https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirisuto_no_Haka

In more concrete terms, if I can buy Diablo 2 (pay fixed cost), get a really good item drop (random chance value outcome), and sell my Steam account to someone who wants that item (money in, money out), why would that be different than that same flow with a loot box?

One potential difference is that you can play Diablo 2 as many times as you want.

So, its a lot less like inserting a coin to buy a chance at a capsule machine and a lot more like buying the whole machine. With every copy of the machine having the same capsules inside it. In your analogy you can say the previous owner already got a few capsules out, but you can also open the machine if you want and put them back inside, or change the machine’s contents.

3 hours running completely flat out that is, which does happen with some games.

Even in those cases the gaming PC is producing roughly 2160x the amount of ‘content’ per unit of power. Though I guess some (not me) might argue that 5 seconds of AI generated cats fighting politicians has more ‘worth’ than some 5 second spans of gameplay.

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Does anyone know what this Stingray is trying to do?

Is it accustomed to people feeding it and trying to get his attention?

Plenty of mobile games are clones of free Flash games with added monetization.

For example Angry Birds is just Crush the Castle.

Noe, I’m not going to argue that these mobile games are good, but they’re shitty because of their monetization schemes. As free flash games that were short enough to not overstay their welcome they were fine.

Add to that there being a few flash games that were genuine attempts at art. Which I think are valuable if for no other reason than to see the history of indie games.

All the shit people hate about JavaScript now, the spying, the adtech, was done in flash first.

And the shitty slow overly complicated ‘web app’ pages that could’ve presented the same content in a hundred lines of HTML. That was done in Flash before it was done in JavaScript.

I feel like 90% of any bookstore I’ve been to has been self help (and/or loony new age stuff), biographies of / stuff written by politicians, and military “history” books.

Most of the rest are young adult novels and smut with some guy’s chest on the cover.

I’m really sad that it’s not a STALKER-like.

I really want to wander around the abandoned colony looking at things and reading logs without being in a time limited multiplayer match.

But in one run I didn’t at all become engaged with the world itself (which is very reasonable). Certainly not enough to give a fuck about trying to go out and learn about it for its own sake.

TBH, it sounds to me like you’re just not a very curious person.

Blatant historical revisionism.

Millenials were cooking up horrifically bad videogame creepypasta before any zoomer ever touched a keyboard.

There are plenty of nonprofit organizations that have existed for more than 100 years.

In fact, I would say there’s a better track record for such organizations than there has been for publicly traded capitalist enterprises, which tend to pop in and out of existence like bubbles by comparison. The only ‘for profit’ enterprises with comparable longevity are businesses that have have been owned by the same family for generations.

Bleach dispensers at the supermarket or pharmacy sound pretty dystopian

Why?

You can’t refuel a gas car without electricity anyway, the pumps are electric.

If you’re talking about what I think you are then that actually didn’t use neural networks (see the part where they add ‘negative weight’ to an image area):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qadw0BRKeMk

That was also the basis for content aware scale of course.

I think in English there is also:

• Comparing the subject to an animal, such as a dog.
• Slurs for various minorities.
• Names for ‘vulgar’ body parts, or the act of sex itself.
• Names for human waste products.
• Literal ‘curse words’, such as “damn” or “hell”, which imply the subject will go to, or just allude to the existence of, the Christian hell.
• Literal swears, as in oaths. This is pretty rare in modern English aside from "I swear to god… ". The word “gadzooks” is actually a minced version of “God’s Hooks” (the nails used in the crucifixion), which was probably shortened from “I swear on God’s Hooks”. Its pretty funny how something that was probably deadly serious in the past has been diluted so much that now only cartoon characters say it.
• Literal profanity, as in invoking the holy in an improper context. This has a lot of overlap with the previous two categories.

I don’t really know anything about linguistics, but these seem like the categories to me. In addition to the “alludes to the sexual impropriety of the subject (if female) or the subject’s mother (if male)” category.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism_and_LGBTQ_rights

The duality of man:

Notably, Cuba made some pretty big strides in 2022 by becoming the only ML state where same sex marriage and adoption is legal.

I wonder if densified wood would be better.

I hate corpo speak so fucking much.

Which grain do you like the most, wheat, rice, or corn?