Me; neither.
I'm incredibly sick and tired of videogames usually picking just two lanes:
- Super photoreal graphics, optimisation be damned, that'll look dated in just a few years.
- Pixelated nostalgia tripping for people still stuck in the past.
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The opposite is also true; ancient Greece now has a cultural reputation for being very progressive when it comes to homosexuality, but... If you actually read the kinds of things Ancient Greeks say about it... I mean sure, they mention gay a lot more, but there's a lot of making fun of gayness.
Imagine going back in time to touristically "immerse" yourself in the "progressive" ancient Greeks, and all you find are rich people and states owning slaves and everyone making fun of gay people.
Maybe for countries where cycling isn't the norm. Try bringing up you cycle in Denmark or the Netherlands. XD
It makes a lot more sense if you view it as a human sacrifice to appease the god(s).
Humans have created many religions where some poor sod has to get murdered to satisfy some god or Pantheon of gods. Christianity is no different.
Shoes are taken off at the front door. What do you think we are? Barbarians?
You haven't been paying attention, then.
Dating apps are a literal scam preying on loneliness and/or horniness.
This comic invents a situation that basically doesn't happen and generalises men. This comic is itself sexist.
So... We're nearing the end, then?
And here we have it. The problem nobody wants to talk about and/or pretends outright doesn't exist.
Women do fear men
This is sexism. Try using the arguments that justify this on ethnic groups and you'd be called racist.
cross-posted from: https://blackneon.net/post/53840
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A comic in four panels:Panel 1. A dark and mystical laboratory, with shelves lined with dusty jars of oddities and strange artifacts, a dark witch, dressed in tattered black robes, is tired, her desk scattered with parchment and strange devices. She looks frustrated and confused. On a perch near to the desk stands a colorful mechanical parrot that contrast with everything.
Witch: Of course, we wanted crows, and the university gave us this...
Panel 2. Close-up on the parrot speaking cheerfully:
Parrot: :sparkle emoji: Greetings. I am a conversational Avian Intelligence model, developed by OpenMagic to assist you with your spells. Parrot: What can I help with?
Panel 3. The witch's face looks at the mechanical bird with annoyance.
Witch: "Shut up, you... thing."
Panel 4. The parrot continues. The witch now have her face against the desk.
Parrot: :sparkle emoji: I apologize, but I won't engage in conversations with hurtful language. Can I assist you with something else?
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Can't use Intel Arc A770 GPU in Blender 4.5.2 LTS despite having the latest packages installed
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Operating System: Bazzite (Linux)
GPU: Intel Arc A770
Tried with both Flatpak Blender 3D and from Blender.org directly. Same result.
works in Blender 4.2.10 LTS, except for Embree.
My work on Project Mata Nui Rising (where I contribute as an environmental artist) inspired me to also make this. I'll be making a few more cool renders with this guy, (hopefully collabing with someone who can do way better box-art). For this render I chose to copy the original set's box-art (To make the background I took the original image and crudely blotted-out the LEGO set).
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In Star Trek AI is used in many applications that a humanoid cannot reasonably do themselves entirely manually (not without serious augmentation, which is heavily frowned upon).
The amount of heavy lifting the ship's computer does for navigating the galaxy at warp speeds, or to process some incredibly advanced calculations almost instantly. This would go significantly slower if a humanoid had to do that all manually.
And yet...
The crew of the Enterprise D aren't merely prompting the ship's AI. Yes, there is that too, but they're typically doing that while also being very hands-on with the ship's systems too. The crews in Starfleet have the expertise of deep level computer programming, to the point of physically arranging computer systems if need be.
There is no "vibe coding" in Starfleet.
But then there is the Holodeck.
I'm OK with certain applications of the Holodeck, like spontaneously creating virtual activity or recreation areas. These things aren't considered works of art, and aren't considered worthy substitutes over the real thing either. You find them on ships and stations because they're the best available substitute, the alternative being crewman slowly going mad from seeing nothing but sterile corridors all day. I don't think I've heard of recreational Holodecks for regular individuals (unlikely due to some regulation, more likely that fulfilment is achieved in other ways if you're surrounded by a real planet).
However, Voyager sort of fucks with this idea with the crew "creating holonovels". This is essentially a vibe coder's dream; being able to create fully interactive narrative driven videogames with nothing but prompts. That said... Even in Voyager, using someone's likeness is heavily frowned upon. So there is still an expectation of originality, rather than merely rearranging a reference dataset. I can maybe forgive Voyager on the basis of its premise; they're stuck on the other side of the galaxy far from home. What else would they even do? But that's about as lenient as I can be.
On a societal level, however, real skill in a craft is still greatly appreciated, perhaps even preferred, over something computer generated. Despite there being replicators and no money, there are still bars, pubs, restaurants, wine makers, beer brewers, jewelers, you name it, there are still people going to these places to get a real cooked meal and have a real experience in a real location. Craft, skill, humanoid created instead of generated, these things are still valued enough for there to exist whole streets full of shopkeepers and hospitality providers on Federation worlds.
"AI" as it exists now is created to deliberately replace humans skill, to take from human skill without offering credit or appreciation, to make humans obsolete in the creation of immediate end results that can be sold as products or give instant gratification. The Federation as a society is shifted massively away from such a mentality.