Vespair

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[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If "everyone" keeps reading a sentiment you did not intend out of your message, perhaps it is time to consider that you are doing a poor job of communicating your point.

Or you're being disingenuous and just don't like being calling on your hissy fit.

I dunno, take your pick.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 20 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I see this kind of comment before and I will never understand it - "other companies do it so just bend over and let us do it to you too!"

People say this all the time about Denuvo too: "Other games already have Denuvo, why are you crying about it here when you're playing other games?"

And see, that's the problem - we aren't playing those other Denuvo games. And same thing applies here, guess what, a lot of us aren't buying games from gross companies like EA with these shit terms. So when a company we are doing business with suddenly changes their terms to be shit, that's a valid complaint. Some of us have already been boycotting bad business practices in the industry, so the idea of company changing terms towards the boycott after we've already invested in the game feels like a betrayal because it is.

So maybe stop focusing on what you assume the rest of audience is doing and instead go back to focusing on what the people at the goddamn podium are trying to pull?

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago

Frequently the point of comparing the two is to caution before they actually become comparable, though. I think it's intentional hyperbole to make a stark point, not an insensitive reduction.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Nobody else has even heard of my favorite film.

A Pyromaniac's Love Story

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago

Not if you want any kind of consistency so you can actually replicate or understand what you're doing. Like hallucinations aside (and we really shouldn't put them aside because they're a very real thing in this context), the point of a recipe is that you aren't just getting an averaged version of the process; you're getting a curated version with specific considerations in mind.

So you can ask AI for a cinnamon apple pie recipe, and you might get an okay one, but you're probably never going to get a better-than-average one. And if you do like the version of the recipe it gave you, you had better write it down because when you ask for it next time, it's not going to be the same cinnamon apple pie recipe. I've personally played around with recipes in AI, and even within the same chat, there's no consistency because it never "knows" anything; it only makes predictive guesses. So when I say, "I like that recipe, but let's try half as much ginger and maybe add some mirin," it will reduce the ginger and add mirin, but suddenly all the volumes of the other ingredients have changed, and some items may even disappear.

So yeah, I think this is something that AI could potentially work well for in the future, as is kind of always the case with any potentially useful AI application right now. But right now, until they've been developed with some kind of better active memory and/or something resembling comprehension rather than predictive association, I think this is a field where AI is passable at best, not yet somewhere it shines.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago

SEO is part of it, but it's also literally just more physical real estate for ads. Recipe sites, including personal recipe blogs, are infamous for the sheer volume of ads placed on them. Yes, everyone just scrolls to the recipe so it kind of doesn't matter, but longer text means more space for ads.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Dude just wants whatever has a dragon, wolf, or forest on it, he ain't thinking deeper than that.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Bro's penis must be almost an innie.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

No, I'm pretty sure it means being or becoming a weeb

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

Well I'm forty now and about 6 months ago I decided that after nearly 30 years of listening to metal music I was going to finally learn how to do harsh vocals/metal screaming. Still an enormous amateur, and I have a lot to learn, but basically just this week I finally got to the point where I don't hate listening to my own screams.

So uh, whatever you wanna call that midlife crisis, that's mine.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 14 points 2 weeks ago

A contributor? I would call it a primary source, tbh.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 79 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Real talk, we have to figure out how to handle this kind of chronic fear and paranoia, because this shit ain't normal, but it is frighteningly common.

Like yeah this is a hilariously over-the-top example, but the amount of people you and I both know who go through life genuinely thinking that they're going to be the victim of a kidnapping or worse at any given time is astounding. And it's not without impact either, because this is exactly the unfounded sense of fear that conservatives/fascists seize on to manipulate the population.

I don't know the solution, but a world where everyone is afraid of their own shadow is a literal hellscape.

 

A special dedication

 

And coincidentally, my favorite band as a teenager.

 

Tell me what song that main guitar riff reminds you of

 

Dresage should be on your radar in general; they make great music

 

Regarding the video, the artist is visually-impaired

 

Jonny Craig is a complicated man, but that voice is nigh-legendary

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