loudandskittish

Pulled out my guitar to play the Duke Nukem theme and At Doom's Gate (...uh, minus those runs...)

My first thought when I saw the headline was, "Did anyone even notice a difference?"

So, this comes up pretty much every time Obsidian is mentioned... to the point where I'm curious as to where the idea that it's open source comes from in the first place.

Oh, cool, so another thing I was avoiding due to H Pylori actually could've helped... (but seriously, thanks for posting this).

Exactly how I feel. There is already more art, movies, music, books, video games and more made by human beings than I can experience in my lifetime. Why should I waste any time on content generated by the word guessing machine?

There are already more games being released on Steam than anyone can keep up with, I'm not sure how adding another "wave" on top of it helps.

This story has Apple + $2B acquisition + AI

...how is this not at the top of the page?

...haven't bots been buying things off eBay since the 90s?

Love all the variations of "8GB of RAM should be enough for anybody" in here.

Until I got the last part, I actually thought you were being serious.

...something happened. Growing up, I had cats that ate squirrels. Then, sometime around the early 2000s, I had cats that were being chased by squirrels.

So... why are they harassing the dude's mother?

> "First of all, to be clear, we would never ask questions on such a topic in this way."

I love how they worded that. Having once worked for Ipsos, they DEFINITELY do it, but the sentence is correct, I don't recall any instances of it being done "on such a topic."

"Americans will use anything but the metric system."

To me, all this feels like recreating "Hollywood UIs" that were designed for the benefit of the audience watching and not an actual user.

So, does the fact that I have zero trouble focusing on the dot for 60 seconds mean I DON'T have ADHD, contrary to what so many people on social media have been trying to convince me?

Yeah, I used to stop at McDonald's on my way home from a big grocery run and stopped when I saw the fries there cost more than the giant bag of frozen fries I had just bought...

Indeed, I've come across more instances of things that were supposedly AI-generated that turned out to have been made by a human being...

...I'd always heard it was to make it easier to find your house after too much Screech.

I'm always suspicious when I open comments and see a whole lot of people posting variations of the same talking points as top-level threads... even if I happen to agree with those points.

I'm finding this entire comment section confusing and I genuinely want to understand what is so offensive about what this editor did. To me this does not look like a problem that requires a solution and I even appreciate the essay (I've always had a hard time understanding the usage of 'comprises').

...yet I'm seeing unironic comparisons to both 1984 and Nazi Germany, so ... what this person did is evil?

Can someone please help me understand this?

Damn, these comments are scaring me. I recently added the book to my to-read list after learning that it was a big influence on Hideo Kojima, but now I'm worried about what I'm getting myself into.

I suppose I should at least, finally, finish Infinite Jest to prime myself.

Huh, this one actually seems to work... I ask for pixel art and it gives me pixel art (Stable Diffusion and DALL-E keep giving me needlepoint).

I'm reminded of the song Common People by Pulp:

"But still you'll never get it right/'Cause when you're laying in bed at night/Watching roaches climb the wall/If you called your dad he could stop it all."

Yeah, this is one of the things that drives me nuts about these "inspirational" stories where some millionaire/billionaire talks proudly about how their first business failed, their car was repo'd, bank foreclosed on them, etc... but I've never heard one talk about what they did between that and the successful business. Where did they sleep? How did they afford food?

I have to wonder if I'm missing something or not understanding something. I keep seeing "WebGPU will fix it!" as a response to criticism of using HTML5 technology, but to me, using 3D rendering technology to make UI elements more responsive feels a bit like using a rocket launcher to take out a fly?

I find it odd that for decades, people were shamed for wasting money at cafes ...but then as soon as people stopped going to cafes, it's suddenly an economic disaster?

...I can't deal with that f

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Wow!! I've only been waiting for this for 15 years!