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What worries me is who defines what the truth is? Reality itself became political decades ago, probably starting with the existence of global warming and now such basic foundational facts as who won an election. If the government can punish "falsehood", what do you do if the GOP is in charge and they determine that "Biden won 2020" is such a falsehood?

From what I understand this is a pretty common failure mode for SD models. For instance, the results get demonstrably better when you add keywords like "amazing" and "masterpiece" because the model was never trained to care about quality, so it will happily generate garbage unless you tell it otherwise. "Ohhh, you wanted good art media, got it!"

Anti-choice?

Why is the right speedrunning the rise of the third reich? Can we trust them to ever be in power again or will every republican candidate from this point forward be eagerly awaiting the evisceration of democracy and human rights and not just giving tax breaks to corporations and reducing regulation?

I had a surprising amount of fun with the Dragon Quest games, DQ Builder I/II and Treasure Hunters. Squeaky clean polish and very focused, nearly arcade-like gameplay. Don't forget the various Marios and Kirby Forgotten Land.

Cadence of Hyrule is a bit of a weird departure but very fun and replayable with a kickass track. You can get the Binding of Isaac physically, as well as the Ori collection which is incredible and Stardew Valley. Moonligher is a bit repetitive but that can be good comfort. Celeste, if you've never played it, is potentially life changing if you struggle with perfectionism and/or anxiety.

For a very obscure digital game, Chasm was an amazing randomized full-length metroidvania.

Chat GPT can already be a pretty good tool for self-reflection. The way its model works, it tends to reflect you more than anything else, so it can be used as a reasonably effective "rubber duck" that can actually talk back. I wouldn't recommend it as a general therapeutic tool though, it's extremely difficult to get it to take initiative so the entire process has to be driven by you and your own motivation.

Also.... Have you ever watched Black Mirror? This is pretty much the episode Be Right Back, it doesn't end well.

What bothers me about the tech illiterate (and I do consider it a kind of literacy) is that I wasn't taught it by anyone. Unlike reading, which is skill which requires explicit education, tech literacy insofar as UI navigation to me indicates a fundamental lack of curiosity or inquisitiveness. Half the time when customers call, I don't know where to find the thing in the UI - I just remote in and menu what sounds right until it's there. We're immersed in technology, it's no longer possible to function adequately without it, yet somehow a very large portion of the population is so disinterested in the near literal magic in front of them that they can't be assed to learn the first thing about how to use it.

I don't make anyone feel bad for not knowing something. I try my hardest to be supportive and teach them how it works. But 99% of the time they don't care and just want the thing to start working. So yes, I will judge people for lacking the bare minimum of curiosity which would ordinarily drive them to already know how this works in the first place.

And ironically, I seem to have avoided making my sisters be this. I was the "tech" guy in my family, and they'd ask me to do everything for them until eventually I told them I would give them tips and nothing else. They learned how to do everything themselves really quick lmao.

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

Antitrust divestiture?

Is it time to DDoS fax gay porn to Mississippi offices?

Capitalism wins again!

Or better yet, games where you get monopoly money for pretending to do a job in the game

What do you think about arguments for using it in cross-game "metaverse" type trading? It's another buzzword but it would make centralization of the data hard to impossible.

My intuition is we're seeing the first wave of snake oil salesmen adopting Animal Magnetism Quantum Whatsits to Manifest your Holograms who poisoned the well and drove everyone away, then in 10-20 years someone will have a good idea using it at which point the scammers are no longer around to ruin it for everyone. What do you think of that idea?

The article is more correct than what I've been seeing in this thread - their inclusion doesn't make games fun, which is correct. People are essentializing the use-cases of an algorithm, some saying NFTs make a game fun (somehow?) and others pointing out that they're trash cash grabs that seem to actively make the experience worse.

My mistake, I should've read the article. I didn't think OP editorialized the title.

Calling blockchains in video games "boring" is like calling backface culling "boring". It's an algorithm, not a game mechanic. Companies make it boring by treating it like one.

TCGs use fungible resources, though. Except for very rare cases like misprints or limited releases, two cards are completely interchangeable so long as they're the same card. I could maybe see Pokemon using NFTs because they're supposed to be your special semi-sentient animal friend, so making them non-fungible is a natural progression. They've approximated this with IV and PV, but ultimately you can still clone your shiny pikachu with hacks. An NFT pokemon could have a personal history on the blockchain (battles/contests won/lost, grooming/play sessions, parental/trainer involvement, regions they've seen, battle partners they've had, etc etc etc) which affects its behavior in subtle ways that simple numbers can't achieve. You could do this without NFTs using a centralized service, but I given the radical backwards and forwards compatibility of the games decentralization might make it a lot simpler to implement.

Note too that this is a strictly non-financial application of NFT. You could potentially exchange money out-of-band like you would in selling a card, but it doesn't require the pokemon cost anything. If I were to implement it, I'd probably avoid calling it "NFT" like the plague because it'd pull in cryptobros like a swarm of locusts and ruin the fun for normal people who don't want to pay $3000 for a Zigzagoon.