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Cethin

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Cethin ,

It's crazy that the people behind Serious Sam made The Talos Principle. A crazy action focused FPS to an intellectual puzzle game focused on exploring philosophy and what it means to be human.

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Generally the same people. I'm sure some changed over time. It started as them making levels for the next Serious Sam, but they turned out to be really good puzzles mechanics and levels and the decided to make a puzzle game instead.

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It might have treated them well compared to the competition, but they didn't get as large as they are without making massive profits off the work of their employees. There's a difference between treating the well and treating them fairly.

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Labor is the source of all profit. How would the company make money if no one did anything? Companies use their control of the means of production to leverage workers into doing labor. They then sell what the labor creates to make money.

They didn't create anything themselves. They had ownership of the means and that gives them ownership of the output that they profit off of. Money doesn't just appear. Something has to be produced, which is done through labor.

Sure, sometimes an employee costs more money than they return. First, that doesn't mean they created no value, just less value than they cost to employ. Second, sometimes this does decrease profit, but is done as a short term reduction of overhead while things change, or it's just dumb business which isn't uncommon.

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Charge the customer more for the finished product than what it cost to produce it. Obviously.

If there is no labor there is no finished product. Labor creates the thing being sold. Value is extracted from labor and sold.

The simple fact is that if employees were a source of profit, businesses would all try to hire as many people as they possibly could, because not doing so would literally be leaving money on the table for no reason. But obviously that is not what goes on. When a business is in trouble financially, what's more common, a hiring freeze, or a hiring spree?

This is exactly what they do. They hire as many employees as they possibly can afford to hire and have the means of production for them to operate on. That's why as a company is more successful they generally have more employees, to extract more wealth from their labor. Yes, sometimes they don't have things for them to work in that will generate more value than it costs to employ them, in which case they fire them. If they do have the ability and means for them to work on something then they are profit generating.

Yeah, when a company is doing poor financially they cut overhead. This is done as a safety mechanism because they can no longer afford those costs, not because they weren't generating revenue. There's a lot of things that can cause this, and he's it sometimes results in lower profits. The goal is to get their finances in order and stabilize, then continue to grow and expand again. The goal isn't to shrink and keep shrinking. If that created profit then the most successful companies would be the smallest ones, not the largest.

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Yeah, the issue is it isn't intended for you to do things like that. An Immersive simulator expects you to be able to use boxes or whatever else is in the world to solve issues in immergent ways. Fallout, and any Bethesda game really, doesn't really do this. You are expected to follow the set out rules. You can take any path and go in any order, but you are supposed to engage with it in the ways they designed.

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What can happen. I think this was many years ago, and I don't know anyone who doesn't know what transgender means now. Usually the people acting like this are doing so in bad faith. I'm glad this one ended well, but it's notable because it's an exception, not the norm.

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Personally I almost always do, but it doesn't cause me personal emotional distress to be told that trans people aren't real since I'm cis. If I had to constantly deal with that, I don't know if I'd treat it as generously.

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I have an identical twin. This stuff is going to cause so many issues even if it worked perfectly.

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Yeah, people with totally different facial structures get identified as the same person all the time with the "AI" facial recognition, especially if your darker skinned. Luckily (or unluckily) I'm white as can be.

I'm assuming Apple's software is a purpose built algorithm that detects facial features and compares them, rather than the black box AI where you feed in data and it returns a result. Thats the smart way to do it, but it takes more effort.

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This tech (AI detection) or purpose built facial recognition algorithms?

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I'm not doing a bunch of research to prove the point. I've been hearing about them being wrong fairly frequently, especially on darker skinned people, for a long time now. It doesn't matter how often it is. It sounds like you have made up your mind already.

I'm assuming that of apple because it's been around for a few years longer than the current AI craze has been going on. We've been doing facial recognition for decades now, with purpose built algorithms. It's not mucb of leap to assume that's what they're using.

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You don't see any reports from the millions upon millions of correct detections that happen every single day. You just see the one off failure cases that the cops completely mishandled.

Obviously. I don't have much of an issue with it when it's working properly (although I do still absolutely have an issue with it still). It being wrong and causing issues fairly frequently, and every 5 or 6 months is frequent (this is a low number, just the frequency of it causing newsworthy issues) with it not being deployed widely yet, is a pretty big issue. Scale that up by several orders of magnitude if it's widely adopted and the errors will be constant.

No it hasn't. FR systems have been around a lot longer than Apple devices doing FR. The current AI craze is mostly centered around LLMs, object detection and FR systems have been evolving for more than 2 decades.... Then why would you assume companies doing FR longer than the recent "AI craze" would be doing it with "black boxes"?

You're repeating what I said. Apples FR tech is a few years older than the machine learning tech that we have now. FR in general is several decades old, and it's not ML based. It's not a black box. You can actually know what it's doing. I specifically said they weren't doing it with black boxes. I said the AI models are. Please read again before you reply.

