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  1. Comment on Metallica’s James Hetfield has a message for entertainers who bring their ‘bullshit‘ agenda to the stage in ~music

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    It's true, but the fact that something as simple as "let's leave politics at the door" creates so much emotion in my opinion shows that something is wrong. I don't even like the dude but I don't...

    Yeah, but had he said nothing there wouldn't be a discussion.

    It's true, but the fact that something as simple as "let's leave politics at the door" creates so much emotion in my opinion shows that something is wrong. I don't even like the dude but I don't think he did anything wrong here, plus I think it's good in general to not self-police for fear of what others think.

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  2. Comment on Metallica’s James Hetfield has a message for entertainers who bring their ‘bullshit‘ agenda to the stage in ~music

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    Good point about cultural cliques, I still lived through the end of that myself, but I really don't find it similar to the way political opinions are being demanded and policed today.

    Good point about cultural cliques, I still lived through the end of that myself, but I really don't find it similar to the way political opinions are being demanded and policed today.

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  3. Comment on BL’s Golf Game - One Week Challenge live now! in ~games

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    Indeed, which is why there are now three different people on Tildes making their own golf games - you, KilledByAPixel and me. What are the odds? For me there's something missing in not seeing it...

    there are thousands of golf games out there

    Indeed, which is why there are now three different people on Tildes making their own golf games - you, KilledByAPixel and me. What are the odds?

    For me there's something missing in not seeing it in 3D in some way, but of course that was done a hundred times already and I gotta say I the graphics look good, nice and clean.

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  4. Comment on Metallica’s James Hetfield has a message for entertainers who bring their ‘bullshit‘ agenda to the stage in ~music

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    They weren't pushed to do that by people on social media though. Being radical and going against the grain out of your own volition is a very different thing from feeling like people demand from...

    They weren't pushed to do that by people on social media though. Being radical and going against the grain out of your own volition is a very different thing from feeling like people demand from you to bend the knee and proclaim that you support their opinions. In a way it's almost the opposite.

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  5. Comment on Metallica’s James Hetfield has a message for entertainers who bring their ‘bullshit‘ agenda to the stage in ~music

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    It's different online and it's different for a celebrity. People in this very thread are saying that silence is consent [to something unacceptable] and silence is deeply political. And tildes is...

    It's different online and it's different for a celebrity. People in this very thread are saying that silence is consent [to something unacceptable] and silence is deeply political. And tildes is not exactly a radical or aggressive platform.

    And a special fuck Metallica and Lars Ulrich in-particular for closing off very popular public access trail in his back yard.

    That I can get behind. It's also an endless tragedy that people still make jokes about Ringo Starr when Lars Ulrich exists. He's an asshole who doesn't practice and never learned to keep time.

    4 votes

  6. Comment on Metallica’s James Hetfield has a message for entertainers who bring their ‘bullshit‘ agenda to the stage in ~music

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    I don't know any celebrities, but among normal people who just spend time on social media this has not been the case.

    I don't know any celebrities, but among normal people who just spend time on social media this has not been the case.

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  7. Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI | Launch trailer in ~games

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    Honestly even that is interesting, because I don't doubt the decision has been influenced by what's been happening in the LLM space.

    Honestly even that is interesting, because I don't doubt the decision has been influenced by what's been happening in the LLM space.

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  8. Comment on Metallica’s James Hetfield has a message for entertainers who bring their ‘bullshit‘ agenda to the stage in ~music

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    There certainly is, in some circles. Gaza and the Cornell 7 are topics for which I have seen too many people online claim that if you don't post an opinion, it means you have the wrong opinion and...

    There's no requirement he state his political opinions at all times

    There certainly is, in some circles. Gaza and the Cornell 7 are topics for which I have seen too many people online claim that if you don't post an opinion, it means you have the wrong opinion and you're a bad person. And I think the whole Ed Sheeran/Macklemore thing confirmed it.

    Instead it looks like he doesn't want to stand behind the music at all.

