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[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've never actually noticed cheaters during the time I played the game. If they cheat and matchmaking puts me against them, it just means that me without cheats and them with cheats are equivalent in skill level, so it's a fair and fun game. So I don't see the point in preventing cheats in the first place unless you're at the very top of the ladder, and there's so few people up there that it should be easy to just manually ban the cheaters.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I'm guessing that people just like feeling superior to others and video games are a convenient outlet for that. There's no changing that via game design unless LoL ceases to be a competitive game.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Just slightly amused? Kind of a tame response to gaining the ability to see.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"X is Y" in English translates mathematically to "X is a subset of Y"

Here's an example written out in plain English. You can do the exercise of translating it to math terms to see how it makes sense.

  • A square is a polygon
  • A triangle is a polygon
  • A square is not a triangle
[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

A study showing that nearly all mammals take the same amount of time to urinate [...]

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://lemmy.ca/comment/8470067

I'm not going to repeat what I've already said. If you choose to ignore it, then so be it. There isn't really anything I can say to convince you that this is true. You just have to go out in the world and experience it for yourself.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

The same word will be encrypted the same way each time, and that's actually the basis of one of the known attacks on LLMs like ChatGPT. They send responses back one "word" at a time, so someone who's snooping can easily figure out what it's saying from the encrypted messages. The exploit doesn't affect Bard because it sends larger chunks of text at a time.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

It's fine (and expected in most human interactions) to default to assuming that the most commonly intended meaning is what's intended. And no, that doesn't mean you should respond like an asshole. Respond to the intended meaning of the original statement instead of commenting on how your use of the English language is superior to theirs.

This is how human interactions work in general. It's worth learning if you want to fit into society.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (9 children)

In the only perfectly logical interpretation of the comment, you would be correct. Unfortunately, humans are not always perfectly logical and will often say things that are illogical. The most common meaning intended by the phrase "this is a $5 game" is the illogical one of presenting it as an objective fact.

I refuse to believe that this is the first time you've encountered an illogical statement.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Well. Thankfully he never said that his statement was an objective fact.

They did. Just because you don't explicitly say "this is a fact", doesn't mean you're not making a statement of fact. "This is a $5 game" is a statement of fact. "I wouldn't pay more than $5 for this game" is a statement of opinion. That's the difference between humans reading a passage and computers doing the same. Humans take context and past experience into account, all of which say that the phrasing they originally used implies an objective fact.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

I believe the prevailing opinion is that price increase for anything is fine as long as it goes towards the people doing the work. Increase a game's price so the devs get better pay? Cool. Increase the price of bread so that bakers get better pay? Cool. Increase the price of anything so that shareholders get better returns? Not cool.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Funny. Growing up, I was taught to be extra careful with CDs because the moment you look at them wrong, all your data gets corrupted.

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