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I don’t think hiring entry level people who regularly use AI will lead to the outcome he envisions. There have been studies that show AI usage can reduce the capacity to learn.

I have a personal, obviously anecdotal, experience where in my team we have a fresh from school business analyst who uses AI for literally every task. Their work is full of repeating ideas (because chatGPT loves to repeat itself), obvious logical errors (because AI can’t reason), useless diagrams (because AI can’t make diagrams, or they don’t know how to prompt AI to make useful diagrams) and the fucking point by point breakdowns that make it blatantly clear it’s just copy pasted AI response. And they don’t learn any vital skills. They don’t know how to get business requirements from the business. They don’t know how to map out business processes. They don’t even know what’s written in their actual output of their “work” because they didn’t do the work, AI did and they didn’t even bother to proofread it.

I have very little trust in junior employees if they regularly use AI. They use it as a replacement for their work instead of using it as tool in their work. I’m not saying juniors shouldn’t be hired. Juniors should be hired and they shouldn’t be allowed to use AI. It’s just brain rot.

I feel like we have pretty good concepts and tools for world gen. If games are going to use AI I’d expect the best results to be in quest systems. Most games struggle to procedurally generate good quests. They end up feeling formulaic in almost every aspect.

I imagine even if the quest structure stays the same simple “go to X and do Y” but you let AI generate a good reason to go on the quest it instantly improves the quality of procedural quests.

But that assumes AI can generate a good reason and I have my doubts about that, and a lot of other things AI supposedly can do.

The first game is worth playing even if you dislike the rest of the trilogy, it’s just that good. Some people like the second or third game more but the first game absolutely nails the sci-fi setting and mystery of the reapers that the latter games IMO are lacking.

Which would contradict their statement:

Our payment network follows standards based on the rule of law. Put simply, we allow all lawful purchases on our network. At the same time, we require merchants to have appropriate controls to ensure Mastercard cards cannot be used for unlawful purchases, including illegal adult content.

A store named “use these toys on fake dolls of children” is horribly distasteful but not illegal.

I can agree that maybe that type of content shouldn’t be sold, but I also understand that’s my personal opinion and not necessarily the law. Me, you or Visa or Mastercard should not be in a position to dictate whether it’s acceptable to sell such content.

You fucking donkey.

Next time read your source instead of believing you can’t be wrong because you’re too technologically inept to use the fucking find function.

I’m done putting up with your aggressive bullshit.

I didn’t lie about anything. The image made two statements. First statement is that dogs can identify us as humans. That statement is irrelevant to this discussion because I didn’t address it all. The second statement is that cats view humans as “terrible incompetent cats”.

The person you replied to asked for a source about those claim but they didn’t clarify which statement they wanted a source for. Now asking source for the second statement can be interpreted three ways. The person asked for a source for cats viewing as cats, cats viewing us as “terrible incompetent” or the previous two together that cats view us as terrible incompetent cats.

You gave a source for that statement but you also didn’t clarify which part the source verifies. So taking the 3 interpretations:

• If the person was asking the source for cats viewing us as cats your source is fine.
• If the person was asking the source for cats viewing us as “terrible incompetent” your source directly disproves that statement. Therefor your source is no fine.
• If the person was asking the source for cats viewing us as cats and as “terrible incompetent” your source is true on the first part but false on the second part which means your source is not fine. If you can’t understand why go back to school to learn classical logic.

Two out of three interpretations means your source is wrong. Just because you want to believe you only addressed that one interpretation where your source is right doesn’t mean you actually did because you never specified which part of the statement you gave a source for. How are we supposed to know that was what you meant?

To put it as plainly as I can put it, had you said “This source only shows that cats view us as cats” I would’ve had no issue with your comment. You left your source open to interpretation and 2 of the 3 interpretations meant you were wrong.

Now this conversation had been over many comments ago if you had just gone “I didn’t think it could be misinterpreted, my bad.” but you continue to demand you were never wrong in the first place. That is why you are getting downvoted and I’m not getting downvoted. You being an insufferable asshole who can’t properly express themselves also doesn’t help. And just to be very clear, I haven’t downvoted you once because unlike you I don’t actually care about upvotes or downvotes.

