Ioper
23hr ago
metal supplies that we do not have on earth (Simon Michaux calculated that current estimated lithium reserves are not sufficient to even replace the global fleet of personal transportation vehicles with electric cars
So we'll transition to sodium ion batteries eventually? CATL is supposed to begin mass producing them in December this year, with a broadly comparable energy density to LFPs.
Ioper
1d ago
I think there is case for playing the origin character of a character whose personality (and possibly VA) you dislike. You still get to experience their particular story but you don't have to deal with their personality.
Ioper
2d ago
All of your stories of your life are so fucking bizarre, man. Its like you have made it your life's mission to only interact with the insane.
Ioper
2d ago
It wasn't computationally intensive before either, the issue was access to the data, being allowed to use the data and having analysts/enigneers that aren't complete retards.
Ioper
2d ago
Isn't that tied to the AI content just being bad? The issue I'm having is much like with JJ's mysterybox style story telling, there is no point, it's just narratively stringing people along. It works for a while but then people get pissed.
If there was a point and it wasn't completely inane then I'd wager almost no-one would care about whether something was AI made or not. The amount of people seeking out (good) human performances of music and theatre is microscopic, even when it's free!
It's easy to grandstand about not consuming AI slop (not saying you are) when it's uniformly abject shit.
Yeah 500k CAD is cheap unless one is living in a complete shithole. It wasn't expensive even a decade ago...
This was always a bit of an older community (by internet standards) but looking back at its founding it was directionally accurate even here. Look at the amount of posts from people early in their career, and they've been here for some 10 years. You were at fairly good odds of talking to a teenager.
Furthermore I'd argue that the claims of the self-righteous immature person with infinite free time is even more true for the median college attendee than the median highschooler.
It really depends on the program/major. Its pretty easy to figure out which is which by looking at how much time students spend studying each week.
Only engineering and medicine reach 40h a week, with the median for other programs being less than 10h including lessons.
Law school is somewhere in-between with people putting in some 18h a week on average, although my understanding is that top students spend in excess of 40h a week and if you just want to pass you can spend far less.
Its a bit funny when you read about some "elite" school where people apparently only spend 12h a week on school, with the implicit understanding that the students are expected to do full time internships concurrently with the education. The purpose of the education itself is just providing a really barebones foundation and act as a competence filter for internships.
They seem to ignore the point that the inconvenience of suburban living is not a bug but rather a feature. That kinda the point is to keep out, well, riff-raff for lack of a better word.
Plenty of urban environments do this as well. To the extent American cities aren't doing this is a *choice*.
There are plenty of other reasons to prefer urban, suburban or rural living but keeping away the riffraff isn't an inherent issue for any of them. Just like many of the "urbanist" complaints about soulless suburbs aren't inherent problems with suburbs just things that are most notable in some American suburbs.
I was considering replaying BG3 and was wondering about which mods might be good. My first thought was some kind of narrator replacement since I really dislike the default one.
I found AI versions of both Lenval Brown and William Morgan Sheppard, both of which seem pretty good.
Does anyone have any other versions they like or some other kind of mod they find to be essential?
Ioper
15d ago
I know people who buy specialty ingredients through restaurants but they don't do it as a delivery through Uber eats.
This usually comes down to buying specialty ingredients that aren't readily available to consumers, or in that particular area.
Sometimes the restaurant actively markets this stuff and sometimes you have to get to know the owner.
Ioper
16d ago
It is better, with a few segments that are genuinely good, but ultimately its still a Larian game.
Ioper
17d ago
It doesn't matter much for how the game plays. It's still a larian game with the same kind of gameplay and writing, but better.
Ioper
17d ago
What is it that you dont know? If you liked the divinity games then this is a no-brainer, it's effectively Divinity 3.
I was a bit worried about the direction of this stuff a decade ago but it petered out, at least in the fields I'm exposed to (private sector industrial concerns, finance, tech, healthcare and large governmental organisations).
I've seen fairly mild tendencies of this in tech, especially American companies, but nothing major.
There are sectors that seem a bit broken, like academia and media but i have never worked in either sector and dont really know anyone that does so it might just be my negative bias.
Perhaps things are really different in Germany compared to the Nordics. Even though i lived and worked in Hamburg for a while I can't say I have any great insight into the state of things and it's hard to compare.
At least here, people complaining about this stuff today are almost invariably bitter losers, rather than pointing at something real. There is discrimination against men, but it isn't really happening there.
Safe horny, maybe. It's more a whimsical anything goes kind of game that happens to feature sex, like all Larian's games.
All the romances are profoundly unsexy and unhorny, despite (or perhaps because of) you being able to stumble into having sex with an errant dialogue choice.
Is it? A lot of documentaries and internet content is like that.
Take the internet historian's video about the sinking of the Costa Concordia, i was barely aware of it having happened but the story of how crazy the disaster was was interesting on its own without any investment in the actual real world event.
TLJ was interesting because it was such a thorough disaster that it seemed almost scientifically made to be as bad as possible and destroy any future for the Star Wars brand. I'm not a big star wars fan but I remember spending many hours theory crafting with friends about how one could possibly fix things without something ridiculous like time travel or a reboot. When something is as big as this is this bizarre, it tickles the brain.
Ioper
24d ago
There is a button in the bottom right corner when you're in the menu where you select which episode to play. I think it's 'y' on a controller or tab by default.
Ioper
25d ago
Played it on your recommendation and it has easily the best directed video game cut scenes I've seen, by a good margin. Its barely a game but hey, it's still pretty good, with some scenes being really good.
As for your complaint, are you aware that you can choose to replay specific scenes, including the resource management game?
I've never really learned it and I'm an engineer that graduated with top grades 15-20 years ago. The only occasion I've needed it was during the SATs and it was easy enough to figure out during the test.
It's both useless and easy at the same time.
This model is similar to Europe, where getting into a top school is trivial, but a majority of students are weeded out through rigorous freshmen courses. It gives the impression of egalitarianism, while maintaining the high bar necessary to survive in difficult majors. There seems to be a class system emerging at these universities. The name of the university will mean little unless paired with the major that the student completed.
There is a bit of this but its even more that specific programs/majors at specific schools are prestigious. Getting into the school itself isn't necessarily a great feat (unless it's tiny and prestigious, so that the program and the school is the same thing), getting into the prestigious programs/majors at the prestigious school is. People are often not allowed to switch "majors" either, you'll have to reapply and keep whatever credits that are applicable.
Ioper
27d ago
but the effective cost to produce and distribute that kind of thing was never zero, the way it is now.
Yes it was, because people were willing to do it for free and studio space has also been available for free for decades.
Distribution became free at least 15 years ago and well before AI.
The thing that has been in limited supply is attention and interest, and that been true for like 50 years at least.
I'm also pretty convinced all this will backfire but
I mean sure, but the immigrants we need, and that are willing to come, don't exist in remotely sufficient numbers.
The ones that are willing to come are both a social strain and a massive financial drain.
We're not solving the financial consequences of fertility crisis with immigration, we're making it worse.
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