Win or lose, I’m not worried about how it looks in hindsight. The way I see it is we’re doing the best we can with the information we have at this time. It wasn’t looking good for him.

The effects of this change will also be much bigger than this election alone. It’s a jump-start in rebuilding the identity of the party into something that might actually interest voters.

Wonder what the percent of AI datasets being propaganda is

I’m glad they’re adding support, but I also feel like this is a hard one to sell to the general public. If it creates a better experience, word will get around about it, but going on stage and talking at length about how there’s a new messaging protocol would have been a challenge for non-technical viewers

I just read they decided to default it to off. They should remove it entirely imo, but with this move, it costs IT departments $0 and 0 hours of their time to worry about.

I think business + government + education usage is more important for them than personal, and as long as this costs them nothing, I doubt it makes a dent in anyone’s plans. Could have been an apocalypse if defaulted to on though.

(for demonstration purposes only, please don’t think I’m like this)

I think it shows some of the strengths of federated networks. If the owners of a small proprietary social network ghosted their project, it would take a huge effort to try to replace it, which would be insurmountable for many communities. But in this case, a community can fork onto a new server pretty quickly and seamlessly.

This can certainly be done as long as we stick to the five core values - take ownership, take the leap, act with integrity, put the customer first, and dare to innovate.

Millenials were the original “avocado toast” generation targeted by boomers. We’ve been conditioned to protect our young from the real babies in these older generations. But there are good ones and bad ones in every generation.

yes and you can also leave out a plate of cookies where you want a strong signal so the wifi waves will go there when they’re hungry

I still read Reddit sometimes, but I don’t have an account anymore. It’s like reading Facebook posts now. Really, really low quality content. It’s sad, but I like the community here. Lemmy is more like what Reddit was 15ish years ago.

We’re all gonna get old and some of us are going to get dementia. I have a hard time pointing at vulnerable people whose brains are nearly expired and saying “Haha jeez what noobs, how could they be such idiots?”

I guess what I was getting at is that it might take another engine overhaul or two before it starts to feel “next gen” to me. Maybe consumer hardware isn’t ready for a game at this scale that has trees that don’t look like paper, textures that don’t look muddy up close, and some sort of particles floating around in the air so that the world feels less static. There have always been sacrifices made to create a world at this scale that performs well, and I just don’t think we’ve hit peak yet. This stance seems to put people on the defensive for some reason. It’s still a good game, don’t shoot

The engine is literally over a decade old. Yes, they have worked on it in that time, but it’s still Creation Engine with a new major version number. There were moments where I felt as if I was playing some sort of OpenGL demo - when I’m on a quiet part of a planet and all I can see is blocky terrain and a gradient for a skybox. Great game but it would be self-defeating to say there isn’t room for a more immersive sequel.

I said “there are areas” for a reason. Seamless space travel is more polished in NMS. Cyberpunk has more visual polish imo.

It’s not a new engine. It’s a major iteration of Creation Engine, which is called Creation Engine 2, but not built from scratch.

Calling it a GOTY for any year in the last decade is still high praise.

I’ve noticed a huge increase of ragebait AITA posts every time I check the front page. They’re all pretty similar - disowning a child or deciding not to attend a wedding. And people fall for it every time. It’s kind of sad to see one of the smartest places on the internet turn into social media junk food.

I would describe it as a 2015 GOTY. There are areas where other games like Cyberpunk or No Man’s Sky show more polish, and the engine is showing its age, but it’s clear that many years of work have gone into it and you get a lot of content for your money.

The thing I don’t like about it is that there’s a whole board of directors pulling the strings, and spez being the punching bag for all of it (while not undeserved) is exactly what his job is - doing the dirty work of shareholders. I wish there were more “fuck the Reddit board”