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  • I wonder if the mod got online.

    WAY back in the 1980s there was a game called Hack (it's still under development, but it's called NetHack now) where you could connect it to your email, and if you got an email, a demon (like daemon, the networking term) would run up and give you a scroll which would contain the email. This was just a quirky thing that some games did.

    I remember someone used AI to mod the first Animal Crossing to make the animal villagers say more interesting things. Like they could talk about current events. They could trash talk contemporary public figures. It's amusing until you realise that anthropomorphic animals in a post-nuclear world wouldn't actually talk about public figures contemporary to us... it only works if you didn't know Animal Crossing is post-apocalyptic (like Fallout). And even then, most people play Animal Crossing to escape the real world, not to be immersed in it. I imagine it's the same with Skyrim.

  • Okay first of all, you can browse the dark web with an iPhone these days. You don't need Tails or a VPN or anything crazy. Just download the Tor Browser from the App Store.

    Second of all, you should know what the three kinds of webs are. The dark web is basically just a bunch of .onion domains. Then there's the deep web, which is the parts of the web you can't access (intranets and such). The clear web is... well... this.

    All the TOR browser does is accesses the dark web over TOR, which means The Onion Router. And it parses .onion links, and it operates as a kind of VPN. There are two parts to it, .onion sites and TOR, the VPN thing. They go together.

    A LOT of sites have Dark web (or .onion) sites. Proton Mail, New York Times, Google, and more. They do this so journalists and people in contested/war torn areas can anonymously access services. You shouldn't be using TOR because it has limited bandwidth and some people need it. That said, thousands of people explore the dark web. Most of them leave unsatisfied.

    If you want to have a look, look for the Hidden Wiki. It's kind of a jumping off point. There will be a few .onion sites that claim to be "The" hidden wiki. They're all basically valid.

    The hidden wiki is really just a bunch of links. Some of them are legit and these links should always work. If they say a link goes to a site where you can buy drugs, children, or murder, don't just click on it. Chances are good the link will be dead. If the link isn't dead, chances are good it's a scam. If it's not a scam, chances are good it's an FBI honeypot. If it's not a honeypot, you might have found illegal content. Then it sucks to be you (unless you're into that shit). But at that point it's probably a honeypot. Which means the FBI will come and talk to you about what you were looking for.

    TL;DR: Very fucking carefully... and you can do it with an iPhone (or anything else really)

  • Really? But OpenAI changed the number of images ChatGPT can generate in a day from five to ONE in an attempt to get more people to subscribe/pay. You're telling me that didn't work? Colour me shocked! (People I work with use it and were bitching about it around the office this week.)

    I think it'll push people the other way: off the platform, or to a competitor. Most people don't want to pay for AI. We're already paying higher costs for computer hardware, we shouldn't have to pay for AI, too.

  • the physical media only containing some of the game files, requiring a download to play

    Fallout 4 did this like a decade ago (and probably wasn't the first). It came with a DVD that had like 5GB of data. The rest had to be downloaded.

    It was a fucky situation because those of us who bought the Pip-Boy Edition but had slow Internet couldn't play the game on day one, we had to download the whole game when we got the game in the mail. People who paid far less for the digital version were able to preload it and play on day one. I found a torrent for the preload (not the game and not cracked!) and put it on my computer. So when I put the DVD in and entered my code, it went to download it, found the preload, and just signed off on all of it, and I was off to the races. But that wasn't how Bethesda intended for me to play. They intended for me to have to wait for several hours or the next day to play the game I paid for.

    So yeah, nothing new there.

  • Source: guy, but married 20 years, and I have sisters and nieces

    1. Not as much blood comes out as you (probably) think.

    2. Tampons absorb most of it from the uterus, and very little if any gets past the tampon. Panty liners catch the rest.

    3. The vagina isn't just wide open all the time, it's a "potential space" kind of like a deflated balloon (I know, not flattering). It's getting "inflated" as it were (balloon analogy) as the blood enters the top/back of the vagina from the uterus, but the tampon is absorbing most of it. In ideal conditions, the woman (or girl) will change it before it gets fully soaked — that's what the absorption rating is. Girls learn real quick how much they need as the flow changes throughout the cycle.

    Disclaimer: still a guy and sisters don't tell their brothers much, wives don't tell their husbands that much more.

    Bonus: Think about how often you actually swim. Most people swim very rarely, so it's not an issue that comes up a lot.

    When I was a teenager, I was swimming with a girl who got her period (not her first) while we were in the water. My best friend's sister. All of a sudden a pool of blood came up. I thought she cut herself or stepped on something sharp and I went into first aid mode, started moving her out of the water. She pulled me close like she was going to kiss me, but whispered, "I just started my period, get my mum." So I did. Let go of her immediately (she was fine, did not need my help) and went and got her mum. It was all good, wasn't awkward or anything. I think she was 12, 13 at the most at the time, and she was real mature about it. They usually are if you just treat them like people. I saw blood, my mind went to injury, not menstruation, and that's basically all it was.

