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  • donuts@kbin.socialtoGaming@beehaw.org•When was a game's price worth it to you?
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    1 year ago

    I don’t consider my gaming in terms of price/time because that just encourages buying games that suck away my time.

    So true and well said.

    I love playing a 70 hour From Software game or a 50 hour JRPG as much as the next guy. But some of my favorite games of all time are old classics like Super Mario World or Zelda: OoT, which can probably be completed in a single session or two if you know what you’re doing. And there have been some truly great, but short, indie games over the years.

    Then there are also sim games and arcade/fighting games that had great reliability and you can get many hours out of if you like them.

    In the end, as long as the game is fun and satisfying, I don’t care how long it lasts.

  • donuts@kbin.socialtoTechnology@beehaw.org•AI Lie: Machines Don’t Learn Like Humans (And Don’t Have the Right To)
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    1 year ago

    You’re making two, big incorrect assumptions:

    1. Simply seeing something on the internet does not give you any legal or moral rights to use that thing in any way other than things which are, or have previously been, deemed to be “fair use” by a court of law. Individuals have personal rights over their likeness and persona, and copyright holders have rights over their works, whether they are on the internet or not. In other words, there is a big difference between “visible in public” and “public domain”.
    2. More importantly, something that might be considered “fair use” for a human being do to is not necessary “fair use” when a computer or “AI” does it. Judgements of what is and is not fair use are made on a case by case basis as a legal defense against copyright infringement claims, and multiple factors (purpose of use, nature of original work, degree and sustainability of use, market effect, etc.) are often taken into consideration. At the very least, AI use has serious implications on sustainability and markets, especially compared to examples of human use.

    I know these are really tough pills for AI fans to swallow, but you know what they say… “If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.”

  • donuts@kbin.socialtoChat@beehaw.org•The Beehaw project is entering some significant challenges
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    1 year ago

    I really hope this doesn’t sound extreme (especially since I’m technically a Kbin.social user) but I’m really only interested in Beehaw as part the larger Fediverse. If Beehaw leaves the Fediverse it’ll just be another tiny Reddit/Lemmy clone, but without the strengths of either platform, and I truly believe that it won’t be long until Beehaw goes the way of the traditional web forum.

    I think there is a lot of value (to the community, at least) in Beehaw being a safe and friendly place within the broader Fediverse. The more strictly/seriously you all take that goal, the more moderation is required to achieve it, of course.

    In the end, I think that it’s probably a lot of work to “clean up” the Fediverse, so I can understand why it may seem easier to just leave. But I also think that it’s possible that you’ve lost a sense of perspective with regards to the positive aspects of federation that made Beehaw appealing in the first place. At the risk of making a bad/cheesy analogy, we’ve seen examples in history of countries trying to isolate themselves from the rest of the world in order to simplify things or preserve their own ways of living/thinking, and it really doesn’t work or benefit them in the long run.

    The internet was founded on the basic premise of connecting people, even though we’ve all seen that doing so brings about various challenges and some potential for conflict. The fediverse brings us back towards a truly open and connected internet, and in my onion that’s where technologies like Mastodon, Pixelfed, Lemmy, Kbin, etc., derive a lot of their charm and utility. As someone who has dabbled in this stuff for years, I can say that Lemmy was not very useful to me when it was just a handful of small echo chambers, Beehaw was the first “threadiverse” server I joined because I really felt that it was offering something new, different, and much-needed to the ecosystem, and I’ll be more than a little bit disappointed if you all decide to leave.