Grzmot's recent activity
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Comment on Epic Games reportedly pivoting to “AI first” game development model in ~tech
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Comment on SpaceXAI joins Omacom and gives $1.5m Grok tokens for Omarchy in ~tech
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Comment on The imperial dilemma of Civilization V in ~games
Grzmot Link ParentThis is the first video I've seen of his and I'll give the others a watch for sure!This is the first video I've seen of his and I'll give the others a watch for sure!
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Comment on The imperial dilemma of Civilization V in ~games
Grzmot Link ParentI think that's why he put the disclaimer at the front of the video about how he actually enjoys the game. A lot of people view this sort of content as an attack on what they're allowed to enjoy...I think that's why he put the disclaimer at the front of the video about how he actually enjoys the game. A lot of people view this sort of content as an attack on what they're allowed to enjoy because the world has gotten pretty reactionary nowadays, especially if they get to code the person making the argument as an outsider. It's pretty funny how a major component of this video is the Othering that is the foundation of Imperialism is commited by gamers who feel attacked.
There is no way for Civ not to be imperialistic, I think everyone should be mildly aware of that. Nevertheless, I enjoyed a detailed breakdown of why it is so. That doesn't mean you're not allowed to enjoy it, it doesn't mean you're a bad person for enjoying it, it just means that the game is imperialistic. That's it.
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Comment on The imperial dilemma of Civilization V in ~games
Grzmot LinkAn excellent, very long video essay that breaks down both the narrative and the gameplay mechanics of Civ V and how they reinforce and represent Imperialism. Mind you this is someone turning their...An excellent, very long video essay that breaks down both the narrative and the gameplay mechanics of Civ V and how they reinforce and represent Imperialism.
Mind you this is someone turning their PhD thesis into a video essay. It's very good, but pretty technical from the POV of the humanities.
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The imperial dilemma of Civilization V
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Comment on SpaceXAI joins Omacom and gives $1.5m Grok tokens for Omarchy in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentI was specifically confused what you were trying to say.I was specifically confused what you were trying to say.
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Comment on US Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed in ~society
Grzmot Link ParentI've always summarized my stance on the death penalty as "I believe you can commit acts so heinous you deserve to die for them but no state should have the right to execute people" due to a lot of...I've always summarized my stance on the death penalty as "I believe you can commit acts so heinous you deserve to die for them but no state should have the right to execute people" due to a lot of the reasons you laid out in this thread.
There is no way to make it foolproof. If you leave it as a mere court decision, the long tail that a death penalty conviction requires to get close to 100% certainty makes it stupid to support. If it's cheaper to lock up a guy for the rest of his life than it is to execute him then we should lock him up for life, especially since the death penalty usually comes decades later anyhow. Pike was convicted in like 1996 for fuck's sake. Like, she's been basically locked up for life already. In a way, executing people in this way is a double sentence. First you serve life, then you get killed.
Like you say, it would have to be reserved to cases where it's bleakly obvious who did it. Not even confessions are foolproof. That basically removes nearly every single crime except the mostly American case of the mass shooting, a crime preventable mostly with sensible gun laws. Serial killers like Dahmer are so fucking rare that keeping it around just for them begs for it to be misused by someone to murder a person that shouldn't have been murdered by the state, especially since serial killers are usually products of a broken childhood, so a better social safety net reduces the rate they pop up massively.
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Comment on SpaceXAI joins Omacom and gives $1.5m Grok tokens for Omarchy in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentI don't understand this statement. Assuming that all those commits are exclusively about polish, it would need to put Omarchy ahead of any other distro and desktop environment. What makes it more...Yes, at the start of the project, but no, not at this point. As it stands, omarchy has almost 7000 commits from over 560 contributors. That's an amount of polish you cannot just do yourself, even with heavy LLM usage.
I don't understand this statement. Assuming that all those commits are exclusively about polish, it would need to put Omarchy ahead of any other distro and desktop environment. What makes it more polished than for example Fedora and Gnome, both rock-solid foundations, especially since Gnome is fairly polished as far as open DEs go?
