SloanTheServal
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SloanTheServal

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Just a serval who gets into all sorts of furry shenanigans.

SloanTheServal 34 points 3 years ago

To be fair, if Metaverse did integrate something like this they would definitely record telemetry data "for development purposes".

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SloanTheServal 15 points 3 years ago

Small brain: Wearing a fursuit for trick-or-treating

Large brain: Wearing a costume with your fursuit for trick-or-treating

Galaxy brain: Wearing a costume based around your fursuit for trick-or-treating. (For example, wearing a Starfleet uniform with a feline partial suit for a Caitian Starfleet officer).

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SloanTheServal 12 points 3 years ago

Border Collie

It's a regular collie

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SloanTheServal 11 points 2 years ago

LLMs (I refuse to call them AI, as there's no intelligence to be found) are simply random word sequence generators based on a trained probability model. Of course they're going to suck at math, because they're not actually calculating anything, they're just dumping what their algorithm "thinks" is the most likely response to user input.

"The ability to speak does not make you intelligent" - Qui-Gon Jin

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SloanTheServal 9 points 3 years ago

They're doomed to be niche (unless they go viral like XKCD), but that's not the fault of them being webcomics. It's because, like any other web content that isn't heavily commercialized, you kinda have to go out of your way to find it. Search engines favor sites owned by big companies, either because those companies are sponsors or affiliates for those search engines or because their sites generate a lot of traffic on their own (which looks good to search engines), and someone who just looks up "comics" is going to be bombarded with pages upon pages of DC and Marvel related stuff before they even see a syndicated newspaper comic, let alone a webcomic.

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SloanTheServal 9 points 3 years ago

This comes off as one of those "we asked if we could, but never asked if we should" kinds of things...

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SloanTheServal 8 points 3 years ago

For the record, werewolves are always human to wolf. Wolf to human is a wolfwere.

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SloanTheServal 7 points 3 years ago

When a dragon decides to hoard knowledge rather than wealth.

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SloanTheServal 7 points 3 years ago

I mean, it will, because unfortunately there's still a ton of people who have that whole "So? Everyone does it, and they already have my info anyway. And there's nothing we can do about that so why bother." mindset.

Still, this is going to cause a massive privacy lawsuit.

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SloanTheServal 7 points 3 years ago

It's always big data, isn't it?

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SloanTheServal 7 points 3 years ago

Doesn't hurt that Microsoft's official answer to "what if my computer doesn't meet the required specs to run Windows 11 or later" is literally "switch to Linux".

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SloanTheServal 7 points 3 years ago

Pretty sure if they're a wolf that sometimes turns into a man, they'd be a wolfwere.

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SloanTheServal 7 points 3 years ago

Red eyes as well? Seems like Bing's mixed up Sonic with Sonic.exe...

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SloanTheServal 6 points 2 years ago

This is really interesting, as it also has implications for life elsewhere in the solar system. Scientists have been debating back and forth whether life could exist in Europa's oceans below its icy surface. Things had been leaning towards "unlikely" due to the reduced light being that far out from the sun, but if non-photosynthetic biological oxygen production is possible on Earth, it could also be possible on Europa.

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SloanTheServal 6 points 3 years ago

It's a great feature to have, and honestly I actually haven't had to use it much either. I've found that Steam does a good job curating things properly based on my library, and the way Steam advertises its listings is mostly unintrusive.

Honestly, I think Steam's "suggestions" system is the only form of advertisement that's actually gotten me to buy something. I wouldn't have known about RPG Maker VX Ace without out otherwise.

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SloanTheServal 6 points 3 years ago

A fursona is also free (technically. Getting art of them can be expensive, but there are a few various "paper doll" style tools you can use to draft out a basic concept for free), is priceless in value, and doesn't fluctuate in its value based on arbitrary economics.

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SloanTheServal 6 points 3 years ago

The point was that not every game was confirmed to work. For a PC game to work on the Steamdeck, it needs to meet two criteria:

  1. Work on Linux, either natively or through Proton.

  2. Have controller support and/or be playable with a touchscreen.

Not every PC game meets this criteria. Some games still don't play well in a cross-OS runtime environment like Proton or WINE. Others are designed specifically for mouse and keyboard, or keyboard alone.

One game I can definitely say is not Steamdeck compatible is SimCity 4. The UI doesn't really work with touch screens well, the game has no native controller support, and it originally released with SecuROM so a physical copy won't even work on modern Windows, let alone Linux.

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SloanTheServal 6 points 3 years ago

Mood, honestly. I wish I could wake up one day as my fursona. Or, well, my main one, anyway.

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SloanTheServal 6 points 3 years ago

Ok, here me out. Maybe, just maybe, they turn into a dog.

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SloanTheServal 6 points 3 years ago

Probably depends on the werewolf.

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