Vespair

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[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 11 points 16 hours ago

Air is a gaseous fluid.

This is just how birds look at all of us.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 3 points 16 hours ago

Sure, she's probably not the reason the film is bad.

That being said, I have never once seen her in anything and not thought "god, couldn't they have cast anyone else?" So like, she sure as hell didn't help this film, or any other she's been in.

And on top of being a bad actress and a fairly unlikeable person in appearances, she's an enormous nepo-baby.

So somehow she managed to be no wrong here, but also entirely wrong here.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If "everyone" keeps reading a sentiment you did not intend out of your message, perhaps it is time to consider that you are doing a poor job of communicating your point.

Or you're being disingenuous and just don't like being calling on your hissy fit.

I dunno, take your pick.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I see this kind of comment before and I will never understand it - "other companies do it so just bend over and let us do it to you too!"

People say this all the time about Denuvo too: "Other games already have Denuvo, why are you crying about it here when you're playing other games?"

And see, that's the problem - we aren't playing those other Denuvo games. And same thing applies here, guess what, a lot of us aren't buying games from gross companies like EA with these shit terms. So when a company we are doing business with suddenly changes their terms to be shit, that's a valid complaint. Some of us have already been boycotting bad business practices in the industry, so the idea of company changing terms towards the boycott after we've already invested in the game feels like a betrayal because it is.

So maybe stop focusing on what you assume the rest of audience is doing and instead go back to focusing on what the people at the goddamn podium are trying to pull?

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 9 points 4 days ago

Frequently the point of comparing the two is to caution before they actually become comparable, though. I think it's intentional hyperbole to make a stark point, not an insensitive reduction.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago

Nobody else has even heard of my favorite film.

A Pyromaniac's Love Story

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 7 points 5 days ago

Not if you want any kind of consistency so you can actually replicate or understand what you're doing. Like hallucinations aside (and we really shouldn't put them aside because they're a very real thing in this context), the point of a recipe is that you aren't just getting an averaged version of the process; you're getting a curated version with specific considerations in mind.

So you can ask AI for a cinnamon apple pie recipe, and you might get an okay one, but you're probably never going to get a better-than-average one. And if you do like the version of the recipe it gave you, you had better write it down because when you ask for it next time, it's not going to be the same cinnamon apple pie recipe. I've personally played around with recipes in AI, and even within the same chat, there's no consistency because it never "knows" anything; it only makes predictive guesses. So when I say, "I like that recipe, but let's try half as much ginger and maybe add some mirin," it will reduce the ginger and add mirin, but suddenly all the volumes of the other ingredients have changed, and some items may even disappear.

So yeah, I think this is something that AI could potentially work well for in the future, as is kind of always the case with any potentially useful AI application right now. But right now, until they've been developed with some kind of better active memory and/or something resembling comprehension rather than predictive association, I think this is a field where AI is passable at best, not yet somewhere it shines.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 8 points 5 days ago

SEO is part of it, but it's also literally just more physical real estate for ads. Recipe sites, including personal recipe blogs, are infamous for the sheer volume of ads placed on them. Yes, everyone just scrolls to the recipe so it kind of doesn't matter, but longer text means more space for ads.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

Dude just wants whatever has a dragon, wolf, or forest on it, he ain't thinking deeper than that.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

Bro's penis must be almost an innie.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

No, I'm pretty sure it means being or becoming a weeb

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

Well I'm forty now and about 6 months ago I decided that after nearly 30 years of listening to metal music I was going to finally learn how to do harsh vocals/metal screaming. Still an enormous amateur, and I have a lot to learn, but basically just this week I finally got to the point where I don't hate listening to my own screams.

So uh, whatever you wanna call that midlife crisis, that's mine.

 

They really need an option in-between normal and light sauce.

That's it, that's the whole post.

 

I'm not talking about the FASTEST, the LOWEST, or the MOST CHAOTIC song, but what's the HEAVIEST song you know?

I've been thinking about this for awhile because I've been trying to figure out why my choice feels so damn heavy to me. I know faster songs, I know more chaotic songs, I know more doomy downtempo atmospheric songs, but for some reason the way these elements come together in this song just feels so massive and crushing to me.

So with that being said, my pick for heaviest song is:

Tsukuyomi (feat. Travis Worland of Enterprise Earth) from Tsukuyomi: The Origin by Distant

Like I said, I know there are songs that are more way extreme in individual ways, but the way these elements come together in this song just feels so goddamn heavy to me - genuinely heavier than a lot of stuff people refer to as heavier.

Anyway, what's the heaviest song you know, or at least the heaviest song that readily comes to mind?

 

Albums are unranked between 2nd and 10th place and are alphabetical by artist instead, but I will list my top album of the year separately:

Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere > Crazy beautiful progressive death metal from space

Chapel of Disease - Echoes of Light > Melodic death metal meets prog rock, super beautiful and super original

Charli XCX - Brat > It's Brat, I don't need to tell you what this is.