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Comment on Unofficial Linux app for music streaming service Qobuz QBZ shut down after receiving cease and desist letter in ~music
Grzmot Link ParentThanks, that's good to know and makes me more confident in my choice to cancel my Qobuz sub.Thanks, that's good to know and makes me more confident in my choice to cancel my Qobuz sub.
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Comment on Unofficial Linux app for music streaming service Qobuz QBZ shut down after receiving cease and desist letter in ~music
Grzmot Link ParentI got a one year subscription together with 2 friends and one of us on iOS utilizes very large playlists to organize their music and Qobuz was absolutely not equipped to handle that. When she...I got a one year subscription together with 2 friends and one of us on iOS utilizes very large playlists to organize their music and Qobuz was absolutely not equipped to handle that. When she imported her music from Spotify using the service that Qobuz advertises it imported songs that were not on Qobuz and broke the whole playlist. She had to manually go through and remove the songs breaking it to get it in a working order, something that took her weeks because the app didn't properly mark the broken songs.
The app also downloaded gigabytes of background data while she wasn't streaming or using it in any way, as she has very little mobile data and uses downloaded music only, so that cost her money too. The only bugs I experienced were mild but the app is shockingly basic. It doesn't even offer a setting to keep your favorite tracks always downloaded. When you fave a new one you have to manually download it.
Coupled with the QBZ announcement that was enough to get me and the other friend to drop Qobuz again. I don't know what I'll go back to yet. Honestly I might make the leap to add music to my NAS and just have my phone sync with it. I certainly have the storage space and a music library would be dwarfed by my movies and shows libraries anyhow. I like the artisinal and handpicked approach that makes Qobuz different from every other streaming service, and it made me discover a few albums I enjoy and would not have heard otherwise.
But even with the larger share Qobuz pays to artists, streaming has always been a pennies on the dollar affair. I don't feel bad about piracy in that regards when I can balance it out with going to a concert of said artist where their share of my ticket is higher than the total money they would earn from me over a lifetime of streaming.
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Comment on Unofficial Linux app for music streaming service Qobuz QBZ shut down after receiving cease and desist letter in ~music
Grzmot Link ParentMost likely, which is what upsets me. I doubt they're going to release a Linux app any time soon given it's a tiny user base, even if it's, like their other apps, just a wrapper for their web...Most likely, which is what upsets me. I doubt they're going to release a Linux app any time soon given it's a tiny user base, even if it's, like their other apps, just a wrapper for their web frontend.
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Comment on Unofficial Linux app for music streaming service Qobuz QBZ shut down after receiving cease and desist letter in ~music
Grzmot LinkUsers emailed Qobuz customer support and received the following response: This happened around 2 weeks ago, I only learned it now. Obviously the question is if this frontline customer rep is just...Users emailed Qobuz customer support and received the following response:
Hello,
thank you for your message.
Following the recent changes made to the QBZ repository, we’d like to provide some clarifications regarding this decision.
QBZ was an independent application developed by a third party and was not developed, maintained or distributed by Qobuz.
We know that QBZ was a really convenient solution for our Linux users.
However, we have strict legal and contractual obligations toward rights holders to ensure fair artist compensation. Unfortunately, the app placed Qobuz in a non-compliant position, which left us no choice but to ask the developer to stop its distribution.
The use of the unoffical app unfortunately leads to streams not being counted with us and thus the artists end up empty-handed.
We completely understand that this situation is frustrating for the Linux community. This was a difficult decision, but it’s necessary to protect both artists and our platform.
We are actively working on releasing an official Linux application as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience and understanding in the meantime.
Kind regards,
Marina
QobuzThis happened around 2 weeks ago, I only learned it now. Obviously the question is if this frontline customer rep is just spitballing (they often are) or if this information is genuine. I'm also not in the music industry but one can expect that those streaming contracts with the labels will be draconian. However if it's true that using an unoffical app means that Qobuz has no idea what got streamed when, leaving me to conclude that they count their streams client-side. That sounds like a really bad thing to do. The only other alternative is that there is something specific in their label contracts which disallows third party applications using the Qobuz API.
From the developer's statement it seems like the behind the scenes conversation was cordial and Qobuz is a tiny company that was likely aware of the project before they had to act on it. It sucks because I like Qobuz in principle, but I'm tired of subscribing to services legally and being a second class citizen on Linux. QBZ was really good in that regard. The last release of the app still works but I guess eventually it will break.
