You cannot produce "this kind of content" without a lot of manual work. Think a character that has like 3 pixels per eye, and one for each pupil, and that one pixel moves 5 times during the dialogue animation, at exactly the right moment so you know what it expresses. You don't get that by averaging high-res 3D content. Now someone can see this as a challenge and make something that will fool some people, for some time, of course. There is so much pixel art to steal for that purpose, after all. Just like you could do with the masters, who expressed a whole lot with a few scribbles or strokes of a brush... but even trying that means not getting it, at all, and someone who doesn't get it will not produce anything worth looking at, ever. It's like hearing sex exists and figuring out ways to realistically stain your sheets so your friends think you had some. Why even, ever.

Where do you get the "without their consent" bit from?

The hypocrisy is probably located around here:

> "I've been making satirical videos about all kinds of things for ten years: Gaza, Ukraine, refugees. Funny videos that push boundaries and provoke discussion. But I've never experienced a video being removed before.

> it's also the very definition of an Isolated Demand for Rigor.

As if the author excluded other examples? What is your criticism, that the principle can also be applied to other things?

Only gross incompetence can even lead to the point of users telling them what obvious things to fix.

So what are they respecting themselves for, what do they take pride in? Anything I would care about?

I am so proud of this (I'm sure others came up with it way before me, but I still came up with it all by myself!)

    //*
        normal path
    /*/
        debug path
    //*/

take away the the first slash to toggle the debug zone ON!

  #if 0
    // Normal path
  #else
    // Debug path
  #endif

Only works with C and C++, though.

C#:

#if DEBUG

    Console.WriteLine("This only compiles and runs in Debug mode.");

#else

    Console.WriteLine("This only compiles and runs in Release mode.");

#endif

I once took the time to figure these out for all the languages I use

here's python:

    #'''
      normal path
    '''
      debug path
    #'''

when I comment out python code I do it with ''' ... #''' so I can uncomment it with 1 keystroke

I always did it as:

/**/

    Debug code to toggle on and off

/**/

    Other debug code to toggle on and off

/**/

And toggled by removing the last slash on one of the comment lines.

Having two `*` characters worked better for syntax highlighting at the time.

Then I learned about Ctrl/Cmd + / to toggle a line or region on and off.

But I still use the old technique when code editors can't handle where comments are supposed to start and stop and commenting out too much or breaking the indentation, typically breaking around modern CSS's newer features or languages embedded within other languages.

/*/ is a comment "else", so you only need to change the first line to switch branches.

It's awesome in both senses! How readable has it become for you over time? Because on first glance and without syntax highlighting it's a head-scratcher.

With syntax highlighting I instantly know what it is :) But to be honest it's just for when I find myself toggling something a lot during development.. but still am too lazy to make a variable.

Pretty cool, I love when I catch a coworker doing small tricks like this during pairing sessions.

I also invented this by myself.

That's about as "ironic" as you writing words even though you didn't like some other words. Seems like you disagree with words only when it suits you!

Or rather, it would be, if you weren't so completely off the mark about what a capitalist is... such as "an investor of capital in business, especially one having a major financial interest in an important enterprise." Writing a book isn't being a capitalist, buying the rights to a book to make more money off it would be.

No, they don't keep their mouth shut, they just don't have any relevant arguments. Many people are liked by plenty people and also not hated for doing Hitler salutes and the like. That's the part that matters, not that "somebody likes them", which is true for everyone. Charles Manson had women lining up to marry him, so?

> but is not able to make a cure due to logistical issues?

It says no such thing:

> they design highly effective mRNA vaccines and antivirals against all the viruses and start shipping them across the world. It’s too late.

“It’s too late” is a logistical issue IMO. In this article, virus production is totally decentralized and fast, but vaccine production is centralized and slow. Why?

It still doesn't say anything about vaccine production being slow either:

> Overnight, with the help of frontier LLMs, they design highly effective mRNA vaccines and antivirals against all the viruses and start shipping them across the world.

"overnight", that's way faster than the virus production! And I doubly don't see how "decentralizing" that would help, at all, what that has to do with anything.

It says why it's too late right in the next sentence:

> It’s too late. Because of the viruses’ long asymptomatic contagious periods, most people already have at least one of the viruses, so the vaccines don’t work.

You might say by the time production starts it's already too late. A vaccine isn't a cure. It could be distributed by teleportation into the bloodstream of anyone on Earth instantly, the instant it was discovered, and it would still be too late.

My mistake on vaccine vs. cure. so have AI make a cure instead

> such a casual attitude towards violence.

How is protest violence?

I’m all for protesting, but surely you can agree that there is heightened risk if a person is in close proximity to people who oppose them strongly enough to act.

The whole purpose of a protest is to cause behavioral change; their hustling them out the back door is a success.

Do protests ever lead to violence? Are you being obtuse or do you believe this is actually safe?

All sorts of things can lead to violence, including a failure to protest. With enough weasel words, anything can sound reasonable, to people who don't pay attention to that stuff. So?

Intentionally obtuse, got it.

Does driving a car ever lead to violence? Are you being obtuse or do you believe this is actually safe?

Driving a car is not an emotional act 99.9% of the time. Driving a car while you are emotional is in fact dangerous and often leads to violence.

Pretests aren't dispassionate. That's why they have to be protected, that's also why it's deranged to suggest what you are suggesting. The main difference between the setup of a protest and a lynch mob is that the subject of a peaceful protest isn't usually present.

I really wonder about these youtube ads for these (non-existing, AI slop) incel games... it's always the same pattern, a man is exploited and/or rejected by a woman who gets everything for free he has taken from him, is spat on and whatnot, then starts his quest to fight the demoness or whatever. Are there any articles about those and the companies behind them?

non-existing? if we mean the same ads (mainly the cartoonish knight with bluish-black hair, though I've seen a caveman variant from another game) the game does exist. I played it about ten years ago, back when their ads were still the puzzles you supposedly need an IQ of 300 to solve. (kudos for keeping up with the times, I suppose.) /s it's a gacha money-pump, but I don't think the developers are strictly guilty of false advertising: from memory, the game does include one minigame or another reproducing the ad's loop.

It's also space "survival" games I really doubt exist. And my main charge would be the incel stuff, I could not care less if these games exist or don't. The ads themselves are toxic as fuck.