originalfrozenbanana @ originalfrozenbanana @lemm.ee

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Ok but that guy wasn’t stabbed 35 times in the foot so your argument is really “if something totally different happened it might not be fatal.” Seems pretty not good, as far as arguments go

I think you made a nonsense false equivalency about guns and knives and then go hurt when it was called nonsense

This isn’t a point. Like think back on what you just said - it’s literally “well if you’re very close to someone a knife is pretty deadly”

Yeah well I guess that’s why guns are deadlier because you don’t have to be close and can stab lots of people with your high velocity mini-knives.

Every time some tactical pedant will come out of their bunker to educate us on how ackshuyally navy seals prefer knives to guns because they like the smell of blood and every time it’s worthless

Remind them that the same day as Sandy Hook there was a mass stabbing attack in a Chinese school. No one died. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chenpeng_Village_Primary_School_stabbing

Knives are less deadly than guns. These are all tragedies but they are not comparable in outcome.

Anecdotes aren’t science, though. So rely on the science that says guns are dangerous and don’t make us safer. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/

Browse around gun owners, you won’t be happy.

1. Network effects - “my friends and family are on there”
2. Switching cost - “if I leave I won’t have all my photos and albums I spent so much time organizing”
3. Social / specialist communities - Facebook is still far and away the most popular place to find groups of people organized around VERY specific things, from hobbies to life events (my wife uses Facebook exclusively to access a group of people specializing in moving from the US to a specific country, and we’ve gotten a lot of resources from that)
4. Facebook marketplace
5. Nostalgia
6. Business info and communication. Lots of live music is nearly exclusively organized on Facebook.
7. Community info sharing - Facebook is a “one of many” approach groups like governments and NGOs use to communicate to broad audiences. It’s still a great place to get info and stay on top of things.

I think the era where people use Facebook exclusively to keep up with Aunt Shandelle or Cousin Pablo or your mother-in-law Sharon are over

Well no they couldn’t. Uber is far less efficient and more expensive to run than a taxi company. They need the extra cash.

Oh no I ate the onion

I love how in your example “perfect” is not having moneygrubbing microtransactions and the “good” compromise we’re supposed to accept is the microtransactions the chose to put in for no purpose other than money

A terrible and senseless act of violence, as is always the case.

They are ticking a checkbox for the suits.

Yeah that’s like the whole problem, not a triviality. I’m sure DD2 is fun. Ive watched a lot of it streamed. Seems cool. I’m not gonna buy it because they did this shit, same reason I didn’t buy DMCV and haven’t bought a Capcom game in years. Stop rewarding scummy companies.

It’s ok that I can buy in game currency for my singer player game! It’s fine! It’s good actually! Recruiting high level companions, a THING THEY BUILT INTO THE BASE GAME DELIBERATELY THEN LET YOU PAY EXTRA FOR, using in game currency I can buy isn’t pay2win. Recruiting companions isn’t even core gameplay if they’re strong enough, bro.

It’s ok that Capcom sent reviewers a game without micro transactions that were in retail! That’s fine, it’s fine! The microtransactions were paying for now were expansions before so it’s uh…it’s better, yeah. I actually prefer my $70 USD single player games to have gameplay benefitting microtransactions.

You sound like you’ve swallowed the boot my guy. You’re so far gone you can’t see the way back. Glad you’re enjoying the game, though. Sounds like it was worth it to you.

“They only cost rift crystals if they’re a higher level than you”

Ah yes this is additional value and content that you should pay money for, right? It’s not core gameplay to recruit companions regardless of their level like in almost every fucking game I’ve ever played right?

Imagine licking boot so hard that you actually believe this

The thing is they made these features as part of the core gameplay then charged for them. It isn’t like you’re paying for a boost or game mode or special companion or something. You’re given the option to earn these features through playing a single player game or pay money and get them faster.

Literally carving out chunks of the base game and offering them up for money as if it is added value. The only value is saving time IN A SINGLE PLAYER GAME. If your single player game has elements that are so tedious or cumbersome that people will literally PAY MORE MONEY to get them on their terms you purposefully built a worse game than you could have.

Admittedly, most of the "Mostly Negative" Steam reviews seem to be reacting to the fact they exist at all, without considering whether they're actually critical to your progress in the game or not (for clarity, they are not).

I didn’t know we were only allowed to write reviews based on things critical to your progress. I didn’t know how many companions you have or what your character looks like weren’t critical. I bet if we searched even a little we’d find a RockPaperShotgun review of “non critical” game features.

What horseshit.

Oh for sure sportsurge is very much an…active experience lol.

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The best time to start worrying about Christian fascists was yesterday. The second best time is today.

Please bro I’m begging just one more lane I swear

Citation needed that LLMs are passing these tests like they’re nothing.

LLMs don’t have intelligence, they are sentence generators. Sometimes those sentences are correct, sometimes they’re gobbledygook.

For instance, they fabricate real-looking but nevertheless totally fake citations in research papers https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-41032-5

To your point we already know standardized tests are biased and poor tools to measure intelligence. Partly that’s because they don’t actually measure intelligence- they often measure rote knowledge. We don’t need LLMs to make that determination, we already can.

Holy shit who cares, fire toxic bosses and move on. The daily beast is garbage anyway.