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Unofficial Linux app for music streaming service Qobuz QBZ shut down after receiving cease and desist letter
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Comment on Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin returning for ‘Sicario 3’. Padraic McKinley to direct Steven Knight’s screenplay. in ~movies
Grzmot Link ParentAlbuquerque is where Hollywood has been shooting scenes set in Mexico or the middle east for a very long time now. Though I guess usually they disguise it better.Albuquerque is where Hollywood has been shooting scenes set in Mexico or the middle east for a very long time now. Though I guess usually they disguise it better.
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Comment on Someone ‘torturing’ LLMs in a robot prison has triggered the dumbest debate in AI yet in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentEmpathy is not something that humans are born with, or at the very least if we're born with it, we don't express it at the first stages of brain development as toddlers. There's a reason you start...Empathy is not something that humans are born with, or at the very least if we're born with it, we don't express it at the first stages of brain development as toddlers.
There's a reason you start kids with "don't do it or I will punish you", move on to "would you like it if it happened to you?" and then finally "do not do this because the other person, like you, has feelings and you will hurt them"
Vaguely like this, I think there are steps in between, psych 101 was a long time ago.
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Comment on Tennessee governor halts executions, Christa Pike in hospital following two failed lethal injection doses after US Supreme Court overturns last-minute stay of execution, all on the same day in ~society
Grzmot Link ParentIt feels like one of those pointless "innovations" where it looks more scientific and modern to do it via an injection but it's actually more brutal because there is nobody that wants to provide...It feels like one of those pointless "innovations" where it looks more scientific and modern to do it via an injection but it's actually more brutal because there is nobody that wants to provide the expertise or resources to execute a person via lethal injection the way that it's intended, aka they just fall asleep and then their heart stops.
Hanging via long drop, which breaks the neck and is as close to instant death as we can get is the better way to do it, because the other methods that achieve the same result are more "messy" like the firing squad or the guillotine.
Obviously the best way to do capital punishment is to not do it at all.
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Comment on Online visual art communities without AI? in ~creative
Grzmot Link ParentI checked it out because of this comment and thought I had landed by accident in some of these infinite data mazes they put in for AI scrapers.I checked it out because of this comment and thought I had landed by accident in some of these infinite data mazes they put in for AI scrapers.
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Comment on Xbox: continuing our reset [update on Xbox game studio closures] in ~games
Grzmot LinkFirst, we are eliminating 268 roles across Halo Studios, other first-party studios, and the XGS management and central functions layer. The actions completed since July, inclusive of the studio divestitures, bring us roughly three-quarters of the way through previously announced restructuring.
- Activision will expand its remit to World’s Edge, as well as Rare. Activision will also be developing the next Halo title, led by a new, purpose-built team that is separate from ongoing development and plans for Call of Duty. A small team at Halo Studios will continue supporting the Halo community and games in-market.
- Bethesda will expand its remit to include Obsidian, which will continue its current projects, including Grounded, as well as the new Fallout project made in collaboration with Bethesda Game Studios.
- King will expand its remit to include Microsoft Casual Games, uniting our two global leaders in casual game design and live operations.
- Playground and Turn 10 will come together as one studio focused on the Forza and Fable franchises. These two studios have been creative and franchise partners for over a decade, and today’s changes will formally move their work into one team.
Third, an update on our studio divestitures: In August, Compulsion and Double Fine returned to management with their IP, back catalogs, and runway funding. Undead Labs has now successfully transitioned on similar terms and, with a new publisher, will release State of Decay 3 day one on Game Pass. Unfortunately, two separate agreements for Ninja Theory fell through. We will now begin consultation with employees on a proposed closure while continuing to explore other paths forward. Consultation with Arkane remains underway and is expected to continue through the end of the year.
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Xbox: continuing our reset [update on Xbox game studio closures]
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And I'm sure in a quarter Epic will realize what every other single tech company has realized: you can't give your engineers unlimited tokens because you will burn through your war chest at an astounding rate all for questionable results at best. I mean, "games with immense amounts of characters and immense and interactive worlds"?
Really? I thought we dispelled the notion of size equaling quality.