If someone called me “challenged,” I would be legitimately insulted, because it would highlight my disabilities by way of using an unorthodox word to refer to them, thus drawing everyone’s attention to it.

I would also be insulted on account of the fact that tip-toeing around the very existence of my disabilities like this to such a degree as to worry about the word used to refer to them would implicitly other me. Doing that is spending more time worrying about language than was spent worrying about the person the language referred to, much less that person’s thoughts. Most disabled people, if asked, would tell you to call them disabled – this very thread being an example – and so to then assign us a new label would be an insult to our agency.

If you want people to refer to you that way, that’s fine. But you don’t speak for all of us.

Your reasoning here appears to be “this solution isn’t thorough enough” with a later-added mix-in of “therefore it is all a lie to trick you.” Which immediately breaks down, as perfect is not the enemy of good, and even if it was a lie (which is a non-sequitur, by the way) then banning some AI is still better than banning none.

I’m not gonna debate it, though. I’ve rewritten this comment three times now because I need to say my piece in a civil manner and that’s hard to do when I’ve just watched someone shit on one of the few pieces of good news I’ve seen in weeks. I’ve done that now, so I’m out.

which OpenAI designed to feel like a user’s closest confidant.

“AI safety,” they cry, as they design some of the most preposterous and dangerously stupid things imaginable. I swear, Silicon Valley only uses creativity when they want to invent a new kind of Torment Nexus to use as a goal for Q4.

Making something like this should be a crime. LLMs are not a replacement for therapy and should never be treated like one.

Hard disagree. This is overdone tripe, which is what AI is best at. Hell, it’s definitionally overdone — need a large dataset to regurgitate this stuff, after all.

At any rate, this text got a man killed, so probably best not to praise it.

Minnesota will probably care. And that’s important, because it shows to legislators and politicians of the state that if they want any support from the populace, they have to find a way to help kick out ICE.

EDIT: I originally had a second paragraph here talking about how local politicians had walked back earlier anti-ICE sentiments somewhat; while this is likely still true for some of them, the example I used (Jacob Frey, mayor of Minneapolis) turned out to have been sourced from a likely hit piece, so I’ve removed it and generalized my statements. Frey is fine, as far as I know.

These aren’t rules. What’s happening is that you’re new to the site and are making some mistakes as a result of a lack of familiarity, which people are noticing. Which is fine. Nobody’s pissed at you, so don’t take it too seriously.

Anyway,

i can’t find any way to update my password so i can’t login on other devices as my password doesn’t work anymore for some reason.

I don’t know if the site you signed up on works the way Beehaw does, but since it’s still Lemmy, you should be able to change your password on the right side of the user settings page, which for Beehaw is at https://beehaw.org/settings and so I’d assume a simple, similar URL would be available for your instance.

ffs what are you people complaining about? a citizen is murdered LIVE on camera and all you are interested in is my lack of punctuation?

Yes. I care about that and am furious at my government, but there’s nothing I can do about that here except to say that it’s horrible. I think it’s safe to say we all already agree on that, so what’s the point?

The part I care about here is whether or not you’re a real person, which I have more faith in now that you’ve replied, but which your initial posts absolutely did not give the impression of. So that’s what I addressed. As for your capitalization, I don’t care. That’s Powderhorn’s business. Though I genuinely can’t tell if the reasoning behind all-lowercase is a joke or not?

now go fuck yourselves and mind your own fucking business.

Look, there’s probably no way to link the code of conduct for this instance to you in a way that feels respectful, so just humor me and give it a skim, please?

or Brave

Uuhhh, yeah, no. Don’t do this. Librewolf – or really any Firefox browser, even with how Mozilla is right now – is going to be a lot better choice than the homophobia-and-crypto Chromium browser.

Honestly, it’s not the most important part of this post, but I can’t help but agree. I don’t mind the capitalization, so much as the fact the text on both this post and this one appears to be trying to cosplay as a news organization. Who the hell even says “BREAKING NEWS” when they literally aren’t a reporter or journalist of any sort? It makes me think of fake news-org grifts and drives me up a wall. This site doesn’t even use hashtags!

Edit: Literally every single post this user has made on Lemmy is written like this. Genuinely starting to wonder if OP is a bot.

Not even three fucking days into the new year and I get to see something in the news that reminds me of the 1938 annexation of Austria. Jesus Christ.

I agree that calling these low-poly multiplayer games “slop” is terrible, because there is clearly a ton of love and effort poured into them.

Depends on the game. Lethal Company? I wouldn’t call that slop at all. Content Warning? Yeah, no, that’s slop. It was a fun little jaunt to try it out for free, but that game felt so shallow and burned out on me so incredibly fast that if I had paid anything for it I’d probably have felt ripped off.

To me, “friendslop” doesn’t necessarily mean the game isn’t fun or has “bad graphics,” it instead means that it 1) relies heavily on friends to be fun and 2) has some element of feeling like either a cash-in or a low-effort project. I don’t count Lethal Company because it doesn’t have either issue for me. Content Warning, meanwhile, was worthless to me in singleplayer and relied so thoroughly on the camera as a gimmick that it feels like the epitome of the term. Hell, it was literally made as a break from a larger project, so I think it cinches the “low-effort” part, at least relative to other games.

