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  1. Comment on How many remakes have ever actually lived up to or surpassed the original? in ~movies

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    The Fly was directed by Cronenberg. Tho i agree would add Invasion of the body snatchers to the list

    The Fly was directed by Cronenberg. Tho i agree would add Invasion of the body snatchers to the list

    9 votes

  2. Comment on Is chain-of-thought reasoning of LLMs a mirage? A data distribution lens. in ~tech

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    Heh yeah I had the same thought. People usually decide by gut feeling and then maybe invent some reasoning later when asked

    Heh yeah I had the same thought. People usually decide by gut feeling and then maybe invent some reasoning later when asked

    1 vote

  3. Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft has reportedly sold less than 30 million consoles this generation in ~games

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    yeah i got the Series S when Elden Ring came out bc i really want to play it and it cost like 200€ used. I feel like a Graphics Card alone with the same power would cost multiples of that. I...

    yeah i got the Series S when Elden Ring came out bc i really want to play it and it cost like 200€ used. I feel like a Graphics Card alone with the same power would cost multiples of that.

    I switched to a used Series X recently bc I want to play backwards compatible discs.

    Obviously fuck Microsoft but yeah Sony has like 0 games im interested in either

    2 votes

  4. Comment on Is AI actually useful for anyone here? in ~tech

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    it really is quite useful for language learning when the alternative is just using google translate or having to look up every word in a dictionary

    it really is quite useful for language learning when the alternative is just using google translate or having to look up every word in a dictionary

  5. Comment on Who’d be into a book club but for retro games? in ~games

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    love the IC forums <3

    love the IC forums <3

    1 vote

  6. Comment on What are your AI-generated guilty pleasures? in ~tech

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    ChatGPT is good when I have a word on the tip of your tongue and I can't figure it out through Googling. It also often puts me on the right track when researching something where Google would...

    ChatGPT is good when I have a word on the tip of your tongue and I can't figure it out through Googling. It also often puts me on the right track when researching something where Google would usually also only provide search results based on the exact words I used.

    Also it's quite useful for learning a language. I'll often ask it to break down the grammar points and vocab of a sentence I'm trying to understand.

    6 votes

  7. Comment on ANBERNIC RG Slide | Announcement in ~games

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    Good post! I think everyone who is considering buying one of these should at least try to repurpose their old 3DS/PSP/Vita they may have lying around into a emulation handheld. Those are more...

    Good post! I think everyone who is considering buying one of these should at least try to repurpose their old 3DS/PSP/Vita they may have lying around into a emulation handheld. Those are more repairable and have better build quality.

    3 votes

  8. Comment on Terry Riley - In the Summer (Le Secret De La Vie, 1975) in ~music

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    In 5 days I'm attending a raga singing workshop with Terry Riley in Japan. I'm very excited.

    In 5 days I'm attending a raga singing workshop with Terry Riley in Japan. I'm very excited.

    3 votes

  9. Comment on I hate phone updates in ~tech

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    I tried doing the Good Lock thing but it still didn't reenable my bluetooth icon. Maybe after some updates..

    I tried doing the Good Lock thing but it still didn't reenable my bluetooth icon. Maybe after some updates..

    8 votes

  10. I hate phone updates

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    I don't think I've installed an update on my phone and felt like it was an improvement over the old version. Samsung just pushed their new firmware onto my phone and added a whole bunch of...

    I don't think I've installed an update on my phone and felt like it was an improvement over the old version.

    Samsung just pushed their new firmware onto my phone and added a whole bunch of annoying AI stuff that I don't want and additionally decided for me that I no longer want the bluetooth signal in the statusbar unless I open up the notification menu, with no way to reenable it. I turn off my headphones when I don't need them and it was really useful to see at a glance that if they were connected and I had forgotten to turn them off.

    45 votes

  11. Comment on ChatGPT is bullshit in ~tech

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    I've been using ChatGPT to help me learn Japanese. I copy paste some Japanese text and ask it to break it down and explain the grammar and translate the vocabulary. It works super well at parsing...

