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A_Very_Big_Fan , (edited )

It's so weird to me that this scene never actually happened in RvB. The first few times I saw this format I could visualize it, I could hear it, but now when I search for it all I get is people who also thought it actually happened.

It's just such a RvB joke, and I swear to god there was a scene where they asked about O'Malley's gender, but I can't find this exchange specifically

Edit: scratch that, it was actually Donut

A_Very_Big_Fan , (edited )

https://lemmy.world/c/adhd

!adhd

(I don't remember how to link to communities without hyperlinks like on Reddit) thanks!

A_Very_Big_Fan Mod ,

Somehow I didn't even notice until I read this. My brain 100% saw "call"

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

By that logic, HL Alyx is "Half-Life 7"

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

HL2:Episode 1+2 are continuations of the story after the events of HL2. It took me forever to realize that HL1:E1 wasn't the first half of HL2 lmao, they're actually sequels. They should have called them "HL3: Ep.1/Ep.2" to be less confusing imo.

Deathmatch: Classic is Quake's multiplayer in GoldSrc, and Deathmatch: Source is HL1's multiplayer but in the Source engine. They're not worth bothering with tbh. The Quake remaster and the original HL1's multiplayers are way better than those games, I highly recommend them if you're into chaotic arena shooters. (Only if you're willing to get your ass kicked while learning, though ;P)

Tbh Opposing Force and Blue Shift aren't the greatest, but they feel like very high effort mods which is about as much as I could as for. I recommend trying them but I wouldn't feel too pressured to stick it out all the way through if you don't feel like it. Their stories are trivial, and the OF protagonist never even comes back. But HL2:E1+E2 are pretty good, albeit flawed compared to HL2. Highly recommend them in their entirety. HL:Alyx is also great for what it is, a AAA VR experience. I highly recommend that one too.

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

Thats...gonna be hard.

Nonsense! There's so much room for possibilities. The Borealis was an Aperture invention, and HL2:E2 ends with the search for it. The setup is there for a Portal / HL crossover episode.

And Chell doesn't have to make an appearance. We know of at least 1 other surviving subject from Portal 1 and Portal 2 opens with Wheatley relocating subjects in the same form of stasis Chell was put in. Plus >!the subjects that the robots discover!< at the end of P2. Maybe there's >!more vaults, and maybe they could make an army!<? And you got the cores that can talk and some that seem to have AGI...

But honestly you don't even need any intelligent beings. Aperture itself stayed safe ostensibly for >9,999,999 years after the war, and many years before it. Parts of Aperture could serve as a hideout, especially if they find the Borealis to get in and out of there without a trace. Laidlaw said in his Epistle >!that the intention was to use it for combat!<, but I don't see why they couldn't spelunk Aperture for some weapons and tools first.

All it takes is one pair of moon dust panels to drain an entire planet's atmosphere of whatever an alien needs to survive on their planet, and more could do it faster... Or maybe they could tinker with the portal guns to shoot bigger portals while Gordon goes on a side quest or something. Then tele in on the Borealis, set up an array of panels and portals, tele out and open the corresponding portals from a distance in space. There's your climax of the episode, important Combine planet #1 is in peril and while Earth is probably in danger of a counter-strike (hehe), they're in an even better position to respond and defend than they were before.

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

Idk why this is such an unpopular opinion. I don't need permission from an author to talk about their book, or permission from a singer to parody their song. I've never heard any good arguments for why it's a crime to automate these things.

I mean hell, we have an LLM bot in this comment section that took the article and spat 27% of it back out verbatim, yet nobody is pissing and moaning about it "stealing" the article.

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

Funny how we have all this pissing and moaning about stealing, yet nobody ever complains about this bot actually lifting entire articles and spitting them back out without ads or fluff. I guess it's different when you find it useful, huh?

I like the bot, but I mean y'all wanna talk about copyright violations? The argument against this bot is a hell of a lot more solid than just using data for training.

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

Look guys! I'm stealing from Tolkien!

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

if I pirate a movie and then only I watch it, I don't think anyone would really think I should be arrested for that, so why is it unacceptable for them but fine for me?

Because it's more analogous to watching a video being broadcasted outdoors in the public, or looking at a mural someone painted on a wall, and letting it inform your creative works going forward. Not even recording it, just looking at it.

As far as we know, they never pirated anything. What we do know is it was trained on data that literally anybody can go out and look at yourself and have it inform your own work. If they're out here torrenting a bunch of movies they don't own or aren't licencing, then the argument against them has merit. But until then, I think all of this is a bunch of AI hysteria over some shit humans have been doing since the first human created a thing.

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

It doesn't, though. You could have easily checked yourself, but I guess I'll do your research for you.

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

If I paint a melty clock hanging off of a table, how have I stolen from Salvador Dali? What did I "steal" from Tolkien when I drew this?

you stole ALL movies, started your own Netflix with them

The model in question can't even try to distribute copyrighted material. You could have easily checked for yourself, but once again I find myself having to do the footwork for you guys.

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

True

Of course, it doesn't help that a lot of people see "a shit load of cash" from it, so companies want to shove it into anything and everything.

And on a similar note to this, I think a lot of what it is is that OpenAI is profiting off of it and went closed-source. Lemmy being a largely anti-capitalist and pro-open-source group of communities, it's natural to have a negative gut reaction to what's going on, but not a single person here, nor any of my friends that accuse them of "stealing" can tell me what is being stolen, or how it's different from me looking at art and then making my own.

Like, I get that the technology is gonna be annoying and even dangerous sometimes, but maybe let's criticize it for that instead of shit that it's not doing.

