latenightnoir @ latenightnoir @lemmy.world

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Romania. There haven't been any significant developments in this sense around here, at least not as far as I know. Each company around here has a Wagers' Rep of sorts and they gather with other such Reps and discuss wage related stuff, but it's nowhere near as elaborate as a Union, nor has it ever felt significant in any relevant way.

Most people have kinda'... given up on this country. Everyone scrambles to eject themselves abroad as soon as humanly possible. Can't say I blame'em.

Oh, I would if I lived in a place which had such movements, believe me... As it is, all I can do is wish for Lady Luck to smile upon those who have the chance! Sure, it's a bad idea to bank everything on luck, but it can never hurt to have some on your side!

Fingers and toes crossed, get'em for every last penny!

Agreed. I have a concrete example in mind for this: while it's clear that GSC are still acing the Ukrainian Fallout style, I feel STALKER 2 lost a lot of the series' personality by switching to Unreal... The grit's no longer there, and that grit was a defining element of their atmosphere. I still feel a lot more tension in the first three than in this last one, because I'm sucked into their mindset right from the menu.

Edit: I think S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 is still a good game (technical issues notwithstanding), it's just... lost some charm along the way.

I don't know, either... They have such a solid core with the gameplay and the world building/art style, but seem to be headed in the wrong direction in terms of ongoing development.

And, yeah, the multiplayer UX is questionable, to say the least...

True! One of my favourite games is Cultist Simulator, I literally get stuck standing for hours in my kitchen exploring the library and trying not to die on my phone... That game just stinks of vision, love it!

That's the silver lining, but it still doesn't excuse the practice in my eyes... It's like someone selling you a house advertised as fully complete, then spending another year or two finishing up the interiors and the plumbing, while you're living there... Or a Cybertruck...

Aah, but they're tricking you through really good lighting and scene composition;) Everything in this game has its own distinctive twist, like a realistic cartoon. Plus DE are aces at painting a scene!

Granted, their modeling and texture work is damned near witchcraft, I still don't understand how they manage to cram so much detail into a 3D model...

And thank you for the recs! I've already played a bit of Satisfactory and it is very satisfactory (sorry...)! Also bought AER because it looks gorgeous!

Art style fuelled by pure intent and vision trumps photorealism any day of the week.

Heavily biased here, but just look at Warframe. It is undeniably one of the best looking games out there because it has a voice of its own, and it still runs just fine on decade-old hardware. Same with most pixel/voxel graphics games.

We really don't need to see a billion open pores per square centimeter of facial skin as long as the gameplay's solid, the story's good, and the characters are well-written. Add a touch of art style as I've mentioned before, and you're golden.

Plus I'd rather have a functional game than a pretty one any day of the week. The current trend of rushing big budget/high-tech games to market then finishing them over a couple of years is really getting on my nerves - looking at you, Cyberpunk 2077, Darktide, Baldur's Gate 3 (hate me all you want, but that game was a technical mess at launch), Rogue Trader, S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2, Space Marine 2, (insert ~75% of big budget games released since 2018 here).

Maybe not raw Diogenes, but he did have something going on there!

I mean, how can one look upon what we're doing to each other and not go "what the fuck," y'know? At least a little bit, like under their breath, so as to not be smacked by Daddy for asking relevant questions.

If you're referring to the data models we have now (as in, not AGI), it's a solid no for a whole host of reasons.

As it is, it is not intelligent. It is capable of structuring immense datasets and identifying patterns throughout said datasets, but it is incapable of comprehending them at a conceptual level. Even if it can mimic the verbal patterns of context, nuance, humour, sarcasm, irony and even coded speech, it is not capable of understanding any of them. It is not an intelligence as we know and understand it, it's just a really, really complex math equation.

As it is, all AI is still primarily run by a human consciousness. It cannot decide for itself what to do, it has to be pre-programmed. This means that any biases the human programming said AI might have will be transferred to the program itself given the immensity of data it is meant to process, so you're right back at human fallibility. At best, contemporary AI is to manual moderation what a chainsaw is to chopping down trees with an axe - just an implement to aid humans in doing exactly what they did before, but maybe faster. That's it.

And it's not just that, it's the feeling of maintained integrity one has for oneself, it's such an honest and healthy kind of pride to have! I kept hearing the adage that "principles can't keep you fed" over and over while growing up. Even during University, and it was a fucking acting school. But having lived both with and without my principles, I'd rather die starving with my principles intact.

I have no use for the acceptance I'd receive from such fearful, hateful and greedy people. Thanks, but I'd rather love life and its infinite diversity.

I was talking more from the perspective of trying to exist within the patriarchal system, healthy cohabitation is functionally impossible. Even if one tries to walk the edge in between, one will only end up with lacerated feet.

They tried. Oh, sibling, did they try...

And the worst part is that you're fucked either way. If they manage to get you to murder your own soul, you're a husk. If they don't, you're a pariah.

What a mess... Thank you for shining some light on this, really haven't had much contact with pharmacology! Yeah, I've no doubt they could handle all aspects around medication just fine now that I think about it... I imagine they must know more stuff about chems than even the doctors in many cases.

Duly noted and you are very right! I looked up a couple of simple exercises beforehand as I'm really not keen on getting a herniated disk or something.

From what I've seen, as long as it's nothing fancy like advanced calisthenics and power training, the exercises are straightforward and easy to grasp.

Oh, agreed! I was referring more to the concept of regulation as a generic denominator, I completely agree that we'll need to establish and maintain far better regulations and standards than we have so far!

That's why I see this as a "knobheads being in charge" problem, they pretty much dictate everything related to regulations. In my view, replacing them with people who actually have the interest of the people at heart would cut straight at the root of the problem.

That's my main problem, that we're not doing much which is in the interest of people, we're mostly just slapping rational-sounding labels on different forms of greed-driven practices. I agree that we need to rethink pretty much everything about medical regulations, if not to change, then to at least ensure that what's there is uncorrupted.

That may be a potential solution, yes! Would most likely require bringing changes to the educational system as well (I'm just assuming, I have no first-hand experience with either studying, or practicing in this domain, but a more robust educational system would solve a lot of problems from the get go) in order to ensure that pharmacists have all the resources possible at their disposal. Or maybe it's just down to perception, one of those "having a custodial job is shameful" preconceptions, like "pharmacists are less reliable than doctors in establishing prescriptions because a doctor's a doctor..." Still working on identifying my biases, I apologise.

Of course, my ideal would be that every single person on this planet have free access to medical care whenever and for whatever reason, so seeing a doctor wouldn't put half of somebody's family tree in debt for a sprained ankle...

If you're referring to Good Manufacturing Practice, yes, although I didn't dive too much into it. And based on what I know of it, I'm not sure I get your point.

If it's not that, then I'm completely in the weeds on this.

Yeaah, felt kinda' awkward about how my brain snapped to that comparison while reading it this morning, think it correlated this with some other, mostly unrelated thoughts.

That sounds like a really cool way to earn a living! I'm genuinely happy that you've discovered that in yourself!

I think the problem in this case isn't regulation, but that the regulation's being managed by knobheads. I do agree that said regulations must be fair and allow anyone who genuinely needs access to have safe and controlled access, that they should work for the benefit of the people and not the interests of shareholders/lobbyists/string-pullers, yes.

I don't think it'd be a good idea to allow everyone unrestricted access to every medicine under the sun willy-nilly. One such example would be antibiotics, which, while very effective when used appropriately, have been demonstrated to suffer massively from diminishing returns over time. Allowing people to self-medicate with such a substance would just lead to both increases in infections, as well as chemical damage to one's organism.