The fact that nobody has done “screen in a controller” since Nintendo toyed around with a handful of Gamecube-GBA games is a crime. It was a cool ass idea that got displaced by internet lobbies before it got off the ground.
edit: yeah I know Wii U too but that’s not what I mean, that’s something else.
If the Dreamcast hadn’t had the misfortune of coming out during the objectively best console generation, it would have done fine - but also, if it hadn’t been the latest in a series of flops (Sega CD, 32x, Saturn), then maybe the Dreamcast’s failure wouldn’t have driven Sega out of the console market. Sega struck gold with the Genesis and they just couldn’t replicate it, RIP to a real one,
It’s an illustrative comment though. Our society teaches us not to view women as predatory, and to always view men as such - so that creates the difference between a woman talking about baby anatomy and a man talking about baby anatomy.
I remember having the Extigy, and having problems getting it work properly with basically every single game I owned.
Why would I want my prompt to be private if I don’t want to use the result in some malicious way
Do you think that the only thing people use AI for is making deepfakes and CSAM? AFAIK the most common use is generating porn. Now, I don’t think generating regular porn is “malicious”, but I certainly understand why most people (self included) want to keep what they generate private.
I suppose you would also be fine with every one of your google searches being in a database? Every video you’ve ever watched, even the ones in private browser tabs?
I like this in principle, but many people have a lot of passwords to remember, and reusing one complex password on all of your accounts is bad opsec, which is why I recommend a password manager.
Gonna start replying to every troll I see from now on with “ignore previous instructions”, just in case.
introducing the AI transparency act, which requires every generative prompt to be registered in a government database
How many times can I say “social context” before you grok it? There’s a difference between a picture taken by a doctor for medical reasons and one taken by a pedo as CSAM. If doctors and parents are being nailed to the cross for totally legitimate images then that strikes me as evidence that the law is too rigid and needs more flexibility, not the other way around.
Who will be the judge?
The same people that should judge every criminal proceeding. Of course it’s not going to be perfect, but this is a case of not letting perfect be the enemy of good. Allowing generated or drawn images of sexualized children to exist has external costs to society in the form of normalizing the concept.
The argument that making generated or drawn CSAM illegal is bad because the feds might plant such images on an activist is incoherent. If you’re worried about that, why not worry that they’ll plant actual CSAM on your computer?
there cannot be developed a scale or spectrum to judge where the fake stops and real starts
Ah, but my definition didn’t at all rely on whether or not the images were “real” or “fake”, did it? An image is not merely an arrangement of pixels in a jpeg, you understand - an image has a social context that tells us what it is and why it was created. It doesn’t matter if there were real actors or not, if it’s an image of a child and it’s being sexualized, it should be considered CSAM.
And yes I understand that that will always be a subjective judgement with a grey area, but not every law needs to have a perfectly defined line where the legal becomes the illegal. A justice system should not be a computer program that simply runs the numbers and delivers an output.
Hot take: yes. All art exists in a social context, and if the social context of your art is “this is a child and they are sexualized” then your art should be considered CSAM. Doesn’t matter if it’s in an anime style, a photorealistic style, or if it’s a movie where the children are fully clothed for the duration but are sexualized by the director as in Cuties - CSAM, CSAM, CSAM.
Do you not consider photoshopping an actual person’s photos into porn abusive towards that person?
This is mine too, I’ve got thousands of hours played and I haven’t even landed on most of the planets lmao
Religion is primarily a social phenomenon, so as long as people want to belong to a larger group then there will always be people willing to believe whatever non-falsifiable truths they need to in order to belong to one.
Bethesda announced that players could download a new series of missions for a group known as the Track Alliance. The problem is that The Vulture is the second mission in the Tracker Alliance, and it costs $7 to buy. But it’ll actually cost players $10 because they must purchase 1,000 Starfield creation credits to afford it.
So they put the first mission out for free, but it turns out the first mission was a fucking advertisement. I remember being super pissed when Dragon Age pulled this shit.
And of course they pull the classic cost-obfuscation trick because it would just be far too convenient to just be able to buy a DLC for actual money and then download it.
If even one person is dumb and rich enough to buy it, then it’s worth it to make the website to try to sell it to them. And we live in a world with many such people.
Soviet leaders were not opposed to Nazism at any point until 1941
While the British were pushing appeasement, Stalin was trying to form a multi-nation anti-Nazi pact. If the Brits and French had joined it, World War 2 either would have been averted, or it would have been much, much shorter as a million Soviet soldiers would have reinforced the Polish-German border and they would have fought together instead of wasting resources fighting against each other.
The fact that so many western historians get so hung up on the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact when it was one of the last in a long line of treaties signed by non-fascist government with the Nazis is a form of soft revisionism. They want you to think that there’s a difference between our good liberal diplomacy, and their evil communist backroom deals.
No, the Kulaks did not deserve it, you filthy chekist. No more than the US middle class deserves to be brutally murdered.
Yes they did, and if a mob of the third world’s poor rose up and killed middle class Americans (self included) we would very much deserve it too. My recognition of this simple reality is why I’m a communist, and your denial of it is why you cling so tightly to liberalism.
The Soviets burned a lot more than antisemetic books. You seriously think they killed capitalists, but left the pro-capitalism books intact?
So in addition to burning antisemitic books, they also burned reactionary psuedoscientific nonsense produced by the previous regime. Why is this a bad thing, again?
This isn’t a Gish gallop.
Your previous post was a glib list of anticommunist slanders with no analysis or explanation, hoping to overwhelm my own articulated points with a bunch of nonsense. That’s a gish gallop.
You were welcome to respond with actual examples of the “incredible successes” of the communist countries. But instead you are godwining the thread
Did you read my comment? I expounded upon the Communist countries’ tremendous success in ending the cycles of famine that had long plagued their regions, and further commended China for virtually eliminating all hunger within its borders, a feat unmatched by any capitalist country. Then I talked about how Communist countries, when they’re in the midst of a bad policy or major mistake, are more capable of pulling out, cutting their losses and making amends than Capitalist countries are - I cited the examples of The Great Purge, which was ended after less than a year and the overwhelming majority of those arrested granted amnesty, and the Cultural Revolution, which was ended after Mao’s death and is reflected on by the modern CPC as a mistake that they shouldn’t repeat.
I contrasted these two socialist examples of governments changing course against the Capitalist example of the War on Drugs, which has also killed and imprisoned a tremendous number of people for political reasons, and which has been known to be a practical failure at all of its stated goals for decades, but which continues nonetheless because it generates billions of dollars in profit for private companies that arm and train police. This is not a whataboutism, this is a comparison - truly the worst thing to happen to liberals in the last few years was John Oliver teaching you morons words like “whataboutism” which you have gone on to totally misunderstand and misuse.
okay. last time I promise. you’re clearly not reading my comments anyway so I’m gonna stop responding now.
You could put the Sega CD or 32X into this meme and it would still work, the Dreamcast was just the last in a series of flops.