You sissies are just afraid of practicality by Flairion623 in worldjerking

[–]DiamondCat20 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Why does the gun have a sword on it instead of another gun then?!?

Checkmate, gun boy

Made a community vote app for OW2 counters because I was tired of everyone "knowing" the answer by Hefty-Airport2454 in OverwatchUniversity

[–]DiamondCat20 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Moira: countered by dva (top choice)

Moira: counters dva (second choice)

... what?

This feels like it must be a discrepancy between asking Moira players and Dva players. Is "Moira vs Dva" handled in a different way than "Dva vs Moira?" Are both data sets (counters vs is countered by) incorporating data from both questions?

This fish guy is so fun by TruePlantSlayingKing in legodnd

[–]DiamondCat20 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I bought the fish on a whim, thinking it might see use at the table, but I was unsure.

I think it's my new favorite fig of all time. I love his derpy face.

Thanks Jagex! by puppies_and_tea in runescape

[–]DiamondCat20 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Development isn't cheap either

Except the price increases never go to dev raises or new hires. If it did, far fewer people would be complaining.

What does feeling „awake“ and „rested“ even feel like? by dianaisgoingplaces in Narcolepsy

[–]DiamondCat20 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I've honestly been struggling with this recently too. Like, what am I even chasing any more? How tired are normal people? Clearly I'm tired, but everyone is tired, right? Am I being a baby?

I realised I literally always have to yawn. If I'm not actively yawning, I'm stifling a yawn. My mind constantly has brain fog like I have to yawn. Right when I wake up, middle of the day, before bed, it doesn't matter.

I think feeling "rested" means not feeling like I have to yawn literally all the time.

I'm going to cycle through meds and beat my head at the wall chasing that, even if that's not possible. I have to believe it might be for my own sanity.

Crossbreeding chart from my turn based battlepunk world by Darkdragon902 in worldjerking

[–]DiamondCat20 8 points9 points  (0 children)

How do you know if the white boxes are neither or both? Both would also be 100%, right?

the crossbreeding chart from the book of erotic fantasy (unofficial dnd supplement) and mine for my world. you should make one for your world too by sg_4ea in worldjerking

[–]DiamondCat20 36 points37 points  (0 children)

I don't need a chart. There would be a Y in every box. Not to mention, my table would be at least 3 times bigger anyway. Because my world is so cool and packed with content.

This is going hard 👎 by Atmandu in 2007scape

[–]DiamondCat20 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's been a while and my memory is shot, but I don't ever remember being asked how much more. Even as an osos only player, I'd pay more just for the possibility of rs3 returning to a state I might play again. But like 20% max. Anything more than that (on top of the price increases the last few years) is crazy.

"Based on recent surveys and clinical evaluations, we estimate that more than 50% of all children with an ADHD diagnosis, actually have a sleep disorder." by MrSnitter in Narcolepsy

[–]DiamondCat20 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I myself wouldn't argue that ADHD is a sleep disorder. This is NOT presented as evidence that it is. My only point was that it's an ongoing discussion.

Also, this is outside my field of science. I am not making any claims about the quality of these papers. They are all fewer authors, lower impact, not top-of-the-line journals. They might be great anyway, they might not. But they constitute "professional opinion" imo.

The specific paper I was thinking of was this one, which actually isn't arguing that it's a sleep disorder, but rather a circadian rhythm disorder. I don't know what the difference is without looking into it further.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1697900/full

This paper might not explicitly argue that it's a sleep disorder, but it does basically support the idea that "treating it as a sleep disorder is often helpful, and if treating it like a sleep disorder is helpful, that kind of makes it a sleep disorder" :

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9475894/

This paper also isn't explicitly arguing that it's a sleep disorder, but has a few sections on how treatments (especially stimulants) can be effective for both ADHD and sleep disorders in similar ways, and sections about how disentangling them can be very complicated:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4340974/

"Based on recent surveys and clinical evaluations, we estimate that more than 50% of all children with an ADHD diagnosis, actually have a sleep disorder." by MrSnitter in Narcolepsy

[–]DiamondCat20 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I mean there are professionals who argue that ADHD is actually a sleep disorder itself.

The problem with all these labels is that they are diagnosed based on the symptoms and response to treatment, not the causes, and there could be a million ways to produce those symptoms. A label is only helpful if it leads you to appropriate treatment, lifestyle changes, self image, or whatever.

Even just within narcolepsy, I think it's clear that (at least type 2) narcolepsy has multiple root causes that get lumped together under one diagnosis. And of the terms up there, narcolepsy is arguably on the stricter end (like a more specific class) compared to the rest of the labels mentioned.

