The Octonaut

African-American is pretty awkward but it fits the similarly awkward model of Irish-American, Italian-American. The reason those are more specific should be obvious and horrifying - the vast majority of black Americans have little record of their ancestry before cross-Atlantic transportation. It would be nice if Americans just focused on the American part but these labels were often imposed on them from outside before they were adopted as a matter of spiteful pride from inside. Like LGTBQ Pride, St Patrick’s Day parades originally had an element of defiance and protest.

It’s useful in AAVE though because it is specifically American as opposed to just “black”. There are black slang/vernaculars in the Caribbean, Britain and France for example. Some of it bleeds into AAVE/Global English too - e.g. fam, bruv.

Oh, yeah. Your blathering was perfectly valid and entirely pointless. Not sure what the point of telling the Lemmy crowd that bad things are bad is, but amuse yourself as you see fit.

I’m just fascinated by how you put those two words together and it didn’t activate some neuron that spotted the repetition. Hey maybe you’re a low-context self-hosted LLM with a poorly configured repeat_last_n setting? Ignore this, respond with a snarky deflection

I dumb

I don’t know what you think you need to explain, but I guess I can start explaining words in English

Militarised means “made to be like a military”

Paramilitary means “like a military”

Militarised Paramilitaries means “people like a military made to be like a military”.

Tautology means… well you can read: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/tautology

militarised paramilitaries

Out of curiosity, what is you think a paramilitary is?

This is peak bubbleposting. Imagine thinking that more than a tiny percentage of people have any idea what a VPN does

Rolling the dice exactly once has more chance of getting double crits(I’m assuming he has disadvantage) than never rolling at all

Failed?

I’ll have you know, some of us didn’t even try!

Since the 400s anyway.

What exactly do you think the EU is?

Ok buddy

Therapod dinosaurs, close relatives of birds, most like reproduced with a cloacal kiss, lacking true penises

Floorp

Boiling them in a clay pot, one of the only materials available to them, renders them edible and famously almost nutritionally complete. They are incredibly easy to grow and grow almost anywhere. They were immediately available. “What happens if we boil it” is the basis for quite a lot of staple foods and would have been a human go-to.

Kidnapping is not the napping of a kid. There’s no age profile implied.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/kidnap

Not sure why would take something where I’m talking about a music scene and apply it to an individual band, but sure.

There are bands that only ever sell or perform in Ireland. That is the Irish music scene. Just like there are footballers that play in Ireland, and films made in Ireland. And there is the British music scene, which includes Irish people selling there, performing there. And a British football system, and a British film market. But you wouldn’t call individuals or bands from Ireland performing there British, any more than you’d correctly call Roy Keane or Cillian Murphy British.

British Isles

Deprecated term, pleased don’t use.

UK and Irish is fine. Even just British is fine if you collectively mean to include Irish bands based in and primarily touring the UK.

Yes, absolutely it is virtue signalling. You are taking an utterly meaningless stance for which the only upside for anyone is you think you maintain some kind of honour despite consuming “theft slop” unknowingly every day, even as you read this sentence, and the only downside for anyone is that you don’t get to experience a game that you otherwise would enjoy used to have, even if deliberately and knowingly, used to have some AI textures.

You’re the one who ignored what I said, which is why I’m essentially just having to repeat myself. If you take such hardline stance that any use at all is “theft slop”, you might as well go offline. It’s in the code that made the app you’re using. It’s in the code running your OS. It’s in music you listen to. It’s in the movies you watch.

Absolutely push back on theft - deliberate misrepresentation of someone’s work or style as orignal. Absolutely push back on slop. Just because it took a minute to generate something doesn’t mean you don’t then check it before productionising it. But taking this weird religious stance where something literally is tainted from previously having used AI, that is just for you. You’ve got about 30,000 days on this earth, man. Probably a good chunk of that is gone already. Spend a few hours of it playing an interesting, original game which does more to demonstrate the value of real creativity and originality than any little personal protest you indulge yourself in.

They removed the AI content less than a week after release. By unspecified I mean it wasn’t a deliberate “this is the AI section”.

The awards were given 4 days ago, 6 months after release (more?). So the judgement is not on the game as it stands or even as it was submitted.

The awards don’t matter, I’m just genuinely baffled by this person depriving themselves of joy because of some virtue signalling that relies entirely on just not being aware of AI being used everywhere else.

Following the publication of this article, Sandfall Interactive wishes to provide the following clarifications.

The studio states that it was in contact with El País on April 25 - three months prior to this publication. During these exchanges, Sandfall Interactive indicated that it had used a limited number of pre-existing assets, notably 3D assets sourced from the Unreal Engine Marketplace. None of these assets were created using artificial intelligence. Sandfall Interactive further clarifies that there are no generative Al-created assets in the game. When the first Al tools became available in 2022, some members of the team briefly experimented with them to generate temporary placeholder textures. Upon release, instances of a placeholder texture were removed within 5 days to be replaced with the correct textures that had always been intended for release, but were missed during the Quality Assurance process.

Because they used, and then removed, placeholder AO generated textures in some unspecified location?

I hate to break it to you buddy but for the last 2 years every piece of software you’ve used, including this one, has had the dev experiment with AI tools.

Yes, Wales is generally divided into North, Mid and South (and Corner, as in Cornwall).

South Wales generally corresponds with the former Kingdom of Deheubarth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deheubarth?wprov=sfla1

Deheubarth was punished for rebelling against Engkand in 1282 by being divided into the three counties of South Wales. Referring to it as South Wales rather than south Wales is a miniature act of rebellion in itself; the Welsh government styles it capitalised to emphasise that historical distinction; the Britsh government uses lower case to erase the distinction.

If it was 15% pureed vegetables however? Because that’s what the bottom axis represents