OP, I’m assuming you mean should we buy games that are on these curator’s lists as being “too woke” just to spite them? I think folks are a little confused about what your question/argument is, here. Also the typo in the title isn’t helping.

For the most part, the comments I have removed on this thread have been removed for violating Beehaw’s only rule: Be(e) Nice.

I have zero problem with people criticizing this journalist. I do have a problem with users attacking one another or using misogynist language (it’s possible in that case there’s a cultural disconnect. I’m from the US, where “cunt” is a pretty serious gendered insult. I know it’s not considered as big of a deal in other english speaking places, but frankly I’ve been getting enough reports on this thread that I’m getting a bit sick of dealing with it in general)

So the cost-benefit is that it costs time, but it pulls you out of end-stage capitalism and puts you in flow state, engaging in another world.

You literally did, though?

Hey, I appreciate your response. I totally get the anger, and I can see lots of possible ways that this wave of age verification policies could bite folks in the ass. Thanks for being reasonable, I hope you have a great day.

I’m not speaking for the whole Technology mod team here, just off the cuff. I think a satire piece (if clearly labeled preferably) would be completely fine. Personally I’d also be good with funny articles or other types of writing about tech, god knows this sub could use some levity. I don’t think we would probably be okay with posting tech related memes, though. It’s possible that if the community was really interested we could do a weekly sticky for memes or other lower-effort content, though.

Again, I’m just spitballing here, I haven’t checked it with any of the other mods.

Unless I’m mistaken, PiHole won’t block Youtube ads because they’re served from the same domain as the videos.

I think the problem with anthropomorphizing LLMs this way is that they don’t have intent, so they can’t have responsiblity. If this piece of software had been given the tools to actually kill someone, I think we all understand that it wouldn’t be appropriate to put the LLM on trial. Instead, we need to be looking at the people who are trying to give more power to these systems and dodge responsibility for their failures. If this LLM had caused someone to be killed, then the person who tied critical systems into a black box piece of software that is poorly understood and not fit for the purpose is the one who should be on trial. That’s my problem with anthropomorphizing LLMs, it shifts the blame and responsibility away from the people who are responsible for attempting to use them for their own gain, at the expense of others.

I thought the song was called “Head Like a Hole”?

Lol, you can tell which commenters have never moderated anything in this thread, IMO. If it weren’t for the high likelihood that these summaries will be wrong an appreciable percentage of the time, this would be a huge help for anyone moderating medium traffic subs. Those types of subs, especially if they have relatively hands-on moderation to keep them from being complete cesspools, often involve seeing a comments or post that is borderline, and feeling like you need to go look through the poster’s history to figure out if they’re a bot or a troll. Something like this that actually worked, especially if it linked back to a sampling of the posts/comments that it is referencing, would be a big help in that. Also something like this that summarized a user’s moderation history would be pretty useful.

I have a sh.itjust.works account that I use to join meme communities there and on .world + a few other instances. The comments are a cesspool but the memes are…reasonably dank?

Not sure I understand this take. The game was a commercial product, Fromsoft made it to sell to people. That doesn’t preclude it from being art, and a film adaptation being made of it also doesn’t preclude that.

A24 has a pretty good reputation for taking risks, and they’re an independent production company. Seems like probably the best possible way something like an Elden Ring film could be made, IMO.

I’ve been somewhat surprised by Amy Coney Barrett. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t agree with her, but I’ve been surprised by her willingness to break with the conservative majority, and I’m surprised by her recusal here. Still - the fact that this is a 4-4 ruling is horrifying

I’ve really enjoyed it, and it’s been a breath of fresh air for this friend group that was really struggling to find stuff to play together. We used to get deep into a lot of survival crafting type games, think Ark and Conan, but several of us had gotten pretty burned out on those, and most of the multiplayer stuff we were interested in either didn’t grab everybody or was limited to just a few players. Stuff like Helldivers being only 4 players meant that not all of us could play together, which felt bad. These multiworld games, though, mean that we can all get on a discord call and kick the runs off at the same time, and it feels like we’re playing together as we call out stuff we’re sending to each other or items we need, but then we can wrap the runs up over the course of the next week as we have time. Plus there are enough games that most folks have been able to find something that feels comfortable for them.

I’ve gotten sucked into the rabbit hole that is multiworld randomizers lately. I’ve done several smaller multiworlds with a group of friends (4-8 players) all playing different games, and a week or so ago got involved in a larger one (15 or so players) that was organized on a forum I frequent. All of these have been through Archipelago, and if you’re not familiar with multiworld randomizers their FAQ is a decent introduction. I’ve played a few different games in these - Minecraft, Wind Waker, and most recently Balatro, and all of them have been really interesting and fun ways to play games that I was already pretty familiar with. Also, my regular gaming group has had trouble finding multiplayer games that we all want to play recently, and these archipelago multiworlds make it so that we can play something together without all having to agree on what to play, plus you can play asynchronously so we can start together but then finish runs out as we have time. It’s been really cool and I’m jonesing for more.

If you aren’t trolling, then you should consider that more than one thing can be bad, and that non-consensual pornography is a violation of a person’s autonomy. Please don’t leave comments like this on Beehaw, if it happens again you will be banned.

I can’t tell for sure, but it doesn’t look like Revolt has voice chat yet? Which was what attracted my friend group to Discord initially.

I think the thing that has been most encouraging to me about these protests is seeing pictures folks in small towns and deep red states are posting of protests there.

Hey just FYI, links in the post title don’t work on Beehaw. Here’s the link to the steam store page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2339840/Enter_the_Gungeon_2/

I loved the first EtG and played a ton of it. I’m not entirely sold on the new 3d art style, but I’ll try to give it a fair shot once it gets here.

Also, the original Enter the Gungeon is available on Xbox Game Pass for any of you folks that have it. It’s absolutely worth checking out.

I’m on board with Eno here. There are issues with the current wave of generative AI, but the main reason they are such huge problems is the people who are pushing these technologies have zero concern for the potential social harms they could cause or exacerbate.