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andioop

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  • The vibecoders are becoming sentient

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  • That's a bit difficult because I already go into anything from The Onion knowing it's intended to be humorous/satirical.

    What I lack in ability to recognize satire or outright deception from posts written online, I make up for by reading comment threads: seeing people accuse things of being fake, seeing people defend it as true, seeing people point out the entire intention of a website is satire, seeing people who had a joke go over their heads get it explained... relying on the collective hivemind to help me out where I am deficient. It's not a perfect solution at all, especially since people can judge wrong—I bet some "omg so fake" threads were actually real, and some astroturf-type things written to influence others without real experience behind it got through as real.

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  • You are right about the thespian thing, but when you watch TV/film/theatre everyone is in on the "joke" and we all know they're not really falling in love, getting murdered, or whatever dramatic happening. I'm not sure if OOP is just trying to entertain and expects everyone to realize they're joking, which would stick them on the thespian side, or if they have other motives. But hey, interesting point to bring up!

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  • "Our game made €4 million," says Rise of Industry's creator. "Three years later, I was broke"

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  • I feel devs should push major bug fixes for free—something something games released with more bugs not just because of increasing complexity but because they just ship immediately due to easier distribution of an update instead of testing before shipping. That's all we're entitled to. If you want content updates you should probably pay for continued development costs, which is where DLC and subscription comes in. Those also have potential for abuse and unfair pricing, though, so that's a whole other minefield.

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  • Thanks!

    I really wish people did not do this. This isn't something I was ever taught to look for, and I like to think I got a good education. I was taught to make sure my source is credible, to consider biases and spin and what things are facts and what is just opinion, but I wasn't taught to look for a lot of deception people call out online. But I guess I have to live with this and gain the skill to look for deception. Genuinely, thanks for helping me, since I don't think I ever would have figured out what raises "fake" flags in most peoples' heads on my own.

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  • Thanks!

  • "Our game made €4 million," says Rise of Industry's creator. "Three years later, I was broke"

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  • I feel like there's a difference between cosmetic microtransactions, game-balance altering ones, and the predatory ones most gamers including me dislike. The ones where you only have 10 energy for actions and every action depletes your energy, so you wait 10 hours or PAY 10 IN GEMS, DON'T HAVE ENOUGH GEMS? BUY 55 FOR $2.99! Which are acquired quickly as you learn the game and then you get a very slow dripfeed of them once you have completed all tutorial/onboarding tasks, and which you are forced to spend in the tutorial. Or the lootbox gambling ones. I'm all for cosmetics to support the dev, but take a dim view of the game-balance altering ones and outright predatory ones.

    Although I do wonder how much whatever-dollar-horse-armor opened the floodgates to this.

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  • I'm entirely too trusting and would like to know what about the phrasing tips you off that it's fictional. Back on Reddit I remember so many claims about posts being fake and I was never able to tease out what distinguished the "omg fake! r/thathappened" posts from the ones that weren't accused of that, and I feel this is a skill I should be able to have on some level. Although taking an amusing post that wasn't real as real doesn't always have bad consequences.

    But I mostly asked because I'm curious about the weird extra width on letters.

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  • Is that what the weird extra width on some letters is, artifacts from some AI generating the post?

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  • Curious, what damage would it do?

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  • People are calling back and it's very hypocritical that they are willing to cave to an activist group of 1067 people but not what I imagine to be more than 1067 calling them to change it back.

  • GitHub will be folded into Microsoft proper as CEO steps down

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  • Some good news, wonderful. Thanks for posting.

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  • So I shouldn't do this because my call will be ended and I will not be able to take up 25 minutes? I mean this as a genuine question, not as a snarky "gotcha!" reply to put you down for saying that. I did actually call up before, but gave up because I could not find a complaint part of the phone tree and was considering trying again with the strategy in the post, since there is a valid place in the phone tree for that to go.

    I do get the comment about "if only people reacted that much against fascism," but as someone who learned about their own queerness via the internet and got their childhood homophobia destroyed by the internet? I guarantee banning all the porn games is going to inch up to the super SFW things that talk about LGBTQ+, and I'm pretty sure that 18+ topics will be redefined to "anything fascists don't like". So discussing your love for hurting those protesting the regime in violent detail is fine, but "maybe this government is bad" is now 18+ and you have to hand over a government ID to age verify. First I was not interested in sexual kink video games, so I did not speak out… This kind of restriction is already censoring protest videos. I don't know quite enough to say if this is entirely fascist but it does fit a nasty pattern fascism does often. So yes, people are showing up both for their game porn and antifascist reasons.

  • The Hare programming language

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  • "Accidentally stumbling across porn" is not directly searching for it. It's being 12 and browsing DeviantArt for some nice art of video game characters and finding Sonic inflation diaper porn that was obviously drawn by someone your age or younger, judging by the art quality.

    Still didn't come out traumatized or oversexed, though I did get the asexuality cheat code for that.

    My friends who watch porn have always treated me respectfully. I do wonder if there is any study backing up my idea that porn is not harmful, it's refusing to talk about what is healthy and what is not in a relationship and modeling bad interactions that is harmful. (Funnily enough, the internet taught me this one too. Thank you 2010s Tumblr, and fanfic author's notes and stuff or analysis of relationships between characters mentioning how a dynamic is unhealthy. And reading parental watchdog sites explaining all the unhealthy media models your kids shouldn't watch, ignoring them and going ahead consuming it anyways, but remembering the actual "and that's unhealthy for a relationship" statements.) Or if I'm wrong and it's a mix of things and some kids can be damaged by seeing porn—don't want to discount experiences that do not reflect my own personal bubble and social circle.

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  • That's a quite interesting add-on

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  • I could swear there was such an add-on that was this but non-NSFW, but maybe I'm misremembering.

  • Github has started charging me on the free tier?

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  • Okay, everyone knows guns are literal weapons. Not everyone has the time to look into things and develop an anticorporate opinion to the point simply using a service is a loaded weapon and simply using it is cause enough for "no sympathy, sucks to be you!" when they have trouble with it. Maybe this might make them change their minds eventually, but even if it doesn't… this seems a bit more blaming the victim. Get angry at the corporation, not the person who wasn't born believing corporations bad. If I fail to lock my door, that is probably unwise of me, but everyone should be more mad at the thief for stealing from me in the first place.