Mossy Feathers (She/Her) @ MossyFeathers @pawb.social

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Note: unfortunately these are all on PC and don't have couch coop unless specified otherwise. I also don't think they have DRM aside from normal steam stuff (or require an internet connection for actual gameplay purposes), but any steam DRM should be easy to remove.

Warframe: space ninjas: the game (though it does require an online connection since it's basically a coop mmo, and it is third-person as opposed to first-person)

Payday: basically cops vs robbers. You're the robbers.

Killing Floor: Lodesemone! Dosh! Grab it while you can, lads! Money, money, money! Coop zombie survival. I hope you love blood and gore.

Abiotic Factor: what if you were a scientist in the Black Mesa GATE Cascade Research Facility and you had to survive? Can be played single player or multiplayer.

Halo: MCC: Halo already has a reputation for being the ultimate coop shooter. The MCC adds and expands coop for the games; however the PC version lacks split-screen. This can supposedly be added back with a mod, but I haven't tried it so I can't attest to how functional it is.

I've heard Sven Coop is really good if you like Half-Life stuff. It's a coop Half-Life mod.

Risk of Rain 2: technically third-person, but a very good coop shooter.

There's a mod for that now, so you don't have to do the Nucleus Coop bullshit. I haven't tried it, so I dunno how well it works, but ye.

Fyi, afaik Halo MCC supports 2 player coop on Halo: CE, and 4 player coop on the other games. That said, they removed split-screen on the PC version. Supposedly they keep saying they'll add it back eventually but, well, "eventually" has yet to happen.

That said, I've read there's a mod for native split screen now so you don't have to do the awkward Nucleus Coop stuff. I haven't tried it though, so ymmv.

Here's an article on the two bills that got voted out in Montana: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/powerful-speeches-from-trans-dems

Most of the anti-trans legislation is as bad or worse; Texas has a couple nutjobs trying to make being trans illegal as a whole.

They can't see that attacks on trans rights are also attacks on cis rights. I think that's part of the reason why Rep. Zoey Zephyr and Rep. SJ Howell were so effective at stopping a couple pieces of anti-trans legislation in Montana yesterday. They talked about the fact that the legislation would potentially effect cis people as well as the fact that it'd take "parental rights" away from parents. They also did it in a way that created a narrative which both cis and trans people can identify with, creating a common ground to further convince people that the legislation was wrong. And it was successful. They got a number of Republican lawmakers to switch sides, despite the fact that the GOP prides itself on being in lockstep. They even had a Republican lawmaker make a stand too, saying that the people introducing this legislation were basically just wasting everyone's time.

People say, "trans rights are human rights" and they're serious. We embody the extreme of gender non-conformity that cis people occasionally dabble in, and when you start taking away our rights, you start taking away cis rights too.

Yeah, uh, last I checked American territories don't have the ability to vote in federal elections. Someone from Puerto Rico can't vote for the US president despite being governed by the US. It's one of many bullshit systems designed to keep the GOP-Democrat right-wing ratchet going.

Contrary to that Europe doesn't have one cohesive identity, your example of Orban is multiple country borders removed from me personally.

Orban would probably be best compared to a state governor. Just a reminder that Texas is literally larger than the largest EU country with some space leftover for a city-state or two.

The idea that the US has a cohesive identity is just... unbelievably ignorant. I'm actually amazed that you believe that considering that no one in their right mind would say the same thing about places like Africa, Europe, or South America.

I didn't have a choice to be born here, and, had I had the option, I wouldn't have defaced a Native American monument in the first place. This is on top of the fact that the US is currently trying to find ways of disowning/executing me (trans).

Quite honestly, maybe I shouldn't be offended by being lumped in with other Americans, because maybe I'm not actually being included in these kinds of sweeping statements. However, it rubs me the wrong way when people imply that Americans as a whole are responsible for the things our government has and is doing.

Again, I didn't ask to be born in the US. I don't like that I'm "American". No one asked me, please don't lump people like me in with the others.

If his wife is okay with it, who cares?

Well yes! You stupid leftists don't have the right to live a comfortable life, free from criticism and accountability like us right-wingers. We're the ones who are right, it's right there in the name, "right-wing". As such, anyone that might cause us discomfort, such as breaking ties or criticizing the ones who we support, is espousing a disgusting, ignorant, liberal ideology.

(I hope it's obvious that I'm being sarcastic)

I mean, they have closed caption devices you can borrow. They fit into the cupholder and display captions for you.

Eh, I personally think it is, but you have to temper your expectations. It's absolutely not Artificial General Intelligence, nor is it as flexible or capable of rapid learning as human intelligence (or likely most forms of living intelligence in general). However, I'd challenge the notion that it lacks intelligence entirely.

AI still "learns" from what you shove into it; it's still creating algorithms to adapt to the information stream(s) it's being exposed to which is not unlike how the human brain is believed to function. As such, I personally view it to be intelligent, but not anywhere near as intelligent as people think it is, and absolutely not in the way people want it to be.

One of the big differences that I see is that, afaik, AI is unable to learn while it's running. You have to train it, run it, train it again based on user input, run it, train it again on more user input, and so on. Humans are more efficient at learning when they sleep and take breaks, but are still capable of learning things without "shutting down", so-to-speak (not that we ever truly shut down outside of death, but that's tangential).

