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Pff. You can’t just imply that anyone will understand a story by playing a fromsoft game.

Can you find any other examples? This seems completely innocuous to me.

Didn’t do that.

Stop harassing me.

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They popped onto my awareness a couple of weeks ago when someone else was being a cunt to them, although I didn’t agree with whatever it was had raised that person’s ire either.

I think generally I’m pretty good at hearing people out - if they are willing and able to explain themselves… but obviously I can’t get through to everyone. I think because I have that perception of myself, when I see someone failing to get their point across I have a hubristic tendency to think I can jump in sort it out… when that doesn’t work, it leaves me feeling frustrated rather than amused. Flaw on my part.

So I don’t find them funny really. But the thing keeping me from blocking them is that now I feel like I need to watch for them replying with snide, dishonest remarks, which I can’t do if I block them.

I am not embarrassed, which is why I edited my comment to link to the thread after you brought it up without giving people the context.

I just don’t want to talk to you about it any more, because you have nothing interesting to say about it, something which I made explicitly clear.

Stop talking to me. If you want to bitch about me, my opinion or this conversation, find someone who wants to listen.

Linking the thread I already linked is not leaving me alone.

I made it clear to you, politely, I was done talking with you about that, and I told you exactly why. Do I need to tell you to stop harassing me as well? That’s a rhetorical question. Don’t answer me - just fuck off.

No. It’s rare that I can’t see both sides of an issue, so I rarely come down especially strongly on one side or the other. However, I do have the bad habit of trying to explain the side contrary to the prevailing view in my circles online which can piss people off…

Below, Velma is referring to this thread where they had a very unpopular opinion, just in case you got the impression that they’re doing anything other than trying to follow me around and yell at me. I don’t consider that thread an example of this at all, because pretty much everyone had the same opinion as me there except Velma. The only link is perhaps my frustration at them being so “staunch” in their convictions that they’re unable to hold a productive conversation about it, and instead can only repeat their firm belief again and again. I’m not here to trade “yes it is” - “no it isn’t” for ever and ever.

Seems overly strict - what if you have cashflow issues, or something is unpopular but then sees a resurgence? A time limit seems more reasonable, and then an out-of-print limit too. Perhaps a way that people can demonstrate demand for something out of print so it can be used to officially require this use it or lose it protection?

AI means, and has always meant, artificial means of doing what before computers seemed only possible with real, human intelligence. Another good way of looking at it is algorithms for problems for which it’s not practical to explicitly write an algorithm to solve.

It’s meant this since Turing. That’s a remarkable foresight if it’s “purposefully poisoning the well.”

No, but I believe machine translation is now powered mainly by LLMs, which is a damn useful application of the technology.

I was surprised to learn recently that a few of my friends pay for Claude to help with personal projects and things like that. This particular AI tech is quite new so it’s surely too early to declare axiomatically that it has no uses. That sounds like an emotional reaction to me.

Could you directly address the use-cases that the person you replied to brought up, because they seem pretty important to this discussion to get swept aside?

Forecasting wildfire spread, feeding people better… finding novel drugs, curing illnesses, cheap accurate translation, these all “pale in comparison” to the costs? Even though those uses have all existed for years before ChatGPT?

More like the last man who crossed you!

Oh. That’s a disappointing lack of shenanigans.

Calling the police is normal, as it helps her to feel safer. Don’t worry, this is a synergistic response to the situation.

HTH

1. Make eye contact. No eye contact is creepy. It’s best to err on the side of more, rather than less, eye contact, because you probably don’t make enough.
2. Pick up the pace. If you’re walking slowly, it’s going to look like you’re trying to prolong the encounter, so go at least at a trot.
3. Hands are threatening, so keep one or both behind your back to prevent spooking her.
4. Smile! You look prettier that way. Two birds with one stone here: if you keep a smile on your face, you’ll look less threatening, and you can tell her to smile to inform her that you want her to be happy.
5. Pay her a compliment to put her at ease. Something non-sexual like, “you have beautiful teeth.”
6. It will be clear you’re not a threat if she knows you’ve got something else. You could communicate that you’re going home to eat by licking your lips. Make some smacking noises too, if it’s dark.
7. Clothes conceal threats, so take yours off.

HTH

What if she doesn’t want other people going out of their way to protect their perceived feelings, and crosses the road at the same time? What then, huh???

I’d say a hobby doesn’t need to develop any skill, it just needs to have some kind of achievement and progress. Video games are absolutely hobbies, but it’s the difference between one with a story that you progress through, and candy crush. (Which doesn’t exclude that some people play candy crush to “make progress” on their high score, but most don’t)