Future Islands - People Who Aren't There Anymore > Great synthpop and maybe the coolest sound you might hear on mainstream radio right now

Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To > A basic choice, everyone loves this, but everyone loves it for a reason

Left to Suffer - Leap of Death > Hyper-melodic deathcore with nu metal sensibility; I think this album almost does for deathcore what Finch's What It Is to Burn did for post-hardcore or A Day to Remember did for metalcore

The Cure - Songs of a Lost World > Really unexpected to me, this is beautiful and is my current favorite The Cure album

Thou - Umbilical > Dense and emotionally weighty sludge doom metal from one of the best bands in the sound

Tyler, The Creator - Chromakopia > I'm a Tyler stan; this doesn't hit the heights of his best albums for me but is excellent still

And my top album of the year:

Bilmuri - AMERICAN MOTOR SPORTS > Simply the best country, alt metal, post-hardcore, pop punk crossover album I've ever heard, even if admittedly that's an incredibly narrow field. Genuinely great, not just a novelty, AMERICAN MOTOR SPORTS is without the question the album I've returned to the most, and I don't see any signs of tiring of it yet. Just a tremendous album.

Those were mine tops, but what did I miss? What were your top albums of 2024?

Or hey, if you hate any of my picks, feel free to tell me about that too, I'm cool with differing view points. It's just fun to talk music.

 

I've got no association with the game, any developers, publishers, whatever, I just really like the game a lot.

Of the pokemon-likes I've ever played, it's easily my favorite, in part because it's one of the most creative. In fact it's barely a pokemon-like, just taking the basic formula and then really doing their own thing with it.

Great story, great gameplay, great vibes, and decent (but not stellar) post-game.

Recommended for anyone who likes monster collector games or quirky indie games.

 

I thought it was sick as hell, definitely a huge upgrade from the previous season (which wasn't on my radar originally; I watched it after season 2). Genuinely one of the best things I've watched on youtube in a while.

 

(If this question is inappropriate or better suited elsewhere, please let me know, and I can remove it.)

I have a mostly personally digitized media library on external USB storage that I am looking for a convenient and effective way to watch in 4K on my home non-smart television. I'm not interested in solutions for accessing streaming pirated content, unlocking subscription-based services, or anything of that nature; I'm just looking for a way to connect a USB-C external drive with loose media content (largely H.265-based 4K video and FLAC audio files) at the best quality on my home television.

I understand that Android TV boxes are available cheaply on Amazon and might be a viable solution, but this video from Linus suggests these can be malware nightmares, so I'm wary of trying any of those. Linus went on to make a follow-up video, but either his suggestions for my use cases were unclear, or I am not savvy enough to have understood them. For example, he mentions in the follow-up video that the Google Chromecast might be specifically bad for this due to the bottlenecking of the USB 2.0-based transfer speed, but I don't think he ever brings up the topic directly again or suggests which of the other options presented is particularly good for external storage media file playback.

If this option can also replace my current Amazon Fire Stick as my go-to media center option with access to the typical streamers (YouTube, Netflix, Crunchyroll, etc.), that would be especially incredible.

If this option comes with some kind of software/media library solution that would allow me to track watched progress in my personal media library in a way similar to how streaming services do, that would be double especially incredible.

And hey, if there's some way I could connect a controller to play some retro emulated games on it too, that would be amazing, but that's absolutely not a necessary component.

I don't have a high budget, so ideally, I'd like to keep costs in or around $50 if possible, but if that's unrealistic, I'd appreciate being told so I can adjust my expectations.

I'd say I'm a "high-level ignorant" or "low-level savvy" consumer; I feel like I'm not technologically illiterate but definitely would not call myself truly savvy or skilled. I've put PCs together from purchased components but would have no idea how to build or repair an individual component itself. I'm up for learning if the task is approachable, so if the best solution is something like a custom-built Raspberry Pi, I'm not opposed to the idea, but I have no real knowledge going into this and am more interested in a solution to the problem at hand than the edification that might come with such a project. So basically, if we're talking about a simple "build a media center in a box" sort of Pi kit, I might be able to manage, but if we're talking about a months-long project of tinkering and trials, then that's probably not the solution I'm looking for.

Anyway, I appreciate in advance any insights or feedback anyone is able to offer.

edit: @Hendrik correctly pointed out a discrepancy in my post regarding lack of "dumb" 4k TVs. I was trying to simplify things, but in reality my situation is one 1080p “dumb” TV and one modern 4k which I think is a Vizio brand smart TV. I am looking for a solution I’ll be able to move between both.

 

Denuvo = 🤮

 

Not trying to start anything, and if this is the wrong place to post about it I apologize, I'm not sure where else to broach the topic, but as a user I've noticed an enormous increase is moderator action today and I'm curious if there was some catalyst that the userbase should be aware of. Prior to today, the modlog shows only a few mod actions most days, and previous entire months can fit within one screenview. Furthermore, most of those actions were locking posts or removing and reprimanding specific offending comments. Yet today there is an entire wave of moderator actions, including such vague notes as "Troll Post" on meme posts with significant engagement.

I promise I'm not trying to start drama, I am just concerned as I love Lemmy and want to see it and the community thrive, and I am concerned about the same issues that plague Reddit could potentially find their way here.

That said, I also understand this isn't a democracy, so if the reply is simply "that's how it is," I guess I'm going to just shrug and accept it.

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