoatl

@rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you combat boredom?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think they were calling you “prejudiced” as it were, they were just outlining that judging whether something counts as a “real” hobby or just succumbing to boredom is flavoured a bit by our own views and opinions :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Christian group wins legal battle over preaching ban in west London⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah there’s a couple of these wackos on my street too. They get out and film themselves standing around yelling out and talking. They’ve said stuff to me and my ex before. It’s pretty weird but they’re harmless - I don’t mind a few harmless weirdos to be honest, it brightens the place up lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you combat boredom?⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Family II

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The low-cost creative revolution: How technology is making art accessible to everyone⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we’re disagreeing on some fundamental things here. I don’t really care what other industries might recognise as art; I care about what I recognise as art.

  Brick textures, for example, do have a potentially massive impact on the atmosphere of your game. If you’re playing a game set in a city, where there’s a lot of brick around, the difference between grimy, slimy, dark brown bricks being everywhere and gleaming white/yellow sandstone bricks is absolutely enormous. That’s an artistic choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The low-cost creative revolution: How technology is making art accessible to everyone⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lumping “free software” and “AI” together here makes me think somebody high up in this rag has investment in AI.

  Art is accessible to everyone. Art comes in so many forms, and can be enjoyed in so many different ways. Everybody can make art. It won’t always be the best thing you’ve ever seen or heard or experienced, but practice will make anyone better at art. You can do art for free.

  Making a robot do art for you is not doing art. That’s the robot compiling other people’s art and exporting it for you. Nothing valuable, interesting, or human in there any more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Confirms a New First-Person Ghost Recon Game is in Development⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, Ubisoft? The big famous sex crimes company?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We face nationalisation if we’re not let off fines, Thames Water warns⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They fucked around with our water, and now are moaning that there’s consequences? I hope they get nationalised. Can’t happen quickly enough. It’s a shame that the people at the top of Thames Water can just make off with their ill-gotten gains, and all have golden parachutes. Some community service wouldn’t go amiss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High water bills, filthy rivers – and now drought. This is England’s great artificial water crisis of 2025⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Southern Water nearly doubled their CEO pay to £1.4m because bonuses were banned. Just thought that is a nice little cherry on top for us poors :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Southern Water nearly doubles CEO pay to £1.4m despite bonus ban⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hahahahaha of course they did. Hope the fucker gets all the water he can handle and more some day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, enjoy your breakdown buddy! 👋

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hahaha uh oh, there’s a nutter on the loose

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HMRC criticised by watchdog for failing to track billionaires’ tax⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I stopped freelancing alongside working a full-time job because the one year I did pull in a nice payment for a frankly miserable project, they wanted 50% of it and then the other 50% as “payments on account” because their system assumed I was going to do that well again next year.

  It was the first time I’d earned a decent amount in about five years of freelancing, and the stress of seeing those demands was just too much for me.

  I was freelancing alongside a 40+ hour a week job to get out of debt, but I’ve jacked the whole thing in because it feels so gross.

  Glad those billionaires aren’t being chased or hounded though. Those guys have it tough enough already, what with the uh… Oh, you know… sometimes the maid doesn’t do their pillow exactly how they want!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two men behind ‘senseless’ felling of Sycamore Gap tree jailed for more than four years⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh right, I read your comment as sarcastic but it seems like we’re saying the exact same thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two men behind ‘senseless’ felling of Sycamore Gap tree jailed for more than four years⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fair. I understand the frustration and anger at these two and what they did - it was senseless and I was definitely a bit heartbroken to read about the felling at first - but four years is so long and they’re going to come out worse for it, in my opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two men behind ‘senseless’ felling of Sycamore Gap tree jailed for more than four years⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “this kind of treatment” meaning harsh sentences. Fining a company means very little 🤷‍♂️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two men behind ‘senseless’ felling of Sycamore Gap tree jailed for more than four years⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Very, very, very harsh. Too harsh.

