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| Topic | Will we see true AI in our lifetimes? |
| R_Jackal 05/31/24 10:47:34 PM #16 | Voidgolem posted... Within our lifetimes...? Maybe.Pretty hard, I would wager. Also until we get some better power solutions I'm pretty sure most country's power grid would fold like paper under the weight of AGI. |
| Topic | Actors whose careers crashed back to earth after their peak role ended? |
| R_Jackal 05/31/24 6:47:18 PM #100 | Raikuro posted... Why is it when actors are extremely successful and don't even have to work anymore but still do for fun, it's considered a failure on their part.How careers work for most people. Career is basically synonymous with life in the US, to be able to just drop it is insanity to most so they call it failure. |
| Topic | Trump: 'If this can happen to me, it can happen to anyone' |
| R_Jackal 05/31/24 5:31:50 PM #29 | Ideally yes. Being convicted of crimes shouldn't get any protection regardless of influence or social class. |
| Topic | New MH wilds trailer and new monsters. |
| R_Jackal 05/31/24 5:30:02 PM #17 | Gonna be honest, I'm not gonna get hyped for this one. The changes they're talking about can be wildly hit or miss. Hope it ends up good, and I'll probably get it pretty quick if so, but first MH title in a while I'm wary of. Focus mode in particular feels like it had the potential to be a stinker like Clutch Claw. Also not thrilled about taking two weapons. Kinda feels like the hunting/prep aspect will be marginalized even more than World and Rise. |
| Topic | Tomba Special Edition releases August 1st |
| R_Jackal 05/31/24 3:13:06 PM #3 | I thought this said Tobal at first and was really excited, then disappointed, then even more excited because I love the hell out of Tomba too. Nice. Day 1 buy. |
| Topic | Will we see true AI in our lifetimes? |
| R_Jackal 05/31/24 2:47:02 PM #2 | AGI is a long ways off, though I'm sure tech bros will market something as a true AI. |
| Topic | how do you feel about Silent Hill 2 Remake now (videos from both showcases) |
| R_Jackal 05/31/24 12:06:18 PM #14 | Why do he look like Leon Kennedy after deciding to give up on working out and picking up a horrible drug habit |
| Topic | Your honest thoughts on convicted felons? |
| R_Jackal 05/31/24 11:01:37 AM #19 | I know what this is about, but two of my best friends are convicted felons. Stupid shit they did when they were young. Great people these days, though. Well, one became a...I won't even say Trump supporter, but some kind of weird political conspiracy theorist after COVID. Had to cut ties with him. |
| Topic | Is Lords of the Fallen 2023 any good? |
| R_Jackal 05/31/24 10:22:30 AM #3 | It's a B- Tier souls like. Passable if cheap enough. |
| Topic | remember when horse armor DLC was controversial |
| R_Jackal 05/31/24 10:10:50 AM #29 | Glob posted... This is such a sad, bitter post.It's kinda true. As a gamer, the gaming scene has gotten progressively worse since Microsoft stuck its fingers in to it Reminder that they were the pioneers behind both gaming based subscription services AND MTX essentially. Both deep seated cancers now. |
| Topic | The Majority of Artists Don't Like People Using Generative AI |
| R_Jackal 05/31/24 10:03:37 AM #67 | -BrokenSpiral- posted... Let's be honest: the overwhelming majority of people don't give a damn about that outside of an incredible minority who went to art school or something.This is what people don't understand, right here. "There'll always be room for human art. Except in a corporate setting. Or smaller commissions. Or promotional works. Or.." Most people don't care what "feeling" art has. Artists will be driven out of a field by and large, and we will lose a large part of what made humanity what it is in favor of soul crushing corporate consumerism. |
| Topic | Do you think Final Fantasy 9 Remake exists? |
| R_Jackal 05/31/24 9:16:12 AM #10 | We haven't even seen any confirmation it exists in the first place yet, to my knowledge. |
| Topic | remember when horse armor DLC was controversial |
| R_Jackal 05/31/24 9:15:02 AM #25 | pjnelson posted... You mean developers trying to afford to stay in business?If you really think game devs wouldn't have adapted, you're wrong. MTX is more a way to bleed people and allow them to continue allowing runaway budgets than stay in business. |
| Topic | remember when horse armor DLC was controversial |
| R_Jackal 05/31/24 9:02:47 AM #17 | One of the reasons I will always hate Bethesda. MTX and broken ass bare bones games they expect their community to fix. Shit company. |
| Topic | The EU is back to wanting to scan all of your messages again |
| R_Jackal 05/31/24 8:58:03 AM #17 | I mean the concept of privacy and ownership are both on the way out, the way things are going. Even if beaten down it'll just keep coming back every few years until people don't care. |
| Topic | Who's your favorite 'mon? |
| R_Jackal 05/30/24 10:56:42 PM #42 | KajeI posted... ^. I saw it and was immediately reminded of Stun from Bloody Roar and it was over.That was actually my reason too lmao. Bloody Roar fan myself. I was really hoping it's shiny would be dark blue or purple. |
