DuckWrangler9000

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[–] DuckWrangler9000@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

Thanks for providing this really detailed and interesting reply. Lots of good insight here. For the 'Postgraduate degree' group, I wonder if they're dramatically higher due to the frustrating problems associated with name changes? Like if you publish an academic paper with your full name, you can't easily go back and change it, so that may affect it... huh.

 

According to Google's Subprocessor List, they added LXT AI Inc. for voice to text processing services who are based out of Canada, India, Romania. According to LXT's website, they may be actually using this data for AI training... This sounds very concerning. Anything you say will be sent to AI company's servers, and essentially be their property... So if you're using Voice to Text to pitch a new idea or game designing docs... They can steal it? is that how it works?

 

Back in the medieval ages when a woman was married to a man, they were basically considered property for my understanding and treated like an extension of the man's person and family. So it was customary for women to take the man's last name since they were being joined to his family. But now here in the 21st century women are fully independent and last names don't really seem to mean much of anything. I mean what is Smith or McGregor or any last name really mean anymore? Especially in the digital age, lots of people have digital usernames like SarahSmith1727373. So the last name clearly doesn't mean much anymore.... Which leads me to wonder, why do the majority of women still take the man's last name? Especially when some of them have a horrible last name? I have seen some butt ass ugly last names recently, like Fink, Weimer, Slotsky/Slotsky, Hiscock (no joke this is a last name), Hardman.... And then you hear the woman's name and it's like something way more reasonable and less stupid sounding like Kingman, or Harrison, Walls, etc.

[–] DuckWrangler9000@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Great list! I've tried Dota 2 as well, it's definitely extremely complex and addictive but not my kind of game, I just cannot thrive and enjoy that sort of game. Same goes with League of Legends. Just not my cup of tea.

I am a little curious about Stellaris though. That game seems so incredibly complex, like, what about it is The draw for people? I've heard so many people talk about it and has so many freezy steam reviews but when I first tried it as a demo, it seemed so absurdly complex That my head was spinning. Like I had no idea what the heck was going on. I'm not sure how to enjoy it I guess

[–] DuckWrangler9000@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You are very brave for playing Starfield for 1,000 hours. I gave up after 25 hours when I completed the entire quest line and started new game plus. Literally couldn't do it. Went and played some No Man's sky, and now that's becoming my new addiction

[–] DuckWrangler9000@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

Threads is honestly terrible. There are these asinine little widgets on Instagram that show you threads that people have posted and don't show you the full one so you click see more and it brings you to the app store. But no one really uses it much, so you see a lot of things being posted with no interaction at all

[–] DuckWrangler9000@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

People still play Fallout 4? What are you doing the game? I beat it like years ago but don't know how to enjoy it if I played it again today

[–] DuckWrangler9000@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

How do you mean there's no such thing as AI?

[–] DuckWrangler9000@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Are they a bot??

[–] DuckWrangler9000@lemmy.world 15 points 16 hours ago (13 children)

The thing I really hate about AI is when they say it can make art. For centuries, art has been a form of expression and communicating all sorts of human emotions and experiences. Some art reflects pain or memories experienced in life. Other art is designed out of intellectual curiosity or to evoke thought. AI isn't human, so it can't do anything other than copy or simulate. It's artificial after all. So it makes images. But there's no backstory or feelings or emotion or suffering. It's truly meaningless.

[–] DuckWrangler9000@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

I've played dark souls remastered.... It's hard as hell man. Haven't tried Ellen ring yet but it's on my list

[–] DuckWrangler9000@lemmy.world 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You really like simulators?

[–] DuckWrangler9000@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

Appreciate the great response and recommendations!

There was this online Pokémon game that was somehow realistic.

I think you're talking about pokémon revolution online, or something similar. There's a few pokémon MMOs.

[–] DuckWrangler9000@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

Does it have multiplayer or is it single player only? Destiny 2 was only really playable because I had a community/clan that I played with actively for the social aspect of it. Horribly boring playing it solo

 

One thing I have struggled with lately is finding good games to play. I bounce around from game to game trying to enjoy it but it just doesn't scratch the itch like it used to. For example, one of my favorites was old school RuneScape, but it hasn't really been giving me the same enjoyment that it used to. So then I would open up World of Warcraft, Destiny 2, just playing a little bit of each game. Think maybe I need some new games to play but it's tough to find them these days.

So what are your favorite 1000+ hour games?

 

I have been really tempted to jump into VR for a little while now, I tried it when the quest first came out, the very first one but it was too blurry and made me dizzy. I've considered getting back into it again, but the thing that has made me really hesitant is I've heard that VR is not in the greatest place and that it's really tough to find good VR games to play. For example, there's Fallout and Skyrim VR but they're not really in good shape, and it takes a lot of modding and tweaking to get them to actually work properly. But I'm curious what other people think. Do you think VR is in a good enough place to be able to play it and enjoy it long-term? Or is it some sort of short-term hype thing?

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