Always said it would be around $1000. If I wanted to be petty, I'd have saved the comments of people who said no way it would be over $700-800, but I don't.

A lot of people said it wouldn't be DOA at $1000 though.

I've heard this is an assumption. I've never heard it backed by anything. The argument was made to me 25 years ago in reference to anime/drawings of CSAM, suggesting that paedophiles would "settle" for the fake and not harm children.

I assume — I have no proof either way — it would just normalise their behaviour and they would continue to offend. I feel like you could give them access to everything that's already been made (even the real stuff, for the sake of the argument) and they would still want to harm actual children. I don't think fuelling their fantasies is going to make them stop trying to fulfill them.

Even if only one person buys it, that covers the cost of vibe coding this shit.

The iPhone did it over a decade ago with I AM RICH, an app that just showed a diamond. Or a ruby? IIRC it was red. The app simply opened an image anyone could get. Rappers and other influencers bought it just to show it off. Showing the image was cheap, anyone could do that. Showing it open from the app on your Home Screen (before you could use Shortcuts to fake it) was the prestige. And people did it.

It's marketing. Corpos decide what you listen to when you rely on the radio. There's always a better artist or band than what the radio is playing (or streaming services are highlighting) but they may not fit what the corpos want you to hear.

The immigrants aren’t taking our jobs. They’re doing the work “we” don’t want to do. Agriculture. Janitorial. Construction. Stuff like that.

And they’re not making computers and games more expensive.

Couldn’t be me… but some people don’t care that Meta can read their messages. Or they still don’t know but I doubt it.

Mark Zuckerberg has a term for these people…

The original is fine. And for the time it was revolutionary. It was a technical achievement, partly sponsored by Steve Jobs when he was in exile from Apple.

The sequels are kind of mediocre though.

They are popular which is why they keep making them.

Japan has been running circles around Disney for years. Disney still puts out quality work though.

I should have guessed from the name, but the context seemed to imply it was another Shifter type (DeusEx.u modifying) mod and thus, incompatible.

I want to try that.

Is Shifter still the gold standard or is there something better now?

That’s two birthdays in my town (New Leaf) and one on my island. I have Marina in both games (rightly so, she is awesome) and Kidd also in New Leaf.

What is “Lay D Denton”?

I still think of Shifter as the QoL mod, but I haven’t been in the scene for years.

There is no justification for lethal force for stealing diapers. The lost profit is a rounding error for the store. Not even that, their prices actually account for some shoplifting. Prices don’t go down when they catch a shoplifter, they’re just double-dipping.

Black shouldn’t matter; it’s a sorry state of affairs that this is a problem in {current_year}.

That’s gonna be a hard no.

Unfortunately, for many people that hard no will become a soft no, which will become a maybe, which will become sometimes, and then it’ll be commonplace.

I’m pushing 50. I’m starting to wish I’d been born like 30 years prior. To still witness peak technology, but to dip before the big fall. Rather than having to survive it. I just hope we will.

VVVVVV?

I wanted to block all of Hexbear when I was new to Lemmy. I just didn't know how.

I don't love Hexbear, but I've learned to tolerate them. They are on a whole other level over there, and I couldn't be a Hexbear user, but for the most part, they're cool. They're just a little wild. Kind of like us (dbzer0 users), but in a different way. I'm glad I didn't block their instance.

Just... don't poke the bear. Because that is one bomb-ass bear. (I got mocked once for not understanding the context behind that joke of theirs. I don't care. I like bears in general, so I'll use it my own way. They wanna explain it, I'll listen; otherwise I'll just keep on keepin' on as the old song said.)

You got some good answers already, but I feel like what's missing is "so they can say they did something." That is, if they do nothing, people complain (like the comment about the Karen who saw nudity on their neighbor's screen), they have some recourse. "We edit what we can but at the end of the day, you can't call the police because you looked in your neighbor's window and saw them watching a porno or a violent movie, it's no different on the plane, watch your own screen and don't worry about what others choose to watch."