I already said this conversation is over, your unnecessarily aggressive and rude comment got removed and you still come back with not one but two comments. Do your mental health a service and log off for the next week because you’re acting like a nutcase.

I’m just going to ignore the absolute nonsense you just wrote and say that it’s not my problem if you’re incapable of acknowledging a mistake. Go have a day and don’t bother me.

The image says that. The other person asked for a source for that statement and you gave sources without correcting the terrible incompetent part. I think it’s a fair interpretation that you implied it.

I added that part specifically because it’s so obvious. It’s so obvious we don’t even think about all the fine motor movements we can do with excellent precision that no other animal in the world could even do.

From the very Nat Geo article you linked:

I’ve read articles where you’ve said cats think of us as big, stupid cats. Is that accurate?

No. In the book [I say] that cats behave toward us in a way that’s indistinguishable from [how] they would act toward other cats. They do think we’re clumsy: Not many cats trip over people, but we trip over cats.

But I don’t think they think of us as being dumb and stupid, since cats don’t rub on another cat that’s inferior to them.

They might not be able to understand that we’re a completely different species but they do understand that we’re not your average cat (another evidence of that is that cats generally don’t meow between each other but they do meow with humans) and they definitely don’t view us as terrible or incompetent. They view us as clumsy because based on how they see the world we are in general pretty clumsy.

Bit off topic but another interesting fact is that if we factor in fine motor skills we’re the least clumsiest animal on the planet. Cats have excellent gross motor skills but you don’t see them threading a needle. And very few animals could thread a needle because, well for a multitude of reasons but primarily because most animals simply can’t get that level of precision out of their limbs or mouth or trunk or whatever they would have to use. But for us that is so easy we don’t even question the level of complexity and precision we’re showcasing. Gross motor skills looks like it might bring us down but we’re actually very adaptive when it comes to gross motor skills (see parkour, rock climbing or just gymnastics). We simply don’t spend time developing those skills because most of us never need it. We don’t need to climb over fallen trees or crawl under bushes because if a lot of people need to use that route we just pave a road.

I would like to be excited for a revival of an series that hasn’t seen a game in 20? years, but the trailer and the article just comes across as a bog-standard open world action game with RPG elements. They need to give something more because this doesn’t excite me at all.

I’ve started Shadow of War. It’s sad what WB did with the game when it released, but in its current state it’s a blast to play. The pacing is just a smidge to the slow side but I’m taking it more as a marathon than a sprint, because I am enjoying the core gameplay loop. It’s one of the few games where dying is fun. The story is essentially nonsense and you can see plot twists coming from a mile away, but you’re not playing it for the actual story. You’re playing it for the stories the nemesis system creates.

It’s such a simple system that just creates such memorable stories and enemies. In my playthrough I have an ork who killed me, I then got revenge on them by poisoning them, they then came back from the dead as a legendary with epic poison trait and now I run away from him because he keeps getting stronger. I have another ork who followed me from one area to another, he’s an epic ork with iron will (meaning I can’t turn him to my side) and I keep humiliating him in hopes that eventually I can break his iron will trait. No luck so far but I’ll keep trying.

If anyone is planning on playing it my recommendation is to either start on the hardest difficulty (and focus on collecting skill points because the game does get easier one you have more skills unlocked) or raise the difficulty as you progress until dying is relatively common. You’re simply not going to get the full nemesis system experience if you’re never dying.

It really is. I would go as far as to call it a clickbait article. The title is intriguing but the only addition to the statement is that that the era is over because every game doesn’t need to release with something new. And that’s essentially the whole article as the rest is just filler.

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I decided to give Vintage Story a try. I was not prepared for what I was about to experience. I can already say it’s not for everyone. It’s like if you took Minecraft survival mode and then turned it into an actual survival mode. One of the first things everyone makes in Minecraft is a pickaxe. It took me about 2 hours to get the first pickaxe and then another 10 hours (though I did a lot of other things before upgrading my pick) to get the next tier of pickaxe. I probably would’ve gotten it quicker if I had only focused on that but I had a lot of other survival needs that had to deal with. But to go over what you need to make your first copper pickaxe.

