Michał Kiciński is not the owner of CD Projekt. He was a co-founder, but left the company in 2010, though he still owns shares in it.

Any “IRL Yandere” would be a horrible person IMO. I don’t see any issues with liking such tropes in fiction, but in real life, stalking and that kind of obsessive behaviour is definitely not okay. I would just stay far away from that community.

My heart stopped at reading “GoG is getting acquired”, but that doesn’t sound so bad.

“Real” brands will usually have a proper website where you can learn about their products, whereas those Amazon pseudo-brands generally don’t, or only have a generic template. For example, something like 8bitdo or Fiio are what I’d consider proper Chinese brands.

Yup. I’ve had massive driver issues with lengthy troubleshooting on both Linux and Windows before. Even had to switch to a completely different distribution once, because it wouldn’t play nice with my GPU.

If you pretend like everything always works seamlessly with Linux, you’re bound to give people false expectations that will very likely be disappointed.

In the 90s they put random English phrases instead of translating.

Nah, that’s just not the case for Pokemon. Looked it up and in the Japanese version he says 「たんパンうごきやすくっていいぜ」or “It’s nice that shorts are easy to move in”. Same meaning basically, dude just likes shorts in any version.

That’s actually a legal gray area in Germany. It’s unclear whether the browser cache legally counts as downloading. In any case, it’s not enforced. It’s only torrenting/uploading that gets people into trouble.

When Steam had its outage recently, I decided to go through my GOG library instead to find something to play. Noticed I had the Thief Trilogy, which I had never played, so I gave the first game a try. I wouldn’t have thought that a 3d-game from 1998 would hold up so well! It pretty much does stealth as good or even better than modern games. Sound design is brilliant as well. I’m 10 hours in and quite hooked on it right now.

So what conclusion do you draw from this? If humans can’t be trusted to make any judgement, literally anything should be considered to be capable of suffering, including pebbles, rainbows and paper bags? Seems like an impractical way of living.

Vibe coding with even more power consumption, lovely.

Where do we draw the line though? Humans assign emotions to all kinds of inanimate things: plush animals, the sky, dead people, fictional characters etc. We can’t give all of those the rights of a conscious being, so we need to have some kind of objective way to look at it.

Fundamentally impossible to know. I’m not sure how you’d even find a definition for “suffering” that would apply to non-living entities. I don’t think the comparison to animals really holds up though. Humans are animals and can feel pain, so of course the base assumption for other animals should be that they do as well. To claim otherwise, the burden should be to prove that they don’t. Meanwhile, Humans are fundamentally nothing like an LLM, a program running on silicon predicting text responses based on a massive dataset.

“Advertise” to me implies a commercial purpose. So for a Lemmy community “promote” sounds more appropriate IMO.

Will I finally get the single player portion of the pack-in game that came with my Radeon R9 280?

I don’t really see the similarity, the two letters at the end? If so, seriously? I see it as a lighthearted way to refer to AI in a way that makes fun of people who think it’s this amazing technology of the future, when it’s really just a fancy statistics machine that can’t separate between truth and fiction.

Not quite. Larian also wants to use it for concept art, which is not the same thing as placeholder assets. To give you a bit of context, the standard for placeholder textures at the software development companies I worked so far has mostly been “vaguely fitting images you found on Google”.

Looks like it’s this.

Wonder how many of those courses are AI-generated themselves…

I don’t know about him specifically, but I’d say it’s a shift in opinion that many of us went through. 2008 was a very different world. Amazon wasn’t quite the evil empire it is today. It was one of the only usable online shops, leagues ahead of almost everything else available.

Welcome back! BTW, there were some users wondering whether you’re okay some months ago: https://pawb.social/post/33129287

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is excellent.