Lurker > R_Jackal

Yup. Helped a friend down a tree and clean up on his property a few days ago

Fuck it, I live in the absolute middle of nowhere and 90% of the time no one is gonna see me anyway. I'd take the money to not spread the word.

Pay as I go for data, not a big data user. Bill is usually like $12 a month.

As someone who didn't like the books or movies as a kid I can proudly I never supported that shit in my adulthood now.

Man was traumatized and using amnesia-inducing magic. The fact he has slightly more personality than a raisin is kind of impressive.

Holy .. what the hell?

Same boat as TC but I did watch it out of curiosity. It just reinforced my disinterest though.

Because AI based censorship is ruining everything conversational on the Internet, really.

Hejiru posted...

Im not saying we should ignore climate change, but at this point theres not much we can do to stop it. Absolutely we should try to soften the impact, but we should also be trying to create our successors in the event that we cant prevent extinction.

I think that civilization is better than no civilization. Even if its robots instead of humans. And I think humanity needs to be remembered, not forgotten. The point of this is to ensure intelligent life continues in some form. Isnt a society of robots better than a lifeless rock?

And whats the point of posting warnings if theres no one around to read them? Its extremely unlikely that aliens will ever reach earth, and even if they did, by that point I doubt theyd have anything to learn from our warnings.

I think that's a bias of the human condition. I don't think there's an innate virtue to civilization existing solely to exist. As with all things that are, it will one day just... Not. A lifeless rock with robots is the same as just a lifeless rock. If that's where civilization goes do be it, but I don't think we or our creations are more entitled to existence than any of the numerous things we've ended.

It was a was to make a point. Why make a "living" monument to our failure, when one encompassing it will suffice?

EPR-radar posted...

I think warnings vs. the dangers of terminal capitalism are likely to be futile -- too few entities, human or alien, would believe the stupid and destructive shit a plutocrat class would do without having actually lived through it.

True enough there, I barely believe it and I'm here. It's only likely to get even worse.

So, if humans showed up and ruined a planet to the point life can't survive, you honestly think our achievements are actually worth saving?

I mean in the grand scope of things we have done exactly jack shit tbh. We've ruined every possibility of being truly great in the name of profit. A few monolithic tablets with warnings accomplishes that better than robots.

Considering some jackass nearly hit me because he wanted to take a picture of my dog while he was driving not too long ago, and it took every ounce of self control to not initiate road rage for the first time in my life, I am all for incredibly severe punishment for these idiots who can't put their phone down while driving.

s0nicfan posted...

That's less AI hurts women and more companies being excessively conservative out of fear of losing advertising dollars.

This.

It's why the Internet fucking sucks these days. It's just a giant advertisement machine.

I like this usage of AI. Takes a previously tedious and time consuming task and makes it actually feasible to use. Not bad

Metal_Gear_Raxis posted...

I don't take seriously people who use "females" that way.

Step off the Internet bud, you used it that way too. Women, girls, whatever you want to say. Was just saying the video game industry has barely gotten over the damsel-in-distress style writing.

Metal_Gear_Raxis posted...

Hey Kojima, how about you so something really innovative and write a female lead without being a gigantic creep.

I mean, most video game writers still have a hard time understanding females are just people and have the same scope in how they can be. He's only mildly behind the curve here, unfortunately.

I think most people do, but it's really a situation where it's like... The fuck are we supposed to do about it? Complain to the government that might address the issues in the next few decades if they feel like it?

ReturnOfDevsman posted...

I refuse to believe any company with more than three people in it can leak passwords in 2025.

It should be mathematically impossible, since you can make it so with a single line of code. If it isn't, you need to fire your entire software department.

Honestly having only three people working for something would vastly decrease the likelihood of this happening. More often than not it's an employee on the way out or who feels like they aren't getting what they deserve that essentially allows these people in to these systems, rather than movie style "hackerman" moments.

Or a dumbass who ignores security training and goes "lmao some idiot left this flash drive at Starbucks imma see what's on it" on their Workstation.

Tyranthraxus posted...

With Rosa in the set I wonder if Cecil will be listed as human or Lunarian or both.

Considering how MTG is structured, Human.

AceMos posted...

glad to see squal get a card but what about the rest of 8s cast

where are rinoa zell and ultmecia

I would love to see Ultimecia as a Planeswalker with a dumb high cost activation that is just chaos, something like making both players take their next turns simultaneously for the next two or something, for time compression

Holy damn Vivi is busted.

Only blocked one person, it was accidental, and I never cared to fix it. Maybe I should.

"Is it actually important?" first. The reaction to that is usually very telling to how people approach relationships in my experience.

If the test is passed I'll answer... And probably get accused of lying anyway.

Shotgunnova posted...

Alundra
Discworld
Gabriel Knight
Ogre Battle
Shadow Hearts
Splinter Cell
Skies of Arcadia
SOCOM
Wild Arms

Well...at least I don't have to mention Suikoden or Lunar anymore. They have slightly more than a snowball's chance in hell at having more done with their series, even if it's just rereleases.

The shadow hearts dev team is making a new spiritual successor too(Penny Blood. There's a stretch goal low budget roguelike on Steam at the moment) and one for Wild Arms too though the name escapes me; the two teams are helping each other with their projects iirc.

I wouldn't even notice tbh.

Dungeater posted...

huh. never heard of legends of dragoon. so just dodge/parry? so like, paper mario?

edit: lol above

Yeah, pretty much. I constantly forget the combat system in that game until someone mentions it. Yes it's basically Paper Mario.

Dungeater posted...

well i had zero interest in before but now i am intrigued. how is it for the souls crowd?

Turn based witch slightly action oriented dodge/parry mechanics.

