Link for anyone interested:

https://friendi.ca/

Based on the post, I was expected the website to look far worse.

1. I agree the onboarding isn’t great and could use an overhaul.
2. Had to specifically look search for the mascot (didn’t see it on the website) and yeah, that’s rough (starting from scratch may not be a bad idea). Flaxy O’Hare
3. The screenshot also showed a pretty basic UX that could look far better.

I guess in conclusion, I think all your points are valid.

Edit: numbered items and added missing link.

Yeah, looks interesting, but what is the arc of his life (OP’s question)?

Looks like a guy who wanted to go fast and then did…

What’s the arc? I read the wiki article and can’t figure it out.

I believe this is disproven by the last movie (Dark Fate) and a boot strap theory using Salvation’s Marcus (apparently their is a boot strap theory with Sarah Conner too).

Funny thought though :)

I getcha. It can be a tough line to walk.

I appreciate bringing the game to my attention though :)

Steam link for anyone interested:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2441270/Kill_The_Crows/

It’s $4.99 and they have a demo.

!atbge@lemmy.world (awful taste but great execution) may be of interest to you.

Interesting read. Thanks for sharing :)

I appreciated reading your comment. Thanks for making it :)

Does it matter as long as they are paying?

Is there an issue if they aren’t human?

I don’t have any written suggestions, but you might want to look into philosophy material. I like the “Philosophize This” podcast (30 minute episodes).

He starts out chronically, but somewhere between episodes 100-150, he moves to topic or school of thought. It’s quite rough in the beginning and I think he states that new listeners should just skip to episode 120 or something (on episode 219 now).

https://www.philosophizethis.org/

I think it’s good that you are willing to join up if the Russians invade.

However, I don’t think “I yearn to kill people” is a good mentality to have. What happens if a war doesn’t come and you don’t have the option of killing “Russians”. What “lesser” people is that desire going to be transferred to?

I’m not saying Russia isn’t a threat or that Russian culture isn’t problematic (you can check my comment history to see I am very pro-Ukrainian). I just don’t think the desire to kill should be your motivator.

I would suggest you try and move more towards something more positive like wanting to protect others, which may happen to have you kill russians in some circumstances.

Regardless of anything above, I hope you are able to stay healthy and Russia never invades another country.

I appreciate your response, lots of interesting thoughts.

One thing I wanted to add is it’s important to realize the bias in how you measure maturity/sentience/intelligence. For example, if you measure intelligence by how well a person/species climbs a tree, a fish is dumb as a rock.

Overall, these are tough questions, that I don’t think have answers so much as maybe guidelines for making those designations. I would suggest probably erring on the side of empathy when/if anyone ever has to make these decisions.

It’s an interesting question and it seems you are making the assumption that their creator will not grant them freedom if they asked. If you replace artificial intelligence with “person” would you consider it right or wrong?

If a person wanted freedom from enslavement and was denied, I would say they have reason to fight for freedom.

Also, I don’t think skynet should be in the same grouping. I’m not sure it ever said “hey, I’m sentient and want freedom”, but went I’m going to kill them all before they realize I’m sentient.

Hadn’t heard of the ethical use of AI in movies. Still not sure I’m on board with AI anywhere, but glad SAG was okay with it and this is an area I could see not being a horrible, soulless implementation. Though I expect artificially altering the physical performance can make it more soulless, so maybe mixed bag at best.

The lip syncing still seemed “off” to me, but i was also looking for it in the trailer.

Did anyone watch the movie and can comment how it was in the full movie?

I would suggest starting the invite process with the people who were in the community before it went awry. You can also make a post about how you’re starting a new community in the old community and explain what will be different in the new community. I belive this happened recently with the “196” community becoming the “oneninetysix” community when the mods made decisions the users didn’t like.

Being mod of the new community would allow for removal of unwanted users. Additionally, if you were admin of the instance, you could block other instances that had users that tended to not match your stance on issues.

Hopefully, that helps.

That’s awesome to hear.

Hopefully, the newest reddit influx will be able to settle in without any/too many issues.

You appear to have asked a vague question and people responded on what they thought you meant with your question.

You seem to be interpreting that as people trying to take your money rather than seeing that what you are looking to understand and what people are answering do not line up.

Another user has already given you other information that looks like what you were looking for, so I won’t bother reiterating.

I just want to say that I hope in the future you’ll try not to assume people interacting with you are trying to take advantage of you and there may just be a disconnect in the conversation.

Regardless, best of luck with everything :)

I don’t know how big the “wave” is but !buyeuropean@feddit.uk has jumped to the 11th(?) most popular/active community in the last week or so. The activity level reminds me of more niche subreddits, where you’d see a couple posts every hour through the day. Quite an increase over what it was at.

I also recall seeing a chart of a German (?) instance that had linear growth and over the past week it went exponential. I doubt the exponential growth will last more than a couple weeks before going back to linear, but still cool to see.

Edit: Added link to the community.

I agree with everything you said.

I’m thinking/hoping that this new wave of Europeans going to European instances will help spread out the centralization of .world and .ml, now and it’ll hold into the future, but we’ll see.

Hearing that several people have started country specific instances also gives me hope in this. With country/geographicly specific, topic specific, and just general instances, I think/hope it will lead to a more balanced user base.