Meanwhile, in 400 mod land:
Meh, this DLC is pretty good, but I've played SoS2 plenty of times.
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To be fair, Microsoft is an indie company that probably can't afford more than one graphic designer.
It's more like it's tyranny of the majority, where some popular style or VFX or meme or dominates the landscape. Figet spinners, Stanley tumblers, bean mouth animation, Vaporwave, that time Terminator 2 came out and everybody was showing off liquid metal VFX like it was out of style, the same thing with VCR screen fuzz on videos now, etc. I think Tiktok has made this problem infinitely worse, since all it takes is some random video to get insanely popular, and suddenly people are consuming some other shitty product, or eating cleaning products, or doing something else fatally stupid.
And yes, it's incredibly easy to download some Ghibli art style. Or any art style, really.
It's more like it's tyranny of the majority, where some popular style or VFX or meme or dominates the landscape. Figet spinners, Stanley tumblers, bean mouth animation, Vaporwave, etc., etc., etc.
And yes, it's incredibly easy to download some Ghibli art style.
Did anybody honestly believe that the Trump administration would release their own incriminating evidence about Epstein? We all know Trump went to that island multiple times, raped underaged girls, and then when Epstein was caught, told his lackey Billy Barr to get rid of them, who then ordered guards in the prison to murder Epstein.
The Trump admin would never admit to any of that, no matter how many times we're going to point to some sliver on a video and say "GOT EM!"
So if you cut out the the most divisive political accounts, you will not miss ANY actual news, but are likely to miss a huge pile of disinformation.
No, you just cut out the misinformation. If they are spreading vaccine misinformation on Facebook, fuck them. Cut them out. Never read a thing they put out again.
It's not about divisiveness. It's about critical thinking skills.
I stared at it for 10 seconds, which is double the advertised time it's expected to explode. I want a refund!
This is only solved with lawsuits, and even then, they will resist as hard as they did with Epic.
Can't we just call it Trump's 2025 Budget Bill, instead of pretending it's a plus-sized porn star?
Israel isn’t Judaism and Judaism isn’t Israel! Mixing that up is problematic because you’re confounding anti-zionism (a settler colonial state project committing genocide) with anti-semitism.
Mixing that up is intentional, so that you can be accused of being antisemitic by not supporting Israel. Politicians love to do this.
We reading our news from Portuguese blog sites now?
I think his point is that Dune is full of unreliable narrators, and history is written by the victors. Why do we take the Butlerian Jihad at face value? Because other rich elite houses retell the same story and enforce the same rules?
Or maybe the technology really did go too far, but the result was an massive, massive overcorrection that put humanity into another Dark Age.
LLMs are a tool, and all tools can be repurposed or repossessed. Open source models and LLM tools are everywhere. Pretending that ChatGPT and other corporate models are the only ones out there are exactly what the corpofacists in power want you to believe.
By ignoring this technology and sticking our fingers in our ears, we are allowing them to reshape out the technology works, instead of molding it for our own purposes. It's not going to go away, and thinking that is just as foolish as believing the Internet is a fad.
Are parts of it overhyped and overblown? Sure. Rich assholes have a knack for taking some concept and hyping it up to a million and under-delivering. But, the technology is still promising enough that it's worth exploring where it can be beneficial, and it's new enough that we can make sure we become a part of the design.
The negative preconceived notion bias is really not helping matters.