NonoAdomo's recent activity
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Comment on Does generative AI have a natural limit without a major innovation? in ~comp
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Comment on Friday Facts #442 - Flip, flow, and fresh paint in ~games
NonoAdomo LinkThere is a reason why Factorio is THE factory automation game. Many do good imitations of it, but Factorio is just that good and it's primarily around how the devs cared about this game. It's at...There is a reason why Factorio is THE factory automation game. Many do good imitations of it, but Factorio is just that good and it's primarily around how the devs cared about this game. It's at end of life for major updates, and that's okay. I feel they have made a game that is as close to perfect as anyone could reasonably ask for.
Belt deposit flipping and pumpjack QOL just streamlines blueprints and doesnt really change anything negatively. I like knowing I can see where my stuff will go before I screw up and pollute my factory. When I eventually play again someday, I will enjoy these new features.
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Comment on What's a game you're dying to play that doesn't exist? in ~games
NonoAdomo Link ParentOh god yes, I totally agree. Everspace 2 was a somewhat decent attempt at scratching that itch, but there were just things that didn't match up. It felt it was missing something, and whatever that...Oh god yes, I totally agree. Everspace 2 was a somewhat decent attempt at scratching that itch, but there were just things that didn't match up. It felt it was missing something, and whatever that "it" factor was, is likely one of the keys to making a good Freelancer again.
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Comment on Looking for headphone recommendations in ~music
NonoAdomo Link ParentThey do. It's been a wonderful feature. It allows for me to go wired when desired but also keep the flexibility of wireless elsewhere. I've solidly enjoyed these headphones.They do. It's been a wonderful feature. It allows for me to go wired when desired but also keep the flexibility of wireless elsewhere. I've solidly enjoyed these headphones.
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Comment on Looking for headphone recommendations in ~music
NonoAdomo LinkI think you might be in luck if you move fast. Sennheiser just released their Momentum 5, which is clearly out of your budget range but that moves the Momentum 4 perfectly into the high end your...I think you might be in luck if you move fast. Sennheiser just released their Momentum 5, which is clearly out of your budget range but that moves the Momentum 4 perfectly into the high end your price range.
https://eu.sennheiser-hearing.com/en-de/search?options%5Bprefix%5D=last&q=Momentum+4
I own a pair and they do everything that you want them to do, though I can't guarantee the cat proof wire, as my cats never have bad a chance to mess with the wire.
Just one FYI: ANC requires a mic, so i hope that isnt a deal breaker.
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Comment on When did your preferred fighting game franchises peak? in ~games
NonoAdomo Link ParentYeah, I love Brawl and Ultimate but Melee... man, Melee just did everything right. It just can't be beat.Yeah, I love Brawl and Ultimate but Melee... man, Melee just did everything right. It just can't be beat.
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Comment on Any tips for stopping long term SSRIs? in ~health.mental
NonoAdomo LinkHonestly, nobody knows what you will experience. But that's okay, its why you are going on this journey with your psychiatrists help. Everyone's experience on these drugs is just a bit different...Honestly, nobody knows what you will experience. But that's okay, its why you are going on this journey with your psychiatrists help. Everyone's experience on these drugs is just a bit different unique and you have three of them at the same time. Your doctor is trying to figure out which one is causing the issue in a safe way.
For me, I only ever was taking one drug at a time but if they are suggesting that you get off a drug, then they are targeting a better floor for you than you have right now. I assume that you have been in therapy sessions to help with healthy coping mechanisms as well. If so, then don't slack off on the healthy behaviors. You will be able to understand what your new floor is.
Be open in your communications with your psychiatrist and they should safely guide you. It might not work perfectly the first time and that is okay. They will then take a different approach in their search to find a better, more healthy mental state for you.
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Comment on What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga) in ~anime
NonoAdomo Link ParentI would hesitate to say Apothicary Diaries doesnt have fan service. There isnt any "Oops you saw my panties" fan service but a show about prostitutes and courtesans will have plenty of T&A from a...I would hesitate to say Apothicary Diaries doesnt have fan service. There isnt any "Oops you saw my panties" fan service but a show about prostitutes and courtesans will have plenty of T&A from a relatively accurate standpoint. Let's be real, the girls from the pleasure district have huge tracts of land.
What i appreciate though is that it goes both ways. The men are absolutely shredded and the show has no problem showing them off as much as the girls. Equal opportunity eye candy is always a plus in my book.
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Comment on What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga) in ~anime
NonoAdomo Link ParentThank you, I was just thinking this. The arc where demons are introduced in Season 1 makes their treachery clear: as soon as Frieren calls them on their fake human bullshit, they drop the act...Thank you, I was just thinking this. The arc where demons are introduced in Season 1 makes their treachery clear: as soon as Frieren calls them on their fake human bullshit, they drop the act immediately and complain it didn't work.
