Tetra

Tetra , 3 months ago

Why would anyone play your games on hardware that's ten years behind? The few Nintendo games I still buy (like Tears of the Kingdom actually) I still play on emulator, because it's objectively better in every way. Fuck off.

Tetra , 4 months ago

You'll get called dramatic for saying that but Republicans are absolutely eyeing a form of trans genocide; removing access to treatment and creating as hostile and dangerous an environment possible for trans people. They want us to disappear.

Tetra , 4 months ago

We've had more than enough proof he's on team Putin, I personally don't need another.

Tetra , 4 months ago

US weapons Trump would provide, most likely.

Tetra , 4 months ago

All crypto is essentially designed around competition for who gets to be the one mining it. Things escalate, and that's how you end up with these ridiculous crypto farms that use as much power as entire cities. No crypto currency is "green". And UNLIKE cars, lights or banking, crypto serves no purpose, it's currency that doesn't get spent, it's basically just there to fuel speculation for tech bros.

Crypto is a complete waste of energy, it's not 'big money spinning Bitcoin as negative', it's just objectively idiotic, don't listen to that comment.

If you haven't, I recommend watching Dan Olson's documentary "Line Goes Up" on Youtube.

Tetra , 4 months ago

Difference is that crypto is barely even a currency, it's basically just a vehicle for speculation. Visa is actually useful.

Tetra , 4 months ago

Billionaires really need to stop stealing their ideas from viral joke tweets.

Tetra , 5 months ago

I feel like the solution is pretty simple: if you want to AI copy someone's voice and put it in your project, you have to hire them and pay them as normal, and they have to give consent to let the AI use their likeness.

Otherwise it's theft.

Tetra , 5 months ago

Agreed.

Tetra , 5 months ago

Many people in here arguing things "have never been better". It's true to an extent; things are pretty good in terms of poverty, liberties or world peace (for now). It's not great, it's never been great, but it's a decent bit better than it's been in the past. Overall.

We are, however, in an era of unstability and unrest, where it feels like things are constantly on the cusp of changing for the worse (and in some cases, are indeed already changing for the worse, like abortion or LGBT rights in the US, for example). Violence and discrimination are on the rise, global peace is being threatened, democracy is in jeopardy (not just in the US mind you), the 1% are getting WAY richer way faster than ever... To top it all off, climate change is objectively, unarguably as bad as it's ever been, and it's getting much much worse, much faster than even experts can keep up with. Like, we're headed straight for extinction and we keep accelerating toward it.

You have every right to be worried. Yes, it's easy to forget and take for granted the things we have now that we didn't even a mere 60 years ago, but many of them are very much under attack at the moment. Just because shit maybe hasn't quite yet hit the fan doesn't mean everything is fine.

And to answer your question, I've found some refuge in art, both experiencing and creating it. Reading books, watching movies, playing games, etc, especially those that echo that sentiment of fear and uncertainty for the future (or present). Trying to use all that as inspiration for my own work, I think it'd help to express my feelings this way. I am indeed doing very poorly still though, it's a lot to deal with, on top of my own personal problems.

Tetra , 5 months ago

Upvoting for OneShot

Tetra , 6 months ago

Idk what's the exact purpose of this meme but I really do see a lot of similarities between God creating the world and simulation theory. Obviously ST and religion are wildly different in their impact on society and how many people genuinely believe in them, but ST is pretty silly too.

It's just a "what if" scenario, one that's potentially possible but wouldn't change or explain anything if it was true. All you're doing is moving the existential problems up a layer and forgetting about it, it's the same as saying God made us: at the end of the day both the beings in charge of the simulation AND God have to come from somewhere, they live in a "real" universe, and you're not explaining that.

Why can't it be that we simply live in a real universe? That's the simplest answer, the one that requires the fewest assumptions. It doesn't have a convenient, satisfying reason as to why we're here, or how reality came to be, but it's easily the most plausible.

Tetra , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

"there are squillions of simulated universe."

Huge assumption there lol, but I guess I see your point. If you assume simulations of this scope and quality are possible (again HUGE assumption), then your odds of being in one go up a lot, obviously.

Again though, at some point you have to hit actual, non simulated reality, and when everything seems to point towards that being the case for us, and absolutely nothing hints at a simulation, I don't see why we couldn't just be in that actual reality. I can't help but see that thought experiment as just an attempt to answer "the big question" in some way, even though in actuality it just moves it out of view.

It's Russell's teapot, impossible to disprove and theorically possible, but there's nothing backing it up besides fantastical assumptions. In that regard yeah, I think the comparison with God is warranted. The creators of our simulation, and especially the ones up above that are actually real would need such absurd levels of technology so far beyond our comprehension that it would be magic to us, and they would absolutely be our Gods.

I don't see much of a difference, it's kind of just a tech themed spin on it, with the same fallacies plaguing the whole concept, IMO. It's cool to think and write scifi about, but that's about it.

Tetra , 6 months ago

Not sure what part of the message you're responding to, what do you mean?

Tetra , 6 months ago

Ça me semble vraiment réussi, bravo !

Tetra , 6 months ago

One of the downsides is that you'll be playing the Nintendo Switch.

