Transtronaut

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[–] Transtronaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 2 months ago

Riding is unaffected, it's only hang gliding that got removed. But it makes just as little sense in that context. None of this patent trolling is justifiable, Nintendo is just using the broken Japanese patent law system to crush competition from smaller companies making better games.

[–] Transtronaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 months ago

Most closeted thing I've ever heard.

[–] Transtronaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Eugenics is from the conservatives' book.

[–] Transtronaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Having originally cut my teeth on Harvest Moons on SNES, N64, PS, PS2, and DS, I found the controls for Stardew Valley mind-blowingly good.

But that might have been because it was my first time playing a game like that with mouse and keyboard.

[–] Transtronaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but that's why it's great to see them fighting each other. Nobody else seems able to do it better.

[–] Transtronaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I suspect the fact that you don't know much about it is why you are parroting widely discredited transphobic talking points.

The point is that today, we see clearly with the benefit of hindsight that racial segregation was done purely for the sake of racism. At the time, people muddied the waters with pseudoscientific rationalizations like phrenology and eugenics to mislead the masses and justify their bigotry, just like people are doing today with trans people in sports.

The only reason water fountains are seen as different is because the racists lost and we collectively have a new perspective after decades of integration. The transphobes are still empowered. Make no mistake, the bigots would love to reinstate all manner of segregation if they could, racial or otherwise. Trans people are just an easier target right now.

[–] Transtronaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago (15 children)

A lot of people didn't see a problem with segregating water fountains by race, either.

[–] Transtronaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's tricky, because there's no hard definition for what it means to "change the world", either. To me, it brings to mind technologies like the Internet, the telephone, aviation, or the steam engine. In those cases, it seems like the common thread is to enable us to do something that simply wasn't possible before, and is also reliably useful.

To me, AI fails on both those points. It doesn't really enable us to do anything new. We already had chat bots, we already had Photoshop, we already had search algorithms and auto complete. It can do some of those things a lot more quickly than older technologies, but until they solve the hallucination problems it doesn't seem reliable enough to be consistently useful.

These things make it come off more as a potential incremental improvement that is still too early in it's infancy, than as something truly revolutionary.

[–] Transtronaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 3 months ago

Can't find your sea legs, eh? Classic landlubber.

[–] Transtronaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It has no chance to survive

[–] Transtronaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That sounds neat and enjoyable to tinker with. Is there a possibility that using a tool like that will get you flagged and/or banned from Steam? Or do they not care when it's a single player game?

[–] Transtronaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 72 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Of course, true enlightenment comes only when you accept that you will never be able to play every game you already own, let go of the worldly desire to clear your backlog, and buy more games anyway. At this stage of enlightenment, you transcend the need for willpower.

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