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Comment on IGN Entertainment acquires Eurogamer, GI, VG247, Rock Paper Shotgun and more in ~games
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Comment on The Nutaku adult gaming platform is larger than it seems in ~games
MimicSquid Link ParentEntirely possible. Her last video before this one was her breakout hit, taking her from 5k views to 250k views. She's probably trying very hard to capture that lightning in a bottle to stay in the...Entirely possible. Her last video before this one was her breakout hit, taking her from 5k views to 250k views. She's probably trying very hard to capture that lightning in a bottle to stay in the bigger leagues. At some point putting out a flawed thing is more important than putting out a perfect thing.
Doesn't change any of my critique, though.
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Comment on Scarlett Johansson says she is 'shocked, angered' over new ChatGPT voice in ~tech
MimicSquid Link ParentOh yeah. Her voice is near perfect generic. If they hadn't been courting her for months to license the voice it would have been fine, but... Perhaps, given the context, it's a little suspicious?Oh yeah. Her voice is near perfect generic. If they hadn't been courting her for months to license the voice it would have been fine, but...
Johansson said that nine months ago Altman approached her proposing that she allow her voice to be licensed for the new ChatGPT voice assistant. He thought it would be "comforting to people" who are uneasy with AI technology.
"After much consideration and for personal reasons, I declined the offer," Johansson wrote.
Just two days before the new ChatGPT was unveiled, Altman again reached out to Johansson's team, urging the actress to reconsider, she said.
But before she and Altman could connect, the company publicly announced its new, splashy product, complete with a voice that she says appears to have copied her likeness.
Perhaps, given the context, it's a little suspicious?
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Comment on Police are not primarily crime fighters in ~life
MimicSquid Link ParentI don't think it would cause that much of an expansion of the workforce. I'm going to make up some numbers. If there's 100 units of work each month, and of those official witnesses are needed for...I don't think it would cause that much of an expansion of the workforce.
I'm going to make up some numbers. If there's 100 units of work each month, and of those official witnesses are needed for 10, traffic enforcement is needed for 70, and mediation is needed for 20, you currently have generalists who do all of them at 6 units per person, and it's fine. You need 16.67 generalists to do the work, so you have 17 people (or more to handle varying demand, but this is already too complex.) But if you switch to specialists that each do 6 units in their area, you get 2 witnesses, 12 traffic enforcers, and 4 mediators, for an overall boost of 1 person.
And this is under the assumption that the specialists are going to only be as effective as the generalists. If they can be more effective, it's possible that needed staffing goes the other direction.
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Comment on The Nutaku adult gaming platform is larger than it seems in ~games
MimicSquid Link ParentHey, I really appreciate the insight! It's amazing that we've got such a diverse group of experiences here that even on a comparatively obscure thing there's someone who has personal experience.Hey, I really appreciate the insight! It's amazing that we've got such a diverse group of experiences here that even on a comparatively obscure thing there's someone who has personal experience.
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Comment on Police are not primarily crime fighters in ~life
MimicSquid Link ParentThat page draws its conclusions from this paper, which has the following in its abstract: Soo... it has nothing to say on how police actually show that people will be caught, the complex...That page draws its conclusions from this paper, which has the following in its abstract:
There are four major research gaps. The first concerns the mechanism by which police affect perceptions of the probability of apprehension. The second concerns the inextricable link between the deterrent effect of the threat of punishment and the potentially criminogenic effect of the experience of punishment. The third concerns the concept of a sanction regime defined by the sanctions legally available and how that legal authority is administered. Theories of deterrence conceive of sanctions in the singular, not the plural, and do not provide a conceptual basis for considering the differential deterrent effects of different components of the sanction regime. The fourth involves sanction risk perceptions. Establishing the link between risk perceptions and sanction regimes is imperative; unless perceptions adjust, however crudely, to changes in the sanction regime, desired deterrent effects will not be achieved.
