When Lemmy is Lemmy with Lemmy:

“Wait, Lemmy is Lemmy?”

“Lemmy.”

When I reveal my wooden junk to a prospective mate.

Add it to the “reasons to stab execs in their face” list.

Orban is pro baby-rape, is how I’m going to frame that.

See, there’s this slow motion guillotine hanging over Putin right now, and for each month of successive losses, it’ll slowly be lowered until it reaches his neck.

Then, after a new favourite of the oligarchy and the generals have rubbed a few backs and made a few promises, said favourite will come up from behind and place his foot on the blade to force it through Putin’s neck.

That’s only speculation though.

A friendly reminder that gatekeepers are walking, talking mindrot.

So they get a pass because it’s a reboot? For me, films and series become services at that point, because it is constantly servicing a fan base.

People could argue that SS is apart of the RockSteady series, because that’s how I interpreted it, that Arkham City didn’t lead to a natural conclusion of that iteration of Batman, which is standard in the comics industry.

Every story has a beginning, middle and end. When failing to come full circle, as just another IP to continuously milk, with no regard for overarching plot or any conclusion to any arc, at that point it’s a service.

I was hopeful for this game, because RockSteady’s Batman games have been some of my favourite story based brawlers. After reading that I won’t be getting any resolution to the plot threads or character arcs, I feel like I’ve sort of wasted my time paying attention.

At that point it’s become like Marvel films, which is technically just a babysitter - and that is a service.

Eh, I don’t think the word loses meaning at all if applied to a franchise, especially since game developers insist games are services nowadays.

Besides, if it just encompasses online services, then it’s a pretty useless word and just a marketing ploy for the blogger who wrote the article about it.

But hey, Lemmy/Reddit/Mastodon/Matrix is full of pedants and contrarians, so life goes on.

…it’s a live service game?

For me, enshitification should also include things like franchises, because we can see an obvious downward spiral of certain franchises, for instance Pokémon. Consumers in the videogame space also qualifies as users, to some extent.

So I think enshitification shouldn’t just be about platforms and services.

Then again, people will stick to definitions like words are warfare. This is what politicians have been doing for quite some time.

But yes, yes. Textbook correct. Have a cookie.

How so?

The funny thing is that prompts also have unwanted (or “negative”) parameters, like “weird hands”. You could easily just input “disadvantageous framing for police officers”.

This is why these parameters should be public knowledge, so no exceptions are made that clear cops of wrongdoing if they committed a crime.

And if you don’t want to actually read Twitter, here’s a guy on YouTube who reads some of the contents on YouTube.

Needless to say, there are many, many problems with this game…

And they want $70 for this enhitfified reincarnation of the RockSteady Batman series? Hell no.

haha it was to appease daddy dearest… oil was just a bonus.

Ah yes, enshitification…

Fair enough, but I was talking about servers.

I promote running neural networks, LLM’s, SLM’s and stable diffusion locally. Why?

The way I see it, there’s a curve when various forms of AI technology becomes so effective and so powerful that it poses a problem for society. People are afraid AI will take their jobs, and that’s a valid concern.

Why then do I promote the use of local AI? Because I think that human+AI will be what prevents centralisation of data, the centralisation of knowledge, the centralisation of power that big tech firms, venture capitalists and authoritarians would love to have.

It’s an uphill battle though, because much like the other boardroom buzzwords like “cloud”, crypto, blockchain, etc, AI is something that makes billionaires pants wet and something that people despise - which is fully understandable.

But, I also fear it is self-defeatist. If we allow AI technology to be centralised instead of learning to liberate ourselves from the central tech cabals that wish to control it, then we set our selves up for new forms of authoritarianism we never knew before.

If you see the cyberdystopia that is China, or the tech oligarchy of the US, if you are left leaning, socialist, anarchist, etc, then it should be your prerogative to take that power away from central authorities.

Please reply with actual arguments and not cathartic putdowns, because I do want to see another way, but just being a troll on Lemmy will not sway me.

Again, I am open to reproach, just be objective.

Man, have you seen the prices of a Sega Genesis lately?

And he cannot lie

There are data companies who will throw away $10k server racks if they believe there is a firmware rootkit on it.

Removing firmware rootkit isn’t as easy as it sounds, because you can’t really be sure the system has been completely flushed after rewriting it all, because you’d need a pretty expensive lab and many man hours to do it properly.

So, if you’re dealing with sensitive data, in the pile it goes, and then you write it off on taxes.

The company had avoided certain destruction, after having fired the previous CEO and putting a new one in it’s place. The new CEO had managed to bring a newfound calm to the company and it’s ranks, and brought an air of meditative discipline to board room meetings.

Some said it was crazy, but making the LectoFan EVO the new CEO was the best decision the company board had ever made.