Mechanical complexity as in the amount of stuff to learn to "actually play" Minecraft, aside from the controls. For example, which resources are which, what crafts into what, and how to find and gather everything. Its easy enough to punch wood, but trying to figure out (and then remember) how to craft tools or farm food while also trying to remember how to position your fingers on the keyboard is a much bigger ask.

Its going to be a lot harder to play Deep Rock Galactic or Portal 2 together if she sticks with her current perfered movement method: click and drag with the mouse.

Physical copies are kinda besides the point in terms of ownership and preservation. Just because you own the disk, doesn't mean you have access to the software on it. DRM, as well as the laws that make it viable, have been around since well before media was sold digitally. Physical copies of the Crew are no more playable now than digital. If you want to be able to keep your games, you need to buy DRM-free, whether that limits you to digital-only or not.

On the other hand, if you want to actually own your games, we need to massively rework copyright law. The fact that a company can sell you a software licence, but add dozens of arbitrary restrictions on when, how and why you can use it is absurd, nonetheless the fact that its always non-transferable and revokable by the company for any reason. None of that should be legal.

These dumb fucks sold 8 million as 8 billion

Even aside from stuff like this, things they claim to be saving tend to be cut contracts. Contracts that have already been paid, but will no longer have to provided what they'd been paid for.

Bears are predators evolved to hunt large game, primarily with brute force (unlike something like a big cat, which relies much more on ambushes).

Gorrilas, as tough as they are, survive through intelligence. This means avoiding tough fights, and when absolutely needed, fighting as a troop rather than individualy.

So bear. But...

Does the Gorilla get time to prepare?

The one advantage gorillas have is their intelligence. If both animals are given training, or tools, then I could see the gorilla potentially winning - mostly because a bear will struggle to get any use out of either, whereas a gorilla could be trained to fight much more effectively and possibly even make/use weapons.

Not sure how I can remember the main charactor of a webcomic(?) I've never read, but not my own phone number. Its Brainrot Girlfriend.

I checked, its chapter 2, although text has been changed.

Unfortunately, given what I've seen from the party so far (and what I haven't,) I'm not suprised. I've seen almost no marketing or outreach, and what I have wasn't on their own marets, or even was outright deceitful. In particular, an ad that claimed that a vote for them was strategic and using an unrelated poll to prove it, which pretty much lines up with the attacks on the truth described in the article.

I'm probably still going to vote for them, but thats only because my vote doesn't matter, (thanks FPTP.)

You have to consider it, but if you feel your riding is very safe, you can also look at a spoiler vote for someone who actually supports PR or other positive changes.

338 Canada isn't perfect and shouldn't be your only source, but they're one of the bigger, more complete, and more readable sources for polling and projections: https://338canada.com/polls.htm

Honestly, I don't completely get it myself. While yes, a lot of bots are unhelpful clutter like remindme bot, or low quality garbage like most LLM bots, there are many that are genuinely really useful or moderate enough to be funny and unobtrusive. I guess its probably just a mix of annoyance at their frequent overuse, and the pretentious attitude Lemmy often has.

As is, its already very easy to make bots for the Fediverse, and there is pretty good support for it. The limit is just a lack of interested users, and a general dislike of bots here - esspecially novelty ones.

This is something I've been waiting years for. That said, everything about this trailer gives me red flags: the tiny map, the fact that its on a table rather than a more immersive landscape, the toned down graphics, the fact that CIv VII is already lacking in content, and obviously the fact that all the marketing is centered around Facebook.

Tip: if you trust yourself to keep track of stuff, you can just use another password for these fields. I know this is pretty common knowelege in the privacy space, but a lot of people never think of it.

Is the US really that central to PC component manufacturing, or is this (mostly) just a US thing? Like, don't get me wrong, I know a lot of these companies are US-based, but isn't basically all the manufacturing and most of the distribution handled elsewhere?

My point, and the conclusion of the video is more of a "Yes, but..." As he discusses, AI use isn't completely insignificant, but much of the cost (in all aspects) is in R&D and hardware, rather than the results it produces. Its in the same vein as how yes, you should probably feel guilty for using a paper or disposable platic grocery bag over a reusable one, but even if everyone in the world did so, it would make little difference when companies (who do 99.99% of the damage) will continue doing the exact same thing at every opportunity. As AI is driven by speculation rather than by product sales, not using it doesn't stop their IP theft, it may reduce their energy use but likely not a lot (esspecially factoring in human cost to complete a task), and it doesn't stop these companies from manipulating our politics and walking over our laws.

While, technically the video does agree that the answer is 'Yes', the majority of the video is about why that Yes needs a half-dozen asterisks. Simplifying it to just a 'yes' shifts blame away from the ones doing 99.9% of the damage onto individuals who do a tiny fraction of the damage, and who have much less understanding of or influence over the technology.

Except it isn't because the point of the video is in large part, that individual users have little influence over the AI companies. AI companies, as well as their investors and those meant to regulate them (not that those two are separate groups) don't particularly care about the miniscule current revenue to be made. They're collectively gambling rule of law, money, the environment, ect. on the idea that they will make huge amounts of money when AI becomes a true general-purpose artificial intelligence. The way to fix this isn't to not use AI (not that it doesn't help), its to collectively stand against them and actually hold them accountable for their destruction.

Tl;dw: Yes, but much like the idea of individual carbon footprints, putting the blame on individuals also directs away the the actions of those who invest in, direct, and (don't) regulate AI companies. This is esspecially true as AI is driven more than by speculation than by current success. Individuals will have little-to-no impact unless there is collective action to regulate AI companies and hold them accountable for their destruction.

It was a lot of fun. Basically, everyone got Mad Max versions of some of the normal light vehicles for the event, and were dropped into a large desert map. Then, you had to collect different materials (one of which is earned from kills only) and get to an extraction point. Anyone who is killed drops their loot on death. The loot was used to progress a mini-tech tree, upgrading the event vehicles and unlocking non-event cosmetics.

Honestly, last year's (the Mad Max extraction shooter) was really fun. I ground my way through most of that just for fun.

War Thunder's event this year is pretty tame compared to normal, but its still fun.

First, they released a trailer for infantry in their vehicle combat game. This turned out to be a misdirection, and instead, they released an event adding WW1 vehicles.

The event itself is a weird, misbalanced, buggy mess, moreso that normal War Thunder, and moreso than you would expect making experimental anti-infantry vehicles fight each other. That said, its a fun novelty nonetheless.

Play audio through my mobo's built-in 3.5mm jack (without a significant delay). For whatever reason, Mint just really didn't like my mobo, and no one was able to figure it out.