SpaceCowboy
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Video game romances need to evolve beyond lore dumps 2 days ago:
To me finding the right dialog option or getting the right item just doesn’t cut it. In real life a lot depends on the head space both people are in and what’s going on in their lives when they’re talking with each other. You could have a max “score” with someone, but they’re kinda seeing someone or maybe you have a family emergency you need to deal with and things don’t work out. If you have characters that are just waiting for you to select the correct options and have nothing else going on in their lives, it’s all very flat and oversimplified.
Some things just don’t follow the rules of logic, or if they do, it’s too complicated to model mathematically. But maybe people would get value from an approximation of a cheesy romance novel? Not really sure what the goal is tho. Is it realistic encounters or something emulating something not at all realistic but some people enjoy anyway?
- Comment on Rage for the machine? 3 days ago:
Keep repeating the things big tech wants you to repeat over and over again.
“Political opposition is bad, free press is bad, apathy is good!” Who do you think benefits from that message being repeated over and over again?
You’re just carrying water for the fascists. That’s what happens when you get all of your talking points from monetized “leftist” influencers.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 3 days ago:
Lounging and going barefoot are not safety issues, unless you consider all forms of unconventionality to be unprofessional, and all forms of unprofessionalism to be irresponsible.
It’s a morale issue, which a competent captain would be aware of. Crew members see that and think “if the captain doesn’t give a shit, why should I?” Crew starts blowing off their duties which would ultimately result in a safety issue.
There’s a reason why people in positions of responsibility behave the way they do when in front of others. I’m sure Picard lounged around in his quarters reading books or whatever, but when called to the bridge he’d put on his game face and behave in a way that commands respect in front of the crew. It’s part of the job of being captain.
- Comment on Rage for the machine? 3 days ago:
Yet another leftist call to apathy.
You could… I dunno vote in a primary and change the Democratic party. But that would require effort and the monetized “leftist” influencers promoted big tech companies discourage that, and you believe them.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 4 days ago:
It’s not just military captains that are responsible for the lives of those onboard their ship. That’s true for the captain of any ship. Even on a cruise ship. Read about the Costa Concordia. Captain didn’t take the job seriously bent the rules and a bunch of people died. That captain sounded like he’d be a fun guy to go have a beer with at a bar or whatever, but he had no business being the captain of a ship.
And this is my point. You want a show with a bunch of people that seem like they’d be fun to hang out with. I want a show about people that are actually good at their jobs. Sure they aren’t really on a spaceship, so none of it really matters. But it’s more interesting to me to see someone commanding a ship that’s actually acting like someone commanding a ship. otherwise it’s just actors on a spaceship set being quirky. The responsibilities of command the ethical dilemmas that come with that, that’s interesting. A captain is someone the crew should respect, not someone they want to hang out with because she’s like your quirky aunt.
Besides that, isn’t she supposed to be training these people? What happens when these cadets finish their training and get assigned to a captain that’s not a quirky auntie type? In real life the drill sergeants that train people are the most hard ass people around so when people complete training they’re ready for anything.
And I’m pretty sure people in the federation aren’t required to be in starfleet. It’s something like a combo between NASA and the military both of which demand a high degree of discipline. Even in a utopian future there will be jobs that it’s dangerous to have people that fuck around doing those jobs. Physics can be harsh and I think the vacuum of space will kill people even in a utopian future. Just that in a utopian future people will volunteer for those jobs knowing the risks and knowing they will need to be disciplined when doing the dangerous work.
- Comment on Acciracy 4 days ago:
That’s actually fairly interesting. Apparently Japan thinks we’re really into music. I wonder if there’s a Canadian pianist that’s popular over there?
- Comment on Acciracy 4 days ago:
The ownership of Timmy’s is Restaurant Brands International, a publicly traded corporation headquartered in Toronto. Sure there’s a lot of American shareholders, but a significant chunk of the shares are owned by Canadian banks too.
Also it employs people at the coffee shops. I’m all about boycotting American products, but boycotting Timmy’s seems a bit much.
- Comment on Acciracy 4 days ago:
It doesn’t leave my house LOL.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 4 days ago:
I don’t see it as acting “like a teenager”. These eccentricities seem more to me as being representative of a person who knows all the rules (both formal and informal), and has decided which ones are worth breaking – whether it’s for personal comfort or if it’s for a more purposeful reason, that I can’t say.
That’s a perfect description of how a teenager thinks.
