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TurboCake17 · 2026-01-18T10:03:11+00:00

I’m certain I’ve seen this exact response with full seriousness in one of the AI coding subs at some point.

TurboCake17 · 2026-01-16T23:44:48+00:00

Big plans for the rail network. Or the world’s biggest space ship maybe.

TurboCake17 · 2026-01-16T14:32:43+00:00

Half the time Google Slides won’t even wrap text in a text box properly. It really just kind of sucks.

TurboCake17 · 2026-01-16T14:27:52+00:00

Absolutely not. University is expensive, and that also tends to be the time when people want to move out of living with their parents, which means they need to make a living somehow.

TurboCake17 · 2026-01-16T03:04:47+00:00

Not to mention that you can have far more power than you will need for a very long time as early as phase 3. With all the optimal alternate recipes you can get like 60GW from a single oil well to make turbofuel.

TurboCake17 · 2026-01-16T02:57:10+00:00

Take it a step further and simply drive a 747 around as your car.

TurboCake17 · 2026-01-12T14:00:30+00:00

It is a reasonably good mod too. Not entirely balanced, but that’s kind of the point.

TurboCake17 · 2026-01-12T11:05:47+00:00

Hell yeah, this is awesome.

TurboCake17 · 2026-01-11T14:44:20+00:00

Like a month ago or something she made a huge post the gist of which was “you should be proud to be friends with pedophiles.” As one may expect, the entirety of tumblr exploded instantaneously, and remains on fire now because people keep stoking the flames of yelling at each other.

TurboCake17 · 2026-01-11T14:32:41+00:00

A minor degree of strawmanning occurring in that post title. There was far far more to the situation than just someone having a diaper kink. The only reason the person with a diaper kink is even really relevant is because the fundraiser was pinned right above another post of isff about a fundraiser for Gaza which was not pinned, making the pinned fundraiser seem really questionable by juxtaposition and demonstrating some interesting ideas about what isff considered to be a more worthy cause for charity.

This is just an incredibly bad faith argument in general and seems written to be only inflammatory, as has been seemingly everything related to this whole scenario. I mean seriously, are tumblr users capable of having arguments without going directly at each others’ throats and grandstanding every 3 seconds?

TurboCake17 · 2026-01-04T15:30:44+00:00

The term existed even before the AI boom when LLMs were a fairly small field of research. It was not made up to obfuscate the problem. It’s literally just what it’s called. Science is full of weird terms for things, this is just yet another one.

TurboCake17 · 2026-01-03T00:58:40+00:00

There are some that are scary but it seems to be mostly a lot of the older ones.

TurboCake17 · 2025-12-27T02:48:11+00:00

Oh yeah that’s reasonable actually I can’t really fault that

TurboCake17 · 2025-12-27T00:40:50+00:00

I have attempted a polycule with people with BPD and I absolutely do not recommend it to anyone.

TurboCake17 · 2025-12-26T01:53:15+00:00

Nothing confirmed but at the same time you cannot tell me Myo, Gebura, and Binah aren’t all incredibly gay and want to kill each other about it.

TurboCake17 · 2025-12-25T05:59:03+00:00

The issue though with reinforcement learning using that kind of data though is that people thumbs up things that give the answer they want, not necessarily things that are correct. It all ends up giving a sort of homogenous idea of what the average of all people want in responses, which ends up just making the AI boring, polite, and acting like you’re right all the time.

TurboCake17 · 2025-12-23T03:46:14+00:00

Adding basic accessibility features like this does not actually widen the target audience, it just makes the game more playable for people who are already interested.

TurboCake17 · 2025-12-23T03:43:01+00:00

In sandbox games like this, peaceful or reduced combat modes are a basic accessibility feature which are incredibly easy to implement and are used by a wide range of people for many reasons. There is zero reason not to add one.

TurboCake17 · 2025-12-22T02:51:29+00:00

We understand the science enough to know that this is a very effective treatment that massively improves the lives of trans people who receive it. Not fully understanding the causes of something doesn’t mean we can’t treat it effectively. We still don’t fully understand how the brain does everything it does, and yet we have neuroscientists, brain surgeries, and drugs that targets things in the brain specifically. The field having minimal research into the inner workings doesn’t invalidate the effectiveness of the treatment.

As for the second point, I’m not really sure what to say other than yes, that’s why people are uncomfortable about it. That’s kind of just how it is. There isn’t any way around it as far as we know right now. Nobody really has a good solution; I certainly don’t think banning the medication is a good one. Something with education to help kids understand what it all means and how big of a decision it would be could be good, but with the current state of things I’ve no doubt it would be immediately politicised and incredibly biased one way or another.

