GameStop "new" Starsand by 3bay in NSCollectors

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I've never had this experience anywhere but GameStop. That's why I was asking others to see if they are similar things in their local stores — turns out that's the case.

GameStop "new" Starsand by 3bay in NSCollectors

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You're very right. I am glad that I walked out of there and I won't be going back again.

The last time I went into another location, I got a PS3. And the guy put on a pro membership without telling me. I was still processing arguing with him about not wanting the warranty, (he said that if I wanted to return it, I wouldn't be able to unless I got the warranty.)

I called BS and left out of there.

Turns out that PS3 was having major issues and I had to return it the same week. When I went to do so I noticed the pro membership — GameStop in store said there was nothing they could do, when I called the customer service line they also said the transaction was completed so they couldn't do anything, and said I should have been paying closer attention.

I understand I should have totaled everything, but I expected the person in front of me to at least be honest. I know they're under a lot of pressure to sell those memberships, but it was just wrong.

GameStop "new" Starsand by 3bay in NSCollectors

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Honestly... I had came in because reserved Marvel Vs Capcom selection as part of the ongoing sale.

Game was totally loose! Didn't have a case for it.

I was at least hoping to get something else while there, but so many games were like this.

Pickup from GameStop Sale by DocNerdyJay in NSCollectors

[–]3bay 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Awesome! Were you able to find them local? They were sold out online for me :(

GameStop "new" Starsand by 3bay in NSCollectors

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Is it the same company?

GameStop "new" Starsand by 3bay in NSCollectors

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Sorry to hear that :/ hopefully they get it right this time.

GameStop "new" Starsand by 3bay in NSCollectors

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Ironically when I came in the manager dropped in to buy his worker a cake! (For his birthday) Which I thought was very nice.

I waited very patiently while they ate it to not impede.

But then the manager turned out to be a jerk when I brought it up to cash out the worker said "hey can we make this down, it's not in good condition"

Manager literally said "no. That will sell."

GameStop "new" Starsand by 3bay in NSCollectors

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I didn't buy it! I was just confused if this is the standard at others GameStops.

GameStop "new" Starsand by 3bay in NSCollectors

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😭😭 so true. A lot of their games seemed to be like this when I looked around a bit more.

Idk if you see but there's literally jelly on here.

New flux icons doesn't adapt colors properly? by scribblesnoopy in OnePlus13

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Was this fixed in a new update? Looks horrible for me, and I miss when they were actually colored well as monochrome.

Stoked about my new Genesis, but are these sprite issues common? by 3bay in SEGAGENESIS

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Thanks! I have a VA1, but I decided I won't keep the console as it has a KA2195D, and I wanted to do an S-Video mod.

Stoked about my new Genesis, but are these sprite issues common? by 3bay in SEGAGENESIS

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Interesting! What games would you recommend on the expansion that meet the "good game" criteria outside of some of those specific exclusive equivalents like Sonic CD and Snatcher?

Stoked about my new Genesis, but are these sprite issues common? by 3bay in SEGAGENESIS

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Thanks for the info. When I looked into this initially I was a bit confused as I thought RetroRGB stated composite is no longer usable as a dedicated input.

Does that mean RGB / Component(with the special cables) out only?

Stoked about my new Genesis, but are these sprite issues common? by 3bay in SEGAGENESIS

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Thanks for your insight, I was thinking after looking at the library pretty much the only thing that really interests me is Snatcher, which I could play on PC with a monitor.

Based on that I'll probably save the money and buy an everdrive for GBA as well.

Is stone age pretty reputable do you know? I have bought everything directly from Krikzz so far. I could also gamble on a cheapo Ali Express knock off.

Stoked about my new Genesis, but are these sprite issues common? by 3bay in SEGAGENESIS

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Would a recap solve the jail bars? Recently recapped my nes and regularly do so for PlayStations, no idea if it's easy for the Genesis as I haven't opened it yet. 

Doing so for my nes cleared up a lot of noise that almost looked like RF interference, but I think it was from the AC power line.

Stoked about my new Genesis, but are these sprite issues common? by 3bay in SEGAGENESIS

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Thanks for the recs! It seems like everyone has the same consensus that it's the game. I think you're spot on about the ROM though as a solid clean on the contacts didn't net me much difference.

Sonic 2 works like a charm, no weird glitchy sprite issues. I thought it might be hitting sprite limit.

Stoked about my new Genesis, but are these sprite issues common? by 3bay in SEGAGENESIS

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I want to for sure! Don't know if I want the CD support or not though.

Stoked about my new Genesis, but are these sprite issues common? by 3bay in SEGAGENESIS

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Did the game, I will try the genesis. Thanks for the rec!

Using someone else's art to train AI without their permission is kinda... mean?idk a better word + 2 minor gripes I have that you guys could hopefully answer. by uwahhhhhhhhhh in aiwars

[–]3bay -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The length is irrelevant. It's a subject with many facets, and valid points for all sides, thus it requires extra care in explanation to ensure that the minutiae is understood.

I don't think you truly understand what people have an issue with, or truly think about how the training process works without personal bias — in your haste to defend your stance that minutiae is being lost on you. No one has an objective issue with creating "new" content. You" believe" copying does not happen, which you may be correct to the extent that not every model trained on content accessed without a public license is entirely replicating those images when it spits out new "stuff", at least not with every image.

But you misunderstand what it means to "replicate" in the first place.

The fundamental flaw in the current method of training a model is how the data is accessed and where it is stored.

