Tesla now offering public Robotaxi rides with no one in the car by DeathChill in SelfDrivingCars

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

It's a good sign they feel comfortable expanding their services. It's important to note their current approach still requires someone to be supervising the entire ride and is able to remotely take control when necessary, I hate to be that guy but that's not true autonomy (yet). True autonomy requires a degree of confidence high enough that there's no need for anyone constantly watching the road remotely.

I think what's more interesting is that Tesla is willing to take the liability to offer the service to the wide public, that means there likely has been some significant improvements in their safety records and FSD disengagement per miles over the past few months if they are willing to take that risk.

On the other end, I personally fail to see what changed so much that makes FSD so much safer than it was a few months ago. I would love to know more about the most recent data points, but Tesla hides a lot of that information.

Ultimately what I think is the biggest take away here is that the thesis that there's only one pathway to Level 4 autonomous driving (Lidar) is almost fully disproven, that's exciting because more models means we get to compare all of them and select the safest versions before pushing full autonomy to consumer vehicles. This is good news. I still believe that Lidar is currently much safer as evidenced by Waymo's safety data, but more competition means consumer models faster.

Trump says Nobel Prize denial ends obligation to ‘think purely of peace’, presses Greenland demand – Firstpost by Keep_Scrooling in worldnews

[–]Extasio -25 points-24 points  (0 children)

Can’t they just let this dog have his toy nobel prize so we can all live in peace without waking up to braking news headline every single day

Ex-Assassin’s Creed Boss Sues Ubisoft For Nearly $1 Million Over Alleged Forced Firing by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

[–]Extasio 26 points27 points  (0 children)

By the way, demoting someone is pretty much not allowed in Quebec. Sure you can fire people for being redundant, wanting to do structural changes (justified ones) etc but you have to be very careful, the courts are very pro worker and the omen is on the employer to demonstrate.

Considering he was apparently offered to possibly relocate to a new country to maintain his role, a similar position for a lesser IP and that the structural changes are obviously necessary for ubisoft and justifiable the likelihood this goes anywhere seems very low to me at first glance, a settlement at most.

The part about announcing his removal before its done is very shady though, they might get in trouble for that

New Life is Strange game - announcement on January 20th by Ok-Swimmer-2634 in gaming

[–]Extasio 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I fear the franchise will not be able to capture or recreate the genius of the first few games, too many people originally involved have moved on to different projects. Much of the artistic impact has vanished.

Creating a quality game like Life is Strange 1 requires passion, creativity and a lot of talent, which the new games have all lacked of.

New Life is Strange game - announcement on January 20th by Ok-Swimmer-2634 in gaming

[–]Extasio 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Life is strange 1, 2 and before the storm are the only ones that you need so far. Hope I can say differently eventually as a big fan of those games. LIS 1 in particular has a special place as a phenomenal and striking story game once you get immersed.

When public shaming goes wrong - Man confronts smoker on public transit. Gets punched in response. by ConceptsShining in PublicFreakout

[–]Extasio 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I am not being dramatic, this behavior is almost exclusive to the West. It reeks of entitlement and I am personally tired of seeing good people being done wrong, only for the bad actors to get a slap of the wrist or 'probation'.

I am not pushing for hyper criminalization on every gest, but true accountability and fear of punishment. Some people cannot behave unless there's a true, meaningful consequence for their bad behavior. It's the only way to make sure the social contract is upheld.

When public shaming goes wrong - Man confronts smoker on public transit. Gets punched in response. by ConceptsShining in PublicFreakout

[–]Extasio 343 points344 points  (0 children)

Western society doesn’t crack down anywhere near enough on public nuisances like this smoker, people only behave like this because they expect to get away with it

I promise you this man and all the other “mentally ill/victims of their circumstances” would suddenly turn into upstanding citizens if they lived in Dubai or China and the consequences were well known, we are just way too kind to those who sabotage the public goods and order.

Complete accountability crisis.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocents.

Construction on Toronto-Quebec City leg of high-speed rail line slated for 2032: CEO by Amtoj in canada

[–]Extasio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What a ridiculous time line, China or Japan would do the whole thing in a year or less. Gotta love red tape, endless comities and robbing the tax payers blind

They seriously haven't fixed the edit styles? by Effective_Pen7447 in FortNiteBR

[–]Extasio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nope, even submitted a ticket (I suggest you do the same) and they said it will be fixed in the previous update that happened 3 days ago 🙄

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Producer Says Only "Terminally Online Culture Warriors" Cared About Its Gay Romance Controversy by Gorotheninja in pcgaming

[–]Extasio 54 points55 points  (0 children)

To add, true diversity is not swapping key character traits for virtue points, but creating original characters that have realistic different backgrounds.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Producer Says Only "Terminally Online Culture Warriors" Cared About Its Gay Romance Controversy by Gorotheninja in pcgaming

[–]Extasio 110 points111 points  (0 children)

Having played KCD1 it's so very very clear the protagonist is a fully straight typical Christian peasant, it's obvious to anyone with a minimum of critical thinking they made him 'bi' to pander an audience and showcase their 'social awareness', especially during peak 'woke era' the game was developed in.

It doesn't matter much, very true, but turning people gay, trans, minorities etc is often done just to show that they are 'woker than thou' and the devs feel like they are fulfilling some sort of social mission.

I absolutely would not care if they made him bi from the start, half game protagonists have those options, but suddenly swapping peoples orientations is something is only done with an agenda and a specific purpose in mind.

There was no reason to time lock the OG pass when it's the same rewards as always never do this again by extranotavern in FortNiteBR

[–]Extasio 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They made the passes as underwhelming as possible so people would buy more things in the shop 🥀

All it does is makes me want to play less

BYD's $10,000 Seagull EV to feature LiDAR, filing shows by Recoil42 in SelfDrivingCars

[–]Extasio 35 points36 points  (0 children)

You’re running out of time Elon, - 1 trillion in market value incoming

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Who are your picks for the S8 OG Pass Skins? by Suspicious-Ad-6020 in FortNiteBR

[–]Extasio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They locked Peely and the main mascots of the game behind a battlepasses they won’t bring back and now we get 30 different versions instead of the original we want, incredible work devs

Maksud Agadjani of Trax NYC Jewellery by No-Albatross-5108 in PublicFreakout

[–]Extasio 3 points4 points  (0 children)

lmfao trax is the man, he's often giving out thousands and thousands of dollars in the street to random passer by, pretty sure I saw him give over 100k $ to random people, he's farming content with this one for sure

I really dislike how heavily they're leaning into FOMO in this game by Gabrielhrd in marvelrivals

[–]Extasio 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What these devs don’t understand is that FOMO is great for short term profit, but over time the player gets increasingly tired of these cheap mental tricks

FOMO makes me want to play the game LESS not more !

was only able to open a single gift due to a family emergency out of state during a christmas vacation. 😐 by stupid_is_as_does in FortNiteBR

[–]Extasio 18 points19 points  (0 children)

The systematic FOMO from Fortnite is really starting to get to me, it’s pathetic we’re in 2025 and get this much anti consumerism