At least you proved my point.

You wrongly assuming what I said, which is actually the opposite of what I said, is the reason I'm not putting in the effort. You've made up your mind. I'm not going to change it, so I'm not putting in the effort it would take to gather the data, just to throw it into the wind. It sounds like you are already aware of some of it, but somehow think it's not bad.

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Comparing is fine, but it should be fuzzy. Less than and greater than are fine, so you basically should only be checking for withing a range of values, not a specific value.

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Yeah, but that's already priced in. Anyone wanting to get on the Nvidia train for the AI push is a few years too late. Honestly, I expect it to be overpriced, with AI hype boosting it over the value it should have.

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They didn't though, unless you want to run the IoT (internet of things) version, which is for integrated devices. That's why storage size matters.

This isn't my largest complaint with W11, and I don't think it's many other's either. I don't run windows though, so I don't really care.

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I've been ingesting mirco plastics on purpose to avoid having children!

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That's what he said.

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Writing your own internet protocol is a good idea but you shouldn't stop there. You need to run your own internet cables too to make sure it does what you want and isn't controlled by someone else.

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Well, it will be slightly different. AMD releases open source drivers. That's why it works so much better. Nvidia releases proprietary ones and let's the community handle the open source ones. To the end user, there probably won't be much difference eventually, but it does hurt progress so they'll always be slightly behind where they could be.

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There are two (fairly lackluster) uses for it.

The first is that it has a camera with a large fisheye that can show you the inside (though this is more useful when away from the fridge rather than using the screen). The issue is the camera is only at one point. The fisheye helps see more, but it can never see all the fridge.

The second is as a home assistant in the kitchen. This is actually useful. It can display recipes and whatever in it whole you cook. You can also use a phone, tablet, or other home assistant device for this though, but if you want to throw away money this does seem convenient.

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There is a reason. It's just not a good one. It's profit.

I don't believe Tesla ever intended on having full self driving. That's just an idea Musk sold people to boost confidence in the company. The promise sold vehicles and boosted stock value, making Musk a shit load of money.

What difference would it make if they were fully devoted to FSD with the best technology they could get? It still wouldn't work perfectly and wouldn't be allowed alone everywhere probably, and they would have made less profit during that period. In what time frame would it actually pay back?

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Funnily enough, gas pumps require electricity. However, you can generate electricity yourself with solar panels, wind generation, or other methods. You can't generate your own gasoline.

The self-reliant durable solution is electric. If the grid is down and you can't generate your own electricity then your gas heating is down, gas pumps are out, and almost any other gas system is shut down unless they're hooked up to a generator of some kind (gas, solar, etc.). If you can generate electricity then any will work. If you can't then electric is out of commission just as much as gas. Once the tank/battery is empty then it's dead.

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Dude, there are people who already do it. What do you mean it isn't there yet? How can people be doing it when it isn't there?

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I'm assuming "disable" in this case is slightly more than just turning it off. I wouldn't be surprised if the building isn't left standing after it's "disabled" here.

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I really hope this was at a competition. If this guy dresses up like this just to go out, he's got to have a horrible personality.

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You're also leaving out that some people feel uncomfortable around firearms. Always forgetting about empathy. I could walk around with clothing that makes people feel uncomfortable, but I don't because that would be inconsiderate of me.

Also, just FYI, even CC doesn't really help you. It puts you more at risk in most cases, and it's often especially bad when dealing with cops. Of course that depends a lot on where you are and what you look like though. Some cops might show you respect for CCing, rather than the typical fear and panic. If you need to use it, a "good guy with a gun" looks exactly the same as the bad guy.

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The uncomfortable people feel around firearms is much different than around queer people. Hand guns are designed to kill people. That's the only reason these exist. It's fear of life for some people, which is pretty reasonable. I'm sure that's part of the point though. People are less likely to confront them when they do something bad because they fear retaliation.

It's also not a part of who they are. Queer people are queer. People who open carry aren't different when they don't open carry. It doesn't change who they are internally if they don't open carry.

We take people's comfort into account in society. I can't walk around exposing myself, for example, because it makes people uncomfortable. You can walk around exposing your weapon though, which is likely just as bad or worse for some people.

It goes further than that too. Personally, I wouldn't wear a piece of clothing designed to offend someone. (Note: not the same as someone being offended by something else, like a pride flag, that isn't designed to offend.) I'm pretty confident most people do this because it's the right thing to do. Hopefully people who own firearms have empathy and consider how it makes others feel, and also don't want to make people uncomfortable.

Cethin ,

Even then, it's not really accurate anyway. A cocktail is a bunch of ingredients mixes together. You can usually get them without the alcohol if you ask for it (obviously this doesn't work for every drink). They list of cocktails is so large because there's a lot of ways to combine a few ingredients to make different things. They don't actually stock that many types of drinks or anything. They're made on demends, and can usually be modified if you ask.