    Or the music stands for something different to him than it does to a portion of his fans. That seems quite likely, though both options are possible at the same time.

    7 votes

  9. Comment on Metallica’s James Hetfield has a message for entertainers who bring their ‘bullshit‘ agenda to the stage in ~music

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    I know people say that but I think that point is wrong and I tried to address that in my top level comment. Aside from what kingofsnake says, which I agree with very much, there are some more...

    I know people say that but I think that point is wrong and I tried to address that in my top level comment.

    Aside from what kingofsnake says, which I agree with very much, there are some more uncomfortable arguments too. Like, people in non-western societies who struggle much more than the average American by most measures don't have the need to announce their political opinions at all times or require the same from others. This would imply that doing so is a sign or privilege and not the other way around.

    I don't like comparing privilege and judging people based on that, so I think this comparison has limited usefulness, surely an American is allowed to feel suffering despite doing much better than a Nigerian in most common metrics.

    But the "everything is political" discourse is 100% cultural and not just based on how well you're doing. You do have the option to let your mind relax here and there and regain strength to face the world later. The whole "if you're not mentally struggling with how fucked up the world is right now, there's something wrong with you" is toxic and untrue.

    5 votes

  10. Comment on Metallica’s James Hetfield has a message for entertainers who bring their ‘bullshit‘ agenda to the stage in ~music

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    There's a real fatigue that I see the most among gen X people about the "everything is political" thing and the requirement to state your political opinions at all times. That was created through...

    There's a real fatigue that I see the most among gen X people about the "everything is political" thing and the requirement to state your political opinions at all times. That was created through social media and genuinely did not exist when Metallica wrote the classics that you mention. From that point of view I don't think what he's saying is necessarily in conflict with what he's playing.

    (sorry for using the same comment twice in this submission, but, well, it's reacting to essentially the same comment, just stated differently)

    3 votes

  11. Comment on Metallica’s James Hetfield has a message for entertainers who bring their ‘bullshit‘ agenda to the stage in ~music

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    There's a real fatigue that I see the most among gen X people about the "everything is political" thing and the requirement to state your political opinions at all times. That was created through...

    There's a real fatigue that I see the most among gen X people about the "everything is political" thing and the requirement to state your political opinions at all times. That was created through social media and genuinely did not exist when Metallica wrote the classics that you mention. From that point of view I don't think what he's saying is necessarily in conflict with what he's playing.

    8 votes

  12. Comment on Metallica’s James Hetfield has a message for entertainers who bring their ‘bullshit‘ agenda to the stage in ~music

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    They can and they do. I don't think it's reasonable to the degree that it's happening though, and is more likely counterproductive.

    you detest the idea of thinking that politics should be brought into all conversations so why can’t others find it offensive if it’s not brought up in some situations?

    They can and they do. I don't think it's reasonable to the degree that it's happening though, and is more likely counterproductive.

    6 votes

  13. Comment on Metallica’s James Hetfield has a message for entertainers who bring their ‘bullshit‘ agenda to the stage in ~music

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    I don't care about Metallica past Kill Em All pretty much, and I kind of grew to dislike them because of Lars Ulrich, but I respect this and it seems on brand for Hetfield. Maybe it is a jab at a...

    I don't care about Metallica past Kill Em All pretty much, and I kind of grew to dislike them because of Lars Ulrich, but I respect this and it seems on brand for Hetfield.

    Maybe it is a jab at a specific artist, maybe it isn't, but I detest the attitude that everything is political, politics has to be injected in everything and everyone has to signal their political alignment in regular intervals, so this seems pretty normal to me and I bet that many fans appreciate it.

    I don't even think it's weird that he feels the need to say it out loud instead of not talk about politics at all. I think it's a good idea to learn to consciously leave politics at the door sometimes, even if it may not be easy at all. For many people the idea itself seems offensive, as if it lessens their struggle if they don't think about political issues at all times, even in situations where it likely brings nothing to them or the society.

