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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I started pirating games a little while ago and sometimes I'll just browse things to download by looking at screenshots and I get the feeling there's a real cottage industry of softcore porn with gameplay features tacked on. I'm guessing that just sells a lot better than softcore porn without gameplay features, but I do wonder if this starts as someone making softcore porn and then deciding they could sell it as a game or as someone aspiring to make a game and then they fully lean into it once a character with a big chest gets the game more attention.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It seems like it would need very direct rules in the code to just defer to a human tech in the event of not "knowing" the answer.

That would require a wholly different technology with some ability to interpret the things it's saying and assess their validity. It's a lot more cost efficient to have your AI spew bullshit and do damage control afterwards.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I haven't heard the phrase "jug hooters" before but I'm already caught off-guard by this being the correct context for it to fit into.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I find it funny that this is a NYT article which links to a yahoo news article about a claim made by "a former New York Times journalist". I was about to ask why they were outsourcing to yahoo news a report on what their former employee experienced while under contract with NYT and not mentioning any of this in their own article, but the answer is in the yahoo article, he was forced to resign after using a racial slur. Quality journalism all around.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

When I was in high school early 2000s I got a video on kazaa of a mario 3 speedrun in about 11 minutes and it was nuts. I tried to imitate the guy's run on an emulator and the jump he did over the piranha plant one second into the first level was almost impossible, I tried it like a hundred times and I did it successfully once. I gave up on that and moved onto the second level and it was basically the same experience, hitting the first two jumps to be perfect tiny hops so you've maxed your speed bar by the end of the pipe at the level start is absurdly hard.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You're not wrong, but I'm pretty sure calling out factually incorrect memes is what the report button is for.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was born by C-section! I'm glad we finally have an explanation for how I ended up less stupid than Elon Musk, we got to the bottom of it guys.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

This is a false flag to associate criticism of Tesla with redditors.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for allowing me to continue pretending I have a sense of humor, you're a real one for that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

This doesn't read like ignorance to me. Like a lawyer prompting a witness, this seems like someone asking the questions that allow the interviewee to give the most effective replies.

I can't read the "reply was devastating" line as being personally devastating to an ignorant journalist, because someone in that position didn't need to write that and put it on show. Instead I read it as being devastating to the naive sentiment, perhaps held by the reader, that Vietnam's only legitimate response was to run to the UN.

Thanks, I got this impression reading it too but I wasn't going to investigate myself so straight to the comments in hopes that someone has already validated my intuition.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I feel like over the past few years I've seen a hundred different comics by this author and I have never once gotten the joke.

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