    I've been using ChatGPT to help me learn Japanese. I copy paste some Japanese text and ask it to break it down and explain the grammar and translate the vocabulary. It works super well at parsing Japanese sentences which are not broken up with spaces in a way that online dictionaries don't.

    11 votes

  12. Comment on Nintendo is suing the creators of popular Switch emulator Yuzu, saying their tech illegally circumvents Nintendo's software encryption and facilitates piracy in ~games

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    they could argue those emulated old games are lost revenue through their Nintendo online retro library

    My very limited understanding of lawsuits suggests that you often need to be able to demonstrate that you've suffered damages, with loss of sales being a particularly salient way of doing that

    they could argue those emulated old games are lost revenue through their Nintendo online retro library

    3 votes

  13. Comment on Inside Apple Arcade: axed games, declining payouts, disillusioned studios – and an uncertain future in ~games

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    The state of the app store now is sad. I feel like every top downloaded game today has been around for 10 years. At the start Square Enix used to develop entire JRPGs entirely for the iPod touch....

    The state of the app store now is sad. I feel like every top downloaded game today has been around for 10 years.

    At the start Square Enix used to develop entire JRPGs entirely for the iPod touch.

    My favorite developer used to be Donut Games. They had like 40 games total and all were super fun with a unique art style.

    5 votes

  14. Comment on Letterboxd/goodreads/storygraph but for video games in ~games

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    I use Glitchwave, which is from the same developers as RateYourMusic. It doesn't have a ton of users unfortunately, but the genre filtering and charting is really good. Would recommend.

    I use Glitchwave, which is from the same developers as RateYourMusic.

    It doesn't have a ton of users unfortunately, but the genre filtering and charting is really good. Would recommend.

    1 vote

  15. Comment on What are some highly praised comedians you don't find very funny? in ~talk

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    I really liked him when I was a teen. Especially his show Louie I was really in love with. But yeah thinking back a lot of his specials didn't age well. Even aside from the gross masturbation...

    I really liked him when I was a teen. Especially his show Louie I was really in love with.

    But yeah thinking back a lot of his specials didn't age well. Even aside from the gross masturbation stuff; I'm thinking back to his bit where he argued that everyone should be allowed to say the n-word... definitely wouldn't fly anymore these days...

    4 votes

  16. Comment on Album of the Week #13: Don Cherry - Don Cherry/Brown Rice in ~music

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    whoa thank you for this!

    whoa thank you for this!

    2 votes

  17. Comment on Album of the Week #13: Don Cherry - Don Cherry/Brown Rice in ~music

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    this is one of my favorite Jazz albums together with Alice Coltrane's Journey to Satchidananda. I don't have a lot of insight things to say about it, I just love the mood it builds throughout the...

    this is one of my favorite Jazz albums together with Alice Coltrane's Journey to Satchidananda.

    I don't have a lot of insight things to say about it, I just love the mood it builds throughout the album.

    The piano part at the end of the third song "Chenrezig" is one of the most euphoric moments in music I know.

    1 vote

  18. Comment on Steam Deck OLED - A thought and some feelings in ~games

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    I'm having some weird issue where the left trackpad is vibrating whenever I touch it even though I turned off all Haptics in the settings... it goes away after I press the steam button but comes...

    I'm having some weird issue where the left trackpad is vibrating whenever I touch it even though I turned off all Haptics in the settings...
    it goes away after I press the steam button but comes back whenever i wake up my steam deck from sleep mode. anyone experience the same issue??

  19. Comment on Whats a drug that you would never try? in ~talk

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    Idk I know some people where weed usage has triggered some psychosis type symptoms for them. Mostly from long term use though, but I still wouldn't underestimate the way weed can fuck up your psyche

    Idk I know some people where weed usage has triggered some psychosis type symptoms for them. Mostly from long term use though, but I still wouldn't underestimate the way weed can fuck up your psyche

    3 votes

  20. Comment on Nintendo shocks competitive fans with strict new community tournament guidelines in ~games

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    even then you're still beholden to the huge brand owner

    even then you're still beholden to the huge brand owner

    1 vote