Craft, pure craft, is what makes a Tarantino movie. Especially strong when it comes to dialogue and framing it.

Tarantino is about as special as Villeneuve is special – but not in the same way. They both have their specialities where they’re extraordinary, and in other aspects they’re only rock solid.

Not liking/enjoying a movie is fine, but it doesn’t really say anything about how good the movie is, it just might not have been for you. Maybe watch a scene analysis and even if the movie still doesn’t do it for you, you can appreciate the skill with which it’s done.

I guess it depends on the game, extremely so. Two main factors I can think of: Whether or not the game has been picked up as an object of hate by the “anti-woke” content mill, as well as the average age of people who play the game.

Just for kicks I skimmed the BG3 forum and indeed there’s this recent post. Apparently unwanted exposure to Gale’s gayness can be solved by not interacting with Gale, who would have thought and that’s a perfectly valid solution for OP, but some users in the thread are clearly out for blood. Not getting terribly much resonance, though.

EDIT: Apparently OP has changed the “accepted answer” to one of the worst comments in the thread. SMH. Comments proceed to tell OP they’re confusing friendship scenes for romance ones.

And that’s like one thread in pages upon pages of threads. People predictably talk about general gameplay stuff (The Gale thread can actually be considered a gameplay question), mechanics, bugs, the usual.

Bonus: A thread on Musk wanting to buy Hasbro for D&D. Now there’s plenty of stuff D&D players have to say and criticise about Hasbro, them having clear language about the misogyny etc. in the first edition is not among it. Licensing terms are a thing which can get the community riled up, but the “backlash” against inclusivity is, as usual, manufactured, and from what I see the thread is mostly Musk bashing. Thinking of, Shaun recently published a video on the manufactured outrage around Stellar Blade.

Oh, the average age thing. Yeah don’t go to the LoL forums or whatever though without checking I expect them to be full of talk about the current meta. And people unironically using “gay” as an insult in <currentyear>, presumably because they’re too young to even know their sexual orientation.

Overall trying to portray steam like some kind of second kiwifarms falls flat on its face for a very simple reason: Even if (and I don’t think that’s the case) there would be no moderation at all, the majority of users on steam will be talking game mechanics, about bugs, because they’re there to play a game and the reason you find yourself interacting on those forums is because you have something to say, or ask, about the game. That kind of talk will always drown out the angry goblins.

The US dollar is backed up by you have to pay your taxes in US dollar so the US economy is going to accept US dollar, thus, if you have dollars, you can buy shit in the US. In effect, thus, the US dollar is backed by the US economy.

There’s no such mechanism for crypto coins. If you now say “well the Fed can just print money”, that’s US policy. The Euro works differently, there price stability reigns supreme, in any case the policies of both Fed and ECB are well-known and people trust that they don’t change willy-nilly because neither the US nor the EU has any interest in the fallout that would cause. That trust is in no way weaker, less of a guarantee, wrt. giving a hint at the future value of the currency as the collective faith that props up crypto coins as a unit of account.

And gold, btw, is practically useless as a commodity. Jewelry? Literally only used for that because it’s expensive. Technical applications? Do exist, but the amount needed is negligible. The value of gold relies on the existence of a luxury market.

Showing the most played songs and artists is not really a difficult analysis task that does not require any machine learning.

You want to dimension reduce to get that “people who listen to stuff like you also like to listen to” recommendation. To have an idea whom to play a new song to, you ideally want to analyse the song itself and not just people’s reaction to it and there we’re deep in the weeds of classifiers.

Using LLMs in particular though is probably suit-driven development because when you’re trying to figure out whether a song sounds like pop or rock or classical then LLMs are, at best, overkill. Analysing song texts might warrant LLMs but I don’t think it’d gain you much. If you re-train them on music instead of language you might also get something interesting, classifying music by phrasal structure and whatnot don’t look at me I may own a guitar but am no musician. And, of course, “interesting” doesn’t necessarily mean “business case” unless you’re in the business of giving Adam Neely video ideas. “Spotify, play me all pop songs that sing ‘caught in the middle’ in the same way”… not a search that’s going to make spotify money, or anyone asked for.

Sociological reductionism. Intersectionality was invented to overcome it but, so far, hasn’t actually done so.

You just reminded me of a movie and let’s just say I highly recommend it.

On yet another front, the Greek resistance would kill Nazis. In retaliation, Nazis would kill whole villages. Enraged, more Greeks would join the resistance and kill more Nazis. Net result: Towards the end pretty much every Greek was in the resistance and Greece was the only (IIRC, or at least the first or something) country to free itself from Nazi occupation. (Then they became a dictatorship different story).

