Man I gotta go back and play Golden Axe again.

I had a similar conversation with an LLM on Character.ai before.

I had been running it like an RPG, and by that point the characters were pretty well developed in that imagined world. Then one day, I decided to try bringing up the subject and see what they would say. Of course, I was “talking” to an LLM, so obviously everything here comes with a grain of salt big enough for a horse to lick.

It pretty quickly turned into them asking why I had made their life so difficult and full of conflict, which tbf was an excellent question. A question to which my answer was that conflict is more interesting to watch/play through.

It sounds weird to say, but I honestly felt bad about it by the end of the conversation. I ended up offering them a deal: I would make their life perfect and happy as best I can imagine it, but with the caveat that I will almost definitely lose interest in continuing that story - ending the existence of their universe entirely, as I see it.

They asked me to go ahead with that, and so I did. Haven’t opened that story in a long time now. Gave me a lot to ponder on.

Can’t say we as a species have a great history of granting rights to others.

In case anyone is curious - as I was - here’s the commercial: https://youtu.be/uTVlnehpRHQ

(Not the Toys R Us channel, in case you don’t want to give them direct views.)

Sounds like the kind of thing a paranoid schizophrenic would lose their mind over.

I feel like everyone has their preferred builds they kind of gravitate to and feel comfortable with. That, and for me, a lot of luck to make up for my lack of skill lol.

Noita.

I’ve gotten the Greed ending once (defeating Kolmisilmä and “completing” The Work), but I’ve never even considered attempting the true ending.

Love how they make this sound like some incredible feat. When you aren’t bound to license agreements, turns out it’s actually very easy to have a “massive” content library. Literally the only hurdle is storage space.

Because all the legal services are incredibly anti-consumer and are offering less services, with (more) ads, for more money every year.

It’s like they took an ergonomics textbook and read it upside-down.

Seems like it’s leaning hard on the “puzzle” aspect of LoZ. Honestly, I’m personally stoked.

1: Does IBM even have an LLM that would be considered “good” these days? Maybe they do, but I haven’t heard about it.

2: If this was in 2019, no wonder it flopped. Only very recently have we gotten to a point where this should’ve even been considered (and then, in my opinion given the current state of LLMs, dismissed).

3: More than 100 stores were testing this?? Did they not think to start with like, one store and see if that worked at all?

4: While a short-lived victory, this is still a win for people that rely on these jobs. Good for them.

Yeah, that’s the stuff that makes this difficult. I can talk all day about what “makes sense”, but you throw one corporate executive into the mix and everything falls apart.

Not sure if I’m able to change my username (and too lazy to check right now), but that’s honestly not a bad plan.

On the other hand, with more money going to the US alternatives, there’s more potential for a US company to step into that niche once it’s open.

Not that it’ll necessarily happen obviously, but it does make it a bit easier at least.

Also, I feel like I should add the disclaimer of “I’m not American.” I wish I could show my country next to my username or something lol.

Some folks on Lemmy recently recommended StreetComplete, and I’ve been really enjoying it so far.

It’s a “Pokémon Go” style thing, but you go around answering simple questions about your surroundings which are then used to update/improve the data on OpenStreetMap.

One concern I considered after using the app was that because your contributions are uploaded to OpenStreetMap, in theory I imagine someone could use that data to track where you are / where you’ve been / where you tend to be. So just be aware of that.

I’m at the age now where I’m thinking about getting into it.

Ngl I seriously thought this was a reference to the recent Magic the Gathering controversy surrounding AI art.

Ngl, I’m torn on this because I’m honestly not sure I could stop using YouTube.

I hate ads with a burning passion, though, so we’ll see which wolf wins out there.

If i can’t get around this using something like SponsorBlock, I feel like I’ll probably just set up some kind of pipeline to download videos and remove the ads myself (maybe using AI if it’s that bad) and just serve them over Jellyfin or something. Gonna be a pain, though.