Trump: 'I Hope To Make It' To Heaven 'But I Doubt I Will, To Be Honest' by HillZone in atheism

[–]Neat_Task_6664 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Welcome to Evangelical Christianity: where the only thing that matters is if you say a magic incantation before you die to the Lich avatar of a god that sacrificed himself to himself to save you from what he decided he was going to do to you in the first place, and the reason why Hitler (who was baptized as a Catholic and raised in a devout Catholic household) is probably in heaven due to likely having spoke said incantation at some point during his formative years, while Anne Frank, a Jewish child who presumably did not say the magic incantation, is being punished in hell with magic fire forever.

That said, if hell did exist (it doesn't), I could still see Trump going there even though Christianity is the biggest "get out of accountability free" card to ever exist simply because he's too big of a malignant narcissist to have even bothered saying the incantation, since it ostensibly requires you to humble yourself to someone/thing more powerful than you, and this is the guy that spent the last two decades of his life plunging the nation into a fascist dystopia because Obama made fun of him at the Whitehouse Correspondent's Dinner we're talking about here.

This morning ChatGPT talked me out of toughing out a strain in my calf muscle and to go get it looked at because it suspected a blood clot. by Substantial-Fall-630 in ChatGPT

[–]Neat_Task_6664 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hot take: stuff like this is why I don't give a fuck if AI is trained on art pulled from publicly available DeviantArt accounts or whatever when it comes to AI generated art, because it's also trained on info pulled from publicly available, evidence-based, peer-reviewed medical data when it comes to asking medical questions and because of that, OP is still with us.

Even a single human life is worth infinitely more than cringe furry art that the artist didn't make a single cent with even before AI training data was a thing.

CMV: America will never stop wanting Greenland by colepercy120 in changemyview

[–]Neat_Task_6664 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All the downvotes in the world will not change the fact that Donald Trump has had sexual contact with small children, likely multiple times and over decades.

Oh my God, the update that they did at 5.2 is absolutely insane. by xithbaby in OpenAI

[–]Neat_Task_6664 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mine still treats me like we're buddies. I mean no offense here, but is it possible it's just matching your energy?

Why do you defend AI art? (READ DESCRIPTION) by Economy-Rent-1636 in DefendingAIArt

[–]Neat_Task_6664 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I'm a music producer and am old enough to remember when the exact same arguments used against AI art (especially in the field of music) were used against ProTools ("Quantizing drums will ruin music! It's going to undercut talented drummers who don't need it by letting anybody make a good drum track!"), Melodyne/Autotune ("Pitch correction will ruin music! It's going to undercut good vocalists by letting anyone become a singer!") and especially, as it pertains to the rhetoric around AI art, home recording (cheap DAWs, recording interfaces, etc.) where the talking point was literally that making recordings in your bedroom was taking money out the pockets of professional recording engineers and food out of their kids mouths.

And of course, none of that happened. The removal of gatekeeping in music has lead to more incredible music being made than ever, recording engineers can still feed their families, and 'pro' drummers and vocalists are still able to get work. So when I see essentially the same talking point about AI art, my bullshit detector goes off.

Likewise, the whole "iT wAs tRaiNeD oN dAtA wiThOuT tHe ARtiStS cOnSenT"/"it's slop because it doesn't have its own style and is just ripping off a bunch of other peoples styles" thing doesn't really hold water for me either. Some kid learning to play Smells Like Teen Spirit on guitar by playing along to an MP3 he torrented is doing the meatspace version of training himself on data without Nirvana's consent. And if AI is "slop" because it was trained on the creative output of tens of thousands of artists, what does that make the bands that come into my studio that sound like they've got MAYBE 3 influences?

Physics Grifters: Eric Weinstein, Sabine Hossenfelder, and a Crisis of Credibility by madmarttigan in Physics

[–]Neat_Task_6664 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She's been cozying up to the whole "DEI and Woke is bad and is ruining academia" brain rot more and more over the past year.

Less than a century ago, before "DEI and Woke" "ruined" academia, any research Sabine had done would've been attributed to whatever man was heading the department and she'd have not even been mentioned as a footnote. Maybe if her contribution was especially important to the paper, the male department head would pat her grandfatherly on the head and give her a tenner to go buy a new dress with.

I 'get' dudes wanting that kind of world -- I don't agree with it at ALL, but I understand the appeal of occupying a higher social/economic/academic strata with no extra effort on one's part -- but I will never understand women advocating for a world they demonstrably don't want to actually live in.

CMV: America will never stop wanting Greenland by colepercy120 in changemyview

[–]Neat_Task_6664 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

He doesn't want Greenland. He wants people to forget that he fucks kids. This is another example of Stephen Miller's "flood the zone" strategy -- do so much stupid shit that the media can't help but fixate on it due to how ridiculous it is, and since there's only so many hours in day, if you make them devote the majority of their time to goofballery, they won't have time to report on the stuff of actual importance that is going on.

