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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was recently gifted a Steam Deck for Christmas! If you only had a budget of, let's say 50 bucks, what would you get?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just gonna chime in to point out those are both realtime combat focused games, requiring reflex and quick thinking, which is a notable departure from roguelike. On the other hand, Slay the Spire is all about careful planning, making decisions one step at a time, taking calculated risks. There’s no turn time limit, no time-based combos or bonuses, or time-gated doors that give you extra items if you go fast enough.

  Oh, and also meta-progression. Hades and Dead Cells are both built with a central system of grinding out unlocks and upgrades - in slay the spire, the only meta-progression I know is having to beat the game with each character to unlock the next, and having to complete a few runs with each character to unlock all cards… And then the real progression, where you can continue beating the game with increasing difficulty levels to unlock the next.

  Ultimately, this might not matter for you, and even if it does, a slow strategic deckbuilder might still not be for you, and that’s completely fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-Generated Fake War Images Passed Off as Real⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think this is a realistic proposal - this is a technological advancements. You might be able to force companies to put invisible steganographic signatures in their services’ output, maybe provide some method for hashing the output to provide a way to determine if an image was generated by them…

  But what’s stopping them from using the underlying model on the side, off the books. They could sell/leak the model to external entities. If they just generate outputs without any watermarks, those systems won’t be able to detect them, potentially only lending more legitimacy to those fakes.

  And, ultimately, nothing’s stopping independent organizations from developing their own models capable of generating such fakes. What help is it that big companies are limited, if the technology needed to generate images is already known, and might end up easily reproducible by anybody sooner than later?

  That said, individual instances of such illegal/immoral services should be dealt with - it’s horrible, but I believe those are inevitable. Pandora’s box has been opened by creating the technology, it was going to happen sooner or later, and we have to deal with the results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Romantic gesture⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re extruded, but not into strips or strings. I’d argue they’re not long enough to be described as “long”, but that part is certainly imprecise

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Romantic gesture⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  According to your quote, noodles are long, and they’re strips or strings