Mnemnosyne

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[–] Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It doesn't need anyone to convince devs to implement it. I can do it whenever I run an emulator of old console games already, and devs of those games never implemented it.

If Sony wants to add it as a hardware feature they can.

As far as the patent, hopefully it'll get denied but I doubt it. Once they have it it'll cost someone time and money to challenge it, even though it should be a slam dunk that it is neither a new idea nor innovative and novel. This is how a lot of these egregious parents continue to stand - the cost of challenging them is high, especially if some blistering idiot of a judge ruled in a farcical manner.

[–] Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

It's possible to. Are they? Correct me if I'm wrong, but they're not. They're going after Microsoft and not Google.

Not that it makes any difference since Edge is just reskinned Chrome now anyway. If it was still it's own thing I'd be rooting for Microsoft, at least up until they start to become bigger, then I'd turn on them.

[–] Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

To be fair I'm not as smart as Data, so I doubt it would need that much to outwit me.

[–] Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago (26 children)

When the technology gets there, this will be amazing. I'll be able to sit down at the computer and say "make me a mystery detective RPG in the style of Sherlock Holmes but set on a cyberpunk styled city on a space station like the Citadel from Mass Effect" and I'll get just that, generated exclusively for me with a brand new story that fits the themes I asked for.

But that is gonna be a couple decades or more I expect. I dearly hope it happens quickly so I can live to see it, but it's not going to be in the next ten years, that's for damn sure.

[–] Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

25 years might actually be a potentially realistic timeframe for that. But I'd still bet on a little longer myself. I hope it happens within my lifetime.

[–] Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

First I even heard about this game was a comic talking about it's unattractive characters. I looked it up out of curiosity to see if this was an exaggeration like it has been with some characters like Aloy, and....ehhh...mostly true.

One of the big draws of these types of games is cool character designs people want to play. This game definitely doesn't have that for me. Overwatch quickly pulled me in with cool character designs, this one...does not.

[–] Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago

No, but they should be public to everyone, and not hidden unless you jump through hoops.

[–] Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

Seriously? From the story, anon did everything right.

Saw potential interest, acted on it in a nonthreatening way, when no positive response came, took it as a rejection and did not harass or continue pursuing.

[–] Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago

The irony being that the person who rates themselves as unethical is actually likely to be one of the most ethical people answering; someone truly unethical would've lied about it in the first place, or failed to even notice or acknowledge their unethicalness.

[–] Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

So I do see how there could be a preference for a 'shower' because a big, well-formed dick is aesthetically pleasing even when soft.

Not that I can imagine any real person would be so hung up on this one detail for that to be a real deal-breaker in a relationship.

[–] Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I mean, it's well understood that there's a host of health benefits from regular exercise, and it's also pretty well established that habits built during youth tend to be the most 'sticky' that we continue for the rest of our lives.

Given these two facts, I suspect that there are in fact studies that show those who participate in regular exercise programs during their school years are more likely to maintain a higher level of fitness and gain the derived health benefits.

That said, it's likely a small but statistically significant increase, not a massive easily observable difference.

[–] Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm unclear as to whether you're saying this is a positive or negative.

I see it as a positive - it means they have a price and that price is the same for everyone without favoritism.

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