Cethin ,

I don't underestimate "good graphics" (usually used to refer to realism) in selling games, but it's heavily overrated. For example, Elden Ring was not the game with the best graphics technically, but damn does it not look gorgeous. A good art style trumps realism any day. Realism sells more copies, because people are told to compare to realism, but it usually sucks. It has its uses, but it's mostly a resource hog to make something that looks generic.

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The only time I hear shuttle used is for a thing that transports between two locations specifically. A "shuttle" from the airport to a hotel or whatever, for example. This seems to match the definition of shuttle also, so I think it's correct. It has nothing to do with marketing, rather actually using the proper term.

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A bus goes between many points usually.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracking_(chemistry)

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Maybe Linamp, Lamp, or Gamp would be better? Kamp for a KDE version if the name isn't already used.

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Except no one sees the censored thing and doesn't think the word itself. If anything the censor is bringing extra attention to it. It's dumb. If the person posting is scared of the word, they should leave it out. If they're worried other people might fear it then either they should leave it out or not bother censoring because they see it anyway.

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Etch-a-sketch is clearly the superior technology. Everyone should just keep their nudes in etch-a-sketch form.

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Nobody works in capitalism 🙄

Exactly as valid a statement. I wish I could be as ignorant as you. Life would be so easy. Where do you even get that idea. Did the USSR make nothing? Surely they made something, right? someone worked.

They managed to make the first artificial satellite with a developing economy and much lower starting education, all without anyone working I guess?

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Shifting goalposts. Answer the questions.

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I don't think there's grounds for a C&D here anyway. I don't think it uses any copywritten material. It transcodes the game into C I think, and that's all. It does not rely on anything Nintendo created.

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And, ironically, Odyssey at least re-uses almost all of it from time to time. Sure, the movement is slightly different, but it's the same game they've been making since SM64. The 3D Super Mario games at least are all almost identical, with different worlds and slightly different movement.

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Is the point "ignoring all exceptions, what I say is true"?

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Except they don't? What about Odyssey was new? It's just a new version of SM64. Sure, it's got a few different mechanics than SM64, Sunshine, and Galaxy, but those are all the same game at the core, right? This isn't the only series they do like this.

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Barely. Odyssey even specifically references most of the older games to point out how it's very similar. They all add a small movement mechanic, but other than that jumping has been the same since SM64.

If we say the Mario games are totally different and don't reuse ideas, no game does. Literally every game changes at least something small. Hell, patches in some games change more than what has changed between those games.

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See my edit above.

Also, check out this video. It has a lot of side-by-side comparisons of SM64 and Odyssey.

The developers wouldn't argue it isn't treading the same ground. In some cases, they literally have you tread the same ground. They send you back to Peach's castle, just like we're back in SM64. They know they're running off of nostalgia.

Every game repeats stuff from older games. The 3D Super Mario games do this more than most. Call of Duty has changed more than these games have.

I can't think of another series that repeats the same things, tell you explicitly as part of the game that it's repeating the same things, and then has fans argue it isn't repeating things again. Of course it is. We all know if is, and that's part of why it sells. There's so much nostalgia bait because they know the nostalgia is what sells a lot of their games.

I haven't owned a Nintendo console since the SNES, but I've played a bit of SM64, a good chunk of Sunshine, and most of Odyssey (all when they were new, not since). I can tell how much they all share and I'm not even a fan of the games. An honest fan would agree.

Cethin ,

Sure. They could do something in Japan, but if they want to force the development to stop they need to use the laws where the developers are (probably the US). If they want to go after the github (assuming they're using that for some reason) repo, Microsoft is an American company so US law applies.

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OK, yeah. Even still, looking into Japanese copyright law (as an outsider with little understanding), it doesn't seem like there's anything that would protect against this, which makes sense because that'd be crazy. This is a totally new work that happens to operate on existing work. It doesn't use anything created by Nintendo. It should not be an issue.

If you can point to something that actually says this would be protected against, go for it. I highly doubt there is such a thing though. It'd make something like a printer with a scanner potentially illegal because it operates on someone else's works to produce an output.

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Yuzu was using proprietary code though. That's why they got shut down but so many other emulators are still up. Sure, Nintendo tries, but they haven't gotten anywhere with the others.

Also, yeah of course people should make backups and put it in other places. That's regardless of any risk of a C&D. Just the fact the devs could dissappear or something is reason enough for that.

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Both of those will have worse performance, but I don't see why they wouldn't work. Just whenever it needs to grab more data it'll have to go to the USB to get it, which is slow. You could load the game that's stored on the disk already (this will require more effort and knowledge than installing Steam and it installing it locally on your Linux drive), so that'd be better, but the system data will be slow. If you have a lot of RAM it'll reduce how often data is grabbed, so it'll reduce the issues after boot.

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