Obviously you need copper. Copper bits can spawn above ground (and a small hint that everyone mentions. If there’s copper on the ground there’s a small vein of copper right below it in the first layer of sedimentary rock). When you’ve collected enough copper you need to smelt it and cast it. To smelt copper you can’t use wood, you need to use charcoal. How do you get charcoal? You make a charcoal pit and burn wood into charcoal. You need an large amount of wood. How do you get wood? You make an axe. How do you make an axe? You flintknap an axe head and combine it with a stick. Now we can smelt copper but how do we cast it? For that you need to create a pickaxe mold. To create a pickaxe mold you mold clay and then fire it in a pit kiln. A pit kiln is pretty much a hole in the ground that you fill with the clay mold, dry grass, sticks and wood and then let it burn for a whole in game day. When you have a mold you put molten copper into the mold. But you can’t just take molten copper and stick it into the mold. You need a crucible to hold the liquid copper and tongs to hold the hot crucible. A crucible is made the same way a mold, you form it from clay and the fire it for a day. Tongs are probably the easiest part of the part of the process as you need just sticks and rope (which you make from cattails). If this feels like it takes forever it’s because it does. This is why it’s not for everyone but my god did this push the right buttons because unlocking the pickaxe felt like a real milestone.

And in case anyone cares what I did for the next 10 hours, I harvested probably about 1000 tule plants to make a thatch roof. I started a farm and collected different kind of seeds (because you need to rotate crop to keep the soil healthy). I made a cellar because your food will spoil within days if you don’t stick them in the cellar. I collected enough copper to make a copper anvil so I could make more advance copper tools. I prospected the land to find tin and lead veins so I could make other metals than copper. I foolishly believed making leather might be easy so I hunted some animals until I looked up leatherworking and then gave up because I hadn’t found limestone (or it’s equivalent) to start the tanning process. Instead I started to make compost from the leather which I will later use as a fertilizer. Oh and I made a fruitpress to make juice from all the berries I’ve found.

It’s a real survival experience and I’m definitely enjoying the complexity of it all. There’s an in-game survival guide that is pretty informative so I don’t need to go online to understand how something works. The game also has a very customizable gaming experience. You can very much tailor your experience to be a bit less survival or significantly more survival. You can also modify the worldgen to fit your needs which is something that got removed from Minecraft. There’s also a really good modding support. So far I’ve added the Carry On mod that lets me move chests and barrels around because when I expanded my base (to have more space for my stuff) moving my stuff around was a pretty annoying experience. I also have my eye on some other mods but those require starting a new playthrough and I want to get a bit better grasp of some of the mechanics before pulling the trigger on a new playthrough.

TL:DR I absolutely recommend Vintage Story to anyone willing to put in the effort it demands. You will be rewarded for that effort.

unless it’s a business shattering literally apocalyptic event.

If that’s not an issue relating directly to their role I don’t know what it.

The only reason they’d wake up 3AM for some crisis is if either the market is collapsing or their company is collapsing. Those things happening unexpectedly is something the majority of CEO-s will never experience. I guess it doesn’t suck to be a CEO when the sucky thing almost never happen.

I think you’re seriously underestimating how big VISA and Mastercard are. Valve is estimated to be worth around 8 billion, Visa made 4.5 billion in profits Q2 of 2025. VISA makes more money annually than Valve is even worth. Furthermore if we exclude China, Visa and MC make up 90% of all online payments. Steam’s entire business depends on online purchases. Steam would be thoroughly fucked if Visa and MC dropped Valve.

What Visa and MC are doing is despicable and something should be done about them, but Valve is not in a position to do anything but bend over and spread the cheeks.

Yeah. There are a lot of story beats that everyone knows GRRM would write (if he only cared to continue the series) and those story beats were in the show. They had enough material to work with, they simply chose to rush through all of it.

Countries probably have something in place that would easily verify a person but it would still take extra effort to make that something work with the system is managing the initiative counting.

It’s simply cheaper to collect all the votes and then do the verification rather than develop integration to verify in real time.