It’s OK, the pride of stupid people will guarantee there is always a large swathe of confidantly wrong answers out there even if the "AI"s don’t hallucinate them.
That’s why I knew LLMs alone would never cut it. They do ZERO logic, and humans who DO execute logic sometimes still get it horribly wrong a lot. It takes more than the equivalent of a dreamer’s illogical dreamscape of relationships to produce logic, and LLMs are a far cry short of a dreamer…
Why do something smart and difficult when you could do something stupid and greedy?
Wasn’t there a free new portal game that dropped like last month?
DnD is very much NOT holding role playing together. I have no idea why people fear corporations going out of business… You can still make characters and roll dice or play MTG if the entire company goes bust!
This fear is nothing but complete ignorance and the basic fear of change. Almost as silly as thinking PC’s would die if Microsoft tanked tomorrow…
Suits only think in green, and assume “consumers” do only that: consume.
I’ve been waiting 20 years for people to realize it, and that’s only because I’m young compared to others who have realized what capitalism is: Institutionalized greed.
Who’s entitlement is “this entitlement”? It’s a stupid idea to use pronouns in an opening comment, especially when you’re adding little extra.
Then FOSS is not for you. Stop using it.
Don’t choose to be a victim just because they’ve managed to tie a carrot on a stick.
“Choose not to engage with them…”
No. The first time I SEE an advertisement, I’m removing Discord and telling my friends to find other paths. Fuck greedy morons selling my time against my will.
You assume MS is competent?
Regardless of flipping the dynamic, that’s a good way to avoid scammers. It’s easy to spoof an incoming number, but near impossible to intercept an outgoing call. If your “bank” calls and starts asking funny questions, just hang up and call the real bank to check.
You are imagining a supercomputer’s LLM running an NPC.
It literally cannot be that fancy. Maybe they can fake it and fool a few rubes, but no there will be no deep characters ran by this.
Yea, I see what you mean. Actual representation and not tokenization. I wouldn’t accuse even STD or Picard of at least purposefully tokenizing. Although with the contemporary representation with a drama focus in the writing, it almost jumps the shark enough on the ST premise that the contemporary drama representation almost just feels tokenized, if that makes sense. I don’t think it’d be obvious with better writing, and I hear they get better later, so I could see people disagreeing out of pure entertainment value in the least.
My comment is not about any specific lgbtq content but about the general attitude of the writing. The focus on drama over logic completely shallows out the allegory until it’s JUST a gay couple being contemporarily gay on screen.
It’s not bad to have contemporary representation, it’s just less inspired than what older ST did. Mind, I’ve heard later Picard seasons get better on the writing, and SNW I only stopped watching because I forgot more were coming, so I’m not trying to poo poo on anything except that which people largely already agree aren’t that great.
Like the first season of TNG. It’s uh… they had some decent episodes but boy were the bad ones something. lol Or the TNG movies for the most part. They’re just … different than the show. Entertaining, but that’s not my only criteria for ST, personally.
Yea, I’d definitely say they’ve made missteps in the past. I also hear Discovery is MUCH better in later seasons as well, so the juxtaposition in general writing style that highlights what I mean may be muddied by competence showing up later.
Those are specific details, not general nature of writing. I’m talking about analysis of the writing style, not how scifi it is.
I mean, yea, basically. They didn’t let the concepts steep enough so the allegory took back stage to the simplified moralizing.
I’m not necessarily against any general angle they took, it just didn’t really do the star trek intellectual thing where they’re actually competent professional adults dealing with something. The general mood of the writing is just … too straight forward plain Hollywood. Sure, Star Trek has its TV schlock, but it was that angle of at least trying to make everyone logic-first adults that made it great.
Yea, that’s sorta’ what I mean. They cared about writing complex professional characters in ds9 and such, not drama queens doing contemporary art. Regardless of the high production value, it has the opposite soul of Star Trek for focusing on issues over humanized characters.
Ugh, it’s so hard to describe good writing when I’m not a good writer. lol
It’s not that they’re the topic of an episode, but that the show is RELYING on the basic drama of the cultural topics.
Trek is supposed to make allegory for cultural issues, not just blandly do the cultural issues.
If it’s NVMe, it’s already as fast as it needs to be.
Comparing HDD to NVMe, though… Yea, it makes a big difference! I get frequent, near constant stuttering in some open world games like Elden Ring.