Switch emulators are so good by now, the experience is nearly always better on PC. My Switch is one of the first models too but now that I don't play online Smash anymore, I really don't see what use I could have of a homebrewed console.

Tetra , 6 months ago

I knew a Mexican girl who I don't think considered it fully "mexican" but liked it quite a lot still.

Tetra , 6 months ago

Even free I'm not installing that shit.

Tetra , 7 months ago

I still use Reddit a bit (on desktop only), mostly to check on some niche communities that aren't really on the Fediverse yet, but Kbin has been very nice also. It's nice and chill, and overall a lot less fascist/bigot friendly, which is refreshing.

Nice Kingdom Come Deliverance profile pic btw

Tetra , 7 months ago

I haven't seen anything of Twitter in a while

Tetra , 7 months ago

Exactly.

Tetra , 7 months ago

I've noticed that too, I just switch to Freetube when it happens.
Simply disgusting, but it's business as usual for Google.

Tetra , 7 months ago

It does play livestreams, yes.

Tetra , 7 months ago

They could've just said "stop playing our games", it would've been shorter.

Tetra , 9 months ago

I fully support the arrest, those are serious threats and they should be met with serious consequences.

It's still weird to me that it was done in a classroom though. I understand the intent of "sending a strong message" but idk if I like it all that much. They could've arrested him at his home and forgo this whole performative stunt.

When I was in high school someone in my class did some highly fucked up shit and got in very serious legal trouble for it (and we never saw him at the school again). After he was expelled/arrested, we just had a very long talk in class about what he did and why it was so serious and wrong, and it was effective, it's one of few things I remember from high school now actually lol. We didn't need to have the police show up to scare us into not doing it, at least I didn't, idk how effective it was on everyone else.

Not sure how I feel about that.

Tetra , 9 months ago

I wouldn't use Twitter even if it was the one paying ME

Tetra , 9 months ago

I'm assuming even there is some on an icy moon of the solar system, since they don't have an atmosphere we can't detect it as easily.

Tetra , 9 months ago

Thumbnail made him look like Binging with Babish

Tetra , 9 months ago

I can't see the problem.

Tetra , 9 months ago

It's not gonna last you 20 hours, but last I checked the official Sonic 1, 2 and CD ports are all free on mobile (and they're really good).

Tetra , 9 months ago

Given all my adblockers, getting ads at all is what scares me

Tetra , 9 months ago

See, that right there is true horror.

Tetra , 9 months ago

I mean isn't that what OP is trying to figure out? A way for people to hear how you sound inside your skull.

Tetra , 10 months ago

Yikes... That's fucking gross.
Hopefully there's some kind of backlash from chess players and community figures, this is absolutely vile.

Honestly lately I'm kinda just losing hope in humanity, and wondering if LGBT folks will ever be accepted in society. Seeing what little progress we acquired over the past century or so be undone so easily is crushing.

Fuck FIDE, fuck Russia, and fuck all the ignorant, hateful bigots that keep fighting against people's very right to exist.

Tetra , 10 months ago

They're definitely gonna go after the wayback machine next, because what use is there in controlling social media and deleting what bothers them, if there's freely accessible records of it somewhere else?

The archive needs to be protected at all costs.

Tetra , 10 months ago

Isn't that just a fancy way of saying "I want more lies, ignorance and hate sprinkled in"?

"More politically balanced" lol

Tetra , 10 months ago

You know, I was actually wondering about that recently. I watched The Thing in 4K and I sort of regreted it; I loved the movie, but I can only imagine how much better of an experience it would've been to watch it on VHS back in the day.

Tried looking for some kind of video player or something that could emulate the look of VHS (not unlike shaders like CRT Royale do for retro games), but couldn't find anything.

If anyone knows about something like this, let me know.

Tetra , 10 months ago

Religion is a cancer on this world.

Tetra , 10 months ago

A Hat in Time

Tetra , 10 months ago

MPC and Madvr, same as you

Tetra , 10 months ago

The USA is very interested in aliens*

Tetra , 10 months ago

Well, that's just prime...

Tetra , 10 months ago

Beyond autism, that /s has become all the more necessary these days in the wake of this huge wave of anti-intellectualism. Outside of private circles, it's so hard now to tell the difference between absurd sarcasm and the genuinely ignorant takes some people proudly share, there's too much of an overlap between the two lol

Tetra , 11 months ago

It's harder to notice the difference at first. When I first got my 144Hz monitor I had trouble distinguishing between the two, but now I can immediately tell (and it's made going back to gaming at 60fps really difficult lol).

If you keep using 120Hz mode, then after a while you'll definitely feel the difference between the two.
That said unless you game on your phone a lot, I don't know how useful it is to have it set to 120, especially if it drains more battery.

Tetra , 11 months ago

Sounds like a Ghast from Minecraft

Tetra , 11 months ago

Clearly we need to arm 1 year olds so they can defend themselves

Tetra , 11 months ago

The Second Impact has started

Tetra , 11 months ago

I sometimes really wonder if Macron is saying this dumb shit on purpose. It's insane how consistently he chooses the worst possible takes, it's really like he's trying his hardest to tank his own polls.

Le Pen would effortlessly crush him if elections were held today, and that terrifies me.