Knusper

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I've also seen it argued on a much smaller scale, that fun in video games is often done on a risk-reward basis. You bring yourself in danger to get a reward. And well, there's other ways than violence to portray that, like spikes in a jump'n'run or a stupid wall in a racing game. There's also other ways to induce fun, like puzzle mechanics. But yeah, ultimately you're left with a small fraction of genres that really work or have been explored...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Well, to develop such a service, you need training data, i.e. lots of real child pornography in your possession.

Legality for your viewers will also differ massively around the world, so your target audience may not be very big.

And you probably need investors, which likely have less risky projects to invest into.

Well, and then there's also the factor of some humans just not wanting to work on disgusting, legal grey area stuff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That's part of this whole debate that I'd love to see much more focus on. Why are so many video games built around violence? Like, violence in video games may not be bad, but what makes it so popular?

Obviously, there's some folks who love blood splatter effects and some (horror) games cater to that. But then you've got RPGs where people report having their immersion broken from how much genocide their hero has to commit. Or even child-friendly/cutesy games sometimes struggling to make it make sense (Pokémon don't die, they just faint, and they totally want to fight, yep).

It just feels like the demand for violence is significantly lower than the supply and I've never seen comprehensive research into why that is.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

What's with those creepy statues behind it?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

True neutral. Only people with incapable OSs need multiple screens rather than having that one screen display what they want. 🙃

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This might be more or less expected, depending on your regional healthcare system, but on behalf of a colleague, I'd like to say: Terminator arm.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Wow. Over here, we thankfully have more than two parties, so if one party attempts such a thing, the 5+ other parties will denounce that in unison and it becomes pretty clear that it's not just one of the usual quarrels.
It also means, you pretty much always have coalitions ruling the country, so not even the ruling parties have a shared interest in pushing anti-democratic horseshit. Many of the smaller parties would in fact really like to see more voters reached, because those are wildcards and not just voting for always the same big parties.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

They couldn't find a real cow out on a pasture, so they had to AI generate it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Band practice. We were playing some rapid song with changing time signatures, so everyone was struggling to count along. I just commented on it, so got some flak, but only as a joke.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think, spoiler syntax......works like this on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ah, if that's the case, then I can get on board with a separate voting registration. Not sure, I'd prefer it, but at least it's not just arbitrarily making democracy harder.

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