    10 votes

  14. Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI | Launch trailer in ~games

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    I don't really like the overall vibe of GTA VI, plus I definitely won't be able to run it because I just got a new used GPU for my desktop PC: a blazing fast GTX 1070 Ti. But what makes this...

    I don't really like the overall vibe of GTA VI, plus I definitely won't be able to run it because I just got a new used GPU for my desktop PC: a blazing fast GTX 1070 Ti.

    But what makes this really exciting is wondering whether we're going to get an illegal vibecoded PC port and/or how long it's going to take. There will undoubtedly be people attempting this and I have no idea how probable it is, but I'm quite sure it's not impossible. I'm not saying its good, but it's incredibly interesting.

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  15. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I use paid LLMs, but I believe we're at a point where it's not necessary to use the most cutting edge models. I could have likely done it with Deepseek v4.1 Flash, with a 10 USD OpenCode Go...

    I use paid LLMs, but I believe we're at a point where it's not necessary to use the most cutting edge models. I could have likely done it with Deepseek v4.1 Flash, with a 10 USD OpenCode Go subscription. I have tested it and it seemed to work as good as the lowest tier ChatGPT Codex model (Luna), which, when Codex is not overwhelmed by traffic and their models are not temporarily lobotomized (happens regularly some time after they release a new model), is honestly pretty good. However right now I use either Claude 5.5 Sonnet (the middle tier from the "standard" models) or Codex GPT 6.1 Sol (the upper tier from the "standard" models) and it is better at solving problems with more freedom, diagnosing issues and making the right assumptions. It still does things wrong.

    As for the workflow, basically I use normal prompts fed to one agent, no orchestration or automation. At the beginning talked to ChatGPT about the project structure. Told it what my goals are and why, which technical decisions are clear for me and which are not (and why) and told it to create some sort of workflow that would work with the cheaper models and be resilient. This meant creating short and long term docs for everything that the agents could read at any time and that would document both the current state of development and the goals and the whys. Having the "why" documented for every important decision helps the agents make the right assumptions.

    We also created some milestones and steps to get to them, which worked until I had something playable, at which point the priorities change based on what issues you see.

    This worked and surprisingly the biggest issue was that ChatGPT tended to overspecify problems and create a 10 pages long prompt for Codex that had it read a ton of docs on top of that, which filled its context with unnecessary information and made it slow and inefficient. So now I use relatively short prompts and rely on the agent actually reading the docs, which it always does so far. It still sometimes makes wrong decisions, generalizes a solution that I don't need generalized, and creates ad-hoc temporary solutions for things I do need generalized.

    The most common issue is that I need it to create tests for everything, which works reasonably well, but it doesn't care about test performance. So at one point I realize I have 23 tests which all use level data compiled from an editable format to a format loaded in the actual game, and instead of using a minimal usable test level, compiling it once and handing the object to all the tests that do not test the compilation specifically, all of those tests are compiling an actual existing level, which took several seconds each. Since you want to run the full test suite at least once per task, this eats time. Always relatively easy to solve though, it's just something that keeps happening.

    2 votes

  16. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    A month or so ago I jokingly said I was going to build my own golf game with blackjack and hookers. Blackjack and hookers are still tbd, but after some contemplation I have decided to actually...

    A month or so ago I jokingly said I was going to build my own golf game with blackjack and hookers.
    Blackjack and hookers are still tbd, but after some contemplation I have decided to actually start working on it.

    With copious use of AI agents I now have functional flight, bounce, skid and roll physics that is plausibly realistic, based on published golf physics papers, golf equipment manufacturers' information and finetuning by hand. I have just returned from an afternoon session of miniature golf, but I have never played actual golf, only several different golf videogames over the years, so I've been watching golf youtube instead of TV shows to ensure that I have the right intuition.