To clarify what someone said about countries, if you're flying to/from the Middle East or Russia, I don't think you can show anything gay because that's illegal in those areas. It's a fight they don't want.

I don’t. I browse /all and block stuff I don’t want to see. Grifters, people who post dick pics outside of gay or penis communities, and other stuff I don’t want to see. I don’t block NSFW but I leave it blurry. Most of the time I don’t want to see it (Demi/Ace) but sometimes I do.

Still watching The Expanse, but we’re in the final season. For short episodes we just started The Apothecary Diaries! Beautiful art style. Story is a bit slow in the first episode.

Bullshit.

Mankind Divided was hot garbage. The original is a classic, that goes without saying. Invisible War was good, it was just held back by technical limitations (like a forced 30 second load screen every couple minutes). I can explain why people didn't like Invisible War and why it had to be that way. I have before. But if no one cares, then moving on: Human Revolution was nearly as good as the original. It was at least as good as Invisible War if we set aside the technical limitations.

Cyberpunk 2077 honestly beats all of them. It's not just prettier. Deus Ex rode the coattails of The Matrix. Cyberpunk 2077 actually starred Keanu Reeves, with Cherami Leigh (Asuna, from Sword Art Online) as the main character, and then Idris Elba (Luther from Luther) as the main character of the DLC. And that's just the voice talent. The game looked amazing and it still sets the bar for what an action RPG can look like. Whether you call them augmentations, biomods, or whatever Cyberpunk 2077 calls them (I'm a DX purist; they're augmentations; get off my lawn), Cyberpunk 2077 beats any Deus Ex with the Kiroshi eye implants, the Mantis Blades, the boost-jump legs, and more. And of course you have a real open world. And actual music. Sure, Deus Ex walked so Cyberpunk 2077 could run, but it's not that games don't have the same DNA. They've gotten better.

Also, the only Deus Ex developer I really care to hear from is Warren Spector. I don't know who this other person is, but again, Mankind Divided sucked.

Ew, paywall. I'd ask you to use free and open sources, but, you're the mod. Please don't smite me. That being said, I can't see the article because I'm not a paying subscriber — and I'm not willing to disable my security software so they can install files on my machine or whatever they want to do that my security software is stopping them from doing.

Love these books. I'm about 12-13% into the second one (Apple Books gives me a percentage if I ask, and I usually do). I'm also listening to the audiobook, which is fantastic.

While I'm excited for an adaptation, I fear we're looking at another Ender's Game, where the audiobook is the superior adaptation. With Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card (bigot, by the way — so yes, I know, if anyone asks) knew they would never make a faithful adaptation of his book, so he endorsed the audiobook as the superior adaptation before ever seeing a film script. The book was made into a movie about 10-15 years ago, and it was pretty good, but they had to age up the kids, like in Game of Thrones, albeit for different reasons. I don't really see a similar problem with a Dungeon Crawler Carl film (or anime as many seem to want), but it's not something that's going to translate well to film (or TV). It really is a game you're riding shotgun on.

I feel like a video game based on Dungeon Crawler World would go over better, being a massively multiplayer online game that is done in seasons. You'd be able to log out, but you'd want to do it in a safe room, and you'd still be subject to being killed (for example, floor collapse).

I'm betting MrBeast is trying to figure out how to do Dungeon Crawler World IRL somewhere. If you don't know, he's a YouTuber. I think he's American. He challenges people to do dumb shit and pays the winners generously. I don't watch him; I think he exploits poor people for entertainment and I'm not with that, but he is quite popular.

Start with the mirror.

The stupid user can always learn. Which is funny, because the more I learn, the more I realise how much is out there left to learn. I could never learn it all in ten lifetimes. Which makes elves so interesting, they have the time, but most of them just hang around in the woods all day. The stories are about the few who venture out into the world. Most do not. Which is probably some kind of reflection on our own society.

The hostile one usually has deeper problems that require therapy. But I can't be your couch. I'd probably just make you worse.