Yea this has really big astroturfing vibes.

apparently I was flagged as a bot at one point

You don’t get “flagged” as a bot, it is a user setting in your preferences. You should fix it so that you are not marked as a bot.

Tbf I do think it qualifies as title gore and at the very least it is missing a comma before “ending”

“Wikipedia concludes that Israel is committing genocide, thus ending an editorial debate”

For me this is the matrix sequels and Indiana Jones 4. All of them are absolutely fantastic.

most of the cost of [anything] goes to publishers, not the creators

My edit obviously. It does feel like that though. I pay Netflix, not the people making the movie. For games it is at least a bit better - I pay Valve (Steam) and the publisher but at least some of it goes directly to the devs. But it could be better still I suppose. But I’d honestly be okay if we got a Steam-like platform for series and movies where I could buy the ones I want without any subscriptions.

Uh, how? I mean you’d need to make it legal I feel like. But that’s never going to happen and I honestly don’t think that’s fair either. If piracy is legal, how would content creators actually be paid?

I get the sentiment but this is not really an option most of the time if you want to stick with lawful methods. For instance, I cannot watch most movies or TV series these days without a subscription to some service.

I started and almost finished The Forgotten City. It’s really good, if you like mystery.

Getting fired with cause doesn’t come with severance

Yea this is fucked and needs to be fixed.

So aside from Baldurs gate 3, who’s actually making good RPGs these days?

Why don’t they just keep working from home and get fired? Instead of having to quit themselves?

So as far as I gather, it’s still just as open source as before but you just can’t sell it on the Confluence marketplace? Seems fair.

One always lies, the other never tells the truth.

Well there is a phenomenon where your brain will make sound and sight “match up” even when it shouldn’t. Like if you hear and see a basketball bouncing 75 meters away, the sound should have about a 0.25 second delay. But your brain will make you perceive the sound as happening simultaneously with the ball hitting the ground, despite the fact that you could not perceive the visual and auditory sensations simultaneously. If you go further away with the ball, eventually there is a threshold where your start perceiving the delay. The auditory and visual sense would need to be somehow linked for this phenomenon to happen I’d say.

I guess it’s the brains way of matching visual and auditory cues to try to make a better picture of the world. The brain is basically saying “that sound came from the ball” and you don’t even need to think consciously to know that.

I never understood the idea behind these kind of automatic slur filters.

First of all, why even allow the comment at all? Why not just remove the whole thing? Censoring just the slur doesn’t help that much and can just be confusing.

Secondly, by filtering the slur like this, it’s less likely that the person posting the slur would be reported and thus no moderator sees the fact that someone posted slurs (unless slur-filtered comments are auto-reported; are they? I don’t know). That’s the opposite of what you want! If you have slurs that should be disallowed, get people to report those that post them and tell people not to do it or ban them if they keep doing it.

When it’s filtered like this and nobody reports the comment, the user posting the slur will probably just continue doing it.

And of course in addition to all the above, there’s the problem that it doesn’t take into account the context at all, which is what leads to the image of this post.