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Comment on Hot or Not : Temperature guessing game in ~creative
NonoAdomo LinkI got up to 15, barely missed out on a close one but it is what it is. Fun little game, well done!I got up to 15, barely missed out on a close one but it is what it is. Fun little game, well done!
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Comment on Updates to store tags: additions, removals, and edits in ~games
NonoAdomo Link ParentThere's a Mature Content Filter that helps with that. It even gives you examples of what games would be included/excluded with each category. I don't exclude any tags and still have the pornslop...There's a Mature Content Filter that helps with that. It even gives you examples of what games would be included/excluded with each category. I don't exclude any tags and still have the pornslop filtered out of my steam store.
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Comment on What's your favorite personal gaming memory? in ~games
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Comment on What's your favorite personal gaming memory? in ~games
NonoAdomo LinkHaving gamed from a young age, I have generated quite a few of these. I think it's more prudent to set these into categories of what was most impactful. Game Completion goes to Nier Automata....Having gamed from a young age, I have generated quite a few of these. I think it's more prudent to set these into categories of what was most impactful.
Game Completion goes to Nier Automata. There are many games that I've beaten and enjoyed, but very few give me goosebumps thinking about the ending even years later. With this game, IYKYK Runner up: Persona 3, I think I have a "type" for a game story
Competitive Glory has plenty of fun hacking accusations and leader board triumphs, but my favorite by far is from FFXIV. They released a minigame called Lords of Verminion that used the little minion characters that follow your player character as game pieces in an RTS arena. The game itself was pretty solid but I was an RTS/MOBA vet coming into an environment where people were nowhere near as experienced. I was a big fish in a small pond. What makes "beating up on noobs" memorable? It wasn't the wins. I was just playing to have fun. It was the fact that I could see in public chat when I was in the room and people were wanting to play for achievements or just not get their face kicked in, they would shout "Oh no, Nono is here!" and then "Oh, he's in a match! Queue now so you don't get him". It was purely memorable for having literally everyone else organize around not having to play you. Runner up: Making day 2 on my first Magic: the Gathering Grand Prix. Quickly washed out, never got that far again.... also getting banned from using Jigglypuff in Smash Bros Melee in college
Finally, to keep this relatively short, I can't go without meeting my wife in FFXIV, that's my favorite memory :)
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Comment on Tildes Survey #5: Pineapple on pizza? (Results) in ~talk
NonoAdomo LinkMy wife has a sensitivity to pineapple. It causes her mouth to blister from the juices digesting her soft tissues. If you eat enough pineapple, it would happen to you too, it just happens to her...My wife has a sensitivity to pineapple. It causes her mouth to blister from the juices digesting her soft tissues. If you eat enough pineapple, it would happen to you too, it just happens to her right away. That being said: she would eat pineapple on pizza if she could. She loves it. Especially with ham.
In reality, there is no reason to not put whatever the hell you want on pizza. Some of my favorite pizzas were with unusual ingredients. One in particular was with mortadella and pistachios amongst other ingredients. Knowing that, why should you restrict yourself for anything delicious just because you have a weird preconception?
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Comment on EVE Online developer CCP Games has rebranded to Fenris Creations following its split from former parent company Pearl Abyss in ~games
NonoAdomo Link ParentThank you, I'm on mobile and I didn't have easy access to do that otherwise I would have done it myself.Thank you, I'm on mobile and I didn't have easy access to do that otherwise I would have done it myself.
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Comment on EVE Online developer CCP Games has rebranded to Fenris Creations following its split from former parent company Pearl Abyss in ~games
NonoAdomo (edited )LinkI've never played EVE but I did recently watch the Down the Rabbit Hole 6 hour recounting of the history uo until 2023. About that point in the story was when Pearl Abyss acquired CCP and were...I've never played EVE but I did recently watch the Down the Rabbit Hole 6 hour recounting of the history uo until 2023. About that point in the story was when Pearl Abyss acquired CCP and were starting to push for more intense MTX that went against the spirit of the game. Looks like Pearl Abyss realized they were never going to win that fight and finally cut EVE loose. In general I think this is a win for the player base if only for killing the looming risk of awful monetization strategies.
CCP, now Fenris Creations, still has to figure out how to get out of their own way... but I'll be honest. All major titles have this issue so I'm not going to hold my breath.
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Comment on What's your dream job? in ~life
NonoAdomo Link ParentI've been wondering the same thing. My wife says that my voice is pleasing, so I've considered hopping into streaming for extra cash on the side, with the hope that with time it could take off...I've been wondering the same thing. My wife says that my voice is pleasing, so I've considered hopping into streaming for extra cash on the side, with the hope that with time it could take off enough to be a more permanent gig. I just have an unfortunate sleeping issue that leaves me with so little energy that I can't quite feel like I'd be able to be super interesting at this time. Hopefully I can improve the issue soon so I can consider trying these things.