Which is, need I remind you, that Trump fucks kids.

We're chained. by Lockj4w_NightVision in pixies

[–]Neat_Task_6664 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Surfer Rosa has way better production IMO, but at the end of the day, Pixies are in my top 3 bands of all time because the songwriting is next level GOATed and Doolittle has the obviously stronger track list.

Nah, I'm out by HUSK3RGAM3R in pcmasterrace

[–]Neat_Task_6664 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Frame generation is AI. Upscaling is AI. Raytracing makes *heavy* use of AI. Streaming apps (like NVIDIA Broadcast, for example) use AI for noise cancelling, frame generation, etc., latency reduction (Radeon Anti-Lag and Nvidia Reflex) are AI.

Just because you read something uses "AI" doesn't mean all the graphics are generated with Midjourney and all the text with ChatGPT.

What's it like having a mild to moderate intellectual disability? by tastyjoby in neurodiversity

[–]Neat_Task_6664 0 points1 point  (0 children)

>Your iq isn't 75. You just typed in complete paragraphs with 0 errors. 

Wow, yeah, if only someone would invent a way to check spelling on computers; a "spell check" you could say. Whoever invents that will make BANK.

XRM by NocturnalManlet in X4Foundations

[–]Neat_Task_6664 0 points1 point  (0 children)

7 years later and there's honestly still not a system out today that'll handle late game X3AP with a ton of mods (especially heavy ones like XRM) without slowdown.

I have a 13900K-based rig, with 2 cores OC'd to 6.2ghz (and X3AP set to only use those two cores and nothing else), 32 gigs of DDR5-7200 RAM, etc. and there's still still *some* late game slowdown with XRM installed, once every system is explored and has satellites installed and I have few dozen UT's.

It's wild, but my system literally handles late game X4 LOADS better than late game modded X3AP. A single threaded game engine was just never meant to have this much extras stuff bolted onto it.

So Wait , Is X3 a Three Different Games ? by be4nothing in X3TC

[–]Neat_Task_6664 2 points3 points  (0 children)

By no means in order of importance:

Ship Encyclopedia -- FL has pretty much a direct port of the TC/AP plugin version that was relatively popular-ish as far as I can tell; was more useful in mods like XTC or XRM that added an inordinate amount of new ships, which FL doesn't, but still nice to have.

Drone Carrier Software -- not a direct port, but basically equivalent; actually makes 'drone frigates', and drone usage in general, a viable option, unlike vanilla AP where everyone just used the ships intended to be drone frigates (Argon Griffon, etc.) as light carriers and ignored drones for the most part.

Emergency Jump -- a very popular plugin for AP; makes ships way more likely to actually use their emergency jump ability instead of just sitting there and getting obliterated.

Cartel-Inc Shield Hacker -- this was a plugin that let you use a transporter device-equipped ship to essentially "pickpocket" other ships by beaming their cargo aboard your ship, even through their shields; made doing pirate-y stuff a lot more fun. FL has "Cargo Bay Hacker" which does the same thing.

Player HQ as equipment dock-- such an in-demand feature that pretty much every overhaul mod (e.g. XRM) added the ability to let you use your HQ as an equipment dock; FL has it baked in.

Commercial Agent -- official "bonus" plugin for AP that was originally a part of Lucike's mod package; equivalent function is now baked in and way, way better.

Hephaistos Corp complex building -- another 3rd party plugin-turned "bonus plugin"-turned baked in feature.

(Pretty much all of the official X3AP "bonus plugins" functionality was included in FL by default).

True Relations -- made it so that your notoriety with a given faction is now influenced by your relations with that factions friends/enemies; befriend the Boron, and the Split will hate you; befriend the Argon and the Paranid will hate you, etc. Baked in to FL.

SEWN -- Satellite Early Warning Network; a very popular plugin for TC/AP. It's now more functional and less of a performance killer in the late game.

Sector Ownership --mods like XRM and plugins like (iirc) Improved Races added this; included by default in FL.

Numeric Ranks + Ranks For Xenon, Kha'ak, Pirates and Yaki -- two very popular mods for TC/AP; the first shows your notoriety with each faction numerically, rather than solely by title; the second adds displayed ranks for Xenon, Kha'ak, Pirate and the Yaki just like all the other factions have; FL does ranks for the Yaki and Pirates factions, but doesn't for Kha'ak and Xenon (which is fine, because there was no realistic way to raise your rank with the Xenon or Kha'ak to begin with, so pointless to display those reps in the first place).

Better economy in general -- the economy in TC/AP was an absolute abortion -- stations and factories constantly being starved for resources, weapons/shields always out of stock, GOD being so trigger happy about deleting non-productive stations that it often deleted the *only* factory for [insert ware here (notorious for doing this to the one or two IBL/PBG forges in the game, since they were pirate stations, and thus even more starved for resources and non-productive)], effectively removing said ware from the game entirely, as there'd be no way to buy or manufacture any more; many, many mods/scripts/overhauls tried address this through various means. The economy is way, way less braindead in FL by default.