  • Me, personally? No. I'm also good with handling and preparing raw meat. I use gloves, or I wash my hands, but I can butcher some meat and cut it how I want it, it does not bother me in the least.

    Cooking the meat? Not at all.

  • Google: Cool, that's what we do here. That brings the grand total to...

    EU: Oh no, you misunderstand. We don't want to pay for it. We want it gratis.

    If they just paid like everyone else, this probably wouldn't be an issue.

  • That's fair. For me, the journey is at least equally important, if not more so. People would go on forums and talk about what it could be.

    I think LOST was a big problem for the genre (subgenre? trope?) because at least when I first heard about it, I thought it was a spinoff or knockoff of Survivor. I saw ads for a show about people on an island and I didn't get that it wasn't a reality show. It wasn't until near the end of the first season when the ads teased the hatch Locke found that I began to pay attention. But on top of that, I think they didn't have an ending planned in advance. Not knowing the ending means the ending is almost certainly going to be an arse pull.

    I think with FROM (and some others), they learned their lesson and wrote the ending early on. They have a plan for how to get there. But it's still a problem if the show is cancelled.

  • I loved Andromeda, and I wanted more planets to terraform. And more things to do on them.

    However, the game was objectively bad.

    First of all, you go out terraforming, and you only need to do like a third of the quests to reach 100%. Clearing the enemy base isn’t even required! So what do you get after 100%? Nothing! What does 100% give you? An achievement.

    The first planet you terraform asks if you want it to focus on science or military. Does this even matter? The other planets don’t ask.

    Once you do all the terraforming, it’s just fetch quests until the end. Talk to your crew mate on the ship — not on the planet. So you get on the ship and watch the takeoff movie for the tenth time. Talk to them on the ship and they want to go back to the same planet you just left!

    Or the mission where you track the anti AI terrorists to their base and the pacifist option involves crafting which means you have to get on your ship, take off, land again, and then go all the way back to their base, which is only accessible by Billy goating up a mountain Skyrim style.

    The rating also promises nudity and strong sexual content and the game is PG-13 at best in that regard. Mass Effect got a bad rap from the first one. My Ryder was flirting with a few people but eventually the options just disappeared. Actually the most tame Mass Effect.

    I could say a lot more, but I still loved this game. I understand the criticism though.

  • First, YSK that doctors' offices overbook patients. Most of the time, the doctor takes less time with you than he schedules. He's got a lot of people to help (and money to make). But if he's not helping you, he's not your doctor and it's time to find another one. If he checks you out, gives you a prescription, and sends you on your merry way and it works, don't feel dismissed, he did his job efficiently.

    People who break appointments cost the office money, so I get where they're coming from. It's still bullshit. If there were more doctors, the load would be spread more evenly and they wouldn't do that, but there aren't (in many areas) so that's what you get. Not that it's fair.

    One time, my wife waited 4 hours to be seen by her doctor. I waited for an hour with her, then I started feeling unwell, so I walked home (only about a 20 minute walk, and the breeze felt awesome). She was there from 9 until noon, when they went to lunch. They all went out to eat at a nice restaurant while my wife waited. When they got back an hour later, they saw her. I thought that was messed up. But my wife likes her doctor and stayed with the practice. Couldn't be me. I give it half an hour tops.

    As for me, I usually arrive at appointments five minutes early to on time. Usually have to wait no more than 15 minutes. AirPods are great for this. "But what if they call your name?" iPhone has a feature where it will listen for your name. You don't even have to look at them. The music dips, you hear a ding, you look at the phone, and it says "Urgent message: Maybe heard (your name)." You have to tell it your first name, your last name, and anything else you want it to listen for. This also eats battery because it's listening constantly — this is something you would not leave on all the time. But, I figure everyone's got a charger in the car, so it's no big deal. As for Android users... there might be an app for it. I dunno. Android absolutely wins when it comes to customisation of the home screen, but iPhone wins on accessibility features. There are, like, hundreds in there. One I use (and it came in clutch after having some oral surgery) is personal voice, where you can make it talk for you in your voice. It's a parlour trick until you need it, then it's indispensable.

  • It sounds like you think I'm advocating for Windows? I assure you, I'm not.

  • Yeah, I kinda wish the Xbox One didn't exist, too. I get what you're saying though, that stripped-down version of Windows isn't something you can get outside the console. Still, you not being able to use it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It's still a fair thing to test against. Windows as a consumer grade OS isn't really meant for gaming. Xbox is Windows stripped down to what's needed for gaming. You can configure Linux to strip down for gaming, so why not compare apples to apples?

