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9小时前

If you had the opportunity to travel back in time to the 2000s or 2010s, what would you change to make the world a better place?
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teawrecks @sopuli.xyz 9小时前
So, the Republican shift toward the far right was already in full swing by the 2000s. You'd need to go back to at least Reagan to head that off. Trickle down economics, Two Santas, etc. was already decades in the making. My dad had already been fully brainwashed by talk radio in the 90s.
But on the flip side, the Democratic establishment has made it painfully clear even to this day that their only priority has always been to maintain the status quo for the privileged NIMBY class. The Republican party didn't need to do anything to keep unaffordability rising, they all want to maintain the housing market bubble to protect the wealth of boomers.

9小时前

If you had the opportunity to travel back in time to the 2000s or 2010s, what would you change to make the world a better place?

Yeah, a focus on altruism, but make investments to be more effective at it. Hey, you could even get ahead of the game and start a crypto exchange!

9小时前

Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job

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teawrecks @sopuli.xyz 9小时前

Side note, fuck this website.

Manage Opt-Out Preferences: Move Toggle to Left and Click “Confirm My Choice” and then Complete Opt-Out Form (accessible by clicking “+” below)

That is the most hostile tracking shit I've ever seen. There's no way this is legal in the EU.

1天前

Has there ever been a viable alternative to the phsycialist model of the universe?

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teawrecks @sopuli.xyz 1天前

"Has anyone found a viable alternative to falsifiable hypotheses?"

2天前

The year is 2036. What is on the front page of Lemmy?

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teawrecks @sopuli.xyz 2天前

Idk but an AI will have written it, and 99.9% of its views will be from bots.

3天前

The game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle

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teawrecks @sopuli.xyz 3天前

Assuming the content is merely controversial and not objectionable (i.e. exploitative), it seems there may be room for an art-centric game store front.

Ironically, I'm betting it's nowhere near as exploitative as the monetization practices of virtually every AAA release these days.

5天前

Entire Chain of Command Could Be Held Liable for Killing Boat Strike Survivors, Sources Say

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teawrecks @sopuli.xyz 5天前

Your analogy can't have it both ways. Either the allies saved Germany from itself, implying there was a good portion saved from the fascist portion, OR the Nazi party was the fault of all Germans, those who voted for it, those who enable it, etc., and blaming any portion on Nazis/Hitler is like blaming a toddler. So which is it?

I'm 86% convinced you're a divisiveness bot at this point. Prove me wrong.

5天前

Pete Hegseth told US soldiers in Iraq to ignore legal advice on rules of engagement

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teawrecks @sopuli.xyz 5天前

I think you're missing the forest for the trees. The criticism being made is that no matter which way you look at it, crimes have been committed:

if we accept the narrative that the US is at war with drug traffickers AND that's who these people are: then the double-tap is a war crime
else: it was murder to begin with

The Pentagon knows this. They are now trying to shift all the blame onto a specific Admiral, trying to make it look like he acted of his own accord, trying to retain plausible deniability. This article in particular is attempting to shift it back, to show that the official messaging from the Pentagon has always been encouraging war crimes, and that even if we take everything this administration has said at face value, they're still culpable by their own standards.

5天前

Entire Chain of Command Could Be Held Liable for Killing Boat Strike Survivors, Sources Say

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teawrecks @sopuli.xyz 5天前

So to be clear, you're suggesting the reason for allied forces joining WW2 was to save Germany from itself?

I'm not disagreeing that Trump will pardon everyone involved, I'm not disagreeing that no other country cares if the US comes out the other end, I'm just saying, these regimes have a history of not sticking around long term. So I'm disagreeing with the statement that "nothing will happen". Shit is happening and will continue to happen until their reign of terror is brought to an end, just like WW2.

5天前

Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days

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teawrecks @sopuli.xyz 5天前

Fair enough lol, can't argue with that.

5天前

Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days

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teawrecks @sopuli.xyz 5天前

where we didn't have to assume every single god-damned connection was a hostile entity

But you always did, it was always being abused, regularly. That's WHY we now use secure connections.

I think I'm just not picking up whether you're actually trying to pitch a technical solution, or just wishing for a perfect world without crime.

5天前

Entire Chain of Command Could Be Held Liable for Killing Boat Strike Survivors, Sources Say

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teawrecks @sopuli.xyz 5天前

You know that Germany still exists, though, right? Something will happen...

