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  • Google says its AI-based bug hunter found 20 security vulnerabilities

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  • Yeah, like maybe this is one of those AIs that is actually just a guy in the Philippines being paid shit wages. Or maybe it’s a dumb LLM that makes lots of mistakes. Or maybe it’s all just bullshit from TechCrunch where an underpaid journalist is just recycling a fucking press release from Google and none of this actually happened anything like how it’s written.

  • Need help studying

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  • Yes, this is why they used to make everyone write essays at college/university before ChatGPT blew everything up. Note taking is good and an important first step, but the process of writing long-form arguments helps to further your own understanding and to build your own thinking about the ideas you are working with.

  • Google says its AI-based bug hunter found 20 security vulnerabilities

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  • But it is likely.

  • It’s called soup babe

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  • No, that joke crosses the line.

  • It’s called soup babe

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  • Or just nothing at all.

  • It's like (most of) the internet isnt't for kids

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  • The world would be a better place if YouTube didn’t just ban the kids abut also banned all of the adults too.

  • It's like (most of) the internet isnt't for kids

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  • I am very adult but unfortunately my ears are somehow still good enough that I can often hear those vile things. They can be quite painful to be around, probably because the assholes who operate them tend to crank up the volume to extremely high and probably unsafe levels. After all, that’s what the kind of business tyrant who would get one of these in the first place would naturally want to do. What an awful invention.

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  • What’s with those boots on the nice hardwood floors in the living room? Tracking in god knows what from outside I’m sure…

  • Switch 2 still has digital triggers and no Hall effect joystick?

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  • The smaller third party companies market and advertise their Hall effect sticks as something special to differentiate their products from the big companies. There are probably overstated claims being made in much of this advertising, as there tends to be in all advertising.

  • Switch 2 still has digital triggers and no Hall effect joystick?

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  • Perhaps this is the great lie of Hall effect marketing. Everything breaks, especially if you let kids use it.

  • Switch 2 still has digital triggers and no Hall effect joystick?

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  • Really, the N64? The N64 stick was not in-practice long-lasting. I’ve never gone out of my way to get modern Hall effect stuff, but if they’re anything like that then I understand why they remain a niche thing for hobbyists who will baby them.

  • Switch 2 still has digital triggers and no Hall effect joystick?

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  • Is it as simple as planned obsolescence, or is there something else about the production or use of Hall effect sticks that causes every single console from Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, and Valve to not have them?

  • [old man shouts at cloud] I'm bored to death of Japanese culture. I would like more video games and tv shows to showcase other countries' culture please.

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  • It’s not familiarity thats just a byproduct of the cycle. It’s because New York (and Tokyo, London, etc) is important to capitalists and to capitalism and is one of the centres of global power. So the big studios set their stories in New York, people around the world see films etc about New York, people are made to be familiar with New York, so then stories are even more likely to be set in New York because it is important and people around the world are familiar with it. Or rather, they are not familiar with the real New York, they are familiar with the mediated representation of New York. They know New York from watching Friends and Seinfeld, neither of which were filmed in New York.

  • [old man shouts at cloud] I'm bored to death of Japanese culture. I would like more video games and tv shows to showcase other countries' culture please.

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  • I can’t get extra mad at all of those Tokyo games when there’s also all of those goddamn New York and LA games. I wish studios would set their stories somewhere that isn’t the same four or five places over and over again, but a big corporation isn’t going to subvert the forces of cultural imperialism. Quite the opposite, really. This is all part of the cultural industries reinforcing the global cultural hegemony.

    After all, many of the big games set in versions of US cities aren’t even made by US studios (eg GTA, Cyberpunk). Just like how many of the films set in the US are actually made in Canada. This is all part of cultural production under capitalism. The market logic says that people already watch films and tv shows and play games set in New York, LA, Tokyo, and London, so therefore all films and shows and games must be set in New York, LA, Tokyo, and London. You want to set your story in Tonga or Malaysia or Chile? No, that’s not allowed, it must be in New York or LA or etc etc.

  • Nintendo can disable your Switch 2 for piracy in the U.S., but not in Europe, as confirmed by its EULA

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  • Just don’t forget that Steam is another corporate run platform and Valve nukes online accounts too.

  • Real [REDACTED] hours up in here, who [DATA EXPUNGED]?

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  • I can’t even figure out what order I’m supposed to read this in.

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  • I don’t see anything in this post specifically about Italy or Japan and I’m feeling misled

  • And God said, "I will give thee a pattern-seeking brain"

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  • It’s a pretty standard rock band formation shot from a high angle with a wide lens. Not exactly an unusual composition. I tried a quick image search to show some other examples but it was filled with fake AI slop so I gave up, but there’s a lot of promo photography and music videos that use the same kind of shot.

  • Is Frost Punk fun?

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  • Yes, it is certainly fair to take the reading that the point is to play the game by continually resisting the fascist options that are provided. However, I’m not sure if the “was it worth it” hollow victory screen at the very end forgives the many hours of fascist “hard times make strong men” scenarios that precede it. If anything, the “was it worth it” further underlines the “hardness” of those “hard choices” and therefore does not contest or critique the fascist frame. The fascist would proudly answer “yes” and the game would appear perfectly coherent to them.

    It’s not that one needs to take a fascist reading of the game, but to borrow from Stuart Hall, the dominant reading of this game is clearly a fascist one. Yes, an antifascist reading is possible, but that reading is one built through a very careful process of negotiation with the text.