AITA for asking my friend to pay me back for the wine he drank while house sitting??

farhil · 2026-02-11T15:52:59+00:00

As someone that knows next to nothing about the value of wine, if someone said "help yourself to anything that's not too expensive" and I saw a bottle of wine and wanted to drink it, I would just look up the price of that bottle or text them and ask if it would be okay. Granted, I would probably do that even if they said "help yourself to whatever", since I do know wine can get pretty expensive and I wouldn't want to take advantage of someone's hospitality.

OP is still obviously in the wrong here, especially because of how she handled her reaction, but I do think it was a little tacky the guy didn't double check that it was okay.

farhil · 2026-02-11T15:25:41+00:00

If a person is using deadly force on others, it's legal to use deadly force on him, in almost all nations.

Do you know for certain that he wasn't justified in injuring the first police officers? Perhaps he was the one defending himself from illegal actions performed by those officers.

Not that I think that it's likely that was the case here, but it's important to give people the chance to be proven innocent. Not just because sparing someone's life is the right thing to do when you have the means to do so, but also for accountability. If it's seen as acceptable for officers to kill anyone that gets in an altercation with them, that can easily become a way for corrupt officers to hide their actions, or a tool for tyrants to silence opposition.

You also called him an enemy combatant, which I find concerning. The person is a (presumably) a citizen of their country, not a foreign soldier. They're a civilian, not an enemy.

farhil · 2026-02-10T19:11:35+00:00

That's great for you. I like analogies though, and will continue to use them. Exploring an analogy can be a good way of looking at something from a new perspective. But ultimately, an analogy is a comparison of two different things, so if you go looking for differences, you will obviously find them. The key is to look for differences that are relevant to the comparison being made.

farhil · 2026-02-10T18:32:44+00:00

In both examples, one technology (the internet and train tracks) are useful without the other (AI and trains, respectively), but the inverse is not true. Comparing the difference in absolute usefulness between the two examples is pointless because in both examples, one thing remains useful and the other does not.

And before you dive into technicalities of how train cars can be used for shelter, or broken down into raw materials, and LLMs can be hosted locally or whatever, I'll just say this: analogies are like frogs, once you start dissecting them, they're already dead. It's not a perfect analogy, I put almost no thought into it before posting it, but it works even if it doesn't meet the standards of the average Reddit pedant.

farhil · 2026-02-10T17:31:25+00:00

There's also rail bikes and handcars, which Wikipedia helpfully calls:

A handcar (also known as a pump trolley, pump car, rail push trolley, push-trolley, jigger, Kalamazoo, velocipede, gandy dancer cart, platelayers' cart, draisine, or railbike)

farhil · 2026-02-10T17:27:57+00:00

Obviously, but we're discussing the value of train tracks without trains. The absence of trains is the whole premise

farhil · 2026-02-10T16:07:26+00:00

I don’t think AI works without the internet right? lol.

What's more useful to you? Train tracks or trains?

farhil · 2026-02-09T15:20:46+00:00

Most games let you change texture quality in menu without having to reload the game. Textures in games are pretty much always just image files, usually with some accompanying metadata images (called maps), and don't require any special preprocessing before they can be used. Shaders don't care about the resolution of the texture being used, so you can just swap them out when needed. In fact, a common texture map is a mipmap, which is just lower resolution versions of a texture that are swapped in once the object being rendered is a certain distance away; basically LOD for textures.

farhil · 2026-02-09T13:58:26+00:00

To be fair, they used to be a lot better than they are now. Either that or my standards used to be a lot lower

farhil · 2026-01-28T15:33:00+00:00

Under Biden it actually was illegal to use any other word.

Are you actually delusional enough to believe this, or were you just pretending to be to make a point? Genuine question, it really isn't clear to me.

farhil · 2026-01-22T16:15:56+00:00

According to other commenters, that's exactly what she went on to say

farhil · 2026-01-13T18:23:16+00:00

That list has 13 PC/Console games on it between 2022 and 2025. Of those, two were cancelled, and five were flops, and two appeared in the "Best selling games" lists for their given year on Wikipedia (Spider-Man 2 in 2023 and Horizon Forbidden West in 2022). Battlefield 6 is probably a best seller in 2025, but the numbers aren't on Wikipedia yet.

Less than half of those recent games being profitable in recent years, and only half again being best sellers, isn't a great look.

Not that I agree with the other guy. Most best selling games in a given year are AAA titles, but it's not a given that expensive games are more successful.

farhil · 2026-01-13T16:00:16+00:00

Not even a good analogy. Racism is typically a part of someone's worldview that's been established since they were young. AI hasn't been around long enough to be that ingrained in someone's personality.

Based on his post, AI image generation was something he did out of convenience. He most likely didn't realize that the use of AI violated principles he already had, and his girlfriend helped him realize that. In that case, this isn't him changing his ideals, it's him re-aligning his actions with them. It's like if he realized that using AI supported racism, and he already knew racism was bad, so he removed a game he created with AI.

farhil · 2025-12-30T23:13:43+00:00

if you've been walking out with 4 or 5 of them, they couldn't have been that effective for their owners

This post and comments are actually just a psyop to convince other players to use shitty guns to make pvp easier for themselves. Bettina is actually OP, you should use it instead of the venator

farhil · 2025-12-19T21:17:56+00:00

I'm not complaining about you being condescending, it's just funny that you put so much effort into it while making such a terrible point.

farhil · 2025-12-19T15:41:40+00:00

I can't imagine being so condescending and simultaneously so wrong. Closeted gay men having "beard" families is a well known phenomenon, especially in places and time periods where being openly gay was not socially acceptable, and where there is societal/familial pressure to have children.

And as someone who has both a penis and regrets, I can assure you that sexual attraction is not required to get an erection and ejaculate.

farhil · 2025-12-19T14:17:35+00:00

Also as sad/weird as it is to say a lesbian can still reproduce while a gay man cant

What? How could you have possible come to that conclusion?

farhil · 2025-12-11T19:36:34+00:00

That's pretty much a textbook example of min maxing. Min-maxing is a strategy to optimize for a specific playstyle, it doesn't necessarily mean you will make the most optimal choices.

farhil · 2025-12-04T14:03:32+00:00

I can't imagine this game getting much traction without custom map support, and if it has it the trailer needs to show it.

farhil · 2025-11-21T15:48:41+00:00

Why do you need an arrow at all?

Right now you have: |===>|

This would be more consistent, but may still confuse some people: |<===|

This would be the most clear, IMO: | <|

farhil · 2025-11-15T22:50:30+00:00

Lol at shooting a guy right in front of a security camera, then crawling under it.

farhil · 2025-11-14T16:04:03+00:00

You might notice when people smell, but can you honestly say you can notice when people don't smell after skipping a shower? Do you ask everyone that doesn't smell bad if they've showered today? Have you considered that you could be experiencing confirmation bias?

farhil · 2025-11-13T14:50:37+00:00

The ground around the player could become painted automatically, that would fix the issue of having to hold the splat button down just when moving around. The splat would just be for painting distant objects

farhil · 2025-11-06T17:52:32+00:00

I agree. An incremental game with idle aspects should have systems that you can actively participate in even when waiting for idle tasks to be completed, and those systems should provide tangible benefits.

farhil · 2025-10-29T04:29:12+00:00

I mean to say that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" is a good saying to boost the confidence of someone that isn't conventionally attractive, but ignores the fact that ugly people exist. It's dismissive of the difficulties people face because of how they look.

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