| Topic | You invent Unlimited Clean Energy, but the Gas Industry offers you $30 trillion |
| R_Jackal 05/30/24 10:53:28 PM #33 | lydiaquayle posted... Why would the economy collapse? Do you realize how much untapped potential that people can attain when they are not limited by the bottleneck created by the energy industry?It's temporary, but a lot of our economy is literally based around controlling resources related to energy, even indirectly. Unlimited free every makes a lot of things instantaneously worthless, and there'll be a pretty heavy adjustment period. |
| Topic | You invent Unlimited Clean Energy, but the Gas Industry offers you $30 trillion |
| R_Jackal 05/30/24 10:29:19 PM #29 | Release the tech and that immense joy watching pretty much the entire global economy collapse under limitless clean energy on demand. |
| Topic | Who's your favorite 'mon? |
| R_Jackal 05/30/24 10:22:31 PM #35 | Golisopod. I like bugs anyway, and the second I saw that Pokemon it became one of my favorites. |
| Topic | Marjorie Taylor-Greene fights `Butch Body' nickname with bikini pics. |
| R_Jackal 05/30/24 2:48:07 PM #21 | CRON posted... She literally looks like Bryan Danielson |
| Topic | CE - do you drink or smoke? |
| R_Jackal 05/30/24 1:30:56 PM #15 | Don't drink, don't smoke, never have. My entire family on both sides were decimated by those habits, so I'll never do either. |
| Topic | I mean has anyone ever wanted to work? |
| R_Jackal 05/30/24 1:29:18 PM #22 | I honestly think the problem is that tech based work is just fucking soul crushing and depressing. Work can easily be enjoyable, but tech fields seem like an awful soulless place from everyone I've spoken to in person, but that's purely what I hear and not first hand experience. |
| Topic | 63% of Americans think fast food should be cheaper than eating at home |
| R_Jackal 05/30/24 1:25:49 PM #33 | wackyteen posted... Were those preshaped burger patties the size of Whoppers though?Pretty close to. Standard burger size even after cooking down. I mean if I wanted to I could eat two or three of em with some frozen fries at home and still have had a way cheaper meal. |
| Topic | Have you ever had a 200-300 usd steak before? |
| R_Jackal 05/30/24 1:24:02 PM #13 | I went to a Michelin Star restaurant once at the incessant request of my gf at the time, and I don't see how anyone could ever justify spending that much on that food, or a single meal in general. |
| Topic | I mean has anyone ever wanted to work? |
| R_Jackal 05/30/24 1:21:34 PM #17 | I love my work tbh |
| Topic | One Fast Food restaurant must GO Away forever. |
| R_Jackal 05/30/24 1:20:53 PM #4 | In today's world, Taco Bell. No diff choice. Small ass portions, super expensive even for take out today. Fuck em. |
| Topic | 63% of Americans think fast food should be cheaper than eating at home |
| R_Jackal 05/30/24 1:16:49 PM #29 | Should be comparable but not cheaper. The prices now are fucking laughable though. For context before COVID and all this got bad I could buy a box of 12 pre shaped burger patties and a pack of buns for the price of about 3 whoppers. No fucking way are they beating that price and staying in business without literal slave labor. The price difference is worse now though as I can get that for a little more than a single combo lmao |
| Topic | The Majority of Artists Don't Like People Using Generative AI |
| R_Jackal 05/30/24 11:55:14 AM #40 | [LFAQs-redacted-quote] This, even though I put I'm not an artist I play guitar, draw, and write as hobbies. |
| Topic | Hell yeah I now have fewer than 70 tabs open! |
| R_Jackal 05/30/24 11:26:21 AM #3 | I don't understand the tab thing. Bookmarks exist and can be neatly organized. |
| Topic | The Majority of Artists Don't Like People Using Generative AI |
| R_Jackal 05/30/24 10:50:20 AM #33 | andel posted... ai will never replace people like novelists or poets because ai just isnt capable of human creativity and the quality of ai writing is just vastly inferior to that of peopleAI absolutely can replace creatives in mainstream, and they will eventually. The average person generally doesn't care where the content comes from, just that it's there and adequate. |
| Topic | The Majority of Artists Don't Like People Using Generative AI |
| R_Jackal 05/30/24 8:15:36 AM #22 | I don't use AI because I like learning and doing things on my own, and I'm not so conceited as to think that my downtime spent on here or watching TV or whatever couldn't be put to better use, so I tend to always look in to learning or doing something whenever I'm chilling. |
| Topic | Do you use any Buy Now Pay Later services? |
| R_Jackal 05/29/24 11:27:24 PM #2 | I have, mostly to make the immediate hit from necessity replacement less painful. Like when a tree fell on my generator last year, and the power goes out every time a bird lands on the fucking line here(exaggerating, but we do have about 2 week long power outages per year) |
| Topic | they're saying the PS5 is Sony's most profitable console gen, so far |
| R_Jackal 05/29/24 11:23:04 PM #21 | GuerrillaSoldier posted... why does this feel like a threatIt's not a threat it's reality. Look at the AAA gaming scene right now. |
