Roundcat

Roundcat , 11 months ago to futurama in Elon's entire thought process when deciding to rename Twitter to 'X.'

The X is for Xtreme

Roundcat , 11 months ago to gaming in The Sony Project Q handheld is running Android in a leaked video

I can't believe the entire vita fanbase is here. (Not me, but I'm happy to meet the both of you!)

Roundcat , 11 months ago to gaming in Ubisoft thinks it's okay to delete your games library now apparently

I'm starting to feel better about boycotting them after the unaddressed sexual abuse cases.

Roundcat , 11 months ago to gaming in 70 percent of gamers avoid certain games because of 'toxic communities', study finds

I hear that. It's just a shame some consoles and carts are starting to need service due to their age, especially for handhelds, and retro gaming has gotten more and more unaffordable. Glad I picked up most of my collection when it was cheap.

Roundcat , 11 months ago to gaming in 70 percent of gamers avoid certain games because of 'toxic communities', study finds

I think you hit the nail on the head. There is almost no recourse for anyone being a dick, and some people consider it part of their "strategy" to get under people's skin.

Roundcat , 11 months ago to gaming in 70 percent of gamers avoid certain games because of 'toxic communities', study finds

That's part of the reason I love Splatoon. No voice unless you are playing with friends, and it's not a total sausage fest. Though for whatever reason, the squid bagging and griefing gets cranked up to 11 during Splatfest.

Roundcat , 11 months ago to gaming in 70 percent of gamers avoid certain games because of 'toxic communities', study finds

I enjoy Smash Bros. Both in playing Ultimate and watching Melee. But I never want to go to another smash tourney, or hang out with other smash fans again. I used to be part of my university's smash group, and looking back I only got a long with a few of the people there, and everyone else was a fucking toolbag, or an incompetent manchild. I remember having an enlightening conversation with someone who tried to convince me women were incapable of playing melee competitively due to the shape of their heads and motor skills. I remember the smell being soo bad at one tournament, that I ended up forfeiting one of my matches so I could go home cause I couldn't take the smell anymore. One of my best friends, who was a brilliant Robin player in Smash 4 was called the "N" word multiple times cause people couldn't handle losing to him, and the tourney organizers would do nothing about it. I main Ness in both 4 and Ultimate, and almost got a controller thrown at me cause the guy kept running into my pk fires. and a local game store stopped hosting smash tourneys cause people wouldn't stop breaking shit after losing, and shit kept getting stolen after tourneys.

Roundcat , 11 months ago to gaming in What type of game do you want to play that doesn't really exist?

Ikr! I'm surprised it took so long for an indie project to fill the gap. If it's even half as good as jsrf, I'll be satisfied.

Roundcat , 11 months ago to gaming in What type of game do you want to play that doesn't really exist?

I want to know what Jet St Radio for the Wii could've been. Apparently one was tossed around, but at the end of the day was rejected. Tbf, this was 2006~ Sega, and it probably would've been trash. But I will still never not be curious about what could've been.

Roundcat , 11 months ago to memes in Watching Lemmy Grow So Fast, Like...

Shit! a community complaint post already ??

Roundcat , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to news in I lost my job to ChatGPT and was made obsolete. I was out of work for 3 months before taking a new job passing out samples at grocery stores.

I mean, the expectation was there would never be an artificial intelligence capable of coming up with its own ideas, having it's own inspiration and be able to create based on its own experiences.

The reality is it didn't have to. All it took was mass work theft, and machine able to take the bits and pieces of those works, and shuffle them into a production that matched the user's parameters.

Honestly, I wish we were dealing with actual "artificial intelligence" that was capable of its own thoughts, inspiration, feelings, and experiences. That could paint a picture or write a story based on its own experiences, and maybe give its own perspective as a machine that would further push the boundaries of what is possible in art and story telling.

Instead, I get to realize that in reality, all art and storytelling is mixing and matching the same parts into something different, and that we have built a machine so efficient at doing it, there is no need for humans to do it.

I already kinda knew that I was never going to have a career doing anything creative, but all this "AI" boom has shown me is that no matter how "skilled" or "creative" I become, those bits and pieces can be broken down into something cheap enough that my involvement is no longer necessary.

Roundcat , 11 months ago to nostupidquestions in Mastodon or Lemmy

I like them for different reasons. Mastodon is somewhere I check on my phone for updates on things I care about, random posts, memes, or interesting topics that make it into my feed.

Lemmy on the other hand is somewhere I actually hang out. Sure, there are the memes, but there's more room for in depth discussion here, and I can spend hours here while I usually browse mastodon in minutes. In a way they are both how Twitter and Reddit used to be before they got massively popular and I find it refreshing.

In the end, I went with kbin because it combines features and integration of the two platforms while having stuff unique to it. I definitely recommend it if you like both platforms.

Roundcat , 11 months ago to world in US national held after crossing into N Korea

Someone find out which lemmy dev it was.

Roundcat , 11 months ago to world in China logs 52.2 Celsius as extreme weather rewrites records

Ready to go to prison?

Roundcat , 11 months ago to world in China logs 52.2 Celsius as extreme weather rewrites records

To the celciaphobic, that's about half way to boiling, or 2 Popeye's Kitchen's worth of heat.