People are fuckin hilarious

That we can agree on.

why the hell are you calling it queer theory

I’m calling it queer theory because that’s what it’s called. It’s where terms like “heteronormative” come from. Much of it is about the relationship between social norms, or just what’s common, and non-normative individuals, with a particular focus on sexual and gender minorities. And it, indeed, does not look too kindly on gender essentialism because that would mean erasure of non-binary gender experiences. Also because queer theorists don’t like normativity which essentialism boils down to in practice, in one way or the other.

I am, broadly speaking, a huge fan of it. If I were to critique it… well, it isn’t neuroqueer theory. I like the name though, “queer” should IMHO also apply to neurodivergent people. Can we get a letter? N is free, isn’t it?

“gay agenda”, “gender ideology” are terms you randomly introduced into the conversation.

Second part, how do you say all this and not question the current “sTrAiGhT tHeOrY” existence we live

You mean… heteronormativity? The kind of shit that queer theory analyses? Also there’s plenty of queer straights around. Like, aces exist, trans folks exist. Enbies can also be straight.

It isn’t, and it is. As said: A matter of perspective. What it definitely is part of is the theory of praxis.

Queer theory itself certainly doesn’t vibe with the essentialism inherent in stuff like “kill all men”. But that doesn’t mean that the two don’t get associated in a 12yold’s brain if “kill all men” is what he hears from a blue-haired lesbian. I’m talking in caricatures, of course, just vaguely gesturing at broader political/social interactions.

And, also, granted, in a different socio-economic environment that blue-haired lesbian probably wouldn’t matter, at all (might even have been a political lesbian appropriating queerness). But our 12yold is also seeing his parents getting fired from their jobs, denied housing assistance, is getting made fun of for it in school, is simultaneously worrying about how to, one time, get a girl and found a family and the situation looks dire indeed – not a siltation which would be conducive of taking a level-headed look at the situation and conclude “that women was just angry, it doesn’t mean anything”. Instead, it’s a convenient point to project generalised ire at, a scapegoat silencing that overpowering help- and hopelessness.

So, in short: “Why do they hate us”? Probably, almost certainly, not for any good reason. That doesn’t mean that nothing can be done to make em love you, in fact it wouldn’t be hard at all because they’re love-starved and looking for at least a hope of a better future. Take them along for the ride and you’ll have an ally for life. Antagonise them, don’t step in when others pointlessly antagonise them, and you shot yourself in the knee.

Actually I read that as misandry. Especially considering that when it comes to trans enmity TERFs are very much a driving force and those tend to be almost exclusively cis women, not men.

Thinking that posting “kill all men” is a net benefit to society?

My point being: You’ll have to dare a perspective shift to actually understand the issue. No, it’s not about gay marriage and stuff. People by and large, at the utmost, just don’t give a fuck. Live and let live is popular as ever. Hearing, as a 12yold boy, “Men ruled the world for millennia now it’s our turn, you have no problems, men, boys, by definition can’t have any problems, also mutilating your genitals is perfectly justified look at this one random study which says that if you don’t wash yourself then circumcision reduces AIDS rates”… yeah. 12 years is significantly less than millennia, why in the everloving fuck would you blame the poor kid for it and don’t get me started on the circumcision shit the US is cooked.

As said: Dare that perspective shift. It’s not about queer theory, it’s not about emancipation, it’s about institutionalised cattiness and bitter, over-zealous rhetoric creating a particular appearance. It’s also pretty much limited to the US, there’s bits and pieces floating over the Atlantic but our gender relations and politics over here aren’t fucked-up enough to generate that kind of shit ourselves. Also we don’t mutilate genitals.

Or, differently put: Take all the pain you’ve ever seen within the community created by ace and bi erasure, about TERFy enmity, about transmeds, about whatnot, and funnel it onto a young kid who has no letter, not even the “A” for ally they stole from the aces, because why would you give a fuck about ally status when you’re bitter and want to let off steam. Do that in queer spaces. Do that with your therapist, don’t do it in a public political space – the 12yolds are reading – and even more so don’t try to justify it as “part of the struggle”. And actively work against queer spaces becoming self-pity circlejerks of bitterness. Be uppity, be brash, be loud, be fun, be colourful, don’t be aggressive. Hug a homophobe they hate that, don’t spit fire on them their neuroses love that.

There’s some equivocation going on there: On the one hand we have a theoretical model, due to Adam Smith, that says if you have perfectly rational actors acting on perfect information then you get very very nice results and that’s called the free market. Then you have peddlers of institutionalised market failure saying that any regulation that would make people’s choices more rational, or give them more information, is making the market unfree.

In short: While classical liberals and specifically ordoliberals are saying “there shall and must be regulation, so that the real-world market comes closer to approximating Smith’s free market”, neoliberals say “there shall be no regulation because Adam Smith doesn’t like monopolies but we do so let’s poison the conversation by calling inherently unfree markets free”.