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

The model in question, plus all of the others I've tried, will not give you copyrighted material

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

That article doesn't even claim it's distributing copyrighted material.

If that qualifies as distributing stolen copyrighted material, then this is stealing and distributing the "you shall not pass" LoTR scene. Which, again, ChatGPT won't even do

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

The point was that I absorbed that information to inform my "art", since we're equating training with stealing.

I guess this would have been a better example lol. It's clearly not Gandalf, but I wouldn't have ever come up with it if I hadn't seen that scene

A_Very_Big_Fan , (edited )

Out of curiosity I asked it to make a Harry Potter part 8 fan fiction, and surprisingly it did. But I really don't think that's problematic. There's already an insane amount of fan fiction out there without the names swapped that I can read, and that's all fair use.

I mean hell, there are people who actually get paid to draw fictional characters in sexual situations that I'm willing to bet very few creators would prefer to exist lol. But as long as they don't overstep the bounds of fair use, like trying to pass it off as an official work or submit it for publication, then there's no copyright violation.

The important part is that it won't just give me the actual book (but funnily enough, it tried lol). If I meet a guy with a photographic memory and he reads my book, that's not him stealing it or violating my copyright. But if he reproduces and distributes it, then we call it stealing or a copyright violation.

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

I just realized I misread what you said, so that wasn't entirely relevant to what you said but I think it still stands so ig I won't delete it.

But I asked both GPT3.5 and GPT4 to give me Harry Potter with the names and words changed, and they can't do that either. I can't speak for all models, but I can at least say the two owned by the people this thread was about won't do that.

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

What is web scraping if not gathering information from around the world? As long as you're not distributing copyrighted content (and the models in question here don't, btw), then fair use is at play. I'm not plagiarizing the news by reading it or by talking about what I learned, but I would be if I just copy/pasted my response from the article.

Reading publicly available data isn't a copyright violation, and it certainly isn't a violation of fair use. If it were, then you just plagiarized my comment by reading it before you responded.

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

It copied all of its text from the article, and it allows me to get all the information from it I want without providing that publisher with traffic or ad revenue. That's not fair use.

I do like the bot, and personally I'd rather it stay, but no matter how you look at it this isn't "fair use" of the article.

A_Very_Big_Fan Mod ,

AFAIK non-binary can be both or neither

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

They should already have your name too if they're calling you

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

Wouldn't one downvote plus one upvote be 1 again

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

True, but it's not that cut and dry. If someone who's played Overwatch "2" tells me it's Overwatch 1 with monetized competitive gameplay elements and no earnable cosmetics or any of the progression systems, that's not a statement of opinion. It's a fact, and it's easily verifiable. (also, this is me, someone who has played Overwatch since release, telling you that it's true)

Judging a game for something like that without having played it is valid. So I think, especially if you're objecting to engaging with a game on ethical grounds, there's a lot more room for judging a game without playing it than you'd think.

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

The level scaling absolutely ruined that game. It had so much potential, too...

Whoever at Blizzard decided it'd be a good idea to not get more powerful with every level needs to be slingshotted into the sun

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

It's not worth it. The new combat mechanics are cool, but the level scaling ruins the whole thing.

Source: I was one of the chumps who paid for it.

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

The Diablo 2 remaster is way better, highly recommend checking it out

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

The same way they made World of Warcraft, I suppose. (That is, until they changed it to be the same as D4) Or the same way From Software made Elden Ring. All they really had to do was stick to the formula they established in the first 3 games, because the map being bigger doesn't have any bearing on the RPG mechanics or anything. There's just more walking now.

It's a lot of work to balance all of the enemies for all of the different types of players, but that's kind of what I expect when I pay $70 for a game with microtransactions

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

Valid lol. It might be on g2a or something like that

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

Reddit’s IPO is a fucking clown car headed toward a cliff

I hope it makes a funny noise when they hit the ground

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

Imagine being this offended by a drawing of a woman in historically accurate armor

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

The OG "bug"

A_Very_Big_Fan Mod ,

my old is the new new

This was an early 2000's thing, I don't think we can call it new anymore lol

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

I want this on a shirt

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

I'm pretty sure the dinosaurs were very much affected by that meteor

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

But that means less piss potions!

A_Very_Big_Fan Mod ,

thank you i will make an omelette

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

I'm pretty sure the keys aren't a part of the actual game/download, it's a part of your Switch. So if you have an emulator with one of those keys built in, it's piracy.

I think what they should have done is prompt the user to put it in themselves and then we could just find keys on the internet and avoid this whole situation. But I'm no expert

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

Oh... Huh, yeah then I'm with you lol, idk how they ended up winning that battle

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

I've never come across a community where you weren't allowed to swear

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

FMAB

fssigned male at birth

A_Very_Big_Fan Mod ,

It just gives me a blank page when I click "I'm over 18"

A_Very_Big_Fan Mod ,

Is this a chick tract

Reddit has never turned a profit in nearly 20 years, but filed to go public anyway (www.cnn.com)

Reddit has never turned a profit in nearly 20 years, but filed to go public anyway::Reddit, the message board site known for its chronically online userbase and for originating much internet discourse, filed for its long-anticipated initial public offering on Thursday.

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

I smell a short position in my future after that IPO...

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

Short squeeze ftw

A_Very_Big_Fan Mod ,

fps_max 1

A_Very_Big_Fan Mod ,

It's more of a tradition than a rule. The "rule" that we're referring to is that you have to post before you leave

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

I'll take "deliberately ignoring sarcasm" for 600, Alex.

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