I was just saying this about the SNES to my SO last night, funny enough. GBA almost matches it, and for largely the same reason: experienced 2d devs, putting out their last hurrahs before the transition to ugly young 3d
"I am annoyed when people correct me for using casual language. Doing so is stupid. Language isn't static. The purpose of language is to be understood, so as long as you understood me, I did it 'correctly'. Here is an analogy using plants."
be a biologist
research clovers
everyone says "clovers have 3 leaves"
its a law of nature
go outside
find 4-leaf clover
i better take it to court for violating laws of nature
This is obviously stupid. Discovering something that violates a descriptive 'law' means the law was wrong. And yet, people do this in conversation all the time.
Sometimes casual conversation begins with a "But". E.g., someone might say "But anyway, have you seen that new movie Oppenheimer?"
Grammar nazis react to this by saying "You can't say 'but' at the start of a sentence if that sentence isn't a rebuttal of the previous sentence! It's a law of english!"
'Laws' of english are meant to be descriptive, not prescriptive. But alas, we live in a society 😔
To be fair, I didn't know his handle was MatPat, because I only knew about him as "the Game Theory guy I stopped watching almost ten years ago". If you told me Game Theory was quitting the internet , I would know who you meant.
It comes from a few years ago. Some team making a boomer shooter weren't sure what genre they wanted to advertise it as, since just plain "first person shooter" is saturated. One of them saw the original DOOM described on twitter as "some kinda boomer-ass shooter" and thought it was hilarious, so they went with it.
the internet is full of ai generated text now, which is poison to training models. But it’s good at pretending.
This misconception shows up again and again. It's wishful thinking from people who want to think AI researchers are idiots and AIs are going to kill themselves.
These models aren't trained on "the internet". They don't just thoughtlessly rip everything that's ever been posted every time they want to make an updated bot. The vast bulk of training data was scraped years ago, predating the current tide of generative muck, and additions are carefully curated to avoid the exact thing you're talking about. A scrape of the 2018 internet is plenty, and will remain so for years and years.
I pressed it like, 20 minutes ago? It's a pretty normal part of a lot of coding workflow, not to mention browsing, accessing context menu keyboard shortcuts without having to move your hand to the mouse for one buttonpress.
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I was just saying this about the SNES to my SO last night, funny enough. GBA almost matches it, and for largely the same reason: experienced 2d devs, putting out their last hurrahs before the transition to ugly young 3d