Recycling is about more than just plastics. It is a bit funny to me how that has always been the main focus though given how afaik it’s a lot less viable and/or useful than aluminium, cardboard, glass recycling.

800 million people (so just the population of US, CA, and EU) doing small things can absolutely have a larger impact though. Rich bastards do have a vastly larger impact than individual normal people but using that to say “I don’t have to do anything, the others are more at fault” is not helping anyone.

Women can be creeps too. It’s less common but there are still plenty.

Ultimately the handling model and the way cops were implemented just making them very annoying killed it for me but yeah, I think overall it was trying to be different and did in some ways succeed. I don’t quite get all the hate tbh. I’ve had a few hours of fun, even if it’s no Underground 2.

100% agree on this. Israel should’ve been made in some part of former germany after ww2. But the occupiers probably didn’t like giving away their newfound land, and I also do kinda understand why jews in germany might’ve wanted to be geographically far away. Still, that’s the one country that had it coming and if some people were displaced at the time, then no one would complain now.

But if we were to do it now you’re again displacing people that did nothing wrong. Not to mention that regardless of how many of them seem to support the genocide, most israelis also didn’t choose to be there, they were born there (though at this point fuck them tbh, I’d only really feel for the ones actively opposed to all this).

Children only matter when we can push surveillance to ““protect”” them

Guess OP should just go homeless lol

Imagine reading the post before leaving a judgemental comment

I see 0 reason to buy a used game over pirating it so I don’t really see what was lost. In both cases the devs get nothing, and buying from someone else is a hassle, and having large physical media instead of just some files is also annoying.

If we didn’t have steam we’d instead have the fucking epic games store or EA origin (or whatever they renamed it to). Just because valve isn’t perfect doesn’t mean any publically traded company wouldn’t have been so much worse. And they also did plenty of actual positives with SteamOS, Steam Deck, being the first to push consumer VR with the Vive…

Valve said they’re actively working with nvidia to support their gpus. While I’m sure valve hardware will always be the primary concern, they seem to actively pursue the goal of SteamOS being more widely compatible.

Kinguin is more of a mediator, the keys are from other sellers. To my knowledge they’re usually bought with stolen credit cards. So it’s just money laundering. Don’t buy from there or similar sites unless you want to actively hurt the developer (since they end up paying chargeback fees).

Yeah, while I don’t love kernel level AC, the argument that because it doesn’t stop cheating entirely it’s useless has always been so fucking shit. Barrier of entry is what matters, I don’t give a fuck if one in 100 games has a cheater, I do if it’s one in 5 (or worse which can easily happen when AC is complete garbage)

I don’t think I can think of a software where I find the menu more confusing than in MS office products. But then again I’m probably not using computers like the average person.

Ok, maybe blender, but that also has so many more options that it’s not a fair comparison

The data on that is worthless with online DRM, and I’d bet that GTA 6 would require online activation regardless. The real enemy is DRM, disks being gone is just a symptom.

Games have also always been tied to licenses, the details are what matters really. A license to use a program that can no longer launch because a server is down isn’t any more useful if you have the program on a disk.

Sissy in particular likely stems from the social taboo of not performing to your gender’s role, it’s just a form of humiliation kink. Might be more common in closeted/egg transfems because it’s a somewhat safer way of being feminine in a context, it just happens to be sexual.

And crossdressing is a super wide term anyway but in a sexual context I’d think it’s just roleplay

A lot of the individuals aren’t in there entirely of their own will though. Particularly with BYU, the institution itself is a cancer, but the individual students are really not at fault (at least certainly not all of them). The university portrays itself very differently than it actually is, and you effectively cannot leave the mormon church while you attend (unless you want to get kicked out and have all your time there completely wasted).

I would heavily disagree on LLMs being obviously sentient. I don’t see how they could be, as I see it it would require an understanding of the words they put out in a framework that isn’t language - but language is the only framework they can possibly have. All words LLMs know are defined only through their relation to other words.

It’s also a matter of defining what self-awareness even is, and I don’t have the hubris to say that LLMs for sure are not sentient, it just seems very unlikely from my perspective. I would also argue that monkeys are most likely sapient, though the whole concept has always reeked of “oh shit sentience doesn’t make us special, quick think of something else”. I’d probably put LLMs somewhere on the level of individualistic insects at best.

I still agree with your general sentiment that people are far too dismissive of the topic in general given our history in doing this with animals. Esp the concept of pain is an interesting one, because essentially pain is just negative reinforcement, which of course is part of reinforcement learning. But pain also had to naturally evolve and is very flawed as a result, while the negative reinforcement is just a number without side effects, so it likely wouldn’t ever feel like pain the same way it feels for an animal. But the difference is often philosophical, and we define things the way they are convenient.

Ich finds schonn krass, wie oft mir leute komplett unverständlich begegnen wenn ich nur sage ich mag kein steak bzw. bin allgemein nich der riesenfan von Rindfleisch (und erst recht da es von allen herkömmlichen Fleischtypen auch noch das klimaschädlichste ist, brauch ichs jetzt wirklich nicht). Also Überraschung is eine Sache aber diese Denial phase jedes mal ist schon komisch. Passiert natürlich gerne genauso wenn ich irgendwelchen vegetarischen oder veganen Fleischersatz esse, obwohl ich doch gar kein vegetarier bin.

Ist halt wie so vieles viel zu sehr kulturell verankert. Aber das ändert sich wenigstens auch merklich.

Es ist aber ein problem der technik? Nur, weil zum Bauzeitpunkt keiner drüber nachgedacht hat, ist das nicht plötzlich was anderes. AKWs brauchen halt viel Kühlung, und auch solche Abwärme ist eine Form von Umweltverschmutzung wenn sie in einem Fluss landet.

Reading comprehension, how does it work?

I literally said that in this case it’s almost certainly just because they know they can get away with it and make more money

If game prices had adjusted for inflation, we’d be paying 250-300 for one now.

That doesn’t mean it isn’t just greed especially in this case (from what I heard some pretty basic features like car customization are locked behind the “ultimate edition”), but in general it’s more of a miracle (and result of the massive market growth combined with no unit cost) that game prices have ignored inflation for this long.