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  • Except that they used the placeholder AI textures so that they would have a functional build to test on. They didn’t just try it and decide it didn’t work. They literally used it produce part of the rough draft and even shipped the game with some of those placeholder textures accidentally still in there. It was actively used in this instance to “do work”.

    It wasn’t “well let me see what this looks like… No that’s all wrong… Nevermind”. It was “well let’s get this AI to make some placeholders so we can continue working on this and we’ll slap the real textures in later”. Literally removing work from a human(concept artist), which is the complaint of anti-AI people. Funny enough, I’m pro-AI and even I’m agreeing with the anti-AI people here. You want a “no AI was used” award? Then don’t ever use AI. Simple.







  • It’s really only a “full stop” when it’s the last or only sentence, not just any sentence with a period. It’s related to phones only adding the period if you hit space twice. So by default, single sentences never have it because you don’t continue typing. So actually putting it in is intentional for many people and they are in fact making a statement akin to “this is my final word on the matter”.

    It’s the difference between

    “Can you help me with this?” “No”

    And

    “Can you help me with this?” “No.”

    That extra “.” after “No” wasn’t strictly necessary, so by including it on purpose, you’re making a statement. That’s the general thought process going on with people who find it passive aggressive.

    You can also go back even further to T9 typing and texting shorthand and see that punctuation was largely ignored due to message size limitations and difficulties typing on a phone in general. It’s something that has evolved over time due to the medium. The main issue is people who have gone through this transition see it one way, and people who are used to more formal writing suddenly joining the internet see it another way. I would say it’s more like regional accents. Both are correct depending on context.



  • fishostoComic StripsSolved Problems (by kplx)
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    9 days ago

    While better, even those were terrible at first. The first ones were charged for almost as much time as they were used for. We’ve come a loooooooong way with battery tech, mostly for the better. At this point, battery waste is almost entirely a recycling infrastructure problem(we need more facilities doing it and more people turning them in instead of dumping them).


  • fishosBanned from communitytoGames@sh.itjust.worksTurn ‘Em On: Modern Nintendo Cartridges May Have A Limited Lifespan
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    In what world is more steps and more potential issues the easier method?

    That’s what I’m wondering as you’re over here performing surgery and the rest of us are just plugging it into an adapter. But you clearly don’t get that.

    So Mr. Smartass, since this whole thing is about 3DS cartridges, let’s see your magical way to hot swap those batteries. Let’s see your SO EASY way. Constantly jerking yourself off claiming your some expert and you’re not even talking about the carts that matter here. So let’s hear it. Otherwise you were just being a pretentious ass showing off shit that’s not even relevant here.

    Touch some grass loser.




  • fishosBanned from communitytoGames@sh.itjust.worksTurn ‘Em On: Modern Nintendo Cartridges May Have A Limited Lifespan
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    Yeah that’s nice and all, and I get it, but the original person is referring to it being a HELL of a lot easier to just plug the cartridge into a USB adapter and dump the file to a PC. You know, instead of modifying their Gameboy or cartridges like that. But sure, if that’s “easier” for you, cool. Most people don’t want to go that far and aren’t comfortable and "plug and play’ is in fact easier.


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    Yup, thank God each device just has one lithium battery, instead of the HUNDREDS UPON HUNDREDS of alkaline batteries you’d go through in the life of a device in the past. You got about 6-8 hours of gameplay in a GameBoy from 2 AA batteries. Kids played these every single day. You have any idea how many we went through?

    Or stereos/walkman of the time using even more? Stereos used 4-12 C/D batteries and lasted maybe 2 hours.

    You have no idea how incredibly better you have it with lithium batteries and the waste they create. We used to buy alkaline batteries by the 24/48 pack as a regular grocery item.