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I just say my Spanish fluent. I can have a conversation, but it will have a lot of pauses as I try to remember a word. Certainly not usable at an academic level.

I was graced by parents who don't know their own language very well. Google Translate's more reliable, so there is a lot of vocabulary I don't know simply because it's never been brought up in my family.

I just consider English my main language. I feel bad for the immigrants who were raised not even knowing their language though. Met a few.

Just a few examples of my use cases but yes. It's an even quicker search engine.

I was in the same boat a while ago when I had to use React for remaking a UI (was reworking the whole backend). I've never tried writing something in JS/TS, so it was super helpful having Copilot guide my hand. Took me a day but had a beautiful little interactive window by the end of it!

I used the Bing AI (back when it was called that) to try to find a mall I went to many years ago. It was brand new and still had some parts being built so it looked very different to today, which made it difficult to find. Neither me nor my mother remembered the name or any stores, just the general area it was in. Took some time but the AI was able to discern what mall it was from the details I gave it.

People have to view them less as general AI and more like search engines you can have a back and forth with.

Very wise. Terrifying to think an aerospace company would use AI.

Bit sad reading these comments. My life has measurably improved ever since I jumped on using AI.

At first I just used it Copilot for helping me with my code. I like using a pretty archaic language and it kept trying to fed me C++ code. Had to link it the online reference and it surprisingly was able to adapt each time. Still gave a few errors here and there but good time saver and "someone" to "discuss" with.

Over time it has become super good, especially with the VScode extension that autofills code. Instead of having to ask help from one of the couple hundred people experienced with the language, I can just ask Copilot if I can do X or Y, or for general advice when planning out how to implement something. Legitimately a great and powerful tool, so it shocks me that some people don't use it for programming (but I am pretty bad at coding too, so).

I've also bit the bullet and used it for college work. At first it was just asking Gemini for refreshers on what X philosophical concept was, but it devolved into just asking for answers because that class was such a snooze I could not tolerate continuing to pay attention (and I went into this thinking I'd love the class!). Then I used it for my Geology class because I could not be assed to devote my time to that gen ed requirement. I can't bring myself to read about rocks and tectonic plates when I could just paste the question into Google and I get the right answer in seconds. At first I would meticulously check for sources to prevent mistakes from the AI buuuut I don't really need 100%... 85% is good enough and saves so much more time.

A me 5 years younger would be disgusted at cheating but I'm paying thousands and thousands to pass these dumb roadblocks. I just want to learn about computers, man.

Now I'd never use AI for writing my essays because I do enjoy writing them (investigating and drawing your own conclusions is fun!), but this economics class is making it so tempting. The shit that I give about economics is so infinitesimally small.

Yeah that's what made Outer Wilds terrifying, it's veeeery realistic with handling outer space. Elite Dangerous gave me the same feeling, took a long while to get over the fear. Still gave me the jeebies infiltrating a Titan (large xeno ship that generates hazardous space weather around itself, like a hurricane in a fog).

The rest of the Outer Wilds just ups that nope factor. Thought I should go to a different planet but my choices were the newborn singularity, planets eating each other, or a planet that defies reality and home to very angry space bees.

The quantum moon was the only one I could handle, was super fun.

As much I love those games I cannot get very far into them. Especially Outer Wilds. That ocean planet is something I've literally had in my nightmares.

Prey.

They really put the immersive and sim in immersive sim. So much player agency over the world and everything you do in it just makes sense. The computers you use are physically interactable, no UI as dressing. Your menus are just you accessing your handheld smart device (inventory, logs, map).

Every object on the map is persistent. You want to fortify your office to fend off Typhon on your return? Gather the turrets around the map and have them guard the staircase leading to your little paradise. Want to decorate it? Drop items from your inventory and drag them around. Have some trophies of your accomplishments.

I could go on and on about other mechanics like the fantastic gloo gun or how the maps are filled with little secrets/shortcuts, but then I'd be here all day.

Did it have that fiery exhaust in the middle of the trunk area or was that just in V? Only reason it remains in my brain drive, bitchin'.

Probably the Jester.

I had to go back and look through the wiki because I could not remember a car design I'd call my favorite. I love boxy 90s cars but something was just not right with what they put in SA. Apart from the Jester, only the motorcycles looked nice and Blista looked nice (though it peaked with IV).

About to be the first Lemmy comment I save. These points are so solid and never would have thought about.

I see we share the same brain cell.

Good lord he's made ~12k posts.

The hornies don't like you singling them out, OP.

Those old fashion logos are actually sick. Concerning that an industry that sells style would make these their logos.

What's lovely about Elder Scrolls lore is it very much feels like you have to investigate or draw your own conclusions about things. Things can rarely be taken at face value since people and things in the world will contradict each other. At a surface level it sounds like there is no cohesion but even the bias itself can be revealing.

That's so adorable!

Oh. I haven't tried that yet. I thought it some official Pokemon coin.

I was so confused until I realized this was about flipping coins. When I played we just used a quarter.