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AnimalsDream

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  • Lutris is AI slop now

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  • Supreme Court recently declined to take a major copyright case involving AI, which meant the previous court's ruling still stands - ai generated content can't be copyrighted. Tho I haven't looked at the details, so I'm not sure if that applies to code or not.

    It will not surprize me if everyone currently depending on these systems is going to be in for a very rude awakening.

  • Lutris is AI slop now

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  • I have tried installing and running a huge variety of games, using Lutris, over the years. Multiple distros too.

    None of them have ever worked. Not a single one.

  • Cambridge, Massachusetts, Reports Better Bike Lanes Led to Surge In Bike Traffic

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  • I love when there are basic bike lanes directly adjacent to the road, and cars are just using them as extra parking space, making them completely useless and forcing the cyclist to use the road.

    Fuck cars.

  • Artist whose work was used in Marathon without permission now has a credit in the game

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  • When I looked at a gameplay trailer of the new one, it really didn't feel authentic at all. It was more like looking at Destiny - Extraction Edition, with Marathon branding.

  • Artist whose work was used in Marathon without permission now has a credit in the game

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  • As someone who grew up playing the originals, it would be kind of nice to try this game and see what it's like. But it's not worth using something other than Linux to make that happen. Oh well.

    For those unaware, the original Marathon games were in the same vein of 2.5D fps as the original Doom. It had a more foreboding sci fi atmosphere, and has been credited as one of the first fps games to actually weave narrative elements into the gameplay itself.

    It's also freely available and open-source these days.

  • thx for the diabeetus

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  • While some foods are associated with a higher risk of type 2 diabetes, no single ingredients in and of themselves cause diabetes - obesity does. That's why every fad diet can make a semi-credible claim to have "cured" people's diabetes. If you lose enough weight, it might go into remission.

    And to be clear, none of what I just said is meant to imply a moral, individual failure on the part of anyone who is living/struggling with obesity and diabetes. It's a complex thing, and like all complex things we can go ahead and blame corporations for it. 👍

  • Microplastics and nanoplastics in urban air originate mainly from tire abrasion, research reveals

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  • Fuck cars.

  • I didn't join the revolution to read

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  • Can't we just watch that one Zeitgeist indie documentary to find out the Venus Project is a thing, and then make open-source Star Trek real?

  • Videogames you always wanted to play but they did disappointed you?

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  • I've played with and without the analog inputs, and using a real DualShock 2. By default it's not L3, it's circle for cqc, and square for pressure sensitive controls for the gun.

    The controls were even worse on ps2 because even though they are technically analog buttons, they have a very short travel distance which makes it too easy to accidentally do the wrong thing. I found the modern controls slightly more intuitive.

    There was also a time I tried to play the ps2 version on pcsx2, but could only use a DualShock 4 then. Since that controller doesn't have analog face buttons, I remapped cqc to L2 and gunfire to R2 and found that control scheme worked surprizingly well.

    But the basic controls are the least of those game's problems.

  • Investigation finds ‘secretly’ added chemicals of unknown safety in US food supply

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  • As far as getting them in the wild, you just have to be sure to forage where the air and soil is free from pollutants (as far as that is feasible anyway), then clean and dehydrate them.

    As far as safety goes, the conventional wisdom is that you want to decarboxylate them. If I recall, there are two main active ingredients in amanitas: muscimol, and ibotenic acid. It's believed that one of these is safe, and the other not so much. But the whole thing really isn't very clear, and we certainly don't have any reliable long term data on habitual use. Anyway, the process just involves simmering them in a solution of water and citric acid, which converts the unsafe substance into the safe one.

    And of course dose is a large part of safety.

  • Investigation finds ‘secretly’ added chemicals of unknown safety in US food supply

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  • Amanitas are not "magic mushrooms" in that they do not contain psilocybin, and are fully legal, just heavily stigmatized. I've tried them and found them to be the single greatest substance I've taken for anxiety, but I've stopped taking them because I have doubts about their safety. Chubby Emu on youtube has an episode about a guy who died after taking them, for example.

    So if you are inclined to try them, do your research first. Extensively. And keep in mind that even the science on these fungi is still far from complete.

  • Videogames you always wanted to play but they did disappointed you?

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  • Despite my best efforts, I never got to a point where I felt like I wasn't fighting against the controls and mechanics. As somebody who has played a fair share of other stealth games, they just are really bad.

    I'll talk about the boss fight that was the final straw for me.

