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Guardians 3 - Aight, but too long and kinda disjointed. Didn't hate it as much as most other Marvel cashgrabs. Pope's Exorcist - Chungus Crowe phoning it in, no idea who thought this was a good idea. Renfield - I didn't expect to enjoy Nick Cage hamming it up this much, but I sure did.

Elden Ring is badass. Definitely sense it's easier than the other Souls games as I didn't get helplessly stuck as many times and there are so many bonfi- I mean grace sites. There is a crazy good period in the middle where there's a ton of stuff to explore, most enemies are tough but you can still F off from anything that's too challenging (dragons). Towards the late game my bleed effects were getting nuts and everything went a bit too smooth most of the time. Not sure if I want to PVP and NG+ or re-roll a bonk build, probably the latter.

Breaking: Monarchy Ltd stock soars after auctioning off the coronation crown to a Saudi investor.

Yearly reminder that this dude is still alive and making top quality content.

B+ for the effort. The followup troll should've been avoided to keep messing with peoples heads.

God damn, only 60 too. Terrific presence in all his shows and films.

Patiently awaiting a sensible discussion without references to the big 4.

Chess has been in and out of my life since childhood but I've played regularly on chess.com for a couple of years, I enjoy tactics and ballsy positional play rather than long analysis, with mixed results of course. Finding mate in 10 is impossible but I'll gladly fork & pin your pieces while you're setting your stupid endgame up. My heroes are Mikhail Tal and Morphy. I really enjoy Agadmator videos on YT.

This is great news, always loved Woob.

Super cool

Yes, through the magic of cloud processing! Pultec EQP-1 is pretty amazing at treble boosting...

FM heaven with my new TX7. Fairly raw single patch, ran into LA-2A, Pultec EQ and Telefunken reel tape.

Holy crap, apparently I've been living under a rock and didn't realize the -takts got song mode. Kinda want a Syntakt now.

Overjoyed to finally find another TX7. It's the one gear I really regreted selling, punching way above its selling rate and has been nowhere to be seen in ages. The Plogue emulation is excellent but couldn't quite scratch that gunky itch of the original. Subtractives are a dime a dozen these days but old school FM is a unique beast.

Yeah sorry it's a Snowcat, those things look deadly af.

Jeremy Renner in critical condition from a snowmobile, and this? Those things are fucking death traps. Didn't know his name by heart but the gymkhana videos were huge when they made the rounds.

Wow, the crypto shitshow just keeps on delivering. A lot of questions around this. How do you even break a cold wallet? The guy doesn't seem all that stable... inside job or some kinda tax evasion plan?

I liked it!

Abatap : The Way of Blank Checks Me, my S/O and another couple a few rows down were the only ones in the theater. Comfy start. After 20 minutes two retards showed up, sat themselves three seats to the right of us, talking constantly and using their cellphones. After a few please's and hey buddies it didn't stop, I brought staff, at which they took great offense and started whining, one even barked at my S/O to shut the fuck up. So I gave him a death stare and told him to watch his fucking mouth. I sat with pumped adrenaline levels for about an hour waiting for shit to hit the fan because you can't be 6 strangers in a public space without at least one person being an inconsiderate asshole. They did reluctantly shut up for the rest of the movie though. I'm never going to the cinema again. Movie was tight though. The visuals were of course great at the Waterworld tech demo parts, some other bits looked like they've been in development hell for too long. Big machines on the big screen is always fun, and the action is good and nasty which balances out all the Kumbaya new age padding (it's loooong). Music score was too rehashed from the first, so boring. Worth seeing before it ages. Story kinda so-so, your typical Jim Cameron shlock.

https://cytoplantastic.bandcamp.com/track/silent-nyeet

Jesus comes out at nyeet

ChatGPT has certain educational strengths, it's really apt at teaching you to code in various languages. It gave me a detailed step-by-step description of Advanced Trauma Life Support, which is not readily accessible by Google as it is a licensed and paywalled training curriculum, it nails general emergency life support methods like cABCDE, how to use devices like capnometers & advanced CPR devices. I totally expect general practicioners will use this in the future and possibly in healthcare education. Various forks of GPT could find their way into many societal and professional aspects. It also seems proficent at games and worldbuilding, possibly a way to naturalize and extend conversation scripts in open-world games and RPG's (anyone remember SpookiTalk?)

https://www.cbr.com/ai-comic-deemed-ineligible-copyright-protection/

Anyway, on a less serious note, I've been probing ChatGPT a bit. Inspired by a Valefisk video where a player is forced to speak only in Star Wars quotes, I tried playing a game based off of that with GPT. It turns out, it will bullshit you into various answers and pretend it's a relevant quote by a character, which movie/novel it's from and won't admit it's made a mistake until you force it into a corner. Sometimes it'll give you an actual Han Solo quote or similar if you give it a very easy question/statement, but most likely it'll just repeat the bullshit process no matter how many times you try to refine & correct it. (There is no such quote, and it later admitted so)

auxien and Satans Little Helper (great handle) have already provided some important points, and let's not discount dcom's terrific primer right above ^. I'm not nearly law- or tech-savvy enough for this topic, but a big mistake that a lot of people are doing right now is applying human qualities like "understanding" or "inspiration" to AI. It's a black-box dependent on input conditions, and right now a big chunk of that input is copyrighted material. It cannot judge whether a specific output is copyright-intrusive or distinct enough. The input conditions are manipulated via prompts, the output is also (somewhat) predictively influenced based on input prompts that directly reference copyright-protected works. This essentially means that in some way, the dataset is accessible in this process. A JPEG of a copyrighted work is already a data-string converted into RGB pixels at the output, is AI image generation functionally different? AI companies are banking heavily on the nonprofit angle for whatever reasons, but they do have corporate sponsorship. Through tactics like this they are (most likely deliberately) obfuscating the inherent copyright issues. Courts are already running into those issues, with a recent response being an AI piece cannot be copyrighted. This is a super-weird situation, as we all know generative music is most certainly copyrightable even though the human-machine interaction is similar to AI image generation. But generative music does not include input of vast archives of recorded music. I would venture to say an AI production cannot be copyrighted if it is trained on copyrighted material, but nobody knows where we'll end up with that. This is a potent argument but it's also on a philosophical level that is way beyond the scope of the immediate issue. At that point we're comparing machine data entry with human biological sense-input. You don't just shove the data-string of a JPEG up your butt. I'd argue that a human has near-infinitely many more variables in play (visual input is a relatively small part of visual processing), and importantly tends to know when they are copying. An AI is not subject to optical illusions, color constancy, sensitive to depth perception & anisotropy, etc etc. When I'm drawing from a reference, I can barely even remember what it's like as soon as I'm not looking directly at it. It's constantly being processed and influenced by ideas and memories, as well as my specific body's motor skills/tendencies. The AI itself isn't really the issue, what's happening that's causing grief is that people are deliberately abusing the fact that datasets contain famous artists and their platforms. And they're being real dicks about it. Another reaction is that this thing is happening. Not sure how optimistic I'll be about it though. Much of our modern vernacular stems from jobs and skills that don't exist anymore.