I was literally gambling at that point. Though I honestly just wanted one so I could sell or trade for Juzam Djinns. All because I got absolutely wrecked by them at the little tourneys they held at the shop.
They shut down abruptly and I remember starting to go to other local shops and quickly learning they deserved to be closed.
I spent a lot of money on 4th edition because I was told there were still Black Lotus by the card shop owner.
Cracking MtG packs though… booster drafts were so much fun with a small group.
The radio show I was listening to while driving this morning said that concert felt like a tribute except he was technically alive and present.
A state involving itself in wars of aggression found an excuse to crack down on public opposition of the war? Say it isn’t so!
There was certainly no course change, which Uncommitted tried to promote as an option. It was an attempt to make a public appeal that genocide should be an issue worth making political decisions around.
The lesson the victors over Uncomitted demand is that genocide is not a political enough issue worth acting or voting on.
Also known as: hospitals. Organ transplants are performed in hospitals.
I spent chunks of 2023 and 2024 investigating and testing image gen models after a cryptobro coworker kept talking about it.
I rigged up an old system and ran it locally to see wtf these things are doing. Honestly producing slop at 5 seconds per image v 5 minutes is meaningless in terms of value if 0% of the slop can be salvaged. And still, a human has to figure out what to so with the best candidates.
In fact at a certain speed it begins to work against itself as no one can realistically analyze AI gen output as fast as it is produced.
Conclusion: AI is mostly worthless. It just forces you to accept that human effort is the only thing with intrinsic value. And it’s as tough to get out of AI as it is to put any in.
And that’s looking past all the other gargantuan problems with AI models.
See your brain went immediately to a solution based on knowing how something works. That’s not in the AI wheelhouse.
Is Flayra not pursuing legal action against Krafton over this?
A bit, yeah. Same username then as today. I was with NSArmsLab and BAD Clan mostly those days.
Weird to think that was 20+ years ago.
I remember Flayra from Natural Selection, a half-life mod twenty years ago. I remember him making appeals for investors/donations to keep Unknown Worlds afloat (or maybe just launch it as a company. I recall a video he posted where he showed us his tiny apartment and the milk in his fridge.)
Then Subnautica came out years later and I thought ‘Well I’ll be damned.’
Putin’s power draws from his adversaries and foreign policy. He is very weak domestically, mostly at the behest of the oligarchs that run the entire domestic policy show.
Putin muscling around internally usually has to do with the oligarch’s stance on foreign policy or the other oligarchs are wanting to eat one of their own.
The ICE budget is free college for everyone like 3 times over.
Unfortunately there are some users on Lemmy very ready to see ICE’s new budget justify political deportations. But yeah, I don’t think any of them would have any cognitive dissonance about it.
To me there’s a difference between using assets that were generated by AI and a game using generative AI to create assets.
A person hired as an artist to make dialogue portraits could have shoveled some slop to meet a deadline. That’s a production issue.
But if the games are being integrated with a generative AI model to cover minor assets, that’s a fundamental development issue and I can cannot possibly see how that’s good for anything.
I have seen slum lords spend hundreds of thousands to avoid tens of thousands in septic repairs.
This totally tracks.