covers my eyes

🤣 just visualizing the United Nations Assembly talking turns curb stomping some poor android.

Call me an optimist, but I think that if an android was actually going to destroy life as we know it, nations would do everything in their power to advert the disaster.

I use Lemmy because it appeals to my wish to be alone, by myself, with no one here beside me ❤️ social media peace at last.

I’m in my 30s now, so perhaps I am out of touch with my younger self, but I don’t remember being bothered by the idea of my parents sexuality.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think it’s abnormal to be bothered by it. I’ve heard plenty of people joke about how gross it is that their parents had sex or whatever. I don’t really understand it exactly. I guess maybe it’s just an embarrassing subject!

Also, not to pile on, but don’t look at your poor old dad’s web history! What a nightmare! Lol

25% of Lemmy users are incapable of understanding this meme without the inclusion of a comma, and they seem to think this reflects more on the intelligence of the meme’s author, rather than their own inadequacies as a reader. They take this opportunity to effusively mansplain the importance of proper punctuation to her, and… Wait a minute… She’s a genius!

I’ve been using duck duck go for months now. It’s totally cromulent in my opinion!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RP_FLIP

Please don’t. Children’s media is already flooded with ai generated fluff. You won’t make any money on it.

Can you be in the steam family group with a dead person?

😊 I encourage you to express those specific feelings if you haven’t been doing so. Telling others that you’re stressed and worried, but really like dancing, and are happy that they’re here dancing with you might help.

I try not to force the vibe to improve, but I’ve found deliberately being earnest can open the floodgates to other people. It’s easy to say things in your head, but not aloud.

It sounds like:

1. you all feel stressed about this big upcoming show.
2. you feel empathetic sadness for the dancer who admitted they don’t feel ready.
3. perhaps you feel disheartened by people quitting.

It sounds like #2 and #3 are affecting you most. Do you feel like too much pressure is being applied, or are you mad at people for not coming in?

It’s worth mentioning that in this instance the guy did send porn to a minor. This isn’t exactly a cut and dry, “guy used stable diffusion wrong” case. He was distributing it and grooming a kid.

The major concern to me, is that there isn’t really any guidance from the FBI on what you can and can’t do, which may lead to some big issues.

For example, websites like novelai make a business out of providing pornographic, anime-style image generation. The models they use deliberately tuned to provide abstract, “artistic” styles, but they can generate semi realistic images.

Now, let’s say a criminal group uses novelai to produce CSAM of real people via the inpainting tools. Let’s say the FBI cast a wide net and begins surveillance of novelai’s userbase.

Is every person who goes on there and types, “Loli” or “Anya from spy x family, realistic, NSFW” (that’s an underaged character) going to get a letter in the mail from the FBI? I feel like it’s within the realm of possibility. What about “teen girls gone wild, NSFW?” Or “young man, no facial body hair, naked, NSFW?”

This is NOT a good scenario, imo. The systems used to produce harmful images being the same systems used to produce benign or borderline images. It’s a dangerous mix, and throws the whole enterprise into question.

Firstly, It might help elucidate the issue if you’d detail everyone’s gender identity and sexual orientation.

Secondarily, your partner might be fixating incorrectly on your presumptively romantic encounter; it could be the case that she is mostly hurt by you leaving her party only to spend the evening with someone else, but has misdirected that hurt into jealousy. However, the gender and sexual orientation of you and your friend does matter.

This is based on a cool, but ultimately incorrect historical theory called “phantom time.” The general premise being that European history (and world history) was mostly fabricated as propaganda by royalty. It wouldn’t be so crazy except, a) archeology exist and validates certain medieval records and b) non European Nations exist, and record their own interactions with Western Nations.

I didn’t realize that it sold so well! That’s good to hear it is successful. I’m not over the moon with the game, but I did get 30 hours or so out of it, and don’t think it’s bad at all. My biggest annoyance was that it felt too similar to AOE 2, which I saw as the superior game at launch. Still, that’s a bit of bias from an old gamer, lol. I think it’s fun!

Definitely! Just to clarify, I think that good RTS games make good esports, but fundamentally on the basis is being carefully made, captivating, and nuanced. I think an overt focus on developing an RTS as a esport tends to lead to low risk, streamlined designs which while fun, lack some of the staying power that older, more established titles have. Perhaps, I’m disillusioned about the genre in general, and that’s not the case!

Also, yeah 3d can be good, but I do think that Sprite based graphics are easy to parse and very pleasing to look at. I wish we had a healthy balance of the 2. 2d also tends to look more, evergreen, with 3d RTS looking dated on release due to the quantity of animated units. Though, strong art design would help offset this.

I disagree with this premise. I think games like age of empires and StarCraft had mass appeal and success. They brought in audiences who don’t normally like games, and broadly were well received by young, old, and different genders. Especially age of empires 2.

Modern RTS games are just (mostly) sloppy, unfinished, cashgrabs with no vision. They suffer the most from the transition to 3d as well. If a major studio actually put work and time into a polished, 2d, isometric, RTS that wasn’t solely focused on being an esport, I think there is a major vacuum for them to fill.

I do think something that the discourse seems to miss here is that scanlators have been using semi automated OCR tools which hook into translation and LLM api’s for years to streamline thier efforts.

Heck, I’ve done this with open source manga OCR tools for fun as a personal project. It works really well. With billions of dollars, these companies will develop and deploy superior enterprise tools with which an individual could probably translate entire volumes in one workday.

I’m not saying they won’t be lazy and sometimes miss important literary meaning, but they will succeed in making mass translation possible.