The push for lossless seems more like pushback on low bit rate and reduced dynamic range by avoiding compression altogether. Not really a snob thing as much as trying to avoid a common issue.

The video version is getting the Blu-ray which is significantly better than streaming in specific scenes. For example every scene that I have seen with confetti on any streaming service is an eldritch horror of artifacts, but fine on physical media, because the streaming compression just can’t handle that kind of fast changing detail.

It does depend on the music or video though, the vast majority are fine with compression.

Generally just online games where the changes are enough that they don’t play the same way that I enjoyed them. Counterstrike, WoW, Overwatch, and others all did reworks that ruined the gameplay I enjoyed.

Older single player games aren’t as fun because they are clunky compared to newer games, like Neverwinter Nights compared to Baldur’s Gate 3. But I didn’t fall out of love, just don’t enjoy interacting with their controls.

Which is great if you want a rough approximation of working reliably.

They can filibuster, so yes.

If they use the data for any purpose other than displaying results for users they need to be treated as publishers.

Sell to advertisers? Publisher. Use for own advertising? Publisher. Sell to AI companies? Publisher.

The lack of Forgetting Sarah Marshall is a war crime.

The atock market is the answer to “What if wealthy people had an unlimited source of additional wealth?”

It doesn’t take a fucking court case to prove he made bold faced lies when he said he wouldn’t do the things he had done for decades and then continued to do.

Come on news, he lied. Just fucking say he lied.

My anus is BLEEDING!

“What kind of America is it where government behavior would tear a good man away from his family, his community and his cattle, leaving no one here for them? It’s not the America I grew up in.”

The America this guy voted for. Hope he enjoys prison and Mexico, since that is what he has been voting for.

I miss the disruption of social norms like people spreading out in public, remote work being recognized as productive for a large portion of the workforce, the reduced traffic, the reduced pollution, the acknowledgement of being sick deserving time off, and all of the other positive side effects. Not the pandemic itself, but that it showed a ton of social norms like commuting to work and obligatory social events people don’t actually want to go to are not necessary for society to function.

At least a few fragments survived fhe overall reversion to b social norms.

I don’t think his acting style would work well as a lead for a tongue in cheek Starship Troopers style movie. As part of a four person ensemble where he isn’t the focus it could work, but to be honest any tall and beefy action movie actor is going to undermine the tongue in cheek themes of Helldivers and is a strong sign that the studio is going to take a star studded cast approach like they did with Borderlands and the result will most likely be the same.

If this was an announcement that included three other actors/actresses who would clearly balance things out, like the cast of Dune did, it wouldn’t be as concerning for me. Announcing a single person implies a leading role and he isn’t the right person for doing that in a Helldivers movie.

Eeeeewwww, hard pass if he is the lead and not a side character.

This is absolutely horrible and I wish the media would stop working things as if genAI have xray specs that can reveal what is underneath clothing.

Someone used AI to remove her clothing in the original photo.

Someone used AI to generate a hypothetical nude based on the original photo. They made fake nudes of her for the purpose of harassment, yes, but they did not magically create actual nudes of her. The punishment should be the same as releasing nudes against her will, but terminology like ‘remove clothes’ makes it sound like genAI can magically create real nudes of someone ir imply there are nudes of that person somewhere for the genAI to use for this purpose.

Part of the reason I think this is an important distinction is because genAI can also put people in situations thry have never been in as well. It is entirely fictional, and shouldn’t be worded as doing something that can occur in real life.

Since my reaction when someone robbed me at gunpoint was to ask them if it was a real gun, I would probably ask the mummy how they learned English and go from there.

If they just seem confused and not hostile then we are gonna have a long conversation until the guard comes to boot me out when it closes.

The ability to use random nonsensical greetings shows how comfortable the members of the group are with each other by completely discarding formalities.

The original discord design for sharing text and voice and video between gamers in a reasonably sized group were great!

Trying to scale that up and adding monetization features are what is running it into the ground.

But I am saying death to the party, not members of the party. Calling for the Republican party to end doesn’t mean that the members of the Republican party need to end.

‘Death to Israel’ is not the same as ‘death to Israelis’.

I have either blocked or avoided them successfully on the multiple accounts I have had over time while trying out different instances that my recollection is vague and I do not have examples. For me to dislike someone that much they have to be a hypocrite who abuses their power against multiple users other than myself, does not argue in good faith, and responds to people with what they assume they meant instead of what was said. Unruffled is right there too, baiting people into responding and then banning people for ‘not letting things go’ because they need to get the last word in.

db0 seems to comes across to me as misguided, Unruffled and Draconic_NEO come across as malicious and petty.

Two of the absolute worst posters on the Fediverse.