The US has no federal requirement to pay for unworked hours, be they sick or holiday time off work.

"Federal" is the weasel word here. All states have their own requirements, including sick time, holiday time, and how long you can go without a break. Also, I've never seen an employer not offer PTO. Even your local McDonalds has paid vacation for full-time employees.

While I wish it was codified into federal law, your implication that nobody has vacation time in the US is patently false.

You're posting on hexbear.net...

You mean the second one? There wasn't a sex scene in the third one, just a BDSM bar that the Merovingian and his very-well-endowed wife were hanging at.

Can't exactly support a platform named tankie.tube.

This article has big "she's not good enough, so we should stay home" energy.

The headline seems like a particularly reductive and shitty take, especially considering she's a child of Indian and Jamaican parents.

Pathological Liar Lies Non-Stop in Debate! News at 11.

I feel like you’re mixing up some companies, these sentences make no sense in the context of Embracer. Are you talking about Bethesda?

No. Microsoft.

Microsoft has no such excuse. MS leadership has been asked multiple times why they did it, and they literally haven’t said a single fucking word that makes sense.

I feel like you're defending the wrong thing here. Wondering why MS shudder the studio is like asking a snake why it attacks its prey. It's a fucking snake. That's what it does. That's always what it does.

Embracer screwed up and let itself be absorbed into the Microsoft empire. They have their IP. They care about nothing else.

The demo was neat, but it was hilariously overhyped, even in the abstract paper. It was pretty damn obvious that the researchers were just trying to continue funding their research with a PR push.

The more interesting aspect was the potential for better AI video processing, not creating a game engine. You can't create a game engine without a series of defined rules, and you can't define those rules without documenting it in programming language.

Not even once.

A Mastodon user stumbling upon one of these comments could easily assume that it is just another fully independent “toot” (Mastodon’s equivalent of tweet).

Wait, back up... Mastodon calls these "toots"? So, everybody is posting farts?

That kind of ownership clause is pretty standard for mods, especially when the game officially supports mods. Game studios don't want to run into legal issues if they release some DLC or patch that happens to implement features that another mod included.

They're all on F95.

Then I woke up, at first impressed that I did that. Then I just couldn’t help but wonder if I was just dreaming that I lucid dreamed and that the choices I made were actually just a part of the dream.

Your choices in a dream are colored by the reduced mental output you have when you're dreaming. In a dream, you might make a lot of dumb decisions than make perfect sense in the dream, but are immediately illogical when you think about them awake.

With lucid dreaming, you have an increased self-awareness, but you're still in a low-activity brainwave state.

That's the thing about automation and training models.

First, they implement some sort of auto-reporting bot that requires a human to review them. In the beginning, it only about 50% accurate, but as they give it more and more examples of good and bad results through the human reviews, it moves to 80%, then 90%, then 99%, then 99.99% accuracy.

After a while, the humans on the other end are so numb to the 9999 entries they have to mark as approved that they can barely tell what's a rejection themselves, and the moderation team is asking itself just what this human review is actually doing. If it's 99.99% accurate, why not let the bot decide?

Then, the model moves on from auto-reporting to auto-moderation.

your reign of terror shoulda ended with Indigo Prophecy.

Well, at least it ended with JASON!

Gee, I wonder why that so popular...

It's not. I can easily pull the thumbnail image of any YouTube video. Same with yt-dlp.

For some reason, Lemmy can't figure out this simple template: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VIDEO_ID/hq720.jpg

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Somewhat unrelated, what the fuck is up with Lemmy not auto-loading YouTube thumbnails on new posts? I have to fetch the thumbnail PNG image each time, and not everybody knows how to do that. This is not a problem with any other link type.

Watch this instead

If you're not first, you're last.

-Ricky Bobby

The Eagles?

Okay, now you're just trolling. Goodbye.

Not just acceptable, but literally already posted.

We also learn in the FAQ that Easy Anti Cheat will be used on PC at launch

I'm sorry, but what part of that says Denuvo or DRM?

but is concerned about hosting fees for serving images to millions of people

People stopped caring about image bandwidth decades ago. Try wrangling a video-hosting problem, like PeerTube does.

From the FAQ:

Q: Does the game use DRM software (ie. Denuvo…)?

A: No.

What "at launch" part?

we’ll burn out from endless selection of predictable movies and other entertainment

We aren't already doing that? Even without AI, most of today's writers suck ass, and corporate meddling has stomped out risk taking. Writers have no chance to build experience with good shows with longevity. With no risk, there is no creativity.

All of the good series were ones from cable TV. Breaking Bad, Sopranos, old Star Trek, Mr. Robot, Babylon 5, House, Rick and Morty, Game of Thrones (even if it ended badly), Better Call Saul, The Expanse (which died immediately after it switched to Amazon), Gravity Falls. About the only streaming series I really enjoyed was Loki, and that only lasted two seasons. Anything else might have a good first season, but they chop out any sense of character development by making these season 6-8 episodes long. No episodic content. No character development. Just go go go towards the seasonal end goal. And then get cancelled, because they didn't get a chance to shake out the mediocre ideas and improve their direction. Can you imagine Star Trek:TNG being represented by only their first season, and then cancelled as a result of that?

All of the recent good movies were from directors that had a chance to take risks back in the 2000s, and are now given full creative control to do what they are good at. Dune was a great movie, but it simply adapted the source material, and was given enough budget and resources and creative control to Denis to produce what it needed to be. How many good directors will be left when the old guard retires?

All of the good games are from indie series now. Concord is being getting review-wrecked and shat on, while people focus more of their attention on an fucking asset-flip game about a squirrel with a gun. All of the good bigger studios are gone, fully absorbed into the Microsoft/ZeniMax/WB/EA empire. Only the first or second-time indie game developers are the ones producing good games.

Hell, at this point, maybe AI would do a better job than the shit that's out there. I doubt it, though. It's too half-baked right now.

No, they aren't. The rule on the community is not that specific:

Images of text-designs, that are barely readable due to the placement of the words or letters

Also, the stats on that community:

• 926 subscribers
• 7 posts in the last 3 months

Remind me again why we're creating a competing community to suck the life out of one that barely gets any posts?

Yep, that's my read as well. No idea what he's talking about.

This has to be one of the best examples.

Is "No." an over-specific denial?

From what I’ve read they tried to combine the console and PC version into a unified single version.

JFC. Starting off with something that is cross-compatible is one thing, but trying to merge the two codebases together... that's a 2-3+ year effort, minimum.

Was banned for saying that it’s not very difficult to self-med on !@adhd@lemmy.world due to “bad advice”

Because you're not a doctor, or any sort of medical professional, and even if you were, you couldn't recommend medicine to other people for self-medication. Everybody's different, and responds to medication differently.

Literally 1984.

Literally.

In general self-medicating safely is something us ADHDers should come together around and build a community to share advice on how to do it while minimizing harm.

How about coming together, gather around Congress, and get them to change the law? Or broadcast what this bullshit is to more people? Or vote for people who push this as an issue?

That seems a helluva lot more useful than a community of people pretending they know what they are talking about and literally dying because somebody recommended they go order black market tainted shit online.

Ditto.

Dev being an asshole and not accept Linus' code review = Rust is bad?