IndiBrony

Ironically, the only game I’ve ever damaged my own stuff over was a sportsball game.

Most games you fuck up due to your own incompetence, but football games and the like make you feel like you could do nothing wrong in a game and still lose. It’s infuriating.

I had one of these! Qwerty keyboard on a phone is a thing I sorely miss.

I think the common denominator for all these things are people. People are pretty terrible in large numbers behind anonymity.

That’s actually how I do my Lemmy feed. I have one chance to comment on a thread and if I don’t do it, when the page refreshes I lose it forever.

I’ve learned to accept that there are just some things the universe never wanted me to comment on.

With how wearily often this seems to happen nowadays, I feel like if I was working somewhere like this I’d be looking at new work immediately as soon as I knew it was getting taken over.

Ideally, there should be some kind of way to prevent this happening in the first place.

But it’s easy for me to say this kind of thing from my pedestal. The only opinions that matter are from those who are involved. There’s nothing more depressing and scary than to know you could be jobless at a moment’s notice.

Call me old, but all I see is Snoopy

Summer was hard on me in my teenage goth years.

Can’t really get many light shades of black.

Again remember that freedom of expression is freedom to not be punished by the government for that expression.

Private companies are not concerned with your freedoms.

Not saying I agree with how things are, just saying how it is. Only way to tell a private company to fuck off is to not use them.

This! Is an ex parrot store!

Doesn’t need to be “intelligent”, it needs to be fit for purpose, and it clearly is.

The closest comparison you made was to the cyoa book, but that’s only for the part where it gives me options. It has to have the “intelligence” to decipher what I’m asking it and then give me the options.

The fact it can do that faster and more efficiently than a human is exactly what I’d expect from it. Things don’t have to be groundbreaking to be useful.

To be fair, it is useful in some regards.

I’m not a huge fan of Amazon, but last time I had an issue with a parcel it was sorted out insanely fast by the AI assistant on the website.

Within literally 2 minutes I’d had a refund confirmed. No waiting for people to eventually pick up the phone after 40 minutes. No misunderstanding or annoying questions. The moment I pressed send on my message it instantly started formulating a reply.

The truncated version went:

“Hey I meant to get [x] delivery, but it hasn’t arrived. Can I get a refund?”

“Sure, your money will go back into [y] account in a few days. If the parcel turns up in the meantime, you can send it back by dropping it off at [z]”

Done. Absolutely painless.

You know, I’d never actually thought of it that way. Very informative video for it’s short length. Thank you for sharing.

Imagine having to remove a bunch of shit just so you can use your OS. smh

Luckily, there exists an OS which undermines extreme enshittification. Can’t remember the name, though …

I love my emulators and I have to say that whilst the game has obviously aged, there’s still something a little satisfying about throwing the car around in these games.

That said, the map - which looks like it was designed on graph paper - leaves a bit to be desired nowadays. It does get a little boring.

Driv3r really should have been the pinnacle of the series, but it just stands as a testament to why you should never rush your game out. San Andreas was quite possibly the most hotly anticipated game of all time; they were never going to beat that.

I’m a driving instructor and I believe automated roads would be a godsend. I’d actually be happy the day I don’t have to do my job, not because I hate it - I actually love my job - but because automated roads would be so much safer overall.

My bullet-worship-square can walk right through the door!

To be fair, this is partly how I’ve been looking at it. In the event that power gets delegated to the VP, you want to know the right hand man isn’t an absolute crock of shit as well.

But surely even an old man suffering dementia is a better candidate than Trump.

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There you go. Signed version of my pfp 👍