Oh, hey, it’s the kid from that episode of the Psi Factor

Never forget that it isn’t thinking, at all. It comprehends nothing. It’s just a very big, expensive autocomplete. It didn’t understand when it was using the right property, it just rolled its d10000 and got something that fit requirements, but on the time it failed, it rolled outside of the desired range. No thought, just numbers.

I absolutely do judge, because it doesn’t make them happy. At no point during their run on the approval-seeking treadmill of ‘gotta shave off another 0.3 seconds from my time, no wait, 0.4 seconds, no wait…’ do they actually have the briefest of moments where they can feel like they are just okay to be who they are. It’s painful for them to chase the carrot on a stick, vicariously painful for others to watch, and readily turns them into toxic people when they can’t get their fix.

The taco toots can be vicious.

Ignoring the other people in the bathroom regardless of gender presentation is always the most affirming option. No one is there to socialise. It smells like poo.

Only one I got to try was Approximately Up. I’ll probably get it if they keep going with it. I might over-simplify it as Archean I can run without a raytracing GPU.

A person paid by a government to follow orders and enact violence upon a target or targets chosen by the authorities in that government… Am I describing a member of the military or a contractor for a PMC like Academi? It’s a legal distinction without a functional difference, like a corporation vs an LLC. There are limited circumstances where, in a court, they are treated differently but the product that comes from them and the processes by which it is produced are essentially the same.

Got the first one purely because it had soundtrack by Sidewalks & Skeletons. Turned out to be a pretty good game. Hopefully this one won’t go the way of Wizard of Legend 2 and turn into a big disappointment.

Very much the right comm for this post.

Now I’m chuckling at the thought that the view from these glasses is likely to be used for training AI, so you could have a bit of fun just aiming them at the most horrifying but legal porn you can find and plonk them down aimed at the screen while you go do other stuff.

Jeez, I could do better than a DnD find&replace. Can I get paid $400k?

Yeah. There is unfortunately a lot of media being made as just a cynical attempt to milk people via nostalgia. Remind everyone you can: just because it has the same name as something you once enjoyed doesn’t mean it will be good. Nostalgia marketing is always a lie.

Anyone stupid enough to support age verification laws is too stupid to be allowed custody of a child.

There are inherent limits to the idea.

Videos are almost never the best medium for advanced learning. That’s why universities aren’t just collections of DVDs. Books remain the best method for the dense transfer of ideas, and are unlikely ever to be surpassed.

YouTube algorithms don’t analyse content, only user behaviour. Someone who likes an in-depth discussion of Anti-Oedipus might also like a Japanese music video. YouTube does not care why, only that they engaged. YouTube also actively fights niche feed curation. Liking A, B, and C, will get you A, B, and C, but also G (because it’s kind of like C, even though a human would know they’re different) 8 (because it’s vaguely similar to B) and whatever the current versions of pewdiepie, the Paul brothers, mr. beast, etc. are (because if they can get you to watch their BS, they can sell more ads for more money) regardless of how disimilar they might be to anything else you watch.

It’s kind of funny that I’ve heard of this game all of 3 times. All three were because of articles saying they didn’t have a strong enough player base.

Not a doctor but having a cancerous tumor with a hollow core filled with even dead bacteria sounds possibly worse.

When the first guy who called himself a king’s swordsmen fell asleep. Should have peasant mobbed his oversized hovel and never let anyone do it again.

If you don’t have it already, get some mechanical help for heavy lifting and holding. It’s technically possible for a single person to do a lot, but not if they crush themselves trying to hold up something that needs a machine to lift. If it’s ever a fight, you need help, whether it’s a person or a machine.

Someone hinted at souls games… aaaaaand here we see someone basically define non-sexual submissive masochism as their reason for playing.

The cycle continues.

Yes and no. I’d be amazed if any code from the original was/could be used for the second. One was unity. Two was unreal. C# vs C++.

The other thing is money. It doesn’t get the second dev team paid as well to spend a figurative 5 minutes polishing an old game when they can milk 5 months of pay out of the publisher by making a de-make. If the publisher is paying they might start from scratch just to have it take longer. I can’t say for sure, but I would bet real-life money the contract on the second was much more beneficial to the publisher vs the devs on the second than the first.

Then there’s marketability. Offer people the same game from 2016 and they’ll want to pay the same price as the game from 2016 and many of them won’t want to buy it at all because they still have the old one. Offer them something that looks like an upgrade (‘Look! It’s 3D now, and higher resolution.’) and milk people’s nostalgia for a game they loved ‘in the before times’ and you can squeeze modern inflated prices out of them.