Wildmimic

This sounds nice - when i’m done with getting my life back in order i’m gonna start selfhosting for real, and this goes onto the “to implement”-pile! (i just realized that the pile is getting pretty large)

Unless you’re fucking Cracker Barrel.

Which was manufactured outrage, spawned by a few Shitter posts which were then amplified by a huge bot network.

This shit should be illegal, same as loot boxes, fifa ultimate team and everything that’s in the same vein. No, even more, because it only goes into the landfill and is a waste of everyones ressources.

Autism may well be the next step in human evolution and it might not be in humanities best interest to try to “find a cure” and apply it, except for finding a way to compensate the side effects of low functioning autism.

Yeah, i agree on that; when i heard that i thought about jumping in for a month and playing it again; it actually is pretty fun, but it’s simply too expensive to buy in. I would be happy if other games with lots of DLC or expensive DLC considered something similar; Paradox games are the first thing that come to mind, but there’s other stuff like Rimworld where you can drop 100 Bucks on expansions that i simply do not have.

I’ve pulled an allnighter with this game after letting it sit in my library since it was in early access, it’s fucking awesome! i’ve stopped an hour ago because i realized that i started to slow down and make more mistakes; gonna take a nap and then it’s on again lol

And yes, Death to Chronos!

That kinda makes sense. Giving a name before knowing how the childs behaviour, temperament or similar is rather unintuitive. Also probably makes the loss a bit less hard if the child dies before it’s at least a year old, which is probably the root cause for that costume.

I’m glad we’re both having a good time with that game.

Deadlink is a great roguelike arena shooter, give it a whirl!

it would even be enough for germany to abstain from voting. I don’t understand that either btw, but i don’t understand any nation which says yes to this bullshit, because the european court of justice has spoken very clear words when they judged that this crap is against human rights.

Yes, there are meta upgrades; the gear is a parallel system to those upgrades.

And yes, things are more straightforward; you always get a few unlocks that you are close to shown at the start of a run.

I have Soulstone Survivors here, but didn’t have time to try it out yet, so i can’t say anything to compare the two.

Progression is slower than other survivor games, but they have increased the pace and added a mechanic with gear drops, which smooths out the curve and actually makes builds possible. All in all it’s one of the top survivor games i’ve played. I would place Vampire Survivors (because of the huge amount of content) and Halls of Torment (because i absolutely love the style) above it, but for me DRG:S is a solid 3rd place (and i’ve played quite a lot of bullet heavens)

Cronos: The new Dawn, it has a great Dead Space feeling. I’m not far yet, but i like what i’ve seen so far.

and Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor has hit 1.0, so if i’m looking for something to play without having to think that’s my goto this week.

The EU Commission can get fucked, how often will they try to pull this shit?

If Hungary is for it, you can be sure that russia is for it, which is a guarantee that there is no safe version of chat control.

Exactly. Blocking out ads wherever possible is the only way to not be influenced by advertising. At least it helps to know that one isn’t immune to it. That helps to counteract the effects somewhat, but don’t count on it if you aren’t actively keeping your defenses up.

I realized that when i tried to cheat on a test in school, that when i prepared a cheat sheet, i didn’t actually need it afterwards - that only applies when writing the sheet by hand.

This is correct, but not all Data Center Usage is GenAI too. I agree that video generation is pretty energy intensive and not something that should be done on the regular, but image generation runs here on my graphics card pretty fast, so it’s not a big deal and comparable to chatbot responses.

Watching an hour of Netflix uses about 0,8kWh, which is a lot more but noone tries to make people have a bad conscience for binge watching a series. That’s Datacenter usage too, and a lot more than GenAI.

AI is also used a lot in Science, and even if i know that scientists aren’t that popular in the US, we probably agree that this activity is summa summarum positive for humanity, so lets keep it.

So where is the AI usage you propose is worse than global air travel? Lets look at total numbers here:

Electricity usage is 30% of the total CO2 emitted in the USA. Data centers in total used 4.4% in 2023, estimates say this will reach between 6.7 and 12% in 2028. If we take the worst case, Data Centers will be responsible for a bit more than 3% of all CO2 emissions in the USA, best case about 1.7%.

That’s not nothing, but it’s still a lot less then global flight, which was responsible for 9% of CO2 emissions in the US transport sector, which amounts to about 4% of Total US emissions 2022. Please note we are talking US flight emissions here, NOT GLOBAL. Since most datacenters worldwide reside in the US by far, your statement is bullshit.

ETA: People, the real climate killers have not changed: Cars, Industry, Flight. Trying to create a bad conscience for peanuts in relation is not worth it AND WILL NEITHER MAKE PEOPLE JOIN YOU NOR RESCUE THE PLANET, because these lies are easily disproven and make the green movement look untrustworthy.

here you go, since the commenter didn’t reply: https://andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sheet-for-conversations-about

OP, this statement is bullshit. you can do about 5 million requests for ONE flight.

i’m gonna quote my old post:

I had the discussion regarding generated CO2 a while ago here, and with the numbers my discussion partner gave me, the calculation said that the yearly usage of ChatGPT is appr. 0.0017% of our CO2 reduction during the covid lockdowns - chatbots are not what is kiling the climate. What IS killing the climate has not changed since the green movement started: cars, planes, construction (mainly concrete production) and meat.

The exact energy costs are not published, but 3Wh / request for ChatGPT-4 is the upper limit from what we know (and thats in line with the appr. power consumption on my graphics card when running an LLM). Since Google uses it for every search, they will probably have optimized for their use case, and some sources cite 0.3Wh/request for chatbots - it depends on what model you use. The training is a one-time cost, and for ChatGPT-4 it raises the maximum cost/request to 4Wh. That’s nothing. The combined worldwide energy usage of ChatGPT is equivalent to about 20k American households. This is for one of the most downloaded apps on iPhone and Android - setting this in comparison with the massive usage makes clear that saving here is not effective for anyone interested in reducing climate impact, or you have to start scolding everyone who runs their microwave 10 seconds too long.

Even compared to other online activities that use data centers ChatGPT’s power usage is small change. If you use ChatGPT instead of watching Netflix you actually safe energy!

Water is about the same, although the positioning of data centers in the US sucks. The used water doesn’t disappear tho - it’s mostly returned to the rivers or is evaporated. The water usage in the US is 58,000,000,000,000 gallons (220 Trillion Liters) of water per year. A ChatGPT request uses between 10-25ml of water for cooling. A Hamburger uses about 600 galleons of water. 2 Trillion Liters are lost due to aging infrastructure . If you want to reduce water usage, go vegan or fix water pipes.

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