Another difference is that, unlike "natural intelligence", AI ends up being hyper focused on a specific task. It's a bit like grabbing an ice cream scoop and removing a very specific part of the brain, let's say the part responsible for imagining images, and then letting people interface with that alone. Yeah, it's not gonna be good at parsing text because that's not what it was designed to do. That's a different part of the brain. The one you're playing with right now is only good at visualizating images, so you're gonna get pretty images, but good luck with getting it to do proper text, understanding proper body language, etc.

Finally, AI hallucinates like crazy. This is one where I'm not sure if we're really that different from AI (I'll explain in a moment); but it is a big issue when it comes to try to get AI to factually report information or perform logic tasks. You can ask an AI what 2+2 is and get 4 one day, 5 the next, 3 on Saturdays and then -2027346 on Christmas.

But wait! Doesn't that make it unintelligent?

No.

Going back to the previous statement about AI being hyper-focused, it just means you're not interacting with a part of the brain capable of logic; you're interacting with something else. Maybe the speech center, idk.

However, there's another element to this where AI doesn't have a persistent "reality anchor" like we do. To an AI, fact and fiction are purely conceptual because it doesn't truly exist in our world, it's off in its own little digital world. Furthermore, the experiences it can gain from the training set are heavily limited compared to what living creatures experience. We have a constant stream of information that reminds us about what is real, who we are, what things look like, how things move and so on; and we get that data stream in 3 dimensions (arguably 2.5, but I digress) instead of 2. It's like expecting a plant to thrive when given a trickle of water when it normally grows exclusively in a swamp. We ourselves tend to begin hallucinating when our senses become cut off from the outside world because our brains make up stimuli when the expected stimuli is missing. So... I'm not sure if the hallucinations are totally unreasonable, unrealistic or all that different from how we'd behave if subjected to the same environment; but at the very least it's something that makes AI appear unintelligent.

That's not to say that AI is a good thing or that it lives up to the hype. Fuck AI for being wildly overhyped, overused, and destroying people's livelihoods in a world where "earning for a living" is still required for some god-forsaken reason (just a reminder that the phrase, "earn a living" implies you don't deserve to live if you aren't able to make money or have someone doing it for you). At the same time, however, it kinda is intelligent. I think people are just expecting way more from it that it's capable of doing. It's like people expect intelligence to manifest in grayscale when it's more like RGBA or something.

Edit: sorry about the massive wall of text; I was fascinated with AI and its potential for a while, which meant it lived rent-free in my head at a series of philosophical questions about things like intelligence and what it means for humans that something designed to function as a series of virtual neurons would behave so similarly yet differently to humans. These were the kinds of conclusions I came to.

I did.

Yeah. I have friends who are wanting to come to the US. "It couldn't happen to me, I'm white" they say. "I'm from Europe, I'll be safe" they say.

No.

It'll happen to them, and I'm scared because they refuse to listen.

(For context, furspa is a local furry spa gathering)

(Also, yes, those are dildos. Sorry to any mods if it's too lewd. I was on the fence about whether or not that image would be appropriate considering they don't look like dildos. I downloaded it to show a friend how absurdly large they are because I'm kinda tempted to get one of the huge ones, stick it in a corner and see how long it takes for someone to realize that it's a faux penis. Those weren't even the biggest ones on the site.)

Not where I live, lmao. The grippy sock hotel that I had to stay at once convinced me that they're shit and full of abusive staff.

Is this supposed to be a dig at guys with long hair? Guys with long hair are sexy. Not my fault you feel intimidated by their masculinity.

God, I hope this doesn't spark furries vs weebs 2.0. That was unironically annoying as hell. Bitch-ass motherfuckers, don't you know that the furry community and weebdom have practically the same origin? If anything, the furries are the ones who've been around slightly longer.

Girl, I can't believe no one here is telling you that the behavior you've described is absolutely not "having a man that treats you right". Guilt tripping, trashing his own girlfriend while being with her, telling you to be unfaithful, ignoring your homosexuality...

Hell, the way you've described him makes me wonder if his girlfriend was actually schizophrenic or if he just gaslit the fuck out of her and ditched her when it started to catch up to him. Did you know her personally? Did she show signs of schizophrenia that couldn't be explained by gaslighting? Did he try to work with her through her potential schizophrenia? That'd be another huge red flag: if she showed signs of disability and instead of trying to work with her, he dumped her.

Don't do it.

You're just sad, hurt, and about to get yourself into a hell of a lot more hurt if you listen to this strange compulsion of yours. Chill. Take a deep breath. Find some lesbian chicks. There've gotta be dommy lesbians around you if you're in a somewhat populated area in the US. Make friends, fuck your friends, have fun, and maybe you'll eventually end up with a girlfriend or two (and maybe a trans puppygirl too).

Honestly, I'm pretty sure this is how my grandparents ended up MAGAts. They're old, in their 90s and their brains are fried. They used to be fairly intelligent, but they can barely think rationally anymore. They still managed to get out to vote for Trump somehow, even after promising everyone in my family that they wouldn't. They believed that the left is lying just as hard, if not harder, than the right. I don't know what their views are now that Trump is president again. I don't talk to them much anymore...

Opossums.