The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at night and devouring its own dreams through the day.
If the technical boundary collapsed, put a human-made boundary in its place. You have the right to have some peace of mind and quiet; make yourself unavailable for at least a good chunk of the day, and make sure your folks know you’re unavailable. And why.
That’s how I remain sane.
Pretty much - they’re lying it would introduce huge production costs, because most people who’d repeat this argument wouldn’t know they’re being lied to.
Not surprised with the lobbying group.
Ross did an amazing job addressing the babble in the statement. Specially because he’s being extra careful on saying things to the best of his knowledge - note how he doesn’t say “it’s false”, or “it’s a lie”, but rather “a German lawyer thinks this is false” and “this sounds like a lie”; gotta respect that.
Some additional comments:
The first paragraph of the lobbying group’s statement might sound like an introduction, but it’s already a straw man - it’s clearly misleading the reader on what Stop Killing Games is about.
as the protections we put in place
Excuse me?
Note #1 is a cancer way more widespread than just the gaming industry. Every fucking bloody time some megacorpo wants to fight against some sane customer protection law, they babble shite like this. And it always sounds like “a user/customer is not a rational human being, it’s irrational trash, and if you let it do what it wants it’ll cause itself harm, so We need to protect those filthy things. And how convenient, the way to protect this filth against itself magically aligns with our financial interests!”
these proposals would curtail developer choice by making these video games prohibitively expensive to create.
This is not even a fallacy. Not even bullshit. It’s simply to be a lying bastard, and to call the readers bloody muppets by proxy.
1M+ sign European Citizen’s Initiative “Stop Destroying Videogames”: Help us protect gamers’ consumer rights!
I think it would be sensible if the word “gamer” was replaced with “citizen” here. Because it’s what politicians care about.
If my analysis is correct, the people in the Ukrainian government do know that Putin and Trump are on the same team. And they’re trying to break it, by exploiting the fact Trump has a huge ego and a small brain. That’s why Podolyak is framing the attacks as humiliating Trump.
After Zelenskyy was humiliated in the White House no less, he must know these people are Demons right?
When fighting a devil, sometimes you need to make a deal with another.
Time to cancel my Crunchyroll subscription. Oh wait I don’t have one, I simply torrent my series.
Seriously now. The anime fansubbing scene is one that makes me genuinely happy. It shows me there are plenty amateurs out there that are as good or better than plenty professionals like me.
I don’t see what the problem is with using AI for translations. if the translations are good enough and cheap enough, they should be used.
Because machine translations for any large chunk of text are consistently awful: they don’t get references right, they often miss the point of the original utterance, they ignore cultural context, so goes on. It’s like wiping your arse with an old sock - sure, you could do it in a pinch, but you definitively don’t want to do it regularly!
I’ll give you an example, using PT→EN because I don’t speak JP. Let’s say Alice tells Bob “ma’ tu é uma nota de três pila, né?” (literally: “bu[t] you’re a three bucks bill, isn’t it?”) . A human translator will immediately notice a few things:
So depending on the context, the translator might translate this as “ain’t ya full of shit…”, or perhaps “wow, you’re as fake as Monopoly money, arentcha?”. Now, check how chatbots do it:
Both miss the mark. If you talk about three dollar bills in English, lots of people associate it with gay people, creating an association that simply does not exist in the original. The extremely informal and regional register is gone, as well as the accusatory tone.
With Claude shitting this pile of idiocy, that I had to screenshot because otherwise people wouldn’t believe me:
[This is wrong on so many levels I don’t… I don’t even…]
This is what you get for AI translations between two IE languages in the same Sprachbund, that’ll often do things in a similar way. It gets way worse for Japanese → English - because they’re languages from different families, different cultures, that didn’t historically interact that much. It’s like the dumb shit above, multiplied by ten.
If they’re not good enough, another business can offer better translations as a differentiator.