  Would love to see just a single one of the besuited cunts who are polluting our rivers and air get this kind of treatment by their mates in the courts. Never gonna happen tho - this has been a rich man’s world for centuries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tim Davie insists he is still right person to lead BBC after series of scandals⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The condemnation towards him as of late is because of the BBC airing material more sympathetic to Gaza or critical of the genocide Israel is perpetrating, including that Bob Vylan performance.

  To me, that’s criticism not worth listening to. Those are good decisions.

  However, it is weird to want to run a well known nonce factory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t want to answer, just don’t answer lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Without the precursor of Spirituality and Religion, there can be no morality.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I honestly still just feel like we’re agreeing on the order of things here though. Premoral behaviours develop naturally, become ingrained, and then get written into religions or spirituality to give them even more weight – sort of like how a lot of myths about evil water spirits supposedly being warnings to children to not play near water cos they’ll drown.

  I don’t think we’re disagreeing here, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What quintessentially British images should go on the new banknotes? Our panel has some ideas⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Keir eagerly awaiting Trump’s load? Farage wiping his arse with the country?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Without the precursor of Spirituality and Religion, there can be no morality.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the response :) it’s an interesting question you’ve raised, and I haven’t looked into it enough really.

  I think I’ve keyed into your phrasing, particularly “precursor”, in my answer. If “premoral behaviour” is a step in developing morality, does that make it a precursor?

  What happens between premoral behaviour and morality that develops it? I would have assumed that reward/punishment behaviours between humans socially based on those “premoral” behaviours I described would have led to more nuanced moral systems that would have then been written into religious and spiritual practices.

  What do you think happens between premorality and morality? What role does spirituality or religion play – does a higher power give us our morals?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Without the precursor of Spirituality and Religion, there can be no morality.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t serve us well to murder our own communities. It doesn’t serve us well to cause conflict and strife among ourselves when external circumstances are tough enough. Living on the steppe or on the savannah would have been extremely tough, and pragmatism would have naturally lead to a sort of morality – don’t steal from, harm, kill, antagonise other people in your group or you’re putting the entire group at risk.

  It doesn’t have to be spiritual or religious!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨32k In 5 days - Bible Verse?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely fuck off

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rumor: Telltale Games Working With Influencers For The Wolf Among Us 2 Marketing Campaign⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, yes, I totally focused on the wrong thing here. I never played Wolf Among Us, but I remember when I was younger being really excited for a play through of it – a very cool setting, and I love the art style and I agree I definitely felt the first Wolf Among Us was among the stronger Telltale projects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my view, beliefs are important. To me, a person is built from their beliefs.

  Beliefs are mutable and can change for all sorts of reasons, at all sorts of speeds, and in all sorts of ways. They’re not permanent, but I do think they’re fundamental to people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rumor: Telltale Games Working With Influencers For The Wolf Among Us 2 Marketing Campaign⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are people still falling for influencers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Its likely a very large percentage of people would choose to have been born earlier than they were if given the choice.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Presumably that OP is white and in the hypothetical they would remain white

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tough new driving rules could land Brits with a ban for ‘minor’ mistakes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see so many drivers tinkering with their phones while they drive. It’s unnerving as a pedestrian to see people in 4x4s with one hand on the wheel and one hand holding their phone which they’re concentrating on while they drive forwards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lucy Letby alleged to have murdered and harmed more babies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No no, she’s Lucy Letby :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mario Kart World Faces Massive Backlash After Update, Online Racing Experience Ruined⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now, the fans has taken over on Metacritic by starting a review bomb, the user score of Mario Kart World has dropped from 8.3 to 7.7 in just a few days and that is definitely big. We can see tons of negative reviews, and it truly looks like the players aren’t happy at all.

  The message is clear, the new update has ruined the entire online gaming experience. We saw many reviews using the word “ruined” which clearly shows how upset these fans are.

  Is it possible that this is ESL instead of LLM? Or maybe a mix of both? I’m getting way more ESL vibes from the first paragraph, but the generally meandering nature of the piece does point to an LLM too.