Soo... it has nothing to say on how police actually show that people will be caught, the complex interactions between interactions with the cops and characteristics that cause lawbreaking behavior, the specific laws that are in place and how they're implemented, or how to increase the perception of risk when it comes to being caught.
So it does show that people will commit less crimes when they think they'll be caught, but it actually explicitly disavows any support for your conclusion that warnings without punishment is an effective deterrent to lawbreaking.
In fact, your link specifically says: "Certainty has a greater impact on deterrence than severity of punishment." That doesn't sound like "cops should have the ability to cut some people a break" to me.
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Comment on Police are not primarily crime fighters in ~life
MimicSquid Link ParentI think if/when we lived in an environment where we had higher levels of trust in government to have our best interests at heart and a willingness to conform to unspoken norms, an overall...I think if/when we lived in an environment where we had higher levels of trust in government to have our best interests at heart and a willingness to conform to unspoken norms, an overall environment of genteel rulebreaking to make the system work wouldn't be as harmful. But we don't live in that world, and as such, it seems foolish to trust institutions we very clearly know don't really care about us, and are run by people who will happily upset the apple cart to get things their way in the short term.
Given my understanding of the world, giving cops leeway in ticketing and courts in sentencing just makes it even more "rules for me and none for thee" than it otherwise would be. And you're right that mandatory sentencing is bad. But I'd rather it be uniformly bad and thus more broadly incentivize reform than it be the sort of bad that only really ever gets applied to minorities and other politically weak groups.
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Comment on Police are not primarily crime fighters in ~life
MimicSquid Link ParentIf requiring people to follow the rules evenly doesn't result in increased justice it seems worse to ask individuals to ignore the inconvenient rules on an arbitrary basis rather then reform the...If requiring people to follow the rules evenly doesn't result in increased justice it seems worse to ask individuals to ignore the inconvenient rules on an arbitrary basis rather then reform the rules.
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Comment on The Nutaku adult gaming platform is larger than it seems in ~games
MimicSquid LinkTwo different things bugged me about this: The performative cringing over furry/scalie content is really disappointing. Her talking in a concerned voice about stigma in video games shortly after...Two different things bugged me about this:
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The performative cringing over furry/scalie content is really disappointing. Her talking in a concerned voice about stigma in video games shortly after showing how she's supporting certain stigmas is sad. I'm not part of the furry scene, but targeting them for ridicule is just shameful.
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She seems to frame everything as sinister, but it just seems like the site is clever with their publishing, marketing, and investment acquisition and in doing so became successful? I recognize that women have a really fine line to walk, especially regarding talking publicly about anything involving sex, but the way she simultaneously focuses on and disavows the salacious nature of the site just rubs me the wrong way. Maybe there's no other way to talk about sex media as a woman that avoids being pigeonholed in the future? I dunno.
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Comment on 5D Diplomacy With Multiversal Time Travel in ~games.tabletop
MimicSquid (edited )LinkDo you like Diplomacy but feel like it is insufficiently complex? Do you need more opportunities to backstab people than the present could hold? 5D Diplomacy with Multiversal Time Travel is a...Do you like Diplomacy but feel like it is insufficiently complex? Do you need more opportunities to backstab people than the present could hold? 5D Diplomacy with Multiversal Time Travel is a Diplomacy variant that adds multiversal time travel in the style of its namesake, 5D Chess with Multiversal Time Travel. Work in progress rather than finished product, but an interesting one.
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5D Diplomacy With Multiversal Time Travel
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Comment on Police are not primarily crime fighters in ~life
MimicSquid Link ParentOk, but within a family if you're sharing a car it should be easy enough to handle paying the ticket equitably, right? Or is sharing a car with someone who you can't trust around money a common thing?Ok, but within a family if you're sharing a car it should be easy enough to handle paying the ticket equitably, right? Or is sharing a car with someone who you can't trust around money a common thing?
