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  • What are social status games? Are we hardwired to want social status?

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  • Still, it's hard to tell what you mean. Games that players engage with to be perceived a certain way? Games so expensive only people of a certain status can afford them? Games about attaining social status? The various ways people pursue social status IRL?

    What do you think of when you say a 'social status game'?

  • Any RPGs that take into account when you reload a save? Or that break the 4th wall like this?

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  • Yep, narratively Undertale uses the exact concept you're talking about.

    It's not much of a mechanic for most parts of the game though.

  • If you had to replace the floppy disk save symbol in software with a new symbol for saving what would you choose and why?

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  • I've already seen it replaced in some applications. Don't like that.

    I know it's "if you have to", but if I have any choice at all, the floppy icon stays.

  • What Youtube channel has maintained high quality standards over the years?

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  • Thank you for sharing, I had no idea this was a setting! That makes it a lot easier to get the other links.

  • What Youtube channel has maintained high quality standards over the years?

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  • Gaming Historian comes to mind. (Caveat: he's no longer doing YT full time, so the uploads are a lot less frequent.) Anyway, he started out as the kind of prototypical kid with Youtube videos, doing a pretty well with the history angle. But over time evolved into a serious documentarion doing top-notch work. Along the same line, DidYouKnowGaming went from an ok channel that repackaged pretty common trivia into interesting but almost click-bait videos, into now being an investigative journalist kinda thing, where they semi-regularly share previously unknown information about old or cancelled games. Still on the games side, Electric Playground has been going for like a quarter-century, since back when it had to be on cable TV instead of Youtube, and Victor Lucas still doesn't suck.

    3Blue1brown and Ben Eater make great technical educational videos that, as far as I'm aware, haven't really degraded.

  • AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone

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  • Yes. But, to perhaps a lower extent, this headline is also true if you change 'Reddit' to 'the internet'.

  • What are some good Lemmy communities

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  • What are some non-AI examples of slop?

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  • SEO slop is the first thing that comes to mind. It's super-charged in ubiquity with AI now, but it's been a thing about as long as search engines.

    Sometimes you land on a page and you can tell you're only there because they loaded it with keywords, repeating the same phrases you searched for in every variation.

  • what's a cool gift? (like an infinity mirror)

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  • Those little parabola mirrors that make the toy seem to float above.

    Newton's cradle

    Good quality Rubik's cube

    Prism color cube

  • Why does it feel like there is currently less new games, songs, YouTube videos, valuable articles and creations in general?

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  • Right! It's not that there's less. It's that there's a discoverability issue, and on top of that more stuff means less cultural relevance for any given work.

  • Humans suddenly gain the ability to selectively delete their memories. How do you use this ability? (if at all) How do you think society would change?

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  • I don't think I'd personally have much use for it, at least so far.

    But I see it going dark places. If people figured out how to delete their own, that's one step away from authorities or even just criminals being able to rewrite other people's realities.

  • People who are learning a foreign language: what are you learning & how is it going?

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  • What made you want to learn Korean in the first place? Try to think about what you could do if you knew it, and set up goals that you want to reach.

    I realized when I was young that I'd like to learn Japanese. But I put off serious learning for so many years (decades, tbh), and now I think a lot about how I could already be using it for all sorts of day to day (web browsing and entertainment) tasks if I had focused sooner. You learn a language, you can learn or do your other hobbies/interests in that language.

  • People who are learning a foreign language: what are you learning & how is it going?

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  • Pokemon Z-A in French is perfect, lol! I've been playing it for language learning too (Japanese). I think those games are pretty great for it, good low-stakes, familiar games that have a lot of text, but are also kid-approachable. Would be nice to have voice acting, but otherwise fantastic language immersion games.

  • People who are learning a foreign language: what are you learning & how is it going?

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  • What's the vibe like at these meetups you're going to? What kinds of things do you talk about, what are the people who go like? Sounds fun, though I think I'd be too self-conscious to attend.

    For my part, I've been learning Japanese. It's been good, but very slow. Focused on mostly Kanji, Anki, and listening/reading this year (rather than staying with my textbook). Feel like my foundation is way more solid now, and characters I don't recognize are the exception (by a slight margin), rather than everywhere always.

  • People who are learning a foreign language: what are you learning & how is it going?

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    Are there any active communities for amateur songwriters and/or home-recording enthusiasts?

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  • Yeah, it's pretty sparse here all around. But don't be afraid to try opening threads like the ones you mentioned in the comms people recommend.

    A lot of communities here have subscribers, that just aren't seeing anything to comment on. If you ask a question or give people a space to talk about themselves, sometimes a few will come out of the woodwork to chime in.

  • The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You

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  • Yep, I think that's the real terror of it, is that the line between ad and content will blur even further. There's already everything ranging from astroturfing to paid endorsements, but eventually AI maybe can get good at finding that line of what you think is trustworthy and crossing it maliciously.

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    Could pizza be considered an open-face sandwich?

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  • Pizza is also, like other foods, apparently a salad.

  • Do I dare say it 🥺

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  • Year of Linux on the desktop. Why not say it? It's been true for decades now.