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I’d think we’d be far more concerned about critical resource companies before we got to worrying about gaming companies, but we can’t even do that so I’m not surprised.

As long as you’re not hurting other people or breaking their things, no one cares.

If only this were true. Far too many people seem to care rather a lot about stuff that shouldn’t matter at all to them.

I feel that social media has opened the door to too much open hostility to acts of kindness. Strategizing around a best move politically rather than having an open heart, even to people that may hate you.

It was Harris’ choice to post this publicly for people to react to. If it was simply about being kind then it could’ve been a private communication to the Cheney family directly.

It was performative at its core and woefully out of touch as well.

This isn’t building bridges though. No Republican is going to be moved or softened by this statement. It’s going to actively alienate the people who are supposed to like you though. The best move is to simply say nothing at all.

All this bullshit tells me is that those in power are still seeing this as nothing but business, like what we’re going through is simply a contract negotiation. No hard feelings. That they can watch their colleagues cause the death and misery of thousands and then leave that at the door and go grab a drink with that person.

I played shadow of Mordor 3 times and always lost motivation as soon as you make it to the second area

Similar problem with Dying Light too.

I’m not talking about jobs, just people who do art for fun. Before AI there was still a lot of D&D fan art for example. Tons of people drawing their character or getting a commission done of the party after a long campaign. That kind of thing.

I think AI art has a negative impact on that sort of expression. People who might have tried it instead just generate something instead, never learning they really like to draw. People who would’ve commissioned something now can just generate a pic instead. People who had fun sharing fan art lose their motivation because for every one picture they complete, 1000s of AI images bury their art so it never gets appreciated.

Or where hiring an actual real artists - for example if you were to need dozens of graphics for, say, a TTRPG you’re running.

The only issue with that is that the AI was trained off the art from people who did create art for their TTRPG either paid or as a passion project.

Does that mean that new art effectively stops getting made for these scenarios? That real artists who are inspired to make cool art for their games just disappear or get assumed it was just AI?

I kind of wonder if we just stagnate from here, with very little new art being created that doesn’t come from AI. In 10 years will we still be using the long recycled art from the last human artists? (Not that humans will stop creating art, but less will and they will often be drowned out from the flood of AI output)

My cousin’s talked me into giving CoD ‘one more try’ like three times now. It’s never worth it. The game is always worse and my cousin also tends to just not play for months after a handful of gaming sessions, so I don’t even get the benefit of hanging out.

Generally stopped trying to game with him anymore. Just too flaky.

Same. Much easier to eat

For me it’s ‘Maintain a reasonable routine for 100 days’. I can always get a burst of motivation and accomplish things. What I can’t do is reliably do the chores for an extended period of time. Repeating, but intermittent small tasks are my kryptonite.

There’s definitely this aspect, but at least for me with strict parents there’s also loads of examples of:

‘Huh, doing this particular chore every two weeks instead of every week doesn’t actually cause any real problems and isn’t a world ending disaster like my parents seemed to claim’

Becoming an adult meant finding out just how much of my childhood was personal preference of my parents and not some sort of objectively correct way to live. Life has been a lot better now that I can do things the way I prefer.

Same. Dealing with a cord was enough hassle to very rarely ever use it.

AI art kind of feels like technology that has some really cool potential, but was taken in completely the wrong direction.

Like image generators are just dumb. Describing in text what you want a picture to look like is exactly the wrong approach. We even have sayings about this exact issue! A picture is worth a thousand words. Well even with a thousand word prompt, it’s still incredibly difficult to get the picture you want. This is ignoring all the tracking down of various loras and what not to try to control the output a bit better.

No, the whole image generator concept is just a dumb gimmick of extremely limited value to anyone.

The real value (to me) would be empowering already talented artists with custom loras and LLMs trained on their own art to help speed up repetitive parts of their art creation process.

To enable individual artists to scale up their work into larger logical chunks. Maybe they’ve already mastered noses or eyes or this one specific squiggly line that really comes up quite a lot for some reason. To take someone who’s already talented and give them an even faster and smoother workflow to get to what new and unique idea they’re trying out now faster.

Basically the same way auto complete helped programmers but for artists.

Maybe this already exists, or maybe it’s still being worked on, but to me this seems like the way we should’ve always been headed. Humanity is about building better and faster tools. Not just trying to cope with randomly generated slop.

The city is literally cursed and goes through shit constantly partially due to that.

Honestly if the city is literally cursed, then the best use of resources is a) curse breakers or b) relocation program to somewhere not cursed. And then quarantining the city so no one can get in anymore.

People talk about echo chambers a lot, but I’ve found it nearly impossible to keep politics and general doom content out. I’m rapidly losing my interest in the Internet as a whole simply because it seems to bring mostly pointless suffering to myself.

A person who, when shown evidence counter to their understanding, accepting that information and updating their worldview isn’t honestly much of a problem. They’re just ignorant and the left is pretty decent at awareness campaigns. They’d have gotten educated eventually.

It’s all the people who were shown that exact same information and then doubled down. And there’s a horrifying number of those people out there. Enough to seemingly keep the country firmly on track for a fascist takeover. I don’t know how to reach those people.

I think it’s one thing to not be willing to go live as a hermit to avoid unethical consumption and another thing to simply… not participate in rent seeking behavior like this.

Bookmarks bar get actually used (mostly). General bookmarks? Yeah those are never seen again.

If you leverage all the workarounds and utilities available, the best you can get is still a mostly senile chatbot. It’ll constantly forget stuff and get details wrong, but I suppose if you’re deep into psychosis, then you’d pass that off as just being ‘a little forgetful’.

The absolute best ones available still are basically the same as zoning out in a meeting and then trying to respond when asked a question by wild guessing and a handful of context clues. You might get lucky and say something reasonable a few times, but the longer it goes on the more apparent it is that you haven’t been paying attention at all.

I feel like Linux works for hardcore users and extremely casual users, but it doesn’t work that great for medium savvy users.

Like sure if I’m barely using the computer for anything other than a web browser then it’ll work fine.

And if I’m willing to do a whole lot of research I can also make it work for power user setups (at an even better outcome than Windows).

But if I’m just a gamer who’s smart enough to do some modding and run a couple of game servers and maybe some other utilities, but I’m not incredibly tech savvy otherwise? Not a great fit.