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  • authenticity problem

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  • i gotta be honest, before it became a big talking point with AI, i didn't realize em dashes, en dashes, and dashes were different characters, just different grammatical functions of the same character. i figured fancy word processors made them longer to make them distinct from minus signs, but that was it!

  • Way to crack the case, boy wonder

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  • KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN

    -Jim Kirk, as Spock dies from stepping on a LEGO

  • What fandom has/creates the best fangames (not romhacks)?

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  • Sonic is definitely a contender. they have enough new fangames out each year that rhey have a yearly festival, SAGE (Sonic Amateur Games Expo). some of them approach the quality of the classic games and have become classics in their own right, like Before the Sequel and After the Sequel. many of those devs have gone on to be successful indie gamedevs

    Christian Whitehead is the developer of a fangame called Retro Sonic, and at one point pitched a port of Sonic CD to (then) modern platforms using the engine he built for it. SEGA accepted the pitch because the engine was so accurate (notable considering Sonic Team had recently failed at their own attempt and mismanaged another team's) and the port was so well received that he was hired again to port 1 and 2. those went so well that he was hired to do a new game and was able to hire a bunch of fangame scene alumni to create Sonic Mania, which was the best recieved official Sonic game in a long, long time. whether or not the Sonic scene has the best fangames, they most certainly had the most impactful on their respective official game series

  • AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

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  • if this was about Number Go Up, they'd probably make more money selling the despined books or something instead of destroying them and selling (or do whatever they're doing with) the raw pulp. this sounds like an expensive process and there's no guarantee that expanding these datasets is going to improve their models in a quantifiable way, let alone a profitable one. they must just get some kind of perverse pleasure out of making the world a worse place

  • Did you know Edward Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud, is widely recognized as the father of modern propaganda and public relations.

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  • at least someone in the family knew some psychology

  • Music enjoyers: How do you select what type of music you listen to?

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  • mostly the first one, the vast majority of new music i listen to these days is recommended by someone. it's either that or they're doing a show or a festival with someone i already listen to. a distant third is the radio, especially after a move

    if it's a new-to-me artist, then i'll drill down into their back catalog, but that's only after the recommendation. if it's a new-to-me genre then i do a lot more independant research but that's fairly rare these days because i've already plucked all the low-hanging fruit.

    even before The Algorithm became the mighty spectre it is today, i've never been happy with random or algorithmic feeds. Pandora for example would always play songs and artists with the superficial connections to the artist i build the channel off of instead of actually similar-sounding artists. and the same ok-at-best cover of The Guess Who's "American Woman" every five or so songs, not sure what was up with that. i tried Spotify as an alternative years before it was the mighty spectre it is today and i remember logging out after the third song and never logging back in

  • Star Trek seems to forget sometimes that other continents exist

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  • they tried to get people from Oceana but between Farscape and the Star Wars prequels there weren't any actors left. the latter had 6.2 million characters portrayed by someone from New Zealand

  • What's something you know about philosophy?

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  • i know nothing, therefore i am nothing

  • Some tough gagh to swallow

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  • i only recently read the Heir to the Empire trilogy and am flabberghasted that they didn't try to adapt those. you'd need to recast the heroes or modify it to explain a longer time gap, but still- you already had the trilogy written! and people already love it! it's free money!

  • Do they sleep in a bucket?

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  • two words: mirror universe

  • Why did Bluesky go downhill?

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  • I thought everyone liked it.

    at least here on the fedi that was never the case in my experience. right out the gate they were seen as an Embrace-Extend-Extinguish scheme that skipped step one by bypassing ActivityPub entirely, and since then their abysmal moderation and questionable sources of funding have only hampered that reputation further

  • George Lucas Goes To The Dark Side, Says AI Is ‘The Future’

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  • his genuine reasoning sounds like the kind of exaggerated strawman i'd use to mock AI supporters. if he only had a brain!

  • Did you attend your high school reunion? Why or Why not?

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  • i forget how it came up, but last year someone mentioned high school reunions and i was thinking, "hey, my ten year should be coming up soon. i wonder if it'll be worth going" and then later that night one of my old friends from high school mentioned he just got back from it. i'm sitting there wondering if i would be generous enough to grace them with my presence while the event was currently going on and i wasn't even invited! the more things change, the more they stay the same

  • The gang rolls with a young Mugato named Gooma, Moogie, or Gato depending on who's speaking

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  • wesley running down the corridors with a slice of bread hanging out of his mouth becauae he's late for his first rotation on the bridge

    i for one would love to see trek tokusatsu. the bridge crew roles from trek would fix the issue in sentai where five people are redundantly driving one robot, and who wouldn't want to see the Mega Enterprise transform and fight the Gornzilla. give the project to Hideaki Anno and he'll pull the 60s Gorn suit out of storage

  • Doesn't add up

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  • i always figured that the transporter was ultimately just a scanner and the beaming in process is the same as being replicated, but the replication has to be done while the scanner is running because there's simply too much data to actually store long-term unless you're willing to use the whole ship/station/whatever as a buffer, like that one DS9 episode. and i guess the scan requires a level of detail it can only get from the source destructively which is why it isn't a clone unless the beam gets reflected? or something? this is one of those things that makes less sense the more you try and figure it, and suddenly a literal matter stream somehow seems more feasible

    maybe ships have Einstein Compensators or some shit allowing 1:1 matter energy conversion but it only works on transporters so you can't make a perpetual energy machine? i need to lie down

  • Old Reliable

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  • it is an honor to have inspired such a work of art

  • Some moments in BSG would give even Janeway pause

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  • i remember tentatively liking the first half of S3, which went away in an instant the second Somehow The Borg Returned

  • Some moments in BSG would give even Janeway pause

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  • what I appreciated about the ending is that you had two competing religions throughout the show and at different points different prophecies come true, making it unclear who's "right." and then you get to the end and it turns out no one had any idea what was going on, they (and us as viewers) were all being taken for a ride. religion is based on faith, but in the world of BSG you have this unknowable godhead who you can't even conceptualize in order to have faith in. the "it doesn't like to be called that" line at the end is so good because it shows just how far off base everyone was in the show, and by extension real life. you're wrong to even anthromorphize it by referring to it as a person. that's (neo)platonism!

    granted i don't think any of that was intentional. they definitely tried to pull a deus ex machina because they had set up a bunch of questions that they couldn't answer. but what is ultimately a cowardly finale accidentally ends up saying something very profound

  • Your guide to fictional aliens

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  • "this actor" statistically being Jeffrey Combs

  • Commodore 64's New Flip Phone Skips Android for Linux-Based Sailfish OS

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  • yeah, i'm intrigued by the idea of a pseudo-"dumb" phone to reduce mindless usage, but this is too restrictive to really work as a phone for a lot of people. those banned work and social apps have and will continue to supplant the phone features of a modern phone. if i got one of these, it would have to be a supplementary device, defeating the whole point! and for those of us who can use a "dumb" phone, they can just got get one for a fifth of a price

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
    _NetNomad @fedia.io

    Starting to wonder if this guy even went to medical school...

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
    _NetNomad @fedia.io

    If you thought tribbles were bad...