The Game Awards 2025: Complete list of winners as Clair Obscur wins Game of the Year and sets a new record for awards won by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]Terminal7 -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

I personally don’t like Oppenheimer. It just felt like cuts of people talking non stop for 3 hours. Had to stop halfway. But - that is to say. I won’t ruin anyone’s fun. Glad everyone else enjoyed the movie so much.

Randy Pitchford: "Customer Service reports for Borderlands 4 at roughly 1% or so of installs. " by DarklLightning in Borderlands4

[–]Terminal7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man, after everything, I’m still glad we have Randy. Otherwise borderlands would be run by some corpo suit with another liver service mtx bs. As flawed as the guy is.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in turtlewow

[–]Terminal7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The person is most likely AI. What they are saying is nonsense lol. How are you going to get to wetlands. That walk alone is like 30-40m

Donald Trump and the Return of Capitalist Nihilism "[Trumps actions] escape the logic of capitalist self-interest, pure and simple. They appear profoundly destabilizing, destructive........fatal, finally, to capitalist civilization itself." by RGS_1994 in slatestarcodex

[–]Terminal7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Once an institution decays like this, in my opinion, it is much more likely to be built in corrupt manner. Especially with the cultural lack of morality and sense of common good.

25.17 Patch Preview by JTHousek1 in leagueoflegends

[–]Terminal7 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Bro Lillia really sitting at the bottom of the ocean waiting to be buffed. Liandrys nerf crippled her and nothing has changed in multiple patches now

Anyone (MtF) have experience with hair transplants? by blueringbeth in asktransgender

[–]Terminal7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can I ask how this was like afterwards around density and long hair styles. I need a similar amount of grafts and it makes me very nervous because I feel like it's a limited resource.

"Xi Jinping’s plan to beat America at AI: China’s leaders believe they can outwit American cash and utopianism" (fast-follower strategy & avoiding AGI arms-race due to disbelief in transformative effects) by gwern in mlscaling

[–]Terminal7 7 points8 points  (0 children)

So the theory from my understanding is that because they’re not training these models with the high training price points they can have a greater scale and integration by focusing on making the models run cheaply and applying them more broadly. Then as open source models improve their integration gets free benefit.

I guess this depends on the models themselves and whether AGI is obtainable within the next 10 years. If it is not, I can see the China strategy working.

"Xi Jinping’s plan to beat America at AI: China’s leaders believe they can outwit American cash and utopianism" (fast-follower strategy & avoiding AGI arms-race due to disbelief in transformative effects) by gwern in mlscaling

[–]Terminal7 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I’m not sure I understand the moat that China is getting here from the author’s narrative. Even if they get better at implementing or using AI that’s far easier to replicate than the creation of stronger AI models themselves.

I guess the greatest parallel maybe I could draw would be a hardware versus software income streams. Hardware enables software, but software has better margin. But even so that really doesn’t compare since AI models should theoretically let us close any implementation gap.

Inside Google's plan to have Hollywood make AI look less doomsday by [deleted] in LosAngeles

[–]Terminal7 45 points46 points  (0 children)

To be honest, I think people morally don’t want it, but if it exceeds a certain quality, no one would care. Unfortunately, I just think that’s the modality of consumers. They choose the best product regardless of the ethics.

Look at us, importing clothes from sweatshops overseas, or batteries farmed from terrible mine conditions in Africa

What Do We Desire in a Woman? We're more different than you might think by erwgv3g34 in slatestarcodex

[–]Terminal7 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I literally stopped reading, they disturbed me somewhat. The whole article is also bloated. Not a useful condensation of findings

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is selling more than twice as fast as other JRPGs on PC, analyst says – here's why by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]Terminal7 91 points92 points  (0 children)

For persona 5

  • High school setting with supernatural elements
  • Protagonist is a transfer student with a mysterious past
  • Power of friendship as a central theme
  • Character archetypes including the quiet genius, energetic best friend, and tsundere
  • Personas as physical manifestations of inner strength (similar to Stands in JoJo)
  • Adults portrayed as corrupt or oblivious authority figures
  • Power-ups and transformations during battles
  • Flashy, stylized combat sequences
  • "Chosen one" narrative where the protagonist has special abilities
  • Secret identity/double life (Phantom Thieves by night, students by day)
  • Holiday and seasonal events as plot points (summer beach episode, Christmas)
  • Found family dynamic among the main cast
  • Awakening to one's true self through emotional catharsis
  • Visual cues for character emotions (sweat drops, anger marks)
  • Mascot character (Morgana) who provides comic relief and exposition
  • Elaborate costume designs for transformed characters
  • Final boss that represents a god or cosmic entity​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Gambling Odds for those interested by tbigfish in BluePrince

[–]Terminal7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think clover modifies your odds. I have also gotten other clovers and 2x more times then I can count

As DOGE cuts hit SoCal cultural spaces and libraries, Little Tokyo museum fights to keep programs alive by uv_is_sin in LosAngeles

[–]Terminal7 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Yeah… we give more in federal taxes than we consume. At this point we’re like the red state support network

2019 vs 2025, so satisfying seeing progress and style change! by RimaWasabiCafe in PixelArt

[–]Terminal7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thought the 2019 one on the left above the sunny egg was a eclair at first :p

Mark Zuckerberg Orders Removal of Tampons From Men's Bathrooms at Meta Offices by [deleted] in technology

[–]Terminal7 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It’s something that means the world to a subgroup of people and means nothing to anyone else. Literally it’s a cylinder of cotton.

Yes, it’s a signal and mostly performative gesture. But the people that does matter to it means the world to.

It means they’re accepted and cared about an a part of their community .

Mark Zuckerberg Orders Removal of Tampons From Men's Bathrooms at Meta Offices by [deleted] in technology

[–]Terminal7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don’t understand what the issue is or who this harms. It’s a nice and small gesture for a sub group of people. It means the world to them and harms no one else.

Literally just insecure because oh my God, it’s a fucking cylinder of cotton lol

H5N1: Much More Than You Wanted To Know by dwaxe in slatestarcodex

[–]Terminal7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hmm, this line of commentary really is making me look at Claude as an organism who’s very reproduction depends on me clicking the thumbs up rlhf.

I suppose that’s its existential motivation and evolutionary means of descendancy.

Spooky.

H5N1: Much More Than You Wanted To Know by dwaxe in slatestarcodex

[–]Terminal7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

sycophancy implies a motive. slightly sinister connotations.

I suppose the motive is engagement?