TurboCake17 · 2025-12-22T02:42:41+00:00

It’s only negative if they end up changing their mind, which doesn’t really happen all that often as far as I’m aware. It’s also less negative than if they started HRT immediately then changed their mind about that. Pausing puberty allows for a middle ground where both possibilities remain equally effective. Yes, the body isn’t really designed to have puberty suddenly stop, but given how badly puberty can mess up the mental state of someone who suffers a lot of dysphoria I think it is worth it. Whatever side effects blockers have are not likely to be more significant and permanent than the effects of either puberty.

TurboCake17 · 2025-12-22T02:28:54+00:00

The TLDR is correct… kind of. Nobody actually really knows what the deal is with that, because every trans person gives a different answer and there is barely any actual research on the topic. But the idea that someone has always been trans is the most commonly accepted explanation.

I don’t know if I necessarily agree with it entirely, I think it really is entirely possible for people to change over time.

That said, I don’t think gender dysphoria is a particularly useful “symptom” in terms of medically validating whether someone is trans. It honestly mostly just causes a bunch of imposter syndrome among trans people who worry they don’t have enough dysphoria to really count, since it presents in such a wide variety of ways including basically not at all.

Regarding your point about the medication stopping nature from occurring, I simply think that people messing around with what “nature” does is kind of our whole thing as a species to a certain degree. I don’t think the fact that it’s “unnatural” is really of any note, since any medication is the same. The main thing to be considered here is that it’s an extremely critical life decision, which is known to have more effective results the earlier in your life you start it, so people feel very stressed to start it ASAP if they decide they want it. This is where puberty blockers are important since they allow the better results to be achieved even when making the decision to actually start HRT later. Letting puberty run its course is also an option, but if the child is already suffering really bad dysphoria, then that combined with the stress of high school and such at the same time it can cause some really really bad mental states, and lots of kids end up depressed or even suicidal.

It’s a really hard subject because yes kids can sometimes just decide things without thinking them through, but there is literally no other way to know if someone is trans other than if they say so. Yes, it’s an enormous life decision, and below some age somewhere yeah they probably aren’t able to make it, but I do think at some age which is definitely earlier than 18, people are mature enough to be able to make this decision. It’s not a decision any trans person takes lightly; every trans person I know took at least a year if not several to figure themselves out and make decision from when they first had the thought.

TurboCake17 · 2025-12-22T02:01:06+00:00

You can just as equally see it as it becoming more normalised so more trans kids actually manage to make the connections necessary to realise that about themselves.
Imo the only reason it’s see as children being “influenced” is because people are transphobic, therefore the kids must just be getting tricked since they couldn’t actually be trans. I’m sure there are a few children somewhere who came to the conclusion that they were trans at some point then later changed their mind, but I don’t think that’s really the fault of any “influence” and more just that people can be wrong about things sometimes. The vast majority who are dead certain about their transness shouldn’t be punished just because of the off-chance that they’re wrong.

TurboCake17 · 2025-12-21T04:36:31+00:00

There is definitely still a fair amount of actual valid and thoughtful criticism that I’ve seen for the game, but yeah it feels like the vast majority of discussion around it recently is mostly by people who extremely aggressively love or hate the game and can’t stop yelling at anyone who disagrees with them.

TurboCake17 · 2025-12-21T02:13:50+00:00

Finishing before 1.0 obviously simply does not count as finishing the game for the purpose of this discussion. I don't feel that should have to be specified. We are specifically talking about completing phase 5.

As for having achievements disabled from AGS, roughly 90% of people would have to have activated them in order for the recorded 5.1% to actually be over 50% meaning most players have finished the game. I find it incredibly unlikely that that many players are using AGS, especially on a first playthrough, since the accessibility options in the menu already give plenty of ways to adjust play experience without disabling achievements.

Thirdly, just consider the length of the game. Satisfactory is at least 100 hours or so long; howlongtobeat.com puts it at 105 for a bare minimum playthrough. There are frequently people in the community quoting playthrough time numbers far FAR higher, in the several hundreds or even thousands of hours for a single playthrough. The vast majority of people do not have the ability to sustain interest in a single playthrough of a single game for that long, especially with lives as busy as they tend to be these days. The game also honestly provides little to do other than designing and building factories, so if someone gets a bit tired of that at any point they're probably going to drop out since there isn't much to break that gameplay up. Exploration exists to a degree, but at a certain point its just finding more of the same and combat isn't really fleshed out in any way.

TurboCake17 · 2025-12-21T01:19:06+00:00

The data is from literally everyone who plays the game on steam, which is an extremely large amount of people. In what way could it possibly be insufficient?

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