TommySoda

Hey, she's just trying to live her best life like the rest of us. I wish her the best with her suit of armor.

This just seems like they are trying to take a shortcut that might end up having unforeseen consequences. I have no problem with AI upscaling as a technology. It's already proven its merit with almost all triple A games that have come out in the past few years. But this just seems like a way to push the cost off onto consumers by making them buy more expensive hardware at the cost of efficiency. Games are so poorly optimized these days that this just seems like another way to release games that run like ass. If you see this as a benefit in any way, just remember that we will all be paying the extra cost that they get to save.

And of course there's gonna be people that'll just be like "upgrade your PC, bro" which just makes us fight amongst ourselves instead of fighting the companies that are fucking us over. We'll fight each other for hours on end about how shitty someone's PC is before we even consider that the game they are playing is so poorly optimized it's a miracle it even works on a high end PC. It's already to the point that a $4,000 PC isn't even enough to play some common triple A titles at a good frame rate. I can play God of War at the highest setting with no issues whatsoever but can't even play Jedi Survivor at a stable frame rate. Sure a better PC would achieve better results, but that's not a hardware issue.

If I remembered I'd have an answer. All I know is that I was specifically looking to export a csv and couldn't find it. It was a new computer and they were like "just use 365" instead of installing Microsoft Office like every other computer. I ended up just installing LibreOffice until they got mad at me and installed Microsoft Office.

Microsoft 365 is fucking garbage. I tried using it one time on my work computer and couldn't even export an Excel sheet into any other format besides a PDF and an Excel file. The only two things I never need to export an Excel sheet as. I couldn't even export it as a god damn text file. And the fact that I need an Internet connection makes it so much more finicky. I guess on the plus side when the Internet is down I don't have to do my job until it comes back.

Yeah, my friend that shot himself in the head a couple years back would also like to know.

I haven't figured out how to straight up have a video as a post. I hate posting a YouTube link or putting it in the body. If I knew how I'd make an amazing video with CGI and fireworks just to post it here.

Maybe later on, but in the beginning everyone was hyping NFTs and companies were trying thousands of different ways to put NFTs onto their platform. The only difference is what side you are on.

I'm not saying NFTs are like AI. AI has actual potential. I'm just saying lot of technologies are more hype than substance. My life has changed zero percent since AI came out. If anything it's been more annoying and made things like Internet searches more frustrating. And when I saw that new ad for Google Gemini as they vaguely tell you what it can even do or be used for, the same thought came to my mind, "Yeah, but what is it even for? Do you guys even know?"

I wish this wasn't true, but I've been in my fair share of lobbies where shit gets real fucked up real fast. The only solace I get is that they are probably either really lonely in real life, terrified to even talk to women, or self conscious about their masculinity. Or all three.

Low FPS isn't the worst. I've played games on plenty of potatoes. Nothing is better than a buttery smooth FPS, but it's not the end of the world.

A bad team mate happens but it's just the way it is sometimes. Dude could be new to the game. Unless they are straight up throwing I can get over it.

Usually after the first few times, my mom would usually get the picture. It's a little annoying but it's usually pretty brief (unless I was in trouble)

But connection issues? You can fuck right off with that. I can't tell you how many times my Internet just turns off in the middle of a game for no reason besides fuck you. And Internet lag is the fucking worst because, unlike the other options, you literally can't do anything about it. Everything else you at least have some control over. Bad FPS? Lower the settings. Bad teammate? Try your best to carry and make up the difference. Mom calling you? Just don't be rude and say it'll take a minute. Bad Internet? Your ISP is like "lmao fuck you it's just shitty today. Too bad we're the only option in town." I've had some ISPs that will just turn off my Internet for a few days for no reason and I have to call a technician to get it turned back on. They're always like "oh man it was turned off for some reason I don't know what happened."

Well than what the fuck was he even doing there? Was he just some random dude or a friend or something? This story just gets more and more mind boggling.

I'm kinda in the same boat but on the other side. I always try to argue with people about this. It gets me a lot of flak on pro AI posts but that won't stop me. I usually get very aggressive replies and sometimes some fucked up dm's too.

I'm against it because we are already seeing the consequences of this technology and it's only getting worse. By the time laws catch up it's gonna be too late and the damage will be done. For some technologies that's not always the worst. But we already saw how long it took for anyone to do anything about the Internet when it came out, and we are still trying to this day. This shit is growing so fast we will all feel the whiplash. Sites like Facebook are getting absolutely flooded with so much AI that they are becoming almost unusable. And that's before we even get into the shady shit people use AI for like making porn of people they know with the click of a button. I recently read an article about how bad deepfake porn is in South Korea (found the article. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/12/world/asia/south-korea-deepfake-videos.html). And in places like the US, where a lot of these companies are based, they are so slow to do anything about a problem it's going to be too late by the time they get to it.

But besides all the awful things happening because of AI, I do have one personal gripe with the whole ordeal. Why are we so quick to replace the things we enjoy with AI? When I get home from work I like to make music and practice pixel art (I'm not very good at either yet). I'd much rather have AI replace my job than my hobbies. I'm down for things that are useful, but too much of this just gives me a bad gut feeling. Like their trying to replace people and not their jobs.

This may be the future. But it sounds like a pretty dystopian future to me. You already can't believe everything you see on the Internet and this will only make it worse.

I wish, but I think they are predicting this. I live in a pretty chill and rural area. Shop lifting has never been an issue here and most people know the employees by name. Within the last couple months they have added a fuck ton of cameras and automatic brakes for all the carts. Went from barely ever having someone on the self checkout to having multiple people always watching with a top view camera on every checkout and two cameras on both sides. If you buy something too big to fit on the checkout area the machine calls an attendant over immediately even if you scanned it. It feels straight up dystopian in there and it makes it so stressful to go there. If it wasn't the only grocery store around me within a 40 mile radius I'd go somewhere else in a heartbeat.

The employees obviously hate it too and think it's just as fucking ridiculous as we all do. Last time I went, this high school girl looked like she was about to lose her shit as she went from checkout to checkout scanning her badge nonstop.