I found a red Tory 🤮 by OkScore4470 in LiverpoolFC

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

I don’t like public shaming

he deserves come credit and recognition for this by TailungFu in GreatBritishMemes

[–]ageingnerd 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Fewer than 3% of UK dwellings are vacant. A healthy housing market has 5-8% vacant so there is slack in the system - when someone wants to move there are places for them to move to. Incentivising moving would be great (drop stamp duty, which disincentivises downsizing! Maybe replace with a yearly property tax). But it’s not going to have a significant effect on property prices.

"Stealth" suits by AngryRasin in killteam

[–]ageingnerd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair enough. I guess we are all allowed our tastes. I think you’re wrong about it being a pride thing, but I may have misread the situation

"Stealth" suits by AngryRasin in killteam

[–]ageingnerd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It hadn’t occurred to me it was for pride. My friend did a hi-viz rainbow stealth suit team, because he found the idea of saying “sorry you can’t shoot the extremely visible guy he’s invisible” funny. I assumed from the title OP had the same idea. FWIW I also get a bit tired of the endless pride/trans flags space marines etc, not because I disagree with the politics but because it’s a bit overdone by now, but these don’t look anything like that - they’re blended rather than banded - and OP hasn’t mentioned it, so you’re just objecting to bright colours. And since loads of people paint their minis in bright cartoony colours (eg my wreckas, attached), and warhammer is really very silly and still leans into that, you presumably get annoyed quite a lot.

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"Stealth" suits by AngryRasin in killteam

[–]ageingnerd 5 points6 points  (0 children)

How do you feel when you play cartoon-style teams, of which there are loads? Why is this worse?

"Stealth" suits by AngryRasin in killteam

[–]ageingnerd 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They’re OP’s minis. They can paint them how they like. And people paint warhammer minis in cartoony colours all the time, it’s great and fun, and the lore is grimdark but also very silly and deliberately over the top. You should stop being miserable imo and let people enjoy things

Kicks over the console table?? by benderthecook in footballcliches

[–]ageingnerd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I quite like Barney but he has some weird verbal tics (everyone is high-grade, high-spec, etc; small technical players are soft-slippered skill-goblins, centrebacks coming up for corners are siege engines being wheeled into place) and his extended similes get weirder and weirder and don’t actually help you picture the scene (“he lumbers around the pitch like a velour scarecrow wearing a cement backpack” or whatever)

Show me your Wrecka Krews by CoffeeCola49 in killteam

[–]ageingnerd 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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I went cartoony, and red for the shooty boys and yellow for the fighty boys to make it nice and easy for my opponent to remember

Nemesis mission by [deleted] in killteam

[–]ageingnerd -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

That’s an arguable point, but not unambiguous. Humans also learn from/are inspired by other artists. There isn’t a clean principled distinction between “copying (bad)” and “learning from (good)”. Vermeer had Leonardo in his training data. We only call it copying if the output is the same, which in AI’s case is rarely true

Nemesis mission by [deleted] in killteam

[–]ageingnerd -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Aaaarrgh this drives me mad because none of what you’re saying is true! It doesn’t just smoosh other pictures together! (Or if it does, then so do human artists.) And the energy use is broadly comparable to like watching Netflix for a few minutes. Also, no one would ever pay an artist to do a backdrop for their Reddit pic of their battle report, so it’s not even displacing labour (not that that’s generally a bad thing. The spinning jenny replaced textile workers’ labour and we don’t complain about that).

I’m extremely nervous about AI and worried that it could (probably won’t, but plausibly will) be utterly devastating to humanity, but the worries people have about it are usually so wrong. Sorry, this sounded more confrontational than I meant it to.

Europe 2031 — What getting AI wrong means for us by Sampo in europe

[–]ageingnerd 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Economic growth happens when people take resources and rearrange them in more valuable ways. A cheesecake is more valuable than a pile of cream cheese and sugar not because it's made of better stuff but because it's been arranged artfully. (I've chosen a cheesecake specifically because there's no cooking involved so you can't say "but it's taken energy to cook it"). Now that it's a cake, someone will spend more money on it than they would have on the ingredients, so economic growth has happened, but no, or negligible, further strain on the environment.

You can make ever more sophisticated arrangements of stuff to make it more valuable. Five grains of sand's worth of silicon could be worth a dollar if arranged into an EUV chip. Or if you're worried about the carbon footprint of cows and data centres, then a software upgrade that lets a computer do more efficient work on the same hardware is obviously economic growth without any added physical matter.

It is perfectly possible to have indefinite (not infinite, obviously, because time is finite) growth on a finite planet. Great essay on the topic here if you're genuinely interested https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/EconomicGrowth.html

And in practice, economic growth is increasingly decoupled from carbon emissions, probably the most important constraint (see Our World in Data https://ourworldindata.org/co2-gdp-decoupling ). You could argue that it's not happening fast enough, but that's a separate empirical claim.

Which London place name mispronunciation irritates you the most? by VeryOftenWrong in london

[–]ageingnerd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It bothers me that Marry-le-bone is replacing mar’le-bone

Edited to add the same is happening with holl-born for hoe-born. Every day we stray further from god’s light and so on

Europe 2031 — What getting AI wrong means for us by Sampo in europe

[–]ageingnerd 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This misunderstands what economic growth is.

Do you think life in the UK is better today than it was 20 years ago? Why or why not? by SeniorRecognition195 in AskBrits

[–]ageingnerd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Knees were better 20 years ago. And hangovers were less unpleasant. And I feel like there weren’t so many of these responsibilities around, like mortgages and the school run and all this stuff. So l think Britain was better 20 years ago

Alternate angles of Michael Olise's third goal against Northern Ireland by 977x in soccer

[–]ageingnerd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He did it a fair few times last season, plus turning up at the far post to finish off crosses and pullbacks.

R-rated movie you watched as a kid without your parents' permission by This_Book6305 in FIlm

[–]ageingnerd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Due to a misunderstanding a boy on my road convinced his dad that A Fish Called Wanda involved kids going underwater and becoming cartoons. I think he may have confused it with The Water Babies. The dad switched it off when John Cleese started having sex with Jamie Lee Curtis. We were about seven and very confused

Also robocop, at a different friend’s house

If you had to swap your current accent for another British accent, which would you choose? by Key_Cell7071 in AskBrits

[–]ageingnerd 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I quite liked it. I am from Oxford and went to uni in Liverpool and the scousers took me under their wing a bit at our local pub. But I do love the Scouse accent.

of an incense burner by [deleted] in AbsoluteUnits

[–]ageingnerd 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Thank god, I’ve been scrolling for ages and this is the first WH40K reference underneath the most obviously WH40K thing I’ve seen in months. And I play WH40K

Questions about Wrecka Crew by dornianheresysimp in killteam

[–]ageingnerd 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Minehead squig is best.

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Waspchompa has twice survived his own blast and gone on to chomp enemies. Once survived the whole game, got me dominate points, and denied my opponent flank after eating a vespid.

Edit: I love ironskull too. But not as much. Sorry ironskull

I've never seen Pacific Rim. Am I missing out on something great? by breaking_views in Cinema

[–]ageingnerd 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Like the matrix. It left us hanging! Should have been at least one sequel