That “business” is called watching pirated anime with fan subs, made by people who genuinely enjoy anime and want others to enjoy it too.
As I mentioned in another thread, São Paulo state’s customer protection organ is basically telling people to not buy Nintendo. Indirectly, with pretty words, but that’s what it’s doing.
[IANAL] Also, note some stuff in the Switch 2 user agreement is legally invalid in Brazil. Nintendo is shielding itself with an “ackshyually we don’t sell it in Brazil lol lmao”, that’s why Procon - SP is calling it out.
You could warn the players that the game is best played blind, and the source code will have spoilers. Beyond that it’s up to them, I guess. (Or us. …I’m genuinely curious about your game.)
This may not be the most wholesome but I’m looking to make an indie rpg that tackles the non-choice of being born. T
This reminds me a bit Deltarune: it goes all the length to let you choose the head, torso, and legs you prefer… then its (referring to the body, aka “your creation”) favourite food, blood type, colour… a gift… then a name. Then it says: “your wonderful creation will now be discarded. No one can choose who they are in this world.”
It’s the same general “vibe” I get from your idea - we don’t choose certain things.
I don’t blame the orcas - have you seen a human? Those things are, like, 1/3 of the size of an orca; they’re clearly malnourished, some good ol’ seal meat will fix’em up real good!
Serious now. I think it’s interesting how they’re interacting cooperatively, with an animal of a different species. And it isn’t like either side domesticated the other (unlike, say, humans vs. dogs and cats); they don’t even live in the same environments, at most you have some humans doing short trips into the sea and that’s it.
“What I think in a sense is more impressive is that humans basically give no credit to any other creature for having a mind,” Safina said. Yet many other creatures, including orcas, understand implicitly that humans have minds. “So they understand us, and give us more credit there, they seem to comprehend the world better than we do, in our self-imposed estrangement.”
I feel like this is a step beyond theory of mind already.
I do recommend giving them a shot. Worst hypothesis (you hate it) they’re easy to pick out.
One hint I can give you, if making it at home, is to soft-boil them (8min). You want the yolk firm enough to slice, but not too cooked - to compensate for the baking.
enjoy yours tomorrow
Thanks!
The sliced eggs go alongside other toppings; none of the toppings requires a lot of cooking time, so the eggs won’t get overcooked.
This is a twist on a common local (Brazil) pizza flavour, pizza à portuguesa (lit. “pizza alla Portuguese”):
Except I’m subbing tomatoes for mushrooms.
Wow, this looks delicious - and I have all ingredients in my kitchen+front yard! I’m probably trying it this week, barbecued, as soon as I get a non-rainy day. Thank you for sharing this!
I checked the recipe, and it looks really good! A bit on the laborious side, but it could worse. (Worse as in “cleaning sardines from their scales and guts at home, so you can grill them, for five people”.)
From the questions you often ask here, it seems you really enjoy movies - I hope you two have fun!
Tuesday I’m going to bake myself a pizza. I’m planning olives, ham, bell peppers, boiled eggs, mushrooms, onion, basil for toppings.
It isn’t just for me (my mum asked pizza Saturday, but a bit too late for dinner), but I feel like treating myself. Ah, I’m almost certainly buying some wine to drink alongside it.
Agreed. It’s the best of both worlds: retro-inspired games can pick what the retro games did right, and still add modern improvements.
I hope so, too. Their current situation isn’t currently the best (a lot of them went away in the late 10s, simply because people were using them less); I’m kind of hoping to see a revival, but that’s at the mercy of the STF, so I can’t completely rule out that the situation will evolve exactly like in the UK. It’s “let’s wait and see”, you know?
I’m also wondering the impact of that on chatrooms, that used to be extremely popular here.
I am sane. I SWEAR I AM SANE!
/me grabs the kitchen knifeCAN’T YOU SEE IT? I’M SANER THAN EVERYONE ELSE HERE!!![I couldn’t help but play along with the joke, sorry.]