Predator is from 1987; that’s a classic.

Being grown doesn’t imply we can’t be silly. Or that we are implicitly serious just because we’re grown.

That was too easy of a joke to resist. Never played the game.

The games I spent more hours with were Neverwinter Nights, Fallout 1&2 and Silent Storm.

It’s nice to follow the story. It’s nice to pull a few shenannigans just to see may happen. But I like to follow a story. If someone took the time to write, the least respect I can pay to it is follow it.

I remember playing Kult: Heretic Kingdoms and the story was very nice to follow.

Today I learned.

Unless the developers were lazy or sloppy, you never break the story-line.

I couldn’t care less about other players. Either they’re just like me, trying to take a moment to relax or they are someone that takes what should be fun as a serious endeavour. I have a life for that.

And the town guards… come on. They are just doing their assigned job. And probably took an arrow to the knee.

That murder-hobo part. I never really understood the expression.

Yes, I would willingly deviate from the main story line the moment I could but I wouldn’t go on a murder rampage, killing everything and anything in site.

On Silent Storm I would go on a random encounter spree, killing enemies as supppsed, but I never targeted NPCs. And in Fallout I’d roam the map for random encounters as well but, again, hostiles were fair game, NPCs weren’t.

And to my understanding, the murder-hobo thing was coined because some players would destroy and kill anything in their path.

I would do this on Fallout and Silent Storm. And I resumed the main quest, my character was so overpowered and overgeared the main game became “almost” too easy. To compensate, I would wreck havoc, chaos and mayem at every chance I got.

Highly influential culture? It’s a fantasy work, not the cure to cancer. But I’ll agree on one thing: corporations are not people; they should be paying to the original creator(s) an efty cut of their profits, from their derivative works.

So you create whatever work. You have exclusive rights to it, let’s say for the sake of the argument, 10 years. During that time you never get any return from your work. But after you can no longer claim your rights, someone, perhaps even a company, stumbles on it - or perhaps they just carefully and patiently waited for it - takes it and capitalizes off it, with you watching and sucking your thumb.

No.

If you, an individual, creates something, you have the right to hold your intelectual property. What should be repelled is how easy it is to exploit artists, of any medium.

I’m very critic of the AI craze. Too much hype, money, time,energy and effort put in to get very little from it. And considering most LLMs are trained on stolen intelectual property, that makes it even worse.

LLMs are tools. The people using such tools give it personality, a semblance of agency, see what is not there and start to consider a tool a form of life.

I’ve seen people pour so much of them into a local model, the bot develops a quasi clone of their personality. But the program is not the person.

Please, stop making bots what they are not.

Nice.

This reminds me: weren’t pet rocks a thing at a certain time?

You’re describing me but I am not autistic. Can we again just say it is just a bad idea all together.

How come?

AI models to “aid” in court, listening to witnesses in order to assert if said person is telling the truth or lying are being proposed in my country.

Argument: it will speed up trials, declogging the justice system by extension.

Most lawyers are horrified, as well some judges.

Meanwhile, a judge as been suspended and reprimanded for using AI tools to write his decisions for him.

Yes, the bot did allucinate arguments and used argumentation in common law style, while my country is civil law model.

I can’t say the same thing, sadly.

People around me get easily fascinated by convinience over security and privacy. Biometric phone unlocking, work-only-through-app accessories, smart tvs, connected refrigerators, kitchen robots and expresso machines, autonomous vaccuum cleaners or web enabled water heaters and ACs… convenience rules absolute.

I enjoy going to stores and have sales people throw their pitch at me. The look on their face is priceless as all the convenience functions don’t ring any appeal to me; nothing against them, they are doing their job, but still.

I hope we can force change and push back on the ever growing invasive tactics of companies and markets.

The dude is drunk. To the point he forgets when he is.

I’m going to risk his then hot girlfriend/now wife read that message and got a pinch of miffed just by knowing he was drunk.

I still say it’s a sweet thing to read. Drunk and nonetheless still in love for his signficant other? Precious.

Things like these are getting ridiculous and the most unreasonable of it all is that most people do not consider this as predatory and invasive behaviour from manufacturers.

I like my appliances dumb. Don’t try to sell me a smart TV, a smart fridge or a smart anything. It does not need to connect to the internet. It needs to do one specific task and one only. I don’t need my fridge to order groceries.

That’s sweet. If the guy still sees her as his girlfriend, when drunk, the right feeling is still there. And if he get’s excited for knowing she’s his wife presently, that’s even better.

But I’m going to risk things a bit off between them. That reply sounded a bit miffed, from the wife.

Depends on the dog, the available space and how they’re cared for.

I take care of two shepperd dogs and they just love to spend their day sleeping and lazying around. Morning walk I almost need to beg them to get out of bed. End of the day walk, they’re fine. But these are two lazy ladies. My partner, their godfather, was always up for a long walk, come sun or rain.