adam_y

adam_y, 1 month ago

Yes neurotypical people all find the same things beautiful, they have a famous saying about beauty being in the eye of the beholder, which means just that.

adam_y, 1 month ago

It is a great step forward, but the barrier to entry is relatively high. You can sign up to substack for free and they take a cut of your profits (that most writers don’t draw enough attention to earn.

Meanwhile ghost charges $9 a month, billed annually.

That’s a significant barrier to anyone that can’t afford to see if their writing will be popular and as long as that remains it will struggle to gain traction in the same way.

And yeah, I know you could host your own too, but again a price point and a technical barrier.

I like ghost, the interface and the ecology, but the truth is that it isn’t going to attract the sort of vibrant, young community it needs if you have to stump up $108 just to see.

I think one of the great things about 2000s/early 2010s internet was the proliferation of free to use platforms like livejournal, blogger and WordPress. Sure there was a lot or jank, but I found some of my favourite writers back when they were scratching their name into the internet.

adam_y, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I think it is a question of representation.

If they say what this is, then fine, if they don’t then its a problem.

The reason being that an artist rendition is almost clearly an artist rendition, whereas ai imagery can look cannily like an actual photograph, and therefore present itself as a primary document.

The problem with misrepresenting, whether deliberately or accidentally, primary documentation is that this is supposed to be a documentary, one of the few show types where fact and accuracy (should) matter.

adam_y, 1 month ago

We did it boys, a spongebob meme that tends towards being ageist, racist and sexist at the same time. Wonderful work.

adam_y, 1 month ago

Not only not admitting fault but somehow making it the fault of the very people that told them exactly what would happen.

Don’t put your hand in the fire, johnny, it’ll hurt. johnny stares you in the eye as he puts his hand defiantly into the fireOoooow, it burns! Why did you make it burn me?!?

adam_y, 1 month ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e16992b3-670f-4f09-b2e1-839cd81fd6d6.jpeg

adam_y, 1 month ago

All women scare insecure men.

adam_y, 1 month ago

But… Look at his halo!

adam_y, 1 month ago

Lovely stuff.

adam_y, 2 months ago

I hate when people call it “Garlic 2” when it’s actually called, “Garlics”*

• Just because someone always thinks I’m being serious and totally doesn’t understand sarcasm, or perhaps feels like everyone else on the internet is a moron, or just needs to start every comment with the word “actually”, I’ll explain that this is a joke based on the title of the Alien franchise and is noted for being a pretty low effort one at that

adam_y, 2 months ago

Damn it crop your videos. Thought I was watching some Facebook trash for a second.

adam_y, 2 months ago

Fair.

adam_y, 2 months ago

Burns night 2018. A wonderful horrible terrifying brilliant life affirming night out in Newcastle.

They’re good people, but good grief can they drink and talk shite whilst being utterly charming and threatening.

adam_y, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Easy diffusion. It’s pretty straightforward and you’ll learn a bunch.

adam_y, 2 months ago

No mate, I’m doing you a favour playing your game. You should pay me. It would be great exposure. I’ve got literally some followers.

And yeah, I’ll bang on about minimum wage being too low and I’ll post about AAA Devs ripping off their workers, but a lone developer asking $10 for something that probably took them months, too much. Too much.

What a sell out.

(/S just in case)

adam_y, 2 months ago

And what’s worse, half of those complaining bought Elon’s blue tick!

adam_y, 2 months ago

London Calling by the Clash.

It got me to work every day.

adam_y, 2 months ago

Really wanted to like this game. The hype had me.

I played it, waiting for it to get good. It just never did for me. Maybe I’m missing something, but after 10 hours I felt like I’d seen pretty much everything.

As for the anti-cheat, I understand why they’d have that. I’ve played so many games where people cheat and it just kills the fun. Even when it is PvE.

I don’t really understand the mindset of the cheaters though. Do they think we all talk about how great they are after the game is over? Like, Bobfucker326 sure did shoot more stuff than any random player I’ve ever seen, he must have a massive wang and be great at maths and stuff.

adam_y, 2 months ago

“fnorris”

adam_y, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Why does this image look like a shovelware Gameboy Advance game from back in the day?

adam_y, 2 months ago

We had a similar conversation back in the forum days.

A lot of people screaming RTFM.

But someone enlightened me a little.

Often when people ask questions like that, what they are really doing is trying to become part of your community. An easy to answer question, a way for people to assume the mantle of the expert.

Really, how hard is it to answer those questions… And maybe stipulate that the person asking the question can answer it for the next one?

Obviously, some people are just treating you like Google, but if you act hostile, you’ll never know.

adam_y, 2 months ago

That’s the spirit. Give it a whirl, see if it does anything for you, and even it iflt doesn’t, it was worth it to learn it didn’t.

Vastly better than making a low effort post somewhere saying, “should I watch this film?”.

adam_y, 2 months ago

Still think they should have gone with a story where indy has to steal back all of the artifacts he’s “acquired” and put in museums, returning them using time travel and having to outfox himself.

Last shot should be of a glass case in a museum with just his hat and the whip.

adam_y, 2 months ago

Radical.