| Topic | Are Pokemon Scarlett/Violet worth getting? How was the DLC? |
| R_Jackal 05/29/24 11:15:32 PM #50 | Just get SMT Vengeance in a few weeks. Not a perfect Pokemon replacement, but it'll likely be better than SV. |
| Topic | who should my next fursona be? |
| R_Jackal 05/29/24 11:12:09 PM #25 | Pepperman. |
| Topic | they're saying the PS5 is Sony's most profitable console gen, so far |
| R_Jackal 05/29/24 11:08:50 PM #18 | Irony posted... If you ignore the games that cost 200m+ to makeMost of those costs are self inflicted. The game industry has literally done nothing to reign in rapidly inflating costs despite this being a thing that was obviously happening from the mid PS3 era. |
| Topic | "A dying empire led by bad people": young voters despair |
| R_Jackal 05/29/24 11:05:11 PM #28 | Doom_Art posted... Primaries are a thing and many people are perfectly capable of running for elected office themselves.Not quite true, your average joe isn't going to get far on a political campaign versus the various politicians who grew up in circles surrounded by influential people and with enough money to buy media coverage and stick ads everywhere. |
| Topic | A random person gets $100k |
| R_Jackal 05/29/24 10:53:46 PM #4 | Why not? More likely to go to someone who needs it than doesn't really. |
| Topic | Think of the last ability/spell/attack you used in a video game |
| R_Jackal 05/29/24 10:48:47 PM #34 | Rabies, Druid from D4. Would prefer it just poison me and hopefully not give me actual rabies. Either way, not living. Unless getting bitten by a werewolf does in fact turn me in to one. Then maybe. |
| Topic | The honeybee vaccine they made last year is working better than expected. |
| R_Jackal 05/29/24 8:05:05 PM #11 | You know what, not too often we get news about things be better then we thought these days. I'm all fuckin kinds of on board for this. |
| Topic | Grand Theft Auto IV... Good game or nah? |
| R_Jackal 05/29/24 8:00:15 PM #17 | Better than V imo |
| Topic | Anyone switch from Android to iPhone? |
| R_Jackal 05/29/24 7:41:21 PM #27 | If you go similar price point, they're almost exactly the fuckin same. The only reason to really pick one over the other is marketing or misguided loyalty. Biggest difference would be how to get from point A to B in their UIs which both do different things better. |
| Topic | "A dying empire led by bad people": young voters despair |
| R_Jackal 05/29/24 7:31:21 PM #22 | HighSeraph posted... Maybe they should try voting thenA lot of em do, but the real question you gotta ask is... Who do you think are gonna get nominations and news coverage at this point? If a good politician actually runs it's pretty easy to just bury them by not allowing them to get publicity. Money wins the day. |
| Topic | VTuber General 22: THERE IS NO JDON |
| R_Jackal 05/29/24 5:23:53 PM #308 | WrestleTuber, reunited with U-san, Mint, and Matara. What's next? https://www.youtube.com/live/rdujyjwLpDU?si=pJGGZXJmyDJus9uE Apex with totally not Bonbon. Hopefully he too doesn't get sick after this collab. |
| Topic | According to this reddit post, HOAs are being normalized. |
| R_Jackal 05/29/24 4:09:24 PM #189 | Euripides posted... What would they own, the mortgage? If a home owner owes the bank $400,000 on the house but loses it via lien, do you think the HOA is just going to own that mortgage and keep paying it?Not sure how whatever the HOA would use would work, but a simplified (and as a disclaimer to be safe, likely not wholly accurate) way of how a mechanics lien works in such a case is: Mortgage is still in effect, the lien stays attached to the title until it is paid(usually by either title insurance if ownership is transferred), or factored in to the next sale price. Mechanics liens are involuntary unlike mortgages though, as said, not entirely sure what kind a HOA would use. Edit: A cursory Google, looks like most of them are literally an agreement that the HOA can sell your house if violate rules/don't pay dues. Would wager unless it's pretty severe this isn't particularly common though. Still find it relatively fucking weird though. |
| Topic | Highly poisonous plant is spreading throughout US |
| R_Jackal 05/29/24 1:14:08 PM #15 | Yooo that's good to know. Turns out these things grew all over the field next to my house and my dumb ass has just been driving a mower through them for years. |
| Topic | For dose who haven't hit rock bottom yet |
| R_Jackal 05/29/24 11:47:37 AM #10 | BlazinBlue88 posted... That's the point of the phrase though. Keep digging and you'll eventually hit bedrock. Literally rock bottom. lolNah, we ain't stopping at bedrock. Straight to the core of the Earth we go! |
| Topic | According to this reddit post, HOAs are being normalized. |
| R_Jackal 05/29/24 11:43:42 AM #181 | [LFAQs-redacted-quote] To put it more accurately: They literally would not sell my grandparents the house outright. They had to agree to a debt(don't remember the amount precisely, think it was 10%?) so the HOA would allow them to live there. Otherwise they were just not going to sell. Mind it never caused them problems but it's still an incredibly shit tier thing to do. |
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