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Cake day: June 30th, 2023


  • Do you think it is likely for voting to create a difference?

    Yes, because I understand our political system…

    There is nothing constitutional about the US and how it operates anymore.

    You don’t seem to even understand the meaning of the words used to describe our political system…

    Stop asking rhetorical questions like you’re teaching people, start asking real questions so you don’t remain ignorant of how society actually works.

    Just ask someone else



  • AI is shit.

    Facial recognition is shit.

    But none of that was really the issue here:

    Lipps spent nearly four months in a Tennessee jail without bail - classified as a fugitive, she had no hearing, no interview, nothing. North Dakota officers didn’t retrieve her until October 30, 108 days after the arrest. October 31 was her first court appearance and the first time police spoke to her, reports InForum.

    Arrested and thrown in jail for 108 days before seeing any sort of judge is a constitutional violation.

    We hear about this because it’s an obvious wrong case to an old innocent grandma…

    But it’s not the only time it’s happening. And if this happened to her, it can happen to anyone.

    A lazy/dumb cop or ICE agent can just declare you’re someone they’re looking for, and by the time it’s settled your life is destroyed.

    We can’t keep kicking police reform down the road.

    We can’t settle for moderate politicians who say they’ll try on a few issues.

    We need politicians who understand that everything is fucked and desperately needs fixed across the board.


  • AI companies who can’t find anyone to buy their product, swear their employees would rather have their product in exchange for labor rather than money…

    Which could easily be used to buy the product no one outside the company is buying.

    This is just a way to juice metrics and claim this “compensation” as sales on the books.

    And I’m almost positive the “per user growth” they’re talking about is just how brain rot addicts will use chatbots for everything once their brain atrophies from not using it. But just by mentioning that they had to admit that overall use wasn’t a metric they wanted to talk about.

    It’s like how a small percentage of drinkers (the alcoholics) buy the vast amount of alcohol. Less people drinking is bad for the company, and a few alcoholics can’t sustain the company without being replaced by new addicts.




  • Not as much as you think.

    It wasn’t until graduate level statistics until we got into how to tear down bad stats as part of understanding how to make good stats.

    Like, even for people who took regular college level statistical analysis, the hardest part of it is still keeping you bias out.

    Teach a bunch of high schoolers stats, and they’re gonna think they’re smarter than a gambling app. That leads to more people trying it, and naturally more people getting hooked.

    You’re thinking of it as innoculation when it’s more like the first hit for free…

    Quick edit:

    It’s like how med students think they know more than every doctor they’ve ever seen and diagnosis themselves with a bunch of shit

    A little bit of knowledge mixed with teenage confidence and an undeveloped brain doesn’t always result in a positive.

    So with something as addictive as gambling, the best way to decrease it is to limit or avoid exposure to gambling until mid 20s when the brain is more likely to be developed.





  • Try “random start” mods.

    Instead of taking you thru the opening scenes of a big RPG like Skyrim, it just punts you to some random area so you can immediately start messing around

    A lot of games have big scripted events the first couple hours, being able to skip those helps it from feeling repetitive, because that’s the stuff you’ve done ever playthrough you’ve ever started.




  • No…

    The first amendment protects against censorship by the American government, ideally at least.

    Private companies can and do censor shit constantly, and that is definitely censorship.

    You’ve just seen people repeat it about the first amendment, didn’t understand it, and are attempting and failing to regurgitate it

    And if people see you using it wrong, they’ll start off from an even worse position.

    All you’re doing is exacerbating the problem you think your fixing.



  • it would have to be some serious quality of life changes to make me shell out for it again.

    Eh, I first bought it 20 years ago, and have bought it a couple times since on different platforms.

    If it’s $30 bucks I’m buying it regardless. Maybe not right at first, but eventually I will.

    That’s also why I don’t think any game shouldnt be able to run “maxxed out” on release. A great game people are still gonna want to run it a decade later. It doesn’t hurt anyone if the dial turns to 11 if 10 is the same setting it’s always been.

    So make games that in a decade still look decent on settings no one could enable all at once on release. It doesn’t change the quality on release, just gives it legs to look good longer.


  • Oblivion was alright, but I remember seeing most players topped out at like 5 hours played.

    It was fun to see it all again, but the novelty wore off quick…

    This tho, I could see sinking 10s likely 100s if hours into.

    4 years newer doesn’t sound like much these days, but 2002 to 2006 was a huge jump. NV has a much better starting point for an update, and could feel like a truly modern game that pulls people in without having to drastically change the experience.

    Plus the desert setting makes it easy to hide graphical shortcomings. So even after cranking the resolution up, it’s not gonna take a lot more resources, there’s plenty of room to improve other stuff too.