[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 hours ago

I think you're missing the key part of the problem. It isn't the AI that's the issue.

The problem is that he was being paid for how many listeners his AI songs got. But he used bots to "listen" to the songs. Nobody actually listened to his AI music.

The flaw in the system was that they couldn't detect his bots. (And the bots are not AI)

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 20 hours ago

Technically it didn't have a WiiU port, only a Switch port. It's only a port if it came from another console! /semantics lol

I believe the performance is generally better docked. If I'm laying down though, I'll want something smaller and more mindless like my phone, lol

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago

Lol...I don't know what to tell you. It happens.

Even if I thought good pizza is enjoyable to anybody, I'm not going to disagree with the idea that someone could possibly dislike good pizza.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

I feel like the WiiU being a handheld is a bit of a stretch! Haha

But seriously though, I keep forgetting that the Switch is a handheld. I like playing docked, and it's too big for me to carry around, generally. But I know I'm in the minority there.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

So there we have it. The two ends of the spectrum of movies made for children: Heroin and Shrek.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

I don't follow. You're disagreeing with the possibility than an adult would find a good children's movie to be boring? Lol

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

I just disagree that kids stuff means that it should be lower quality

I don't think you're disagreeing with me, because I haven't said that.. lol

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

while I think kids deserve at least the same quality as adults maybe even better

When we start buying that kids' media enough that it'll bring in as much money as other demographics' media, and we choose to buy it based on its artistic merit and quality, then we'll see more of that change.

But I think there's always going to be a demand for "kids' stuff" that's lower quality, and I think that's okay. Adults don't need to enjoy every piece of kids' media that exists.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Writing for games is usually different than writing for movies.

I believe this is why games tend to do well as TV series -- more overlap there.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 day ago

r/Canada was taken over by right-wing mods, including some fsr right extremists and at least one open white supremacist.

The sub isn't made far right though. The moderation is more subtle, with clear bias in moderation regardless of source.

Articles critical of right-wing parties, policies, and politicians (even fact-based pieces) will often be silently removed, often for being "repeats" since there are multiple articles from different sources about the same topic. So only one post will stay up. Yet "repeats" of articles critical of left-wing stuff are allowed, as are "repeats" of non-political topics.

Comments are not as heavily moderated, but left-wing biased comments are more targetted.

Outright racism is generally removed. But plenty of comments talking about "certain types of people" or "people from certain countries" are allowed... unless those comments are talking about white people or Canadians, in which case even those "subtle" comments are removed for "outright racism". The up/downvotes also tend to follow this trend.

The sub got to this point probably around the pandemic, when Canada's explicitly far-right extremist sub, r/MetaCanada got shutdown. The userbase migrated to r/Canada, and some of the mods from r/MetaCanada were welcomed into the r/Canada mod team (including the aforementioned open white supremacist). The right-wing extremist mods also started pushing out the more moderate, centre, and left-wing mods.

It's the kind of shitshow that an outsider would never notice. Makes me sad that they have the "official" name, just r/CountryName...

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

the terrible movie ensures that a good one will never be made.

Super Mario Bros got another movie.

But generally, video games don't usually work as movies. So it isn't that big of a loss, lol

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

I didn't say that it is.

But to your second point, as others have mentioned, body image issues are likely the biggest reason for the change discussed in the OP.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by otp@sh.itjust.works to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

I know MediaBiasFactCheck is not a be-all-end-all to truth/bias in media, but I find it to be a useful resource.

It makes sense to downvote it in posts that have great discussion -- let the content rise up so people can have discussions with humans, sure.

But sometimes I see it getting downvoted when it's the only comment there. Which does nothing, unless a reader has rules that automatically hide downvoted comments (but a reader would be able to expand the comment anyways...so really no difference).

What's the point of downvoting? My only guess is that there's people who are salty about something it said about some source they like. Yet I don't see anyone providing an alternative to MediaBiasFactCheck...

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submitted 5 months ago by otp@sh.itjust.works to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world
  1. Tap search button on the bottom.

  2. Search like normal for communities with the search term. Results returned like normal.

  3. Clicking the unfilled heart (to subscribe) results in the error presented in the attached screenshot.

  4. The back button (Android) doesn't work. App must be force-closed.

  5. The subscribing action was successful; discovered on reboot.

  6. Repeating the steps, but instead of the unfilled heart, clicking on the community successfully navigates to the community.

  7. This didn't happen before.

  8. I might be one update behind current as of Mar 18

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submitted 7 months ago by otp@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

Bananas are ridiculously cheap even up here in Canada, and they aren't grown anywhere near here. Yet a banana can grow, be harvested, be shipped, be stocked, and then be purchased by me for less than it'd cost to mail a letter across town. (Well, if I could buy a single banana maybe...or maybe that's not the best comparison, but I think you get my point)

Along the banana's journey, the farmer, the harvester, the shipper, the grocer, the clerk, and the cashier all (presumably) get paid. Yet a single banana is mere cents. If you didn't know any better, you might think a single banana should cost $10!

I'm presuming that this is because of some sort of exploitation somewhere down the line, or possibly loss-leading on the grocery store's side of things.

I'm wondering what other products like bananas are a lot cheaper than they "should" be (e.g., based on how far they have to travel, or how difficult they are to produce, or how much money we're saving "unethically").

I've heard that this applies to coffee and chocolate to varying extents, but I'm not certain.

Anyone know any others?

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Due to personal circumstances, I haven't had much time for gaming in the last year.

I did have a couple of months in the summer with some free evenings though, so I dumped a bunch of time into Pokemon Violet, and I also completed Super Mario Sunshine, spending several hours getting those last few shines and blue coins after leaving the game at ~85% completed back in 2022.

Other than those 2 games, I hadn't really played much of anything on the Switch.

My year in review said I put a ton of hours into Pokemon Violet, single-digit hours into F-Zero 99, and less than 1 hour into NES online.

No mention of Super Mario 3D All-Stars.

I was wondering why it didn't count. But then I realized that these year-in-review things are not a nice service or gift to subscribers... they're ADS that they intend people to share with their friends to get their friends to buy more games. (What's a better review than "Your best friend played this game for 200h last year"?)

Since SM3DAS isn't available in the shop, it'd be useless to advertise that game. So maybe Nintendo is excluding it from their calculations...

Can anyone else confirm or deny this? Did anyone have any delisted games make their year-in-review? Or am I just going to need to spend a ton of time 100%ing Super Mario Galaxy in 2024, and only play 2 other games on my Switch? Lmao

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submitted 9 months ago by otp@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

I know money can't buy happiness blahblahblah.

Do they do gift exchanges at all?

Do they ask for anything?

They have enough money that they could get anything made or done for them at a moment's notice. Like having ChatGPT, but for services. Ridiculous things we couldn't imagine.

Anyone have any insight into general trends along those lines?

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