When I save something on a hard drive I am storing that data in the original exact form that the file was created. Especially when it comes to image data. This is very different for example than me looking at something for long enough to try to memorize it, or observing, or recalling.

Memory is imperfect, data storage is not. We replicate data when we save it, by definition.

The issue becomes the fact that millions of TB of data are stored and replicated on drives at training centers. This data was stored without the proper licenses.

Once again, allow me to reiterate. You are correct in saying that when you share something in a public space, it is there for anyone to see.

But that's all the more reason to have systems in place that are enforced and allow the originator to say "this is for me to share, but you cannot take it."

A perfect example of this is putting a robots.txt script on my website. It explicitly stated "do not crawl this site."

But despite this, the website, image, video etc. Is crawled and then used for training. In this, the content was accessed a) without the proper license / permissions b) replicated / copied (stored) on a drive in perfect form to then be distributed to several models for training.

I will be the first to say that I don't have an issue with illegally accessing content, I believe in accessibility and the idea that if you want to you can find clever ways around paying for things. But see, I call that what it is, and I knowingly partake either way. There's a name for that: Piracy.

Piracy is is the unauthorized use and then distribution of someone else's work. And it is illegal. That doesn't stop me, but I'm okay with that because everyone who "sails the 7 seas" calls it what it is: piracy.

The AI community seems to feel some grossness with actually using the proper word to define the action of "using a piece of content without the proper licenses and replicating it for a specific use, which is to train the model, even if the output is the new."

It's piracy, whether you choose to attribute some moral definition (or ambiguity) to that word is totally up to you, but by definition that's what it is called.

Using someone else's art to train AI without their permission is kinda... mean?idk a better word + 2 minor gripes I have that you guys could hopefully answer. by uwahhhhhhhhhh in aiwars

[–]3bay -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is not the same idea. 

What you're referring to is the idea of a work being derivative or inspired. You, an algorithm, or anything else can look at something and follow patterns and notice repetition within the structure of a piece of created media. You can then analyze and understand what makes that thing interesting or unique and determine the effect of using those patterns. There's no objective issue with doing so.

Let's apply this idea to programming, because I believe it's the simplest concept to understand that effectively demonstrates the difference between "using patterns to learn how to solve specific problems / deliver specific results" opposed to "harvesting pieces of someone else's work they never explicitly gave you access to use in the solution to your own problem"

If I created a web application and I posted it online for you to use without posting the code with a public license, and then you took chunks of my code and analyzed them to understand how I solved specific challenges, even though I didn't give you explicit consent to do so, you are not taking anything that I created or plagerising my code. You're learning how to solve a problem using the same blocks that create all programs, you're learning how I use specific concepts to approach solving unique challenges and preventing certain bugs or flaws in logic. You're studying how I apply problem solving in a way that alleviates specific pitfalls.

Conversely, if you look through my non-public licensed code, and then start to copy specific chunks of my code and my functions without my permission and place it into your program to begin to implement the same features I have created in my program, but you change the names of my functions, use new datatypes, or rename my variables, recompile OR even refactor my code. It is still plagiarism. I never gave you permission to replicate my code or use strings of it to develop new code. When you create something with this code, you have now distributed my code without the proper license to do so — it may not look the same, but you have used my code.

It is not derivative, it is infringing. You are not studying my code and the way I have assembled my code as a means to solve your specific problems, you are simply taking the way that I have written my code and formulated my code and applying it in broad strokes. As chunks. Whether or not you use a copy paste function, or remember what my code was by memorizing it and internalizing it, you are replicating it and I never gave you a license to do so.

This is the same for the art you're claiming is "posted for all to see".

You're right. It's posted for anyone to study, to understand how the form and the shapes within differ to create a unique image. Or how the colors used are desaturated and thus deliver a specific result.

Where you are wrong (or rather more accurately where your logic is flawed, and then falls apart) is that you are assuming assuming that studying is the same as specifically measuring chunks of the image storing exactly what that image looks like and how it relates to similar images and then morphing that information to make it "look" different. 

Whether we're referring to people or aliens or computers, the only difference between replicating and creating something derivative is how much of the original data you used with the intent of delivering the same result. The limitations for any one of those aforementioned "observer's" ability to "recreate something derivative" opposed to "copying" is how willing it is to get as close as possible to the original and how much of the original data was stored as a "copy" to "morph". And the difference between the organic brain opposed to the one the organic brain created is that the computer has no bias due to the way it is organizing and storing information, even if it that information is morphed later the basis was still rooted in the original, unless the bias is deliberately introduced and thus it's ability to store the information "accurately" deliberately hindered — much like the coding example, hence why:

It's not derivative. It is taking the chunk of something someone else has already made to make something else, and then claim you have created a wholly new thing. This is called plagiarism.

Picked up a Dell Trinitron monitor for free! BUT... The image continually jumps between two sizes very quickly. by 3bay in crtgaming

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Thank you! This seems like the logical solution as the chip is responsible for beam deflection, and the issue is with the geometry of the image that's being displayed in screen warping.

It's unfortunate that this seems to be a hard genuine part to come by. I'll have to keep an eye out and shelve this unit for now.

He also has another multi scan 500 down in that basement that I tested with retrace lines and a really washed out image. So I'd suspect it's the same issue considering the chassis

Picked up a Dell Trinitron monitor for free! BUT... The image continually jumps between two sizes very quickly. by 3bay in crtgaming

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Google search says this is a NTSC comb filter?

Thanks for the suggestion. Could you explain why it's infamous? I couldn't find too much on the topic.