  • I recently learned that Apple’s Command icon (⌘) has an older meaning: point of interest. I’ve never seen it in a map though. When I was a kid I called it the flower key (I didn’t know the name).

    No idea about @ but it seems to me that people have been circling letters as part of a personal signature (like if your party name started with an A, you might just sign and circle A) for a long time, but I’m not sure it’s the right answer.

  • You know, those command are just manually invoking the menus with the keyboard. It’s a fun trick, but was always slower than the dedicated keyboard shortcuts CTRL+S (Save) and Alt+F4 (Quit application).

  • This channel overlaps so many of its labels I feel like most of them apply to me. It’s like astrology, it’s designed to speak to a common denominator so in other words they really aren’t talking about shit. It are they? I’m not sure but the channel reads like psycho babble to me. That said, it’s entertaining.

  • You’re showing people doing an activity that requires people to hold their arms up over their heads for extended periods of time. That’s uncomfortable by design. Some humans do enjoy working. Especially if they can do so comfortably with people they like and/or with some good music on.

  • Ostensibly, the one with less overhead. Part of the dream of DirectX was a lite statement that could focus on gaming — that ultimately became Xbox. So look at an Xbox One (not Series!) and run Linux on similar hardware (no SSD!) and see if you can beat it. I think it can be done but I’m not sure.

  • Honestly I think it's less about the use of AI than it is about interfering with the protection of an endangered species creature. Essentially the animal went one way (they didn't know which way) and the guy tried to mislead the people trying to protect the animal, risking its safety. Imagine if it had died and couldn't contribute genetically to the continuation of its species. Or something like that.

    Regardless of the tool used, he convinced them to look in an area the wolf wasn't, wasting their time and resources and endangering the actual wolf (which IIRC was safely returned to the protective environment — I'm not mincing words, it's not a pet kept in captivity, they're trying to get the species' numbers up, I'm not sure where the ethics or morals fall on that, but it seems like a humane effort to not let species fall extinct).

  • You're welcome! I was an older teenager when the worldwide web started taking off in '94 — is that what you mean? A lot of people associate the Internet and the WWW, but IIRC the first email was sent in the 1960s. I'm getting old. Sometimes I feel old, sometimes I feel young. As a gamer, I try to stay current with tech, but while I like some modern games, I'm having so much fun catching up on 360/PS3 and 3ds era gaming. Like my wife got Animal Crossing for the Switch, but I'm enjoying the 3ds version more. It's a bit older, a bit uglier, my girl has hair like Claire/Molly Ringwald in Breakfast Club, but it's okay, I'll unlock the hair salon eventually.

  • I think there's a guide. I follow them on Telegram and they post whenever they add something (with a direct link to the coordinates). Lately he's been working on the flea market area with Link and Zelda.

  • Just Post @lemmy.world

    FYI: You can simply ignore rudeness

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world

    Dan Simmons on AI in 1989 (Hyperion) (No spoilers)

  • April Fools @piefed.social

    MKBHD reviews a minimal phone

  • Casual Conversation @piefed.social

    Asked a small child what the cutest animal they know is

  • Apple @lemmy.zip

    I tried Playlist Playground. It's bad

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world

    I tried Apple's new Playlist Playground feature. It's bad

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.ca

    Gearheads — what would happen if I...?

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world

    YSK what is really happening when Dish/DirecTV (et al) and your local news have beef with each other

  • The Eternal Playlist @crazypeople.online

    amazarashi - Living Dead

  • The Eternal Playlist @crazypeople.online

    タイムカプセル (Time Capsule) by THE SIXTH LIE ft. KIMIKA

    song.link /i/1807922400
  • Games @lemmy.world

    Did anyone really think the Final Fantasy 7 remake was better than the original PS1 version?

  • Firefox @lemmy.ml

    Any way to make a static background stay while you scroll?

  • The Eternal Playlist @crazypeople.online

    milet - The Story of Us (En/Jp)

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world

    "We are the art" — Brandon Sanderson's take on AI

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world

    Would you want to live on the Enterprise-D (regarding its shipwide AI)?

  • Cooking @lemmy.world

    What is an omelet? And is that what I make? If not, what DO I make?

  • Ask Android @lemdro.id

    iPhone guy wondering how you guys manage your gallery!

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world

    Blue Prince is 'the result of 8 years of development, fueled by imagination and creativity' not AI says publisher

    www.pcgamer.com /games/puzzle/blue-prince-is-the-result-of-8-years-of-development-fuelled-my-imagination-and-creativity-not-ai-says-publisher/
  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world

    Windows copying Mac feature, but only in certain apps

  • Pizza @lemmy.world

    Ever had artichoke & avocado? Was I pranked?