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Yeah, I know of that, and I’m aware it happens. Even still, those designs have the concept right. I don’t see how anyone draws the smoke stack on the front of the engine but then, for some reason, draws the Steam coming out the rear. If they didn’t draw it at all then I think it’s reasonable. I just don’t see how you get to the point of the OP.

It’s like drawing a bike and drawing the pedals, but the chain connect the handlebars to the wheel or something. It’s just not something someone’s going to do. (On that page, literally everyone who included a chain connected it to the pedals. It maybe do weird things, but that basic thing is consistently correct, because you don’t draw pedals and not understand that that’s where the chain connects.) They’ll draw something that doesn’t function, because the don’t understand how a bike works maybe, but there are some basic things everyone knows.

I agree, it doesn’t resemble typical AI generated content in appearance. It does in form though. It’s like the most “I’ve seen pieces of a train, but I don’t understand what a train looks like or how it works” drawing I’ve ever seen. If the flame is at the back, how would that work with the entire rest of the engine (the cylinder at the front)? Why do the linkages not make sense.

If this is made by an autistic train fan, this is incredibly wrong. If it’s made by a person joking about them, it’s slightly more forgivable (but still, I don’t think anyone wouldn’t understand the Steam comes from the front).

You’re right, the perfect edges and perfect circles and all of that make me think it’s not AI slop at first, but even the least careful person I don’t think would make this many stupid mistakes. They’re mistakes you’d expect for something that knows that the shape is statistically expected from trains, but it doesn’t have any understanding of why.

That’s all it shares for now (for the California law). Once that’s in, what’s one more step, where the user has to provide proof of age, rather than just presenting one? That requires identification.

If their goal is identification, rather than actually protecting pedophiles (we know this isn’t the case because the Epstein clients are not facing consequences), then it’s easy to see how this leads to that.

The slippery slope is not always fallacious. If it’s a reasonable case, it’s just called a slippery slope argument.

They can be compared in that they’re both open-world action-adventure games. I can’t play every game, and of those I’m much more interested in Outward, because it’s trying (and often failing, but still trying) to do something really interesting. BotW was trying to do something others have done, just very polished. I’m more interested in the games who are experimenting, even if I have to deal with a bunch of jank.

BotW and TotK make you think, but in a way that a child can complete it without much issue. That’s fine, but that’s their target. If it’s harder than that then it’s too hard for the game. This isn’t a complaint, but an observation. It’s like going to Pokémon and expecting a challenge. It’s literally made for children, so it’s not going to be there. It’s on me if I go in expecting a challenge.

It looks fine. It’s more the gameplay that doesn’t seem appealing. It seems almost frictionless. There’s too many games that do something similar that are more appealing to me. I’ve been meaning to get into Outward (I own it, but I haven’t put the time into it to get far), but now Outward 2 is on the horizon. It’s open world adventure, but it actually asks the player to think and put some effort into it.

I’m likely never buying one, but more competition is good. It’ll bring prices down because some people won’t care.

It’s big, but it’s not really impressive. It’s just for restitution, because the tariffs were already ruled illegal. This is just suing to see how much will be returned. It’s interesting, but it doesn’t effect much. It’d be nice if the money went to the consumers that paid the increase in prices, but we know that isn’t going to happen.

I keep wanting to check things like this out, and then I remember there’s not even any Switch games I want to play. I tried the open world Pokémon game when that came out years ago, purely just to see what they did (it was boring as fuck, as pretty much everyone agree). The only other thing is maybe TotK, but there’s better things (in my opinion) that I still need to play. Shadow of the Erdtree, for example, is something I still need to get around to.

If anyone actually does think there are Switch games worth playing, in your opinion, what are they? I’m curious. I have to admit I avoid most advertising and don’t follow Nintendo stuff, so there could be things I’m not aware of.

You have to be ashamed of it to be blackmailed. Just don’t watch anything illegal and don’t be ashamed of what you’re into and you’re fine.

Isn’t the whole point, since the Xbox One, that they didn’t want it to just play games? We don’t consider it dead just because it does more stuff. I guess you can have whatever definition you want for your personal view, but I don’t really think anyone else would agree with it. It’s still going to be a Microsoft controlled platform that’s typically in the living room on a TV. Most people would say it’s dead when they stop having a device in the living room, not when that device gets extra features.

Saying this is the death of the platform is stupid. Worst case, it’s at least better than current Xbox, which doesn’t have the option to play PC games. Yeah, it’s going to have all of M$'s spywhere and AI slop, but so would any MS device. I’m not buying this crap, but if you already wanted an Xbox then this is an improvement. Yeah, you’re better off with a PC, especially one running Linux. This has been the case for decades, yet the consoles still sell.

Oh, sorry. You’re right. I forgot I have my phone on a battery saver mode where “fully charged” is not fully charged.

Also, with breaking recovering energy, this negates some of the issues too. The inertia is used to recharge the batteries, so the losses are from friction and heat losses. Obviously lighter is better, but a lot of the issues of weight on efficiency can be reduced. Weight is bad for safety though, so there is that to consider.

Edit: This was all wrong. I forgot I have a battery saver mode on my phone that lowers “fully charged” to something like 80%, so it is ideal to keep it “fully charged”.

Never heard the “above 80%” thing. I’m pretty sure you’re wrong about this. With lead-acid batteries, this was optimal. I’m pretty confident that lithium ion batteries it’s best to keep the charge as high as possible. Ideally you’d only ever use it fully charged. It’s health is harmed by draining it low/fully.

I don’t own an EV, but I know enough about it that I’m pretty sure this is the case. You should look it up for your vehicle though. This advice also applies to phones and other lithium ion batteries too. Lead-acid was damaged by keeping the charge high, but lithium ion is damaged when low, and almost all devices are lithium ion now.

The only way you should trust them, or anyone else, is if they don’t collect your personal data at all. There is absolutely no way I’d trust any website or service with information like what they want. All of these laws are explicitly designed to create a digital profile of every person so they can track what you do. It can’t be done ethically because it isn’t supposed to be done ethically.

Regardless of the age the character is (they’re imaginary, so they don’t have an age) they’re drawn like an adult woman. Looking at a picture of her, she could be supposed to be anywhere from like maybe 14, on the low end, to like late 40s, or maybe even older. However old they need to be for them to draw wrinkles on them. I think you’re fine. For fucks sake, we’re fine with people being attracted to the rabbit in Zootopia, so it’s better than that.

Even an identical prompt to an identical model can return both good and bad results, just depending on RNG.

The thing about that press release is that it fairly cleverly doesn’t say “no AI.” It says no slop. She’ll push AI, it’ll create slop (as always), but she’ll argue it isn’t slop and is actually great.

No matter where you buy it, expiration dates are only a general guide, and more of a “date of manufacture” note than anything. We evolved to detect potential food that has gone bad. Trust your senses. Look and smell should be enough to know what’s actually gone bad (which is usually past the “expiration” date). You can use something like this as a better guide for when food will actually go bad, but, again, trust your senses.

And Unreal Engine started on 1995. This argument always shows people’s ignorance of software development. When the first pieces of the engine were built is not why it’s shitty. It’s because they haven’t invested money into it where it matters. (Unreal Engine also has some serious issues. It just looks prettier.)