You seem to think I don’t hate AI techbros with a passion. I very much do. I’m just utilizing the tool that came out of this in the few ways in which it is actually useful, all while still getting a headache every time some manager at work talks about how AI will code everything in a few years because they believe the bullshit coming out of the mouths of the likes of altman and musk.

This is what unranked modes are for, generally, and when there is no equivalent unranked mode that’s definitely a failure of the game. Csgo had that issue for a looooooooong time as well.

There are also other legitimate reasons. The drunk account can be one (since even unranked modes often use skill based matchmaking), or the actual practice one (I feel for my alternate universe teammates in which I didn’t use a smurf to learn how to play more than one char in league).

Bu5 I do feel like the negative impact from people using smurfs for ego boost or to be an asshole in some way far outweighs the upsides, sadly.

Funnily enough palm oil is, in isolation, one of the more environmentally friendly oils (based on land and water use). This is probably in direct relation with it being cheap. Switching to other oils is still better because the deforestation of rain forest being so much worse overall, but the real solution as is so often the case has to be lower plant oil use in general.

Being misinformed by it is, as I said, a user issue. But the amount of times that googling for half an hour did not get me an inch closer to the solution and then I asked chatgpt and it just lists me a bunch of ideas one of which inevitably sets me off on the right path (sometimes it’s even completely right in its solution, but that’s more 50/50) is greater than 2. It’s a tool that has its uses. Claiming it doesn’t because most people are too skill issued to use it as such doesn’t change the narrow but very useful use case these things have. Far too narrow to sustain this bubble, but that shouldn’t be news for anyone here.

There’s an insane degree of irony in calling me a slopper or whatever while you’re displaying a fundamental unwillingness to critically engage

It really isn’t but sure. If you’re dumb enough to assume what it spits out is gospel it’s dogshit for that purpose too, but that’s a user issue. Not like random stackoverflow answers are always exactly what you need either lol

Research in the sense of researching a problem you’re having or getting an idea of how to start an implementation for something is a great use case and pretty much the only one I regularly use them for. Search engines usually fail to produce anything useful when describing the problem requires complec grammar.

Research in an academic sense yea they’re horrible.

Thanks, now I know a little more about ancient greek demographics! Well it still seems to be mainly about greeks in africa, but some exchange both ways seems inevitable when it’s that prominent.

…the first search result being about a community that in its largest part started existing in 1923 is relevant to ancient history?

I mean I don’t know enough about ancient demographics to comment on whether there would feasibly be more than an extremely tiny minority of sub-saharan africans in ancient greece, but claiming someone didn’t search and then providing an irrelevant search result has a certain irony to it.

It’s some capital G Gamer take from the same people hating on walking sims, has been a while since I’ve seen that though. Loud fringe idiots, as usual.

Fuck the generalization but I highly suspect it’s mostly just a tumblr thing/kinda general meme to lead with <obviously overgeneralized group> will…

Switched almost exactly one year ago. I have a win 10 dualboot for some things (mainly occasional lol/tft, and osu tournaments because for some reason that stutters under wine on my pc even though it runs perfectly fine on my laptop).

The nicest thing is not constantly being annoyed by my OS. I’m forced to use win 11 at work and my god I hate it. Whenever I boot into win 10 at home I also want to rip my hair out, granted it was a lot better on my previous install where I bothered to debloat it.

I’m not really a fan of how “hidden” program installs (at least through package managers) are, but it’s all in the same place and windows programs have been moving there anyway, putting everything in appdata, and to make it worse it’s often split up and there’s random registry entries. So I’m not really bothered by it.

I also have some minor issues with kde, like it deciding to regularly reorder search results (seriously I search for “disc” and always launch discord, but the top spot rotates between discord and discover, so I misclick whenever it changes). Also ever since plasma 6.5 my clipboard has been semi-broken, “copy to clipboard” buttons in the browser don’t work, and screenshots don’t automatically go into the clipboard either until I click the button for it. If anyone has a fix for either of those things I’d love to hear it.

I also didn’t know i needed a dropdown terminal until I had a dropdown terminal and now I can’t live without it.

The ending animation of season 2, ep1 of which aired this week (or last weekend or something)

They can all be shit but one can still be more shit than the other. I don’t want to lose one eye but I’d rather that than go fully blind.

Though the argument here is more that “we are the better colonizer, trust us bro” should never be taken as a reason to want a new colonizer to take over.

Easily, if it’s a large enough backpack. For 3 days of clothing, it doesn’t even need to be large. I mean what do you need, some assortment of care products (available in small packs, usually, so don’t take a ton of space), maybe a razor and hairbrush, toothbrush (negligibly tiny anyway) and then 3 days of clothing don’t take that much space unless you change your pants (not the british kind) or sweatshirt every day. And even then a large-ish backpack could fit it.

I went on a 5 day trip with just an average size backpack and laptop bag, and that included bringing the laptop. And headphones. It was pretty tightly packed but worked Clothing doesn’t take that much space if you fold it and compress a bit.

That’s not even artistic ability, that’s just basic tool use.

…but yea that still applies

Sadly yup. Not quite everyone the same way, but psychology is still pretty scary. Thankfully the manosphere mostly isn’t anywhere neae what actually works with their bs

It’s just her character design, she’s a genshin character (yoimiya).

In an ARG, no, sending emails to a mail adress that is part of the game to get automated hints is perfectly fine and fits into the game framework.

God forbid people enjoy their lives instead of trying to minmax their lifespan.

It’s good to be informed when something is risky or bad for you, but people can decide what to do with their own body.

Yep, and even for me while I prefer to download the game directly usually, when I need to bother with manually getting it to work, I much prefer steam and its proton integration. It’s nice that most games at least just work by running them in a random proton prefix with protontricks, but shipping them with an install script that just gives you a shortcut and installs any dependencies would be huge (actually a step up from steam). And then if galaxy runs on linux it could use that same process.

I doubt she hates the gay people, tbh. Her whole trans hatred feela very rooted in self hate and it’s kinda sad how she chose the path of being an insufferable piece of shit. There was an interview where she said she should’ve been born a boy. She probably hates being a woman and instead of realizing that that’s how transwomen feel about being amab, she thinks it means no one can possibly want to be a woman unless they want to creep on women or whatever the terf narrative is.