    The weirdest thing I have involuntarily learned so far is that Donald Trump, even if we account for possible cheating, is genuinely very good at golf for his age, and not only that - in places he almost looks like he's able to enjoy it in a normal, human way, to get actual enjoyment out of something that does not involve bragging or putting somebody else down. That was unexpected.

    The game is moving forward well, the most difficult part and the only truly innovative part, which is the course authoring tools that most players will never see, is moving along swimmingly so far, whereas graphics has been a bit of a pain. Even though I'm mostly trying to match the vibe of older videogames like Links LS 2000, which is technologically very basic, getting it actually right to look as comfy and crisp as those old games is a challenge. I wanted to write "especially since I don't want to use generative AI", which I am using here and there for placeholders, but to be honest it doesn't even work well for this graphics style, so it doesn't really matter what I want or don't want.

    I only hope that @KilledByAPixel is going in a different direction with his excellent tiny golf game because even though I've had this idea in my mind for a while, it is true that I only started actually working on it after I played his game and realized how fun even a very simple golf game can be. And of course there are clear similarities in my game because I assume we're both using inspiration from the few golf game de facto standards that evolved over the decades. So I feel a bit like a backstabbing golf developer. But I assume our games will turn out different enough.

  17. Comment on Epic Games reportedly pivoting to “AI first” game development model in ~tech

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    Every big corporation is going to do this, nothing is surprising here. And it's probably going to work too, if not now then soon. I have to respect Sweeney for just being open with his plans no...

    Every big corporation is going to do this, nothing is surprising here. And it's probably going to work too, if not now then soon.

    I have to respect Sweeney for just being open with his plans no matter what others think, because this is not nearly the first time. Doesn't mean I agree with him, but I find this approach refreshing. His Lex Fridman interview is also quite interesting if you have a long drive coming up.

    12 votes

  18. Comment on Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all in ~tech

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    You omit a major issue. When Adobe is an industry standard, you need to be able to work on Adobe projects because at least sometimes that's what you get from others and that's what you are...

    You omit a major issue. When Adobe is an industry standard, you need to be able to work on Adobe projects because at least sometimes that's what you get from others and that's what you are expected to ship. So if you want to use an alternative, it needs to support all the major Adobe features and their file formats.

    Out of the three listed Photoshop alternatives the only one that can pretty much do that is Photopea, and I don't blame anyone for not wanting to use an in-browser javascript application for everyday work. Affinity has poor .psd compatibility and GIMP is not an alternative at all.

    Also for some things the alternatives genuinely are not good enough. Affinity Publisher is great and I much prefer it to Indesign because I do basic things and Indesign is slow as shit (though the new, free Affinity is not fast anymore either), but Indesign has many features that the competitors simply do not offer and that someone whose work is not on junior level like mine is going to use.

    4 votes

  19. Comment on Why is there no word for please in the Nordic languages – are their speakers simply more direct, or is politeness expressed in ways outsiders may not immediately recognise in ~humanities.languages

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    dtto in Czech

    There aren't too many contexts where you could use "please" where bitte wouldn't work in German, are there? Plus it serves as "you're welcome" and it's even more polite because it can be done preemptively.

    dtto in Czech

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  20. Comment on Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all in ~tech

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    The dude who's building Tine seems to be very smart and doing things in seemingly quite sophisticated ways, so I don't doubt that there are multiple gateways to prevent some sort of subversion,...

    Does it just do what it’s told or does it actually have some concept of a product vision in mind that it’s trying to hold to?

    The dude who's building Tine seems to be very smart and doing things in seemingly quite sophisticated ways, so I don't doubt that there are multiple gateways to prevent some sort of subversion, but I don't know how resilient they are and I'd assume nobody really does for sure.

    Anecdotally I've been working on a fully vibecoded videogame for the last few weeks and a longterm goal/vision is a part of multiple docs files that the agents read every time they start working on something, and usually they make the right decisions, or at least decisions that are not wrong based on that. And I am definitely not experienced in working with agents, this is my first non-tiny project.

    3 votes