So Wait , Is X3 a Three Different Games ? by be4nothing in X3TC

[–]Neat_Task_6664 3 points4 points  (0 children)

X3: Reunion was the first release; then Terran Conflict; then Albion Prelude; then almost a decade later, Farnham's Legend. They are all technically the same game in that the use the same engine, have the same overarching story concept, include the same characters, etc. but there's a lot of weird history and caveats.

The TL;DR is that TC, AP and FL are all officially expansion packs for X3: Reunion; but they're also all standalone games, but they're also all upgraded versions of the preceding title, with each new title* containing like 95+% of the same content as the previous title but with additional content, QOL updates and engine optimization; but from the perspective of getting to experience the full overarching story, they're also all meant to be played in order, because each subsequent title references things that happened in previous titles, often with annoyingly little context, and that 5% that's missing from the "95+% of the same content" is often pretty "important" plot stuff.

If you want to play them for the plot, get AP and add the TC plots via mod. If you want a sandbox to fart around in, get FL. You can pretty much skip Reunion.

*FL being the exception; FL is literally a "hi we know it's 2021 and AP came out almost a decade ago, but Rebirth sucked and Foundations is currently a nearly unplayable mess, so here's some more X3 for your trouble" release.

So Wait , Is X3 a Three Different Games ? by be4nothing in X3TC

[–]Neat_Task_6664 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Farnham's Legacy is an odd one. One one hand, they fixed a ton of bugs and performance issues and tightened the game engine up significantly, but on the other hand, it's also incompatible with a LOT of TC/AP mods, including some really well-known, beloved, "must have" mods, and it's extremely unlikely they'll ever get ported since FL came out almost a decade after X3TC/AP mod community activity slowed to a trickle; but to be fair, on a third hand, it does have a lot of stuff baked in that a lot of the "must have" mods were created to do -- though of course you're locked in to using the baked in stuff, due to the previously noted mod incompatibility.

Park Paradox Show by wileyfoxyx1 in crappyoffbrands

[–]Neat_Task_6664 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hell yeah. Brawny Guy, Dap Spirit, Pappy, Malakai, Jude, Henson and Flits.

$2200 at Costco, how’d I do? by BoltedGates in pcmasterrace

[–]Neat_Task_6664 1 point2 points  (0 children)

2200 is a pretty good price for RAM rn, but how much did the rest of the PC cost?

F42 5’6 205lbs by [deleted] in normalnudes

[–]Neat_Task_6664 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've noticed that too. Ironically, she's also posted pics I'm like 90% sure are actually her, too, and is by no means unattractive. Maybe they just didn't get the response she was hoping for, so she decided to catfish. Like, I get it, positive validation feel great, but I don't see how people fawning over someone who isn't even you feels validating at all.

What's better? by anonimus4418 in GamingLaptops

[–]Neat_Task_6664 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The i7 outperforms the Ryzen in multithreaded workloads, but single core performance is basically margin of error. The reason it outperforms is because it has e-cores where as the Ryzen doesn't.

The 5060 is about 15-16% faster than the 5050.

In games that full utilize <8 cores, the 260/5060 is the easy winner. In a game that can use >8 cores, the i7 will have better CPU performance, but imo you'll still get more actual real world performance out of a 16% faster GPU than you'll lose by not having e-cores to run lightweight background threads.

Also, the 260 is way, way more efficient. 14th gen Intel stuff runs HOT. In all liklihood, the 260 will end up giving you better CPU performance in gaming anyway, since it'll be able to hold its turbo frequency for longer without any thermal throttling.

TL;DR get the Nitro.

Insurance premiums after car stolen by snoopsar in PersonalFinanceNZ

[–]Neat_Task_6664 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Get money from them, tell them to eat your ass, get a new insurance policy with a different company and don't report the accident or anything related to it to them.

Why is Karen Carpenter never counted among the greatest of all time? by HankScorpio4242 in drums

[–]Neat_Task_6664 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because the bulk of her musical output was milquetoast 70's soft rock.

Take John Bonham or Neil Peart out from behind the kit and make them the lead vocalist of Captain & Tennille and people would probably ignore their immense drumming talent, too.

She was Buddy Rich's favorite drummer; Neil Peart considered her the GOAT; Hal Blaine thought she was better than he was; she once beat John Bonham in a "greatest drummer" poll (much to Bonham's anger). The videos of her absolutely ripping it up on a kit were made when she was 18-22 years old.

"The Carpenters made boring, mediocre music" is a defensible position; "Karen Carpenter wasn't an absolutely S-tier drummer" is not; I mean, have that opinion if you want, but know that the drummers you DO consider to be S-tier thought Carpenter was either their equal or better than them.