ICastFist

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[–] ICastFist 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

They want you to believe that analyzing things without permission somehow goes against copyright, when in reality, fair use is a part of copyright law, and the reason our discourse isn’t wholly controlled by mega-corporations and the rich.

Ok, but is training an AI so it can plagiarize, often verbatim or with extreme visual accuracy, fair use? I see the 2 first articles argue that it is, but they don't mention the many cases where the crawlers and scrappers ignored rules set up to tell them to piss off. That would certainly invalidate several cases of fair use

Instead of charging for everything they scrap, law should force them to release all their data and training sets for free. "But they spent money and time and resources!" So did everyone who created the stuff they're using for their training, so they can fuck off.

The article by Tory also says these things:

This facilitates the creation of art that simply would not have existed and allows people to express themselves in ways they couldn’t without AI. (...) Generative AI has the power to democratize speech and content creation, much like the internet has.

I'd wager 99.9% of the art and content created by AI could go straight to the trashcan and nobody would miss it. Comparing AI to the internet is like comparing writing to doing drugs.

[–] ICastFist 4 points 4 hours ago

WHY AREN'T YOU APPROVING ME AND MY COOL CAPS LOCK SHOUTING!?!?!

[–] ICastFist 7 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

LOL, the bsky users (blueys? skyes? bskits?) sure know how to bully people, if nothing else. I loved how they treated Adobe some weeks ago.

[–] ICastFist 9 points 4 hours ago

Sell cocaine in Paris, probably

[–] ICastFist 3 points 4 hours ago

Brazil and most Latin American countries are also safe pirate havens, unless you set up a for-profit piracy site, then you're painting a huge target on your head.

[–] ICastFist 1 points 4 hours ago

laughs in WFRP profession progression

[–] ICastFist 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

"That's great news! That means all your actions and damage don't count!" - The DM

[–] ICastFist 1 points 4 hours ago

Possible list: Remnant 2, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion, No More Heroes 3, Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes Complete Edition, Steep, and Job Simulator (PS Plus Premium); Sniper Elite 5, World War Z, The Ascent, Dynasty Warriors 9, and Samurai Warriors 5.

Confirmed games are
Monster Hunter Rise
Rogue Legacy 2
Inscryption
After Us
Kayak VR: Mirage
Avicii Invector

[–] ICastFist 2 points 4 hours ago

In the case of games, this is doubly problematic due to patches and updates. People can still play Fortnite and Overwatch today, but they can no longer play those games as they were in 2018. Anyone that never played previous versions can only read changelogs to get an idea of what changed and when.

[–] ICastFist 3 points 4 hours ago

"Inanimate objects up your ass don't make you gay" - that guy's mom

[–] ICastFist 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The hardest thing to believe is that call centers still had humans somewhere to call/answer calls

[–] ICastFist 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

The most important part you can take from the article is the ability to fuck around with the world and the characters, then finding out what the consequences are. Essentially a Developer Foresight trope taken to the extremes

A notable example from more than 30 years ago is Ultima 7, which even Larian boss, Swen Vincke, said heavily influenced his RPG design philosophy, which is seen very clearly in the Divinity Original Sin games.

 

Make your own with the template! - https://i.ibb.co/dw6X2ncB/lemming2.jpg

 

Make your own with the template! - https://i.ibb.co/dw6X2ncB/lemming2.jpg

 
 

I've been thinking about some games that can be done in order to get people drawing, mostly as a means to give some variation to kids I've been teaching.

So far, I've found/thought about the following:

  1. I go through body parts, one at a time, like "torso". Everyone draws it. Once done, they pass the paper to another person, then I state another body part, rinse and repeat until it's fully done
  2. One person has to describe a thing or creature without naming it, everyone else has to draw according to what's being described
  3. Give them 3 lists, one of "who", one of "where" and one of "doing", where they pick one option from each and have to draw it, so others have to figure what it is. For instance, "(Who) Medic / (Where) Space / (Doing) Playing games with friends"

What else would you suggest?

 

Police refuses to talk about the reports of Padawan screams

 

In case it doesn't load - https://i.ibb.co/XxrVRkwQ/BEANS.gif

 

No need to name names or sources.

Mine has to be some dude that insisted that advertising is a "30,000 year old technology"

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SOURCE - https://brightwanderer.tumblr.com/post/681806049845608448

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I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like... if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you're a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

| just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success... I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

 

Title, mainly aimed at a Blackberry 9800

 

I once had the Japanese version of Digimon world 2 for the PS1 and I remember it having a separate game mode that, by default, would put you in an arena with Metal Greymon vs Were Garurumon. For whatever reason, the fight played fully automatically, no input needed, but if you messed around with buttons, you could sometimes change the attack of M.Greymon to the breast missile. After the fight was over, you'd be thrown back at the main menu.

I've never seen anyone comment on it and even searching right now doesn't show any results. So, does anyone know what it was supposed to be and how to "properly play" it? Cutting room floor only mentions that western releases completely removed all compatibility with the Japanese gadgets and graphics related to that

 

Samsung and Xiaomi apps on their factory defaults are mostly fine, update them once and suddenly you have ads flashing after every 2 interactions with your phone

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