Two lips on my organ? They knew.

But it isn’t a PC with Xbox compat.

It’s just a portable PC with Windows Gamepass and some stuff toggled to make it easier to navigate using a controller.

So it’s been about two and a half years since I’ve played (before my daughter was born), so take this with a grain of salt. I think last big update I experienced was the addition of the Reapers’s equivalent of the Athena’s Fortune faction.

Unless they’ve changed how captained ships work, every time you log in your ship only has a basic set of resources (like 30 wood, 30 canonballs, 15 bananas, something like that). Stocking up from the outpost barrels was an every session start thing. The whole captained ship thing was originally just a way to save your ship cosmetics and adding a bunch of ship specific achievements. Also gave access to a convenient one stop sell location and some “captain” exclusive quests.

Regarding PVP, natural “emergent” PVP has really dried up since they added in the hourglass (dedicated PVP match queuing) and the ability to server hop (lose all your sellable loot and active quest progress, keep the barrelled resources on your ship). So people up for scrapping usually hop servers until they find a popular and lucrative server event happening where there are likely to be other players. There already was the Reaper’s flag and emmisary to imdicate you were up for/looking for PVP too (both make you visible on the map to the whole server). So a lot of players left running around aren’t as bloodthirsty.

Also, unless they changed server limits again, each server has an absolute max of six ships. It’s a big sea for so few ships. Especially when we stayed around The Roar (volcanoey area at the east side of the map) we could go entire sessions without running into other players.

Man, I really hope it’s still around when I have the time to come back to it. Awesome game.

Hell, forget doing anything with the office. I don’t want to go back unless you have an on site private spa, massuese, catered food, and laundry service. Make it legitimately better than being at home and I’ll consider it.

Instead, the blue shirted girlfriend should be: “A valuable intangible workplace benefit that you can continue offering for free after you were forced to invest in it due to the pandemic”

People applying for my position will make job acceptance or denial choices off of whether or not they get to work from home. We’re already split across three “back office” physical locations when we are in the office and we’re more than capable of having a conference call going in the background throughout the day for chitchat and bouncing ideas around verbally if we really need to. We didn’t just survive during total work from home, we thrived. And we already have all the technical infrastructure, policies, and procedures in place to offer full work from home.

It’s like if they could offer health insurance to employees for free, but decided not to because upper management can’t figure out how to do their jobs when people have it.

Fuck this boils my piss.

They crawl wikipedia too, and are adding significant extra load on their servers, even though Wikipedia has a regularly updated torrent to download all its content.

I think he must attract a certain amount of viewers from the “train wreck” effect. He literally was using the stench from the sun hitting a decomposing rat corpse in his room as an “alarm clock” for a while. He has had roaches crawl across him live and not reacted.

So I can kind of understand getting some sort of twisted satisfaction that you’re doing better, or having the same sort of fascination people have with train wrecks and disasters.

What I don’t get is why anyone cares about his takes on anything. The man willingly lives in decomposing filth. He’s clearly not a source of knowledge or good opinions on fucking anything.

If it helps it make any more sense, from other posts of this comic on lemmy, the original posts seem to be on pixiv, which is on paper a site for hosting art, but in reality seems to exist primarily to host a lot of hentai. Mostly hentai.

I’ve also noticed a small trend lately where adult artists fish for comissions by making strangely horny webcomics.

This is shockingly “public” considering there’s legal proceedings now.

Bunch of disparate thoughts about this. Apologies.

You can’t just purity test an entire profession. Or at least it isn’t reasonable to do so.

You have to dig, but there are artists and authors out there who have positive opinions about AI. I’m sure the folks more active on !techtakes@awful.systems could get a list together of their favorite sneer targets.

All the anti-ai tools are coming from programmers. anubis, iocaine, nepenthes, nightshade, and more.

I’d suggest that it’s worth remembering that a large portion of any online discourse is going to be made up of teenagers, college students, and people new to whatever it is they’re discussing. But almost all of them will talk with an implied authority on whatever subject it is anyway. Many subs on reddit have done demorgraphics polls (or polls that included a question about age) and the results makes the sillier places like relationship advice make a hell of a lot more sense.

I have almost a decade of work experience in IT, more if you count some intro to programming teaching gigs I did. AI coding assistance tools are positioned perfectly to be like crack for early learners, but don’t actually add too much value for more experienced folks (especially not anything can’t be done faster with existing non-ai tools, like an IDE’s code snippets features for repeated boilerplate code, which is the most frequent excuse I see online).

