Yep, should go without saying! I didn’t list every company but there are plenty more who belong there.

not just chatgpt.

Stop using Amazon, Meta products, Netflix, Spotify, etc.

All of these massive corporations are actively making life worse for people, and it will only get worse and worse as people continue to stay subscribed.

The only option is to log off and find an alternative.

And people will still continue that ‘Conspiracy theorists are nutjobs’ rhetoric.

Yes, don’t get me wrong, believing that there are lizard people or aliens pulling the strings is questionable. But when somebody points at something highly suspicious and says, “hey, look at this, isn’t that weird?” if your first response is, “go get your tinfoil hat” then you’re being closeminded. So much in the Epstein files was called years and years ago, and even today people are reluctant to believe it.

As a QA, I raised the very real risk that should tensions with America escalate, they could effectively cut us off and our business would be kaputt.

What happens if AWS goes down? We use Google. What happens if both go down (or cut us off)? We’re fucked.

The answer to me raising the risk was a, “Haha, yeah, true, we’d be in big trouble…” but there’s no actual appetite to do anything about it. We’re so tied up in AWS that I can’t imagine there ever will be.

I’m not sure why this is getting so much hate. I find it to be quite true for many peoples perceptions.

How many dads have been called our for hanging around a play area, when there own bloody child is on a slide?

How many mums have been called out on social media for posting a video of their child enjoying a burger?

I think there is truth to the comic. Is it true in every scenario? Does it capture what we all think and feel? Is it profound? No, no, maybe not. But it’s still a commentary on a real divide between parents.

I mean for goodness sake, some people describe a father looking after his children as “babysitting” and mums often have so much expectation on them to be perfect. We all benefit from societal commentary like this.

thing you just can’t buy elsewhere anymore

Yes and no. For example I had to buy double-sided tape and went into four different stores in different areas of my city and only found it in the fourth store after researching.

I checked on Amazon after the fact, and could have had it delivered to my door same-day lol.

I don’t believe there’s anything you can only buy on Amazon… but it IS so bloody convenient.

I am looking at using Eufy, no subscription. Unsure of potential of it joining the darkside.

Edit: China-owned, so it’s a pick-your-poison kind of deal.

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Slaves also had it really good. Square meals, plenty of room to stretch their legs, lots of hard work to keep their minds and bodies active. They also received very good medical attention because obviously, their masters didn’t want them falling over dead - they were useful, valued, and had better living conditions of many other humans.

Not sure which strawman you are referring to. If you believe that “most animals” would choose to swap their freedom in nature for the opportunity to live in captivity, I think we are getting into quite philosophical territory. The only example we can use is Humans, and we can both agree that Humans would choose freedom over captivity.

That isn’t what I mean by wild horse. I mean feral, undomesticated animals that roam freely.

Is there a problem with wild horses being hunted? I haven’t heard about that.

Absolutely, horses have it nowhere near as bad as animals that we farm for food and other products. If we are classifying animals lives in a simplistic manner, then I put horses in the “Slave” category and I put farm animals in the “Horrific torture” category. I totally agree with you that I’d rather be a slave than horrifically tortured.

There is a small bit of intrigue here, imagine you get to a boss and think, ‘this is impossible’ but there is an ability to observe a ghost of your character taking the boss on in your gear.

Bare in mind as well that ‘AI’ has existed as a word in gaming for decades and has nothing to do with LLMs, surely this is achieveable purely with the gaming definition of ‘AI’ simply coding the PC also as an NPC that reacts to things.

I’ll die on the hill that horses live as essentially slaves for people to look at and occasionally ride. I’m not sure how we came to the conclusion that keeping these majestic animals in tiny boxes and the same field for their entire lives is anything but barbaric.

I don’t know. It’s not really up to me to figure that out, either. Companies should self-report on their AI usage.

That’s fine, but they did use AI in development, so whether or not they removed the assets they should not be included in this award category.

You are whining about what “girls get away with” I think there is a maturity-issue here for sure, and it is your own.

I don’t think there is any problem with using AI art as a placeholder until the real art is ready.

I also don’t think there is any problem with being disqualified from a competition that says “No AI Art” for doing so.

Or like they submitted a game to an award that said no AI in development, said they didn’t use AI in development, when in reality they did.

Reverse racism is just racism. Not sure what the point or value of the extra semantics are.