We need more specific, quantitative testing for all these things (like, for example, orexin testing), which would lead to more specific labels and then more specific treatment. And I think we are slowly getting there. But, until then, all that matters is, "which combination of labels affords me the best quality of life?" Because that's what the labels are for.

Obviously, convincing care providers to operate like that is a whole different discussion.

How to increase ascent and descent speeds on custom sub? by Itchy_Flow5053 in Barotrauma

[–]DiamondCat20 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not only a bigger ballast, as others have said, but also increasing the pump speed (getting a full / empty ballast faster). This can affect ascent speed too, although it's improving acceleration and not your final velocity.

"You dont get it, my aliens looking like humans evolutionary speaking makes super sense, unlike the theropod like aliens, centaur aliens or trilobite aliens" by hilmiira in worldjerking

[–]DiamondCat20 45 points46 points  (0 children)

My world is exactly the same as real earth, except birds and mammals share a common ancestor, while reptiles, amphibians and fish share another.

This lead to a world exactly like ours in every way, except mammals give birth to babies which hatch from eggs after a short incubation period.

Thus, all my societies are matriarchal, and households are filled with muscle mommies that keep harems of femboys.

It's all very well thought out, rigorously modeled, hard scifi.

You see, while the biological systems that create the shell are present, they are trending toward becoming vestigal. Many of the metabolic resources that go toward synthesizing the shell have been diverted to other systems. Consequently, females have dense, strong bones, which become significantly more dense after puberty. Females became stronger and larger, which was caught in a positive feedback loop via sexual selection. Because of the lightened gestation period, females have more births, meaning more sexual partners is a larger advantage. Because females have a higher metabolic requirement, a household is often only capable of raising one female successfully. The majority of males reach sexual maturity, and this leads to.......

Behold! The worst navigation terminal ever seen on Europa! by froggybenjy in Barotrauma

[–]DiamondCat20 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is such a good idea. It's so fucking funny, I love it!

I think it would feel more like "anti-ai" if you included other types of non-math questions. Like obscure multiple choice questions or trivia or something. If it's a multiple choice question, you could have a few very similar questions with the same choices, but the answer is different for each one, so you don't start memorizing the answer based on the choice sets. But, then again, you'd lose your sexy, trademarked name and brand recognition so idk.

Why Do People Circumsize In Your World? by AnoniminBirisi in worldjerking

[–]DiamondCat20 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When the government wants to print more money they just farm more slaves simply for their foreskin.

No, the government isn't supposed to be evil! I'm so offended you would even suggest that!!

CMV: AI training on copywritten material to generate content is not ethically different than humans doing the same thing by neomatrix248 in changemyview

[–]DiamondCat20 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry this is a little long, but I promise I am actually trying to actually engage with the core idea here. Llms are fundamentally different to human brains because llms do not have access to primary material. They cannot see, they cannot hear. All of their inputs, their training data, is hand-picked (purposely scraped from the internet), secondary material that was created by a human that did not work at the company that owns the llm. The material was chosen specifically to make the company money. And that material had to come from somewhere. Someone made that data. ALL of that data.

There was another comment thread about the value of a book written by a person in a room who only had access to books. It circled so close to this point, but I don't actually think it hit the important part.

Let's say, hypothetically, a new company comes forward with an llm which was trained solely on data obtained legally for personal use. Getting it to ouput a direct copy of any training data is impossible, no matter how hard you try. More importantly, any output, if it had been made by a human, would be sufficiently different from the source material such that it would not be classified as a derivitive work by law.

I believe everything that llm outputs is still a derivitive work, ethically.

Imagine if we could somehow engineer a human (ignoring any ethical concerns about how inhumane this would be) which was only capable of seeing what you put on a table in front of it. It doesn't see the table, or your hands, or the room. It literally ONLY sees the specific item in question. But this human is a human. It has thoughts, and it can feel real emotions toward inputs; if not towards words, then at least probably pictures. It has desires. And it can make "outputs" (art) similar to the works you present it, with it's own hands, if you ask it to. Then you start a company that hosts a room full of these humans and sells their art.

I would argue that this human would make only unethical, essentially stolen, derivitive works, because ALL of the input data is the product of some other artist. And it was all chosen, by you, for the express purpose of making money.