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Comment on I’m traveling internationally for the first time and could use tips! in ~travel
NonoAdomo Link ParentI did that last night. I registered a strong "Both"I did that last night. I registered a strong "Both"
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Comment on I’m traveling internationally for the first time and could use tips! in ~travel
NonoAdomo Link ParentJust avoiding the tropes for Americans and you will be fine. Don't be loud or rude and give people their personal space and they won't care. Hell, when I was in Germany last, people kept asking me...Just avoiding the tropes for Americans and you will be fine. Don't be loud or rude and give people their personal space and they won't care. Hell, when I was in Germany last, people kept asking me stuff in German, likely because I gave physical indication that I was closer to one of them than a tourist.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
NonoAdomo Link ParentShame you missed the sale, but it'll be back someday like all steam sales. You have two choices for Dawn of War: Dawn of War 1 is a large-ish scale RTS that seeks to replicate the feeling of...Shame you missed the sale, but it'll be back someday like all steam sales. You have two choices for Dawn of War:
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Dawn of War 1 is a large-ish scale RTS that seeks to replicate the feeling of tabletop 40k but in real time. You frequently are smashing large armies against one another over the course of a game.
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Dawn of War 2, on the other hand, focuses more on the tactical layer. It seeks to make every unit feel more "to scale" than DoW1 did. For example, they try to make Space Marines feel like super strong killing machines, individually strong and Orks/Tyranids lean more on their numbers. It's a more micro heavy game but IMO still a good one.
...we don't talk about DoW3. They tried to make it closer to a MOBA and the less said about that disaster of a game the better.
Dawn of War is getting a new installment with a new dev though and they appear to be leaning back on the gameplay of DoW1, which is intriguing. I'm cautiously optimistic but we don't know ow a release date yet.
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No. That's not an an end state for LLM/Generative AI. The AI companies want you to think that it is, but they're honestly just using marketing smoke and mirrors to talk about how cool their products are.
The first hurdle is for everyone to agree on what "intelligence" is. What does it mean? Clearly, us awesome humans have it, but are there other species that have it? I could go and write a doctoral thesis level post on this, but the problem I wish to highlight is that we don't have an agreed upon definition on what intelligence is.
The second hurdle is that LLMs are a prediction model. It can only spit out responses based on what what it was trained to do. Most LLMs are trained with whatever they could get their hands on (acquired legal or illegal) but they don't come up with new ideas. Every response is a prediction based on what they expect the answer to be. There is no "logic" or "reasoning" with this on the part of the software (again, things we have no clear philosophical definitions). To these AI companies credit, they tuned the training process so well that they give impressive answers that appear like intelligence to the layperson.
The third and final hurdle understanding what the achievement state of a "general intelligence" is. Lets take an easy route, and simply say: General Intelligence will be when we can replicate the human brain and how intelligence exists in humans. Well, the challenging part there is that we honestly don't know what that means from a medical position either. We know the high levels: Brains have neurons and neurons talk to one another. (Hence the term you might hear of "Neural net" for various simple models), but we don't understand the how on a human consciousness exists within our brains. It works, we can even see it happening in other animals but it's such a challenging web of chemicals and electrical signals that we don't understand it. Someday we will, but right now we don't and LLMs/Generative AI is not the path there.
To put it simply, no. The best we can hope for is equal to, but that seems unlikely as well. Don't get me wrong, it's likely going to get to like, 95%-99% range but it can never get better than the comparison of where it started. The only reason why I can't confidently give it 100% is that AI as we know it now currently works by guessing what it should respond next. It's gotten DAMN good at guessing, but stuff that we can reason as true (like 2+2=4) is not what LLMs do. It responds that 2+2=4 because it read enough places that this is true. It does not see two rocks in one hand and two rocks in another count to four total rocks when brought together like humans do. When you ask how it got the answer, it will give you a pretty good bit of stuff that looks like reasoning, but it's again just taking the most likely answer. This is why for the longest time LLMs struggled with stuff that's simple for us like "How many instances of the letter r are in the word strawberry?" There are tons of these edge cases and the AI companies try their best to shut these down every time the public loudly discovers one to show that the models are learning and growing.
Now none of this is to disparage LLMs or GenAI. This is a remarkable achievement in computational history. When I started to learn about computers and software as a kid, I wanted to learn about how to do those cool things in science fiction like AI and robots. Turns out, as I got into actually learning about AI, I also learned that the ethics are really REALLY complicated and it didn't take long to see how these models would be abused by everyone to do morally ambiguous things, which is why I ultimately didn't feel comfortable pursuing a career in it.
I hope these answers help!