An adult thinks about responsibility and the effect their behaviour has on others. A captain of a ship is responsible for the lives of everyone aboard their ship. The crew of a ship takes cues from the captain. If the captain is acting like a lazy teenager, the crew is likely to follow her lead. They start blowing off some of their duties because the captain doesn’t give a shit, so why should we?
Have you ever been an airplane? Why do they even bother wearing uniforms? You could perform the job functions of piloting an aircraft wearing a T-shirt and shorts. IT would be a lot more comfortable, so why do they wear uniforms? They wear uniforms and behave professionally because people tend to get nervous when people in positions of responsibility look like they don’t give a shit. And adults understand how they appear affect others around them, so they make an effort to look and behave professionally for the sake of other people. A selfish teenager doesn’t think this way and thinks they should feel comfortable and everyone else should change how they think.
Bottom line, she’s behaving in a way that teenagers might relate to, but she’s not behaving the way someone that’s responsible for people’s lives would behave. A captain may need to give an order and have it followed without hesitation would want the people under her command to think of her as a serious person. Not a teenager that bends the rules for the sake of her own comfort.
So yeah… it breaks immersion to have a captain acting like a teenager. It’s just an actor that didn’t bother to think about how captains in real life behave thinking it’s cute to be sitting in the captain’s chair like a teenager would. Not believable as a captain responsible for people’s lives.
- Comment on Acciracy 4 days ago:
Countries have leaders, cultures, and history. They’re at least as real is this web forum we’re communicating on is.
- Comment on Video game romances need to evolve beyond lore dumps 4 days ago:
Romance isn’t the most logical thing, and a video game lives in a computer and kinda has to be logical.
So it’s either going to be some scripted events written by a human which the player doesn’t have control over, or it’ll be along the lines give item X to character Y, select dialog option B and now she loves you. The first doesn’t fit the medium and the second is a really terrible way to portray a relationship.
Maybe some LLM algorithms might portray romance better? But I don’t feel good about that. Don’t want to burn crazy amounts of electricity talking to a LLM character in a video game and the game would have to be online only, which means it cold be shut down at any time.
Even if we have the tech to have an LLM kind of algorithm that wouldn’t use too much power and could run locally, it would really suck if you couldn’t progress in a game because the LLM decided they don’t like you. So it would still be a side thing, and not important to the main story of a game.
- Comment on Rage for the machine? 4 days ago:
Wow you’re really dedicated to attacking the political opposition to fascism. Been consuming a lot of media coming from “leftists” that have been recommended to you by the big tech companies?
Have you been listening to Hasan? I see he’s currently on the front page of twitch.tv, a company which is owned by Jeff Bezos.
Yeah, you’re totally not part of the machine at all LOL.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 4 days ago:
I thought the captain was the one that supposed to teach them how to do the job? Why is she acting like a teenager? How are they supposed to learn how to stop acting like teenagers and take their jobs seriously if the captain is acting this way too?
Yeah it’s just a show, but characters in a show should be acting as if the world they’re in is real. It breaks immersion when they don’t.
There’s a general fear of being genuine with characters in a lot of shows and movies, and it’s gotten really old. It’s really cringey at this point.
It would be nice to have a show about people on a spaceship acting like people that are really on a spaceship that have serious jobs. It’s boring to have yet another show where it’s just people acting like youtube influencers on some spaceship sets. People that actually like vapid youtube influencers will only just watch clips from these shows, so what’s the point of trying to appeal to that crowd?
- Comment on Acciracy 4 days ago:
Continents aren’t real.
Which continent is Russia in? Is Costa Rica in the same continent as Mexico or are they in different continents? Is “Central America” a continent?
It’s all made up bullshit, so why not just say Canada is it’s own continent?
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 4 days ago:
It’s part of a general problem where old trek is basically competence porn (everyone is ridiculously competent at their jobs) while in new Trek everyone kinda acts like a teenager. Maybe it’s a desperate attempt to appeal to a younger audience (I don’t think that actually works tho), but it certainly doesn’t appeal to fans of older Trek.
It definitely breaks immersion to have characters that have serious jobs acting like teenagers.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 4 days ago:
Guinan and Dr Who weren’t captains. I don’t think anyone would take issue if it were the bartender portraying a laid back vibe, but you kind of want the captain to give the crew confidence that they’re alert and on top of things. Of course that’s not possible at all times, but that’s why the captain has quarters and a ready room. Some other officer should be sitting the the chair keeping an ey on things if the captain wants to read a book or whatever.
It breaks immersion to have characters that are supposed to be ding serious jobs acting like teenagers.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 4 days ago:
Isn’t that what the ready room is for? Captain chills out reads a book or whatever in a room next to the bridge, but they are ready to go out to the bridge and conduct themself formally when they get out there.
