Hey a fellow Phoenotopia Awakening fan!

I love that game but I made the mistake of putting it down for a year. When I came back I was completely lost and had no idea what I had already done or what to do next. The game does not have quest logs and does not hold your hand this way. It’s a game where people might benefit from documenting their progress as they go, especially in case they ever take a break from it.

You might be hindering yourself.

Developers took 19% longer to finish tasks using AI tools - https://www.techspot.com/news/108651-experienced-developers-working-ai-tools-take-longer-complete.html

You don’t like the ‘pedestrian mower’ trucks, where the driver can’t see anything that’s less than 30 feet in front of them? Weird. /s

I don’t want AI-generated assets in games at the expense of past, present, and future artists – artists that created all the source material in the first place and had it pirated by corporations who had enough money to ignore all existing IP law globally.

If Tim Sweeney is fine with pirating other’s art, he should be cool with people pirating his games.

Feminism has a place, but it is explicitly about promoting women’s interests – something which if allowed to continue unchecked, leads to significant disadvantages for men.

I think that’s a dangerous belief. I don’t see the difference between saying that and saying “Equality for black people has a place, but it is explicitly about promoting black interests – something which if left allowed to continue unchecked, leads to significant disadvantages to whites.”

Some people argue that intent shouldn’t be considered when sentencing people for their crimes.

I believe intent impacts a perpetrator’s potential rehabilitation (something a lot of countries put very little effort into when keeping people incarcerated) and should therefore affect sentencing.

Casually throwing feminism under the bus – a movement that focuses on women’s issues (to the overall societal benefit of everyone) – for focusing on women’s issues?

Huh. Is this socially acceptable now? I thought we were better than this.

This depends on the country/state, the speed limit of the road, and possibly other local laws.

Broadly speaking, in the US on roads with speed limits at or above 55mph: the laws for many states require keeping right except to pass. [Generally] On roads under 55mph: there is no such rule but it’s not uncommon for people to think there is, probably due to confusion with the 55+ law, or perhaps there’s a different state or local law where they live.

99.9% of people don’t look up differing traffic laws before driving through multiple states, which is why most differences are posted with road signage.

EDIT: An obvious exception to the speed limit rule are interstate highways where the speed limit will drop in urban areas but still require to keep right except to pass.

There is a browser extension called Chameleon that will spoof a fair amount of data, but after testing it against one of those fingerprint test sites, it looks like it doesn’t/can’t spoof everything.

FYI:

https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/doxxing-free-speech-and-first-amendment

In the US, “doxxing” laws are pretty much state-by-state and many may be violating the first amendment.

I didn’t see a link to the survey in the article so I found it on the ESA website.

The survey says that 58% of kids want games, but it doesn’t seem to specify what percentage of kids want in-game currency?; it simply says that in-game currency is one of the top five video-game related requests, at 43%. But 43% of what? 43% of kids who want games? It’s not specific, which would make the news article meaningless.

Yeah Apple is straight up user hostile to people running apps on MacOS not signed by Apple, and I don’t know why more people don’t talk about it and push back against it. They are one step away from removing the ability to freely install software on your own computer.

I don’t use itunes on mac or ios, so I use an app called NoTunes on MacOS that kills the itunes app whenever it launches.

Jeb!

They said they had no intention of hindering or invalidating ‘legal’ 3rd party docks, where ‘legal’ could be interpreted as “authorized by Nintendo”, which could mean they have every intention of hindering every dock they don’t approve of or get a cut of sales of.

Friendly reminder that Reolink cameras need to be denied internet access / isolated on the network because they constantly reach out to a bunch of Chinese IP addresses.

Fun Fact: DVD originally was called Digital Video Disc and was changed shortly after because it began being used for other non-video purposes.

Source: I was there when DVD was first introduced to the market.

2nd source: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/lexicon.php?id=29

We are in a new age of disinformation and crazy people, where the president of the US literally responds to protests against him with AI videos of him shitting on all of them, and where every sarcasm post needs an /s.

I came here to write this, so thank you for saving me the trouble.

I really wanted to like this show. It has great production value. It has some good actors. It had potential.

Unfortunately the writing is so bad it’s insulting to my intelligence as a viewer.

There’s also a limited animated TV series! I am not sure where to watch it right now though. This series is one of my favorites.