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It’s definitely been seen in many many games, but I would call it an established design element rather than a gimmick, as it has often been used to very good effect.

Not a comment on PZ but often “intuitiveness” and expressiveness must trade off against each other. I prefer expression.

Q - apply heals

Okay, but why? The hypothesis that they bought an extremely successful business because they want to make money doesn’t need any further explanation. What is the motivation for them to try to export their strict laws to other countries? You act like it gives them so much personal joy at taking away our gay kissing, that’s reason enough.

I know tone doesn’t come across but I was only being partially ironic. I recognize that sometimes one just needs to bitch. My neighbour across the hall has no concept of being mindful not to bother people while in the halls. He’s a no-joke seven foot tall guy with a booming voice and no volume control. I know every single fucking time he enters or leaves the building, because he’s always ALWAYS on his phone in the corridors. He speaks some African language that I am sure normally sounds delightful, but when a literal giant is approaching my door while shouting in a foreign language, it’s kinda stressful. I can hear him in my entire apartment! Shit, now you got me doing it.

People definitely love you for your personality

Are they just assholes or is it something deeper?

Disagree. They were more tolerable but very evil.

Again, why.

First they came for EA, and I said hey, you want some Ubisoft to go with that?

Narrated by Tony Jay, the voice of Megabyte! Thurl Ravencroft tier, for sure.

Not to mention prominently featuring transgender developers – in the 80s!

Why? Literally why would they give a shit? This only makes sense if you assume that they spent billions of dollars to export religious conservativism outside of Saudi Arabia. I dunno if you’ve noticed, but Saudi Arabia has been spending trillions of dollars to present a totally different, modern image to the world. The people spending the money don’t actually give a shit about Allah. They only care what other people will submit to in Allah’s name, and they know that’s not going to fly outside their borders.

Ooohhhh, you want to bitch about it. Tcchhh, my bad. They’re absolutely assholes and I think I heard them say they do it just because it annoys you.

Okay? So at the risk of stating the obvious application of my previous comment: maybe kindly suggest to the occupant or the manager that their door closer needs to be adjusted?

Or maybe they’re just a different kind of autistic from you.

Probably the building forces an air pressure difference between the corridors and the units to keep air circulating, their door closer doesn’t arrest the door properly, and the air pressure causes it to slam if they don’t carefully close it gently.

This meant something specific. It wasn’t just “you are old and out of touch.”

“Boomerier,” surely

That’s why I initially brought up all those forms of AI that are perfectly fucking fine. But you’re like, NOPE. So don’t throw that in MY face. Perhaps you didn’t understand what I was saying. But you were STILL like, NOPE. Which leads me to believe YOU don’t even know what you mean when you say, “AI”. “Generative AI” isn’t a specific thing. It’s any software that outputs something a human might consume as content. You just mean, “bad shit I don’t understand” I suppose.

The problem is not the technology, it is that entrenched capitalists are leveraging their wealth and power to steal culture from all of us, and cynical investors engaging in the largest pump and dump in history. And if you can’t make that distinction, your voice doesn’t have a damn thing to contribute to this conversation other than “Naw, fuck AI.”

I’ve been on the receiving end of a lot of moral panics and it’s not okay. Naw, fuck pearl clutchers.

Just, like, all of it. No more practicing chess against a computer. No more computer vision. No more single player Street Fighter. Fuck it all. It’s inherently evil, we’ve decided for some reason. Clearly a nuanced and well researched position.

Nah. Fuck IP raiders. There’s nothing wrong with GAN. There’s nothing wrong with LLM. There’s nothing wrong with gradient descent. There’s nothing wrong with diffusion models. There’s nothing wrong with markov chains, with expert systems, with fuzzy logic, with PROLOG. Not on a moral or ethical level, for certain.