It's basically Legends of Dragoon, except you get the minigame on offensive AND defense.

Apparently any game with a minute amount of challenge and dodge/parry=Soulslike these days. Just as every game with stamina is as well.

Resident evil outbreak by a mile. My favorite game to play online ever.

Hell, I met three people on there I still play games with and talk to multiple times a week.

Great times.

ellis123 posted...

To the pawn shop I go.

This.

Hate kids, but I've little patience in teaching people things in general.

Also the fact that I was rooming with someone who watched kids and let them do whatever the fuck they want so what little I actually owned would constantly get destroyed and I could never sleep due to them screaming at each other constantly colored my opinion very harshly.

Robot2600 posted...

Bottom line:
You're not wrong to be deeply skeptical. Without structural change, AI risks accelerating climate collapse, not solving itno matter how many carbon trackers or efficiency apps are built.(CGPT/Snipped convo)

I love how even AI can see that it's a useful tool to help with these problems and is basically just being used to fund more jet-trips to promote the product essentially. Shit is sad.

That said, I remember my childhood to today quite well. Always loved the weather, I loved rain especially... These days it's seldom just rain, where I am--it's always horrific storms, wind, and lightning, so I'm relegated to being inside to watch. Makes me sad.

The_cranky_hermit posted...

The hype is way disproportionate to the proven utility. This shouldn't be hard to understand.

This is my real problem with AI. Even though I don't particularly have a use for it, they're selling it like it's the understanding of fire 2.0 and... it may have such an impact some day pending on how much advances(or if, profit seeking is a bitch), but for now? It's basically a little ahead of every other "rise of the chatbot" before it, except they actually found practical and useful applications for it instead of trying to force it to be a thing it just isn't ready to be...

And then they forced it to be things it isn't ready to be. Again.

Death Stranding tbh as far as realistic environment goes. Cyberpunk for the more human aspect.

I have one that is both and it's been working fine for years.

I hear the Ninja ones had a recall recently, but they're basically just tiny convection ovens. Same concept. They're fine.

I like playing golf but holy fuck is it boring to watch.

I thought I had some bad views on AI... Guys, it's just a tool. There's no actual intelligence behind it, no maliciousness, nothing. It's really bad for the environment would be an objective bad of it for now I suppose.

It's no more a tool to subjugate the masses than Amazon or Walmart existing. AI is not the reason the world is in the state it is now, that's a purely human problem--if anything AI was a distraction as we allowed these things to happen.

I don't care for the rollout and think we should've had some legislature in place, but governments haven't even caught up to the fucking Internet yet so that realistically was never happening.

Robot2600 posted...

1. you have to be smart enough to know how to use them in the first place, design a research experiment or project, write a grant proposal, understand the scientific method, etc. which wont happen if you, for example, cheat through college or something
2. llms arent amazing tho they are the opposite of that they are terrible
3. yes
4. of what, precisely?
5. that doesn't require ai, and everything was better without ai algorithms controlling the feed. literally everything.

Though I don't care for AI, it is fantastic for translation purposes(not without flaws but still great), and has automated paperwork from having to understand the arcane lore of how Excel works properly to telling it what to do in basic English; although people will look at you like you've pulled modern day witchcraft for actually knowing Excel these days.

it's not completely without purpose but the creators behind AI seem hell bent on making everything worse by making it do things it's kind of terrible at right now

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And that's why I don't use terribly many. As said, it's a personal issue.

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I know what AI is good for, and not--using a tool without knowing it's purpose is fools work after all. My problem is expectation: When I use a tool it should be able to do its job as described, perfectly. AI has yet to meet that standard. It's more or less a personal issue. For my personal life it's just another layer of things I need to verify. For my professional life, AI is simply just... Not useful for it as it stands, and what it offers is a barely discernible difference in the standard tools available(I do home renovation, plumbing, electrical work, etc) at a higher cost, usually.

I live a life where AI is largely useless to me, is all.

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I just don't find it helpful, personally. Aside from the most basic of tasks it needs an impressive level of babysitting. But I'm the kind of person that expects my tasks to be done correctly the first time, having to go back and verify is just a layer of work I don't need.

sk8r4s810 posted...

Don't use targeting with the big guys.

This. Those fights are way easier without target lock.

AI investment is solid, Web3 not so much.

I mean, AI is where virtually all the worlds money is going to be funneled in to for the foreseeable future for better or worse.

People needa realize just how impoverished the vast majority of the world is. We had it good in the US, real good, but the oligarchy is tryin real hard to turn that around.

DoesntMatter posted...

what game is this

Grandia 2. Amazing game.

I mean we're at a point where we're struggling to do much graphically, so there will likely be a lean in to more heavily stylized graphics unless a breakthrough is made.

BewmHedshot posted...

LLMs haven't stolen anybody's job

In modern business, if one person can do the job of five with newer tools, four people are typically getting out of their job in some way, and if needed cheaper new hires will replace them at a later date.

As for the topic, I started using AI a bit last year despite having a distaste for it.. and stopped this year. It's typically more work to police its idiotic behavior than just finding out or doing what I need on my own. It's been relegated to note taking on things I really don't care about.

Three

I hate it. Kinda bad mystery game RNG dependent, and all the bad parts of the "figure out what to do" loop and the payoff isn't great.

Looking at the trailer again it's pretty easy to tell where the gameplay is. Color me a bit impressed. I'll be more inclined to praise them when the entire in game City is up and running instead of select areas though.

tremain07 posted...

This is gonna be a trainwreck Sony about to take themselves out of consoles like Xbox did, meaning Nintendo will have a monopoly

To be fair with standard consoles becoming glorified PCs they're on the way out anyway