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Comment on ‘Grand Theft Auto 6’ sets fall 2025 release as Take-Two posts $2.9 billion quarterly loss in ~games
MimicSquid Link ParentIt's only wasteful if the newly acquired studios make less than one game and then are shuttered to look good on next year's budget, but that would never happen, right?It's only wasteful if the newly acquired studios make less than one game and then are shuttered to look good on next year's budget, but that would never happen, right?
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Comment on Indiana judge rules tacos, burritos are sandwiches in ~food
MimicSquid Link ParentIt's right there in the name: toast-, from toast, and -ada, from the civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability. The etymology couldn't be more clear.It's right there in the name: toast-, from toast, and -ada, from the civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability. The etymology couldn't be more clear.
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Comment on Donald Trump - Joe Biden US Presidential debates to take place on June 27th and September 10th in ~misc
MimicSquid Link ParentOk, but the President of the United States doesn't get a neutral outlook, right? Even in the case that something went wrong, they'll have the best possible medical care. Taking a statistical...Ok, but the President of the United States doesn't get a neutral outlook, right? Even in the case that something went wrong, they'll have the best possible medical care. Taking a statistical average and trying to apply it to an individual only goes so far when you know the individual is an outlier on the metrics that were used to generate the data.
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Comment on I am a witch. Well, a well witcher... in ~talk
MimicSquid Link ParentNow that I would totally believe. That people are clever pattern matching machines, and that they'd attribute their own cleverness to the wrong thing is exactly how it would go down. I like this...Now that I would totally believe. That people are clever pattern matching machines, and that they'd attribute their own cleverness to the wrong thing is exactly how it would go down. I like this hypothesis.
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Comment on I am a witch. Well, a well witcher... in ~talk
MimicSquid Link ParentI feel like there's a difference between people who are arguing for the physical world being different than it provably is, and the people who are arguing that there's something undefinably more?...I feel like there's a difference between people who are arguing for the physical world being different than it provably is, and the people who are arguing that there's something undefinably more? This isn't well thought out, to be clear. But maybe there is some ineffable something that we can't measure yet. It's super unlikely that such a thing is true on a human scale, but maybe? By comparison, disproving the flatness of the Earth is trivial.
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Comment on France declares state of emergency in New Caledonia after deadly riots in ~news
MimicSquid Link ParentSorry, I was only aiming aiming for a little snide, given that I was able to resolve the confusion of the person I was responding to entirely by quoting the article. I'll take it out, since it's...Sorry, I was only aiming aiming for a little snide, given that I was able to resolve the confusion of the person I was responding to entirely by quoting the article. I'll take it out, since it's really not discussing in good faith. Thanks for calling me out on it.
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Comment on France declares state of emergency in New Caledonia after deadly riots in ~news
MimicSquid Link ParentYou could just as accurately say that the dependence side "rammed through" the vote, knowing that the independence side had a moral concern regarding the timing, yeah?You could just as accurately say that the dependence side "rammed through" the vote, knowing that the independence side had a moral concern regarding the timing, yeah?
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Comment on France declares state of emergency in New Caledonia after deadly riots in ~news
MimicSquid (edited )Link ParentFrom the linked article: ... ... So their colonial overlords are attempting to dilute their representation at a time when they're actively working towards self-determination, and counter to prior...From the linked article:
Some local leaders fear this change would dilute the share of the vote held by Kanaks, the Indigenous group that makes up about 41% of the population and the major force in the pro-independence movement.
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On Wednesday, a New Caledonia pro-independence leader, Daniel Goa, asked people to “go home”, and condemned the looting. But he added: “The unrest of the last 24 hours reveals the determination of our young people to no longer let France take control of them.”
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In the Nouméa accord of 1998, France vowed to gradually cede more political power to the Pacific island territory of nearly 300,000 people.
So their colonial overlords are attempting to dilute their representation at a time when they're actively working towards self-determination, and counter to prior accords.
All the more reason to support independent, worker-owned game news outlets like Second Wind.