I’m not contradicting anything, I didn’t even use the word “life”. I’m simply taking the perspective of the genome, and fighting against the notion that viruses would act as mechanistically as prions.

It’s a hostile instruction manual which learns, adapting itself to its surroundings, constantly re-writing and re-inventing how it interacts with the world. Which is more than can be said about most politicians. Forget about physical anatomy, for a second, and consider the species as an organism.

Of course it adjusts to its environment – it even uses it to replicate. Viruses are that branch of the genome which is being minimalist about its seed pods, other branches need all kinds of superfluous stuff like eyes and limbs and brains and whatnot. Complete waste of resources, having pods which can maintain independent homeostasis, what good does that for the homeostasis of the genome? Eh?

That’s some IMAX-level projection there.

Scenario a and b are straight-up infringement. Doesn’t matter whether you sell it or not, and things like reverb are not enough to count as transformative.

Scenario c is transformative. Depending on how transformative it is you might be recognised as co-author instead of straight infringer but you very well still might have to pay royalties. If the original is not recognisable, why start off with an original you don’t have full rights to? Record yourself gurgling or whatever, then work from there.

What in the actual disingenuous fuck, mate? lmao

Well I have written procgen code. Not my speciality but I’ve seen enough to know that Acerola is spot-on with the issues he’s highlighting.

Yeah, your comments here. https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/887750/Where-did-AfD-voters-come-from-and-where-did-they

So, if I were to, say, say that Ted Kaczynski had an environmentalist streak, would that make me an apologist for terrorism? Saying that someone who does terrible things also happens to care about the environment is condoning those terrible things? Even if juxtaposed by, I quote myself from that thread: “[Beate Zschäpe is] a murderous fascist assclown”? That’s fascist propaganda in your book?

A title lying making some outlandish claim

You’ve never had any issues, problems, with procedural generation? How much of that kind of code have you written?

A thumbnail using a red arrow

Erm what.

Using a thumbnail of a chunk border that happens because of larger changes within the worldgen code from switching different versions in an existing world, not because of the problems with procedural generation

Yes that’s a problem with procedural generation. Games need patching once in a while, using procgen makes game state migration quite a bit more involved.

you in the past spreading fascist propaganda in German communities.

I suppose you have receipts to back that up. I’d be very interested indeed in seeing them. Presumably your perception is based on you having as much of an understanding of fascism as you have of clickbait.

No, seriously: Back that slander up or retract it. Not just of me btw but of those communities themselves for not banning the shit out of fascist BS.

You don’t seem to understand what clickbait even is so I doubt the problem lies with me.

Can you explain what is offending you, here? The title is referring to problems with procedural generation, the thumbnail is showing a problem with procedural generation, the video is about problems with procedural generation, and goes into depth about one particular solution to one particular problem, which happens to involve generating an AABB on the GPU, as an example of the kind of work that can be necessary when you’re doing procedural generation.

Where have you been mislead? How did you even come to the conclusion what it is clickbait? You haven’t made any actual critique of the video, of the thumbnail, or even of the title.

All you did is assert “fuck clickbait shit”, without explanation, rhyme, or reason, and now are lashing out even more. Make it make sense.

If you don’t care about the content of the video then you cannot care about the relationship between video content and title, much less it being mismatched, therefore, you cannot care about clickbait. You cannot even identify clickbait, yet you claim to not watch it. In short, you make absolutely no sense.

Many of which won’t be recognised, at least not without further qualification. And no you can’t become an English teacher with a US degree in literature: You need to study second language acquisition pedagogics, ideally for that specific language pair. Nobody cares about your interpretation of To kill a Mockingbird.

Well it is a problem with the procedural generation he did, and, in general, also in general: How to constrain the output to be something that’s not white noise, has no dysfunctional/unplayable worst cases, etc.

It may be clickbait yes but it’s mathematically substantiated clickbait.

This has nothing to do with the EU regulation because those don’t even begin to cover baked assets, at least if they’re not impersonating actual people.

Also this is BS. Are they seriously expecting artists to tell gamedevs whether they ever used photoshop’s content-aware fill and suchlike. The right way to deal with this is to have better systems to rank low-effort slop instead of assuming quality by artistic process.

…yes, that brick texture is AI generated. So fucking what you’re not supposed to notice it in the first place. Am I supposed to hire a bricklayer and a photographer. Would you rather I use this one instead.

All minimums taken together only sum up to 497025. The million signatures is the actual hurdle, any campaign that is not horribly lopsided should easily get the seven countries.

The idea is that if your initiative is excessively national it has no business being a EU initiative.

A strange wibble is that small countries need more signatures per capita to count towards the minimum because they have more MEPs per capita. Which brings me to putain de merde où es-tu France.

Well yes that’s another reason but trust me when I say that you’re not the only European country with standards for milk and eggs. There’s nothing to brag about. Also, do you even raw pork.