There’s some equivocation going on there: On the one hand we have a theoretical model, due to Adam Smith, that says if you have perfectly rational actors acting on perfect information then you get very very nice results and that’s called the free market. Then you have peddlers of institutionalised market failure saying that any regulation that would make people’s choices more rational, or give them more information, is making the market unfree.

In short: While classical liberals and specifically ordoliberals are saying “there shall and must be regulation, so that the real-world market comes closer to approximating Smith’s free market”, neoliberals say “there shall be no regulation because Adam Smith doesn’t like monopolies but we do so let’s poison the conversation by calling inherently unfree markets free”.

The people didn’t elect anyone, you might want to look up what “to annul” means. Also there would’ve been a run-off anyway. Also plenty of campaigning laws were broken.

Just a heads up while the look might be easy to emulate the feel part will at best be close. Which is actually good because a lot about that is rather shoddy in windows… and focussing on getting what you had with windows might make you miss stuff you didn’t think you wanted. Like MMB click on scrollbars, or dragging and resizing windows with Super+LMB/RMB

They’re all PCs they just aren’t IBM (compatible) PCs. Anything from a Workstation to a Smartphone is a Personal Computer.

I’m not contradicting anything, I didn’t even use the word “life”. I’m simply taking the perspective of the genome, and fighting against the notion that viruses would act as mechanistically as prions.

It’s a hostile instruction manual which learns, adapting itself to its surroundings, constantly re-writing and re-inventing how it interacts with the world. Which is more than can be said about most politicians. Forget about physical anatomy, for a second, and consider the species as an organism.

Of course it adjusts to its environment – it even uses it to replicate. Viruses are that branch of the genome which is being minimalist about its seed pods, other branches need all kinds of superfluous stuff like eyes and limbs and brains and whatnot. Complete waste of resources, having pods which can maintain independent homeostasis, what good does that for the homeostasis of the genome? Eh?

Literally the etymology though. 'scape instead of escape is the original “mispronunciation” otherwise it’s just a straight-forward translation of Azazel, the goat which escaped in Levictus 16.

That’s some IMAX-level projection there.

Scenario a and b are straight-up infringement. Doesn’t matter whether you sell it or not, and things like reverb are not enough to count as transformative.

Scenario c is transformative. Depending on how transformative it is you might be recognised as co-author instead of straight infringer but you very well still might have to pay royalties. If the original is not recognisable, why start off with an original you don’t have full rights to? Record yourself gurgling or whatever, then work from there.

What in the actual disingenuous fuck, mate? lmao

Well I have written procgen code. Not my speciality but I’ve seen enough to know that Acerola is spot-on with the issues he’s highlighting.

Yeah, your comments here. https://fedia.io/m/europe@feddit.de/t/887750/Where-did-AfD-voters-come-from-and-where-did-they

So, if I were to, say, say that Ted Kaczynski had an environmentalist streak, would that make me an apologist for terrorism? Saying that someone who does terrible things also happens to care about the environment is condoning those terrible things? Even if juxtaposed by, I quote myself from that thread: “[Beate Zschäpe is] a murderous fascist assclown”? That’s fascist propaganda in your book?

A title lying making some outlandish claim

You’ve never had any issues, problems, with procedural generation? How much of that kind of code have you written?

A thumbnail using a red arrow

Erm what.

Using a thumbnail of a chunk border that happens because of larger changes within the worldgen code from switching different versions in an existing world, not because of the problems with procedural generation

Yes that’s a problem with procedural generation. Games need patching once in a while, using procgen makes game state migration quite a bit more involved.

you in the past spreading fascist propaganda in German communities.

I suppose you have receipts to back that up. I’d be very interested indeed in seeing them. Presumably your perception is based on you having as much of an understanding of fascism as you have of clickbait.

No, seriously: Back that slander up or retract it. Not just of me btw but of those communities themselves for not banning the shit out of fascist BS.

Haha very funny. Try google and definitely come sober, freshly showered and in a fresh set of clothes.

but at least here in Germany prostitutes are only allowed to be self-employed to ensure they aren’t getting “pimped”

Nope. The reason so many are self-employed is because the employment laws favour employees much more than usual. You can order a baker to knead bread at the penalty of firing, can’t order a sex worker to serve a client on penalty of firing.

The laws about pimping – in particular, holding women in financial dependence – existed way before legalisation and didn’t actually change. It was always legal to offer things such as bodyguard services and also to exchange money for sex, contracts were non-enforcable and you couldn’t have dedicated business spaces for the trade. As such the workers themselves were already plenty used to being freelancers which is probably another reason why so many are self-employed: Cultural inertia.

The change in Germany wasn’t much more about making it a regular trade, not decriminalising it because strictly speaking it has never been illegal.