5天前

Do you cheat in video games?

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teawrecks @sopuli.xyz 5天前

I'm generally not interested in playing a game in any way other than how the dev(s) intended. Ex. for a souls like, I don't get any enjoyment using mods to access content I'm otherwise unable to on my own. Using cheats to unlock all guns in GTA, or to get infinite rare candies in pokemon, or to time travel in Animal Crossing is fun for all of about 5 minutes, at which point I feel like I've deconstructed the fun out of the game.

My unique experience with a game is defined both by what I do and what I don't experience. If I use cheats to ensure I experience everything, then IMO I've effectively dashed anything unique about my experience with the game.

That said, there are games that I feel I've experienced all there is that the dev intended, and now I can use it as a platform for my own creation through mods or custom game modes. Those are generally few and far between though. Something like Minecraft, primarily because it works great as a platform for multiplayer interaction.

6天前

TSA announces $45 fee for travelers with no REAL ID

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teawrecks @sopuli.xyz 6天前

Well, it's never been about security, it's about surveillance. But it is reasonable to assume that REAL ID is their most efficient way to track travelers, and if you make them use their less efficient methods of tracking, they'll offset the difference by charging you directly.

1周前

A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again

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teawrecks @sopuli.xyz 1周前

I think those were mind blowing when I first played hl2, just because real time physics and destruction was novel, but now I think they grind the pacing to a halt. I think they just don't work in an action shooter IMO.

1周前

A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again

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teawrecks @sopuli.xyz 1周前

Oh you mean a Jumbotron?

2周前

Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)

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teawrecks @sopuli.xyz 2周前

Adding a reboot button is ONLY necessary if the game isn't made correctly. There is otherwise no reason to ever need to restart the game. I would see the addition of a restart option as lazy or an admission of failure by the dev.

2周前

I respect choice for the name of the game

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teawrecks @sopuli.xyz 2周前

almost nobody has put an actual maximiser in a game.

Turn based games would certainly have one. Generally it's easier to create an AI that maximizes utility for the AI, it's more difficult to tune it to not trounce the player lol.

This reminds me of how L4D does have that sort of indirect dynamic AI that spawns zombies based on the player's behavior. If the players have a lot of ammo and health, or are going too slow, the game cranks up the threat. If you're barely hanging on, the game holds back. I guess that's not quite adversarial though, more like the AI is trying to maximize the players' perception of a fun/fair challenge.

2周前

I respect choice for the name of the game

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teawrecks @sopuli.xyz 2周前

Yeah, certainly, sorry if that wasn't clear. Up above I tried to stipulate that I was speaking from a game theory perspective.

And yeah, you can model the AI in a game in whichever way is most useful. I said as long as they have utility functions that differ from the player(s), but then you also can recursively define games in terms of winning games.

Ex. the famous case of the US deliberately losing battles to not give away that they had cracked the German cipher. Each battle could be modeled as a game, and the war could be modeled in terms of battles.

Similarly, a single room in wolfenstein could present an contained "game", the outcome of which is applicable to which ending you get in the larger "game" (I haven't played it), and thus the AI would be agents at one level, but state/strategy at another.

2周前

I respect choice for the name of the game

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teawrecks @sopuli.xyz 2周前

Depends if you define game ais as “agents”, otherwise your definition of game only allows multiplayer games.

AIs are agents when they have their own utility to maximize that differs from other agents (including the player).

their “win condition” is overwhelming you with dirt and hiding it in weird places.

Is that a thing? Does the map create more dirt as a function of the player's actions? Does the player need to account for this and adjust their strategy to counter it? That would change my categorization, yes.

coop breaks your definition too

It depends. If all players have the same motive and there are no competing agents, then it's a simulation. If players have different motives, then it's a game. If players compete against AI agents, then it's a game.

Maybe a better definition of “game” is needed

The formal definition of a game is:

    
K_a, {x_K}K∈K_a, x,K_i, {≻K}K∈K_i
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I'm arguing that if the size of K_a==1 then it's not a game, but that page is generous:

For games with a single coalition of action, the set of all situations may be taken to be the set of strategies of this unique coalition of action, and no further mention is made of strategies. Such games are therefore called non-strategic games. All remaining games, those with two or more coalitions of action, are called strategic games.