From my understanding, its an Atlantic accent, although one that has mostly disappeared over the last few decades.

It wasn’t a shadow drop, but it was relatively light on PR. They had one big trailer six months before launch some gameplay videos, and of course the store page available.

At least from my layman’s understanding, (I am not a lawer):

If you have legal access to the work being used for training, and no other terms in licencing restrict its use, using it for training is currently not inherently considered copyright infringement. That said, if your copy is used to refrence or recreate the character being copied, it would infringe on the copyright for the character. So legally, from my unprofessional understanding, you can make an AI voice clone, as long you don’t try to replicate the character with it. This may be further regulated in some regions, but to my knowledge, most don’t have anything specific in law yet.

On the other hand, morally…

I think two main things need to happen: increased transparency from AI companies, and limits on use of training data.

In regards to transparency, a lot of current AI companies hide information about how their models are designed, produced, weighted and use. This causes, in my opinion, many of the worst effects of current AI. Lack of transparency around training methods mean we don’t know how much power AI training uses. Lack of transparency in training data makes it easier for the companies to hide their piracy. Lack of transparency in weighting and use means that many of the big AI companies can abuse their position to push agendas, such as Elon Musk’s manipulation of Grok, and the CCP’s use of DeepSeek. Hell, if issues like these were more visible, its entirely possible AI companies wouldn’t have as much investment, and thus power as they do now.

In terms of limits on training data, I think a lot of the backlash to it is over-exaggerated. AI basically takes sources and averages them. While there is little creativity, the work is derivative and bland, not a direct copy. That said, if the works used for training were pirated, as many were, there obviously needs to be action taken. Similarly, there needs to be some way for artists to protect or sell their work. From my understanding, they technically have the legal means to do so, but as it stands, enforcement is effectively impossible and non-existant.

Do you have a source for that graph? I’m interested in the study, but couldn’t find it with a web search.

The general, tankie lack of respect for human life, genicide denialism, ect., as well as transphobia.

It does exist, but it’s not common. My guess as to that its multifaceted. First and biggest is obviously sexism. Women are seen as weak and mean expected to take care of them. Anything other than this is taboo, and in more conservative areas, seen as wrong. The only reason it’s at all accepted in kink is that its purely behind closed doors, so people get less chance to attack it. I also think that most women just enjoy the status quo. Whether this is because women like to be submissive, or just that people in general like to be submissive and women don’t have to hide it is impossible to tell. Regardless, a lot of people are perfectly happy with the current expectations. Finally, I think its just momentum. It takes time for things to change.

If you do want to find more stuff like this, the main terms to look for are, “role reversal” for nuclear-family-esk relationships with reversed gender roles, “female led relationship” for generally more intense women in charge, or “gentle femdom” for more gentle and caring stuff, but more sex focused. As much as I hate to recommend it, Reddit is probably the best spot to look, seeing as there isn’t really any other aggregators for something that niche and taboo.

Its not inherently a bad idea, but you need to keep in mind that is a crutch and not a cure. Substances won’t solve your problems, and shouldn’t be your sole, chosen treatment.

That said, just as crutches can help you survive and are often healthier overall than bedrest, so too can substances help. For example, if you have severe, chronic depression, and can’t afford medication, while weed won’t help (and may make it slightly worse overall), it might help you remain functional durring depressive episodes. Its no medication, but if its keeps you alive long enough to keep working towards a long-term solution, its worth it.

Lemmy was originally founded by political extremists who wantted a space for their politics (tankies.) Its since grown past that, but that inflence is still present in many ways, most prominently in the influences of .ml. On top of this, politics is something inflammatory (and thus engaging) that affects everyone. Because its both engaging and broad-appeal, its going to be something everyone talks about. On the other hand, many niches, aside from being niche are often less inherently engaging (IE talking about a finished TV show). This makes it very hard to get the critical mass needed for a community to snowball into relevance. This means that (effectively) all you’re left with is the political communities and a couple niches that are broad appeal enough and have active enough users to be stable.

Not requesting anything since my backlog is already long enough, but still wantted to say thanks for the giveaway!

Yes, its ableist. Excluding, insulting or discriminating against people for disability is basically the definition, reguardless of what they claim. Saying they’re not ableist doesn’t change it, any more than saying something like, “I’m not racist, but…”

To my knowledge, theres no built-in functionality, but it should theoretically be very easy to make a bot for it. I might actually give it a shot when I get free time.

Honestly, I like the weekly missions. Back in GO, when there was more discussion about the lack of willingness of players to learn/play new maps, this is one of the solutions I proposed. Its a good, non-invasive way to incentivize playing new and different maps.

I mean, in this case it was a complete technical overhaul. Graphically and technically, its much more flexable and more modern.

It is an Overwatch 2 situation in that it had most of its content removed compared to CS:GO though.

I’ve never seen it described or practiced anything like that. If anything, I’ve seen it having almost the opposite reputation.

Edit: Ironicly had to look up some stats on sexuality for something unrelated, and the general consensus seems to be that Catholics have sex sooner and more often than even more non-religious people.

I’m increasingly put off by broadcasters that use body language like sighs and eye rolls, satire, and impersonations in their presentations.

How is this mindless? Its just standard human communican.

Yes. Sometimes I get random unrelated stuff instead of 404s.

Its artificial intelligence for an artificial person. They don’t have to think or be sentient or even be smart to be AI. It just needs to be an artificial intelligence.

This seems like too much complexity, given how small (relatively) Valve is. Then again, Valve is always hard to predict. Basically all their projects are wild moon-shots in one way or another, half their stuff doesn’t make it to market, and they have a long history of fake leaks.

I think you’re misunderstanding this. AI has always been a term for algorithms controlling NPCs, including simple ones like the enemies in a Mario game. Nowhere does it say anything about ML, so it seems like (if the rumors are true) its just a much improved version of their existing AI tech, A.K.A. very fancy state machines and navigation algorithms.