R.E.P.O., however – which you didn’t mention but which I still have thoughts on – I’m torn on. On one hand, the gameplay is a more detailed and engaging form of what Lethal Company has, and it can easily be fun alone. On the other, the way semiwork interacts with their community in their news videos feels like Youtube engagement rot so strongly that it taints the game for me by extension; it (and their emoji abuse) makes me feel like the game has the “love and passion” of a dorm room dildo prank, even though it’s well-put-together enough that there’s no way that’s the case.

Edit: I should probably also add that it is absolutely possible for me to feel that a game does have love & passion behind its development, and yet still qualify to me as friendslop. I think the best way to explain this would be to liken it to a Youtuber who makes engaging and deep videos, but who also uses a lot of clickbait and algorithm-hacks to drive engagement too. It’s not that so much that the developer is being a bad or careless person so much as it is that the game itself has an ick about it, which is unfortunately always going to be extremely subjective and ill-defined. As another example: I called PEAK friendslop when I first played, softened up on that feeling over time (especially when the very excellent Mesa update hit), and then the feeling came right back when they announced some concert or other occurring in the game like they were Fortnite.

So, from the way you talk about it, it seems you’re describing your feelings about the game moreso than an attempt at an objective take. Which is good, because there is no such thing as an objective take, and I definitely understand the perspective of not liking something that you feel is inexplicably ultra-popular. Especially if you feel that there was something you liked more that you’d rather see get the award.

That said, I do wonder how much you’ve seen of the game? Because I haven’t played it either, but everything I’ve seen strongly suggests that it is a genuine work of art that people put effort and passion into. Which – since you brought it up – is not a description I’d apply to Battlefield 6. So I’m kinda left wondering what specifically about it might put you off enough to want to slag it off like this.

If you’re upset at it for winning a billion awards, that’s fair. Most awards shows are always very silly and this one game getting practically showered honestly highlights that a lot — even a really good game like this probably didn’t deserve quite this many accolades. Still though, it looks to have a clear message, purpose, with good art and gameplay to go along. I think that deserves some awards.

Expedition 33 is definitely a good game. I’m sure the Indie Game Awards judges would still heartily agree with you on that, too. None of that has anything to do with lying about GenAI use on a disclosure form for an awards show that specifically forbids GenAI use.

I get that you love the game and by extension the studio, but this was still a mistake on their part. They broke the rules, they lose the award. Letting them cheat this would’ve seriously undermined the integrity of the IGA, not to mention further enabling the use of AI in game dev.

This is most of it, but it is worth remembering that using GenAI/LLMs for placeholders is still bad. It’s strictly unnecessary, has dubious efficiency gains at best, and you’re still using tech that is provably hurting people and the environment en masse.

I’m not going to hate Sandfall forever for this – it’s not original sin – but it’s still a very real error they should not repeat.

Doesn’t really matter if they say it’s praise or not. The reality is that it’s free press, and hardly could be said to be negative. It benefits them.

???

I have a suspicion that you once heard someone say something similar to what I’ve said here, and that they followed it with something hateful towards you, obscenely stupid, something you disagree with intensely, or some combination of those. Now is a good time to remind you that I’m not them.

If it makes you feel any better, try to remember that Henry Kissinger is dead.

telesur

So, there’s some important context on this outlet that I think should be posted:

Telesur (stylized as teleSUR) is a Latin American terrestrial and satellite news television network headquartered in Caracas, Venezuela, and sponsored by the governments of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.

— Wikipedia

I distrust the U.S. – especially the current admin – plenty. Election interference would be neither surprising or new. But considering how this is a biased source at best, I don’t think it’s very trustworthy either. I’m open to the possibility, but I’m not taking it from this site.

Edit: After some light digging, here’s some other reading options:

2025 Honduras National Elections: Allegations of fraud and external interference (Wikipedia)

Hondurans vote in election shadowed by Trump aid threats (BBC) — Archive of an older version of the article. Current version here.

If I’m being honest, I don’t think Grok posts deserve attention here. This isn’t news; we already know Grok is shit because LLMs are shit and Elon is extremely shit. We really don’t need reminders.

All this does is draw people’s attention to more slop and hate, same as they’ve been seeing all year. That’s not just unimportant, it’s unhealthy.

FUD

What is this, a crypto forum? You make it sound like they’re trying to single-handedly tear down GrapheneOS or something.

As time goes ever onward, I find myself increasingly in the position of using Firefox solely because it isn’t Chromium, rather than because of any inherent good quality.

Which is not to say that Firefox isn’t still at least fine as a browser. But this is what Mozilla is now, and if there’s anything the leaders of that organization are doing, it is that they are committing corporate suicide because none of those idiots know their foot from their mouth. Firefox can’t stay decent with money-men at the helm.

I swear, getting a business major should be considered self-harm.