- Comment on Palestinian social app Upscrolled removed from Google Play Store 4 days ago:
- Comment on Rage for the machine? 4 days ago:
I’m saying “leftists” are part of the same machine they pretend to rage against. For fascism to take hold, it needs to destroy political opposition (democrats) discredit the free press and it needs enemies to hate.
Leftists are are useful idiots of the fascist machine.
- Comment on Rage for the machine? 4 days ago:
Should’ve advertised that the band is going to rage against democrats, mainstream media, and they’d have plenty of antisemitic (just term it as “anti-zionist”) conspiracy theories in their songs and there would be a whole lot of “leftists” that would sign up.
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 4 weeks ago:
That’s why it used to be not orange, obviously.
- Comment on That's a whole lotta hydrogen! 4 weeks ago:
What’s this woke nonsense? Most of those helium atoms started life as hydrogen atoms. Therefore they shouldn’t be considered to be helium atoms!
- Comment on Mandola effect 4 weeks ago:
“Ladies and gentlemen, with great pleasure, I give you RoboCop 2.”
Oh wait, are we doing quotes that aren’t in the actual movie?
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 4 weeks ago:
Whenever I hear news of China, they built a new electric railway, invented something new, or made massive tech progress.
A lot of things in China fall apart in a few years. You can build things fast when you don’t care about people’s rights and just force them off whatever land you need, and make people work insane hours. A lot of the amazing things China brags about is a Potemkin village, just made to show the authoritarian leaders they did got the project complete on time and they in turn use it in their propaganda. Authoritarians always love to brag about making the trains run on time, right? The reality is often different from what the media portrays it to be in an authoritarian country.
But still, China is slightly preferable to the US at the moment.
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 4 weeks ago:
Yeah China is like the Soviet Union.
My grandparents had to hold their noses and be allies with the Soviet Union for a while.
But unlike the Soviet Union which was way behind the West in technology, China is ahead of us on EVs and we will have to catch up. But before worrying about that, we gotta take down the US.
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 4 weeks ago:
US is the same as China now. Well that’s not true, US foreign policy is way more batshit insane than China’s. If you can even call it a foreign policy… it seems to me it’s just the whims of a deranged old child molester surrounded by fucking Nazis.
And China is further away and there’s pretty much zero probability China will invade my country. With the US, who knows? Kinda stupid to send money to a country I may have to be fighting against within a year.
- Comment on Iran plans permanent break from global internet, say activists 4 weeks ago:
Stop trying to make BRICS happen it’s not going to happen.
Also it sounds like you want BRICS to be a group of country where they don’t have freedom of speech? Why would this be a good thing?
- Comment on Bluesky just verified ICE 4 weeks ago:
It’s just all emotion and no rational thought now. People just go into outrage mode when certain topics are mentioned.
Really it opens a channel to criticize ICE without needing to logon to X to do so. But that’s bad because preventing communication is good?
Of course I doubt ICE will care about criticism directed towards their account on bluesky. But that means things said on the internet don’t have much of an effect on things, which means it doesn’t matter whether they’re on bluesky (or any other forum).
Mostly it’s about some weird belief by some about controlling what is being said on the internet gains power. You’d think the events that have happened would have proven this wrong, but still people continue to be upset about things being said on the internet and want some power over those things.
Really words on the internet don’t matter as much as people think, and the idea of blocking unwanted information is annoying at best and can lead to ignorance. What matters is the horrible acts ICE is doing. We should want more light being shown on them, and welcome any potential channel of discussion.
Wanting to prevent discussion indicates you feel you’re in the wrong. ICE is indicating they want discussion, while those that are outraged by ICE being on bluesky are indicating they don’t want discussion on ICE. Why would anyone want to make is seem ICE is in the right while they’re in the wrong? It’s people not thinking and only reacting emotionally and handing ICE a W because they are raging instead of thinking.
- Comment on [meme] choochoo 5 weeks ago:
“Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded” - Yogi Bera
- Comment on After RAM and SSDs, PSUs and CPU coolers are next in line for price hikes 5 weeks ago:
Sure… but I don’t think there’s any particular malice towards people that build PCs. Just greed and incompetence. Gotta buy up GPUs that there isn’t enough electricity to run to drive up the share prices!
But when the bubble bursts and hardware gets cheap, is that something we’d considered to be goodwill towards people building PCs? Or will it just be a side-benefit of incompetence?
Just ebbs and flows of incompetence to me.