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pseudosapient 3 points ago +4 / -1

This shit has been going on a loooooong time.

AD&D 2nd edition stopped explicitly calling Angels and Devils Angels and Devils. 3rd edition removed racial requirements for classes, and also drastically dumbed down ability requirements in general. 4th edition removed (most) negative racial features.

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pseudosapient 1 point ago +1 / -0

According to their ToS, yes.

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pseudosapient 13 points ago +13 / -0

since "slippery slope" is a fallacy

'"slippery slope" is a fallacy' is a fallacy.

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pseudosapient 2 points ago +2 / -0

Sure; it is at Paypal's sole discretion.

I could see someone lawyering that e.g. me shitposting with friends in a game purchased via Paypal counts.

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pseudosapient 5 points ago +5 / -0

Paypal accounts can have negative balances.

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pseudosapient 1 point ago +1 / -0

nobody is going to make a game that requires 24gb of VRAM for its textures and models

false. Texture streaming has been a thing for an eternity. What matters is mainly "can you hold enough in memory to cover streaming latency" (which usually means 'for one frame') - and framerate and resolution targets have plateaued for quite a while now. (Steam hardware survey: 66% of users are still 1080p. Unfortunately no framerate breakdown.)

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pseudosapient 4 points ago +4 / -0

At this point 'just' find subtitles in the original language and run them through a decent machine translator (read: one that hasn't been 'de-biased' yet).

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pseudosapient 5 points ago +6 / -1

Easier to find/produce independent subs than dubs.

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pseudosapient 8 points ago +8 / -0

Political views are correlated with location.

Location is correlated with genetics.

Genetics is correlated with facial structure.

It does not surprise me that political views are (weakly) correlated with facial structure.


The real question is causation, not correlation. ~Everything is correlated.

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pseudosapient 3 points ago +3 / -0

Long story short, communities.win tends to run a newer version of the site than kia2 does.

There were mobile changes a while back, that have made their way down the pipeline and are now here on this site.

In the sidebar there's the version that any particular .win is running (as of right now on this site: v1.2.1.16).

There was a sweeping set of changes in 1.2.0.0 - https://communities.win/p/11R4NtSyCi/mobile-ui-and-dark-mode-update/c/ , as well as a few minor changes since then.

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pseudosapient 5 points ago +5 / -0

Admins have said they have a backup; I have no clue how they expect to inform people of said backup if e.g. dns gets unexpectedly yanked out from under us.

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pseudosapient 1 point ago +1 / -0

unless they seek bankruptcy protection.

So what you're saying is:

  1. Find someone with bad business sense.
  2. "Encourage" them to buy an asset you want.
  3. Wait until they fold.
  4. Acquire the assets but none of the liabilities.
  5. Profit!
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pseudosapient 5 points ago +5 / -0

Sure; if the title was "linked to personality disorders in Brazilian Adults" I would have much less issue with it.

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pseudosapient 9 points ago +10 / -1

The sad part is that they aren't even smart enough to change accounts...

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pseudosapient 12 points ago +13 / -1

Speaking as someone in tech, I've been asking the same thing.

I like tech, but it's not worth it - if I had known how much of a minefield it would become I wouldn't have gone down that road.

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pseudosapient 2 points ago +3 / -1

Are you an advertising propaganda manager for New Hampshire?

Because if so it's, uh, pretty effective.

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pseudosapient 25 points ago +25 / -0

Same with machine learning and statistics.

There's been a couple of notable cases where "using AI to solve X" turns out to be "X immediately arrives at the correct (but highly politically incorrect) conclusions that people already know... now panic and backtrack because political correctness".

I do wonder how much of the current flailing of some companies is due to some combination of avoiding statisticians in general (due to the potential of arriving at correct (but highly politically incorrect) conclusions), and avoiding good statisticians in particular (due to their annoying habit of sticking by correct conclusions even when they are politically inconvenient).

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pseudosapient 11 points ago +11 / -0

whose entire output is "Hello World" in Python

Not even that much. Copy-pasting some old tutorial and then thinking this is the correct output:

  File "<stdin>", line 1
    print "Hello World"
                      ^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print("Hello World")?
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pseudosapient 17 points ago +17 / -0

Relevant: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-preventing-online-censorship/

It is the policy of the United States to ensure that, to the maximum extent permissible under the law, this provision is not distorted to provide liability protection for online platforms that — far from acting in “good faith” to remove objectionable content — instead engage in deceptive or pretextual actions (often contrary to their stated terms of service) to stifle viewpoints with which they disagree.

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pseudosapient 2 points ago +2 / -0

I first noticed it in 2014 - DF2014 to be exact.

Mind you, I can't remember the last time I played a AAA game within 5 years of it coming out (generally I play indie or older games), so I was insulated from much of it.

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pseudosapient 4 points ago +4 / -0

See, the interesting thing about a site like this is that handles are cheap.

It's the "person standing in a puddle complaining that their feet are wet" of fora. Complaining for complaining's sake.

The person prefers to complain about it rather than moving on and turning over a new leaf.

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