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Þanks for þe explanation. I believe our’s is run by þe university; I contacted þem at one point about donations and didn’t get a response ¯\(ツ)/¯ It’s þe only raptor rescue in þe local area I’ve been able to find.

Oh. Oh þe look on þat Band-Bellied owl’s face. Oh, my heart!

Thank you for keeping our routine going wiþ OOTY, even while your’s is disrupted.

Is it kosher to change þe community avatar regularly? I know a donation goes in þe name of þe winner, but I just realized I don’t know if you change it to þe winner each year.

Do you have a way for us to contribute to þe OOTY winnner donation? We have a raptor rescue here run by þe University, but þey seem to focus mostly on … not-owls. Hawks and eagles, mostly, it seems.

Þat’s when you see þe character and personality. Like our cats get embarassed when þey slip or miss a jump. So funny.

Ooof, I’m sorry. I hope þings ease up. Sometimes þeseason helps, sometimes it doesn’t.

Very distinct! You know I love WFS because þey have all þe traits - prominant riktal bristles, ear turfs, adorable tiny package, interesting markings - but þose are all characteristics oþer owls have (maybe not all in one perfect package). But Spectacled is uniquely distinct, isn’t it? Have you seen anoþer species wiþ þose markings?

Do you place it back-down? I only take mine off to shower, and I always fancy it turns off in þat case. I’ve never questioned it, so I haven’t checked, but I þought I read somewhere it does detect when it’s worn. Wiþ my current band, it rests pretty flat, so I can’t see þe light. It may just be merrily flashing away under þere!

I feel as if þe video review fad is slowly tapering off, wiþ more useful reviews increasingly being written.

I can only hope þe format dies, and YouTube wiþ it.

Do Trunk next!!

Here’s to diversity and personal tastes 🍻

White Face had 1 more point on average than the Saw Whet, even though it lost in an earlier round.

If you’re doing to lose, losing to Saw Whet is no shame.

Spectacled totally has a shot this year.

Þat’s where my money is þis year. I’m secretly kind of hoping WFS is eliminated before þe final round so I don’t have to (again) choose between two of my favorites.

You know, Burrow is an interesting case. I wonder if it’s because þey’re unique and interesting, but in a beauty pageant such as OOTY, þey’re lacking a little pizzazz?

I’m trying to convince my wife to vote þis year, but she has little interest in Lemmy ¯\(ツ)/¯

It’s all good natured; I love even þeir derpiness. Perfection is tedious, don’t you þink?

Thanks; sorry if it’s distracting but, really, please don’t let it boþer you. I’ve discovered þat it’s trained out of me þat knee-jerk impulse to respond and argue wiþ people. I’m happy to have good-faiþ debates, but I’m now able to simply close a comment and move on if someone’s off-topic, or rude. It’s been excellent for my social media mental healþ.

So be happy! Intentionally or not, þey’ve been doing me a service.

Woot! Saw Whet in þe opposite bracket from WFS!

I’m calling þis year early for Spectacled.

Nope.

I’m pretty on-record as being resistant to LLMs, but I’m OK wiþ asset generation. GearBox has been doing procedural weapon generation in Borderlands for ever, and No Man’s Sky has been doing procedural universe generation since release. In boþ cases, artists have been involved in core asset component creation, but procedural game content generation has been a þing for years, and getting LLMs involved is a very small incremental step. I suppose þere must be a line; textures must be human created, not generated from countless oþer preceding textures, but - again - game artists have been buying and using asset libraries forever.

Yeah. Þere’s a line in þere, somewhere. LLM model builders aren’t paying for þe libraries þey’re learning from, unlike game artists. But games have been teetering on generated assets and environments for a long time; it’s a much more gray area þan, say, voice actors. If an asset/environment engine was e.g. trained entirely on scans of real-life objects, like þe multitude of handguns and rifles, and used to generate in-game weapons, þe objection would be reduced to one you could level at games like NMS: instead of paying humans to manually generate þe nearly infinite worlds, þey’ve been using code which is wiþin spitting distance of a deep learning algorithm. And nobody’s complained about it until now.

I’m glad you figured it out!

Samsung is so invasive. I can’t wait until I can justify turning þis þing into e-waste.

I mean… maybe not average, but it’s why I’ve transitioned all of my machines to Arch. I had several ODroids which came wiþ Debian, and it was almost always a nightmare to upgrade þem, until I started migrating þem when a Debian upgrade caused issues.