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  1. MoonSong

    Video Games You Wish Existed

    Hear me out. RPG With strong social and interaction engine, not just a dialogue tree that repeats over and over. And please, don't turn allies into non-entities/non-characters once they are recruited. Ideally allies would still be interacted with and they would keep their own distinct own...
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    The price of streaming vs out right owning

    Ok, lets see I have Prime (mostly keep it for the video, I don't buy online that often), Crunchy Roll Disney Plus (Similar to the Prime arrangement but with Mercado Libre) Netflix (with ads) Max/HBO -whatever- (with a lifetime half cost account) Spotify -as part of the family plan, I myself...
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    Today I learned +

    There's unsubtle, and there's blatant... n_n I wonder how many more vampire romance songs are out there? ( I can think of Vampire Heart -HIM-, Broken -Sonata Arctica- and Love song for a Vampire - Annie Lenox-)
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    Today I learned +

    Yeah, I knew, even before actually learning. During to my "vampire loving" phase -you know, when you just feel like you have to devour Anne Rice's books and wear black- I was primed to ve receptive to vampire subtext. And the song isn't exactly subtle. When I saw this fact in a listicle, my...
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    Today I learned +

    TIL that the tamagotchis caused some children to be depressed and faced with loss. Apparently specially in Japan. Here's a note from the NY times. But it only covers part of it. https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/052297gadget.html
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    The price of streaming vs out right owning

    I moved to libreoffice and google docs long ago
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    eBook Prices - Is it just me…

    And many times you can only find new versions of the songs which sound completely off. Maybe the vand changed vocalist and they only offer the song with the new one. Perhaps they changed studios and no longer control their masters. Maybe they earn more by putting their acustic unplugged remix...
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    Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous

    I binged the whole thing. I like the world building and most of the relationships among the cast. However I didn't like the whole "introverts are there to be saved by an obnoxious extrovert who surely knows better."
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    What Are Your Non-Gaming Hobbies/Interests?

    I was looking for this picture: https://www.enworld.org/media/photo_2023-03-14_09-46-41-jpg.103806/ I grew up watching the first Japanese trilogy and Beast Wars. I was also exposed to a bootleg toyline that was all animal-based. The cool part was that half the figures were female characters...
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    eBook Prices - Is it just me…

    More like 100% of the money, it just goes to you instead, doesn't it?
  11. MoonSong

    Heavy Metal Magazine is back!

    Uff fifteen bucks. That's a bit pricey.
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    What Are Your Non-Gaming Hobbies/Interests?

    I'm likely younger than you, so my period of collecting is in the late aughts. Back then, the amount of money I spent each month would at first buy 5 comics. Then four, and three, eventually just one, and now less than one. Part of it is our parity with the dollar getting worse, but the rising...
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    Karate Kid Legends

    This weekend I watched this movie. (Took my mom to the movies for Mother's Day) I guess it is soon for spoilers as the rest of North America won't get it for three more Fridays. Still I wanted to open this up for now and later hopefully there can be spoilers then. In general, I'm not that much...
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    California bill (AB 412) would effectively ban open-source generative AI

    AI doesn't have experiences, nor needs or feelings. All of these color the way we "read" media and content. There's a book I love. The first time I read it was at seven or eight. I later did a book report on it during High school. Despite it being the same literal book, seven year old me read a...
  15. MoonSong

    Today I learned +

    Today I learned of the narluga, a narwhal/beluga hybrid. About a dozen of them live in the wild and seven are in captivity. They seem to exist due to climate change making both species encounter each other more often.
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    California bill (AB 412) would effectively ban open-source generative AI

    I was answering to @Bohandas in speciffic who claimed to easily be able to afford an artBreeder and a NovelAi subscription. Paying for both is about $50 to $60 a month, enough to pay a few art commissions. Locally run AIs produce smaller images with more defects and artifacts, and they require...
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    California bill (AB 412) would effectively ban open-source generative AI

    Reading on LAION, it seems they don't host themselves any copyrighted material but their own work. They might qualify for the same exception that allows that page to keep operating, or they might not if they have a considerable overlap of people involved. Either way, we need a lawsuit to...
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    California bill (AB 412) would effectively ban open-source generative AI

    Which is a reason artists have left DA in droves.
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    California bill (AB 412) would effectively ban open-source generative AI

    Also, clothes making still requires human labor despite the machines. (And relatively skilled)
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    California bill (AB 412) would effectively ban open-source generative AI

    So far most of the people affected are from the 99%. Most of the scrapped material comes from small creators. I'm sure scrappers have barely touched big media property. Good and bad news with this. You can enjoy these tools for now at a substantially reduced cost. The only reason you can afford...
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