Wait…

People still play Fortnite?

It won’t change the fact that no one wants to use your product, Tim.

Wow. Just in time.

It is on a timeline, but not tech.

If you compare 1985 to 2005, holy shit. So many classics because of mind blowing advances.

2005 - 2025… Well, there’s still 2005 games that go hard with some mods. We really rely on gameplay and story to make a classic now.

It’s great for logs and learning the basics, sure, but I find it quickly ends up off the rails.

If a door came off its hinge, ChatGPT will eventually have you build an entire house around it; a house that breaks every building code imaginable, no less.

It’s best you do the steering by double checking it’s claims—usually this points you to a Reddit post where it clearly got the info from—and searching through Wikis and boards yourself. In those cases Linux users may sound like they’re speaking another language, and then ChatGPT can help break their solution down for you and implement it.

If people were to use LLMs for things they’re already experts in, they would realise how frequently and drastically wrong LLMs are. It’s honestly scary knowing it’s out there wreaking havoc on important things and people using them don’t realise.

But I’ve not really used Lemmy for tech support.

I would sooner ask a rabid squirrel for relaxing holiday ideas.

I’ve only seen this expressed in single statement messages, rarely emails or more complex message communication. Periods tend to only be useful for separating standalone statements with sentence complexity, so people may not use them when there is just one statement containing a small word count.

In fact, this is a grammatically consistent behaviour in formal English. As an example, the proper use of a period in bullet points is that they are not used unless the bullet point contained other punctuation marks earlier which increase their reading complexity to a more formal sentence rather than a quick statement. When we message people, we are often just speaking in an exchange of single bullet points due to the inefficiencies of soft keyboards.

If we go into further detail, periods come into play—though, some times we just switch to voice for a more robust and regular style of communication. Similarly, when we use physical keyboards, the speed and ease of them tends to have our spoken complexity go up and subsequently so does the requirement for periods to be used, and they are.

Placing other statement stoppers that are not periods are simply voluntary markers to underscore sentiment of that statement. They honestly have more place in such context as they’re providing actual purpose without the need to expand into multiple sentences or explanation on the slow soft key medium. In that sense, it is also not too dissimilar to and old timer complaining about telegrams using broken English.

Is anyone who’s backed into a corner there because they backed themselves into it?

Yes. The corner doesn’t actually exist. A big mental hurdle is realising there’s nothing stopping someone from doing whatever they want. We have social contracts, but they’re also a part of the problem if taken too seriously.

I frequently remind myself, “If I were born the only human on earth, knowing none of this, what would I be doing right now?” and I aspire to be that person, because that’s the true me.

99% of people’s “life problems” are rooted in other people existing. Others are not to blame, of course, but it’s just something to be aware of when taking care of one’s mental health. The corner only exists and feeds on acknowledgment.

Aye. Internet comments are usually opinion vs opinion; worrying about the thoughts of others first, knowing there’s a conflict to “win” rather than ponder.

Online commentary is usually people never making it past the preface before slamming the book. That’s why news article titles are how they are; few people actually open and read the article.

Experiences be experiences, though. I could well be wrong, but the worst that happens is my advice was irrelevant. I’d be silly to not try help.

My kudos to you for keeping it real and listening to the whole song 🙂

Edit; Sorry, I rambled. In my defence I’m drunk because a bunch of my family died this week. Dunno why I’m saying this, but I guess that’s the ramble. Thanks for listening.

Think you just pinpointed a major kink of your depression. Consumed by what others are thinking, even though that’s their problem and not your’s. I’m sure there’s more, but I wouldn’t be consumed about how you appear to others unless you want to live for everyone else’s ideals and the expectations rather than your own.

Disassociating from that and reclaiming my life was a huge step forward in my depression and anxiety. I think that’s one of the most common mental health pitfalls to not realise you’ve fallen into.

Donations are donations, though.

If you’re coming across mods locked behind donations, they’re not donations. Perhaps this is your confusion.

If you want to reference the old days, you should no doubt remember old PayPal buttons in kod descs.

Content locked behind Patreon is not accessed with donation. It’s literal purchase.

I get it. It sets a precedent that mods shouldn’t eventually be a capital environment. Mods have always been passion projects and have always been paid for with donations.

If there were a hypothetically good balance, it’d be that the developer gets their initial income for the game, worthy of support for continued good quality games from them. Then, rather then releasing shitty DLC for gamers to waste money on, redirect that towards modders with promotions, reminding the audience that they deserve donations. Leading fundraaising events like “modder packs” that’s nothing but a $5, $10, $15 things to pay for with not content attached, for the audience to buy, where the total kitty is distributed to the modding community for their part of carrying the game on.

The last thing I’d like to see is mod slop because once the precedent is set, given a few years later it’s the norm to only get mods after paying for them. This would ruin modding communities and the longevity of games long after they’re developed.

I 100% RDR and killing cougars with a knife still haunts me. It’s exactly as it sounds. Go do melee combat with a gigantic pissed off cat that almost always comes in pairs, sometimes a trio.

Crank the temperature settings and have it say “Trust me, bro.”

I still don’t know why everyone doesn’t just use the 24-hour clock. It’s so much easier.

It’s like someone had doubts people could count much past 12, so just had them do that twice. Or maybe Big Clock didn’t want to manufacture 24 hour faces and sold the lie.

I thought this wasn’t a legal requirement of US carriers, sharing their towers for emergencies. Maybe it’s a state thing.

Because it’s easier just to toggle on the keywords US, Trump, ICE and take a break for a few days.

Team America: World Police

Shit just doesn’t age.

Implying people are happy to buy the shit, which isn’t likely, especially in a competitive environment.

Distro hopped recently. Loving it.

Now I get to say “I use Arch, btw” while still having nfi what I’m doing.