That said, I have literally never met any dev in real life that thinks favorably of AI coding assistance.

What I see more and more is corporate management types being afraid that all the hype for AI coming out of Gartner etc means that if they don’t force their employees to use it they will get left behind as their competitors magically produce more somehow. At that point as an employee your choices are to work to meet whatever shit metric they’ve constructed or give up making a paycheck.

It’s very easy to tell other people they need to be more principled when it’s not your food/shelter/insurance/livelyhood on the line.

And it’s also worth noting that what the current wave of popular AI (LLMs) does best is generate text. So of course you’re going to see text posts online trying to shift the window. That’s the company using their horrific tool as designed. There was evidence of AI bots hyping AI in the programming subs on reddit that got overshadowed by them shutting off third party API access.

AI is only as inevitable for as long as the megacorps can keep funneling money into the pit. The world leader in AI conpanies, OpenAI, is doing so great with money that they are trying to threaten their business partner Microsoft out of roughly $40B. This could all blow up fairly soon. I hope it does.

There absolutely are devs out there who are getting ground down, where there principles are becoming eroded over time.

But like with many things in life, the rabble at the bottom aren’t the ones effecting real long term change, media coverage, corporate adoption, etc. Don’t turn this into some crab pot situation.

Go after the tech reporters continually giving AI the benefit of the doubt. Go after industry steering publications like Gartner. Go after politicians giving AI projects sweetheart deals that allow them to coast by without having to compete fairly based off their actual costs (OpenAI loses money on every request it serves). That allow AI datacenters to continuously violate local laws. That allow the datacenters to pollute their local water table. Go after the management enacting requirements that their subordinates demonstrate how AI is improving their work efficiency on pain of firing. You get the picture.

And sure, call out individuals. But please don’t label us all as a group on this.

EDIT: old man intensifies. And another thing! (to support my point that the corps need to be the target in these discussions):

Companies like Microsoft are resorting to forcing AI features into their products and defaulting those AI features to ON in order to get the user numbers they need to keep justifying the absurd expenditure on AI, and to be able to keep pushing the false narrative into the media of everyone using AI.

These effectively fabricated increases in user numbers from these features being default on means that the impact of individual programmers and devs deciding to use or not use AI are not going to move the needle significantly enough to make a difference.

I’m proud to say that currently my workplace has all this shit disabled on an enterprise level, and firewall blocks preventing using any of it. Unfortunately that will only last as long as it takes for the suits to come up with a sufficiently paranoid acceptable use policy. We’re doing what we can to keep stoking the idea that putting any info into these things is effectively selling it to potential competitors, but that can only go so far against Gartner and the like whispering in the C-suite’s ear.

Anyway. Everyone has a duty to say no to this shit, but all the companies are already using every dirty trick they can to boost the user numbers. If you’re running around under the impression that the absurd user numbers represent true users, and that those users must be comprised entirely of tech workers because artists never would use AI, then you’re looking at a false narrative being pushed by the people who stand to make the most money off this shit. The user numbers are not accurate to begin with.

Good old Jonathan Coulton. Guy who did the closing songs for Portal and Portal 2.

Because you can buy other people’s code for cheaper than developing it yourself, as long as you use it within the restrictions of the license you paid for.

What? There’s a big difference between “legal to sell as a compiled binary” and “legal to release as source”.

Pretty sure they advertised the first season of that arc directly stating that it was a coma arc.

Yeah man! You hungry? Lets get some meat on those bones.

Yep, they are explicitly not banks or traditional financial institutions and therefore have none of the standard protections. They don’t only lack the protections of credit cards, but also of banks in general.

There are countless stories of people losing access to over $10k in their PayPal account with no option to appeal because PayPal decided their Twitch revenue looked too much like money laundering. Or because a single transaction involved a card later reported stolen. Or… just because. Some people aren’t even given a reason.

hiss!

It’s been hours now (and a very busy day), but I swear that half of that comment (including that section) wasn’t there when I commented regarding safer seas.

But there’s no mark showing the comment has been edited either.

Scurvy must be eating me brain.

Good news! No need to wait for unofficial servers. Over a year ago they opened a feature called safer seas where you can play without PvP!

Good news! Over a year ago they opened a feature called safer seas where you can play without PvP!

The solution to that isn’t to post even more blatantly state controlled media just with a different flavor of boot sole.

Come on now.