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And personification of natural phenomena is also a problem. It undercuts the fundamental causes of things when we shortcut that by saying a thing or force “wants” to do something, especially while teaching. It can be useful at a very basic level (like, kindergarten/children’s television), but only to a point. After that it is misleading and inefficient for actual education.

Same goes here. When we’re discussing the problems of people treating algorithms as thinking, acting beings, referring to the output as a “choice” or “claim” is the very last thing we should do, let alone using it as evidence of anything. There is no memory there - it’s fabricating a response based on the input, and the input directs the response. If I input a question like, “Why did you eat my pizza?”, it would output text fitting the context of my question, probably something akin to “Because pizza is delicious” or something. That doesn’t prove it at my pizza, it just shows the malleability of the algorithm.

It’s so fucking annoying >.<

Why do people use a single work of fiction as “proof” of anything? Same with all the idiots yelling “Idiocracy!!11!” nowadays. Shit is so annoying.

I’d put yt under ph, but only just. Everything else, ph paved the way. And tbf, another porn site probably cleared the way for yt, though I couldn’t tell you which one.

never ending loose stools

You should go see a healer (or maybe cleric) about that.

You can also wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat, wrap it around your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal, and also wave it as a distress signal.

For those curious, it’s called a bindle.

First Friday of the month, but not every month. They announce the next ones a few months in advance.

Was lucky enough as a kid to get to visit one of those giant, astronomical telescopes one evening. The astronomer got it pointed at what he called a “star cluster” and invited me to take a look. I expected, like, a handful of stars. Ten? Twenty? I saw more stars in that cluster than I’ve ever seen in my life, and it blew my little mind. It was stunning.

A community rule to tag the artist in the title would make it possible to filter by keyword. Seems like a pretty reasonable rule to put in place, imo, if only for attribution purposes even.

Reminds me of the loading screen from Donut County.

I feel that doesn’t really apply for a game that’s been playable for several years now. It’s not a triple-A preorder, it’s just the physical relase for an early-access game.

“It wasn’t the bullet that killed you, it was the gun.” C’mon, dude. You’re being obtuse.

Had to add in the missing one: https://files.catbox.moe/8362xx.png

Anyone have a guess as to why these companies don’t just cut off the country being used to spearhead these attempts? Like, half the popular games are blocked already. And setting this precedent will likely lead to further fuckery in the future. Is Australlia really that profitable that it’s worth the current and future hassle?

single-player survival horror action game

It’d be really interesting if you played as the Cenobytes.

I do agree an all cutscene trailer tells use basically nothing. Does some good for tone setting though, I suppose.

Hey now, he earned those fair and square off the corpses he killed.

They did take them, and then were passed when their test was checked because the answers are specifically ambiguous, made to be able to fail or pass anyone at the discretion of the testing authority.

“It bilds karacter!”

It’s wild how relatable it still is nearly 30 years later.