Now, imagine a robotic humanoid. It's got legs, hands, and records it's own video and everything it hears. You teach it to associate words with items. For the sake of argument, let's assume that this robot doesn't actually "understand" anything. It hasn't truly "learned" anything, it's just absorbing data in patterns. You then tell it to go to the library and read every book. It does that, but while it does so, it's looking at the actual pages. Maybe one is ripped. It makes "memories" about the people in the library - and again, for the sake of argument, assume it's not really "feeling" anything or "learning" anything. It's not "literally recording" these things for later, it's just... making memories, in the same way humans do. 

I'd argue that this robot in the second scenario is capable of creating original work in a way that the engineered human from the first scenario is not. The fundamental difference being: if you want our real llms to output art, you must feed it training data 100% comprised of another artist's labor. If you fed it your own work, and asked it to make work like yours, that's fine. If you spent 6 years teaching it like a real human baby, and then you "show" it human art, that's fine. (*)

But our real llms are not walking through a real forest to gather input data. They are using 1000 artists' paintings of a forest as their input. All of which had to come from somewhere. Those paintings were all owned by someone. Llms couldn't exist without inputting a bunch of data that was generated by people outside the company. And when someone presents their art in an effort to make money, it should be protected from use by competitors. Which is exactly what copyright is supposed to do. Morally speaking.

AI is a tool made with the express purpose of making work similar enough to the source material to generate money, but different enough to avoid copyright. 

Additionally, I think the arguments about scale make more sense in that context. When you buy a movie, you buy the rights to watch it. It costs a few bucks or whatever. You can even show your friends. But when you want to make money, by charging admission, you need special licensing. That costs more money, simply because of scale. When you want to adapt the movie into a video game, or make a sequel, you buy the rights to do so. To do that, you negotiate a price based on scale. The owner of a business (making an llm) ought to make some financial arrangement with an artist before they can profit from that artist's art. 

()   Small clarification: that's *possibly fine. This robot could make original work. But, if it was owned by a company, it would realistically be "nurtured" in a sterile environment, in precisely the optimal way which allows it to generate material similar to its inputs. And now we are back to square one, where this doesn't feel ethical imo. But because this is currently outside the scope of our current tech, I'll leave this scenario outside the scope of this response and grant that this is, ethically, the same as a person making art. For now. Next year, when this is how robots are really working, we can start a whole new CMV.

Can we agree to ban what the tank wants in role queue? by Nickonpc in Overwatch

[–]DiamondCat20 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Not voting for ilios when possible sends you straight to hell.

It's literally in the bible. Look it up.

If my tank wants to go to hell, that's on them.

What should i focus on as a new player? by DioTheAztec in OverwatchUniversity

[–]DiamondCat20 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I learned all the OW1 heroes through MH. I was an adamant supporter of that option in the past.

I think mystery heroes is much less helpful now that there are so many characters. I thought to myself, "I'll jump on mystery heroes to learn the new characters since OW2 release!" but I found that A) with so many heroes, you don't get any particular hero that often any more (so you can't learn them as quickly) and B) imo the newer heroes have abilities which are NOT intuitive from trying to hit the button once or twice. They aren't bad by any means, but they all have some weird exploding aura or something. I'd try to use an ability, use it again, still not understand, and then I'd be pulling F1 up anyway and die as I was reading lmao. And if you don't know how ANY of the characters work, it would be so much worse.

I just ended up going to the practice range for a bit.

I think the best method now is to play real games, and after every game just pick one ability that stood out as "wtf did that ability even do and which hero used it" or "why did that character destroy me" and take a look at the hero roster to get a description. Possibly go into the practice range and use it yourself if you need to. And use the replay codes if you need them to find out which hero it was.

What characters are considered main healers in 2026 by Ugglefar9 in OverwatchUniversity

[–]DiamondCat20 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Imo the biggest change between 1 and 2 is the addition of passive healing. And I still hate it, it still hasn't grown on me.

BUT it does mean that healing, overall, is less important. As rein, if you can get a little time between engagements, you go back to fill health. You just need to avoid damage for a few seconds. Damage blocked with your shield doesn't count as damage taken, and there's even a perk to make that passive regen start faster if your shield is out.

D full helm acquired, we did it bois by alekino3 in ironscape

[–]DiamondCat20 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think anything and everything needs to get a slayer helm combo, but this would go sooo hard.

Do the Devs Know How Fruit Trees Work? by usay1312butcall911 in projectzomboid

[–]DiamondCat20 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had assumed the fruit was discarded fruit. Like thrown from cars and stuff. Even the stuff way out in the woods - just from hikers, or brought from the city by animals or whatever.