    It was a character who could turn invisible, jump into the tree tops, and shoot poisonous arrows at me. I had to run around constantly to avoid being hit, try to locate him, quickly switch to first person mode to shoot at him before he would jump to another tree, rinse and repeat. Having to switch between first and third person modes so frequently was jarring and disorrienting. Having to run around so much was frustrating because there were also traps everywhere. It was frequently the case that switching to first person mode to shoot him would result in getting shot by one of his poison arrows, which meant I would have to quickly stop what I was doing to go into the start menu, to open a special medical treatment menu, to deal with a healing system that was way more convoluted than it needed to be, and which also contributed to the disorientation.

    The whole thing was an exercise in annoyance and frustration. After getting past it, it made me realize how hard I had been trying to ignore the way these things had been annoying me throughout the entire game. I couldn't ignore it anymore. Just hate it, the games are not for me.

  • Videogames you always wanted to play but they did disappointed you?

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  • These days when I play Bethesda games I always end up using console commands to expand inventory space. I'm so done with hyper-limited inventory systems and having to waste stat points to increase them.

  • Videogames you always wanted to play but they did disappointed you?

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  • I really want to like Metal Gear Solid games, but after playing a fair way into MGS3... I kind of hate it. The controls and mechanics are so bad.

  • U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus

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  • There's no easy solution, because it's like trying to treat a cancer that has already been growing for generations and is already metastasizing. Ironically, the best bet from a wide perspective is probably a combination of supporting religious diversity (more institutions who don't share their views), and even moreso a healthy, science-respecting educational system. These groups thrive most in rural areas with the poorest access to education. They perceive college as a threat for good reason - because their entire worldview is a hot garbage house of cards that immediately crumbles under the slightest scrutiny.

    Free public college is the biggest threat to them.

  • U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus

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  • People still underestimate the role of christian fundamentalism in this ongoing trainwreck. When you have a religious institution whose image of God is quite literally an abusive father, who all worship power above all else, whose church policies are to spread as far and wide as possible and systematically "train"(ie., abuse) their own children into actively seeking out every position of power possible to force their worldview onto everyone - it was only a matter of time before this all happened.

    These are people who genuinely believe the war on terror is a holy war. Their entire social network is meticulously designed to draw a dichotomy between themselves (apart from the world), vs everyone else (the worldly), to isolate their own against outside views, and indoctrinate their children throughout their entire lives to vigorously proselytize on the one hand, and be ready to eliminate anyone who opposes their worldview on the other. And many of them are bloodthirsty.

  • "Being vegan is unnatural"

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  • It has been for me. As a fellow tea enjoyer, lung function, gut health, a melting away of aching joints and physical malaise, seasonal allergy alleviation, and a shockingly boosted immune system are all benefits that I've personally enjoyed since going fully plant-based. Most likely heart benefits as well, but I won't know for sure until I get my cholesterol levels tested.

    But of course personal anecdotes are not valid evidence. Which is fine, because the science largely favors diets that are at least mostly plant-centric anyway.

  • "Being vegan is unnatural"

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  • In my experience sacrifice is a relative matter, and soon dissipates. Every abstained choice gets replaced with an alternative, and the more alternatives that are explored the more it becomes apparent that there is an entire culinary world that has been ignored. It becomes apparent that what felt like sacrifice is in fact opportunity, and those opportunities are well worth investigating in full.

    If you keep exploring plant-based options you will be a lot more likely to find what works for you, than if you just give up.

    It should also be noted, dairy impairs the bioavailability of beneficial plant-based compounds. Here are a few studies. Milk and coffee. Milk and blueberries. And Milk and tea.

  • "Being vegan is unnatural"

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  • Oh no, you're owning the vegans! 😵

    But, uh, what's going on here? Do you think animal abuse is funny?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Alright, y'all were right, fuck Proton. This was the last straw for me.

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    What are your preferred alternatives to Amazon?

  • linuxmemes @lemmy.world
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    Probably a good idea to go see how much storage will be necessary...

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Is it possible to just run a pirate video streaming site from Kodi?

  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
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    Am I the only one who is less interested in boomer shooters themselves, but is more hoping it results in something like Quake 3 meets Borderlands?

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    Fedora 42 installer defaults to btrfs? What's everyone's opinion or experience on that?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Do retro handhelds have untapped potential for privacy and security?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Best or least worst choices for cell phone service?

  • A Boring Dystopia @lemmy.world
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    For no reason in particular, sharing the Wikipedia article about Samizdat.

    en.m.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samizdat
  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    The internet is bad ux, everybody. There's too many choices.

  • News @lemmy.world
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    The FBI’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Program Has a New Target: Animal Rights Activists

    theintercept.com /2024/10/19/fbi-meat-industry-animal-rights-activists-weapons-mass-destruction/