Food Network sales execs looking at this

When reading 40k is the less grimdark option

People talk about filter bubbles, but there’s a nuance here: on Lemmy, you’re not being served up whatever the platform owners think you should see from an opaque algorithm. You’re going to, by default, see cesspool content. You have to choose to block it.

I would agree if my area got much snow, but it’s exclusively icy cold rain.

Yeah my first gaming pc was like…a crappy HP desktop with an Nvidia 6600 that I plugged in. Worked great for Age of Mythology lol

Oh yeah, I read about that! Not really ML, but pretty much what I’d like more games to have.

No no no, they have it all wrong. We should be ordering clones by the thousand from Kamino to fight the separarists.

I’m glad that many kids are into PC gaming, at least. That’s still a decent vector into computer proficiency and a little hardware knowledge.

Oh that’s really interesting; I hadn’t considered racing games as a genre to benefit from this type of machine learning. I guess I figured there’s not so much to AI there that it’s necessary, at least when we already know the “ideal lap line” for cars to follow, but yeah it gets a lot harder when considering other drivers on the track and a huge array of unique car models with their own handling and performance characteristics.

I wouldn’t mind an AI using unorthodox strategies, but yeah that’s a good point that fine tuning it to be fun is a big challenge. Speaking of “non-player-like behavior”, I wonder if AI could be used to find multiplayer exploits sooner, though the problem there is you don’t really have much training data besides QA and playtesters before a full release.

I’m not into fighting games, but that’s pretty neat! I hope the industry follows suit if people like how it works in Street Fighter 6.

Nah they’ll make up some other hand wavy bullshit to explain it

It’s not like Bezos is there running anything day to day. Management could ignore him, say OK sure thing boss, and print it anyway. What’s he gonna do? Fire them? 🤷

That’s a great way to put it. After every apocalyptic near-extinction, humanity is driven further and further into darkness in the hopes of self-preservation. Ironically, at the cost of their own humanity.

The premise is pretty silly and indicates the author doesn’t really understand the history of 40k’s lore. Between real chaos gods corrupting any civilization too psychically involved with the warp and civilizations entirely unable to be reasoned with like the Necron or Tyranids, the imperium of man’s fanatical xenophobic culture is pretty reasonable. The only civilization that could have perpetually positive relations with humanity, the Tau, are on a path towards artificial general intelligence which humanity fears could lead to another near-extinction of all life.

The emperor didn’t even want to be worshipped. That only really became tolerated and encouraged after the horus heresy once he was locked away onto the golden throne, and then-fanatics had nobody to keep them in check as they pushed their own narrative.

One could argue that humanity could welcome xenos into the empire while remaining at war with the other civilizations, but I tend to think they find it much safer to not take chances when other races have natural affinity to the warp and could be vectors of further chaos corruption leading to extinction.

I went team red for the first time in 20 years with a 7900XTX and have been super happy. Don’t get me wrong, still expensive, but not as insulting as team green’s pricing.

I don’t think the new strategy of injecting ads directly into the video stream can be defeated in realtime though. It’s like how you cannot defeat tv ads…you can blank the screen, or record and restitch without the ads, but the content itself has the ad. YouTube is a bit different where you can theoretically skip ahead, but your device has to tell Youtube that it wants to skip ahead in order to actually even get the video content, and youtube can look at request timestamps to know you didn’t see the whole injected ad and just re-inject it in the video stream.

The free market currently says that a new home is worth X dollars because of what people are willing to pay vs. the labor going into it. Materials are cheap compared to the work. The rates laborers get paid stem from the free market equilibrium on that. Labor rates go up, house prices go up, home ownership goes down. Builders in the US get about 15% margin on building and selling new homes. You have maybe 10% of wiggle room before the profit in building homes is not worth the effort. So laborers could get paid…10% more at best before home prices go up. That’s not going to attract many more people to offset immigrant labor demand.

Hardest job to actually do well?

I should get paid a lot less for typing on a keyboard all day, but oh well.